MARS Team

MARS is a Multi-Agency Rough Sleeper team, set up with funding from government to address street homelessness.

The MARS team is therefore a multi-agency team consisting of six intensive support workers, three outreach workers and a Coordinator, most working for Path but as a collaborative for the City.

The team is committed to working around the person (not the place) across outreach and accommodation provision to ensure more flexible, personalised and sustained support for rough sleepers moving off the streets. This intensive support is targeted at those most vulnerable to sleeping rough, providing consistency of support and engagement as people move from the street through a journey towards independent living in the community.

Coordinator role

The Coordinator oversees the MARS team, including supervising and supporting the intensive support and outreach functions.

The Coordinator is therefore integral to the setting up and running of this initiative, focusing on not only reducing numbers of people who are street homeless (to as close to zero as possible) but people vulnerable to sleeping rough having more and better options.

The Rough Sleeper (RS) Coordinator is therefore also a member of the A2A Management Group, overseeing the placing of rough sleepers and other homeless people in temporary accommodation. The role is part of Plymouth’s partnership work to address homelessness, working at all times with partners in The Plymouth Alliance and beyond.

Coordinator duties

The RS Coordinator manages the team and its work, including:

• Guidance, support, setting priorities for the team
• One-to-one support and supervision
• Team meetings and development
• Overseeing attendance and cover, as necessary and in partnership with partners Other duties include:
• (other aspects of) Service and contract management (see below)
• Running the Plymouth RS Strategy Group (see below)
• Overseeing Plymouth’s Severe Weather Protocol, including implementation
• Plymouth’s annual RS count or estimate
• Participation in A2A (access to accommodation) management
• Overall, working with partner services and sectors to ensure considered and appropriate responses to rough sleeping.

Service and contract management

This post manages the MARS (and RS) service(s) and contract.

That means, overall, taking direct responsibility for relevant contracts and agreements, ensuring delivery, systems, reporting and accounting for them. This includes:

• Service delivery: ensuring, overseeing and managing all aspects of service delivery, outreach, intensive support and housing and holistic support
• Funds: authorising and monitoring payments from funds for temporary accommodation and personal budgets, ensuring appropriateness, prioritisation and affordability
• Risk: ensuring assessment, recording and management of all types of risk (to and from clients and more), with all relevant plans, alerting and follow up
• Ensuring active, accurate and timely record-keeping, including agreeing / developing systems and ensuring that recording is carried out thoroughly and efficiently
• Service monitoring, including active monitoring of provision of the service against contract and in terms of quality; ie this role continuously checks records as part of service monitoring and management
• Reporting, including meeting any and all contractual obligations for reporting, with a focus on understanding and meeting targets; this includes producing regular reports in line with and addressing all contract requirements and taking responsibility for all related communication.
• For the roles of the team/s this person manages, see below: MARS and RS Outreach.

A2A Management

One aspect of this post is constantly seeking accommodation to end or prevent a person being street homeless. That will usually be in temporary accommodation, access to which is via Plymouth’s A2A system, which is overseen by a small group of managers, the RS Coordinator being one. These managers oversee, prioritise and support access to and use of temporary accommodation overall.

MARS House

The MARS House is a shared house for people with complex needs and no other accommodation options. This is temporary accommodation but not necessarily short term. Members of the team visit daily to provide support and housing management but the Coordinator needs to:

• Manage referrals, sign ups and voids
• Risk: ensuring assessment, recording and management of all types of risk (to and from clients and more), with all relevant plans, alerting and follow up. Ie Leading on risk assessments and plans for the service.
• Agree and sign off expenditure for the property with Resettlement Manager
• Provide guidance and deal with day-to-day issues
• Engage with external agencies linked to the house: Police, Livewell Complex Needs Team, Harbour, Hep C Trust.

RS Strategy Group

The Coordinator runs this Group which is responsible for the review, further development and implementation of Plymouth’s Rough Sleeping plans. The Coordinator will take a lead role in development work, linking and supporting Plymouth’s services for rough sleepers, working to prevent and to end people sleeping rough in Plymouth; the RS Coordinator is also a central point of contact for rough sleeping issues in Plymouth.

