Humanitarian health needs are growing. Our medical teams respond to disasters around the world, and we work with local emergency teams to build their resilience to future threats. Our work has never been more vital, with disasters becoming more frequent, complex, and severe. Can you help build a world prepared to help?

We are seeking a candidate with significant experience managing complex travel arrangements and supporting administrative systems and processes.  Our new Travel and Administration Officer will play a key role in both managing travel arrangements and supporting head office administration.

You will coordinate our travel management service, including making complex international travel plans and providing guidance and support to the development of policies and systems.  You will review SLAs and contracts to ensure donor compliance, and use your problem solving to ensure effective mobilisation of staff during challenging periods of international travel. You will support the Governance, Legal and Office Manager to ensure seamless administrative systems, particularly for head office but also in support of our warehouses and overseas teams.

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about UK-Med’s humanitarian mission. You will have extensive experience of travel planning/booking and providing administrative support.  You will be comfortable working under pressure at pace to achieve challenging objectives and meeting rapidly changing demands.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits along with a friendly working environment and the opportunity to make a real difference through humanitarian work.

Langworthy Cornerstone is looking for a Chief Officer to lead and manage our local charity in Salford. The Chief Officer will build on our passion to improve local health and wellbeing and our good reputation locally so that we can continue play an important part in promoting the health and wellbeing of the local community.

We are looking for an inspiring individual who can make things happen and deliver change, whilst also maintaining a welcoming environment for all local residents and supporting well established groups in the centre.

The opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives whilst gaining management experience and developing your skill set through working with local residents, public services and voluntary sector organisations on a range of key projects.

The role offers significant opportunities for innovation, development and growth of our programmes enhancing the Health and Wellbeing of the local community.

Do you have a passion for connecting people?  Do you love to see projects come to life and help others plan and deliver transformational change? We are recruiting seven new Deanery Transformation Support Officers who will play a key role in building capacity to deliver our transformation programme for the Diocese of Manchester and help our diocese deliver our 2030 vision. In this role you will play a key role in connecting people, sharing best practice across the diocese and helping parishes see their visions become a reality. 

We’re looking for individuals with proven experience of working in church contexts (in either a paid or voluntary capacity) together with experience of project management, event organisation and working with a broad demographic of individuals.  All the roles are home-based and will work closely with our new Area Deans, Mission Community Leaders and parishes.  If you have a passion for helping the church grow, nurture and serve its community this could be the role for you.

All of our Deaneries are different – if you are interested in the role but not sure which one is for you, please contact Helen Howe, Transformation Director, for an informal discussion; contact details are in the attached recruitment pack.  Applications for part time hours within some deaneries will be considered.

Closing Date: 6th February 2022

First stage interviews: 15th to 18th February 2022

At Rochdale and District Mind, a Wellbeing Coordinator is there to provide ongoing support to individuals’ personal development in identifying and accessing services to meet their needs. Their aim is to achieve positive outcomes by supporting personal development, building goals and aspirations and where appropriate, moving onto mainstream service/activities.

We’re looking for an individual to provide mental health and wellbeing assessments, reviews, support groups and one to one support across Rochdale, Middleton, Heywood and Bury. The ideal postholder will have a specialism in one or more of the following: substance, self-harm, suicide risk, managing difficult emotions, domestic abuse, housing, debt and benefits or similar. 

Main duties:

• Supporting individuals in developing their own wellbeing plan by identifying and accessing services to meet their needs.
• Working effectively with staff from other services, elected members, health organisations, and voluntary and statutory agencies.
• Providing help and advice about additional services so that individuals have a full appreciation of the services available within the borough.
• Establishing effective boundaries, communication, and working relationships with service users based on the achievement of agreed objectives. 

Closing date for applications day 16th February 2022 at Midnight.
Shortlisting 17th February 2022.
Interviews to be held 22nd / 23rd February 2022.
Start Date 1st April 2022.

We are looking for a Membership and Development Officer for the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), part of the Applied Research and Evaluation Division of the Anna Freud Centre.

You will be a proactive, motivated, organised individual – data competent, adaptable to work across different types of projects, and committed to all that CORC stands for. You may have an NHS or mental health background, work in social care, a local authority or schools, or you may come from another field entirely.

