We are looking for highly motivated individual with significant HR professional experience.  Working closely with the Finance and Resources Director, the HR Manager will lead the delivery of West London Zone's HR services with the aim of promoting and embedding best practices. They will ensure that WLZ recruits , engages, inspires and manages its staff so that the organisation can nurture a high performing, enabling culture which aligns with its vision, mission and values.

Responsibilities include

• Liaising with our Senior Management Team, Department Heads and the HR Officer to develop a recruitment pack that attracts the best candidates and improves the diversity of our workforce
• Leading on the interview process at WLZ so that we follow best practice and select the top candidates for our roles.
• Driving the contracting and induction process so that all new staff are aligned with the organisation’s values and safer working practices, and understand their role within WLZ.
• Refining and codifying our current performance appraisal process to ensure fair, motivating and transparent management of performance.
• Assessing learning and development needs, and working with the senior leadership team to design training programmes and personal development plans that inspire and encourage a learning mind-set.
• Training all managers in how to undertake performance management and standardizing our performance reporting across teams.
• Advising on ad hoc performance management issues, in liaison with the Finance and Resources Director.
• Advising on grievance and disciplinary issues as necessary in liaison with our HR advisor.
• Drive the recruitment and selection process to attract the best staff
•  Lead on a performance management process that drives reflection & high performance

To apply, please complete and email your application form, which is also available on our website via the Apply button.

Applications received before 5pm on Monday 6th April 2020 will be considered.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 5pm on Tuesday 14th April 2020.

Interview date is Friday 17th April 2020.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with lived experience of disability to lead a team of talented peers in the delivery of Barnet’s statutory Healthwatch function. Inclusion Barnet is looking for a committed and confident professional who is passionate about patient and public engagement, effecting system change, and improving services, in order to improve the experiences of people using health and social care services in Barnet.

As Manager, you will have a fundamental role in leading staff and volunteers, and ensuring service users, patients and external stakeholders are involved in shaping the future of healthcare services in the Borough. Local people are at the heart of everything we do, and you will lead and guide the organisation to ensure that patients and service users are heard, their experiences shared, and their voices amplified, creating change and improving services for all.

About Healthwatch

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 required each local authority area to set up a Healthwatch organisation. Healthwatch gives give people a powerful voice both locally and nationally. At a local level, Healthwatch Barnet works to help people get the best from their health and social care services, whether it's improving them today, or helping to shape them for tomorrow. Healthwatch Barnet is about local voices being able to influence the delivery and design of their services, not just for the people who use them, but anyone who might need to use them in future.

Healthwatch Barnet transferred to Inclusion Barnet on 1st April 2020. It is commissioned by the London Borough of Barnet to provide the following 6 key functions:

• Gather views and understand the experiences of patients and the public.
• Make people’s views known.
• Promote and support the involvement of people in the commissioning and provision of local care services and how they are scrutinised.
• Recommend investigation or special review of services via Healthwatch England or directly to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
• Provide advice and information (signposting) about access to services and support for making informed choices
• Making the views and experiences of local people known to Healthwatch England (and to other local Healthwatch organisations) and providing a steer to help it carry out its role as national champion.

About Inclusion Barnet

Inclusion Barnet is a thriving peer-led charity based in North West London. We are a friendly, supportive and inclusive team.We believe in the power of experience and this is demonstrated by all our services being led, developed and delivered by people with lived experience of disability, including mental health issues and long-term conditions. We believe that learning to use our lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing the lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers and people who use our services to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services. We believe that this benefits both disabled people and society more widely.

How to apply 

Please submit a detailed covering letter with your CV outlining how your skills match the job description and person specification.  The closing date is 17th April, with shortlisting complete by 20th April.  Successful applicants will be notified shortly afterwards, with interviews to be held on 23rd April.  These may be held via videoconference depending on current health advice.

As part of our commitment to safeguarding, the successful applicant will be expected to undergo a DBS check.

