Community coordinator jobs near Belfast

We are looking for a part time Community Engagement Officer to join our team.

Do you have a range of excellent communication skills? 

Do you have the skills and experience of engaging with a diverse group of individuals, organisations and groups who represent seldom heard communities?

Are you able to provide outstanding customer care and represent Choice Support in a positive and professional manner to both internal and external agencies? 

Are you able to be home based and have the ability to travel to different locations in England?

Do you want to develop your skills, knowledge and experience of inclusion and diversity and work closely with our Care Quality Commission colleagues?

Then this is the role you’ve been looking for!

In return, we are offering a competitive annual salary, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance and discounted shopping vouchers.

Closing date 7th September 2002. We reserve the right to close this position early subject to receiving sufficient interest.

We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and taking action to address inequality. We particularly welcome applications from anyone who is from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background, anyone who considers themselves to have a disability and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Choice Support is Disability Confident which is a scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.

We are looking for a creative digital communications coordinator to support World Physiotherapy’s marketing and communications activities, as part of a small but busy team.

Working with staff members within World Physiotherapy, key people within our member organisations and other stakeholders, you will work across all our communications channels to share news and information about our activities and the impact of our work. You will help create and produce compelling video and graphics content across all our channels - website, social media - for our global audience.

World Physiotherapy is the sole international voice for physiotherapy, representing more than 685,000 physiotherapists through 125 member organisations.

The role is offered as an 12-month part time contract. It is home-based but you may be required to work, on occasion, from our office near London Bridge SE1.

Closing date for applications is 10:00 GMT on Tuesday 30 August 2022.

We reserve the right to close the advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held via videoconference on 13/14/15 September 2022.

Application process

Please send your CV (no more than three sides of A4) and a covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) explaining how you meet the person specification by 10:00 GMT on Tuesday 30 August 2022.

This is a key role in the effective running of the Clinics and Helpline teams and its activities. It will involve taking the lead in project managing work undertaken by the team as a whole, in ensuring that both clinics and helpline services are managed effectively and efficiently across the team.

The coordinator will provide comprehensive and responsive administrative support to the teams. It will also involve working closely with the Interim Lead for helpline and clinics, and the Deputy leads to support with administrative tasks. This will involve data entry onto the database, coordinating clinics taking place by telephone and virtually online within different clinic services.

They will be responsible for both team’s administrative projects as required and to support the Interim lead in coordinating key areas of activity including monitoring project plans, budget management and outcomes. The post holder will work with key members of staff including Admiral Nurses to ensure specific projects and activities delivered, completed on budget by project managing effectively. The post holder will act as the first point of contact for those wishing to contact the Clinics and helpline teams by prioritising and coordinating queries, drafting and sending out correspondence as appropriate and working with the team to ensure timely responses.

Interview: w/c 22 August 2022

Join our award-winning, innovative, international events and fundraising team at Play Action International. This incredible opportunity to will see you being a valued member of the team, supporting and recruiting student volunteers/fundraisers at universities for our projects. . As one of the fastest growing small charities in the UK and a leader in the student fundraising sector, we need a dynamic, charismatic and organised Volunteer Coordinator to help us make our 2023 recruitment season as successful as possible.

Please note – this role is UK based and requires the successful applicant to be a UK resident and have the right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting and supporting volunteers and fundraisers from the higher education and corporate sectors
• Maintaining an effective donor journey and communications to develop the long-term support of partners, supporters and donors - ensuring they feel engaged, valued and loved
• Organising a range of events to cultivate relationships with our supporters and help them raise funds
• Working towards achieving and or exceeding targets of supporters recruited and funds raised by campaigns
• Maintaining accurate donor and financial records using internal systems including CRM systems
• Dealing with queries from volunteers, supporters, donors, suppliers and partners
• You are are going to speak to a wide range of people, so you need to be a skilled communicator and that includes persuasive writing and public speaking skills
• Supporting and coaching volunteers and fundraisers to help them achieve their targets
• Help with preparing and organising the logistics of the international volunteering and fundraising projects
• Working closely with the Partnerships and Fundraising Manager, to continually improve our systems, to ensure we deliver an exceptional, high-quality, ethical and impactful experience for our volunteers.