The Consortium spans schools, professional bodies and service providers in health, local authorities and the voluntary sector, across the UK and beyond. All collaborating organisations are committed to a shared aim: collecting and using evidence to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. 

The postholder will be a key point of contact for CORC members, leading on managing relationships. developing the CORC offer and communicating it through responses to queries, planned events and training, and written and digital materials. They will provide advice and support directly as part of specific projects or initiatives.

The Membership and Development Officer oversees the smooth-running of systems and processes supporting projects and members. The postholder will be an excellent communicator, working with colleagues to build engagement with the collaboration and promote CORC’s offer to prospective partners.  

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families supports distressed children and their families through innovative therapeutic practice and research, training and promoting awareness of mental health issues.

Please specify in your application whether you wish to work from our Manchester or from our London offices.

The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

The Centre has moved to a hybrid model of working. Staff are currently working 20% of their working hours onsite. From January 2022, staff will be required to work onsite for up to 40% of their working hours, either at the Anna Freud Centre in King’s Cross, London (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH) or our Northern Hub in Manchester (Huckletree, The Express Building, 9 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AD).  Regular UK travel, including occasional overnight stays, is required as part of the role. 

Please note all our posts require candidates to have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of applying and we do not hold a sponsorship licence.

Development Research Officer – (Maternity cover) 

Manchester Metropolitan University is a thriving modern University located in the heart of a global city. We are committed to ensuring that talented people from diverse backgrounds have access to an unrivalled education and delivering research with impact.

The Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) team supports the strategic priorities of the University by raising significant donations from alumni, friends, companies and trusts and foundations and harnessing the expertise and goodwill of our stakeholder communities.

The Development Research Officer plays an instrumental role in improving our knowledge and understanding of the supporter and stakeholder communities and ensuring  donations and influence are realised to their potential.

The role

We are seeking a Development Research Officer (maternity cover), who will play a key role in developing and delivering the identification of, and research into, potential supporters, partners and influencers. This will include individuals, trusts, foundations and companies, with a view to maximising support for the University's priority fundraising projects and enabling colleagues in both alumni relations and development to reach their goals.

This post is an opportunity to make a real difference towards fundraising for transformational initiatives including the First Generation campaign, a scholarship programme which aims to break down barriers to higher education and provide scholarship support for 1,000 young people who will be the first in their family to go to university.

You will also identify potential supporters for our impactful research and senior alumni that could help support our alumni volunteering and ambassador programmes.

The ideal candidate

You will have proven experience of delivering high quality research, ideally in a similar setting in higher education or within a charity. You will have excellent written, listening and verbal communication skills and be comfortable working with a number of fundraisers closely to proactively develop their pool of donors and prospective donors.

Ideally you will have recent experience of implementing prospect research strategies, or applicable transferable skills in a similar area of gathering and cross-referencing high quality information from a wide range of sources in a timely manner and will be able to demonstrate effective use of CRM databases. 

Tenacity and the ability to use your own initiative is a must in this role, whilst having the flexibility to work in a close-knit team on a number of projects at any one time. 

This is an excellent opportunity for someone wishing to develop their career in higher education fundraising within a dynamic and growing team. 

Interviews will be held on Friday 28th January.

Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We promote applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of background, belief or identity, recognising the benefits that a diverse organisation can bring. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minority Ethnic candidates, who we recognise are underrepresented in this area.

We recognise the benefits and importance of an environment that supports flexible working and are open to conversations about this throughout the application process.

Closing date: 23 January 2022

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Salford CVS to support our capacity-building / development team.

We’re looking to recruit a full-time (37.5 hours per week) Development Worker, on a permanent contract, subject to the successful completion of a 6-month probationary period.

The post-holder will assist the Services Manager in the development and delivery of the capacity-building, information, advice and guidance (IAG) service aimed at voluntary, community, social enterprise organisations (VCSE). The role will be based in both the office and community settings.

Are you good with people?

Have you experience of working within the VCSE sector?

Are you able to effectively support VCSE groups and organisations to build their skills, knowledge and experience in order to make a difference?

