The Tutor Trust is hiring an outstanding School Partnerships Manager. We are an award-winning education charity that 'transforms lives through tutoring'.  The heart of this role is building partnerships with school leaders across Greater Manchester.

About the Role:

This is a new role at The Tutor Trust. Initially, this will be a part-time role on a permanent contract, with an expectation that the role might become full-time. In the first instance, we will need two or three days per week from the successful candidate. The role will have a 3 month probation period.

Candidates must have Qualified Teacher Status. The ideal candidate will be an experienced school leader with good knowledge of the GM school system and a strong track record of collaborative working and partnership working. Alternatively, candidates may have some experience of working at a senior level within a local authority and/or multi-academy trust.

The SPM will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer, the COO, the Schools Team and the Quality and Impact team. The most important functions of the role are essentially a sales and marketing challenge and a customer relationship challenge: To research, identify and build partnerships with new schools across Greater Manchester. The SPM role will also include maintaining and building these school partnerships at a senior level, across individual schools, multi-academy trusts, diocesan relationships, local authority/city-region Education leads, etc.

Another key element of the role, depending on experience and time pressures, will be to support the Quality and Impact team and to help out with tuition observations in partner schools, lesson plan spot checks, and the collection and analysis of data from schools about Tutor Trust’s outcomes.

Main Functions

• To develop & maintain Tutor Trust’s strategy for building new school partnerships, in line with the growth targets in Tutor Trust’s Three Year Plan and our delivery role with the National Tutoring Programme

• To secure and carry out meetings with/presentations to system and school leaders, to help grow Tutor Trust’s network of partner schools

• To act as the main point of contact for senior figures in schools and MATs and in the wider Education sector

• To attend the regular meetings of the School Operations team, which is led by the CEO and the COO, with personnel from all three cities

• To work with the Quality and Impact team on quality assurance, data gathering and tutor support

• Depending on experience, to carry out tuition observations in partner schools and to carry out spot checks of tutors’ lesson plans

• To support tutor recruitment by helping with application marking and tutor interviews

• Depending on experience, the SPM may play a role in designing and delivering training modules and/or CPD sessions for tutors

• Adhere to protocols for safe working, data protection and confidentiality requirements, and of course Child Protection and Safeguarding.

• Carry out any other reasonable duties within the function commensurate with the level of responsibilities of the post.

Person Specification

Good candidates for this role will be high achievers with excellent IT and English writing skills. They will be creative, entrepreneurial and persistent, with well-developed inter-personal skills and a strong track record of partnership working.

Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

• Qualified Teacher Status, with leadership experience within the school system and/or a local authority

• Excellent written skills, to prepare and present high impact proposals and to correspond professionally with a strong attention to detail

• A proven track record of success in managing and achieving set targets

• Experience in building and managing key external relationships

• The ability to work accurately and effectively under pressure, prioritising workload to achieve deadlines.

• Excellent verbal and presentation skills.

• Experience of promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.

• Practical and confident in the use of all standard Microsoft Office programmes

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to summarise complex information with clarity, brevity and speed

Personal qualities

• Empathy with the needs of young people, in particular disadvantaged young people and vulnerable learners

• Energy and enthusiasm

• Dynamic, creative and driven

• A self-starter with an efficient and hard-working approach

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a broad range of stakeholders.

• A flexible approach to work including willingness to take on tasks outside the normal remit

• Resilience, tenacity and strong influencing skills

• Excellent collaborative worker

• A flexible approach to work including willingness to take on tasks outside the normal remit.

• A positive ‘can do’ attitude

General Information

Salary £45k-£60k per annum, depending on experience (this is the FTE rate – salary will be paid pro rata).

The job is part-time 2/3 days per week, on a permanent contract (after a successful 3-month probation period). Your regular place of work will be the Tutor Trust office in Manchester, subject to ‘working from home’ guidance because of the COVID pandemic; however, the position will involve regular travel to schools and other partners across Greater Manchester and potentially some travel to our Leeds and Liverpool offices.