Qualifications

Bundles of passion and energy and ooze friendliness to be able to engage with people from all walks of life, to cultivate genuine, positive relationships with our supporters. Sound like you? Read on!

You'll need to be:

• Energised by meeting new people and enjoy supporting them to achieve their goals
• Great at coming up with solutions and can adapt independently when needed
• Comfortable communicating with others whether in-person on virtually
• Able to juggle multiple responsibilities, from recruiting volunteers to working in-country on volunteers' projects
• Professional, reliable and enthusiastic and importantly, bring a great sense of fun!

We look forward to hearing from you!

Volunteer Coordinator
£12,600 per annum (FTE £21,000 per annum)
21 hours per week
Fixed Term (ending 31st March 2023)
Remote, Wales based

As Volunteer Coordinator, you will present and co-ordinate the delivery of the volunteer “Time for Me” and “Out and About” befriender service which will provide companionship and encouragement to people living with hearing loss and experiencing isolation and loneliness.

You will also recruit, support and manage volunteers in line with organisational policy to deliver the befriending service.

We are RNID. Together we’ll make life more inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus. 

Our charity has been through a complete transformation, while building on the best of our past. We’ve returned to our former, much-loved name, become wholly remote working, and established a new strategy, focused on reaching the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. 

We are creating a radically different culture which is externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated. Our values are at the heart of what we do.

We strive to be and continue to connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose.

This post is also subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.

Closing date: 17th August 2022

Interview date: 25th August 2022

Cydgysylltydd Gwirfoddolwyr
Gweithio o bell, Cymru  
£12,600 (£21,000 yn ôl yr un raddfa)
Oriau: 21
Math o gontract: Sefydlog, dyddiad gorffen yw’r 31ain o Fawrth, 2023, gyda phosibilrwydd cryf o estyniad am 2 flynedd tan yr 31ain o Fawrth, 2025.

Cyflwyno a chydgysylltu’r gorchwyl o gyflenwi’r “Amser i Mi” i wirfoddolwyr a’r gwasanaeth cyfeillio “Hwnt ac Yma / Out and About” fydd yn darparu cwmnïaeth ac anogaeth i bobl sy’n byw â cholled clyw ac sy’n profi arwahanrwydd ac unigrwydd.

I recriwtio, cynorthwyo a rheoli gwirfoddolwyr yn unol â’r polisi sefydliadol i gyflenwi’r gwasanaeth cyfeillio. 

Y ni yw’r RNID – Sefydliad Cenedlaethol Brenhinol Pobl Fyddar a Thrwm eu Clyw.  Gyda’n gilydd, byddwn yn gwneud bywyd yn fwy cynhwysol i bobl fyddar ac i’r rheiny â cholled clyw neu dinitws.   

Mae ein helusen wedi’i gweddnewid yn gyfan gwbl, drwy adeiladu ar y gorau o’n gorffennol.  Rydym wedi dychwelyd at ein henw uchel ei barch blaenorol, rydym wedi troi’n gyfan gwbl i weithio o bell, ac rydym wedi sefydlu strategaeth newydd sy’n canolbwyntio ar gyrraedd y 12 miliwn o bobl yn y Deyrnas Unedig sy’n fyddar, sydd â cholled clyw neu sydd â thinitws. 

Rydym yn creu diwylliant sylfaenol wahanol sy’n canolbwyntio’n allanol, sy’n chwilfrydig, sydd wedi’i seilio ar dystiolaeth, sy’n fwriadol, yn hyblyg, ac sydd â’i fryd ar y dyfodol.  Mae ein gwerthoedd wrth graidd yr hyn rydym yn ei wneud.   

