There are 3 roles available in based in the London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hammersmith and Fulham and Sutton.  Applications to all or one role would be accepted, stating clearly your preference for location

Three Age UK brand partners, Age UK Hillingdon, Age UK Hammersmith and Fulham and Age UK Sutton are working in collaboration with the West London Cancer Alliance on a Target Lung Programme Partners to deliver a coordinated and high-quality service to support residents' access and engagement with their Lung Health screening programme.

The project aims to increase awareness and uptake of the lung health checks by empowering local people to take control of their lung health by increasing participation in targeted lung health checks by those aged 55-75 who are smokers or ex-smokers and increase awareness of the higher risk of lung cancer for this group and the benefit of attending the lung health check to intervene early.

The purpose of the role will be to: 

• Communicate and actively delivering the key messages of the Targeted Lung Health Programme to local residents through a programme of roadshows, events, talks and public engagement.

• Co-produce information materials to inform and advise local residents and the wider third sector. 

• Contribute to the education of the wider health and wellbeing alliance network, including community health champions' network. 

• Support identified clients with barriers to accessing the screening programme as appropriate.

• Identify wrap around support for those who need it following Lung Health screening.

• Contribute to the development of the service.

Applications are invited for this role, based at either Age UK Hillingdon, Age UK Hammersmith and Fulham or at Age UK Sutton.Should you wish to be considered for more than one role, please indicate this clearly in your application. 

Age UK Hillingdon, Age UK Hammersmith and Fulham and Age UK Sutton are all independent local charities based in the South West London.

• We believe in the power of your personal lived experience of the criminal justice system.
• We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement, and support everybody can change.
• Do you want to use your experience to enable others to change the system from within?

IF YOU DO, THEN USER VOICE IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!  DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Been in prison or on probation?
• A People person and a good listener?
• Good IT/literacy/numeracy skills?
• Turned your life around and want to help others?
• Have something to give and can say what it is?
• Manage your own life well, and can prove it?
• Highly motivated and passionate about change?

If the answer to ALL of these is yes, then we want to hear from you.

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• Two part-time positions, 1 in each prison
• Up to £25,000 depending on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
• 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)
• The posts are subject to a 6-month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check

We currently have vacancies working across

• Cumbria
• Lancashire
• Merseyside
• Cheshire

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You will get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship. As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

Background

Prior to the pandemic, The Margins Project (Margins) had approximately 200 attendees at its drop-ins every year.  These numbers have increased in recent years as we have refined and changed the focus of our services from the provision of food towards more advice, advocacy and employability, with the aim of helping our clients make meaningful and sustainable changes to their lives. Margins has grown from its historic roots as a soup kitchen to now offer:

• Crisis Services (in the form of Drop-In Services offering hot meal, advice on housing and benefits, showers and a Cold Weather Night Shelter*).
• Support Services (through such initiatives as English as a second language courses, numeracy training, a job club and therapy); and a
• Supported Employment Programme (primarily though our café training programme but also through office roles*).[1]

More than this, our guests report a real sense of community and trust when they visit Margins -The pandemic has impacted on the services that we can offer. With the Union Chapel venue closed, as a group of organisations, we continue to face an enormously challenging time.

However, during the crisis, The Margins Project adapted our services to ensure our food takeaway and advice support could continue; Union Chapel Project increased its community emergency response, and in partnership with other services, charities and groups, supporting and engaging many people in the local community experiencing extremely challenging times.

It remains a time of challenges and uncertainty, both for Union Chapel and for our wider society. Whilst the Everybody In scheme appeared to temporarily alleviate homelessness, the pandemic has already hit the most vulnerable hardest, and the longer term social and economic impact of the pandemic will most likely impact further.

Building on our work during the pandemic, Union Chapel Project launched pilot community programmes to re-connect, support, inspire and empower our local communities. The programme particularly engages vulnerable families, migrants and asylum seekers; young people; people who are ethnically diverse and have experienced racism; and the LGBT community – all groups with a strong intersectionality with the experience of homelessness, and who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. 

Over the next year, a new strategy aiming to better integrate the work of Margins and Union Chapel Project will be developed and implemented, building on our reputation as an amazing performance venue delivering genuine social good. The Union Chapel strategy will focus on community engagement, empowerment, ownership and social justice, alongside the ambition to be more accessible, diverse and sustainable where all our communities feel and have a sense of belonging – to become a leading ethical arts centre for all.