The hours of work are 16/24 hrs per week over 52 weeks. Holiday entitlement will be 33 days per annum (pro-rata) inclusive of Bank Holidays with 3 days of your allocation to be taken over the Christmas period. The role will also involve working occasional unsocial hours in evenings and at weekends.

In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Closing date for applications: 5pm on Wednesday 10th February 2021

Please complete an application form in full; CVs will not be accepted; you may send us a cover letter with your completed application form.

Interviews to be held: TBC but provisionally w/c Monday 15th February 2021.

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead our highly motivated and successful fundraising team, and take our income to a new level.  This new position will develop our fundraising and communications strategy and oversee its implementation. The role includes working closely with colleagues in Zambia.

You will line manage a team of four who work out of our open plan office in Shrewsbury (or from home), and be a key member of the SMT, supporting the wider development of the organisation.

We are flexible on employee location but expect the post-holder to spend a considerable amount of time in the Shrewsbury office (at least 40%).

The successful candidate will have:

• Overall responsibility for defining and implementing our fundraising strategy, steadily increasing our income towards £2M
• Strong affinity with our mission, values and approach
• Senior fundraising experience with proven leadership skills and at least 3 years experience in a not for profit organisation
• Sound understanding of and ability to pursue a relationship based approach to raising funds
• Some experience of international development – ideally in a fundraising capacity. Familiarity with Zambia/southern Africa an advantage.
• Forward-thinking and dynamic with proven experience of leading, developing and managing a high performing team

To Apply

Once you have read the job description and Information Pack attached, please email your CV and a brief supporting statement (no more than one page of A4) with Director of Fundraising in the email subject title.

Healthy Me Healthy Communities is a not for profit social enterprise founded in 2012 making a positive difference to people’s health, lives and local communities. HMHC operates on the principles of coproduction, bringing together a range of partners, resources and assets for achieving positive outcomes in neighbourhoods across Manchester. At the heart of our work is involving people who benefit from our work, believing everyone has the skills and capacity for improving their own, families and communities’ outcomes.

HMHCs’ Strategic Vision is:

“reducing health inequalities together”

So “everyone enjoying a long, healthy and happy life.”

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Training and Learning Programme Manager to join our small, friendly team. The Training and Learning Programme Manager will be responsible for developing and delivering our learning provision, including accredited and non-accredited courses and external income generating training. 

Other details:

• 5% employer pension.
• 15 days holiday rising 1 day per year to a maximum of 30 days, plus 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Plus 1 leave day for employee birthday and 1 wellbeing day accompanied by £100 wellbeing budget.
• Sick-pay is 4-weeks full-pay, 4-weeks half-pay followed by statutory sick pay (subject to satisfactory probation period).
• Access to ‘Health Assured’ employee assistance programme for health & wellbeing support.

Equal Opportunities:

HMHC strives to be an equal opportunities employer and celebrates diversity and is committed to developing a diverse team. We welcome applications from people returning to work and may not have continuous employment history.

Key-tasks include:

1. Manage learning provision.
2. Working with SLT to identify, appraise and develop learning and development opportunities, informing strategic decision-making.
3. Inducting and supervising tutors delivering HMHC provision.
4. Delivering accredited learning provision, taking responsibility for learner journey.
5. Manage the course accreditation process from concept to implementation.
6. Monitoring budgets and outcomes from internal and external sources (I.e. grants, sales)
7. Establishing the learning process, setting-up and coordinating course documentation that satisfy external accredited-body requirements.
8. Registering courses and submitting relevant documents with external learning agencies (I.e. RSPH).
9. Creating and coordinating marketing and promotion of courses.
10. Work with SLT and L&D Leadership Team to develop and implement a quality management/improvement framework.

