Seeking a motivated, self-starter who is passionate about supporting young people through relationships education.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put relationships education in the spotlight. With many family relationships being put under immense pressure due to the social and economic challenges created by lockdown, it is more important than ever to provide young people with the opportunity to consider what a healthy relationship looks like and what their future relationship ambitions might be.

Explore is a small but established educational charity. We provide young people with the time and space to explore healthy relationships. Our youth-led sessions are facilitated by our specially trained team of Local Development Officers and provide a rare opportunity for young people to ask adults about their experiences of relationships and marriage in order to inform how they might approach creating and sustaining healthy and happy relationships for themselves in the future.

We are seeking a part time (2 days per week during school term time) Local Development Officer to run our Essex / North London region. This role will involve:

• Engaging with secondary schools in your region, to promote Explore’s mission and to offer sessions using Explore’s methodology
• Negotiating session pricing with schools, using the guidance provided by Explore
• Coordinating, planning and leading on school session days, including facilitating some sessions, with the support of volunteers and other colleagues where needed
• Recruiting high quality volunteers in your region to ensure sessions can run effectively and to a high standard
• Communicating regularly with existing Explore volunteers in your region to keep them engaged in Explore’s mission and their role within our work
• Reporting to schools, volunteers and colleagues on the impact of each session using electronic feedback requests developed by Explore
• Providing weekly progress reports to your Line Manager, the Operations Manager

Skills, Experience & Qualities we are seeking:

• Experience of working with young people, ideally in a youth work or educational setting is essential
• Experience of influencing and / or negotiating fees for a product or service is desirable
• Experience of working in the educational sector in some form is desirable
• Ability to facilitate, coach, mentor and / or teach is highly desirable
• Ability to connect and engage with young people is essential
• Resilient, with the ability to adapt to unfolding situations
• Personal qualities of patience, integrity and a sense of humour would be an advantage
• Strong active listening skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a remote team

We are an educational charity however our organisational values and culture are aligned to a Christian ethos. Applications are accepted and encouraged from individuals of all faiths and no faith. We would expect the successful candidate to share our Christian values of compassion, kindness, treating others fairly, acting ethically at all times, and being respectful.

This role is part time two days per week during school term time.

This role is home based however the successful candidate will be required to travel to schools within their region regularly and will be expected to attend occasional team meetings / training days further afield.

PLEASE APPLY THROUGH CHARITY JOB BY SUBMITTED YOUR CV (MAXIMUM 2 PAGES) AND A COVERING LETTER (MAXIMUM 2 PAGES) OUTLINING YOUR SUITABILITY FOR THE ROLE.

We are looking for an IT and Data Officer who will hold responsibility for running and enabling Mind BLMK’s IT and data functions.

Job title: IT and Data Officer
Working base: Flitwick
Reports to: Finance and Resource Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £11,795.67 (F.T.E. £21,822)
Contracted hours: 20.0 hours per week
Working days and hours: Monday to Friday, 4.0 hrs per day

The IT and Data Officer’s responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining an effective workforce for the function in line with Mind BLMK’s HR policies, procedures, and guidance (recruitment, line management, workload planning, support, and development of the Office Administrator).
• Under the guidance of the Finance and Resource Manger hold responsibility for managing, developing and maintaining Mind BLMK’s service data capture function, reporting and systems administration in line with Mind BLMK’s contracts and systems requirements and procedures (bespoke, case management, client and volunteer databases).
• Working with Finance and Resource Manager ensure systems including SharePoint, IT and telecoms are developed and maintained with support from the Office administrator.
• Be the interface between Mind National and Mind BLMK in terms of data returns and the Mind Quality Mark.
• Coordinate and manage specific and one-off pieces of work and/or projects and exercises that involve the collection, coordination, quality checks and submission of Mind BLMK data, reports as required (Scorecard, tender application data, organisational surveys and questionnaires) and the implementation of a new CRM system across the organisation.
• Support the roles and responsibilities of the Finance and Resource Manager and other Senior Managers as required including but not limited to attending the GQP committee.
• Represent Mind BLMK when at events and meetings, ensure an external presence to promote Mind BLMK’s services to increase awareness and beneficiaries.

