About Us

10GM is a joint venture by local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector infrastructure organisations in Greater Manchester: Bolton CVS, Salford CVS, Macc and Action Together. These local organisations provide a range of support including organisational and group development, accredited Volunteer Centres, locality and thematic networks, action groups and strategic representation across a wide range of partnerships.

10GM works strategically to strengthen support for the VCSE sector at borough level and ensure connectivity and engagement across the whole of Greater Manchester. 10GM represents a combined membership of thousands of local voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations working in communities and neighbourhoods all across the city-region.

An opportunity has now arisen for a Strategic Lead to facilitate engagement with 10GM across Greater Manchester for a two year contract that has the potential to extend.

The Benefits

- Salary of £35,745 - £37,890 per annum
- Flexible working opportunities
- Ongoing professional development
- 7% pension contribution (1% contribution by employee)
- 25 days’ annual leave (plus eight Bank Holidays) per annum
- Work with a large diverse team committed to social justice

If you have strong influencing skills and a passion for social justice and the VCSE sector, this is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with an exceptional charitable initiative that will help change Greater Manchester for the better.

We believe that VCSE sector organisations have an important part to play in work across Greater Manchester that benefits everyone and will see our city and our communities rise, do better and profit from the work we do.

So, if you share our values and want to be a part of something big that will bring great things to Greater Manchester, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

As the Strategic Lead, you will be tasked with playing a key leadership and representation role within 10GM and ensure the organisation can fulfil its purposes, aims, contracts and commitments.

You’ll build links across partner organisations and associates, identifying opportunities, sharing information and resources and maximising the efficiency of the 10GM initiative.

Specifically, your role will involve:

- Maintaining and developing relationships with stakeholders across the public, private and VCSE sectors
- Creating a positive partnership with Greater Manchester in line with 10GM’s values
- Identifying new funding opportunities and developing proposals
- Utilising national, regional and local policies that can be used by 10GM members to enhance influencing

About You

To be considered as the Strategic Lead, you will need:

- To be a skilled influencer who can operate at a senior level and bring solutions
- The ability to secure, lead and deliver projects and programmes to agreed timelines and outcomes
- The ability to make a compelling case for the role of the VCSE sector in general and the role of local infrastructure in particular
- To be driven by social justice and passionate about the VCSE
- The ability to manage complex partnerships and relationships
- A collaborative and relational approach
- To be interested in social policy and able to make this accessible to others
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce communication content for a variety of audiences

Closing Date:16th November 2020

To apply for this position, please visit the website link.

We’re looking for exceptional, committed team members to lead and support our holistic programmes of work and opportunity for disadvantaged young people  

Starting in January 2021 we have opportunities in Wrexham, Flintshire and Manchester city centre for both project leads and welfare officers to work with young men and women aged 18 - 25.

First Interviews will be held virtually w/c 9th November.  Second interviews will be face to face, subject to Covid19 restrictions, at our Hub in Wrexham.

If you’d like to help us change lives and do things differently, we’d love to hear from you

Closing date 30th October 2020

Northern Services Administrator (Maternity Cover)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving Women's Centre covering Manchester and Trafford.

Women in Prison are seeking an experienced administrator to organise, supervise and carry out the activities required to ensure the smooth running of their Northern office, and to provide administrative support to the Manager, Project Workers and other staff.

The successful applicant will provide a welcoming and effective first point of contact for callers, service users, external agencies and other visitors, This role will also include referrals, signposting to other agencies and services and data inputting.

We actively encourage applications from women from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested to hear from Black, Asian and minority ethnic women and women who have personal experience of the criminal justice system.

The role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.

Due to the current climate this role will at present involve a mixture of working from home and office based.

Would you like to make a difference to the lives of older people in Bolton? Age UK Bolton is looking to recruit a Home Services Manager for its relatively young but successful Home Services business.

Working directly to the charity’s Commercial Services Director, you will co-ordinate and support a small team of Home Services Assistants delivering cleaning, shopping and home support primarily to older people in their homes.