Tasks related to running the Strategy Group include:

• planning meetings, including producing documents
• acting as a channel for news, developments, good practice, local / govt strategies
• ensuring that the minutes and other papers are distributed promptly.

General / other

• Building relationships, and ongoing liaison, with Police, housing, drugs and other agencies, including developing and maintaining referral procedures (taking and making referrals).
• Participation in Path Operational Management and staff meetings & follow up work
• Contributing to reports, literature and presentations on Path’s work
• Assessing, authorising or recommending hardship payments, in line with procedures
• Providing support to staff at Risk Management meetings for clients
• Chairing professionals’ meetings for clients
• Contributing to reviewing, developing and implementing relevant policies
• Other duties as required by Director
• Compliance with Path Worker Conditions

Service delivery that this role manages

MARS Team Duties

Below is information about the role of the MARS team, which this role manages. The team will:

• Provide support to people sleeping rough or at risk of it, preventing street homelessness and enabling quicker and better responses and for those already out. The team aims to get people into accommodation, often temporary in the short term but then settled, therefore arranging accommodation where possible, as well as enabling and helping people move and settle into their own accommodation, whether private or social.
• Provide the ‘support’ element of the existing Housing First pilot plan with Plymouth Community Homes and other landlords. The current shared supported accommodation offer does not suit some of the most complex and vulnerable of this cohort and this is a much needed alternative to enable any move on at all.
• Manage and oversee the MARS House and related provision: this role and team provide temporary accommodation to people with no other housing options.
• Provide ongoing support to those vulnerable to sleeping rough through Safe Space and other provision (temp and short term accommodation) to prevent returns to the street

The Rough Sleeper Team

Duties and tasks overseen and supported by this role.

Outreach sessions

• Scheduled early morning outreach sessions: through these, workers identify people sleeping rough, check identities and needs and work to motivate change. Path works with the Police and others to encourage people off the street and into hostels. These will include 6.00 a.m. starts some weekdays.
• Additional outreach: to find and support those reported to be rough sleeping and provide follow up support based around engaging with and motivating people, encouraging and enabling them to utilise relevant services and move off the street; including responding to phone calls from public and others

Interventions

Interventions are short pieces of work to advise or support people actually sleeping rough or at real risk of doing so. They can include: Reconnections; Support / referral into accommodation; Short-term case work, housing-related or regarding other relevant needs; Referral on to other services / support.

Severe weather

When relevant, implementing the City action plan involves the whole MARS team. This includes pro-active and assertive work with rough sleepers to move them into accommodation and also ensuring and supporting mental health assessments of clients on the street.

RS Targets and reporting

This role includes working to specific targets and monitoring, including regarding:

• % of newly identified rough sleepers helped to leave the streets within 2 weeks of identification
• Number of rough sleepers supported to access supported accommodation
• % of rough sleepers reconnected where reconnection policy applies
• Number of multi-agency cases with support plans in place
• Maintaining the numbers of rough sleepers as close to zero as possible
• % of people supported to access primary health care where relevant

About us

Christian Aid believes that everyone, regardless of faith or race, is entitled to live a full life, free from poverty. We believe in tackling the root causes of poverty, not just the symptoms. And we believe the world can and must be changed so there is equality, dignity and freedom for all. If you're as compelled as we are to make this change happen and want to inspire others to help make it happen, then join us.

About the role

Central Supporter Engagement Coordinators play a crucial role in stewarding, inspiring, and engaging a diverse range of churches and Christian Aid groups to build on the agency of Christian Aid's supporters. They are accountable for establishing stronger and more effective relationships and maintaining and increasing supporters' level of engagement. They undertake a diverse range of stewardship and enquiry management activities, as well as being proactive in equipping and motivating churches, groups and people to pray, act and particularly give, in order to expose the scandal of poverty and to contribute effectively to its eradication. They are accountable for capturing and processing supporter information and providing consistent outstanding customer service and stewardship. The team will be involved in data management and will gain specific expertise in Christian Aid systems. The Central Supporter Engagement team are also accountable for providing excellent office-based help to complement the efforts of regional colleagues, working as one to achieve the strategic objectives of the Fundraising and Supporter Engagement department and the wider organisation. You will work closely with regional colleagues across the UK.

