About the organisation

CARAS is a registered charity working with people in south London and beyond who have an asylum or refugee background. Our values are:

• Kindness. CARAS will nurture all who are part of our community, helping everyone to develop their skills, talents and interests.  
• Justice. CARAS will strive for social justice following a rights-based approach in all of our work and challenging instances when rights are not upheld in wider society.  
• Empowerment. CARAS works alongside people, recognising and respecting their skills and strengths and striving together for better outcomes.  
• ‘With’ not ‘for’. CARAS will put the voices, opinions, experiences and needs of its beneficiaries at the heart of all that we do.  

About ESOL learning at CARAS

ESOL classes are essential to the holistic service we offer. It is often the first thing young people and adults ask for when they meet us. Our aim is to welcome learners, support them whatever their level and provide a bridge to enrolling in ESOL at their local college. Volunteers deliver non-formal classes for young people to support their participation in mainstream education, while a paid ESOL Tutor provides accredited Pre-Entry or Entry 1 courses to help adults prepare for college. CARAS offers learners small groups with lots of help and a creative, participatory curriculum.

CARAS currently offers a timetable of eight ESOL classes a week over Zoom: two for women, two mixed-gender adult classes and four classes for young people aged 15 to 18. Half the classes are at Entry 1 level, with the others at Entry 2 and Entry 3. We're pleased that more than 80 learners have joined us online since lockdown began, however this represents a drop in attendance, with not everyone willing or able to access online services. The combination of online and face-to-face learning nonetheless offers an exciting opportunity to reach more people across a wider area.

About the role

The main purpose of the role will be to oversee the day-to-day running of online classes and the gradual reintroduction of face-to-face classes when it is safe to do so. This will involve identifying appropriate venues that are accessible and safe for learners, volunteers and staff. The ESOL Coordinator will also work with the Head of Learning to develop a new Virtual Learning Environment to enhance both face-to-face and online delivery.

You will be supported through regular line management and clinical supervision, working alongside colleagues from our welcoming and supportive youth and adult teams. There are opportunities to access relevant training for this role.

This full-time role (5 days / 35 hours per week) is offered as a one-year fixed-term contract.

Main activities

• Building and managing a team of volunteer teachers to deliver non-formal ESOL classes, including recruitment and training;
• Ensuring high quality provision across ESOL classes (online and face to face);
• Overseeing the practicalities of resourcing on-site classes, taking a cautious approach to the safe implementation of government guidance on protective measures during the coronavirus outbreak;
• Liaising with other providers to ensure that the needs of learners of refugee background are being met;
• Ensuring that delivery includes a range of creative and participatory methods;
• Conducting intake and diagnostic assessment of new beneficiaries, managing a waiting list if required;
• Participating in referral, team and other meetings as required;
• Monitoring and evaluation;
• Grant reporting;
• Ensuring that all safeguarding concerns are reported to the safeguarding lead;
• Working collaboratively with other project coordinators on educational support.

All services are currently being delivered remotely, however this is subject to change. The successful candidate will need to be able to work in Tooting and the south London area.

Please note this role will involve some evening and weekend work.

Person specification

Essential criteria:

• a recognised ESOL teaching qualification (minimum CELTA or CertTESOL, preferably PGCE with ESOL specialism or equivalent);
• experience of professional ESOL teaching and supporting others to teach;
• experience of managing others;
• a creative and participatory approach to learning;
• ability to communicate clearly with people from diverse backgrounds;
• ability to motivate and engage young people and adults, listening to others and working in a non-judgemental way that develops trust;
• friendly, warm and patient manner;
• reflective approach to professional practice;
• good organisation and administrative skills;
• good IT skills;
• a good understanding of safeguarding procedures.

Desirable criteria:

• experience or knowledge of issues facing refugee and asylum-seeker groups;
• experience of working with adult or youth refugee and asylum-seeking groups;
• knowledge of one or more community languages (including but not limited to Arabic, Vietnamese, Somali, Tigrinya, Amharic, Pashto, Dari, Farsi and Kurdish);
• experience of working in partnership with other organisations;
• knowledge of the Further Education sector;
• experience of working in community groups or the third sector;
• familiarity with common Data Management Systems (for recording purposes).

Please submit your completed application form by the end of Sunday 26 July at the latest.

Interviews will take place on the afternoon of Thursday 30 July or the morning of Friday 31 July.