The first stage of this community programme is engaging and supporting people experiencing homelessness or crisis. The Engagement Coordinator is integral to coordinating our direct access services supporting people in crisis, to engaging our wider community experiencing challenging times, and to working closely with the Supported Employment Programme and other community programmes in Union Chapel.

Duties and Responsibilities

Service delivery and management

• To coordinate the direct access and engagement services (including crisis drop-in services, night shelter and community drop-in activities)

• To coordinate volunteers, staff and guests engaged in these services to ensure smooth running and efficient delivery.
• To ensure guests are aware of various in-house programmes and facilities as well as encourage them to access these services.
• To work closely with the Supported Employment Programme (SEP) and wider Union Chapel programmes to ensure an integrated offer to people accessing the direct access service.
• To refer guests and Supported Employment trainees as appropriate to internal services and external partner agencies, as appropriate, for suitable embed and structured robust support plan. 
• To engage, and where appropriate, deliver outreach and engagement workshops to engage a wider community of people who are at risk of homelessness or crisis.
• To support Union Chapel’s wider response to the Covid crisis and coordinate our community emergency response with the manager and the CEO.
• To support the distribution of advice and creative resources and donation/support packs to benefit our guests/service users and other vulnerable communities.
• To oversee and ensure shower and laundry facilities are available and clean for guests throughout drop-ins
• To ensure volunteers adhere to essential policies and procedures around safeguarding, health and safety, and coronavirus guidance.

Service Development & Monitoring

• To work with Margins Manager to inform the CEO and UCM board review the strategic service delivery, including community outreach activities.
• In liaison with Margins Manager to ensure direct access to services are best meeting service users’ needs and are developing in line with the external changing climate (benefits, services, immigration regulations), engage in methods of evaluation of services – observation, consultation and research.

• Where required, coordinate the direct access services to better suit the needs of our community in consultation with Margins Manager, the community, staff, volunteers.
• Work with Margins Manager and wider organisation teams to support the development of Margins’ wider programmes.
• Support the strategic move and realignment of our service towards a strength-based, co-produced approach.

Line & Volunteer management

• Line-manage and rota the volunteers
• Oversee the Volunteer Programme for the direct access service, and support the review and improvement of the Volunteer Programme across Union Chapel.
• Recruit volunteers from the community, encouraging Margins guests and people with lived experience to volunteer to become a productive part of the Margins community and offer on-going personal support 
• In liaison with Margins Manager, provide initial training for new volunteers; design appropriate training and development of volunteers, monitor and encourage progress and where appropriate, deliver training.
• Funding pending, assist in the management and support of kickstart young employees (details TBC.

Partnerships and Communications

• Where appropriate and delegated, act as an ambassador for Margins and Union Chapel to ensure community involvement, positive cooperation with local organisations and Islington Council; lead contact on access and engagement service with key partners and Islington council
• Support partnerships and attend networks meetings to support and inform crisis and engagement activities where necessary and appropriate

• Support the Margins Manager in the development of effective promotional materials for the project and PR requests, as and when
• Document Margins and community activities through photos and videos; provide content for social media, reports and marketing.

Monitoring & Reporting

• Coordinate embed and improved monitoring and data collection methods with guests, to help grow our insight into who we are supporting and how we can improve.
• In liaison with Margins Manager, Collect and compile statistics relating to demand for project services, outcomes and volunteer attendance.
• Support the Margins Manager to produce board and funder reports as required

Finance & Fundraising

• Work with Margins Manager to ensure that project expenditure is to budget and plans.
• Support Margins Manger and wider UCP with funding reports, case studies, funding opportunities, as and when needed. 

Diversity

• In liaison with Margins Manager, work with the team and wider Union Chapel to continue to review how our services, staff and volunteering opportunities, Supported Employment Programme and wider activities are diverse and representative of our communities.
• Ensure our services and activities serve to improve diversity and representation, and address as well as tackle discrimination and oppression at all opportunities.
• Support Union Chapel’s developing Diversity Plans, towards an organisation that is more representative and owned by our local communities.