This role is for 28 hours a week, hours by mutual agreement with some flexibility required.  Depending on current health advice, the successful candidate may be home based during the early weeks of the role.  Actual salary between £27,200 and £28,000.

We’re looking for an experienced retail manager who can help us set up a new store, develop it and turn it into a high performing shop, contributing to the charity’s income and raising our profile in the local community. We're looking for someone who loves working with people and has the ability to lead and inspire those around them. Our successful candidate will be someone who is energetic and positive in their approach and attitude, with the ability to instil this in others. They will be hard working and can lead by example, being hands on themselves but ultimately with the ability to drive productivity through empowering the volunteer team.

You will need to be a good all-rounder, but most importantly you should share our values namely, be motivated, enthusiastic and passionate about helping animals.

It is important that you have good communication skills both inside and outside the shop, reaching out to the local community to help build support for the shop.

You will ensure the smooth running of the shop. This will include the accurate processing of any financial transactions, the delivery of shop floor and stockroom management, excellent customer service, recruiting and retaining a volunteer team and adherence with policies and procedures.

Please be aware this position will include working 37.5 hours per week over 5 days Tuesday to Saturday.

About us:

The RSPCA Central, West & North East London Branch is a separately registered charity from the main RSPCA and is self-funding through a chain of charity shops. These shops pay for our two animal centres which accommodate over 1700 animals a year from our Branch area.

We take in the most sick, injured, abused and neglected animals from the streets of London and rehabilitate and re-home them. Our outreach programme operates seven days a week to offer help and comfort to animals that have been hit by cars, fallen from windows, lost their homes due to the death, imprisonment or eviction of their owners, or been beaten, abandoned or abused. Our amazing team of fosterers take in those animals which still have quality of life but are too old to find a new home or who are too poorly and need time to recover in a safe loving environment. 

Our specialist stables re-homing programme for feral and terrified cats ensures that those who cannot cope with a conventional home can find a future where they are fed and cared for but do not have to interact with people until they feel ready to do so.

We work with housing associations, local authorities, social workers, community groups and the police to provide help to animals in danger and distress.

Supporting the RSPCA is to support animals most in need and whose trust in people has often been lost. 

We are looking for an outstanding senior sales professional to help grow our work across the West Midlands and South-West region. Your ultimate goal is to help us reach more educators, schools and trusts with our professional development programmes, having the greatest possible impact on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The role will be at forefront of our externally-facing work, with a focus on building strong relationships with regional influencers and advocates in order to drive sales. You will deliver against regional targets, account manage key regional stakeholders and lead a young and ambitious sales team in order to achieve successful recruitment, continuous improvement and long-term impact in the region. The role will work in partnership with the Business Development Team to design and develop bespoke solutions to needs presented by accounts in the region, as well as gather market intelligence and provide feedback to the organisation on insight from your area and schools to inform wider strategy. 

To do this well, you will have an extensive knowledge of the education sector, experience of leading complex stakeholder relationships and the ability to meet ambitious sales targets. The ideal candidate will also have experience of developing strategy and leading complex operations, and the role is ideal for someone looking to take their account management skills and external stakeholder relationships to the next level.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you: 

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager 

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays 

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate) 

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers 

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters. 

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development 

How to apply 

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.  

We are seeking a talented Funding Manager to join our grants and research team. This new role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience in research funding and grant management within a grant making organisation but who is ready to broaden their horizons beyond traditional research grant management. 

This is a highly collaborative and strategic focused role that will require the post-holder to work independently and confidently. You will manage a diverse and growing portfolio of research and non-research grants through the entire grants management life cycle, from pre- to post award, in line with AMRC principles. This role will also include responsibility for managing the grant making programmes, the monitoring of progress of projects, reporting on the outcomes and impact through various communication channels and developing important relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

About you

You will have a research background together with demonstrable research funding management experience within a grant making organisation, have a keen interest to build on this expertise and ambition to advance your career in this field. You will have high attention to detail and be effective in managing a diverse workload.