Please note we may extend the submission deadline and interview dates depending on volume of applications.

Are you an experienced fundraiser who shares the Jesuit Refugee Service’s (JRS) vison of a world where all who have to flee their homes are welcomed with love?

JRS UK is seeking to recruit an experienced Fundraising Officer on a part-time basis (3 days, 22.5 hours a week) who will have primary responsibility for raising income from charitable trusts and foundations. 

This new role seeks to develop JRS UK’s trusts and foundations income through building on the existing strong relationships we have with trusts, and developing new ones. The Fundraising Officer will be responsible for securing grant income for the different projects of JRS UK’s work to accompany, serve, and advocate for the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. 

The role will suit someone who is passionate about researching potential grant funders who would be interested in supporting its work with asylum seekers who’ve been made destitute as a consequence of government policies, and those held in immigration detention; someone with excellent written communication skills to draft inspiring applications, sharing the impact of its work with over 300 destitute refugees across Greater London. 

A self-starter, the Fundraising Officer will work independently, with support from the Communications & Development Manager and the Director, to manage a diverse portfolio of relationships to secure funding and support for JRS UK’s work, typically in the region of £1,000 to £50,000. 

This role comes at an exciting time in JRS UK’s history as the organisation looks to increase awareness of its work, with ambitious plans to grow income from trusts & foundations. The Fundraising Officer will play a pivotal role in ensuring JRS UK diversifies and stabilises its income streams, ensuring the organisation can continue to accompany and serve refugees and those who are forcibly displaced. 

This role will suit a confident, proactive and successful fundraiser, with good organisational skills and attention to detail, who is able to build positive relationships with a range of supporters, volunteers, staff, and refugees. 

We are expanding our existing support services for families, children and young people living with deafness, across the Merseyside region. The I CAN initiative offers an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by providing a range of support services to families from the point of a diagnosis of deafness and throughout their continuing journey.

We require an experienced manager with the passion and drive to make things happen. The role involves the coordination of a range of established services and to lead on the development and delivery of the I CAN project.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the management of staff and proven success in project development and service delivery. Knowledge and understanding of D/deafness and associated issues is desirable, however the right candidate will have the ability to gain the relevant knowledge and experience on the job. We would expect the successful candidate to commit to acquiring a British Sign Language qualification. If you have the desire and commitment to making a positive contribution to the lives of people living with deafness and share our organisations values, then we want to hear from you. 

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Service Manager - Safer Families

Maternity cover - contract until 31 March 2021

22 hours per week working patter to be agreed.

£34,154 per annum / pro rata (plus allowances) - £20,307.78 per annum actual

Location: The Children's Society in Lancashire | Unit 12, Eastway Business Village | Olivers Place, Preston | Lancashire | PR2 9WT

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our children and young people's directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children and families who urgently need support. Your role will be to [help us maintain and develop innovative practice to support our work in our services around the country

We are currently looking for a Service Manager to join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to manage, develop and deliver service activities for young refugees, asylum seekers and their families, including supervising staff and ensuring outcomes are met.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

-Qualifications NVQ Level 4 or equivalent in a relevant professional area (e.g., Youth and community, Social Work, Education etc).

-Knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting refugee and migrant young people (essential)

-Working knowledge of relevant policies and practices relating to child protection and safeguarding of young people (essential)

-Effective methods of working with children and young people from diverse backgrounds. (essential)

-Relevant experience of working with vulnerable children and young people from diverse communities (in particular refugees and migrants). (essential)

-Extensive experience providing flexible and personalised keyworker/advocacy support to vulnerable young people (essential)

-Relevant experience working with a diverse range of partner agencies (essential)

-Experience empowering young people through participation and co- production (essential) .

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The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is 12 midnight on 20th July.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 3rd August (this is subject to change)

Exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team in a key role having direct responisibilty for the administration of our counselling, support and other mental well-being services supporting the LGBT community. 

In this role you will provide support to the core operational team, and be pro active in establishing, promoting and maintaing administration of our centre services, and ensuring an organised, effcicient and smooth running of teh office and centre environment. Currently working remotely during Covid 19.  ELOP has been provding services for 25 years to the LGBT community and is a thriving and growing organisation and this is a chance to contribute to this and to make a difference. 

ELOP is a London based thriving community-led LGBT mental health & wellbeing charity offering a range of support, advice, information, counselling and group support services to lesbian, gay, bisexaul and trans (LGBT+) communities. 