Charity Governance and Operations 

• Support the Margins Manager in the development and implementation of organisational policies, and procedures

• Work with the Head Chef and Margins Manager to ensure that the kitchen operates within Health & Safety and Food In liaison with Margins Manager and head Chef, coordinate Hygiene procedures are UpToDate.
• Responsible for ensuring relevant staff and volunteers are suitably DBS-checked

Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required

PLEASE NOTE: responsibilities and job title may change following governance and structure review

Person Specification

Essential 

• Experience of working with people with lived experience or at risk of homelessness, people experiencing isolation or oppression, along with an understanding of the issues that face them.
• Experience of coordinating direct access and outreach community services in a team setting within the homelessness sector or other civil society settings.
• Experience (and if possible, qualifications) around providing advice, guidance and pastoral care to people in crisis and people entering employment/training.
• Understanding of (and ideally experience of) the importance of arts and creativity in transforming lives.
• Experience of recruiting and managing volunteers and overseeing volunteer programmes for the whole community.
• Experience of working in close partnership with other services, groups and organisations.
• Excellent communication skills and proficient in IT skills
• A willingness to work flexibly and develop the role to best meet the needs and changes of the organisation and our communities.
• Committed to personal and professional development. 

Desirable

• Experience of developing and coordinating services towards being strengths-based, people-focused and co-produced.
• Fundraising and budget management experience.
• Experience of working with third sector organisations in the London Borough of Islington.
• Experience of delivering training to volunteers including people with lived experience.

We particularly encourage applicants from backgrounds currently underrepresented at Union Chapel and the wider sector, including people from diverse ethnic communities and people with lived experience and/or from communities this programme intends to engage. This includes residents of social housing; people with experience of homelessness; migrants/asylum seekers; young people; the LGBT community; and people from communities that have been particularly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

[1] *Night shelter and supported employment programme impacted during pandemic and government restrictions.

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity dedicated to diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure. Backed by our passionate scientists and supporters, we’re challenging the way people think about dementia, bringing together the people and organisations who can speed up progress, and investing in cutting-edge research. We believe that medical research can and will deliver life-changing preventions, treatments and one day, a cure for dementia. Alzheimer’s Research UK exists to make this happen and with your support, we’ll make life-changing breakthroughs possible. 

The Research Informatics team at ARUK is leading the coordination of the Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EDoN) initiative. EDoN is a growing and exciting collaboration to create a digital toolkit and machine learning models to enable the detection of specific dementia-causing diseases decades before overt cognitive symptoms become apparent. EDoN brings together experts in data science, digital technology and neurodegeneration from over 49 universities, institutes, research projects, patient cohorts and technology companies from across Europe and the US. 

The initiative is delivered through three Hubs - Clinical Hub, Digital Hub and Analytics Hub, along with two cross-cutting workstreams on commercialisation and health system engagement. The Hubs contain multidisciplinary expertise from across universities, cohorts, institutes and research projects, as well as seeking external advisors to support key areas of activity. 

The Research Informatics team oversees the smooth running of EDoN, manages and builds relationships with partners and collaborators and looks for new opportunities to add value to the project working in partnership with all of its stakeholders. 

The Research Informatics Engagement Coordinator is an excellent opportunity to work in the Research Informatics team to support the EDoN initiative and its partners to achieve their goals. As the Research Informatics Engagement Coordinator, you will report to the Research Informatics Engagement Manager.

Main duties and responsibilities of the role:

