The Kids Network is looking for the change maker to join our programmes team help little Londoners in Hackney live the lives they deserve

ABOUT THE ROLE

As our Programmes Manager you will manage the programme delivery in Hackney, supporting 55 children by providing excellent mentor management, building relationships with schools and the community, and responding to and managing safeguarding concerns.

5 days a week (35 hours)

£28k

Accountable to: Head of Programmes

Some weekend and evening work required

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Flexible working arrangements (mostly home working with London office option)
• 25 days annual leave entitlement and extra bonus day on your birthday
• A friendly, fun-loving, passionate team, with plenty of animal and food related chat

Management Responsibility

• Be responsible for your programme KPIs by developing a specific project plan and reporting progress
• Be the champion for Hackney, by deeply understanding the community and the strengths, challenges and needs they face
• Have full understanding of the funding requirements of this programme, ensuring deliverables are met, and reporting is timely, effective and engaging to secure ongoing support

• Work closely with Project officers to ensure outreach, recruitment and onboarding of new programme volunteers to meet programme requirements.

Responsibility for a Child-led programme

• Onboard a minimum of 50 children to the programme, running workshops to understand their needs and mentor requests,
• Monitor each child’s individual progress, ensuring they are having an inclusive, fun, child-led experience that promotes their development and confidence,
• Ensure every child has a positive ending, identifying at the 9 month point referral pathways to community partners,
• Hold workshops with the children throughout the year to hear their voices, understand their needs, and measure the impact of the programme,
• Amplifying children’s voices, ensuring they are involved in our processes, decision making and strategy developments, collecting timely stories of their journey.

Mentor management responsibility

• Using our CRM platform Salesforce, deliver an excellent standard of mentor management to a minimum of 50 mentors per year logging all communication
• Celebrate volunteers in creative and effective ways,
• Ensure sessions are taking place on a weekly basis, holding regular reviews with mentors and ensuring they are acting in line with our policies and Code of Conduct,
• Ensure mentors receive quality training, the support they require throughout the year, Including developing effective resources and tools, responding to the emerging needs of the child,
• Build the community of mentors by leading on monthly Mentor Meet Ups and other networking opportunities.

Schools and community responsibility

• Build and manage the relationship with all schools and referral partners. Run termly meetings and write impact reports,
• Raise £15,000 through schools contributions,
• Develop community relationships to positively impact the children in the programme,
• Act as an ambassador for The Kids Network, building relationships with diverse audiences to communicate our work.

Safeguarding responsibility

• Act in compliance with our safeguarding policies and procedures at all time,
• Support the recruitment of mentors using the Safer recruitment policy,
• Ensure mentors are trained to a high standard in safeguarding,
• Update the safeguarding log as per our safeguarding log process.

About you

We are looking for a process driven, personable, strong communicator who is passionate about children’s futures. To be successful, you will be solutions focused, positive, proactive and an advocate for early intervention.

We are looking for someone with a strong knowledge and understanding of Hackney, who will be able to lead our programme in this community.

Personal Specification

• Track record of managing volunteers effectively – ability to motivate and support volunteers to provide consistent support to vulnerable children,
• Experience in following safeguarding processes and foundation level in child protection,
• Experience working with schools and referral partners,
• Experience of delivering small to medium-scale programmes from start to finish
• Ability to be solution focused and self-motivating, to work on your own initiative and be accountable for your own work
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to communicate to a range of audiences with impact
• Skilled at delivering engaging training sessions and organising events
• Excellent IT skills with ability to use spreadsheets, emails and databases effectively
• Non-judgemental, self-motivated, pro-active, compassionate and solution focused

Desirable:

• Understanding of the UK education and charity sector
• Experience of working with children and families directly in challenging environments and understanding of the challenges facing children in London
• Experience onboarding schools onto programmes
• Experience delivering effective training and workshops to volunteers to support their development
• Experience using CRM Salesforce

The Kids Network is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to apply for an enhanced DBS check.

Saferworld is an independent international organisation working to prevent violent conflict and build safer lives.