You will ensure the smooth running of the service including: the highest standards of professionalism and customer care; effective communication; staff wellbeing and sound financial and operational performance

This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and grow this vital paid for service within our charity, providing valuable support for those for whom day to day living has become increasingly challenging.

If you believe you have the skills along with a desire to be part of a caring and dynamic organisation then please submit your application to or call Pat Kitchen, Commercial Services Director.

Full details of the job description, person specification and application form are available on our website

Part-time hours: 25 per week

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £24,111.00 per year

COVID-19 considerations:
Our central office has protective measures in place with risk assessments, handwash stations, social distancing and PPE.

This is your chance to join an amazing team that works to reform economics education around the world. We are excited to launch our search for our next Fundraising Manager. We are constantly growing so if you want to be part of the team that realises our vision of a better economics education around the world then please do apply.

Role title: Fundraising Manager

About Rethinking Economics

Rethinking Economics (RE) is an international network working to build a better economics in society and the classroom. We started as a student movement in 2012 and have since grown to become a registered charity with a 7-person staff team. Through a mixture of campaigning, events and projects, we support over 100 groups in over 30 countries around the world, alongside thousands of supportive members of the public, to reform the university economics curriculum to make it more pluralist, critical and applicable to the real world.

Rethinking Economics is undertaking an exciting transition process in which we are developing and expanding the future of the organisation. We will be accepting candidates from the UK and candidates based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Over the two years we will be working towards our second international gathering of which you would be one of the key people to make this happen through an effective fundraising strategy.

What we’re looking for

To be successful in this role you will be a methodical individual who can work to tight deadlines and write compelling copy for fundraising applications. Experience in writing fundraising application will be essential and experience raising funds in our sector will be very beneficial when understanding the specific needs of our movement. You will be asked to write reports about our deliverables, identify leads for us to follow up and manage relationships with partners when requested. The ideal candidate will thrive when they are able to interpret a strategy, identify the key areas for us to focus on and write concise and effective fundraising applications.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

We are committed to providing equality and fairness for all and not to discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion or age. We encourage and celebrate the different qualities that our colleagues, and others we work with, bring to our work. And we believe that seeing things from a wide range of different perspectives helps us to resolve problems, adapt our approaches and develop as an organisation. We want to bring greater diversity to our team and we’re keen to hear what you think you’ll bring from your own background and experience (beyond your professional skills and knowledge). 

Terms & Conditions

Reporting to: Co-Director: Organisational Development

Starting salary: £10,200 - £11,000. Based on Band 3 £25,500 - £27,500 pro rata per annum. The  offer made cannot be negotiated.

Start Date: January 2021 (negotiable)

Contract type: 1 year contract with possible extension, 6 months’ probation period

Hours: 2 days a week based on 7.5 hours per day, decreasing to 7 hours per day from April 2021. We support flexible working across the whole team. 

Benefits: Statutory pension increasing to 5% matched from April 2021 (only applicable to the UK candidates, negotiable for candidates based elsewhere), 25 days holiday pro rata in addition to winter break between Christmas and New Year, access to bespoke economics education, person centred training opportunities, yearly cost of living increase.

Location: Remote. The role may include travel particularly to our Manchester Office or our partners in Johannesburg, South Africa. If you are based in the UK and not Manchester then travel to the Manchester office will be reimbursed when required. For South African candidates, you will need to be within commutable distance to Institute of Economic Justice, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Any other work-related travel will also be reimbursed.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, you will not be expected to travel.

Purpose of the Role: 

To lead on fundraising writing and reporting. Ensure that all reports are handed in on time, working with the Operations & Finance Manager and Co-Directors to ensure that budgets and deliverables are appropriate for the scale of the work and monitored effectively. Ensuring that fundraising applications are written to meet the guidelines and priorities for the partners we work with.