• Work closely with the Research Informatics team and EDoN scientific teams to build effective relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating collaboration across EDoN and its wider networks, and engaging current and future collaborators to ensure the objectives of EDoN can be met effectively.
• Work with the Research Informatics Engagement Manager and the Health Technology Analyst in the EDoN Strategic Collaborations team.
• Identify new strategic collaboration opportunities for EDoN within the digital health, technology, AI and/or research space and facilitate an approach to engage with these stakeholders. 
• Ensure efficient management of stakeholders across EDoN, curating a stakeholder database to ensure streamlined engagement across the Research Informatics team, wider charity and EDoN initiative.
• Identify potential new funding sources for EDoN and work across the initiative to develop applications to secure funding.
• Coordinate effective engagement with EDoN collaborators, maintaining strong working relationships, communicating key milestones and progress, and identifying new opportunities for the project.
• Support the Research Informatics Engagement Manager in engaging with funders, ensuring key funding requirements are met.
• Coordinate key EDoN activities including organising events, meetings, workshops, training, networking and other activities that drive collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the EDoN initiative.
• Coordinate the sharing of information, updates and milestones to drive engagement across the EDoN project.
• Support the development and dissemination of EDoN materials such as publications, portals or shared resources with the wider research community.
• Identify key conferences or events where EDoN could be represented or that could bring important new knowledge to the project and help facilitate EDoN’s role in these.
• Support the Research Informatics Engagement Manager to project manage appropriate projects or workstreams related to EDoN.
• Identify risks, gaps or opportunities, working collaboratively to identify solutions to help EDoN partners achieve their objectives.
• Represent the Research Informatics team externally, supporting the team to maintain excellent working relationships with external partners and collaborators.
• Undertake any other relevant duties and projects delegated by the Research Informatics Engagement Manager in line with the responsibilities of the post.

What we are looking for:

• A degree in technology, life sciences or biomedical research.
• Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• Excellent skills supporting and facilitating the work of colleagues.
• Excellent interpersonal and networking abilities.
• Proven work experience in coordinating interdisciplinary work, complex research projects, ideally clinical, data or technology projects .
• Experience managing stakeholders at different levels.
• Experience organising events, both in person and virtually.
• Experience managing relationships within a medical, technology, healthcare or research environment.
• Motivated and able to approach problems systematically and creatively.

Location: Granta Park, near Cambridge.  ARUK also offer Agile Working, giving employees the flexibility to work from home.

Salary: Circa £30,000 per annum, plus benefits 

Please download the Vacancy Pack for more details.

The closing date for applications is the 1 August 2021 with interviews likely to be held 10/11 August 2021. We would encourage applicants to submit their application at the earliest opportunity as the closing date may be brought forward at any time. Should we wish to contact you to arrange an earlier interview this will be arranged based on the availability of the candidate and the panel. When applying, please indicate in your cover letter if you are unable to attend on a certain date.

To be considered, please create an online account using our Online Recruitment System which can be accessed through our Job Vacancies Page. You will be able to attach a CV and covering letter to your application, track your application and view other vacancies that may be of interest.

To view further details about this role and the benefits of working for us please visit the Alzheimer’s Research UK website.

St John’s Hospice, Lancaster, is a local charity which provides free palliative care to patients with life shortening conditions. Our services cover a population area of 250,000 people in North Lancashire, South Lakes and parts of North Yorkshire. We have been caring for our community every minute of every day since 1986

We are looking for a Retail Engagement Coordinator to join our team. This new role will help us drive the growth of important income which directly funds patient care for our local community.

Could you develop and nurture our volunteers, implement our volunteer strategy, and support our Retail operation?  If so, then this may be the ideal role for you.

This role is for 35 hours per week.

Job Purpose:

• To develop, nurture and support our volunteers to ensure their commitment and reliability, and improve volunteer retention.
• Actively promote volunteer opportunities for St John’s Hospice Shops Ltd using a range of different mediums, ensuring the needs of the organisation are met and that opportunities for prospective volunteers are fulfilling and rewarding.

• Lead on the engagement between St John’s Hospice and St John’s Hospice Shops Ltd ensuring that all retail colleagues understand the work of the Hospice in delivering specialist palliative care and feel part of the Hospice ‘family’.
• Working in conjunction with the Head of HR support the development of Shop Managers in their roles and provide low level support, advice and guidance in matters relating to the employment of staff within St John’s Hospice Shops Ltd.
• Develop, implement and maintain robust administrative systems for the management of voluntary services in tandem with the Hospice based Volunteer Coordinator.

It is essential you hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car with business insurance during working hours

Benefits offered:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays for full time employees
• Life assurance
• Health Cash Plan
• *Minimum 8% employer contributions to a pension scheme (you will be employed by St Johns Hospice Shops Ltd)
• Maternity & paternity benefits
• Continuing professional development
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease scheme
• Free on-site parking

We are looking for a dynamic individual with excellent project management and campaign planning skills and has the ability to oversee various projects and deliver high quality support to students.