Saferworld’s communications underpin our reputation and profile as a source of expertise on peace-centred peace and security issues, based on our programme evidence, impact and expert analysis. The primary purpose of the communications team is to lead, facilitate and support collaborative efforts across the organisation to reinforce Saferworld’s standing as a centre of expertise on peace, gender and security issues required to realise Saferworld’s goals outlined in the organisational strategy. We achieve this through producing high quality, relevant and timely communications that are coordinated across our different geographic and thematic priorities and delivered via our communications platforms.

The Communication Coordinator will support the effective delivery of Saferworld’s communications and branding. Working closely with colleagues across Saferworld and partners, the role will lead on promoting an ethical approach to Saferworld’s communications, producing stories of change from our projects, on photography and videos. They will also lead on branding and design within Saferworld. A key aim of the communication coordinator is to lead the development of our audio-visual work, upholding our house style and to develop our story-led content.

This position is an exciting opportunity for a communications specialist to play a role in developing Saferworld’s story-led content, bringing the voices from communities and partners we work with to the fore. The post-holder will contribute learning generated in producing story-led or audio-visual content throughout the organisation to develop the communications strategy.

Please go to our website for a full job description and details of how to apply

You don't need to run faster than the wind to work with us. But it would help if you like sport and see its power to end violence, discrimination and inequality for children and young people across the world. And if you do, you will be sharing the belief that our founding patron, Nelson Mandela, expressed at the launch of Laureus 21 years ago:

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.”

As a key member of Laureus' programmes team, you will be responsible for planning and implementing a portfolio of impactful programmes across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe using sport as a vehicle for social change.

You will be responsible for managing a diverse sport for development portfolio, providing high level programme support, financial oversight, monitoring and evaluation technical expertise and capacity building support to our global implementing partners. This role will involve working closely with the wider Programmes and Development teams, aiming always to ensure Sport for Good makes progress towards its Vision. 

In this role, you will:

• Develop and manage a caseload of grants, mostly in East Africa
• Support the organisational development and strengthening of grant partners
• Participate in developing funding proposals for a range of different funders
• Help make sure that grantees comply with requirements and expectations
• Work closely with grantees to source good case stories about how they use the power of sport to change the lives of children and young people

We expect you to hit the ground running. If you feel you have the experience to deliver these different activities, write to us straight away. We will be hiring when we have the right candidate. Ideally we will take the decision before Christmas. Is it you?

This role is to support of the Advocacy Matters volunteer project and the running of the Advocacy Matters Steering Group.  Advocacy Matters has a thriving volunteer team comprising of Volunteer Advocates, Volunteer Office roles, Volunteer Events roles and Steering Group Members.  This position would involve directly supporting the volunteer team through training, mentoring, supervision and overseeing casework.

The role also involves the running of the Advocacy Matters Steering Group who provide a user involvement function to the strategic decision making of the organisation, training, self and peer advocacy and consultations.

User involvement is making sure the voices of people are heard and they can actively shape and improve the services they use and influence local and national policy. People who use services are experts on how they should be developed and delivered this is at the heart of Advocacy Matters ethos.

Please Call Kathryn Paynter to discuss

Peer Advocate Worker
Twickenham

We're now looking for a Part-time, Peer Advocate Worker to join our Homeless Health link team.

About Us

We are SPEAR, a charity dedicated to helping homeless people in South and West London find secure accommodation and work towards a positive future. For 30 years, we’ve worked tirelessly to support homeless people to recover from their personal issues and break down the barriers that they face. We recognise that homelessness is much more than just a housing issue, so we provide a range of accommodation and support services to help people reach their full potential.

This is a superb opportunity for an individual with drive, focus and a desire to work with our outstanding charity to help us to combat homelessness. You’ll discover a passionate, supportive environment where the entire team are working toward the same goals and are dedicated to making positive change and producing great results.

The Benefits

- Salary of £13,072.94 per annum
- 26 days’ holiday pro rata (increasing with service)
- Pension scheme
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme
- A range of benefits including cycle to work scheme and staff wellbeing sessions
- Refer a friend bonus scheme

This role will be responsible for the promotion of the services across the boroughs, engaging with a range of supported housing and homelessness service providers to source referrals into the services. The role will also be responsible for the liaison and communication of case management across any providers engaged with the service.