Responsibilities

Main Areas of Responsibility

• Bid writing for grant applications

• Identifying new leads for the Co-Directors to follow up on

• Report management for successful fundraising bids

• Management of the fundraising database

• Working with the Co-Directors to ensure there is a healthy fundraising pipeline

• Lead on the strategy and delivery of public fundraising such as fundraising events or crowdfunders

Key Skills and Experience

The role profile asks for a wide range of competencies and we recognise that we are unlikely to find a candidate who fits every requirement. If you fit some of the essential and/or desirable criteria and believe you have the potential to learn the other areas of the role, we’d like to hear from you. A strong background in economics, organising and movement building would be of great advantage.

Fundraising - Technical Competencies & Experiences

Essential

A proven track record in fundraising, and/or strong relationships with potential funders and supporters of RE.

Excellent relationship building skills, including the ability to proactively identify, explore and realise new partnerships and funding opportunities.

Strong written and verbal communication skills – a persuasive and passionate communicator.

Ability to write and edit copy for different audiences.

An understanding of public fundraising and grant fundraising strategy.

Desirable

Experience in creating and managing large budgets.

An understanding of organisational strategy and theory of change.

Economics

Essential

An interest and understanding of economics, particularly a knowledge of alternative and pluralist economics.

Apassion to reform economics teaching and practise.

Experience of campaigning or research into economics or a closely related field.

Desirable

Higher education qualification in economics or a closely related field.

Essential Values and Behaviour

Commitment to RE’s Values of Justice & Fairness, Diversity & Inclusion and Collaboration.

Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment and a movement that is growing.

Self-reflective, willing to listen and consider other points of view.

Ambitious, dynamic and energetic, constantly reflecting on RE’s effectiveness and

seeking ways to improve our impact.

A critical and strategic thinker, able to both see the big picture and have an eye for

detail.
Essential Organisational Competencies and Experiences

Ability to bring together colleagues from different teams to work on projects or initiatives, or creating networks who work in partnership with us to support our work and aims.

Ability to manage own workload to meet agreed deadlines and standards with minimal day-to-day supervision.

Ability to identify good working practices, apply to your own work and to teams that you work in

How to Apply:

Please download the application form and equal opportunities form and return before the closing deadline 23:59, Sunday 29 November.

Interviews will be online via zoom on 3 and 4 December. Please let us know if this will be difficult.

If you have any queries or would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please do not hesitate to contact us via recruitment [at] rethinkeconomics [dot] org.

Please note that we cannot accept any non-UK or South Africa based applicants.

Victoria Baths, Manchester is an historic swimming pool which the Trust is restoring in phases. Meanwhile, it operates as a heritage visitor centre, events, arts and weddings venue.

The Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic and professional part-time (21 hours per week) Finance Manager to join our friendly team, starting as soon as possible. The post holder will undertake comprehensive and specialist financial tasks for the organisation and the role covers a variety of duties.

You will need to have a thorough understanding and working knowledge of QuickBooks and Excel, plus very good organisational, problem solving and communication skills, with the ability to set up and maintain accurate office finance systems.

Closing date: Sunday 8th November 2020, 6pm

Interviews: tbc  

We reserve the right to close applications early if we receive a high volume

At Depaul UK have an exciting opportunity for an Outreach Manager to join our team on a full time permanent basis. In return you’ll earn a competitive salary of £30,294 pa + pension & other benefits.

Depaul UK delivers a range of support and housing services around the UK for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We provide services that prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training & volunteering. We're dedicated to putting our values into action to achieve a society where everyone has a place to call home and a stake in their community.

In return as our Outreach Manager we can offer you:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days of annual holiday plus bank holidays pro rata
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance

The Outreach Manager role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Outreach Manager to lead on managing our new service in Greater Manchester.

The successful post-holder is responsible for ensuring the service delivers excellent and continuously improving project performance, focussing on quality and positive outcomes for clients. The post-holder will lead on and ensure high levels of partnership and involvement from clients, staff, volunteers and key stakeholders.

The official job title for this post is Service Manager

What makes this role exciting?