Essential Criteria:

1. Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating learning provision for diverse groups of people at a range of levels.
2. Deliver learning provision meeting external curriculum and quality standards.
3. A recognised teaching or training delivery qualification.
4. Experience of adult education quality standards and procedures.
5. Able to organise course documentation, learner files and carry out administrative tasks to a high standard and in line with course requirements.
6. Able to identify and appraise new opportunities to develop provision, improve learner experience and outcomes.
7. Project management skills to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
8. Experience of managing projects with multiple outcomes.
9. Excellent administration skills.
10. Able to engage and motivate people of all backgrounds to participate and become involved.
11. Passion for supporting people facing social exclusion and inequalities.
12. Skills to promote and market courses externally to generate income in line with organisational targets and budgets.
13. Professional attitude and conduct.
14. Experience of working on own initiative with minimum supervision.
15. Good practical knowledge and use of IT packages including Microsoft Office, databases, email and social media.
16. A good standard of education with evidence of professional development.
17. Entitlement to work in the UK.

Bede is an established local charity providing four specialist services. We support adults with a learning disability; women and men who experience domestic abuse; youth clubs and school holiday programmes and opportunities for community volunteering. Our team of around 40 staff work with an annual income of £1.2m.

We invite you to lead us through an exciting period of development as we move to a new purpose-built Centre in 2023. You'll join us at a key moment in our long and distinguished history, and take us into a dynamic future. Our current Director, Nick Dunne, who retires in 2021, will introduce you to this exceptional opportunity to make a real difference to our neighbours' lives.

This is a unique chance for an experienced senior manager from the not-for-profit sector to head our small, high-impact organisation. You will work with people in complex circumstances, and support specialist managers in grasping opportunities and assessing risks. In addition, you'll bring a thorough working knowledge of HR, charity finance, fundraising and governance to your role. You'll draw on all your creativity and energy to achieve maximum success and sustainability. We look forward to hearing from you - and offering a warm welcome from our lively and appreciative community. 

For an informal discussion about the role and to apply, please see application pack.

Closing date for applications 5pm Monday February 1, 2021.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to visit Bede w/c February 15
Interviews will be held on Thursday February 25.

Ambitious College is London's only registered Specialist College dedicated to educating and training young people with a primary diagnosis of autism aged 16-25. The college is currently based on two permanent campuses co-located and in partnership with mainstream further education colleges.

Ambitious College is an award winning, Ofsted “Good” day college. We believe that every young person attending Ambitious College deserves a fulfilling, happy and rewarding life. Our person-centred educational approach ensures we focus on the individual learners requirements at all times. We are proud to be an inclusive college with a diverse co-hort that values difference.

If you are ambitious about making the ordinary possible for young adults with autism, can inspire, lead and innovate we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and innovative Deputy Head who has:

• High expectations of our learners achieving their goals and aspirations, along with a commitment to providing education that promotes excellent progress and improves life chances, ‘making the ordinary possible'.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a transdisciplinary team to ensure young adults are prepared for adulthood.
• Experience of working in a culture of change.
• Extensive teaching experience with young adults with complex special education needs.
• Experience of ensuring the objectives outlined in the service development plan are realised through a regular cycle of development planning, implementation, review and evaluation.
• Experience of leading, managing and supporting the development of colleagues through coaching or mentoring.

What we offer:

• Excellent CPD including a wide-range of in house and external training courses.
• As a growing organisation there is opportunity to progress your career.
• Competitive annual salary paid over 52 weeks.
• Annual staff recognition awards.
• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.
• Season ticket loans.
• A wide range of wellness programmes including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes and learning programmes.
• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
• Access to physiotherapy.
• On-site parking. 

The position will require regular travel to both college sites.

Role Closes: Sunday 31st January 2021

Applicants informed of outcome: W/C 1st February 2021

First stage interviews: Thursday 11th February 2021

Second Stage Interview: W/C 15th February 2021

Start date: As soon as possible.