This role will deliver high quality services offered by the Homeless Health Link Programme focusing on the engagement of homeless clients, including rough sleepers into a range of primary care, mental health and substance misuse services. This post is required to undertake good quality case work and assessments of individual with complex needs including challenging mental and physical health needs.

Our health link service engages and supports rough sleepers with their mental and physical ill health needs, helping them access services that are often difficult to access, meaning that they have poor access to health and social care services.

You will need to have great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, as well as being able to able to build on the relationships we have with our clients and stakeholders as well as create new relationships that benefit the service users and SPEAR as an organisation.

The role will be responsible for processing referrals into the service from a range of sources across the boroughs and act as an entry point into the service. To work closely and proactively with local authorities, statutory and non-statutory health and housing services to improve pathways for homeless clients accessing physical and mental health services.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification.

SPEAR is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environment is, the better our work will be.

At SPEAR, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Other organisations may call this role Support Worker, Outreach Officer, Peer Support Worker, Homeless Welfare Officer, Recovery Worker, Peer Support Worker, Peer Advocate Officer, or Peer Advocate Practitioner.

Lepra

Leprosy is a wholly treatable disease, but too many people with Leprosy suffer discrimination, prejudice and are unable to access freely available treatment. Through its programmes in India and Bangladesh and its worldwide advocacy, Lepra aims to make Leprosy a disease of little consequence. 

The Role

This role requires a team player, who can slot into a fast paced team, be flexible and juggle many tasks and deadlines at once.

Who we are looking for

Someone to support our new acquisition strategy and who can deliver key messages to existing supporters. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their experience in:

• An externally facing communication or marketing role with a history of successful stories, publications and multimedia content
• Working with international, national and local media, ideally across a range of media channels with a well proven record of published work, whether print, multimedia or digital
• Initiating and developing creative and compelling stories and campaigns for various audiences and across various media channels
• Coordinating the development of multi-media communications materials, including graphics and films, and effectively distributing them
• Managing integrated digital communications
• Managing both live and digital events
• An understanding of data privacy and the required legal regulatory environment around external communications
• Experience of using a contacts database, CRM system or similar

The skills that are important to us

• Impeccable writing, editorial and proofreading skills
• Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics).
• Understanding of video and multimedia techniques within a communications role.
• Experience of using Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro desirable  
• Excellent IT skills, relevant computer packages including Microsoft applications
• Strong and effective communication and interpersonal skills with cross cultural sensitivity

The attributes that we need are

• Action focused, able to get things done at pace to a high quality
• Ability to prioritise tasks, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Capability to work accurately on own initiative and as part of a team
• An adaptable and flexible approach to work
• Aptitude to communicate sensitively with colleagues, partners, NGOs, and supporters of Lepra
• Ambitious, self-motivated and adaptable to make the most of this exciting opportunity
• Committed to the principles of the charity sector and values of Lepra

We can provide 

• Flexible working environment from home and office bases,
• A friendly, informal but hard working environment 
• The opportunity to experience our programmes directly in Indian and Bangladesh
• Supported studying for further relevant qualifications

Why work for us?

Wanted: an inspiring, influential and accomplished Head of Communications with experience of media relations work in an international context.

It’s an important time to join CARE International UK (CIUK) as the Head of Communications. With a new organisational strategy under development for 2030, we need a leader who can take forward our communications strategy encompassing brand, media and digital communications aimed at our key audiences including individuals, policy makers, donors and corporate partners.

With a good culture of integrated working across communications, fundraising and advocacy, we are determined to do things differently.   Our recent #March4Women campaign is just one example of a fully integrated campaign, led by the communications team, which included all our target audiences.

In addition to the UK objectives, we also have a commitment to improve communications globally and to contribute to advocacy goals - and this role is essential in working with counterparts throughout the confederation on global initiatives.

About you

As an experienced, strategic and dynamic communications professional – you will have a proven track record of leading a major communications function. Your broad ranging experience will span brand, press and PR, editorial content and digital.