The role includes providing information, advice and guidance on a one to one basis to VCSE groups and organisations. A typical working week could include:

• Working with groups and organisations, from the very small to the large, on their grant applications
• Supporting our VOCAL VCSE Forums for voice and influence
• Visiting groups and organisations  across Salford
• Partnership working -  bringing together community groups, charities, social enterprises and public sector bodies to work together
• Delivering training to VCSE groups and organisations  
• Working with a wide range of VCSE groups and organisations including environmental groups, small community social groups, homelessness charities, faith-based groups, communities of identity, and many more
• Supporting colleagues with other Salford CVS initiatives such as the Answer Cancer and Wellbeing Matters programmes, our grants and investments, membership and backroom services, etc.

Delivery is undertaken in person - either in the office or out at community locations - and also online, by phone and via email.

Good Practice & Partnerships Team and Clients Access to Rights & Entitlements (CARE) Project West Midlands

London, Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester with significant home working options

Part time - 14 hours per week

Permanent - with initial funding for two years

We’re looking for a Partner Development Project Coordinator to increase access to justice in the West Midlands by offering developmental support to 6 – 12 asylum, refugee and / or migrant organisations on a one-to-one and regional basis.

The role is part of an exciting partnership between two Refugee Action teams – the Clients Access to Rights and Essentials (CARE) Project West Midlands and Good Practice and Partnerships (GPP).

Building on our existing initial organisational needs assessments, the Partner Development Project Coordinator will co-create individual development plans / agreements and provide bespoke support packages with and for the partner organisations.  Their focus will be in 3 main areas: 

1. Develop - Supporting partners to develop their immigration advice models and / or legal literacy practice, whilst working closely with the Frontline Immigration Advice Project (FIAP) to enable them to access training and support.

1. Amplify - Working with partners who would like to increase the engagement of Experts by Experience into their own service offers by supporting them to access the Lived Experience Exchange Programme (part of Explore Adapt Renew – a Good Practice and Partnerships project).

1. Collaborate - Creating local / regional networks to increase peer support, referral pathways and collaboration between organisations who provide legal advice.  Exploring the viability of piloting a Community of Practice in the West Midlands.

To succeed in this role you will have:

• Understanding of the wider needs, hopes and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, combined with a particular-focus on their legal immigration advice needs.

• Understanding of how to assess organisational needs and how to provide high quality development support to a range of organisations (from grassroots to small and medium sized), including identifying needs and working towards solutions.

• Experience of development work that is empowering, preventative and / or asset-based; enabling communities of people or organisations to gain confidence, skills and resilience.

• Excellent networking and partnership-building skills, with the ability to initiate and maintain effective networks.

• Understanding of how organisations can increase the amount of asylum and immigration legal advice provision within their services, as well as local area networks / ecosystems.

• Excellent facilitation skills.

• Experience, or relevant transferable experience, of partnership working within the voluntary, legal or asylum / refugee / migrant sectors in the West Midlands; especially Birmingham, Coventry and / or Stoke on Trent.

• For further details, and to apply, please visit our website.

  Those with lived experience as a refugee are encouraged to apply.

  Closing date: 09:00am, Monday 7th February 2022

  Interviews: Monday 21st February 2022 – online via Zoom

Greater Manchester Poverty Action is seeking a Policy Officer to strengthen our ability to inform policy responses to poverty across the city region. We are looking for someone with experience in either policy or research roles to help strengthen the case for preventing and reducing poverty that we regularly make to stakeholders across the city region.

The successful candidate will have a minimum 1 year’s experience of working in a policy or research role, or in a strongly related field and the ability to develop and deliver high quality policy and research projects in support of advocacy objectives, using a range of tactics.

Application is via CV and covering letter by 5pm Thurday 10th February. Details of where to send your application are on our website. Please note: Your covering letter must address how you meet the items set out in the person specification section of the job description. Applications that fail to do this will not be considered.

GMPA is a not-for-profit organisation that works to prevent and reduce poverty across Greater Manchester.

Our vision is of a Greater Manchester free from poverty where all residents can realise their potential and access the benefits of living in a diverse and vibrant city region.

Over the next three years we will be working towards our vision by focussing on our three strategic priorities: 1) Boosting household income and financial resilience, 2) Ensuring stakeholders in GM embed a strong strategic approach to tackling poverty and 3) Embedding the voices of people with lived experience in the decision-making structures and systems of GM.

The Policy Officer will play an important role in helping us realise our ambitions, putting Greater Manchester at the forefront of efforts to tackle poverty. 

