We believe in the power of your personal lived-experience of the criminal justice system.
We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement and support everybody can change.
Do you want to use your experience to enable others to change the system from within?
IF YOU DO, THEN THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
- Been in prison or on probation?
- A People person and a good listener?
- Good IT/literacy/numeracy skills?
- Turned your life around and want to help others?
- Have something to give and can say what it is?
- Manage your own life well, and can prove it?
- Highly motivated and passionate about change?
If the answer to ALL of these is yes, then we want you…!
WHAT’S ON OFFER?
- A mixture of full and part-time positions
- 12 month fixed-term contract (liely to be extended)
- Up to £25,000 depending on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
- 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)
* The post is subject to a 6 month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check
CURRENT VACANCIES
WORKING ACROSS BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET & WILTSHIRE
WORKING ACROSS DORSET, DEVON & CORNWALL
WORKING ACROSS ESSEX
WORKING ACROSS KENT, SURREY & SUSSEX
WORKING IN PRISONS ACROSS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
HOW TO APPLY
Visit our website to find details of how to apply for any of these positions.
MORE ABOUT THE ROLE
Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.
We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.
Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.
Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship. As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.
Individual Team Members will demonstrate some, but not necessarily all of these skills and as a result will be responsible for different areas of delivery as assigned by the Engagement Team Leader as set out below.
Engagement
- Service user engagement and recruitment - Including through presentations, surveys, focus groups and workshops
- Staff engagement - including through presentations, staff and individual meetings
- Stakeholder engagement - including other statutory and voluntary sector partner agencies
Retaining relationships
- Providing training to an accredited standard
- Facilitating groups, including meetings, focus groups, workshops and large events
- Recruiting and managing service users and volunteers - including providing clear activities, support and signposting to further opportunities
Co-ordination
- Coordinating tasks and activities within the project plan and producing regular reports
- Keeping accurate and up to date records - including participants details, engagement levels, diversity/equality monitoring data
- Assessing risk, working within safeguarding best practice and reporting incidents
In addition to the above duties, the post holder will be required to perform other duties, which are assigned from time to time. However, such other duties will be reasonable in relation to the individual’s skills, abilities and grade.We believe in the power of your personal lived-experience of the criminal justice system.
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Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle, by connecting people and places, creating liveable neighbourhoods, transforming the school run and delivering a happier, healthier commute. Take the next step on your Sustrans journey by joining our team in the South of England:
Network Development Manager
South Central
(Ref: SUS2749)
£27,255 per annum
37.5 hours per week – based in Reading or Bristol (can be negotiated)
This is an exciting role which will be pro-active in developing cycle routes and networks, including the National Cycle Network, by project managing schemes from land acquisition and fund assembly through to construction. This will include network and feasibility studies, cycle route design and responsibility for influencing and generating funding for future work.
With proven experience in transport planning or a related subject and experience in project management, including implementation and monitoring budgets, you will have previously worked in partnership with other groups / organisations and with local stakeholders and the public sector. Your written and verbal communications skills will be excellent as will be your negotiation and advocacy skills. You will have the ability to research and produce reports, to build and maintain effective working relationships and be IT literate. You will also have an understanding of the sustainable transport agenda in the UK and be committed to the promotion of sustainable transport.
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Monday 30 September 2019. Interviews will take place in Bristol or Reading on Tuesday 8 October 2019.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.
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