- A full induction and training to enhance the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills required’

- Training in the Depaul Endeavour model

- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner

What will ideally support your success in the Outreach Manager role?

- Excellent experience of outreach work & worked front line within a homeless service

- Experience in managing a large dispersed team including performance management

- You must have experience in finance; setting a budget, working within a budget, petty cash and payroll

- Good experience in reaching targets, preferably in the housing sector

- You must have experience in report writing and submitting quarterly reports

Closing date: Friday 30 October 2020 at 12:00 pm

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Outreach Manager then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

To lead targeted faculty level representation and student engagement with: course representation; academic societies; faculty representation mechanisms; faculty plans; broader union led opportunities.

Who are we?

Part business, part charity, part membership body – The Union is an amazing place to work. Professionally run, but different. Our professional team of over 150 people support elected student leaders to be effective in making change, improving lives and fulfilling potential. Winner of the NUS Campaigning Award 2017, The Union is one of more than 550 students’ unions across the country. We’re located in the amazing city of Manchester, famous for its music, arts, sport, social heritage and diversity. With 38,000 student members, 150 student groups, a huge range of services and a bold strategy, we’re one of the most exciting.

What’s the job?

• Act as the first point of contact for faculty colleagues in the University.
• Work to support the University in achieving its quality targets for education, including coordination of the union’s contribution to reviews and audits.
• Coordinating mechanisms to garner feedback from course representatives to identify common issues and experiences.
• Measuring and promoting the impact of student representation on academic matters.
• Supporting the Membership Development Manager in working with the Education Officer on relevant plans, projects and campaigns
• Support the Membership Development Manager to produce evidence for quality-focused reports produced on a regular basis.
• Work with other departments to promote the National Student Survey and other feedback

Who you are

• Passionate about issues relating to participation and involvement in the higher education environment
• Confident in leading a range of representative projects and initiatives
• Excellent organisation and prioritization skills and the ability to work to multiple deadlines
• Proactive at working part of a team and in collaboration with other teams.
• Able to work under pressure and exhibit a can-do attitude

Why apply?

There has never been a better time to work for The Union. Based just off Oxford Road, in the centre of vibrant Manchester, The Union will train you thoroughly, reward you well and encourage you to build a long-term career that inspires you.

The exact opposite of corporate, we’re progressive, creative individuals working to make a difference in unconventional workplaces. In return for your passion and experience, we offer the flexibility for work-life balance, a competitive salary for the non-profit sector and excellent holiday allowance. We’re absolutely open to considering requests for job-share or part-time working.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status.

We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values. Whilst not a requirement, we particularly encourage applications from BAME candidates, who are currently underrepresented.

Apply: To apply please download the application form from the Union website. Please return completed application forms to the email address specified on the form. 

Please note application forms must be submitted in Microsoft Word format. 

Closing date: 23:00, 11th November 2020  

If you’re successfully shortlisted, we’ll see you at an interview during the week commencing 23rd November.  

The interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams. Therefore, you will be required to use IT equipment including a camera for the video interview. 

Please note we do not accept CV’s or cover letters.

Work somewhere professional, but different. Build a career with students’ unions.

About Rethinking Economics

Rethinking Economics (RE) is an international network working to build a better Economics in society and the classroom. We started as a student movement in 2012 and have since grown to become a registered charity with a 7-person staff team. Through a mixture of campaigning, events and projects, we support over 100 groups in over 30 countries around the world, alongside thousands of supportive members of the public, to reform the university Economics curriculum to make it more pluralist, critical and applicable to the real world.

Rethinking Economics is undertaking an exciting transition process in which we are developing and expanding the future of the organisation.

Over the next year we will be launching a book on the lack of diversity in Economics, redeveloping our website and visual communications and building a spokesperson network of student economists that will promote Rethinking Economics in the UK.

What we’re looking for

Effective communications are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a dynamic communications professional who can take the lead on overhauling and professionalising Rethinking Economics’ branding, website, communications and marketing strategy. You will have a keen eye for effective communication tools, and you will be passionate about keeping up to date with sector trends and have solid knowledge of best practice.

