Work Experience (1 week)

Location: Arbor Leeds 

Old School Board, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3ED

Dates: 29th June - 3rd July (Monday - Friday 10am-3:30pm)

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. 

Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days. 

At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. 

We are looking for ambitious and enthusiastic Work Experience Students to join our team for a one week period to learn all about Arbor, Education, and the working world. The remit and focus of the week will be to embed you in various teams across the company to learn how these teams work together, as well as what it’s like to work in an office environment. 

Core responsibilities

• Observe & Shadow: Spend time shadowing teams across the business (Marketing, HR, Customer Success etc.) to understand their day-to-day duties and how they work together
• Attend Meetings: Join some of our internal meetings to observe professional communication and decision making processes 
• Dragons Den: Participate in an entrepreneurial exercise designed for you to showcase what technology you would design to enhance schools and the wider Education sector 
• Ask Questions: Fundamentally, this is an opportunity for you to learn as much as you can about the working world, so we’re on hand to answer any questions you may have here

People: Learn how an HR (Human Resources) team works to not only hire people into the business, but also support their development and their wellbeing. 

Customer Success: Our customers are everything and this team plays a pivotal role in ensuring that we keep good relationships with them. This will be an opportunity to learn how we manage these relationships and work with them to get the most value from our software. 

Marketing: Without Marketing, no-one would know about Arbor, so you’ll get a chance to spend some time with a team that’s key to our growth and getting the Arbor name out there! 

IT: Ever wondered how we manage requests and get people set up to do their jobs? The IT team are integral in managing all of our systems and making sure that we can all deliver for schools.

We’re looking for enthusiastic and hard-working Work Experience students to join us, but beyond that, we’d love to see:

• Must be a UK Secondary School student in Year 10
• Must be able to commute to our office each day 
• A good team player
• Good communication skills
• A desire to learn and take on information
• Proactive and a keenness to get involved

Once we’ve received your application, you’ll be asked to complete a short one-way video interview with our tool, Willo. We will then review this and look to come back to you with a decision by 18th February. 

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 30th January.

We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com.

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. 

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively  encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.