To find out more about this position please find attached the recruitment pack entailing the role details. For an informal discussion regarding this exciting senior leadership role, please follow the link to our website. 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Don’t let a child’s start in life determine their future

Programme Innovations Director (North and Midlands)

•  Based in North/Midlands, home based initially, with regular travel once restrictions ease
• Closing date: 1 February 2021, 9.00am 

Join Future First and help us build a more equal world. Working with us, you can make a big difference

…To children and young people

• Tackle educational inequality and help close the gap
• Give young people hope, dreams and the chance to realise them
• Connect them with powerful, relatable role models

…To state schools and colleges

• Build, engage and sustain alumni networks
• Harness untapped resources
• Grow social capital and strengthen school communities 

…To employers, funders and partners

• Showcase our work to gain support and investment
• Create exciting work experience opportunities (virtual and in person)
• Deliver employer programmes and funded interventions

…To you

• Learn, grow and create in a demanding but supportive environment
• Enjoy diverse and meaningful work
• Be rewarded and valued as part of a great, collaborative team 

…To us

• Bring your vision, energy, indefatigability and solutions focus to ensure our service for schools and young people is second to none 
• Give us your knowledge of education, schools and working with young people
• Deliver our programmes and demonstrate our impact
• Innovate to extend our reach to more schools and pupils

We would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and people with lived experience of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to recruiting a diverse workforce. 

Safeguarding is a priority for us, and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for the successful candidate.

Turn2us, a national charity helping people when times get tough.

Unexpected illness, job loss or relationship breakdown can turn any of our lives upside down, leading to loss of income, loss of housing, and financial crisis for any of us and our families. Around 14.4 million people live in poverty in the UK including a shameful 4.5 million children.

So people can build financial sustainability and thrive, Turn2us gives people the information and support they need in the face of life-changing events, and collaborates to tackle the causes and symptoms of poverty. We are here to end the crippling impact of financial shocks. As well as giving direct financial help through our own charitable grants and highlighting ways to reduce essential costs, we support people to increase their income through welfare benefits, charitable grants and other support. No one in the UK should live in poverty.

The Director of Income & External Affairs is an extraordinary opportunity to join an inspirational and focused senior team that’s building and delivering a refreshed operating model for this respected and effective charity.

You will be the driver of our fundraising team to increase our voluntary income so we can achieve more impact for people facing financial hardship. You’ll lead the external affairs team to reach people before and as they face financial shocks and build the profile of our work to secure more income and have more influence. You’ll work hand in hand with your senior colleagues on the leadership team to take the organisation in to the future and to tackle financial exclusion. 

We are more interested in your potential than we are in a perfect career or education. We want to recruit so we can build a strong, high-performing leadership team full of complementary experiences and strengths, not a group of people with the same perspectives.

If you are interested in applying, please click on the apply button which will take you to Be Applied that supports Turn2us in providing bias free recruitment and selection. Turn2us treats all diversity data in confidence - those involved in the selection process will NOT have access to it. The information given by candidates will be solely used for the purpose of improving the recruitment process.

Closing date: 8 February 2021

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

About the Role

In this exciting new post, you will play a pivotal role as a senior leader within the newly formed Funding Strategy Directorate, working closely with the Funding Strategy Director and Senior Management Team to ensure the implementation of the Fund’s vision and ambition.

The Funding Strategy Directorate is a central enabling function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding across all our funding portfolios. This role will lead the Funding Design and Development function, accountable for our grant management system alongside funding controls, policy and practice. With a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches and applied strategic thinking you will enable us to deliver excellent services both to our external customers as well as our internal teams.

To be successful in this post you will be passionate about our work and strategy ‘People in the Lead’. You will be an established leader with first class team leadership and coaching skills. You will be adept at setting strategies that drive forward positive change marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You will have experience of designing and delivering a major digital system and be skilled in making complex decisions balancing outcomes with risks.