Specifically, you will have:

• An advanced degree in biomedical sciences or equivalent work experience in a relevant scientific discipline
• Research grants management experience in the grant making sector
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish good working relationships

About the team

This role is within the grants and research team who are responsible for ensuring the charity has robust grant making mechanisms to determine best use of charitable funding together with monitoring and evaluating projects and programmes funded by Moorfields Eye Charity.  Over the last four years charitable support, through our grant programmes, has supported over 250 projects and initiatives with £14 million in funding. 

About the charity

Moorfields Eye Charity is the main grant making and fundraising charity for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its academic partner, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

We are in the early stages of a major capital campaign. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Charity have a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a state-of-the-art integrated treatment, research and education centre. It will benefit Moorfields’ patients and those with sight problems worldwide.

It will push the boundaries of science, deliver breakthrough treatments to the front line of patient care and revolutionise eye healthcare around the world.

For further information on the role please see attached job description and person specification 

Please note only applications including a CV and covering letter will be considered. The covering letter and CV should clearly address your research and grants management experience and why this particular role appeals to you. They should, in total, be no more than three sides of A4.

Closing date for receipt of applications - Friday 1 May 2020

Please include, at the end of your coverletter, details of where you saw this job advertised. Thank you.  

Interview date -To be decided

We're looking for an experienced marketing and communications professional to join our staff team as Marketing & Communications Manager to join our staff team. You'll work closely with our Chair of Marketing & Communications and the region marketing and communications lead volunteers to effectively promote Girlguiding across our region.

Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Development Officer

We are looking for someone to play an important role in supporting the development and implementation of our fundraising activities to secure funding from trusts & foundations, major donors and statutory funders. This job requires exceptional writing skills and a good understanding of how to position West London Zone and our work within applications and funder reports.

Responsibilities include

• Write high-quality bids for trusts/foundations and any other fundraising applications, including proposals to High Net Worth Individuals as required.
• Work closely with line manager to manage our existing pipeline to meet fundraising targets on an annual basis.
• Conduct prospect research on potential trust and foundations funders and discuss action plan for new prospects with line manager in order to help build our pipeline.
• Write bespoke external reports for funders, collaborating across the organisation as required.
• Help to build relationships with key individuals representing trusts and foundations by drafting outreach communications and supporting documents, with the opportunity to build your own small portfolio of donors.
• Lead on donation processing and thanking.
• Manage and develop the Salesforce database system and reporting, utilise (and help develop) internal systems and processes to track deadlines, KPIs, and get the most out of our CRM.
• Work closely with other members of the Development team to support all fundraising activity, including event.

To apply, please complete and email your application form, which is also available on our website.

Applications received before 5pm on Tuesday 14th April 2020 will be considered.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 5pm on Thursday 16th April 2020.

Interviews Friday 17th April via conference/video call.

To help us achieve our mission, we are recruiting qualified social workers with direct experience of working with children and families and knowledge and experience of supporting social work students. We are looking for candidates who can lead the delivery of teaching across the year, support participants in their local authority units and supervise participants during the 2nd year of the Frontline programme.

Practice Tutors (PTs) work closely as a peer group to share effective ways of working across participant units, local authorities and regions. They play a key role within the development and delivery of our social work curriculum, contributing knowledge and expertise to create a culture that promotes outstanding social work education and that enables teams to do their best work in order to achieve our mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families.

PTs are responsible for teaching and developing participants at the five-week summer institute, regional recall days and, in the participant units within local authorities. PTs support a number of participant units, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each unit is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW).  Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs to ensure a high quality practice learning experience.

Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if not already held.

Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and other problems.  Our goal is to inspire hope and deliver change for everybody and every community we work with.

Specialist Community Forensic Service Manager

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract: Permanent post

Salary: £33,297- £37,458

Location: Bristol

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to lead the newly created Specialised Community Forensic Team for Second Step in partnership with Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP). The team has been developed to support people out of secure in-patient units back into the community. The service will cover Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

You’ll have knowledge of the support needs of people with mental health difficulties and experience of innovating and implementing new services. You’ll be a good communicator, able to develop and manage relationships with key partners and be keen to contribute to the development of the team and the delivery of this valuable service.

