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Leaders in Community (LiC) is an award-winning youth-led organisation with over 15 years' experience in delivering youth leadership and youth social action campaigns, supporting local young people challenge and overcome inequalities and barriers to progression.
As the Partnerships and Services Manager, you will report directly to the CEO and as such will be a member of the leadership team, to deliver Leaders in Community’s (LiC) work to empower young people and communities to improve quality of life and build a sustainable future in line with the Charity’s vision and mission. Working alongside the leadership team, you will oversee, and capacity build the services being delivered in our vibrant community centre, which is located in the historic East End of London.
Along with your CV, please provide a cover letter outlining why you are interested in applying for the role at Leaders in Community.
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Are you passionate about supporting people and making a real difference within your community? We are looking for a motivated and passionate self-starter who is confident that they can support individuals back to employment.
As an Employment Adviser, you will play a vital role in helping autistic adults and people with learning disabilities to find meaningful and fulfilling employment. You’ll be joining an established horticultural project, Roots and Shoots, in Rochford, Essex and starting up a new project to use the training opportunities that Roots and Shoots offers as a conduit for helping people learn the skills to achieve paid work.
We welcome applications from all experience levels and backgrounds, you do not need experience in the learning disability sector to apply. What you will need is the ability to motivate and build relationships with clients, strong organisational skills, the confidence to communicate and engage with a range of employers and stakeholders and a fundamental belief that anyone who wants to work can work.
Main job duties:
- Supporting and motivating individuals with to access and sustain paid employment
- Regularly meeting with participants to listen, offer support and help them identify their best job match, reflecting their skills and aspirations
- Supporting participants through CV production, interview techniques and managing their health at work
- Building relationships with community partners including local GP practices, Social Prescribers, Job Centres and other charities to gain referrals to the project
- Advocating for your participants by educating and engaging with employers regarding the benefits of recruiting autistic people and people with learning disabilities
- Sourcing job opportunities for your participants through regular contact with local employers within the community
- Promoting employment and raising expectations around the ability of participants to access paid employment, breaking down the barriers for them
Who are we looking for?
You will need to be supportive and empathetic with great communication and listening skills. Also, the ability to initiate and develop relationships with individuals and be able to engage employers using a variety of methods including phone or face-to-face in the community, alongside having excellent time management and organisational skills.
We are actively interested in individuals who have experience in roles in at least one of the following areas; coaching, mentoring, recruitment, training, human resources, pastoral support or education.
Finally, you will be passionate, self-motivated, and ready to make a difference to the lives of the adults you are working with.
Hamelin Trust has a duty to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of its service users and is committed to doing so. Hamelin Trust expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure & other safeguarding clearance.
Creating compassionate communities for autistic adults and people with learning disabilities.
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CVAA UK is a membership organisation supporting not-for-profit adoption agencies across the UK who specialise in finding homes for children in care. Over 3000 children in the UK need adoption each year because they cannot remain at home or with family members. The CVAA Practice Programme delivers 30 or more online courses each year to those working in the sector, primarily social workers. The programme has developed a strong reputation for attracting a range of subject experts to deliver cost effective, engaging and useful training. The full programme is listed on the CVAA UK website and inlcudes topics such as LGBTQ+ parenting; therapy for children; identity formation; racism and anti-racism; parenting courses; theraplay and many more.
Due to a restructure of the team, we are now looking for a Training Manager who can oversee the delivery of the programme from mid to late July 2024. Initially fixed term, it is anticipated that this post will become permanent.
The Training Manager will work with the Head of Practice Development and the Programme Administrator to ensure that the courses are full, delivered effectively and evaluated. Part of the role will also be to source new trainers and support the creation of the programme into 2025.
The CVAA team work remotely across the UK so location of the postholder is not a barrier to recruitment as long as long as they can travel occasionally and come into London for team days. The team is small, diverse and dynamic. Experience of project management or delivery of training or events is more important than knowledge of adoption or children's social care. We would warmly welcome an application from people who have lived experience of adoption or fostering, and candidates from the Global Majority.
Benefits include:
- Flexible working
- Pension
- Personal training budget
- Generous holiday allowance
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK and will need to undertake a DBS due to the sensitive nature of the work of CVAA. We require three references, one of whom can be personal. To apply please prepare a comprehensive CV a covering letter in English which address all the requirements of the Person Specification by providing evidence and examples to back up statements.
