We believe that the ability to communicate is a fundamental right and that society will only be fair when everyone has the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills they need to fulfil their potential.
By working with us, you can help to transform lives through literacy. Read the National Literacy Trust's strategy.
We promote flexible working and job share proposals are welcome. To find out more about what it means to work for us - our culture, values and benefits - read our recruitment information.
If you have any questions about any role or our recruitment, please email recruitment@literacytrust.org.uk.
To apply, download an application form from the job page and return to this address.
Please note that we do not accept CVs for job vacancies.
Current vacancies
Project Officer, School Libraries
Closing date: 10am, Monday 18 May 2026
Salary: £27,000 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract until August 2029
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Finance and Data Administrator, School Libraries
Closing date: 10am, Monday 18 May 2026
Salary: £27,000 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract until August 2029
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Project Manager, School Libraries
Closing date: 10am, Monday 18 May 2026
Salary: £30,500 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract until August 2029
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in the South West as a home working role
Project Manager, Early Years (East of England)
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21 May 2026
Salary: £33,00 per year pro rata (0.5 FTE) / £16,500 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract for one year
Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week
Location: Based in the East of England as a home working role
Project Manager, Early Years (Midlands)
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21 May 2026
Salary: £33,00 per year (pro rata where applicable)
Contract: Fixed-term contract for one year
Hours: Part-time or full-time
Location: Based in the Midlands as a home working role
Project Manager, Early Years (London)
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21 May 2026
Salary: £33,00 per year pro rata (0.5 FTE) / £16,500 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract for one year
Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Project Manager, Early Years (North West)
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21 May 2026
Salary: £33,00 per year pro rata (0.5 FTE) / £16,500 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract for one year
Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week
Location: Based in the North West as a home working role
Project Officer, Early Years
Closing date: 10am, Thursday 21 May 2026
Salary: £27,000 per year
Contract: Fixed-term contract for one year
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Diversity and equal opportunities
Our people are our most important asset and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase representation of these groups among our staff as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.
We are also committed to being an equal opportunities employer and will ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, ethnicity or religion.
We monitor our policies to ensure that discrimination does not occur in either our staffing practices or our work. In particular, our personnel policies have been designed to ensure that all staff have equal access to training, professional development and career progression.
All applicants are asked to complete an online equal opportunities monitoring form to enable us to monitor the effectiveness of our policies. This information is not part of your application and will not be used in any part of the selection process. It is anonymous and will not be seen by the interviewers or those involved in shortlisting your application, and all data will be stored confidentially and destroyed once it has been analysed.
AI in recruitment
We believe that AI is a powerful tool and that being literate increasingly includes the ability to engage effectively, critically and creatively with generative AI. We recognise, therefore, that you may want to use AI to help you write your application and supporting statement, or to prepare responses to interview questions or tasks. If you do, please take care to ensure that anything you submit accurately represents your personal capabilities and knowledge. We will use the interview process to dig deeper into your written statements and responses so that we can properly understand the strengths, creativity and new ways of thinking you will bring to our team.
UK Living Wage
The National Literacy Trust is proud to be accredited as a UK Living Wage Employer.
For more information, visit www.livingwage.org.uk