Closing date: 10am on Tuesday 25th August 2020
Interview date: Tuesday 1st September 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full Job Description and download the application form. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

No agencies please.

Activity Coordinator
Location: Lincoln
Department: Parent and Family Support
Salary Details: £23,908 per annum
Hours: This is a full time position however we would consider job share opportunities for the right candidate

About KIDS

KIDS is a national charity which has been supporting disabled children, young people and their families since 1970.

We work with children, irrespective of their disability or impairment, from birth through to 25 years.  Each year we support over 15,000 disabled children, offer over 120 different services and work with about 80 Local Authorities across England. 

We are passionate, caring and trusted and our vision is a world in which all disabled children and young people realise their aspirations. We offer support and practical help for families, every step of the way.

KIDS is committed to safeguarding and successful applicants will be required to undertake stringent recruitment checks including (where applicable) an enhanced DBS check.

Purpose of the role:

• To co-ordinate Kids targeted positive activities services in Lincolnshire for disabled children and young people age 5- 18 Services include Community, Youth Clubs and Holiday Play schemes.
• To ensure Kids Services are of a good quality and meet required standards of good practice and legislation
• To plan, deliver and evaluate Kids Services in consultation with partner agencies, parents and service users
• To support disabled children & young people to access an exciting and challenging program of activities in a safe and stimulating environment and promote and develop inclusive opportunities
• Provide high quality services that comply with OFSTED standards
• To line manager and supervise all TPA staff and sessionals

About You

• To be able to carry out this role it is essential that you have the following:
• Experience of supporting children, young people or families
• Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate individual/group work with children/young people
• Ability to demonstrate an awareness of issues affecting the lives of disabled children and young people and their parent/carer
• Ability to demonstrate 1 years’ experience in a supervisory or management role
• Ability to demonstrate 1 years’ work experience in one or more of the following fields: Children’s/Youth services, Social Care whether Statutory or Voluntary sector.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the social model of disability and the rights of disabled children for inclusion.

Please note:

• This role will be based at Kids Lincoln Office with travel to services and meetings as required across the region. TPA services are currently based in the following areas within Lincolnshire: Lincoln, Horncastle, Grantham, Boston and Spalding
• The successful candidate will be expected to perform manual handling tasks and basic personal care tasks.
• If any applicants wish to consider job share please specify this in your application, ideally regarding job share we are looking for 1 candidate to cover the Lincoln and Horncastle groups and the other candidate to cover the Grantham, Boston & Spalding groups

We encourage candidates to apply across the Lincolnshire county due to the nature of service delivery across the county.

Closing Date: 1st September 2020
Interviews will take place on the 8th September 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can download the Job Description and submit your application through our website. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

No agencies please.

The Macfarlane Trust was set up in 1988 by the British Government to support people with haemophilia who were infected with HIV as a result of contaminated NHS blood products, and their spouses, partners, carers and dependants.  The Trust has now been closed and Terrence Higgins Trust has been gifted its remaining assets to continue providing support for its beneficiaries. 

We are looking for someone with lived experience of being affected by HIV as a result of contaminated blood products, to engage and work with beneficiaries in identifying their needs, providing advocacy and supporting their wellbeing.

This is a UK wide role that can be home based, but travel to London and across the UK will be required. Interviews will be held on Thursday 3rd September.

Unexpected illness, job loss or relationship breakdown can turn a life upside down – it can happen to any of us, and the consequence is often loss of income, loss of housing, and personal crisis. 22% of us are currently in poverty, including a shameful 33% of all children. It’s likely to affect the lives of our friends, family and colleagues: poverty is unpredictable, and poverty touches us too.

Turn2us is a national charity which focuses on alleviating poverty, helping people access welfare benefits, charitable grants and support services. It wants to stop people falling into poverty and give practical help to anyone struggling to cope so they can get back on track.