Petra Jodlova, Head of Practice Development, is available to arrange informal conversations about the post.
The closing date for applications is 11.59pm 16th May 2024. Interviews will be week commencing 27th May 2024.
Please note we will require a full CV and detailed cover letter addressing the key person specification criteria.
CVAA UK supports adoption agencies across the UK to find homes for vulnerable children who need adoption through improvements in policy and practice.
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Are you a Vet looking to make a difference? Do you want to help us design optimal evidence-based treatment for the dogs in our Care?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Veterinary Behaviourist (Clinical Behaviour Services) to work on providing an internal referral service for behavioural medicine, recommending treatment protocols, monitoring patient progress, and assisting with more complex cases as required.
What does this role involve?
As Veterinary Behaviourist you’ll:
- Work with the Community Clinical Animal Behaviour and post-adoption support teams in devising the optimal behaviour rehabilitation strategy for dogs in their care while liaising with external veterinary practices as required to support the work of clinical teams.
- Support and advise staff across Dogs Trust on matters relating to psychoactive medication and links between disease, physiology and behavioural signs, under the direction of the Head of Clinical Behaviour Services.
- Provide behaviour consultations to owned dogs with behaviour problems especially those with a medical component that requires specialist input.
- Assist with staff training through workshops, clinical case reviews, mentorship and conferences.
About you:
With a good knowledge of dog behaviour, training and welfare you will have a veterinary qualification with postgraduate experience as a veterinary surgeon. With basic knowledge of statistical methods and ability to evaluate published research you will have enthusiasm for professional development, research and developing specialist skills in veterinary behavioural medicine.
About Dogs Trust:
We love dogs. That’s why we do whatever we can to make sure every four-legged friend gets the love they deserve. We’ll never put a healthy dog down, so our work is focused on helping dogs in need, supporting owners every step of the walk, and creating a better world for dogs in the future. It’s what we’ve been doing since 1891 and how we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading dog charity, helping 12,000 loyal friends find their forever homes every year.
About the Team:
Canine behaviour knowledge and practice is central to rehabilitating dogs within our rehoming centres, and for the provision of Dog School training and education classes. Science led behaviour knowledge also informs a range of other areas of Dogs Trust activity, including campaigns, international projects and the work of the education teams. The role of the Clinical Behaviour Services team is to provide clinical behaviour services for members of the public including adopters of Dogs Trust dogs and in association with Dog School.
Please note that the interviews for this role will take place around 28th May.
This is a 12-month maternity cover position.
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Temporary Education Worker (Bristol)
Contract type: Full-time, fixed-term contract until December 2024
Closing Date: We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to recruit when we find a suitable candidate, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Start Date: As soon as possible to be agreed with the candidate
We’re an award-winning charity that runs local learning centres in the heart of communities where the young people we support live. Our centres provide an innovative education programme which includes practical learning support and motivational and confidence-building activities for children and young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to inspire students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to broaden their horizons and achieve their full potential.
As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping thousands of young people each year. We have forty-one centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, with ambitious plans to scale-up our provision further over the coming years. We are looking for someone who will thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding role helping to change the lives of young people by taking up a fixed-term contract as an Education Worker at our IntoUniversity centre in Leeds.
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Internally the job title will be Senior Organiser.
This Senior Campaign Organiser role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience organising and mobilising people, and a passion for motivating, supporting and developing volunteers to join Greenpeace at an exciting time in our journey towards becoming more 'people powered'.
Greenpeace UK is an independent national/regional organisation within the global Greenpeace campaigning network, which acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. The global network of Greenpeace organisations comprises 26 independent national/regional Greenpeace organisations with presence in over 55 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating and supporting organisation, Greenpeace International.
Our Organising team is focused on building the size, power and diversity of Greenpeace’s volunteer base, to win campaigns and achieve our mission. Your role will be to support our local organising to be as impactful as it can be.
This means leading a team to ensure our volunteer network gets the support, resources and development opportunities they need to grow and build their power. You’ll be looking for strategic opportunities to expand and deepen our organising, as well as designing Organising Programmes and interventions to meet our goals.