Ymdrechwn yn daer i fod, ac i barhau i fod, yn gysylltiedig â’n cymunedau, yn graff a hyderus yn yr hyn a wnawn a phwy ydym, yn chwilfrydig ym mhopeth a wnawn, ac yn angerddol dros ein diben.

Rydym wedi’n hymrwymo i gynorthwyo’n staff, yn cynnwys gwneud addasiadau rhesymol.  Os oes arnoch angen cymorth i ymgeisio am y rôl hon neu i gyflawni gofynion y rôl, hysbyswch ni fel ein bod yn gallu trafod yr opsiynau â chi.  Mae’r rôl hon hefyd yn amodol ar ddatgeliad manylach gan Y Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.

Dyddiad cau ar gyfer ymgeisio: 17eg o Awst, 2022

Dyddiadau cyfweld: 25ain o Awst, 2022

This is a really exciting opportunity to be part of a 12 month project funded by the Co-op, exploring how we can break down the barriers of talking about grief in the community.

The successful candidate for this role will be working directly with community members from New Lodge, Belfast. Within this role you will be required to build relationships with community groups, local organisations and schools. Identifying ways in which we can break down the stigma surrounding grief and bereavement. You will support the building of connected and caring community’s model that will equip communities to better support their members when experiencing bereavement.

This innovative piece of work will draw upon the combined knowledge and expertise of Cruse Bereavement Support, Cruse Scotland and the Co-op to create communities where bereavement is acknowledged and understood.

You will join a team of 5 officers working across the UK, each engaging the skills, knowledge and talent of local residents to support deliver a compassionate communities model. This role is hybrid with a large focus on in person community engagement, you will be expected to visit groups and sessions to build strong relationships within the community. There will be the opportunity to work in our College Green Office alongside our Northern Ireland Team.

The ideal candidate will have community development experience and will be confident in working ‘on the ground’ in a community. They will have excellent communication and listening skills and be able to communicate with a diverse range of people.

How to apply

Your application must consist of a CV and covering letter, which outlines your suitability for the role with reference to the Job Description and Person Specification and should be no longer than two pages.

The closing date for applications is Thursday 11th August. We reserve the right to close the advert early, as interviews will be held as suitable candidates apply.

Interviews to be held on 15th & 16th August at Cruse College Green Office, Belfast.

Cruse welcomes and encourages applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

About the Role

• Work alongside the District Mission Enabler and FEAST pioneer in communicating the FEAST idea to the circuits and churches throughout the District and beyond
• To conduct a feasibility study FEAST across the District to aid strategic delivery of FEAST 
• In partnership with the FEAST pioneer work to develop and produce FEAST facilitators training and resources.
• Develop digital FEAST project strategy. Which includes digital channels for FEAST project: Youtube, website, facebook, twitter, email databases and tik tok etc.
• In partnership with District Mission Enabler develop the brand for the FEAST project
• Explore FEAST development for young and emerging leaders
• Develop strategic plan for FEAST implementation across the District
• Work with the Evangelism and Growth team and Learning Network to embed resources into the FEAST project.

Ways of working

1. Engage and enable the FEAST community at a local level. Work with, not for.

2. Work collaboratively with colleagues across the district and wider church, and encourage and facilitate ecumenical partnership wherever possible

3. Live out the Methodist Way of Life and participate in the Methodist Pioneering Pathways.

4. Monitor, reflect, review, revise

5. Be committed to modelling healthy self-reflection, coaching and accountability to management structures.

Any other duties and responsibilities, identified by the District Mission Enabler within the capabilities and level of responsibility for the post holder.

About Spectra CIC
Spectra has delivered services to a range of under-served and often marginalised communities since 1996. In 2019 Spectra brokered a new partnership – the Trans Learning Partnership (TLP) – whose aim is to develop a robust service and advocacy-oriented evidence base to meet the needs of trans organisations, their service users and stakeholders.

Since then, the TLP have initialised data sharing between partner organisations, implemented an initial monitoring, verification and evaluation (MVE) platform, and carried out a survey of service users.