This is a new role and the successful candidate will have a real opportunity to make their mark on the communication function of Rethinking Economics. Your communications will attract new members, supporters and drive the growth of the organisation. We are a small organisation who are continually developing and growing – a keenness to thrive in a fast-paced changing environment is essential.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

We are committed to providing equality and fairness for all and not to discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion or age. We encourage and celebrate the different qualities that our colleagues, and others we work with, bring to our work. And we believe that seeing things from a wide range of different perspectives helps us to resolve problems, adapt our approaches and develop as an organisation. We want to bring greater diversity to our team and we’re keen to hear what you think you’ll bring from your own background and experience (beyond your professional skills and knowledge).

Terms & Conditions

Reporting to: Co-Director, Movement Building

Starting salary: £30,000 - £33,500 pro rata per annum on the basis of an offer by the organisation which cannot be negotiated

Start date: January 2021 (negotiable)

Contract type: Permanent

Benefits: Statutory pension increasing to 5% matched from April 2021, 25 days holiday pro rata in addition to winter break between Christmas and New Year, access to bespoke economics education, person centred training opportunities, yearly cost of living increase.

Hours: 4 or 5 days a week. Evening and weekend work will be sometimes be necessary, for which time off in lieu can be claimed. We support flexible working across the whole team.

Location: Remote. The role involves regular UK, and occasionally international, travel, particularly to our Manchester Office on an average a monthly basis. If you are not based in Manchester the travel costs will be reimbursed. Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, you will not be expected to travel.

Purpose of the Role:

To lead on external communications for the organisation, ensuring that Rethinking Economics remains relevant and responsive to the needs of the network.

Responsibilities

Main Areas of Responsibility

● Development of RE’s digital marketing strategy

● Development of RE’s social media presence

● Supporting on the development of an evidence led communications strategy

● Developing, planning and maintaining organisational external communications

● Producing and reviewing website content

● Liaison with and recruitment of students, writers, designers and video editors where relevant for content creation

● Promotion and amplification of a diverse range of voices within our network

Key Skills and Experience

The role profile asks for a wide range of competencies and we recognise that we are unlikely to find a candidate who fits every requirement. If you fit some of the essential and/or desirable criteria and believe you have the potential to learn the other areas of the role, we’d like to hear from you. A strong background in organising and movement building within Economics or educational reform would be of great advantage.

● An interest in and understanding of Economics, particularly a knowledge of alternative and pluralist Economics

● A passion to reform Economics teaching and practice

●      Higher education qualification in Economics or Economics and a related subject

Technical Competencies & Experiences

Essential

●      A strong understanding of brand building, and the role of communications as part of this.

●      Experience of growing an organisation’s media presence and maintaining its reputation

●      Considerable experience of social media function and be aware of innovative ways to extend our reach

●      Editorial experience of campaign focused communications

●    Experience of working with volunteer organisers in a campaigns or communications based role

●    Ability to create compelling digital content , including articles, news items, blogs, social media assets, videos, long-form stories etc

●    Ability to proactively spot and exploit relevant comms opportunities

●    Experience of planning and delivering communications projects that deliver measurable results

Desirable

●    Strong knowledge of SEO principles

●    Experience of conducting qualitative research such as semi-structured interviews and focus groups

●    Proven track record of delivering engaging and impactful training

●    Experience of cultivating media relationships

Essential Values & Behaviours

●    Commitment to RE’s Values of Justice & Fairness, Diversity & Inclusion and Collaboration.

●    Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment and a movement that is growing.

●    Self-reflective, willing to listen and consider other points of view.

●    Ambitious, dynamic and energetic, constantly reflecting on RE’s effectiveness and seeking ways to improve our impact.

●    A critical and strategic thinker, able to both see the big picture and have an eye for detail.