The team is spread across the UK and you can be based at any of our office locations. When we return to the workplace there will be some travel between offices.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: W/C 1 Feb 2021

Essential Criteria

Please ensure that your application demonstrates, with examples, how you meet all these essential criteria.

• Deep understanding of the communities we serve and our role as a funder
   
• Experience of leading strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis
   
• Demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches, applying strategic thinking in how to provide the best service
   

• Responsibility for the design and delivery of at least one major digital system used by a business or organisation to manage its work whilst aligning with its ambition.
   
• Building or growing at least one team of mixed skills to deliver such a project.
   
• Proven ability to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices, thinking of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes
   

• Excellent Communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrable ability to mediate between people and communicating with stakeholders at all levels
   
• Experience of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity

Desirable Criteria
 

• Knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology, understanding how these impact on a funder context

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
   
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
   
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
   
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
   
• Paid volunteering leave
   

How to Apply 

Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

 Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Oasis Charitable Trust is a ground-breaking group of charities that have been pioneering models of sustainable and holistic education and community development over the last 35 years. 

We are now seeking a dynamic and transformational leader as the Director of Learning and Enrichment for Oasis Restore – the UK’s first secure school. This is a career-defining opportunity to lead the development and delivery of our bespoke integrated care and education for young people in custody.

Oasis Restore will offer a reparative opportunity to children and young people, who have become criminally involved, often as a result of high levels of trauma, vulnerability and threat. Our vision for Oasis Restore is focused on restoration, rather than retribution, on creating a safe environment with a holistic approach to life where every child is given opportunities equal to those offered their peers; ones that enable young people to make different choices and lead positive, productive lives.

Using a psychologically informed approach that integrates theories on attachment, trauma and human development we will offer:

• A holistic, integrated, safe environment

• A therapeutic model of care with a growth mind-set

• An ambitious and enquiry-based education offer

• Pathways for transition into community from day one

We are looking for a transformational leader with the ability to develop an education offer that is highly differentiated and innovative to achieve our shared vision. You will be values-led and have sustained, relevant leadership experience of working with children who are neurodiverse and those with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties, challenging behaviour and who experience significant barriers to learning.

The Director of Learning and Enrichment will be a champion of high-quality best practice, committed to drawing the best of your teams and children in your care.

This role is a unique opportunity to use your leadership and design experience to operationalise a model of education from scratch. This means you will be at the forefront of innovation and a ‘proof of concept’ within the custody sector. The role will require someone with confidence and resilience to develop practice with a high level of attention balanced with the exciting opportunity to influence wider system change. 

The successful candidate will:

• Have credible, proven leadership experience of education in alternative provision, special school or custody setting that supports student progress and attainment whilst addressing the effects of childhood trauma or adversity.

• Have a track record of delivering good and outstanding provision of education to highly vulnerable children in high risk environment within accountability and Ofsted regulatory education frameworks.

• Be a champion of divergent thinking and creative and innovative teaching practice and curriculum design balanced with commitment to providing psychologically informed, developmentally appropriate provision for secondary aged children.

• Demonstrate commitment to values-led leadership.

Working with Peer Power, Oasis asked young people about their vision for what a secure school could be.  Their response was: “Operate in love, operate in trust, and listen to the young people.” We are looking for leadership who will respect, value and listen to the young people they serve.

Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours, which flow from the Oasis ethos. Our ethos is an expression of our character and the lens through which we evaluate all we do and directly shapes our organisation's behaviours. 

• Passion to include everyone
• Desire to treat everyone equally, respecting differences
• Commitment to healthy and open relationships
• Deep sense of hope that things can change and be transformed
• Sense of perseverance to keep going for the long haul 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate employment checks, including enhanced DBS checks. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and should have the ability to speak fluent English for this role. 

For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please download the recruitment documents on this page or visit the Oasis UK charity website. 