Location: Islington, London. Our hybrid working model enables us to enjoy the benefits of both office based and remote working. We ask that staff work from the office in Islington 40% of their time, with 20% required as a minimum. Reasonable adjustments as well as specific office based needs will be considered for those with long term health conditions and disabilities.
What we're looking for:
• Significant experience in campaigning for progressive organisations, advocacy or political campaigns, social justice movements or unions.
• Experience designing and leading labour/political/advocacy organising campaigns, programmes and structures that have built people power.
• Strategic vision and tactical sense, backed by proven understanding of local organising and what it takes to build powerful, local teams.
• Experience creating and delivering training materials (video, written or in-person).
• Strong project management skills, including coordinating across multiple departments and managing multiple stakeholder/priorities.
• Proficiency across multiple digital platforms, including database management.
• Experience of managing and developing staff, as well as leading, coordinating and supporting multiple volunteer groups or networks.
• Willingness to work some evenings and weekends, and to travel across the UK.
We give you:
You’ll be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, taking advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff. We offer great benefits such as a generous pension scheme, subsidised lunches, free yoga and a wealth of well-being resources, just to name a few. Take a look at our Work for Greenpeace pages to find out more about what it’s like to work for us and why you should apply.
Our commitment to diversity: Greenpeace UK is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in environmental and campaigning organisations and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of colour; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGBTQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class now or in the past.
To Apply
For further information and to apply visit our website via the apply button.
Greenpeace UK is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other category protected by law.
CLOSING DATE: 9.00 am 23rd May
INTERVIEWS: 5th June
Internally the job title will be Senior Organiser Activation
This Senior Campaign Organiser Activation role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience organising and mobilising people, and a passion for motivating, supporting and developing volunteers to join Greenpeace at an exciting time in our journey towards becoming more 'people powered'.
Greenpeace UK is an independent national/regional organisation within the global Greenpeace campaigning network, which acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. The global network of Greenpeace organisations comprises 26 independent national/regional Greenpeace organisations with presence in over 55 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating and supporting organisation, Greenpeace International.
Our Organising team is focused on building the size, power and diversity of Greenpeace’s volunteer base, to win campaigns and achieve our mission. Your role will be to support our local organising to be as impactful as it can be.
This means leading a team to ensure our volunteer network gets the support, resources and development opportunities they need to grow and build their power. You’ll be looking for strategic opportunities to expand and deepen our organising, as well as designing Organising Programmes and interventions to meet our goals.
The role of the Senior Organiser (Activation) is to work to design and develop our Distributed Volunteer Programmes, that can mobilise thousands into taking action, and building their capacity as volunteers and organisers.
This role includes a focus on ‘Activation’, and ensuring we are not only running great programmes, but being laser efficient at driving people into them.
Location: Islington, London. Our hybrid working model enables us to enjoy the benefits of both office based and remote working. We ask that staff work from the office in Islington 40% of their time, with 20% required as a minimum. Reasonable adjustments as well as specific office based needs will be considered for those with long term health conditions and disabilities.
What we're looking for:
• Significant experience designing and leading impactful organising campaigns and/or programmes that have moved people to action and built longer term people power
• Proven ability to implement best practice organising techniques and structures to build the leadership and capacity of volunteers, locally and at scale
• Proven ability to use data-informed interventions to maximise programme efficiency and ‘activate people’ based on goals, outcomes, pinch points and needs
• Experience setting goals and reporting systems, and monitoring and reporting on results
• Ability to manage a team, working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - able to hold multiple projects and strategic vision
• Ability to support and champion Greenpeace’s ideals, values and Organising Principles, particularly our commitments to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and volunteer network.
We give you:
You’ll be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, taking advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff. We offer great benefits such as a generous pension scheme, subsidised lunches, free yoga and a wealth of well-being resources, just to name a few. Take a look at our Work for Greenpeace pages to find out more about what it’s like to work for us and why you should apply.
Our commitment to diversity: Greenpeace UK is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in environmental and campaigning organisations and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of colour; people with disabilities; people who identify as being LGBTQIA; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working class now or in the past.
To Apply
For further information and to apply visit our website via the apply button.
Greenpeace UK is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other category protected by law.