Job Title: Education Officer

Reports to: Education Programme Manager

Location: Office and Home-based. Based in Central London, Birmingham or Manchester (with travel to offices in London, Manchester and Birmingham depending on location). 

Terms: 5 days per week (37.5 hours) (with occasional evening or weekend work, TOIL provided)

Salary:  £22,000—£24,000 per annum

Language Requirements: Fluent English. A second language (Arabic/ Tigrinya/ Amharic/ Dari /Farsi/ Kurdish/ Pashto/ Tigre/ Somali) would be an advantage

Start Date: As soon as possible

Overall Purpose of the Role

Breaking Barriers’ Education Programme was started in 2017 to complement our core Employment support. The Programme is designed to enable refugees to achieve the level of English that is needed to enter the workplace or further education by providing supplementary courses to statutory provision. Covering a range of levels of English language courses, from Pre-Beginner to Business Writing, the Programme has expanded to include IT and Numeracy and Digital Skills, and aims to branch out into further courses. The Education Programme relies on skilled volunteers who support with curriculum development and lead our education courses helping our clients learn English and improve their IT skills.

The successful applicant will assist in the coordination of the Education Programme and develop it according to the emerging needs of Breaking Barrier’s refugee clients. They will take responsibility of the organisation and coordination of classes, welfare of the education volunteers, and communication with students. The key responsibilities outlined below are designed to provide an overview of the basic responsibilities required, but we envisage that the job holder will be able to take on more responsibility as they develop and as the organisation grows and changes. 

Key Responsibilities

Breaking Barriers runs education classes and training sessions to support its main employment programme. Your responsibilities will include:

• Recruiting students and organising classes and logistics (whether courses are taking place remotely or face to face)
• Working with the wider Education team to support education volunteers
• Conducting education volunteer screening calls and interviews; onboarding new volunteers and managing existing education volunteers (ensuring training is given and contribution is recognised and rewarded)
• Maintaining strong relationships with students and volunteers
• Liaising with volunteers and students by phone and email, providing information and dealing with queries
• Recruiting and managing course curriculum development volunteers
• Managing student attendance and communicating with them about their classes and upcoming courses
• Following current administrative processes, ensuring that it is completed accurately and on-time
• Ensuring that all data is accurately recorded and kept up-to-date through our CRM and other supporting documentation
• Following up with students and volunteers to collect feedback to support the effective monitoring and evaluation of the Education Programme
• Undertake the administration to set up additional new courses, such as sector specific training courses 
• Coordinate with the Employment team to ensure clients within the Education programme are receiving holistic support, and that the programme continues to meet the needs of refugees also receiving other types of support
• Take on additional duties and responsibilities, as and when needed, to ensure the smooth running of the Education Programme
   

Personal Specification

Essential  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate fluently in English
• A demonstrable interest and commitment to working with marginalised populations, particularly refugees or working within the education sector
• Experience teaching English or working in an educational setting
• Confident in communicating with internal and external stakeholders via email and phone 
• Confident in using Microsoft Office, completing database work and numeracy-based tasks
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and under pressure
• A high degree of accuracy. Detail oriented and meticulous
• Able to organise their own day-to-day work and assist in more complex organisational tasks
• Willing to undertake all tasks that need doing, including routine work
• Flexibility to work alternative hours (evenings/weekends) on occasion, as agreed in advance

Desirable 

• Administrative experience

• Fluent in a second language such as Arabic, Tigrinya, Amharic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish, Pashto, or Somali 
• Has a continuous improvement mindset. Looks for new and better ways to do things. 
• CELTA/TEFL qualification or teaching degree
• Experience with developing syllabuses for English, IT and Numeracy and/or other educational programmes 
• Ability to proactively overcome challenges through adopting creative approaches and take ownership over existing and new project processes
• Lived experience. We welcome applicants from a refugee background

How to apply

If you are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, we want to hear from you. To apply, please submit a CV and 500-word statement outlining:

• Why you are interested in the role and explain how providing free English and Training courses can support refugees to find meaningful employment
• What skills and experience you would bring to be successful in this role

Please note that applications without a covering letter will NOT be considered.

Applications close on Sunday 23rd January, with interviews taking place w/c 31st January. 

Breaking Barriers particularly welcomes applicants with experience of migration and/or a refugee background.    

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. 

We open to flexible working arrangements and alternative working patterns.   

See more information in recruitment pack attached. 