Full time: 37 hours per week with occassional evening and weekend work

Salary  £25,180 incl. London Weighting

Closing deadline: 10.00am Monday 3rd August

Interviews: taking place Friday 7th August 2020 during office hours

Senior Housing and Support Manager
Birmingham, West Midlands

About Us

ACH (Ashley Community Housing) is a social enterprise that provides a range of integration and support services for refugees. During the past ten years, we’ve grown from a small-scale housing organisation to a leading provider of integration, employment and housing services for refugees and newly arrived communities in the UK.

Our 600 beds of supported housing provide independence and ease of transition into UK life. We’re proud to have been voted as one of top 50 landlords and the best Supported Housing provider in the country by 24 Housing and CIH.

We are now looking for a Senior Housing and Support Manager to join our passionate team in Birmingham.

The Benefits

- Salary of circa £40,000 per annum (dependent upon qualifications and/or experience)
- Mobile phone and laptop
- 20 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Potential for flexible working and remote working options 

If you are a housing professional with excellent leadership skills, this is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking social enterprise that provides life-changing services to refugees and newly arrived immigrants. 

It’s an exciting time to join our team, as we’ve invested in brand-new corporate offices in Bristol and Birmingham that reflect our vision for the future. 

This important role offers the opportunity to influence and shape our current and future operations and make a genuine impact, both on ACH and the people we support. 

So, if you are looking to take on a rewarding role where you can do some real good, we’d love to hear from you. 

The Role

As the Senior Housing and Support Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of all tenant housing and support operations in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.  

Leading a Housing and Support team of around 20, you will increase our stakeholder network, reinforce our existing relationships and represent ACH within key forums. 

Reporting to the CEO, you will also: 

- Oversee, motivate and develop your team 
- Manage the performance and contracts of our tenant housing and support operations 
- Build strong relationships with landlords
- Ensure that our service focuses on achieving positive, sustained outcomes for our service users

About You

To join us as the Senior Housing and Support Manager, you will need:

- Previous experience in housing and great leadership skills 
- Experience of contract and performance management in tenant housing and support operations, with the aim of fully meeting legal requirements, continuously increasing tenant empowerment and maximising rental income
- Experience of securing new landlord partnerships and effectively managing relationships

Other organisations may call this role Senior Housing Manager, Senior Tenancy Manager, Senior Tenancy Services Manager, Property Manager, or Senior Lettings Manager. 

This is a full-time role, working 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. We are also open to flexible and/or remote working. 

Webrecruit and Ashley Community Housing are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are 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 environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking to take your next step as a Senior Housing and Support Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers has secured 3 years’ funding for a skilled Volunteer Coordinator to recruit, induct, train and supervise volunteers. You will be centrally involved in the allocation of tasks and responsibilities and in the supervision and retention of volunteers.

The post holder will play a major role in ensuring that our organisation is staffed with the best and most reliable volunteers, and that they are correctly deployed for the fulfilment of our work supporting asylum seekers and refugees.

The post holder will possess the skills to motivate and inspire volunteers. Excellent organizational skills and the ability to communicate effectively with people from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience is required.

Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification ( attached)  prior to applying for this position

The closing date for completed applications is noon on Monday 13th July 2020 with interviews being held on Monday 27th July 2020. 

Housing and Support Manager
Birmingham, West Midlands

Are you an experienced housing support professional with a great management or leadership style? Could you thrive as part of a social enterprise supporting refugees and newly arrived immigrants? If so, read on.

About Us

ACH (Ashley Community Housing) is a social enterprise that provides a range of integration and support services for refugees. During the past ten years, we’ve grown from a small-scale housing organisation to a leading provider of integration, employment and housing services for refugees and newly arrived communities in the UK.

We are now looking for a Housing and Support Manager to join our team at our brand-new offices in Birmingham.

The Benefits

- Salary of £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent upon qualifications and/or experience)
- Mobile phone and laptop
- 20 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

This is an exciting opportunity for someone at junior manager or technical senior level to step into a fully-fledged management position and create positive change.

Joining us at an exciting period of growth, you’ll have the chance to utilise your expertise to shape current and future operations, ensuring our services inform and empower tenants.