CLOSING DATE: 9.00 am 23rd May
INTERVIEWS: 30th May
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You will have an understanding of working within the substance misuse field and associated health and social issues and preferably also have experience of working with adults or young people in an addictions or social care setting. We are seeking candidates with a professional qualification in health/social care, youth or community work or direct experience of delivering family focused interventions. If all you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use then welcome to Aquarius as a Hidden Harm/Family Practitioner.
Right now, we are looking for someone like you to join our enhanced substance misuse family safeguarding team in Birmingham which specialises in reducing the harms caused to young people and families as a result of parental substance misuse whilst improving parenting ability and family functioning to reduce family breakdown.
Aquarius work with families and young people across a range of home and community settings supporting parents to build insight into the impact of substance misuse whilst developing safety and risk management strategies to minimise risk to the wider family.
Your challenge? To support and deliver a new family model within Birmingham working closely with substance misuse treatment providers, and Childrens Health and Social Care. You will deliver specialist interventions as part of our intensive family support programme exploring risk factors such as substance use, supporting affected adults such as Kinship carers, supporting mental health and reducing parental/family conflict. This will be delivered through 1:1 support, 5 step focused sessions, education groups, family support groups; and accredited parenting programmes including M-PACT. Applicants must be committed to attending training for parent training programmes, as well as contributing to the delivery of hidden harm and FASD training to professionals across Birmingham.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic person to help develop this service and expand the family support options to support complex families in Birmingham with the aim of improving outcomes for all family members affected by parental substance misuse.
An energetic and confident self-starter, you will need a passion for working with families supported by a qualification in health/social care, youth and community work (e.g. NVQ Level 3 or above, DipSW, Mental Health Nursing, Counselling, Addiction Studies). Alternatively, we will consider candidates with experience of working in the substance misuse field. As well as good knowledge of alcohol/drug and health related issues, you will have experience of liaising with voluntary and statutory agencies and health professionals. You will also have experience of engaging with clients in a variety of service delivery settings. You will have a flexible approach, a commitment to the principles of confidentiality and excellent record keeping and Microsoft Office.
This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post-holder to work 37 hours per week.
This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.
We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.
Aquarius is a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship, with both organisations being part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. From 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship will be merging with the mental health charity Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. At the same time, Aquarius will become a subsidiary of Humankind, with no impact to terms and conditions of employment. In October 2024, Humankind will then be renamed to reflect the new, bigger and better organisation, of which Aquarius will remain a subsidiary.
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Are you ready to make a tangible impact on public health? The Infection Prevention Society (IPS) is seeking an enthusiastic Education and Events Manager to spearhead their dynamic events and education portfolio. As a membership organisation dedicated to advancing infection prevention and control (IPC), the IPS is at the forefront of safeguarding public health in health and care settings.
The IPS is committed to fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among IPC practitioners worldwide. With 2,400 members across the UK and internationally, the IPS plays a pivotal role in supporting IPC professionals, promoting best practices, and influencing policy to prevent infections.
In this pivotal role, you'll lead the planning and execution of the IPS’s educational programmes and events. From designing innovative educational resources to orchestrating engaging conferences and workshops, you'll be at the helm of shaping the IPS's educational landscape. Working closely with committees and stakeholders, you'll ensure events meet the diverse educational needs of its members and attract new partnerships and revenue streams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a comprehensive educational programme aligned with IPS's strategic goals.
- Plan and execute high-quality events, managing logistics from venue selection to onsite staffing.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive event success.
- Manage budgets effectively to achieve financial targets.
- Cultivate relationships with stakeholders to expand IPS's educational initiatives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field (education, event management, healthcare, etc.).
- Proven experience in education and event planning, ideally within a similar professional body.
- Strong project management and communication skills.
- Ability to manage budgets and mentor junior colleagues.
- Flexibility to work evenings/weekends and travel as needed.
If you're ready to take on this new and exciting challenge, and help shape the future of infection prevention, we want to hear from you! If you would like to know more, please contact our retained consultant, Simone Loxton at Memcom Recruitment, who will be happy to share a candidate pack and talk to you about the role in more detail.
Application will be by CV and supporting statement. Please refer to the candidate pack for details.