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

We are looking for a Knowledge and Learning Officer to join the National Lottery Community Fund. The position can be based anywhere in the UK either working from home or one of our offices.

The Knowledge and Learning Officer role will focus on supporting colleagues, grant holders and stakeholders to share, create and use their insights to create lasting change.

The role will primarily be looking to exploreand understand the different approaches to delivering grant making we use and how these can improve the difference our funding makes to our grant holders and communities.

You will be developing and leading our teams learning on specific areas of focus for example participatory grant making.

Supporting funding teams across the UK to understand the difference, impact and effectivenessof these approaches. This will be through the development and delivery of a learning plan and sharing this through events, webinars, blogging and other ways of sharing learning.You will also be involved in supporting a community of practice to share learning and insights across the Fund.

The role will be dynamic and fast paced working with a dedicated team of staff to deliver on common goals and innovative pieces of work. This might mean chipping in to support assessment of applications, grant management and other areas of work when required. 

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Location: UK Wide

Interview Date: W/C 28th February

Essential Criteria

• Ability to nurture, develop and promote effective relationships and communication with colleagues, community organisations and other external agencies in order to share learning
• Ability to design and deliver learning approaches that develop robust evidence and insights about a topic or programme
• Curious mindset to understand, research and to make sense of things with others. We need someone who cares about the detail and the context and looks for ways to find out more.
• Ability to write and speak about complex ideas, information and impact in an engaging and accessible way

Desirable Criteria

• An understanding of equitable funding and/or equitable evaluation approaches
• Experience of managing learning or evaluation programmes

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

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.

The Personnel and Wellbeing Lead will support the further development of personnel and wellbeing policies, processes and practices at Ethical Consumer. They will also work with the Personnel team to further develop the coop’s governance and decision making processes as it grows. This is an exciting new permanent position.

Location: Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) offices, Hulme, Manchester. Working remotely may be possible for the right candidate too.

Salary: £13,715 per year (for 24 hours per week)

For the full job description, person specification and application form please visit the Ethical Consumer website.

The successful candidate will be working for a small, dynamic and unique charity who enable disabled people to access all forms of digital technology. This is done through assessment and the development of technology as well as providing accessible video gaming sessions using the latest technology.

The role of this job is primarily to provide a 10 month maternity cover for an existing post. However, there may be scope to extend the contract if you can develop a revenue stream that would sustain the extra position.

The post is for 36 hours a week and involves hybrid working, split between home and our centre in Sale and flexible hours of working where possible.

Due to the unique nature of our charity’s work, we do not expect applicants to have knowledge in assistive technology and so the successful candidate will be given overview training in specialist areas in order to support your role. The post will be expected to deliver the following 4 areas:

1. Fundraising

• Sourcing and delivering new funding streams – from corporate and public sources.
• Plan and implement our annual fundraiser Game Together. Producing marketing materials, recruiting fundraisers, secure sponsorship, updating communications such as website, social media etc., create fundraising packs and deliver the event.

• Look into and implement new fundraising ideas
• Liaise and maintain relationships with the charities supporters, funders and grant givers
• Assist the Fundraising Officer with submitting grant applications
• Assist the Fundraising Officer with reporting on successful grant applications

2. Engagement and communication

Engage with new and existing audiences that would:

• Benefit from Everyone Can’s services and tailor our support based on their needs
• Fund Everyone Can’s services and contribute to our financial sustainability
• Liaise and maintain relationships with families and carers of our service users.
• Promote and demonstrate the charity’s work, services and impact to service users and funders
• Attend promotional events and networking events when needed

3. Marketing

• Coordinate and produce marketing materials such as leaflets and posters
• Manage all social media platforms creating engaging daily content
• Update and amend the website with any news stories
• Create case studies for service users we have helped

4. General administrative tasks

• Responding to any charity enquiries via email and phone
• Schedule upcoming gaming sessions using Event Brite
• Register new service users at gaming sessions
• Collate feedback when needed
• Take photos of service users to use for marketing

You will also (only with agreement of General Manager):

• Support service personnel when required
• Carry out other duties to help the running of the charity

A successful outcome for this post would demonstrate a steady increase in both service uptake and income. The increase in income should see the charity being more financially stable by building on existing revenue streams already in place. There may be an opportunity for the contract term to be extended if an increase in income can be generated and shown to be sustainable.