Applications should be received by noon on Friday 29th January 2021. 

Interviews will be held on Friday 5th February. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, we anticipate interviews will be held virtually

The Workers` Educational Association is a unique charity and the UK`s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education. With a clear vision and a strong social purpose, we bring great teaching to local communities, with life-changing courses held in clubs, pubs, workplaces, schools and almost anywhere else you can think of.

Since 1903, we have been giving disadvantaged people the opportunity to return to learning - inspiring them to realise their full potential and become active, engaged citizens. We see education as a tool for social justice, not just self-improvement, and we pride ourselves on making learning accessible.

As one of our tutors, you`ll be so much more than just a teacher. Forming true partnerships with your students, you`ll go the extra mile to build their confidence, develop their knowledge and skills, and empower them to define and achieve their life goals. In short, you will be a catalyst for profound change.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing and Sales tutor to support provision across the North West. The main purpose of this post is to teach and offer support for students as part of a WEA Marketing and sales course through a holistic student approach. We are looking for a tutor who can provide inclusive support which encourages independent learning in relation to personal development, empowerment, and resilience and student engagement alongside academic achievement. The successful tutor will prepare course materials, identify students` needs, adapt courses and continually assess the effectiveness of your approach.

Every day will bring different yet exciting challenges.

A qualified and capable teacher, you will be keen to engage with students and rekindle their love of learning, and you will share our passion for egalitarianism and empowerment.
Because we serve people from all walks of life, we’re keen to develop a diverse workforce and particularly welcome applications from members of minority groups. You must be an experienced tutor who can plan and deliver appropriate tasks to help your students to develop a range of skills.

We need tutors with:
• up to date working knowledge and experience of teaching in the Marketing and Sales subject curricula to diverse student groups
• experience of working in community settings
• a strong understanding of adult learning and a belief in its importance
• a recognised teaching qualification ideally at level 5 alongside a subject specialism (ideally also at level 5)
• experience of delivering non accredited and accredited courses
• excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• willingness to travel across the region with the ability to deliver evenings and weekends
• A desire to share and improve teaching practice

WEA assumes you will be excited by using digital technology both in the classroom with the student and to manage course administration and communication. The ideal candidate will be IT literate and able to deliver through a blended learning approaching including use of our VLE.

Engagement and Training Assistant (Eco-Skills internship) 

£18,408 - £19,539 per annum.

Base Negotiable

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Fixed term: 1st March 2021 to 28th February 2022.

Our client is one of the UK’s leading providers of outdoor environmental education. This is a great opportunity to join them!

This exciting role is a 12-month structured career development opportunity to design and deliver biodiversity training courses, including courses for younger people (aged 16-25).

The post holder will develop skills in training people in one or more biodiversity subjects by designing learning pathways, training courses, tutor networks and related publications. Our client believes this role will support the postholder to continue their career development within the green economy as a provider of biodiversity skills training.

The post is externally funded as part of ‘Generation Green’ project to create new jobs, volunteer roles and apprenticeships to connect more than 100,000 young people to nature, especially younger people aged 16 - 25. 

This post holder will be part of a national team with ambitious targets for income and impact to support our clients charitable mission. The team’s success will achieve accessible learning outcomes for target audiences by developing/upscaling structured learning pathways. 

The successful candidate will have experience engaging target audiences with biodiversity and experience organising training or community events. 

The successful candidate will also have a degree in an environment / biological / biodiversity discipline or comparable experience/qualification and knowledge of one or more biodiversity subjects. 

The post will include the need to travel to our clients locations and other venues throughout the UK, which will involve some overnight stays.

Please apply if you are interested in joining an internationally respected organisation where there are brilliant opportunities for self-development and where you can use your passion for the environment to enthuse others.

Our client follows a recruitment and selection process that is applied fairly, consistently, and without favour or prejudice, and which promotes a working environment in which diversity is recognised, valued and encouraged.