Second Step is a leading provider of mental health services.  We offer excellent training and support, and we acknowledge the commitment and dedication of our employees, which is the foundation of our success. We would like to hear from people who share the same belief and values.

Closing date: 25th March 2020

Interview date: 3rd April 2020

 Second Step is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community and from people who have personal experience of using mental health services.

This role is a home based role at 21 hours a week. Salary advertised is the full time equivalent.

About us

Christian Aid Ireland believes that everyone, regardless of faith or race, is entitled to live a full life, free from poverty. We believe the world can and must be changed so that there is equality, dignity and freedom for all. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our team and to make this change happen.

About the role

Church Engagement and Fundraising Officers inspire churches and individuals to be agents of change, with Christian Aid, in order to overcome poverty. The CEFO's specific contribution is to offer bespoke support, often face-to-face, to a defined set of churches and Christian Aid groups, to enable and enrich their contribution. CEFOs motivate churches, groups and individuals to raise money. To enable lasting change, the role also works in partnership on campaigning activity with individual campaigners, churches and, where appropriate, other campaigning partners. This role will be covering the North Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire areas and will be fully home-based.

About you

As a Church Engagement and Fundraising Officer you are responsible for working alongside Volunteer Officers to support and develop volunteers within their area of work, and to draw on the expertise of volunteers where possible. Church Engagement and Fundraising Officers are measured against clearly defined targets and success indicators.

You will manage a wide caseload of churches, in England (in the vacant patches) in a way that inspires participation to give, act and pray with Christian Aid. You will ensure Christian Aid serves, inspires and equips the spectrum of churches to make an impact on poverty through Christian Aid.

You will bring your experience of church engagement and fundraising with to build and nurture new and existing networks and relationships, speak confidently and effectively. You'll meet fundraising targets, generate creative and effective engagement ideas and be ready to partner with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve multiple outcomes, including volunteers, leaders, pastors, ministers, colleagues and Christian media.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values, and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.

The ‘Head of Greater Manchester’ role is an exciting opportunity to lead the next stage of FBB’s expansion in the North West. FBB was established in London in 2014 and currently works with 40 schools and 800 young people across the capital. In response to demand from schools, FBB launched in the North West in January 2019 and is currently delivering across 14 schools. 

The successful applicant will be responsible for leading the next stage of our expansion in Greater Manchester. They will need to have experience of leading teams in educational settings, both in terms of driving up standards as a line manager and creating passionate, closely bonded teams as a leader. They will need to have the ability to develop strong relationships with headteachers at our partner schools, along with representing the organisation with external funders and partners. They will work closely with our Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Jasper Kain, to increase the reach and profile of FBB in Greater Manchester.

We are seeking a Conservation Officer to work across our Morecambe Bay & Ribble and Lake District Priority Landscapes. They will be responsible for helping to deliver the work of RSPB's conservation teams within the North West and Northeast and Cumbria operational areas, to ensure delivery of the relevant outcomes of RSPB's Saving Nature Strategy.

Conservation Officer - North West, Morecambe Bay and Cumbria
Reference number: 7daZd-2
Location: Lancaster Office – covering North West
Salary Range: currently £25,463 to £27,585 per annum (increasing to £26,212 to £29,320 with effect from 1st April 2020)
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent

Conservation Officers have a key role in hands-on land management advisory work, managing and delivering projects, in association with RSPB colleagues. This includes those led by RSPB and RSPB's delivery in wider partnerships, particularly within priority landscapes. The role has an important external element, building positive relationships with key partners and stakeholders so that our collective policies and messages are understood and furthered within and outwith Cumbria.

The role will help to deliver a work programme focused on the relevant priority landscapes, species and habitats. This will be achieved by deploying the appropriate conservation tools to ensure we achieve our conservation objectives. This may include land management advice, site safeguard casework, species recovery, conservation projects and engagement in land use policy.