About you

You will be used to working in a customer care environment, including handling enquiries and complaints and appropriately dealing with difficult issues, and working with a customer database, including inputting, editing and extracting data. You will be able to deal with new and existing supporters by telephone and in written communications and liaise and build relationships with a broad range of people in a friendly, outgoing and positive manner. You will have knowledge of good donor management or customer care.

You will be able to demonstrate appropriate assurance to set manageable expectations and deal positively with supporters whose expectations cannot be met. You will also have the ability to retain clarity and focus in a very busy environment with excellent attention to detail as well as a systematic approach to work.

This is a desk-based role in the Warrington office, the team are currently offered hybrid working arrangements, which includes working from the office 3 days per week and working from home 2 days per week. This is subject to change and may require staff to work from the office up to 5 days per week.

Further information

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

From 1 July 2021, the process for completing right to work checks has changed and we can no longer accept EU passports or ID cards as valid proof of right to work, with the exception of Irish citizens.

There are now two types of right to work checks: a manual check and an online check. A manual check can be completed against relevant documentation as outlined by the Home Office. An online check can be completed if you hold digital proof of your immigration status in the UK. We will require your share code and date of birth to carry out this check. Please see Government website for more information on acceptable documents.

All successful candidates will require either a Basic or Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. Information will be forwarded to you by the HR team with your offer.

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.

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.

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.

For further enquiries regarding this vacancy contact Ian Collier - [email protected]

Tearfund's call is clear - to follow Jesus where the need is the greatest.

For us that means working in some of the world's poorest communities, helping to care for those caught up in crisis and supporting churches in their fight against long term poverty.

The Telephone Engagement team are looking for a passionate and personable communicator who can actively develop our relationship and engagement with churches and volunteer Church Champions across the UK. You will mainly use the telephone and other non-face to face communications and will have the ability to influence and encourage others, with excellent verbal communication skills as well as being self-motivated and tenacious. Above all you will have an enthusiasm and energy to deliver a great supporter experience and ensure we reach our income targets to fund this transformational work.

The successful candidate will be:

• A great listener
• Be comfortable contacting people by phone that they have never met
• Will be confident in asking for financial support.
• A self-starter who will use their initiative and drive to develop and implement church engagement plans to achieve stretching targets

Does your skill set match the above? Do you have a passion for supporting churches in their fight against long term poverty? Then this is the role for you!

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

Please note: This is a fixed term role for 12 months and is a home based part time role, consisting of 28 hrs, with one day a week in the office.  The full time salary is £26,364 per annum and part time salary is £21,091 per annum.  The role will require excellent data entry and IT skills and applicants must have internet connection at home though a phone and phone line will be provided.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

Learning and Development Officer, Scotland and the Shetlands

If you are keen and enthusiastic about supporting and resourcing the mission of our churches, circuits and districts by joining a faith-based Learning and Development team, then we would like to hear from you. As an experienced professional with a proven track record in learning and development, you will join the Learning Network within The Methodist Church – Scotland and Shetland Region. This is a home-based post, working annualised hours but part-time can be considered.

The Learning Network encompasses a wide range of learning and development areas across a comprehensive work plan relevant to regional and Connexional needs. The LDO will work across a breadth of areas, a particular focus will be supporting regional commitment to being a growing, evangelistic, inclusive, justice-seeking Church. This includes supporting engagement with our Evangelism and Growth Strategy, especially the formation of mission plans that reimagine church and pioneering ministry which creates new places for new people. The participation of children and young people, intergenerational ministry, exploring Methodist identity and resourcing discipleship are key areas to enable new people to become disciples of Jesus Christ.