Essential Organisational Competencies & Experiences

●    Ability to communicate complex information effectively to different audiences.  Adapting communication style as necessary and targeting communications to ensure that information is understood and has influence. 

●    Ability to bring together colleagues from different teams to work on projects or initiatives, or create networks, develop partnerships to support the aims of Rethinking Economics.

●    The use of initiative and creativity to combine complex ideas or processes or quickly evolving ideas and situations.

●    Experience of overseeing the work of external suppliers, contractors or freelancers and holding them to account for quality, delivery and timeliness of work.

●    Working with a high degree of independence and self-direction.

●    Experience of strategic leadership of a particular team, programme, or function.

●    Experience of monitoring and reporting on financial resources

How to apply

Please complete and return the attached application form and diveristy monitoring form to recruitment [at] rethinkeconomics [dot] org before the closing deadline 23:59, Sunday 8th November. Interviews will be online via zoom between 16-18th Nov - please let us know if this will be difficult.

If you have any queries or would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please do not hesitate to contact us via recruitment [at] rethinkeconomics [dot] org.

Please note that we cannot accept any non-EU based applicants due to government visa minimum salary criteria.

Emerging Futures’ greatest resource is its people, so we also offer our employees generous annual leave, pension, and other benefits.

Emerging Futures has secured a 3-5-year contract to deliver substance misuse and housing support services across Cheshire East. Our Housing Related Support is informed by both harm reduction and ‘Housing First’ principles and is driven operationally via a culture of values based, passionate leadership.

We are extremely proud of our services and are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic Housing Project Workers who are able to engage and offer support to people who present with a range of complex needs, including poor health & wellbeing, low self-esteem, low levels of literacy, substance misuse issues, non-existent family relationships and who have difficulty forming and sustaining new relationships.

If you thrive on working in a challenging but rewarding environment and have a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives, this role could be for you!

This requires the ability to work on a rolling rota basis covering days, evenings and weekend across our Housing Related Support provision in Crewe or Macclesfield, Cheshire East.

Our Passion Statement

At Emerging Futures, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and learn and to achieve the best they can in everything they do. We know it takes courage and commitment to change, which is why we have a passion statement, rather than a mission statement. To us, being passionate means:

• celebrating success and achievement
• creative and daring enough to innovate
• determined to persist when things get tough
• brave enough to say when something isn’t good enough
• humble enough to accept and learn from criticism
• willing to take responsibility for making things better

Above all, being passionate means having the desire to nurture, facilitate and empower others to reach out with hope to achieve their full potential.

This job is for you if…

• You are someone who is committed to our passion statement and shares in our belief in the potential of all individuals, and that empowering individuals to support each other leads to positive change; not only for themselves, but also for their communities
• You are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping and can support complex individuals from first point of contact to resettling in their own home.
• You are fun, approachable, energetic, confident, warm, empathetic, ambitious, flexible, resilient, discreet, organised, and professional.
• You are passionate about promoting recovery, tackling homelessness, and working in collaboratively with partner agencies.

What you will be doing

• Supporting tenants to maintain their tenancy by providing hands on, practical help and advice across our network of shared, supported housing.
• Working with the Local Authority and other agencies to create move-on options and improve the health and wellbeing of tenants through direct 1-1 work.
• Supporting the development of recovery and employment initiatives for tenants across Cheshire East, working with local third sector and grass roots organisations, associations, and individuals.
• Supporting residents in financial planning and providing debt counselling and support where appropriate.
• Ensuring residents understand their tenancy agreement and their rights and obligations.
• Managing accommodation for individuals, enabling residents to access pathways to meet their more immediate needs before moving on to full independence, their own tenancies and meaningful activity.