We now have a role of Grants Caseworker which we looking to fill to help us in our important work. This is a fixed term, part time position 3 days per week for 12 months.

In this role will provide you will provide confidential and efficient casework services and administrative support. This position will include undertaking grant assessments for applicants and working directly with those we have assisted. We welcome applicants with experience of grant assessments and administration. You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, have good administrative/financial experience, be IT literate, have a good understanding of the welfare benefits system, and an empathy with vulnerable people. We need a team player who is sympathetic to charity work (particularly to the aims of Turn2us) and to the needs of our beneficiaries.

Please note that this role will require a self disclosure of any convictions and a DBS check.

Help to maximise Pan’s tremendous work with disadvantaged and marginalised groups!

Pan Intercultural Arts is a leading force in delivering arts for social change through workshop programmes with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, young refugees, survivors of trafficking and young people at risk of entering crime.

Pan works mainly in London but also seeds projects in other towns and cities through its exPansion programme and has founded several Theatre for Development projects overseas.

This post is a key part of the small team which guarantees smooth and successful running of the projects by our much larger team of artist-facilitators.

The Company Manager’s responsibilities will cover oversight of:

• Financial systems

• HR 

• Logistics

• Grant reporting

The post will be responsible for ensuring all financial systems and transactions. This will include creating and managing annual budgets for the company and supporting our artist-facilitators with project budgets.

Overseeing HR, company policies and logistics within the company will involve working with a wide range of artists, participants, trustees, advisors, and representatives of partner organisations

Excellent written and spoken communication skills, as well as an understanding of, and empathetic approach to, the work we do with marginalised groups will be necessary to add to the team of highly motivated and committed people.

Three years experience of involvement in managing a charity or arts company is required. Experience in Pan’s key areas of work would be useful.

We are committed to Equal Opportunities and actively encourage applications from as diverse a range of people as possible.

 Closing date for applications; Monday 7th September at 12pm. 

School-Home Support (SHS) is a dynamic charity with extensive experience and expertise in attendance, parental engagement and safeguarding for disadvantaged children and families, with proven outcomes and success in increasing attendance and reducing exclusions.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop our service in supporting schools growing needs. Although based in London, it will require travel across England at times. The post holder will manage a team of practitioners and support SHS, schools and members to promote positive outcomes for children and their families.

Schools Coordinator
Location: London (with travel across England)
Hours: Part Time - 3 days per week - Term time only plus 2 weeks
Salary: £16,130 to £17,205 per annum depending on experience

The successful candidate will have a confident ability to form professional partnerships with schools and other agencies and proven experience of sharing good practice and setting high standards. They will also have experience of managing staff and working effectively to build family resilience and be highly skilled in engaging children and their families.

Closing date for applications: Midnight Wednesday 19th August 2020
Interviews: Friday 21st August 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply on Website' button to be directed to the School-Home Support website where you can download the relevant information pack and application form. 

School-Home Support​ ​takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances.

SHS is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 

The post holder will be required to have an Enhanced DBS check.

No agencies please.

This is a fantastic role for a collaborative leader with finance qualifications and experience managing office services seeking a senior role and able to offer both strategic and operational strengths.

The CFOO role is a new part-time role, created as part of our restructure of our finance and office services team. The role combines strategic thinking and operational activity, including management of all support services; premises, finance, policy, IT and HR.  The post holder will work with the CEO to continuously improve the organisational infrastructure and ensure robust governance, risk management, compliance and long-term financial planning. In particular, the role will focus on improving and standardising service levels to budget holders, the CEO and Trustees

You will be comfortable working across a number of work-streams, willing to get up to speed quickly and manage a busy workload where necessary. You will be an energised and positive team player who is able to engage and collaborate with others, to work to specific goals to ‘get things done’, as well as to design and deliver longer-term projects. You will relish the opportunity to drive best practice across corporate services, bringing your passion modernising processes and continuous improvement. This role will work best for someone who is as motivated thinking strategically as delivering operationally.