Some core aspects of the role include:

• preparing and delivering faith-based learning and development activities
• sharing gifts/experiences and facilitating effective and transformational conversations with individuals and groups
• plan, develop and review learning and development opportunities
• build and sustain good relationships with districts and regions, individuals and communities across the church and beyond
• regular weekend and evening work, and some travel across the region as required

The successful candidate must demonstrate key skills that include:

• excellent communication skills through written, oral, visual and digital mediums;
• good planning, organising and leadership skills;
• the ability to work collaboratively with strong relationship building skills.

As an inclusive organisation we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups (BAME), as they are currently under-represented within the Learning and Development team.

For a lay employee, a salary of £29,500-£35,500 per annum is offered. For ministers in Full Connexion the standard terms of service apply.

Closing Date: Noon on 13th Dec

Interview Date: 12-Jan-2022

Job Title: Food Community and Engagement Team Lead (12-month contract to cover Maternity)

Salary: £25,381 plus pension and other benefits.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (5 days) to include evenings and weekends to support the needs of the charity

Contract Length: 12 months Holidays: 22 Days plus Bank Holidays Base: Wigan Town Centre.

Responsible to: The Finance and Commercial Director

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

To Apply: Please review full Job Description / Person Specification. Please submit CV and Expression of Interest explaining why you would be an asset to our charity.  Please register and upload documents here via the link on our website

Please apply early as we reserve the right to close applications as soon as sufficient applicants have been received.

Closing Date: Noon Tuesday 4th January 2022

Interviews: W/C 10th January 2022

Summary: The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life. We are now looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and inspirational Food Community and Engagement Team Lead to join our team, a believer in the right to equal life chances with a passion to improve lives through collaboration and innovation.

The Food Community and Engagement Manager is a crucial role in the charity. The main aspect being to develop a co-operative style food community model for The Brick, ensuring access to affordable and nutritious food for everyone. The successful candidate will manage all aspects of food inventory, procurement, controls, and distribution. Your role will focus on the growth and sustainability of the Brick Food Community, through maximising relationships and adding value to create the best experience for our charity community. The successful candidate will be an exceptional communicator, with an approachable nature who will play a vital role in developing and maintaining charity and retailer relationships, plus raising awareness of The Brick across the GM 

If you have a heart for urban communities and seeing the direction of young people’s lives radically changed, we're looking for you!

We are now recruiting for a Lead Employment Coach for two Spear centres in London (Islington and Bethnal Green), and one in Leeds– a great opportunity to work as part of a Spear team together with the local church to deliver the Spear Programme, equipping and empowering unemployed 16 – 24 year olds to overcome barriers to employment and turn their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.

Start date: 3rd January 2022

Interviews: 7th December 2022 and 13th December

Please see the attached job description for more detailed information and head to our website to learn about our culture and values.  

Responsibilities

• Running group sessions as part of the 6-week Spear Foundation Programme, coaching young people in skills and mindsets to help them into work or education
• Delivery of Spear Career, staying in touch with trainees for a year after they finish Spear Foundation, to offer bespoke support and workshops to help them as they apply for jobs, and once they're offered a role, supporting them to stay there 
• Networking with local organsations to enrol young people onto the Programme 
• Receiving regular feedback to support your own development, and helping to train the Graduate Coach
• Active participation in and support for the church team and mission

Person Specification

• An active Christian, passionate about personally representing the values and beliefs of Resurgo and the partner church.
• Qualifications at degree level or equivalent
• Dynamic and engaging Coach with experience of and enthusiasm for the practice of coaching and training techniques, and a desire to develop as a coach
• A minimum of one years’ experience in training and development design and delivery
• Heart for working with young people and commitment to transforming urban communities
• Effective interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence with a sense of humour and fun
• Excellent communication skills and telephone manner

Working requirements, salary & benefits

• Starting salary from £22,000 (Leeds) and from £26,000 (London) dependent on location and experience, plus pension scheme
• Full-time Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm
• 25 days annual leave, plus gift days between Christmas and New Year and Bank Holidays
• Occasional evening working required (for events such as termly Spear Celebration evenings and the annual fundraising party).
• Excellent staff development and training opportunities, including attendance on either our Coaching Academy or ‘Coaching for Leadership’ course – a programme of coaching and leadership training (valued at £2,500).
• You will be expected to participate in Spear team events and be integrated in the local church  community and Spear Trust, as well as wider Resurgo team events, including prayer meetings and staff conferences.
• We offer an Employee Assistance Programme (a confidential support service for staff) as well as the option to take advantage of Give as you Earn (GAYE)
• A DBS check will be requested in the event of a job offer

The programme is run in partnership with our partner churches and the role may require that the successful applicant joins the partner church congregation. For more information on other Spear roles and partner churches, please get in touch with our People & Culture team.