JR008000
You will have an understanding of working within the substance misuse field and associated health and social issues and preferably also have experience of working with adults or young people in an addictions or social care setting. We are seeking candidates with a professional qualification in health/social care, youth or community work or direct experience of delivering family focused interventions. If all you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use then welcome to Aquarius as a Hidden Harm/Family Practitioner.
Right now, we are looking for someone like you to join our enhanced substance misuse family safeguarding team in Birmingham which specialises in reducing the harms caused to young people and families as a result of parental substance misuse whilst improving parenting ability and family functioning to reduce family breakdown.
Aquarius work with families and young people across a range of home and community settings supporting parents to build insight into the impact of substance misuse whilst developing safety and risk management strategies to minimise risk to the wider family.
Your challenge? To support and deliver a new family model within Birmingham working closely with substance misuse treatment providers, and Childrens Health and Social Care. You will deliver specialist interventions as part of our intensive family support programme exploring risk factors such as substance use, parental mental health and reducing parental conflict. This will be delivered through 1:1 support, 5 step focused sessions, education groups, family support groups; and accredited parenting programmes including M-PACT. Applicants must be committed to attending training for parent training programmes, as well as contributing to the delivery of hidden harm and FASD training to professionals across Birmingham.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic person to help develop this service and expand the family support options to support complex families in Birmingham with the aim of improving outcomes for all family members affected by parental substance misuse.
An energetic and confident self-starter, you will need a passion for working with families supported by a qualification in health/social care, youth and community work (e.g. NVQ Level 3 or above, DipSW, Mental Health Nursing, Counselling, Addiction Studies). Alternatively, we will consider candidates with experience of working in the substance misuse field. As well as good knowledge of alcohol/drug and health related issues, you will have experience of liaising with voluntary and statutory agencies and health professionals. You will also have experience of engaging with clients in a variety of service delivery settings. You will have a flexible approach, a commitment to the principles of confidentiality and excellent record keeping and Microsoft Office.
This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post-holder to work 37 hours per week.
This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.
We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.
Aquarius is a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship, with both organisations being part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. From 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship will be merging with the mental health charity Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. At the same time, Aquarius will become a subsidiary of Humankind, with no impact to terms and conditions of employment. In October 2024, Humankind will then be renamed to reflect the new, bigger and better organisation, of which Aquarius will remain a subsidiary.
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We’re an award-winning charity that runs local learning centres in the heart of communities where the young people
we support live. Our centres provide an innovative education programme which includes practical learning support and
motivational and confidence-building activities for children and young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to inspire students from
the least advantaged neighbourhoods to broaden their horizons and achieve their full potential.
As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping thousands of young people each year. We have forty-one centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, with ambitious plans to scale-up our
provision further over the coming years.
We are looking for a high-calibre candidate to take up a fixed-term role of Adult and Family Learning Manager, working across our centres in Govan and Maryhill (Glasgow) and Craigmillar (Edinburgh).
This is a new and exciting role at the charity, focussing on how we can offer additional impactful support in the local
communities in which our Scotland centres are based. The post holder will work in close collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The pilot will focus on supporting the parents, carers and families of young people accessing the centres, with the potential for this to extend to wider adults in the community. You will lead the pilot project, developing a programme tailored according to and with an understanding of the different communities in which it will be offered. You will lead on programme delivery and evaluating the impact of the project.
Working with colleagues based at the three centres, you will provide a range of activities which will support parents and carers to support their children in their learning, develop their own skills and knowledge around employment and education, and provide a range of family learning activities to engage the whole family together.
As a charity with social mobility as its core objective, IntoUniversity is wholly committed to equality of opportunity. We work with families, children and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds, and we believe that our staff team should be similarly diverse and representative.
The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise that we have much more to do in this regard. We are committed to building a culture where students, staff and volunteers are valued for the unique people
they are. We therefore encourage applications from candidates from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. In particular, we actively and warmly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic
candidates, male candidates and candidates with a disability as they are currently under-represented within IntoUniversity.
If you believe that all young people deserve the chance to develop their talents regardless of their background and want to play a part in helping them succeed, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
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Volunteer Development Officer
Reference: APR20246930
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave (pro rata)
Nature is in Crisis, and here at the RSPB we are working across the UK and overseas to save it. As the UK's largest nature conservation charity, with a workforce of over 14,000 employees and volunteers, we have an ambitious programme of work to revolutionise our volunteering approach and deepen the impact volunteers have as individuals and collectively.