The focus of this role will be the relationships you create rather than the volume in your portfolio. So, if you’re ready to take on a new challenge where you’ll focus on quality, not quantity, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Housing and Support Manager, you will lead and support the delivery of all tenant housing and support operations in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Leading the West Midlands Housing and Support team, you will build new customer relationships, increase our network and ensure our existing connections stay strong.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, your role will involve:

- Directly managing 10 - 15 team members
- Ensuring operations meet legal requirements
- Increasing tenant empowerment and maximising rental income
- Generating new business
- Effectively using networks and forums to build a recognisable profile and brand
- Managing and developing relationships with new and existing landlords
- Enhancing your team’s capabilities, capacity and efficiency through process development
- Managing property and housing maintenance, management and caretaking services
- Achieving targets for all tenant housing and support operations

About You

To join us as a Housing and Support Manager, you will need:

- To have experience as a Housing Manager or Team Leader within a housing support environment
- Experience of either leading or being part of a project
- The ability to demonstrate a solid track record within housing
- Strong leadership and motivational skills

Other organisations may call this role Property and Support Manager, Housing Support Manager, Housing Project Manager, Housing Manager, Tenancy Manager, Tenancy Support Manager, Property Manager, or Lettings Manager.

This is a full-time role, working 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday.

Webrecruit and Ashley Community Housing are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are 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 environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking to take your next step as a Housing and Support Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

We have an exciting, new opportunity for a highly efficient Buildings & Finance Administrator to join our small, inclusive and highly successful professional team.

The successful candidate can expect a thorough induction, supportive colleagues, a diverse and interesting workload and, a range of favourable employment benefits including; pension scheme, annual leave and Employee Assistance Programme support. 

Applicants must have excellent communication skills, a sound understanding of finance and finance systems, be thorough and accurate, be able to multi-task, remain calm under pressure and add positively to our team dynamics. In addition it is vital to possess a range of administrative skills including good numeracy, data processing/comprehension and IT skills.

Good interpersonal and teamwork skills are essential, as are effective use of emotional intelligence and the ability to exercise tact, diplomacy and sensitivity. 

For this varied role, ideally you will have experience of processing grant claims and invoices, an understanding of the education or public sector and strong general administration skills. However, training will be given to the right candidate.

Closing date for applications is:  Thursday, 16 July 2020

Interviews and assessment: Owing to current social distancing restrictions, shortlisted candidates will be notified of selection dates/times after 20 July 2020.

upReach are seeking to hire a Strategic Project Manager / Chief of Staff. This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with the CEO, and would suit individuals who have a passion for social mobility and are used to operating in a fast paced environment.

The successful candidate will be working with the CEO and key team members on strategic projects, business planning, internal communication, governance, and other internal operations.

Full details of the vacancy can be found on the upReach website.

To apply, please send a CV and tailored Covering Letter.

Women for Refugee Women is seeking a Digital Inclusion Co-ordinator to work closely with our team to facilitate digital access and improve IT skills among our network of refugee and asylum-seeking women.

Women for Refugee Women is a charity that supports women seeking asylum in the UK and challenges the injustices they experience. We work at the grassroots by empowering refugee women to speak out and advocate for themselves, and through communications and campaigning work which engages the mainstream media and politicians.

The role will include assessing women’s basic needs and skills and providing the essential equipment and support to enable them to move forwards. It will involve supporting women to participate in learning, solidarity and advocacy opportunities at WRW, as well as enabling them to access other services and participate more effectively in their communities.

Women for Refugee Women particularly welcomes applications from individuals with experience of migration and/or a refugee background.

Women for Refugee Women is a small organisation where every team member is valued, and everyone is supported to carry out their role effectively. We encourage staff members to take up training opportunities to develop their skills, all staff members are able to access individual counselling support if desired, and we enable staff members to work flexibly according to individual preferences. We try to ensure that WRW provides a supportive environment where individuals can grow and develop their roles in line with our values and vision.

How to apply:

Please download and read the Digital Inclusion Co-ordinator application pack.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter stating how you meet the person specification and why you would like to join WRW.

Applications will be considered from 7 July on a rolling basis, so that applicants may be invited for interview from 8 July onwards. Interviews will take place remotely by Zoom. Due to our restricted capacity, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Director vacancy

4 - 5 days / week (neg)

Circa £40,000 per annum (pro rata)

Refugee Action Kingston was established in 1991 and based in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. The charity plays a significant role in bringing positive change to refugees and asylum seekers through its high quality services. These include: advising and empowering refugees and asylum seekers towards building fulfilled and independent lives through skills development, advice, counselling, and assistance in access to services and employment. In addition the charity provides advice and advocacy on the asylum process. 