HI UK is committed to diversity and inclusion, and for this role, is particularly interested in candidates with disabilities and/or from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds.  

JOB TITLE: Service Delivery Manager (Maternity Cover)

TIMEFRAME:   14th Sept 2020 to approx Aug 2021

LOCATION: Smart Works Reading Office (with flexibility of homeworking)

REPORTS TO: Chair of Trustees, Smart Works Reading

HOURS: Part-time, Monday-Friday, 30 hours

SALARY: £16,800 - 18,400 pa depending on experience

BENEFITS: Holiday and pension in line with Smart Works Reading policies

About Us

Smart Works Reading is part of a UK charity that provides styling advice, high quality interview clothing and interview training to women from low income backgrounds seeking employment. We give women the confidence, self-belief and the practical tools they require to succeed at interview and change the direction of their lives.

Smart Works began in London, we now have branches in Edinburgh, Manchester, Reading, Birmingham, Newcastle and Leeds.

At the core of the Smart Works service is a two-hour appointment during which each client receives a complete outfit of high-quality clothes (theirs to keep) and dedicated one to one interview training. This intervention has a significant impact as our clients gain confidence and belief in their ability to succeed.

Our service is delivered by skilled, trained volunteers who commit their time to supporting our clients. Their reward is seeing the impact of unlocking a woman’s confidence and finding out that the woman they assisted has gone on to succeed at interview and moved forward with her life.

Role Purpose

This position plays a key role in a small team and works alongside one other paid member of staff. The main purpose is to efficiently run our client, volunteer and referral partner activities. 

The role requires a lot of telephone work, speaking with clients to book their appointments, confirm their covid-19 risk assessment, as well as running the volunteer rota and ensuring we have sufficient volunteers to support our clients.  Recruiting and onboarding new volunteers is another critical activity.

The key to helping women back into work revolves around working closely with referral partners, ensuring they are familiar with our work and are referring women.  This is harder in the current environment due to the lack of face to face contact but is quite achievable.

Key to the success of this role is effective Volunteer management, building a culture of team support, value and communication.

Key responsibilities

• Volunteers: managing a volunteer team requires ongoing communication but is on the whole, a joyful experience.  This role is responsible for everything related to recruiting, training & managing the volunteer team (approx. 70-80 people).  Key is to solicit & action feedback & celebrate success

• Clients: helping women back into employment is our core activity and this role is their first and last point of contact. Explaining our service in a calm, friendly and inclusive manner is key. You are the main and key contact for each client, making them feel welcome and safe, whether face to face or virtual.  Unfortunately, in the current climate, so is undertaking our covid-19 risk assessment and keeping a detailed log of responses.

• Referral Partners: our referral partner relationships require ongoing commitment and activity to ensure our service is front of mind. Much of this can be achieved remotely but requires constant innovation to keep it fresh.
  • Driving & maintaining referral partner relationships
  • Referral partner feedback & keeping mannequins fresh
  • Organising and running referral partner events
  • Recruiting referral partners (& presenting at referral partner events)​

• Funding support: Working alongside FDM to provide funding monitoring information from the database as and when needed. Being able to manage and work with FDM to ensure we meet the client targets each funder requests.
• General management activities to ensure the smooth running of our office: ensuring invoices are processed for payment; ordering stationary/materials; managing petty cash; supporting event planning & delivery, covering holiday, communications updates.