The Volunteer Development Officer (Assemble) will work within the Volunteering Development Department to deliver the volunteering elements of our new corporate strategy, which has a focus on increasing people powered conservation, focussing on diversity and raising our internal people capabilities.
Assemble is our volunteering management system and this role will be the lead contact, champion and be the system expert from the RSPB business perspective (volunteering) for Assemble – ensuring volunteering and volunteers get the best from Assemble.
The Volunteering Development Department are the subject matter experts for volunteering and will drive the culture change needed to achieve the required change and growth in volunteers and volunteering delivering our ambitious strategy demands.
You can be based anywhere in the UK, and we are very supportive of flexible working. We value and understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds within our workforce and strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community.
What's the role about?
The Volunteering Development Department are the subject matter experts for volunteering and will drive the culture change needed to achieve the required change and growth in volunteers and volunteering delivering our ambitious strategy demands.
As the Volunteer Management System (Assemble) lead, this role will:
- Proactively make changes to Assemble (through the System Administrator) as required to support, improve and develop business operations.
- Document RSPB Business processes linked to Assemble
- Assist in developing and delivering training and other resources such as promotional talks, intranet articles and team presentations, to promote uptake of the system and support users in getting the best from Assemble
- With the System Administrator (in our Digital team) ensure Assemble functionality (existing and new), work as required for users and the RSPB
- Provide excellent Customer Care and support to all Assemble Users resolving issues and challenges within our service level agreement.
- Ensure data and metrics from Assemble are available to meet business need, funding bid requirements and our annual reporting requirements internally and externally Identify and champion opportunities to get even more from Assemble to meet our volunteering strategy and improve and enhance our support for volunteers and the user experience on Assemble.
- This role would have an individual specialism but with the ability to be flexible to cover the priorities required across the department and the UK wide needs.
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- Comprehensive understanding and knowledge of volunteering innovation, best practice and sector standards.
- Demonstrable track record of having successfully and effectively developed a range of volunteering roles and schemes across an organisation.
- Experience of providing operational advice and guidance on volunteer involvement to people at all levels and building effective stakeholder relationships.
- Experience of working in a customer-focused environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, successfully influencing, persuading, guiding, listening to, and negotiating with others, constructively challenging thinking where appropriate.
- Strong skills in identifying and analysing problems, issues and areas of improvement, working collaboratively to develop creative strategies and solutions.
- Ability to be proactive, use initiative and work independently.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills; ability to manage and deliver a diverse portfolio of work and to balance the priorities and needs of multiple stakeholders.
Closing date: 23:59, Friday 24th May 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from week commencing 10th June 2024.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
As part of this application process you will be asked to complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
No agencies please.
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An exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to lead on the provision, evaluation and development of a Scotland-wide bereavement support service.
Bereavement Support Service Lead - Scotland
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Rate: £37,500 per annum
Reporting to: Head of Support Services
Base: Glasgow with travel to other locations across Scotland as required. This is a new role and initially will require a regular presence at our offices in Finnieston, Glasgow. Once established, hybrid working will be an option.
Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.
We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.
We provide training to professionals in health and social care, education, and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.
Child Bereavement UK has an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to lead on the provision, evaluation and ongoing development of a Scotland-wide bereavement support service that ensures families and professionals can access high-quality bereavement support when a baby or child has died, or when children or young people are bereaved. The Bereavement Support Service Lead will also support the strategic development of the Charity’s services in Scotland.
The Bereavement Support Service Lead - Scotland will:
- Lead/manage/contribute to and further develop the provision of a blended model of bereavement support across Scotland.
- Provide training, consultancy, and support for professionals whose work brings them into contact with bereaved families.
- Collaborate with partners to develop bereavement support services across Scotland.
- Support Child Bereavement UK’s Fundraising Team in the generation of sustainable income to fund our Scottish operations, providing information and data to support applications and reporting.
Child Bereavement UK offers a generous package of benefits including an employee assistance programme, 5% pension contribution and life assurance scheme.