The role

The partnership requires a skilled and committed person to maintain and extend the MVE platform which hosts and supports data comparison and benchmarking between the 4 agencies of the TLP. This informs service development and delivery, improving services for trans people.

The postholder will be managed by and report to the Research Coordinator of the TLP. The role involves co-management (with the Research Coordinator) of the Data Coordinator, and engagement with and support of the Data Officers in the 4 partner agencies to ensure that services are able to report robust and comparable data.

Responsibilities and accountabilities include:
• Ensure the TLP has the systems and processes in place to capture data effectively for comparison and service improvement
• Maintain existing databases and datasets
• Make recommendations to ensure services are able to respond to emerging data and evidence of new need
• Produce regular and ad-hoc reports using a range of data tools
• Input to performance and outcomes frameworks
• Provide support and training to TLP and partner agency staff around data collection and reporting as and when required
• Reasonable, emergent, related duties to this role, as required
• Coordination of MVE project management, using Jira and Confluence to capture related actions and activities
• Co-management of the Data coordinator (with the TLP coordinator)

Fundraising Co-ordinator to the Venerable English College Heriatge Collection

The Venerable English College in Rome is a Catholic seminary established by the Holy See in 1579 and has historic collections of international significance dating back to 1362 which include a collection of some 15,000 rare books and numerous works of art.

Our Vision

To protect, conserve, understand, manage, and open this heritage, so it can be shared and appreciated by the Catholic community, the wider public, academics and researchers. We seek to secure the future of the whole Heritage Collection (including the Archives, Rare Books and Artworks) by undertaking their full identification, cataloguing, preservation, and digitisation, and through a programme of research and educational outreach.

The collections have largely remained hidden from view and the priority is to unlock this heritage and its potential to inform, inspire and emphasise its relevance in today’s world. View the Archives’ website 

Our Work to Date

Much successful work has been done to preserve the collections. Projects include the creation of a designated storage area, complete with ambient temperature controls, to house the archival collections; the start of a digitisation programme; the establishment of the Schwarzenbach Fellowship, funding a full-time historian as Director of Heritage Collections; and the development of an outreach programme. Further projects have also been identified and await funding.

This work has been made possible through low-profile fund-raising initiatives under the guidance of the Archives Committee. The Committee now considers the time to be right in seeking advice and support as to the direction that fund-raising should now take, and ideas and expressions of interest are now sought from people who wish to be involved in the next stage of development.

This position is funded by the Venerable English College Trust, a UK charity – Number 1142558

The Role

The main aim is to raise additional funding from a variety of sources primarily from the UK, but also from other countries. The role will involve working closely with the Archives Committee to help shape the on-going fund-raising strategy, sharing expertise in fund-raising, maintaining relationships with existing donors, attracting new supporters, and initiating and making bid applications.

It is envisaged that the appointee will be based in the UK, with occasional visits to Rome, and will report to the Archives Committee. A like-minded interest in supporting heritage preservation will be an advantage

This is a self-employed consultancy position for an anticipated twelve-month period with remuneration set at a maximum £30 per hour for an estimated  maximum 14 hours per week.

Applications

The Archives Committee wish to receive expressions of interest from candidates with a successful fund-raising track-record by email 

Please include a CV and a brief note about why this position interests you.

The Archives Committee requests no contact from agencies or media sales.

DFN Project SEARCH is the largest transition to work programme for people with learning disabilities and autism in the world! We are a community that gives voice to a social injustice – did you know that only 5.1% of people a learning disability and or autism, known to adult services, are in work in the UK? Yet 70% of those on our programme secure paid work, at above the minimum wage and an incredible 60% are full time roles.
We are really proud to be a social movement for change that makes clear economic sense, is the right thing to do and enables people to be the best that they can be.

We are evidence based, high aiming and everything we do is based on research. We are committed to continuous improvement and are pace setters in this area. Our programme is based on strong partnerships and our role is to provide the model, tools, training, and quality assurance to enable each participant to flourish. This model has been running for 25 years and once a programme is established it is evidently sustainable. 