Closing date: 12 noon on Wednesday 3rd February 2021. 

Interviews are planned for the second or third week of February 2021 (virtual likely), with shortlisted applicants being contacted by telephone and/or email. 

Are you a recent graduate or returning to work after a career break? Or are you looking for an opportunity to use your transferable skills?

The Charlie Waller Trust is seeking a conscientious team player with excellent organisational, communication and IT skills to join our dynamic, growing mental health charity focussed on children and young people.

The successful candidate will have an interest in improving the lives of young people through educating them to look after their mental health. You’ll undertake a wide range of duties to support the delivery of our training and assist us in developing and improving the way we measure the impact of our charitable activities. There will be opportunities to see our mental health training in action, to gain skills and knowledge in evaluation methods and obtain a good understanding of the sector. This is an exciting and varied role as part of a busy, but very friendly, small team, and your enthusiasm will be key.

Application is by CV and covering letter; there is no application form. In your letter, please tell us how you meet the person specification which can be found in the attached job description.

We will be reviewing all applications and shortlisting candidates as they're received and will try to establish a shortlist as quickly as possible. We will notify all successful and unsuccessful applicants by email once the shortlist has been established.

Closing date: 10th February 2021

Shortlisting date: 17th February 2021

Interview date: Late February 2021

The advert may close earlier than the stated deadline if more than 30 applications are received.

If you are passionate about supporting young people to reach their potential, we want you to join our partnership! Bonny Downs Community Association (BDCA) and Renewal Programme (RP) have come together in an exciting new youth project and are seeking 2 x experienced Youth Co-coordinators to provide the young people of Newham with spaces to enjoy, support to achieve their best, and opportunities to make a positive difference in their community.

About us

BDCA is a dynamic community-led charity that has been serving the residents of the London Borough of Newham since 1998. Our motto is, “working together to change lives and transform our community”.  The Renewal Programme has also been working in the borough for 50 years and is passionate about investing in community and supporting people to rise through dignity, inspiration, and empowerment. Together we have a combined track record of over 70 years’ Newham focussed service delivery. including local club youth provision. holiday activities, evening drop-ins, sports activities and youth leadership programmes.

About the roles

These new posts offer an exciting opportunity to play a driving role in launching a new package of services for young people across the economically disadvantaged but beautifully diverse East Ham area of Newham. Each role is 36 hours per week and for an initial fixed term period of 2 years pending further funding. Please see the full job descriptions and person specifications attached and do note an enhanced DBS check will be required.

Our ideal candidates will have significant youth work experience, a passion for working with young people from diverse backgrounds and a high level of motivation to develop an excellent and impactful youth offer.  You will be excellent relationship builders that are enthused by partnership working, and given current circumstances you will also need to be creative in your approach to adapt youth engagement offers safely and in line with Covid-19 restrictions. You will need to demonstrate that you are professional, organised, efficient and able to manage our sessional youth staff, sports coaches, junior leaders and workshop providers. You will also have a robust understanding of safeguarding policy and procedures.

With one role based predominantly at BDCA (London E6) and the other at RP (London E12), you will work together to plan, lead, manage and evaluate sessions in venues across the East Ham community, ensuring project outcomes are effectively delivered. Key shared project outcomes are:

• Provide safe places to enjoy = at least 6 venues will be open for a total of 1759 hours of youth activities each year.
• Increase youth engagement = Each year, at least 495 unique young people will access our regular activities and accredited courses and feel a greater sense of community connection as a result.
• Grow youth leadership = Each year, at least 45 young people will receive intensive year-long support to achieve their best and build their hope and agency to make positive change in their own lives and in their wider community too through accredited youth leadership courses and social action campaigns.
• Deliver inspiring and diverting activities = Each year, the programme will deliver at least 25 co-produced activities including sports, creative arts, wellbeing workshops, free play, tuition support, educational workshops, offsite trips, training and mentoring.