The post-holder will help to monitor and report on the work plan and to develop further work plans and/or project ideas. They will also be expected to contribute operational experience to RSPB's policy and advocacy work and contribute to the delivery of RSPB funding and communications objectives, particularly through communicating our conservation message

The area around Morecambe Bay is one of the UK's most important biodiversity hotspots. The diverse geology and landscape features and coastal and climatic influences have created an extraordinary diversity of habitats, which are home to internationally significant populations of birds, flora and invertebrates. The key habitats of importance include:

• Coastal and floodplain wetlands- saltmarshes, lowland raised bogs and freshwater wetlands in valleys.
• Farmland.
• Species rich grasslands - on coastal headlands and limestone escarpments.
• Native woodlands- supporting rare butterflies, plants and woodland birds.

The transitions between these habitats contributes to the area's outstanding diversity, as within a short distance it is possible to move from inter-tidal habitat to saltmarsh to terrestrial habitats such as unimproved grasslands, heath, swamp, fen, mire, woodland and scrub.

Cumbria and the Lake District are unique, the county contains the highest mountains and deepest lakes in England the variety and extent of its habitats are well known. Key habitats include:

• Coastal and floodplain wetlands- lakeshore wetlands, saltmarshes, lowland raised bogs and freshwater wetlands in valleys.
• Species rich coastal heath and dunes.
• Both lowland and upland native woodland communities.
• Upland habitats including; bog, heath, cliff, crag, screes and arctic-alpine communities and;
• Farmland.

RSPB has a strong reserve presence in the area including; Leighton Moss and Morecambe Bay, The Lyth Valley, Hodbarrow, Haweswater, Geltsdale, St Bees and Campfield all of which is in addition to our advisory, community engagement and education work.

Closing date: 14 April 2020
Interview date: 5 May 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the role profile and application details.

When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number 7daZd-2 on any correspondence.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.

No agencies please.

Location: London
Salary: Starting salary of £54,269 (2020 cost of living increase not included). Possible to increase by max. 2 increments a year up to £61,515 (top of grade)
Contract type: Permanent contract
Hours: 4-5 days per week
Benefits: 7.5% employer matched pension after probation, flexible working, 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays and Christmas break) and a generous staff development budget
Reporting to: Chair of the Board
Manages: Senior Finance Manager, Ops Officer, Senior Programme Management Officer
Application deadline: 23.59pm, 12th April
Interviews: For successful applicants, first interviews will be held weeks commencing 20th and 27th April

About the role:

This role works alongside the Executive Director for Strategy and Fundraising to lead NEON, deputising for one another where needed and supporting the development of the overall organisation.  You will manage and set-up the organisational systems, processes and culture that underpin all of our work. The role’s seniority shows how important this work is to NEON and the status with which we hold it. 

This will look like building and training staff to implement the human systems that help people work together: decision making, information sharing, resource allocation, giving kind and constructive feedback and handling conflict.  NEON’s culture and commitment to anti-oppression is at the very core of all of our work. This role will ensure the systems and strategies are in place to maintain and refresh our culture and implement anti-oppression across all of our work.  This role will also develop a system for building the staff management and leadership competencies required for high performance, role modelling NEON’s values and enacting our commitment to anti-oppression. 

You will manage the Operations Hub of 4 people, building on existing operational systems in finance, HR and programme management to integrate the latest practice and tools. You will support the Operations Hub to train and upskill staff members in our programmatic Hubs on the core operational skills they need to implement their programmes to a consistently high standard, e.g. in budgeting, monitoring and evaluation. Where appropriate you will draw on your own skills and experience to coach participants on NEON’s programmes on organisational development.

Operations for NEON aren’t just a service for other teams, they inform the very nature of the work we do and help define our approach to change. As a result, NEON’s values of generosity, solidarity and respect and our commitment to anti-oppression should be embedded in all of our operations. As a capacity building organisation, in time, you will also support our membership to apply some of our own best practice into their organisations, helping to scale the impact of our work.