Overall Responsibility:

Providing quality assurance and support to partnerships, with the aim to raise employment outcomes for interns accessing the DFN Project SEARCH programme. 

Job summary:

You will be required to improve the quality and outcomes of existing DFN Project SEARCH
programmes across a geographical area. This is with the aim of supporting the organisations to
ensure that every intern has the best possible chance to gain full-time paid employment. The focus
of this role is to ensure continuous improvement across all sites, relating to model fidelity and
outcomes. This relates particularly to sites achieving less than 60% employment outcomes.

Our model will mean that our regional Programme Specialists will form new partnerships and
develop new DFN Project SEARCH sites, supporting them through to year one of delivery. These
sites will then be passed to our Programme Impact Co-ordinator team where you will then be
specifically required to nurture these strong partnerships and continue to train and support
colleagues within your area. You may also be required to support colleagues promoting DFN
Project SEARCH in other areas and contribute to the development of relevant new focussed
materials.

Key Responsibilities:

- Promote and train teams in the use of the Annual Delivery Framework, to evidence progress and identify further training / support needs.

- Support the portal administrator to ensure onsite teams are logging intern data and outcomes on the membership portal and provide assistance and training if required.

- Monitor site specific data and documentation, relating to licensing agreements, completion of training modules, completion of audit paperwork and strategic action plans, etc.

- Lead Teaching & Training for Success events for onsite teams to refresh their knowledge of the DFN Project SEARCH model.

- Support teams with bespoke training and guidance as needed, which may include:

- Marketing and communications.

- Programme delivery / structure.

- Recruitment and selection process to identify suitable candidates.

- Roles and responsibilities of the onsite team and wider partnership.

- Guidance on running effective operational and steering group meetings.

- Employer engagement and job development activities using current labour market intelligence.

- Continuous improvement tools.

- Rotation development and quality.

- Raising aspirations and training teams on the benefits of employing a diverse talent pool and inclusive recruitment processes.

- Attend monthly meetings with operational teams to review site progress.

- Coordinate inset days and network sessions relevant to onsite teams and key partners, using feedback and the annual delivery framework to inform content and invite guest speakers as needed.

- Empower onsite teams to conduct annual self-audits of programmes to assess performance against the Critical Success Factors, advising on key actions and best practise.

- Facilitate teams connecting with other sites to problem solve and share best practise.

This is home-based working with travel to sites within a specific region

About Soundabout: 

Soundabout is a charity that uses music to empower and unlock the potential of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The charity leads the provision of training and delivery of music-centred approaches to working with people with severe, or profound and multiple learning difficulties. We work across the UK in a variety of settings such as special schools, early years’ environments and care services.

At Soundabout, we believe that everybody deserves to have a voice. Rather than focusing on what people can’t do, we want to emphasize what they can do. We believe that people with severe and profound learning difficulties including autism should have a life full of expression, passion, and enjoyment. To enable this to happen we aim to educate, support, and empower through both empowering training and supporting those in our community. That’s why we use music to enable people with learning difficulties to express themselves, connect with others, and feel the warmth of music. 

We have a small core office team and a growing body of freelance practitioners who are the creative, delivery force of our work. 

Diversity and equal opportunities 

Soundabout is an equal opportunity and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining diverse candidates, as it’s important that our team reflect the communities we serve at every level within the charity. We especially welcome applications from people from under-represented groups and are committed to making adjustments that would support you in applying for or carrying out the role. We are currently under-represented by disabled and neurodivergent people, people from under-represented minorities, and from the LGBTQ community. 

The Role 

The role of the Family Support Co-ordinator is to build the knowledge, skills and confidence of families with profoundly disabled children to interact musically with their child to benefit their development, personal and social interactions and build family resilience, enhancing wellbeing and reducing isolation for parents/carers. A key part of the role will be to measure the longitudinal progress and development of children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities supported by Soundabout, to help the charity develop and improve our practice to ensure the best outcomes. 