The Senior Student Engagement Coordinator (Democracy) is a key role within our Student Voice & Representation Team, overseeing the allocation and progress of student-led projects.  You will be supporting students on projects which will enhance and shape their university experience. 

With a focus on increasing student engagement in our democratic processes, you will be integral to developing our democratic structures and lead on promoting these opportunities amongst the student body.  You will also be responsible for the management of student staff working in the team, ensuring that they are able to fully contribute to the success of the team.

Job Purpose

The post holder will allocate projects amongst the team and ensure timely and high quality project support to student-led projects (which may include and events).  They will have organisational oversight of project planning, and monitor and report on progress of key project aims.  Working as part of the team, they will take on responsibility for specific projects and campaigns, acting as Project Staff lead to support students, reps and officers achieve their aims whilst empowering them to create positive change for the benefit of students. 

The post holder will also have specific responsibility for development and delivery of RUSU democratic functions with the aim to increase student engagement.  When required, they will deputise for the Student Voice & Representation Manager and also be responsible for the management of Student Engagement Assistants, ensuring they contribute to the work of the team and actively engage students in democracy, representation and campaigns. 

We are looking to recruit an experienced and values driven Senior Youth Engagement Coordinator to build strong, caring and positive relationships over time with young people to support them to influence change. We value lived and learned experience and encourage those with lived experience to apply for our roles.

Our aim is to reach and connect with Young Partners, within the community and in secure settings, who have lived experience of community violence and the youth justice system, those who likely would not ‘put their hand up first’, and support them to have their voice heard and to influence change in systems and communities that exist to support them. This includes building and maintaining strong, meaningful and trusted relationships with a wide range of community groups, secure setting staff and organisations to create opportunities for youth engagement.

We are looking for someone with cultural competence, who is committed to social justice, anti-racism and anti-oppressive practice, and has a deep understanding of the effects of inequality, especially for young people. You will be creative, positive and motivated and bring your own ideas and a growth mindset to the role. 

With an established track record of project management and co-ordination you will drive youth engagement work in the Violence Reduction programme and in secure settings. 

Please view the job pack for the full Job Description and Person Specification and details of how to apply.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 16th August 2021

We are looking to recruit an experienced and values driven Senior Youth Engagement Coordinator to co-ordinate and deliver multiple projects across youth engagement and lead our Peer to Professional and Young Campaigners projects. You will have an established track record of project management and co-ordination with a relational approach and be excellent at building strong, caring and positive relationships with young people who are least likely to engage. This is a new role at Peer Power and we are looking for someone who is creative and motivated, who will bring their own ideas and a growth mindset to the role. 

As the lead of the new Peer to Professional programme you will be dedicated to supporting our Young Partners to build skills and gain experience to grow from a Peer to a Professional. This includes supporting their wellbeing and personal growth and connecting them with opportunities to develop personally, professionally, and with social action projects within communities across the UK and as they exit youth secure settings. You will be amazing at forming meaningful and trusted relationships with a wide range of partners and agencies including corporates, health, justice, social care and voluntary sector community organisations to broker creative opportunities to support Young Partners to achieve their goals. 

As lead on the Young Campaigners project funded by the ‘Opportunity Fund’, you will also be confident at supporting youth-led social action and campaigns, supporting 12 Young Campaigners to lead campaigns on issues that are important to them. These include campaigns for better mental health support for young people in schools and a campaign to equalise the arts sector for Black and Brown Artists and young people with Adverse Lived Experiences. 

Please view the job pack for the full Job Description and Person Specification and details of how to apply.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 16th August 2021

Depaul UK are currently looking for a Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator  based in Hertfordshire or London to join our team. The role is a full-time,  fixed term contract until December with a potential extension subject to funding.

The Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator role:

You will join our Depaul Nightstop service, which offers emergency accommodation for 16-25 year olds in the homes of our volunteer hosts. Depaul Nightstop is part of our Prevention team which works with our partner organisations to help clients move into longer term accommodation and receive holistic support.

We are looking for someone with excellent customer service and communication skills. You will be responsible for recruiting, training and managing volunteers as well as developing relationships with referral partners.

