Project Management Jobs
Do you have a passion for volunteering and want to make a difference? Are you looking for an opportunity to lead on volunteering at a national charity?
If your answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity that could be perfect for you. We need a National Project Manager to join the Central Support Team working 21 hours per week on a fixed term contract. There will be some travel required to support regional coordinators within England and Wales.
The role will oversee the delivery of a joint project with a major corporate partner which will ensure that hard-to-reach communities are aware of how to make the digital switchover from analogue phone landlines. Using the huge reach of Neighbourhood Watch and our energetic volunteers, we aim to communicate on a one-to-one basis using community-based events.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget and meets high quality standards, maintaining project and monitoring documentation.
You will lead a small team of regional coordinators, providing support and guidance and ensure the profile and development of volunteering is in line with the organisation's needs.
This role is a hybrid one with homeworking and occasional travel within England and Wales alongside regular travel to London.
In this post you will be:
- overseeing the project and managing its documentation
- managing the project budget (with support from finance)
- responsible for delivering key project objectives
- line-managing a small number of home-based volunteer coordinators working across geographical regions, and providing guidance and advice to them
- supporting and developing volunteers from Neighbourhood Watch groups to deliver local information sessions for the digital switchover across in their area/region
- leading on national project engagement activities, working closely with the central support team and our national corporate partner to ensure these activities are delivered
- supporting volunteer coordinators to have the knowledge, skills and training to effectively manage volunteers
- raising the profile of Neighbourhood Watch volunteering internally and externally
- undertaking reporting and analysis on a range of activities including events and providing updates to meetings and project documentation
- presenting to volunteers
What we need from the ideal candidate:
- knowledge of volunteering best practice, trends and developments
- experience in advising and leading those managing volunteers
- highly numerate and able to present statistics in a digestible format
- excellent communication skills with the ability to present well to audiences
- experience of managing a team and volunteer management
- experience in managing challenging stakeholders
- to be highly organised and able to manage broad and conflicting priorities and tasks
Experience of working in a variety of voluntary/charitable organisations would be advantageous.
Benefits of working for Neighbourhood Watch include
- Flexible working hours
- Stakeholder Pension
- Cyclescheme
- Techscheme
Neighbourhood Watch is a grassroots charitable movement. It is the largest crime prevention voluntary movement in England and Wales and ha...
Read moreOur three coordinator roles are vital components of this project. We want to attract candidates from the South West of England, South East of England and Wales - sound local knowledge (and travel) will be an important part of this job.
Purpose of the roles:
- To be responsible for the development, coordination, and delivery of Neighbourhood Watch’s partner project involving Neighbourhood Watch volunteers within one of the regional areas.
- Delivering training to volunteers so they can deliver information sessions to community groups.
- Organising community events where information sessions are delivered by volunteers.
- Ensuring information sessions are delivered to the highest and consistent standards, and that feedback requests are acted upon swiftly.
Hours of employment are:
- South East of England 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week)
- South West of England 0.8FTE (28 hours per week)
- Wales 0.8FTE (28 hours per week)
All on a 12 month fixed term contract. Core hours are 10am-12pm and 2-4pm with an unpaid lunch break.
Neighbourhood Watch is looking for someone who can develop a strong volunteering base and support them. The ideal candidate will be a good self-starter and have exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and recruit excellent volunteers and mentors who can contribute to the work.
The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Neighbourhood Watch does and the positive effect it has on the community. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a wider team but also able to manage their own time and workload. The successful applicant will need access to transport. The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Neighbourhood Watch’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable, and personable.
They will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community.
Who you are:
You will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community, a proactive team member who is enthusiastic about volunteering and can motivate and inspire a team of volunteers.
You’ll be good at:
- communicating vision and values to individuals and large groups
- recruiting and inspiring volunteers
- managing your own time and workload
- working in a geographically dispersed team
You’ll be:
- passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community
- very approachable, responsible, reliable and personable
You’ll have
- A strong and demonstrable commitment to the aims and values of Neighbourhood Watch.
- A clear understanding and demonstrable commitment to promotion of equality and diversity
- A full, clean UK driving license and use of a car
You’ll have experience of:
- Coordinating volunteers
Benefits of working for Neighbourhood Watch include:
- Flexible working hours
- Stakeholder Pension
- Cyclescheme
- Techscheme
Neighbourhood Watch is a grassroots charitable movement. It is the largest crime prevention voluntary movement in England and Wales and ha...
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Programme Manager - Surrey and Sussex
Location: South East
Salary:£36,050 FTE
Hours:35 hours per week
Job Type: Full time
Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.
Job Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing low literacy and numeracy levels amongst people in prison?
Our three year strategy is working well with improvements and expansions to our delivery model, a renewed vision and mission and we want to continue to develop and grow. To support this, we are recruiting for a new programme manager to grow our programmes and contracts in Surrey and Sussex. Our Surrey and Sussex area covers prisons including HMP Send, HMP Coldingley, HMP Bronzefield, HMP Lewes and HMP Ford. We are seeking proactive, committed, and enthusiastic applicants to join our team and help us continue our journey. Working closely with people in prison, prison managers, Shannon Trust staff and volunteers you will ensure development of our criminal programmes maximising literacy and numeracy learning opportunities for people across a number of prisons and contracts in your area.
Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings, managing teams and contract performance, underpinned by the ability to build relationships and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach. We want to hear from applicants who can lead, drive performance and who are as committed to the cause as we are.
This is a full time, prison based role at HMP Downview and will require travel across the Surrey and Sussex area.
Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.
We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.
Interviews to be held the week commencing 8 April 2024.
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