Applicants should have a recognised, health, social care, or counselling qualification, experience in working with children, young people and families, excellent communication skills and be passionate about supporting bereaved families and those whose roles bring them into contact with these families.
The successful candidate will be required to complete a PVG check.
Closing date: 15 May 2024.
Interviews will be held on 22 May in person at Child Bereavement UK's office in Finnieston, Glasgow.
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews offered, on an on-going basis. We reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
The Charity is committed to creating a safe and welcoming atmosphere for everyone, and one that challenges all forms of oppression or discrimination including those based on age, gender or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race (which includes nationality, citizenship, ethnic or national origins), religion/faith or belief, sexual orientation (collectively known in law as the ‘protected characteristics’), as well as any oppression or discrimination based on other physical characteristics or impairments, occupation, income, wealth, or unrelated criminal convictions.
No agencies please.
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Citizen Church, launched in 2020, and is a Church in Wales church with three campuses in South Wales, and part of the Holy Trinity Brompton network.
Citizen’s vision is to play its part in the evangelisation of the nation, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society. Their mission is to break the stereotypes of church, to breach loneliness, to bring people home and to build the kingdom in Cardiff, Wales and beyond. Citizen has partnered with Resurgo to deliver the Spear programme in the heart of South Wales.
They are looking for a new Assistant Coach, to work alongside the Centre Manager, as part of the team at Citizen Church to deliver the Spear Programme, equipping and empowering unemployed 16–24 year olds to overcome barriers to employment and turn their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.
The important stuff
Salary: £21,500 p.a. pro rata for part-time role (£10,750)
Hours: Part time, 2.5 days per week, between 9.30am – 5.30pm, Tuesday – Thursday (with some flexibility and occasional evening or weekend work for events such as Spear Celebrations)
Location: Citizen Church, Cardiff
Closing date: We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate.
Application: Please apply by emailing your CV and a Cover Letter to Citizen Church. We will not process applications through this page.
Download the application pack for more information.
Personal qualities we’re looking for
- An active Christian, able to personally represent the values and beliefs of Resurgo and Citizen Church
- A commitment to grow and learn spiritually and as a Christian leader, and a desire to learn and understand coaching techniques
- Passion for social justice and for working as part of the church to transform communities, especially supporting young people in employment or education
- High emotional intelligence, a sense of humour and fun!
- Confident communication and interpersonal skills, both over telephone and face to face; particularly a confidence in group facilitation
- An ambitious and self-motivated individual with the ability to prioritise workload, exercise initiative and work well under pressure.
Key Responsibilities
Spear Programme
- Lead group sessions of up to 10 young people, using coaching skills to transform their mindsets, and to maximise their potential in stepping into the world of work
- Prepare and deliver coaching sessions on a weekly basis and find creative ways of developing ongoing relationships with Spear Trainees. This includes running application workshops with past Trainees as well as maintaining records and reporting on statistics.
Relationship management
- Build and manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including referrers, local businesses, and other organisations
- You will support with job fairs, mock interview days and welcoming external visitors to the centre
Church Community
- The Spear Coach is directly employed by Citizen Church, meaning you are part of a vibrant church staff team and submerged in an exciting faith community
- Help to raise the profile of the Spear programme within Citizen Church and build a network of supporters and volunteers from the congregation
- Other ad hoc church responsibilities from time to time.
Please apply by submitting your CV and a Cover Letter
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Pelham is a local Christian charity that enriches lives in real and diverse ways for our community in Sidley, Bexhill. The Pelham aims to benefit the community through our charitable activities & projects, and effective partnership working.
This exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and vibrant local charity also represents a growing youth work provision, which has been developing over the last 5 years with an engaged group of local young people and strong links to local schools, community groups and churches. We are looking for a visionary and passionate youth worker to build on what has worked well to date and establish new opportunities and activities for local young people to benefit from. We are passionate about seeing local people’s lives lived to the full and reaching their potential in a supportive environment.
Following the opening of the basement in September 2023, The Pelham has a designated space for children and young people to call their own. In our current work as a Community Hub, we have over 60 partner organisations and over 400 people a week coming through the doors, and our vision is to see the range of activities and partners be replicated for local youth.
