Future First / JPMorgan

Contact: "Elliott, Michael" <Michael.Elliott@jpmorgan.com>

JPMorgan partners with Future First (futurefirst.org.uk), a charity that works to close the career achievement gap between those born into low-income and high-income homes and, in doing so, contribute to improving social mobility. Future First's vision is that every state secondary school and college should be supported by a thriving and engaged alumni community that helps each one to do more for its students. To do so, Future First provides the infrastructure and expertise that makes establishing these communities easy and inexpensive.

Future First would like to enhance its infrastructure to provide a video interview recording facility for school alumni.

Future First's alumni volunteers would be able to use a smartphone or webcam to record answers to pre-canned questions describing their school experience and subsequent career. The app would constrain recording times relevant to each question with appropriate messages and visual timer countdown. The recording process should be smooth and user friendly.

There will be various different users of the system: Current students would be able to use the website to find alumni with similar interests and experience to their own. They would then use the videos to find out about different pathways that alumni from their school followed. School administrators would be able to manage the library of interviews, customize the interview questions for their school, and have a workflow for checking and approving new videos for release.

Importantly, Future First has a small tech staff who would maintain the system and integrate with the existing Future First tools, so interfaces should be clean, well tested and well documented.