What will ideally support your success as our Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator:

- Excellent customer service skills & telephone manner
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to demonstrate clear understanding of safeguarding requirements & procedures and follow them through to conclusion
- Experience of maintaining administrative systems, good literacy, numeracy & IT skills
- Experience of collaborative working with a range of internal and external stakeholders

You can read more about the Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator role in the attached job description

What’s it like to work at Depaul UK?

You'll be joining a friendly, flexible and values-led organisation, and will receive:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- A thorough induction and orientation to help you settle in and ensure you have the knowledge and support you need to perform your role
- Continuous support and supervision including reflective practice to develop your learning and skills as a practitioner
- Access to a total rewards package including a health plan, life assurance and generous pension contributions

So, if this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator then please click ‘apply’ today.

Closing Date for applications: 9am Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Interviews will take place 11th August 2021.

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this role. 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

NAZ is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to develop and deliver a culturally competent sexual health promotion and STI/HIV prevention service for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity communities within the London boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster.

Health promotion activities will include Rapid HIV Testing, providing brief information, advice and support to people about sexual health and wellbeing, identifying risky behaviours and referring people appropriately into sexual health services. This will take place in a variety of community settings accessible to target populations including community groups, churches and shopping centres.

The role is normally based at 21 Wardour Street, London W1D 6PN, with visits to the NAZ office 30 Blacks Road, W6 9DT and across multiple sites within the three boroughs and other London locations; though also includes working from home at present due to Covid-19.

Due to our delivery of peer engagement to predominantly BAME service users, this post is only open to people who are BAME (or multiple heritage including this).

About NAZ

NAZ is the sexual health charity dedicated to people experiencing better sexual health. We do this because there’s a big gap in the sexual health outcomes of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities compared to the general population. Everything we do works to reverse this trend.

Our evidence-based interventions are designed to enable those with the greatest risk of poor sexual health outcomes to have fulfilling sexual lives, understand how to access the right local service and ultimately to support better physical, mental and sexual health outcomes.

• We believe in the power of your personal lived experience of the criminal justice system.
• We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement, and support everybody can change.
• Do you want to use your experience to enable others to change the system from within?

IF YOU DO, THEN USER VOICE IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!  DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Been in prison or on probation?
• A People person and a good listener?
• Good IT/literacy/numeracy skills?
• Turned your life around and want to help others?
• Have something to give and can say what it is?
• Manage your own life well, and can prove it?
• Highly motivated and passionate about change?

If the answer to ALL of these is yes, then we want to hear from you.

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• Two part-time positions, 1 in each prison
• Up to £25,000 depending on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
• 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)
• The posts are subject to a 6-month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check
•  

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You will get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship. As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

TPP are delighted to be working with a independent think tank and advisory service. They are looking for Head of stakeholder engagement on a 9-12 month fix term contract to cover maternity leave.

This organisation works with companies and governments in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, facilitating high-level dialogue, providing business and market intelligence, and driving commercial outcomes.

Do you have a policy and public affairs background? Have you previously worked for a think tank or advisory organisation?

The purpose of this role:
Maintaining key institutional relationships with commercial and government entities; supporting revenue streams through long-term business development, including with existing and
prospective clients and corporate members.

This is a key role which will maintain external relationships with both businesses and government entities, and drive revenue growth through business development. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious professional who is looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their capability in a complex and fast-moving environment.

The Head of Stakeholder Engagement (Maternity Cover) will establish and develop new relationships with relevant government entities, as well as drive productive communications with existing stakeholders from this area. Through these external engagements, the post-holder will also advise internally on the development of content, programmes, and advisory projects.
As well as maintaining critical continuity and strong relationships with existing corporate members and clients, the successful candidate will identify commercial opportunities with multinational companies and governments as appropriate (and support colleagues across the business to do so); produce compelling written proposals for service packages; and secure the business.

To be successful in this role you will have:

Essential skills and experience
* Undergraduate degree in a relevant field - economics, politics, international business, international relations, etc.
* Minimum three years' client-facing business development or account management experience
* Proven track record closing deals and meeting B2B revenue targets including identifying prospects and key contacts to initiate business development opportunities

Essential Skills
* Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
* Confidence, gravitas and credibility with individuals at all levels, including C-suite business leaders, senior government officials, media, academia, etc. and an ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with such individuals and organisations
* Understanding and experience of working with large western and Asian corporates and navigating the internal dynamics of such organisations; sensitivity to cultural differences when working with international clients
* The ability to work under the pressure of deadlines and client expectations, organised, efficient and attention to detail

If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity please get in touch now!