The role is also the first point of contact for families when enquiring about Soundabout, sharing ideas for opportunities to engage with our services and offering additional support to our families as and when needed, trouble-shooting any access or other issues or concerns.

The post holder must be willing to lead on our Safeguarding agenda (either through pre-existing experience or by attending appropriate training).

The Candidate:

You will be a warm, flexible, and energetic team player with significant experience of working with families of profoundly disabled children and a commitment to reducing isolation for families and building support networks and connections. You may have an understanding of how music and sound can be used as a developmental tool and to build family cohesion and resilience. You are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of people with severe and profound learning disabilities and their families.

Key responsibilities:  

• To be the primary point of support for all families with children who have profound and severe learning difficulties and are part of Soundabout’s community; whether attending music-making sessions, participating in 1:1 support sessions with our music practitioners or as part of Soundabout’s Inclusive Choir and associated groups. 

• To induct new families into the organisation, exploring with them the opportunities available and best suited to each child and family’s needs. Introduce families to our evaluative processes to be undertaken by Soundabout practitioners and track progress, providing bi-annual updates to families via progress reports. Signpost families to other opportunities and forms of support as appropriate.

• To maintain regular contact with the families through ‘light touch’ support via telephone, email and zoom, as and when appropriate, and undertake annual re-assessments. 

• Designated Safeguarding Lead for Soundabout 

• Leading Soundabout’s participation agenda, so the voice of participants and their families are heard and taken into account across our organisation. 

Specific duties:  

• To update and distribute a welcome pack for all current and new families, highlighting the charity’s safeguarding and privacy policies, the charity’s broader services and signposting to other opportunities and supportive organisations.

• To measure the longitudinal progress and development of children and young people with severe learning difficulty (SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) supported by Soundabout and use the evaluation information to develop and improve Soundabout’s services. 

• Maintain contact as required and agreed with each family through telephone/email/zoom/social media.

• Assess the needs, strengths and challenges of the child and family. 

• Identify and agree with the child and family, the support and services they would like to access. 

• Highlight the support available for siblings of disabled children and encourage their involvement in Soundabout’s community.

• Provide ongoing support and resources developed by Soundabout and relevant organisations.

• Developing a strong participant-led voice for Soundabout. 

• Collecting information and maintaining database for our families. 

• Planning and organising appropriate family-focused events and finding appropriate partnerships. 

• Play a central role in the Soundabout team and represent the voice of people with a learning disability and their family members within and outside of the organisation 

Employee Relations Coordinator 

Remote homebased in the UK or East Coast USA 

However, will require flexible as this role is working closely with team members in the US on East Coast or Central time zones and teams across the globe. 

This role is classified as requiring standard pre-employment checks 

For candidates based in the US a mandatory policy for COVID 19vaccination will be required by the post holder. 

Note you must have the right to work in your remote location and that national terms and conditions apply. 

About Relief International 

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty. 

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them. 

RI includes the four corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, MRCA/RI-France and RI-Europe.  Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure. 

About our Programs 

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.  Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.  

• RI employs 7,000+ staff and auxiliary workers 

• 97% of staff are local nationals 

• We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+ 

• RI spent $125 million in 2021 on our programs 

About the opportunity 

The Global Employee Relations Coordinator (ERC) will support the HR Director (HRD) to provide a high quality and timely Employee Relations service for the global organization. You will be part of a small very busy head office HR team, working closely with the global HR team members. 

This will include administration of RI’s employment contracts system, checking and verifying due diligence in the hiring and contracting process and supporting HR audit processes.

In addition, the ERC will partner with the HRIS Administrator to deliver a Helpdesk service for managers and employees in using our performance management system (RI Excel).

About you 

You will be highly organized and bring excellent administrative skills in maintaining HR records, HR IT systems and producing reports. You must be detail focused and customer service oriented.

You will have previous HR experience of working in an international HR function together with a formal HR qualification or part-qualification. Some knowledge of either US or UK employment law. 

Your ability to work effectively with a dispersed workforce and build relationships across cultures and time zones will be essential together with your flexible approach and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment 

How to apply 

To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page. 