With experience of leading large integrated campaigns, you will have worked closely with colleagues across fundraising, advocacy and programmes – building relationships and influencing at a high-level. And with your strategic mind – you will have taken a communications function on a journey to success.

About the role

Reporting to the Executive Director, Partnerships and Communications, you will be responsible for leading all media, content and digital communications. This role is essential to achieving our advocacy and programmes goals. The team consists of Press & PR, Editorial Content and Digital – providing support across CIUK to deliver on the CIUK strategy, and in turn contributing to the CARE Global Programme Strategy. As a key member of CIUK leadership team, you will work with colleagues across the organisation on major strategic issues and organisational culture.

As a member of the global communications team, you will work closely with peers across CARE member offices to share knowledge and contribute to global communications objectives and crisis comms.  

As CIUK is a member of the DEC, at times of humanitarian emergency you will work closely with the DEC’s communications team to generate media coverage by offering spokespeople and content.

Working with the Senior Management Team and CEO, you will advise on crisis communications, as well as lead on major pieces of strategic work which align and contribute to our Global Programme Strategy.

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable and excluded communities and by 2030, CARE and our partners will support 200 million people.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future. A member of the DEC – our humanitarian work is recognised as world-leading and we are proud to work in collaboration with our sector colleagues.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy and our Code of Conduct. They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.

Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to satisfactory references.

CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. 

- Appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check).

By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to Equality and value Diversity.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch.

We also encourage people from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or LGBT+ to apply for roles at CARE International UK.

Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK.

At the forefront of the organisation, you will be responsible for maintaining partnerships, supporting tutors/coaches and delivering our programmes from volunteer recruitment and workshop delivery all the way through to evaluation. This is an “in-at-the-deep-end” role and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students and young professionals:

• Meeting recruitment targets for tutors/coaches across the region each term.
• Training volunteers in tutoring/coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school and online programmes (university student led and peer to peer):

• Setting timelines for programme start and finish dates
• Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback after sessions
• Visiting schools to oversee quality.
• Managing and running online sessions.

Programme Design and Delivery:

• Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops when needed
• Running in-school or online workshops for groups of pupils (KS2-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of our programmes

Line managing a team of Head Coaches:

• Delivering training for Head Coaches
• Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions

Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, service, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Essential characteristics and experience:

• Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK so a person’s background does not determine their future.
• Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love delivering workshops to groups as well as communicating our mission to a wide range of stakeholders (businesses, senior members of MATs, universities etc.
• Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different programmes and workstreams.
• Independence: this role requires you to work independently/alone from time to time in the office and/or from home
• Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must!
• Flexibility: the role will occasionally involve working evenings & weekends

Benefits:

• An opportunity to contribute to a young, exciting charity with scope to input widely and take on new roles.
• Starting Salary: £22k per annum
• Annual Leave: 28 days pro rata
• Office space: working from home or can be based in our Birmingham, Exeter or London offices.
• Training: we are a reflective organisation and keen to support your professional development.

Key Information:

• Length: permanent.
• Hours: Full Time
• Responsible for: Individual Programmes
• Start Date: ASAP

How to Apply and Next Steps:

• Email Robin your CV and a cover letter of no more than 350 words by Monday 22nd November. In the subject line, please mention you are applying for the South West Programme Officer role.
• Interviews will take place throughout the recruitment period so please do apply early

STOPAIDS are recruiting for a COVID-19 Advocacy Officer to help develop and implement STOPAIDS strategy to ensure equitable and urgent access to safe, effective and affordable COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments for all!

People living with or affected by HIV, from Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or from other minority groups are particularly encouraged to apply and/or contact us regarding any queries about the role. 

STOPAIDS is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive positive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sex characteristics, HIV status, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.

We are open to considering applications for a part-time role that would require a job share.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone interested in developing their career as an Advocacy and Support Team Manager. You will join our established Advocacy and Support Service as the new Senior Management Team Leader. Your role will be a permanent term position working full time, 37.5 hours per week work based at our Canterbury Hub and delivering services across Kent. You will hold a case load as well as managing a team delivery complex case work, mentoring partnerships, activities and youth engagement and support activities including a Youth Ambassador programme and Youth Forum. Full induction for the role will be provided. Our advocacy and support services are empowering and holistic in nature and work alongside our Learning for Life Team.