In 2017 we won the Princess Royal Training Awards which honours employers that have created outstanding training and skills development programmes.

Please head to our jobs portal to apply. 

Rowheath Pavilion are recruiting for an experienced fundraiser to join our small management team as Community Fundraising Manager. This a new role and is an exciting opportunity for someone with passion for community, helping us fundraise to create a Pavilion that’s fit for purpose for a further 100 years.

Rowheath Pavilion in Bournville, is part of the George Cadbury legacy. The Pavilion was opened in 1924 as a sports and social pavilion and changing rooms: part of George Cadbury’s commitment to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of their staff.

As a Christian charity, we’re committed to continuing the legacy by providing a space that can be enjoyed by the wider community for their physical mental and spiritual wellbeing. The Pavilion now has a café, bar and the Terrace Room which is a unique communal space hosts weddings and parties, a wide range of community groups as well Rowheath Pavilion Church. Through fundraising, improvements have been made to the Pavilion, play areas added as well new Changing rooms.

We now need to make significant improvements to the Pavilion, a Grade 2 listed building, so that it can continue to support the community wellbeing and be fully inclusive.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced fundraiser who is looking to use their skills for a new project and thrives on the challenge of being the sole fundraiser in a small charity.

Here at Mercy UK we have a passion for God, passion for people and passion for excellence – this means we are committed to becoming an organisation where team members feel supported, valued and challenged to deepen their personal and professional growth. As an agile and fast-moving team, we seek to give our very best to what we do in attitude and activity.

As a Pastoral Support Worker, you carry heart and passion for the emotional, mental and spiritual health of the incredible women who are residents of the Mercy UK home. You have a unique set of skills; bringing together keen organisational and administrative skills with pastoral people skills. You are a cheerleader and at times, a coach to a diverse set of residents, all of whom are wired differently, with different learning styles, outlooks and life experiences but all of whom are united in their pursuit for freedom from life-controlling issues and into intimacy in their relationship with God, self and others. 

You are safe hands as the primary point of contact and support for residents during evenings and weekends and your experience and abilities in pastoral support and communication equips you to deliver a fun yet informative schedule. You are able to perceive the needs of the group as well as the individual resident and you can hold these in tension. You are confident in your judgement and decision-making and understand the importance of working as a team and seeking guidance, where needed.

As residents wrestle through their own healing journey and put into practice all they are learning, you can prayerfully direct them, support and signpost them towards healthy choices and ways in which they can strengthen themselves in their own relationship with God, understanding that your best days are when you are in overflow in your own discipleship journey. 

Job Description:

The post will include but is not limited to:

• Working innovatively with residents in their engagement with creative solutions and tools to improve their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

• Offering accountability in a resident’s self-administration of medications and facilitating the provision of medical care, as directed

• Empowering residents to improve their confidence in the kitchen, cooking and food-handling 

• Facilitating the residents’ evening and weekend engagement with their external support network such as her home church, friends, family and other support partners through scheduled internet/email, post and phone use

• Creating fun and dynamic workshops and activities based on your own hobbies and passions, encouraging residents to explore their own creativity and skills

• Cultivating a sense of safety and consistency in the home by facilitating a fun yet informative programme schedule on and off-site and communicating changes or delays appropriately to the resident group and where necessary, the wider team

• Facilitating constructive and healthy discussion of Christian teachings and theology, and demonstrating healthy and appropriate personal boundaries and conversation within the home

• Transport residents to and from offsite activities including to and from church services and hospital or doctors’ appointments

• Willingness to be disturbed during sleeping hours to offer support, prayer or sleep-aid guidance to residents requiring support

• Ensuring any significant matters are communicated appropriately and promptly to ensure resident needs are being handled with excellence across the team

• Connecting regularly with the Senior Programme Manager in a one:one setting and being willing to engage in reflective practice towards personal and professional development.