Key interfaces

• Development & Fundraising Manager – our other paid member of staff.  You will communicate and coordinate on many varied activities, working as a small team but independently managing your own areas of responsibility
• Head of Coaching; Dressing & Stock – to ensure we deliver a seamless, high quality service; to maximize the benefit of the forum & to coordinate volunteer facing activities (such as training)
• Volunteers – to provide support and guidance when required, foster a sense of community and share successes and good news to reiterate to our volunteer team the impact they have. Ensure our service and brand is effectively communicated and carried out by each volunteer
• Chair – to provide support, you will have a weekly meeting to review key actions, targets, achievements, raise concerns and seek help
• SWHQ – to participate in key HQ-led projects affecting our service, learn and share best practice, reach out to HQ and other branches for support and advice

You will have the following key attributes

• Over two years’ experience in an administrative role (voluntary or paid)
• Confident in building relationships and managing people in a calm effective manner
• Strong organisational skills but with a calm and personable manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially on the telephone
• Ability to emphasize & communicate with people from all backgrounds
• Experience of managing people whether formally or informally
• Computer literate and proficient with MS Office - some experience of CRM systems is desirable
• Proactive self-starter, with experience of working in small teams
• Understanding of the third sector and enthusiasm for Smart Works’ ethos of women helping women  
• Full driving license and own vehicle

Application Process

• Applications should be submitted in the form of a CV and covering letter.
• Please submit by email to Sarah Burns at Smart Works Reading.
• Closing date for applications is 21st August 2020.
• First interview dates are Wednesday 26th August 2020.
• Second interview date will be on 3rd September 2020

We are looking for a highly motivated and capable person with an understanding of the vocational landscape in Dorset to join our charity.  This is an exciting post, working in partnership with our local NHS provider, driving forward employment opportunities for people in Dorset who experience mental health difficulties.

As a local peer led charity that has been in existence for 28 years, we have a proud and long history of employing a diverse workforce with a broad range of experiences of mental health issues.  We understand the importance and acknowledge the right to work as an integral part of building an independent and fulfilling life.  Our work is underpinned by the principles of Recovery and Coproduction, alongside the fundamental belief that people hold many of their own solutions.  This drives us to create opportunities for people to reframe their experiences and to unlock the capacity and potential within themselves.

Dorset Work Matters is a partnership employment project, within the broader work of the Dorset Wellbeing and Recovery Partnership.  This longstanding partnership brings together lived experience expertise and clinical expertise, enabling the Forum to share its understanding as an employer of people who experience mental health issues and emotional distress.

About the Role

The Peer Lead for Employment will work alongside the Forum Senior Leadership Team to develop a strategy that promotes and supports the employment of people who experience mental health issues. This will include those accessing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) through secondary Mental Health Services, but also consider the broader needs of people outside statutory service thresholds.

Within the Dorset Work Matters service the Peer Lead for Employment will work alongside the NHS Project Lead and Senior Employment Specialist, utilising the principles of IPS together to deliver a high-fidelity service.

As the Peer Lead for Employment you will engage with a broad range of employers across Dorset.  The primary focus of this work will be to model lived experience in the context of work, challenge misconceptions, offer education opportunities and build sustainable partnerships.  The three key areas of responsibility for this post are:

• Developing, delivering and evaluating the Forum’s employment focused activities.
• Providing operational management support and supervision within the Dorset Work Matters IPS service. 
• Engaging and developing relationships with local employers across Dorset.

The post will be based primarily at the Partnership’s premises in central Bournemouth, but with some flexibility for alternative working arrangements. 

About You

We are a unique and values-based, collaborative and innovative organisation that strives towards continuous learning and improvement. 

• You will be a proficient manager with a natural aptitude for getting the very best from your team, well versed in caseload management and outcomes reporting.  
• You will have experience and understanding of living with and managing mental ill-health or supporting someone in emotional distress, including understanding the barriers to employment and believing in a person’s right to meaningful work.
• You will be able to demonstrate experience of working with people from a range of social and economic backgrounds and understand social justice and inequality issues.
• Your knowledge will include a basic understanding of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) methodology and you will be prepared to undertake further training and ongoing development.
• You will be professional and engaging in your manner, an excellent communicator, with experience of building strong partnerships and external relationships.
• Your passion for our work and being personally aligned with our values will shine through.

You might currently be working in the not for profit, private or public sectors, but wherever you come from, you will be excited by this meaningful role and the unique opportunity to be part of an inspirational team, making real difference to people’s lives in Dorset.  

