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About Spear
Spear is a national youth employment charity. The award-winning Spear Programme was launched over 20 years ago, and is now running in 18 Spear Centres across the country, equipping unemployed 16–24-year-olds facing barriers to employment with the skills and mindset they need to secure work and thrive in work and life.
Please see the 'Work with us’ pack for more information.
About the role
We're looking for an ambitious, proactive and relationship-driven individual who excels at securing strategic, long-term corporate partnerships that drive the growth and impact of Spear. Joining our dynamic and growing Corporate Partnerships team, you will play a key role in developing and stewarding high-value partnerships that generate significant income and enable Spear to reach more young people facing barriers to employment.
This role is ideal for someone with strong business development and relationship management skills, who enjoys working both strategically and hands-on to generate income, develop compelling partnership opportunities and build lasting relationships with corporate supporters.
Key Information
- Salary: from £43,000 depending on experience
- Full-Time, One Year Fixed Term Contract
- Annual leave: 28 days annual leave (including Christmas gift days) plus bank holidays
- Closing Date: Friday 24th July (We interview on a rolling basis and will close the role early if we find the right candidate)
For more information please read through our Job Specification.
If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
Person Specification
- A practising Christian, passionate about Spear's values and mission, with a desire to engage and inspire corporate partners to support young people facing barriers to employment into sustainable work.
- Significant senior-level experience in corporate fundraising, corporate social responsibility, business development or strategic partnerships.
- Proven ability to raise funds, develop business partnerships or drive sales. Excellent client management using CRM tools such as Salesforce are desirable.
- An excellent communicator with strong relational skills and the confidence and ability to develop a rapport with and positively influence a variety of people from diverse backgrounds in the corporate space.
- Excellent writing skills, attention to detail and accuracy, including the ability to produce compelling proposals for a professional, corporate audience.
- Demonstration of leadership capabilities; proactive, responsive and a self-starter. Ability to manage multiple priorities to meet targets and deadlines.
- Strong numerical, reporting and organizational skills, including the ability to establish appropriate and effective processes and structures.
- Line Management experience desirable but not essential.
Faith Expressions
Spear is a Christian charity, working in a range of settings, in partnership with people from all faiths and none. Although the Spear programme itself has no faith element, Our Christian faith underpins everything we do; it motivates and sustains us and is core to our mission. Prayer and worship are embedded into our daily working practises, and all staff are required to lead a team prayer meeting from time to time. As such, there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for our team to be practising Christians – our team share a belief in a triune God and we welcome applications from people of all denominations and expressions of Christianity.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Spear is a dynamic, growing youth employment charity that coaches young people to overcome barriers and thrive in work and life.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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SENIOR YOUTH SUPPORT WORKER
VIOLENCE REDUCTION PARTNERSHIP HOSPITAL IN-REACH & COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES
Oasis Midlands
Hours: 1 x full time post at 40 hours (inclusive of breaks)
Contract type here: Fixed term until March 27 (secondment opportunities will also be considered, subject to agreement with the successful candidate's current employer).
Salary: Grade D - £33,802 per annum
Are you passionate about supporting young people and communities? Will you support young people to recognise and reach their full potential? Oasis is about to embark on an exciting new partnership with the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership to deliver Hospital In-Reach and Community Based Services. We are recruiting a Senior Youth Support Worker to be part of the team. We always work in a holistic way, and it is no difference when it comes to violence. We don’t treat violence in isolation. Instead, we will seek to work as part of an eco-system of care—connecting education, housing, youth work, family support, safeguarding, and community relationships.
We believe violence is preventable…We are passionate about inclusion and believe young people and communities should be central to local and national violence reduction strategies.
If you share this passion and want to make a difference, come and join the team.
To hear from those working in similar roles in our team in Greater Manchester, click here.
As Senior Youth Support Worker you will;
· Provide supervision to Youth Outreach Worker(s).
· Be present in hospital and community locations to support young people that are impacted by violence.
· Work with young people in the community supporting them to process what has happened and linking them in with services/groups that will provide them with sustainable ongoing support.
· Deliver group work sessions to get young people talking about the issue of violence providing a safe space for them to talk about their concerns and what they want to change.
· Support communities impacted by critical incidents.
· Oversee referrals
· Work closely with the Project Administrator to monitor engagement and impact.
Amongst other requirements, the successful post holder must have:
· Relevant experience OR qualification in Youth & Community (JNC), Social Work (QSW) or SEND.
· Proven experience working with young people ‘at risk’.
· Excellent communication skills.
· Knowledge of child protection, safeguarding and Health and Safety practices
· Reliability, with a flexible approach to changes and able to work unsociable hours.
As part of the package, Oasis offers:
· A pension scheme, offering 7% employer contribution.
· A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays).
· Policies which promote well-being and are family friendly.
To apply, please send your CV and a Supporting Statement (no more than two A4 pages)
If you would like a conversation about the role, please contact us via the Oasis Charity Jobs Website.
Please expand on your CV to tell us about relevant skills, experience and qualification you have, that relate to the job description and person specification.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis and will invite suitable candidates to interview as applications are received. Early applications are encouraged, as we reserve the right to close the recruitment process once the position has been filled.
Applications are welcomed from individuals interested in undertaking this role as a secondment opportunity. Secondment arrangements will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will require approval from the applicant's current employer.
We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and underrepresented groups. If you require any assistance to overcome potential barriers during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
The successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Oasis cannot assist with sponsorship or visas.
Oasis supports Equal Opportunities. Registered Charity No. 1163889
Please expand on your CV to tell us about relevant skills, experience and qualification you have, that relate to the job description and person specification.
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MioCare is a values-driven organisation delivering high-quality care and support across Oldham. We’re proud of our supportive culture where people stay, grow, and do meaningful work, and we have a clear ambition to be outstanding, improving outcomes, independence and quality of life for the people we support.
This is a pivotal leadership role as we continue to strengthen quality, performance and impact across our services.
As Service Director for Quality and Performance, you will build on strong foundations to embed a culture where quality is everyone’s responsibility. Working closely with the Managing Director and Director of Care, you will lead and shape our strategic approach, ensuring we exceed regulatory and contractual standards.
You will drive the ongoing enhancement of our quality and performance framework, ensuring we have the right insights to measure outcomes, evidence impact and continuously improve. Just as importantly, you will champion a culture of learning, scaling what works well and embedding learning from incidents to strengthen the excellent care we deliver.
You will also take a strategic approach to workforce, helping us build a sustainable, skilled and engaged workforce for the future.
As part of our Senior Leadership Team, you will play a key role in shaping MioCare’s direction alongside a supportive, collaborative and increasingly ambitious team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and help shape the development and delivery of strategy, ensuing plans are realistic and challenging assumptions. Providing guidance on activities and targets, plus anticipating and responding to key issues.
- Ensure MioCare has an effective learning and development offer for employees that provides the workforce with the skills and capabilities to deliver high quality services.
- Ensure MioCare has an effective quality assurance framework in place which meets regulatory and compliance standards and drives improvement.
- Improve and enhance the data infrastructure to identify and capture trends, outcomes, service performance KPIs and forecasting data, ensuring accurate and timely data is available to evidence the effectiveness of service delivery to a range of stakeholders.
Please visit our website to download the vacancy Application Pack for full details of the role, including a Role Profile, Person Specification, Terms and Conditions and details of MioCare’s additional Staff Rewards package.
Non Charity Employer
501 - 1000
Supporting people to get the most out of life
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