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engagement professional with significant experience of design, delivery and management of place-based stakeholder engagement processes. You'll be spearheading our efforts to secure widespread support for the fair transformation of local energy systems.

The successful candidate will drive our stakeholder engagement processes in local energy planning, strategy and policy development work, and within our infrastructure, software and behaviour-change focussed local energy projects. All of these have the potential to shift the way that individuals, organisations and communities interact with the energy system. 

The role will also involve providing expert guidance and support in stakeholder engagement to key actors in local energy systems - including local authority officers and community groups - to help them shape and deliver effective responses to the climate emergency.

We particularly welcome applications from the Black, brown, minority ethnic and disabled communities, as they are under-represented at CSE. Appointment will always, however, be made on merit and judged against the job description and person specification.

We are recruiting a Communications, Marketing and Engagement Coordinator to lead communications and marketing activities for Research in Practice.

Senior Communications, Marketing and Engagement Co-ordinator – Research in Practice
Based: Dartington / Sheffield - may be home based within the UK, by negotiation.
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term contract until August 2022
Salary: £31,378 per annum

Research in Practice works with clients across children’s services, adult health and social care across the UK, supporting them to develop an evidence-informed approach to their work. Our focus is on using evidence from research and practice to improve practice, policy and services in order to achieve positive outcomes for people of all ages. We are renowned in children’s services and the adult social care sector, for providing high-quality learning events and resources.

About the role

You will be responsible for developing and delivering diverse communications to promote our learning programme and bespoke services. You will also be responsible for overseeing, quality assuring and proactively publicising our brand across a variety of channels, including website content, digital platforms and wider media.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the ongoing research, development and implementation of the communications, marketing and engagement strategy.
• Lead on branding and style protocols, work collaboratively with others to ensure consistent, coherent and effective communications and digital practice.
• Oversee communications team projects, budget and detailed work plan. Line manage communications team and provide support and leadership to colleagues in wider digital team.
• Provide strategic input and knowledge on stakeholder communications; support and develop colleagues across the organisation and programmes to maximise engagement and deliver specialist communications. Give recommendations for best practice and lead on detailed and targeted communications planning.
• Actively contribute to strategic business planning, income generation activity and organisational development.
• Create, oversee and quality assure written and visual content for a range of channels, including the website, branded materials and social media.
• Oversee the production of bulletins, press releases, product launches, annual reports and other proactive and responsive communications.
• Network and develop strategic links with relevant bodies and individuals to promote the work and ethos of Research in Practice.

About you

We are looking for someone who has experience in and a good understanding of stakeholder engagement, communications and marketing. Most importantly, you will have excellent communication skills and a good eye for detail in order to build our reputation and relationships.

Specific skills include:

• Experience in and breadth of understanding of communications, marketing and stakeholder engagement (within the social care sector an advantage but not essential).
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to develop engaging, clear and accessible written and visual communications for a range of audiences and media.
• Stakeholder management experience - the ability to build strong relationships both across the organisation and externally to successfully influence and deliver.
• Outstanding planning skills and the ability to balance competing deadlines, while maintaining attention to detail.
• Good technical expertise, to include knowledge and use of digital channels/programmes and content management systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and advise less-experienced colleagues.
• A passion for innovation and enabling effective learning and development. A commitment to our overall mission of improving practice and thereby improve outcomes for people receiving social care support.
• An aptitude for problem solving, a positive can-do attitude and the ability to lead and influence others.

About Dartington Trust

We believe that big ideas can make the world a better place. So our beautiful estate is home to a community of people who nurture new thinking, encourage learning and debate, and work every day to inspire one another. There are many sides to Dartington and that’s what makes our future so exciting. Come and be part of it.

Benefits

We offer an extensive list of employee benefits, including but not limited to; company pension, generous annual leave allowance and discount at our shops and restaurants.

Closing Date: Sunday 8th August 2021
Interview Date: Tuesday 17th August 2021 - interviews for this post will take place virtually.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

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No agencies please.