You will be strategic in your thinking and a proactive and resourceful individual on the practical and operational level. You will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the UK advocacy environment for refugees and asylum seekers; experience in report writing and monitoring, together with the ability to multi-task and work with a number of conflicting demands and multiple deadlines; an excellent communicator, relationship builder, team player, leader and manager.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for an interim Digital Policy and Advocacy Officer to join the Digital and Innovation team within our Strategy and collaboration department. You will support and drive policy and advocacy efforts to bridge the gender digital divide through the digital empowerment of girls.

You will advise on policy and advocacy in the space of the gender digital divide, ensuring that you are aware of policy and research in the space of digital, gender and rights and advising on the use, risks and benefits of a variety of social media and online tools for advocacy.

This role will require internal collaboration with policy and advocacy colleagues, external partnership with organisations specialised in digital policy and advocacy and keen participation in digital networks, including catalysts, champions and Plan International’s Areas of Global Distinctiveness.

About You

You bring a strong understanding of digital and technology trends and policy debates at the global level and experience in policy and influencing design, monitoring and evaluation, learning and knowledge management.

Experience in international work environments and an understanding of NGO structures, the girls and women’s equality movement and the UN human rights and humanitarian system is essential.

WE ARE RECRUITING AN IRIS ADVOCATE/EDUCATOR TO WORK AS PART OF A PAN-LONDON PROJECT

Role:            IRIS Advocate/Educator

Salary:     £28,785 pa (including London Weighting)

Location: Advance Head Office in Hammersmith with travel across assigned boroughs to GP surgeries and partners as required. 

Contract:   Contract until 31st March 2022; in line with current funding

Hours:         35 hours per week 

About Advance

Advance is a well-respected charity established in 1998 to support women to cope and recover from experiences of domestic abuse and those who are at risk of offending or with short term sentences to reduce offending. At Advance we work alongside partner agencies to provide a dynamic response to survivors of Domestic Abuse. 

The IRISi Project

IRISi has been commissioned by The Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) to work with partners in the health and specialist Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector to rollout the IRIS programme in seven London Boroughs. Advance is working as one of the partners on this exciting new project.

The objective of the project is to improve the quality of life of patients by raising awareness of domestic abuse with GPs and improve the domestic abuse response and the provision of holistic care for patients by GP services. The project also aims to help families know how to identify issues and concerns and know where to access support, as well as offering them the opportunity to participate in the development of violence reduction solutions.

We currently cover Ealing, Brent, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Westminster where we work in partnership with GP surgeries to target and engage survivors from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds who may not have access to mainstream domestic abuse services. 

Currently based in our Head Office in Hammersmith, the two vacancies will geographically focus on Hammersmith & Fulham/Westminster and Brent/Ealing; providing an excellent opportunity for career development within the field of Domestic Abuse. The successful applicant will receive specific IRISi training to deliver this programme.

The role

You will be supporting and providing on-going training for health professionals in general practice to help them understand and respond to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) and encouraging health professionals to ask women about their experience of abuse and respond, record, safety check and refer. 

A focus of this role is around building and maintaining effective relationships with general practice teams and providing individual needs-led information, support and advocacy (including signposting) for women who disclose their past or current experiences of DVA. 

Advance works with a diverse range of women across London and are committed to our staff workforce reflecting the women we support. If you have any additional language skills, please let us know in your application as they will be highly regarded.  

What you will bring:

•  An excellent understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse and the impact especially in relation to survivor’s health and that of their children. 

•  Experience of working within a domestic abuse service ideally as an IDVA is required for this role. 

•  Confidence in advocating for the rights of survivors with professionals and effectively managing partner relationships. 

Previous IRISi experieince/training will be highly regarded. 