Each role will however have slightly different areas of responsibility as follows:

Youth co-ordinator 1 (BDCA)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating: four outdoor MUGA sports sessions and one outdoor BMX session per week; year round Saturday volunteering sessions for young sports leaders; support to complete Duke of Edinburgh award scheme led by specialist partner and an annual music production project led by specialist provider. They will also be directly delivering: three virtual activity videos per month; two annual residentials for 15 participants; three-week summer volunteering placement with accredited Sports Leadership Award for 30 participants; monthly Stepping Up life skills training and social action campaign planning workshops plus regular mentoring calls for 15 participants; annual music premiere event for up to 100 attendees; and 10 day trips per year for up to 15 participants.

Youth co-ordinator 2 (RP)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating and delivering five evening youth clubs per week including a tuition club, journalism club and three drop-in free play sessions with creative workshops. They will be charged with leading the project’s monthly youth forums during the above sessions and also supporting participants to attend borough-wide Youth Citizens Assemblies and Area Youth Forum meetings. So as well as delivering high quality inclusive activities in safe supervised spaces, this new Project Coordinator will focus on increasing access to platforms where youth voices can be heard and younger leaders are supported to help steer local services to boost engagement and impact.

Application process: Please apply by attaching an up to date CV AND covering letter (max 2 pages, applications without cover letters WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED) demonstrating how your skills meet the Job Description and Person Specification and why you are interesting in applying for the role. If your application preference or request is for one specific role over the other then please state this in your cover letter otherwise we will assume you wish to be considered for either role within a single application. We are also willing to consider job share applications for each role from strong candidates

Application deadline:

Please note there is no fixed  closing date, but we are keen to recruit to these posts as quickly as possible and so early applications are very much encouraged. We will invite interviews and begin the selection process on a rolling basis, with the aim to have the positions filled as soon as appropriate candidates are identified. Candidates will need to apply before 1st February to be considered for the first set of interviews fixed for 4th February.

• First interviews via Zoom: Thursday 4th February 2021
• Ideal start date: w/c 15th February 2021

Equal Opportunities Statement

Both BDCA and RP are committed to recruiting high quality candidates whose skills and experience are most suited to the jobs on offer regardless of sex, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion (or beliefs), marital status, sexual orientation, disability, age or political affiliation.

Where we are in our journey 

SMK is in an exciting place right now. A few years ago, we agreed an ambition to become known as experts in social change. Our Social Power report, published in 2018, describes how social change is happening today. The tools in the report are being used widely – by change-makers, funders and policy-makers – to challenge their thinking and develop new approaches. We want to help them go further and are ambitious for what we can achieve, and how we need to grow. 

We are unrelentingly curious, tracking and analysing the way that social change is shifting and sharing that knowledge so that it can be used across civil society. What we learn is built into our training and consultancy, and we learn in turn from everyone we work with. All the while, we stand up for campaigners, working to ensure they are able to shape their world. 

About the role 

This is a pivotal role, managing the operational engine room at the heart of the organisation. Working closely with the wider team, the Programmes & Events manager will be responsible for the efficient administration of SMK’s training and consultancy services. SMK is well-known as a leading trainer of campaigners, and we have recently launched a new flexible, online training product called the ‘Campaigning Carousel’. In addition, we have a programme of open training courses, and a rapidly growing consultancy service supported by a network of Associates.

In addition, you will provide operational and administrative support to our events programme, including our headline SMK National Campaigner Awards, sharing this responsibility with others across SMK. And as a small and busy charity you will also be expected to help out with operational responsibilities across the organisation where capacity allows. 

There is plenty of opportunity to develop in this role. Whether it’s getting involved with business development and marketing, using your initiative to improve the way we work, or contributing to developing new products and services.

How to apply

Deadline for applications is 9am 9th February 2021. Interviews are expected to take place 15th and 16th February 2021 via Zoom.