Reporting directly to the General Manager of the trust, the post will be instrumental in communicating the benefits that our services offer disabled people, in order to gain and retain support from funders, both new and existing.

The role requires a self-motivated person with the ability to organise their own workload effectively.

Essential skills

• Excellent relationship builder with experience of organising business and third party fundraising events to generate income, as well as being able to demonstrate an organisation’s impact to a variety of audiences to generate interest and uptake in its services.
• An ability to create successful and engaging fundraising initiatives and events. Be able to demonstrate your ability to grow income within new fundraising channels.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with the ability to motivate both yourself and others. Be able to recruit, organise and support community volunteers if needed, to deliver organisational objectives.
• There will be a need to work one evening a week. Weekend working and overnight stays may rarely be required so you will be able to plan your time effectively. Have access to a car and a valid full driving license.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage a busy and varied workload.
• Good relationship building and networking skills
• Excellent inter-personal communication skills
• Ability to work within a small team

Essential experience

• Experience in delivering a fundraising campaign
• Must have experience in corporate fundraising and supporter engagement with a good understanding of the donor journey
• Experience in producing marketing and communications materials on brand, with excellent writing skills for a variety of media, both printed and electronic
• Knowledge of social media

Desirable skills and experience

• Knowledge of assistive technologies
• Knowledge and experience with Salesforce
• Experience of disability issues
• Experience with Adobe illustrator and/or Photoshop
• Knowledge of the gaming industry

Contract length: 10 months with possibility of being extended

Application deadline: 30/01/2022

We request a covering letter to be included with your C.V. detailing why you feel you would suit the post.

Interviews to take place on the 7th and 8th of January and attendees will be expected to give a short presentation (topic of presentation will be provided on offer of interview, shortly after the close of applications).

Expected start date ideally would be late February 2022

Job Types: Full-time maternity cover

Salary: £26.000 to £29,000 per year, pro rata depending on relevant experience

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action and getting people into work.

The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a flagship policy at the heart of the government’s vision for building a Big Society.  The programme brings together 16-17 year olds from different backgrounds in a summer programme which includes adventure, discovery and meaningful social action.  NCS aims to support participants’ personal and social development and help them develop the confidence, skills and attitudes they need to take on active roles in their communities and develop themselves for their own future.

Job Description

We are looking to appoint an National Citizen Service (NCS) Recruitment Officer, based from Stockport.

As an NCS Recruitment Officer, you will effectively manage relationships with schools, colleges, training/community providers in order to plan, facilitate and deliver recruitment and promotional activities to maximize NCS programme participation in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Oldham and Stockport. 

During delivery periods you will take on the role of a wave leader and will line manage and work closely with a team of sessional workers to ensure the smooth delivery through all 4 phases of the NCS programme. This will give you the opportunity to experience the programme first hand which will help in your recruitment role.

As Recruitment Officer, your main duties will include:

• Working with the managers to reach individual and team targets for the number of young people who express an interest in NCS.
• Gathering data from each of the schools and recruitment sites and developing a targeted recruitment strategy for each site
• Monitoring volume of sign-ups generated and adjust recruitment plans according
• Organizing and running presentations providing additional information on the programme to young people and their families /carers
• Ensuring  systems are accurate and in line with the compliance framework following each recruitment event
• Supporting in the delivery of keep warm events to ensure that young people remain  committed to the programme prior to attending departure day
• Working on the programme in the summer as a wave/phase leader when required including overnight on the 2-week residential phases.

Qualifications

To be successful as an NCS Recruitment Officer, you will need:

• Five GCSEs or equivalent at Grade C or above
• Experience and/or knowledge of secondary and higher education sector or youth engagements/ local authority sector
• Experience in engaging with hard to reach young people
• Sales experience within a targeted environment and proven track record as a top performer
• Experience of delivering presentations to large audiences
• Proven track record of building positive relationships with teachers and other stakeholders
• Excellent presentation and communications skills with the ability to influence, persuade and listen to others
• Ability to relate well to young people from a wide range of backgrounds, engagement them in activities and relate sensitively and confidentially to the needs of young people, parents and their families.

Additional information

Salary: £22,000 per annum

This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check

Regular travel will be a feature of this role, you will, therefore, need a driving licence, access to a car and business insurance.

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.