• Undertaking a variety of administrative tasks, as directed, and ensuring the efficient filing and security of resident personal, sensitive and confidential information, upholding discretion at all times and ensuring that resident information is processed in line with regulatory requirements.

• Presenting the vision and mission of Mercy UK and being willing to deliver training to Christian audiences of all denominations and backgrounds as well as bringing an example of healthy Christian leadership in line with Mercy UK’s statement of faith and lifestyle policies. 

• Remaining discerning, innovative and open to change, offering your skills and support across the charity, as needed.

• Undertake continued training, be an active participant and show commitment to personal and spiritual development.

• Adhere to ethical practice, strict confidentiality, disclosure and safeguarding policies and use discretion at all times.

Could you help us find a home for every child who needs one in Scotland? We are looking for a strategic individual with a breadth of communication skills to initiate, coordinate, and oversee the work of Home for Good across Scotland. This is a short term role, enabling us to maintain our existing work across Scotland, whilst enabling active consultation with key stakeholders across Scotland to determine what the permanent Scotland Lead role should look like.

This role will require regular travel throughout Scotland, and occasional travel within the rest of the UK. When not out and about, the postholder will be based from home. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and all appointments will be made on merit. We are seeking to ensure a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from ethnic minority groups.

At the heart of Home for Good’s team culture is our love for Jesus and passion for serving and supporting vulnerable children. The post-holder will be expected to model these core values and help shape team life. Therefore this post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the postholder be a committed Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

Main Tasks:

• Strategic church engagement
• Networking, relationship building and partnership development
• Recruit and deploy Champion volunteers
• Fundraising

Please see the application pack for more information, including more detail on each of these tasks.  The closing date for this role is 9am on Tuesday 14 December 2021. To apply please submit a CV and covering letter, illustrating how you meet the requirements of the role.

Youth Delivery Officer

We are looking for a skilled, committed, and passionate individuals with experience within the youth work sector (this could be in a voluntary capacity).Whilst developing our focus around youth engagement and early intervention techniques, we recognise the importance of having individuals who really want to make a difference in the lives of young people. Our youth projects consist of school and community work across sports, creative arts, leadership, and employability.

The successful applicant will understand our values, ethos and principles as an organisation and will demonstrate a strong desire to contribute to and deliver meaningful and effective youth work. 

About Reaching Higher 

Reaching Higher is a youth organisation which works with over 500 young people aged 11-21 each year across Croydon and surrounding boroughs. Developed in partnership with local churches, we are a youth-led charity with a Christian ethos.We place particular emphasis on providing mentoring support to young people and facilitating their development as leaders. We have established strong links with key local, London and UK-wide organisations and our approach leads us into regular working contact with partner schools, community groups and churches. 

How To Apply

Download and complete our RH job application form and return no later than 5.30pm on Friday 10th December 2021.

Working as part of the TLG centre team in Hull, the Classroom Teacher post provides a unique opportunity to support young people experiencing educational crisis.

TLG Hull is a centre for alternative education provision delivering tailored social and educational interventions for young people. Working in partnership with Jubilee Church, the Classroom Teacher will play an integral role in enabling young people to get their lives back on track, through delivering innovative programmes, and working with the Centre Manager to ensure that the education centre achieves success.

The role involves assistance with the planning and delivery of lessons, leading sessions as timetabled and providing one-to-one support as appropriate to bring excellence to the young people’s learning experience. The individual will also act as a link between TLG’s students, their families and the church community.

We are looking to recruit an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful applicant will be required to undertake a DBS check. 

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The date of interviews is to be confirmed. If a suitable candidate applies prior to the closing date, we may decide to interview and appoint at an earlier date.