If you are interested in this role, please apply by sending your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are interested in this role and working within our organisation.

During Covid 19

We will be reviewing applications and shortlisting on a rolling basis, closing the process when we have appointed the right candidate.  During this time, our interview process will take place in stages and include a combination of a preliminary self-directed video and if successful a formal Microsoft Teams interview.  This approach aligns with how we work, will be values based, as well as focused on results and finding out about you.  We are looking forward to hearing from you.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Lifecentre, Chichester, West Sussex.

30 - 37 hours depending upon candidate

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum full time salary

Lifecentre is a medium sized charity that supports survivors of rape and sexual abuse across West Sussex.  We are recruiting an Operations Manager to join our team. Reporting directly to the CEO, this is an excellent opportunity to work for a great cause and gain leadership experience.

The Operations Manager will oversee key business support and operational activity, co-ordinating the office base to ensure that Lifecentre operates smoothly and in accordance with legal and professional standards. The role includes responsibility for: operational policies and procedures, client support team management, management of buildings and facilities, oversight of finance and payroll, GDPR and data management, oversight of IT systems, data management, Health & Safety, quality assurance and risk and compliance with Charity Governance.

You will provide leadership for the Operations Team and be responsible for delivery of quality, performance and continued improvement across the services, including looking externally to develop partnership opportunities to drive efficiencies whilst maintaining quality.

We are looking for a self-motivated person with initiative. The ability to prioritise their own work and that of their team is required. The ideal candidate will have office management experience, possessing excellent IT skills and have experience in use of all basic computer software including Microsoft Office. Excellent organisational skills are required and ability to set up efficient systems, including data management. Excellent communication and writing skills and the ability to multi-task are also required.  Good numeracy skills are essential.

This post could be considered as a full-time role for one individual meeting all competencies. Alternatively, we would consider a job share.

Lifecentre is a Christian Charity providing counselling services to survivors of rape and sexual abuse: 

Closing date for applications: midnight Wednesday 19 August 2020

Interviews: Wednesday 1 September 2020

Seeking a leader who is passionate about serving young people through relationships education. The successful candidate will lead a small team of regional leads who run relationships education sessions with 14-17 year olds in schools and other settings.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put relationships education in the spotlight. With many family relationships being put under immense pressure due to the social and economic challenges created by lockdown, it is more important than ever to provide young people with the opportunity to consider what a healthy relationship looks like and what their future relationship ambitions might be.

Explore is a small but established educational charity. We provide young people with the time and space to explore healthy relationships. Our youth-led sessions are facilitated by our specially trained team of Local Development Officers and provide a rare opportunity for young people to ask adults about their experiences of relationships and marriage in order to inform how they might approach creating and sustaining healthy and happy relationships for themselves in the future.

We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager who will report to the Chief Executive and lead our team of Local Development Officers. This role will involve:

• Line management of our Local Development Officers including performance management, personal development and management of all aspects of HR (such as sickness absence management, annual leave management, etc)
• Development of the team including mentoring, planning and leading quarterly team development days and coaching particularly on facilitation skills
• Being a strong and inspiring leader for the team including encouraging a culture of openness, support and innovation, where our beneficiaries are always placed at the heart of what we do
• Financial management of the operations function such as agreeing budgets, budgetary monitoring and control, etc
• Supporting the team with volunteer management including attending regional volunteer gatherings, ensuring volunteer recruitment and management processes are in place and regular communications to volunteers
• Leading on impact and feedback gathering and monitoring, using our established evalution framework
• Supporting the team with their school engagement strategy and planning including support with comms messaging, visiting / meeting with senior school staff if needed, and reviewing regional plans for school engagement
• Acting as a Safeguarding Officer including responding promptly to any issues or concerns reported to you, ensuring safeguarding policy is regularly reviewed and that the team undergo annual refresher training
• Occasionally facilitating sessions in all regions
• Project manage the Explore Youth Panel initiative and any other projects as directed by the Chief Executive
• Provide operational reporting and MI for quarterly Board of Trustee meetings