What we offer:

•  30 days holiday plus public holidays

•  Pension scheme 

•  Access to our Employee Assistance Programme

•  Various forms of wellbeing support 

•  Organisation wide away days

•  The opportunity to work in a flexible, supportive environment with a team of committed, inspiring women and we will support you as you to continue to build your skills and experience and grow your career

To apply: Please submit your CV along with a supporting statement setting out how you meet the criteria for the role. 

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

The Opportunity

Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) is a collaboration of national, regional and global leaders from feminist networks, civil society, international development and the private sector. We connect data and evidence with advocacy and action on gender equality, to transform the lives of women and girls and realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.)

EM2030’s flagship data product is the SDG Gender Index, first launched in 2019. The index aims to drive accountability for commitments to and for girls and women and their rights in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

With just 9 years left to achieve the SDGs, EM2030 is launching its second iteration of the SDG Gender Index in early 2022. The index and associated products and analysis will aim to engage and galvanise gender equality advocates and policymakers to reflect on progress to date and to commit to accelerated action with and for girls and women.

The Programme & Partnerships Officer will work in close collaboration with EM2030 partners, especially the regional and national partners, to support their context-specific index launch plans and advocacy activities. Crucial to the success of this work will be relationship building and spotting opportunities for shared learning, networking and building connections between EM2030 partners at all levels. The postholder will also work closely with partners to understand, report on, and communicate about the impact of their data-driven advocacy work.

The successful candidate will be committed to and experienced in feminist and anti-racist approaches to partnership building, have significant experience living and working outside of North America and Europe, and be a self-starter with the ability to navigate and prioritise across a wide variety of relationships and deliverables. Fluency in at least two of EM2030’s core languages (English, French and Spanish) is essential.

RefuAid is a young and dynamic organisation supporting displaced people gain independence.  We focus on three key barriers for refugees trying to restart their lives in the UK: finance and re-qualification, language tuition and specialist employment advice.

We want to challenge the negative rhetoric surrounding refugees and show that, given the right support, refugees and asylum seekers can be an asset both economically and culturally to their host communities.

The current English language provision in the UK remains underfunded and difficult to access, without access to structured language tuition refugees find themselves isolated unable to advocate for themselves or begin to integrate into the UK.

RefuAid provides scholarship places at private English language schools throughout the UK for people who have been granted asylum to improve their English and take English language exams. This tuition and the exams provide the necessary qualification to enter a university or a profession in the UK.

RefuAid support the students in a caseworker capacity throughout the duration of their course.

We are looking for a full-time language caseworker to support the running of our nationwide language programme which supports refugees and asylum-seekers to gain the needed level of language and qualification to access education and employment. You will work directly alongside the Language Programme Team, providing support within a variety of areas.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Casework, directly working with RefuAid clients - providing programme guidance & educational/careers advice.

·Creating and maintaining relationships at partner schools.

· Liaising with partner organisations, both non-profit and maintaining existing partnerships.

· Processing payments for students. 

· Administration assistance - database and accounts

· Participate in any necessary meetings. 


· Any other reasonable activity as needed for RefuAid.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES: 


· Excellent administrative and time management skills.

·       Excellent communication skills on telephone, in writing and in person.

· Commitment to, understanding and sensitive communication of our work and values.

· A high standard of spoken and written English.


· Excellent numeracy. 


· Meticulous; high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

· Excellent IT skills; specifically, Microsoft Office, CRM systems and any additional software programs would be an advantage.

· Interest in the importance of long-term solutions in refugee-hosting communities, 
specifically in breaking down the language barrier. 


· Enthusiastic and positive attitude; flexible and adaptable.

· Collaborative team-player who will get involved in whatever needs to be done to achieve 
the aims of RefuAid. 


Committed to reflection and learning, including sharing failures and uncertainties.

We are committed to providing equality and fairness for all and not to discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion or age. We encourage and celebrate the different qualities that our colleagues, and others we work with, bring to our work. And we believe that seeing things from a wide range of different perspectives helps us to resolve problems, adapt our approaches and develop as an organisation. We want to bring greater diversity to our team and we are keen to receive applications from people who believe they would do this.

Due to a high volume of applications we are only able to respond to successful applications.