You will be asked to upload a CV and Cover Letter.  The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.

Closing date. Note the closing date as per the job board listing, however, please apply immediately as we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis and may withdraw the position before the job board closing date.

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted. 

COVID 19: To ensure a safe workplace, RI follows government requirements, and in some locations a mandatory vaccination policy applies.  When working or traveling on RI business, all staff, contractors and visitors must follow the rules and entry requirements of the country. 

If this role is US based a mandatory policy for COVID 19 vaccination will be required by the post holder. 

Relief International has a zero-tolerance policy for unlawful harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment.  

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.  

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references, and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks. 

The Youth Engagement Coordinator at the Food Foundation will support 30 young food ambassadors (aged 14-21) to campaign on child food poverty, dietary inequalities and children’s right to have access to a healthy and sustainable diet.

• Do you care about food inequality and empowering young people to campaign?
• Do you have experience working with diverse groups of young people?
• Do you have strong coordination skills and engaging with young people?
• Can you support the young people to build campaigning action?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Please see our website recruitment page for the full job pack and further details.

About us

We believe everyone in the UK deserves access to an affordable, healthy diet. We have various projects to reach different groups to improve children’s diets, increase vegetable consumption, influence food policy and inspire change in food and retail businesses & how investment works. We are a small charity that has grown thanks to our success in responding to government announcements, quickly gathering interest and advocating in dynamic ways to create change in the food system.

• Our small enthusiastic and dedicated team makes us agile
• Our search for evidence-based solutions makes us impactful
• Our skills in shaping powerful coalitions and harnessing citizens’ voices makes us collaborative.
• Our drive to identify new opportunities for action, and test new levers for change makes us innovative.

Job Purpose

The Youth Engagement and Campaigns Coordinator will be embedded within the Food Foundation’s Children’s Right2Food Project aimed at tackling child food insecurity and inequalities by working towards the implementation of the Children’s Right2Food Charter. You will be working directly with a group of 30 young food ambassadors from across the UK who come from low-income backgrounds or have lived experience of food insecurity, who work with us to combat diet inequalities and affect change across the food system.

A week in the job will look like: calling politicians to set up meetings with the young ambassadors, organising press and media opportunities with our young food ambassadors, organising meet-ups with the young campaigners online, brainstorming innovative campaigning ideas, liaising with other organisations who work with young people.

Main Accountabilities

Youth advocacy and campaigning

• Support the young people to build campaigning action - both in their local communities and nationally.
• Develop, grow and support our Young Food Ambassadors, creating campaign opportunities with them to influence and make change nationally and locally.
• Youth events, social media and media
• Work with our Young Food Ambassadors to support building their digital presence across social media and ensure messages, reporting and content creation is supporting our strategic and policy aims.
• Plan and deliver a youth summit as a collective route for young activists working across food system change to capacity build and engage authentically with changemakers.
• Work closely with our Head of Communications to create opportunities for the young people to have their voices heard in the media.

Youth panel management

• Establish strong working relationships with other youth groups, facilitating regular meetings, activities, training and workshops that are meaningful and youth led.
• Develop engagement and communications tools and resources to support young people in their advocacy work.
• Manage our youth engagement impact, monitoring and evaluation.

Your experience

Your experience does not need to come from the charity sector, and we're keen to hear from people with a background in education, social work, youth programmes or any other child and youth engagement/campaign setting.

Person Profile

Technical Skills

• Experience working with diverse groups of vulnerable people in a campaigning or education setting.
• Strong facilitation skills with good knowledge of a range of inclusive facilitation techniques appropriate for working with youth people.
• Commitment to supporting young people to use their voices to make change (in an organisational, community, political or other context), and broader interest in understanding how change happens
• Knowledge and understanding of applying youth participation best practice and safeguarding requirements
• Clear commitment to intersectional approaches when working with young people

Personal Skills:

• Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines when working under pressure on numerous projects
• Ability to collaborate with and influence a wide variety of stakeholders both in and outside of the organisation to deliver agreed outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to tailor written and verbal communications to a wide range of different audiences including young people
• Self-sufficient and organised approach to administrative tasks
• Commitment to The Food Foundation mission, values and approach. In particular, a commitment to empowering and elevating the voices young people to change the food system

How to Apply

Deadline to apply: Sunday 14th August 2022.