The ideal candidate will be a capable and inspiring leader with extensive experience of facilitating group sessions with young people. The skills and experience we are seeking are as follows:

• Facilitation skills and leadership skills are essential
• Experience of working with young people is highly desirable - for example this could be in a youth club, as a regional guides / scout leader, or in educational setting
• Experience of managing and / or working with volunteers
• Ability to collate and analyse data / metrics
• Ability to set and manage budgets
• Experience of managing projects

Whilst we are registered as an educational charity, our organisational values and culture are aligned to our Christian ethos. Applications are accepted and encouraged from individuals of all faiths and no faith. We would expect the successful candidate to share our Christian values of compassion, kindness, treating others fairly, acting ethically at all times, and being respectful.

This role is part time three days per week during school term time.

This role is home based however the ideal candidate will be located within the Hampshire area. Exceptional candidates from outside of the area will be considered. The successful candidate will be required to travel to all Explore regions regularly and will be expected to attend occasional meetings in the Winchester area.

PLEASE APPLY THROUGH CHARITY JOB BY SUBMITTED YOUR CV (MAXIMUM 2 PAGES) AND A COVERING LETTER (MAXIMUM 2 PAGES) OUTLINING YOUR SUITABILITY FOR THE ROLE.

Are you a brilliant minded person who can ensure the continuity of existing small grants to local groups and contribute to the concept and development of future grants programmes – with a focus on widening and deepening community empowerment and cohesion with our work?

UNITED in Hammersmith & Fulham (UNITED) is a place-based giving scheme that promotes, inspires and helps fund activities that deliver a strong sense of belonging in our diverse London borough.

Over the last two years, we have undertaken a programme of work to establish our new charity. We have the core infrastructure in place, and have also established a small grants programme aimed at bringing people in the borough together to strengthen their bonds as neighbours.

This year, we had significant fundraising and grant distribution success with a community coronavirus fund, are now moving into the next phase of the development: seeking to engage with the general public and a private donors through awareness and continued fund raising for 2020-25. This is envisaged to result in an increase in community funding over the period.

This is an exciting opportunity with potential to improve the lives of people across the borough by driving forward funding and community relations.

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

Crisis Skylight Oxford are looking for a Christmas Coordinator to develop and manage our programme of events over the festive period. This is a new role and is fixed term for 4 months (October 2020 – January 2021).

About the role
As Christmas Coordinator, you will:

• Develop and manage the Crisis at Christmas events over the festive period. Due to Covid-19 a flexible approach is needed, and some events/activities will be held digitally.
• Coordinate a team of volunteers delivering the event and assist with the recruitment and induction of volunteers
• Debrief volunteers and staff, and report on the events to the Director of Crisis Skylight Oxford

About you
To be successful in this role you will have experience of working with and providing support and direction to socially excluded individuals and groups to promote and encourage inclusion. The post holder will have experience of working with volunteers in a supervisory/management capacity. You will have the ability to identify, manage and minimize potential conflict situations alongside the ability to trust and respect guests and treat them as equals, showing empathy and compassion.

You will possess well-developed interpersonal skills, with ability to motivate others to develop and succeed. Good leadership skills and experience of leading and coordinating diverse teams of people and being a strong team player and able to work on your own initiative is essential. Alongside these skills you will need to evidence excellent networking skills and be able to identify relevant opportunities and source items for events

• Must be available to work during the festive period – the week before Christmas Day, and the days in between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
• Knowledge of and ability to comply with safeguarding procedures
• Commitment to Crisis’ purpose and values including equality and social inclusion

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your on-going development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. Please address points 1 – 8 only from the Person Specification in your supporting statement. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing Date: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Interview Date: Friday 4th September 2020 (By Zoom)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

For more information about our work please visit our website.

Registered Charity Numbers E&W1082947, SC040094