Some of the skills, knowledge and experience you will have

• A keen and comprehensive awareness of homelessness issues, interventions and understanding specific ways to support tenants with ingrained and entrenched negative behaviours.
• Excellent all-round communication skills and the ability to manage relationships.
• An ability to undertake accurate and comprehensive assessments of need, identifying levels of risk, recovery potential and establishing immediate and longer-term recovery goals.
• An ability to work effectively with groups using a structured planned approach.
• Experience of working in or with adult social care services within the charitable, third or public sector.
• A flexible attitude towards your work and a knowledge of local services and geography in Cheshire East.
• Flexibility and access to transport as you may be required to visit other sites across Cheshire East.
• We welcome applications from people with lived experience; however, all employees are required to have an enhanced DBS.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for either of these new and exciting roles within Emerging Futures, please send your Application Form or CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are suitable for the role to Victoria Duncan on the email provided.

Be a part of our Marketing and Communications team and deliver projects and campaigns that have a positive impact on students, staff and stakeholders.

Who are we?

Located in the heart of Manchester, The Union is part business, part charity, part membership body. Operating independently from Manchester Metropolitan University, our aim is to support and represent each one of our student members. Each year our growing team of over 70 full time and up to 150 part time staff, work alongside elected student leaders to make change, improve lives and help fulfil student potential.

Winner of the NUS Campaigning Award 2017, The Union is one of 550 students’ unions across the country. And we’re one of the most exciting - with over 38,000 student members and 150 student groups, a huge range of services and a bold strategy.

What’s the job?

Raises awareness of The Union and drives usage of its services, projects and events using a range of channels. Develops and delivers marketing campaigns and activity.

Coordinates day-to-day maintenance and development of The Union’s website and other digital platforms and assets, identifying opportunities to improve the user experience.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent organisation skills and an eye for detail to support all marketing campaigns and large projects.
• A flair for developing creative, appropriate and effective responses to marketing briefs. You will consistently strive to find the best solutions to existing problems, be able to review progress and regularly test new tactics.
• Someone who has excellent all round marketing and digital skills. You will work on projects and campaigns that drive customer engagement and sales in a student environment.

• A team orientated person who can build relationships and work successfully with people at all levels. With excellent interpersonal skills, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders with different needs.

Why apply?

There has never been a better time to work for The Union. Based just off Oxford Road, in the centre of vibrant Manchester, The Union will train you thoroughly, reward you well and encourage you to build a long-term career that inspires you.

The exact opposite of corporate, we’re progressive, creative individuals working to make a difference in unconventional workplaces. In return for your passion and experience, we offer the flexibility for work-life balance, a competitive salary for the non-profit sector and excellent holiday allowance. We’re absolutely open to considering requests for job-share or part-time working.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status.

We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.

Apply: To apply please download the application form from the Union website. Please return completed application forms to email address detailed on the form. 

Please note application forms must be submitted in Microsoft Word format. 

Closing date: 23:00, Sunday 15th November 2020

If you’re successfully shortlisted, we’ll see you at an interview on week commencing 23rd November 2020. Please note interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams. Therefore, you will be required to use a laptop and camera for the video interview.

Please note we do not accept CV’s or cover letters for this role.

Work somewhere professional, but different. Build a career with students’ unions.

Answer Cancer is not a traditional health promotion service; instead it takes a VCSE-led community development approach in addressing the imbalance in screening uptake amongst certain groups.

The Answer Cancer Programme aims to provide a co-ordinated cancer screening prevention and screening awareness engagement programme across Greater Manchester. We focus on priority areas and communities, using a diverse range of approaches and interventions using a community development and social movement approach. We have a primary focus of

Manchester and Salford; followed by Oldham; Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale (HMR); and Bolton. These are the geographical areas that have the poorest screening uptake and outcomes of breast, bowel and cervical screening in Greater Manchester. Within those geographical areas we aim to reach people and communities that traditional screening engagement struggles to connect with.

Through Answer Cancer we aim to help:

• Increase uptake of the breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes within target communities. This will help reduce health inequalities in communities with the worst health outcomes.
• The Answer Cancer Champions social movement will continue to grow in reach, purpose, output and outcomes, which in turn will promote cancer prevention activity across GM.
• There will be better connectivity across cancer prevention and early detection activity in GM through networking and engagement.