As well as leading the youth work, this postholder will join part of The Pelham’s project leadership team alongside the other four core projects:
· Our volunteer-run Coffee Lounge is open 5 days a week, providing a safe and warm space in the community to over 150 customers each week.
· The Pelham as a Community Hub welcomes over 400 people through our doors each week and hire our spaces out to over 60 different local organisations that use The Pelham as a base for their valuable assistance to help people in need locally. The range of organisations covers the voluntary, statutory and small business community to create a vibrant and dynamic space.
· RunningSpace is our suicide prevention project with a vision to champion life and beat suicide through walk2run groups. We currently run sessions in five locations, across East Sussex and Kent. We also host suicide prevention training too on a regular basis.
· The Pelham Counselling Service offers individual and group work therapy sessions with its team of 9 counsellors. It offers bursaries and a flexible service to best meet the needs of local people.
In joining the team, collaborative working will be at the heart of the development of the youth work, including group therapy sessions for young people, suicide prevention work and volunteering and employability pathways.
As a charity and team our core values are to be:
· Welcoming- We welcome everyone in with love and respect
· Relational- We build strong and trusted connections within our community
· Generous- We choose to be generous as we look to bless people we meet
· Authentic - We aim to have integrity, openness and compassion in all we do
· Ambitious - We create sustainable and transformational opportunities that impact people for good.
The current outworking of the role, fulfilled in 12 hours a week, includes:
· Running an after-school youth club for secondary school aged children on a Tuesday evening, supported by a team of volunteers. Currently, 30 young people on average attend.
· Working within the local secondary school’s pastoral care team on Monday and Tuesday lunchtimes
· Development of activities for The Basement, which is the designated space for children and young people at The Pelham. This space was opened in September 2023 following an extensive capital redevelopment.
· Providing a range of activities and events in the school holidays.
The hours for this job are 30 hours per week. There is an openness to job sharing and also extending the role to full time hours. If these elements are of interest do reach out for an initial conversation and do apply)
Main Purpose of the Role:
The Youth Worker will take the leadership role in the development of Youth work from The Pelham, as part of its charitable work and community service, working under the guidance of the CEO and as part of the Project Leadership team.
The role will include having vision to develop relevant and appealing opportunities in Bexhill for young people, working together with local partners, including schools and voluntary organisations. This will include innovative options outside of our current scope of work, which may include wellbeing activities, studying support, home education, group work therapy and more.
There will also be administrative responsibilities specific to this role, including safeguarding and risk assessing all activities and events as well as the young people that you will be working with.
The role will also involve hosting a range of regular session specifically for young people, as well as empowering and encouraging young people, in line with the vision and values of The Pelham as a charity.
Key Tasks:
1. To create a safe environment for young people to be at The Pelham, including all necessary safeguarding requirements and good practice.
2. To run youth activities at The Pelham on a weekly basis in term time, including but not limited to:
1. After school sessions
2. Evening sessions
3. Daytime sessions for home educated or de-schooled students
4. School holiday activities
3. To provide consistent and appropriate input into the lives of local young people living in our community, giving them purpose, value and significance.
4. To develop partnerships specifically focused on the usage of the basement during the daytime. This is focused around exploring connections with home educated students, and those outside of mainstream education.
5. To establish key links with existing youth provision in the town, alongside the schools, voluntary groups and faith groups.
6. To work alongside The Pelham Counselling Service to promote and support the wellbeing of young people, including through the use of group workshops.
7. To support a volunteer team to support in hosting youth activities, all with the appropriate DBS checks and training.
8. To work alongside the pastoral care team at Bexhill Academy to provide support to students during lunchtime(s) in the school week.
9. To explore and respond to the local need for young people, including helping to mitigate anti-social behaviour in Sidley with increased interaction and trust building. This will include working with local partners including Heart of Sidley, Rother Safety Partnership and Sussex Police.
10. This will also extend into local connections in Sidley, Pebsham, Chantry and Bexhill Town Centre in providing opportunities for children and young people and their families, as well as other youth focused organisations.
It is also possible to arrange a conversation with Ollie Jeffs, CEO, to discuss the role further including the flexibility of a job share or if a candidate is seeking full time hours.
The Pelham is a local Christian charity that enriches lives in real and diverse ways for our community in Sidley, Bexhill.