We are looking for a Director with experience of a leadership position ideally in the charity sector to lead a small team of 16 staff and over 80 volunteers who deliver our frontline services. As well as being a passionate leader with a strong commitment to and understanding of the welfare of asylum seekers and refugees, the ideal candidate should have a proven track-record in managing and empoweringpeople, developing change strategies, securing funding, and working collaboratively and strengthening relationships with funders, collaborators, networks and a range of other stakeholders. 

The Director will be a strategic thinker who will work with trustees to address the key priorities of quality, efficiency and sustainability. They will have ultimate responsibility for setting and delivering the organisation’s operations and its strategic objectives ensuring good governance and financial sustainability. If you feel this role is for you we look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date:20 July 2020         

Successful candidates for interview will be notified by 27 July 2020. We are sorry that we will be unable to provide feedback to unsuccessful candidates.

Social Prescriber Link Worker

Full-time 37 hours per week

Salary £24,799 - £26,317

Fixed-term contract until September 2021

About Crawley Community Action

Crawley Community Action is a charity which enables and supports volunteers, volunteer groups and charities in and around Crawley. We advocate for the voluntary and community sector with local government and other statutory authorities.  We’ve been supporting Crawley’s community and voluntary sector for 60 years – Crawley Community Action is our new name, demonstrating our commitment to Crawley’s people and communities.

We run Social Prescribing and Befriending services that support hundreds of people a year.  Following a successful pilot in 2016/17, the Crawley and Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group commissioned us to develop and expand ‘Prescription Plus’ across Crawley.  We are now working with the support of the West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group who extended since then and we are now planning towards September 2021.

Following the COVID-19 emergency response, we are resuming our recruitment of a new team. A person centred, collaborative and compassionate approach is at the heart of what we do and we are looking for someone with the right skills and attitude to support clients and manage volunteers in both a clinical setting and in people’s own homes, whilst also working as part of a Borough-wide team of Social Prescriber Link Workers based in our town centre Crawley office.

Reporting to the Social Prescribing Manager, you will provide a frontline social prescribing service, assessing a person’s need and helping them access appropriate groups and services. An experienced support worker, you will have an ability to build instant rapport with clients alongside a pragmatic and proactive attitude that enables people to achieve the goals that matter to them.

This is a terrific opportunity to build the social prescribing team of an organisation that is delivering community and volunteer support in Crawley. Our recent rebrand has not only given us a fresh new look, but has also helped us rationalise our aims, align our services and further exemplify our values.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experience.

Due to the nature of this role, it is essential that the post-holder has a full, clean driving licence and access to a fully insured vehicle

Closing date for applications:  12 noon, Friday 24 July 2020

Interviews: Thursday 30 July 2020

The Volunteer Coordinator role is a new position at Katherine Low Settlement which has been formed as a key component of Big Local SW11's (BLSW11) three year strategy. 

Volunteering has been widely evidenced to provide a wide range of benefits improving confidence, health, sense of purpose, community belonging, expanding social networks, gaining skills and moving towards employment. This new project is about enabling, empowering and mobilising local residents to volunteer and get more involved with the local community here in Battersea.

There are 55+ local charities and community organisation’s working in Battersea. They depend on volunteers to help provide their services and govern their organisations. To meet the growing demand for these services and make the biggest difference we can with our resources, the Alliance aims to expand the number of people volunteering across Battersea with the support of a new post of Volunteer Co-ordinator. 

Key Objectives of the Role

• Develop and expand volunteering engagement across Battersea to assist in the pursuit of the BLSW11 Alliance’s vision, mission, values and objectives. 
• Develop and implement yearly volunteering delivery plans with the Alliance; review, monitor and report on progress.
• Ensure a consistent and high standard of volunteering engagement and support across Battersea.  
• Ensure effective knowledge collection and feedback systems are in place to monitor the quality and effectiveness of volunteer engagement in Battersea.  

Note: The Alliance has been formed by the Big Local SW11 (which is an independent, resident-led group that has been awarded £1m over 10 years to invest in projects that improve opportunities for local people and strengthen our community) to help deliver its own strategy of building a stronger, more self-reliant Battersea.