About NEON
The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) is a not-for-profit company with 12 staff members, growing to up to 15 staff by the end of this year. We also work with a range of contractors and Associates and incubate other organisations. We are a network of over 1,600 UK organisers from different trade unions, grassroots groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), faith-based campaigns, civil society groups and movements from across the country. 

We run powerful trainings and support campaigns to help progressives win social, economic and environmental justice. We offer movements a range of support, from helping people lead movements like Just Treatment (organising patients to fight for the NHS), through to working with our members on over 2,500 media bookings on the UK’s biggest TV and radio channels. We’re ambitious and the team is agile, fast paced and committed to actually changing things. 

To build the power of movements for social, environmental and economic justice we organise our work around three goals: 

• Connect we bring people together who aren’t usually in the same room, working across many different issues and from many different struggles, because together there is strength. In particular, we want to build the power of campaigners and organisers from groups most affected by injustice to help change the leadership of our movements

• Focus is about how we support our members’ work to transform our social and economic systems through prioritising key battles. Our aim is to help members work together to win bigger change on key battleground issues, such as health and climate justice

• Build means supporting the development of key institutions that underpin the wider progressive movement. The range and diversity of groups needed is wide - from campaign groups to policy and training institutes. We help our members develop excellent institutions and structures that support many others.

To build a culture and community that lasts, we organise around three values: 

• Solidarity we’re here to change the system and that requires working together across issues and sectors that aren’t normally in the same room. This means placing anti-oppression at the heart of our work and building the power of people most affected by injustice to change the leadership of our movements

• Generosity is about sharing our time, resources and learning with one another as we support each other’s work. It means being open and honest with one another, especially when we hit problems, and thinking creatively about how we positively build from there

• Respect is the bottom line for all relationships in NEON. It means being respectful of different backgrounds and life experiences and giving space for all voices to be heard. This often means listening more than we talk and being open to changing ourselves as a result of what we hear. 

Size of Wales is a growing, ambitious Cardiff-based charity with global impact. We work to mobilise Wales to protect tropical forests and restore tropical forest landscapes as part of Wales’ national response to climate change. We do this through education and awareness raising activities in Wales (including an education programme in schools and our annual Go Green Day campaign) as well as supporting a number of overseas projects that protect and/or restore tropical forests. The projects are located in Africa, South America and South East Asia.

In 2020 we will be launching our ambitious new 5-year strategy and expanding our exciting and popular climate change education programme across Wales. To deliver the programme, we are growing our team of Education Outreach Officers. We are looking for outstanding engaging and creative individuals to join the team to run fun workshops and assemblies for primary and secondary schools in Wales (in both English and Welsh) as well as contributing to our bank of online education resources and supporting our other youth engagement initiatives.

Each Education Outreach Officer will be responsible for delivering the Size of Wales education programme in a particular geographical area of Wales for example north-west Wales (Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conway), north-east Wales (Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham, north-Powys), mid-Wales (Ceredigion, Powys). We are also looking for a Welsh speaking officer to work in south-Wales alongside our existing south-Wales officer.  Areas to be covered will be agreed with each officer based on their location, no. of days to be worked and ability to travel.

You will be passionate about engaging young people across Wales on climate change and the importance of tropical forests in tackling the problem, inspiring them to feel hopeful for the future and encouraging them to be part of the solution. You will have experience of developing and delivering fun workshops, lessons or storytelling to young people of a variety of ages and are likely to be looking for part-time, term-time work either as a freelancer or employee.

The roles will be offered either on a freelance basis or a fixed term employment basis. Salary is in the range £22,000 - £27,000 FTE (£17,600 -£21,870 FTE pro rata for term time working) dependent on experience. For freelance candidates, an equivalent freelance day rate will apply.The roles are 1-3 days per weeks, term time only. The package of benefits for employees includes a 6% pension contribution, 30 days (pro rata) annual leave including bank holidays and a flexible working hours’ policy.