Please apply directly to charityjobs, or email us with ’Youth Engagement Co-Ordinator’ with a cover letter which details how you meet the person profile in the job pack and up to date CV (include contact details of two references in CV). Please see our website for the full job pack and further details.

Please apply as soon as you can: we will interview candidates as appropriate applications are received.

Successful candidates will need to have an enhanced DBS check

The Food Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment, as we know a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and different ways of working which enhances what we do. We recognise we have work to do to improve diversity and inclusion within our organisation. We welcome and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply

Platform needs an organised and enthusiastic Impact Coordinator to help arrange screenings for the documentary Offshore. This is ultimately a project managing role, where the Coordinator will plan screenings, liaise with groups across the UK, promote the film and potentially facilitate discussions with participants at screenings. 

The film follows three North Sea Oil and Gas workers, exploring their hopes and fears for the coming energy transition. Offshore is a powerful tool for putting worker demands at the centre of the climate movement. The documentary by independent filmmaker Hazel Flack was chosen by the Documentary Society’s Climate Story Fund for impact funding. Your role is to help us deliver the impact campaign.

You will be responsible for supporting two of our key audiences – community and climate activists and eNGOs. You will promote Offshore among these groups, respond to requests to host screenings and work with community groups to ensure screenings are successful. You will also be involved in discussions that shape the next stages of our impact campaign as we strategize about how the film can support our campaign work and plan for a general public release.

We are looking for someone who is reliable, friendly, organised and genuinely excited about the potential impact Offshore. Please cite examples from outside of formal employment if they are most relevant. 

Responsibilities

Promotion

● Create promotional materials –including for twitter, email, websites, facebook, instagram etc

● Develop a promotion strategy to target campaign and climate groups ● Coordinate a promotional campaign for Offshore using a range of digital platforms

Support for Climate Activists and eNGO audiences

● Respond to requests from Climate groups to host screenings

● Co-ordinate the creation of accompanying resources to support post-screening discussions

● Attend and facilitate post-screening discussions where appropriate re travel and timing

● Collate information on screenings which have taken place

Support for Community Group audiences

● Develop a community screening strategy with support from the North Sea Communities Lead

● Contact community groups to let them know screenings are possible

● Working with community groups to organise screenings – helping with venue hire, thinking through the shape of the event, etc.

● Co-ordinate the creation of accompanying resources to support post-screening discussions

● Arrange speakers for post-screening discussions where appropriate

● Attend and facilitate post-screening discussions where appropriate

● Collate information on screenings and develop creative ways to document events and content coming out of community discussions

Strategy

● Attend Offshore Impact Campaign strategy meetings with the North Sea Just Transition Team and Hazel Flack, the filmmaker

● Input ideas and thoughts on strategy

Person specification

We expect the applicant to meet most of the essentials listed here, and some of the desirable. (But nobody meets everything!). A university degree is NOT a requirement. Experience can be in a paid or unpaid context. We will use both the application form and the interview process to assess this set of experience or skills.

Essential experience or skills

● Experience of event organisation and promotion for a range of different audiences

● Knowledge of what makes a successful event ● Experience of working with community groups ● Experience of using social media to represent or promote an event, campaign or organisation

● Experience of working with or general knowledge of climate activists and eNGOs

● Very organised with strong time-management skills

● Ability to work with others in a horizontal structure and to assist in achieving goals and outputs.

● Strong understanding of climate justice and just transition

‘Desirable’ experience or skills

● Experience of facilitating or chairing different types of events

● Experience of film promotion

● Ability to create project strategies

● Strong understanding of anti-oppression

● Ability to generate viral social media content (e.g: campaign videos or tweets)