About Us

Our bold vision is for every child in need to be raised in a strong family. We train and support facilitators from local churches to run parenting programmes which equip parents and carers facing disadvantages with confidence, competence, and community, enabling their children to thrive. In the next ten years, we want to equip the church to make an impact in the lives of 50,000 children in need across the UK.

About the Role

At a significant time of growth for Kids Matter, we are looking to recruit a new Operations Director who will be part of our Senior Leadership Team.

This is an exciting time to be joining Kids Matter. In 2022, we are aiming to increase our partner churches from 58 to 108, run 135 programmes and reach 1,687 children, bringing our total of children reached to 4,110. Our staff team is also growing with a plan to be a team of 17 by March 2022.

As we grow in both influence and reach, we need an Operations Director who can help us continue to scale in an ambitious and sustainable way. We are looking for someone with senior leadership experience (ideally in the charity sector) who can support and lead Kids Matter’s strategic and operational direction. This role has oversight for Kids Matter’s finance, fundraising, HR, communications, IT, data and administrative functions.

Are you passionate about seeing every child in need raised in a strong family? Are you a strategic thinker and active listener with a broad base of operational experience? Do you have a strong track record of effecting organisational change and promoting a clear vision? Are you adept at managing multiple projects to tight deadlines, assessing risks and opportunities and making sound decisions?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

Deadline: Monday 3rd January 2022

All applicants must be committed to the basis of faith, vision, and ethos of Kids Matter.

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement:
Kids Matter serves and supports clients within the Christian sector, the nature of the work requires that this post holder has an active faith in Jesus under the Equality Act 2010, Part 1, Schedule 9.

Equal Opportunities
We actively support and welcome integration of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds of varied experiences and skillset to help shape the work and the future of Kids Matter. We are particularly keen to receive applications from African and Afro Caribbean, Asian and other diverse Ethnic communities.

About Us

Our bold vision is for every child in need to be raised in a strong family. We train and support facilitators from local churches to run parenting programmes which equip parents and carers facing disadvantages with confidence, competence, and community, enabling their children to thrive. In the next ten years, we want to equip the church to make an impact in the lives of 50,000 children in need across the UK.

About the Role

At a significant time of growth for Kids Matter, we are looking to provide additional support to our Executive Director and our related fundraising and governance responsibilities.

Are you highly organised and efficient with excellent attention to detail? Do you have effective executive-facing communication skills and the ability to communicate with a range of people from diverse backgrounds? Do you have strong time management skills and experience of managing multiple projects and events? Are you a natural problem-solver, keen to find positive solutions and pick up new systems and processes quickly?

If so, we would love to hear from you! During this time of growth, our Executive Director (Dr Eli Gardner) requires a calm and highly capable Executive Assistant. This role will offer the right candidate a role which is interesting, rewarding and varied within an ambitious, fun and supportive organisation.

All applicants must be committed to the basis of faith, vision, and ethos of Kids Matter.

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement:
Kids Matter serves and supports clients within the Christian sector, the nature of the work requires that this post holder has an active faith in Jesus under the Equality Act 2010, Part 1, Schedule 9.

Equal Opportunities
We actively support and welcome integration of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds of varied experiences and skillset to help shape the work and the future of Kids Matter. We are particularly keen to receive applications from African and Afro Caribbean, Asian and other diverse Ethnic communities.

Join the New Wine staff team

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to work in a faith-filled organisation with a mission to bring this nation back to Jesus? New Wine exists to see: churches filled with the presence and power of God, overflowing with love and hope to their communities; individual Christians who know how to move in the power of the Spirit, using the gifts and making God known in their streets and workplaces; relationally generous individuals and churches, giving away as much as they have received from God.

We are looking for an innovative, motivated and skilled team player with a professional approach to work. As part of the Creative Services Team, the Creative Media Specialist will serve the wider organisation through creative solutions to branding & marketing, business development initiatives and missional priorities – including the leadership network, resources, training and fundraising. Main responsibilities will include the planning, designing, filming, creating, editing and delivering digital media that increases brand awareness and audience engagement.

Alongside your application form, please submit, or provide links to, relevant content that you’ve produced to support your application.