16hrs per week I Based in North Kensington, London I Flexible office / home based 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Learning and Evaluation Manager to join our team. You will help The Nucleo Project to understand and communicate the impact it has on the children and young people who participate, as well as the wider community. You will lead on and deliver a framework for evaluating the project, and you will use this research to support the rest of the team to reflect on and improve its work. 

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a candidate who has excellent communication skills, experience in research, a rigorous and detail-oriented approach, and a strong ethos for working in a community-based charity focused on youth. The role will require someone who is both technically skilled and good with people, and who is excited about playing a key role in the organisation's development. A commitment to the charity’s mission is essential. 

The role

While not exhaustive, the following list of responsibilities gives a comprehensive overview of the role:

• Developing and co-ordinating the learning and evaluation programme, using a measurement framework created by Sound Connections as a basis
• Sourcing qualitative and quantitative data from our participants and the wider community, to include both musical and non-musical outcomes 
• Creating strong processes for data management and for learning through data analysis
• Effectively communicating any learnings both internally and externally 
• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure the effective use of organisational learning in developing pedagogy and practice, and improving outcomes for our young people

Other core requirements 

• As this role will require working closely with children and young people an enhanced DBS check will be required. We can arrange this for the successful candidate. 
• We are actively interested in bringing people into the organisation from the widest possible pool of talent. We believe that having a wide range of perspectives and experience will help us do our work better. So if your life experience helps you to relate to our project, then we would especially like to hear from you.  

About us

The Nucleo Project was set up in 2013 to offer ensemble-based musical opportunities to children and young people in North Kensington, completely free of charge. We are part of the global El Sistema movement, which began in Venezuela in 1975.
Our students commit to an immersive and rigorous programme which fosters rapid progress and high achievement, as well as strong bonds within our community and a truly transformative difference in our young musicians’ day to day lives.

Interested? Please send your CV with contact details for 2 referees and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post by end of day, Wednesday 8th July 2020. 

Systems Change Practitioner - Medway and Kent

This role is being advertised subject to a successful funding bid and, if secured, will be funded until June 2023 with the potential for extension

21 hours per week (flexible working is available)

£23,388 - £29,902 per annum FTE - pro rata = £13,274 - £16,971

Flexible location office base would be Medway Kent

The Systems Change Practitioner role will sit within The Children's Society's Medway and Kent team, a team that is committed to strengthening how the organisation best supports children and young people by accelerating new and innovative ways of working. We use design and systems change approaches to root solutions that respond best to the needs of our service users. This role will help the organisation find new ways of working. We are a multi-skilled team, covering a range of disciples with a focus on working with young people at risk or having committed significant criminal offences. Our work is innovative in nature, we work across Medway and Kent and introduce new ways of working to the organisation in this area.

The Medway and Kent services are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Systems Change Practitioner who will work with the Area Manager to embed 'systems approaches' across practitioners in the Medway and Kent area.

This person will build trusting relationships with colleagues across the county and support the development of systems-informed practice. This is likely to be in the format of developing and delivering interactive workshops to groups of staff, collecting and sharing the stories around how systems change is happening in practice, and ultimately enhancing our impact for young people.

We are looking for a person who understands practice with young people, sees the system around the child and patterns or systemic barriers which might perpetuate challenges faced by young people. Someone enterprising who looks for an alternative way of working, is change-orientated, resourceful and creative. Someone who has a keen interest in learning about systems thinking as a tool to create change, and a passion and desire to tackle barriers faced by young people.

Please see the Job Description for further information.

The closing date for applications is 29th May, 2020.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 1st June 2020.

Community Development Manager 

Part time 3 days a week, working hours to be negotiated

12-month Fixed Term Contract, with possibility of extension

Salary: £28,000 Full time equivalent

(£16,800 pro-rated) + 3% pension contribution

Home-based with regular meetings across London

Closing Date: Sunday 21 June 2020

At We Are Family Adoption (WAF), we are on a mission to ensure adoptive parents are part of peer-to-peer communities, offering each other mutual support through the highs and lows of parenting.

This is an exciting time for our organisation. We have ambitious plans to expand our membership and volunteer numbers, provide more of our existing services for more parents, design new services and raise income to support our organisation.

We are now recruiting a Community Development Manager to work with existing and new WAF volunteer-led groups to plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate our services. Join us and you will support local groups in practical ways and build a strong volunteering programme. You will achieve this by inspiring and coaching local volunteer teams to follow best practice as well as help them develop partnerships in their local settings. You will ensure our local activities and events, as well as our online community services, are resourced and deliver the greatest impact for members too.

You will also oversee ongoing compliance with legislation and policy, organise and manage inductions, create and deliver volunteer training and toolkit materials as well as maintain volunteer records. Important will be the ability to share learning, implement technology solutions and identify new service offerings.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised ‘self-starting’ individual with experience of working with user-run communities in a volunteer-involving environment. Skilled in supporting volunteer led projects, you will be used to developing and maintaining policies and procedures for volunteers. Critically, you will be adept at collecting, analysing and using data to drive and improve services.

You will be energetic and proactive, as well as comfortable using your strong communication skills to engage and build a rapport with members and volunteers. Able to motivate teams and individuals, you will be results focused and comfortable prioritising projects and working on own initiative.

If the opportunity to join an exciting, rapidly growing new charity appeals to you as someone able to make a valuable contribution, please send your CV and a covering e-mail setting out why you would like to join us and how you meet the requirements set out above to us via the link no later than the closing date.

WAF is a diverse organisation whose members come from all of the different communities within the London area.  We seek to reflect this diversity in our organisation and therefore welcome applications from all candidates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability.

The People team’s goal is to recruit, develop and retain outstanding people who deliver our important work in improving the lives of vulnerable children and families. The role of the People Coordinator is essential to ensure we have solid foundations in place to achieve this goal. This is a great opportunity for someone who is organised, dynamic and keen to start a career in HR.

You will lead and manage all administration support to ensure the People team are as efficient and effective as possible. You will manage all employee administration; from ensuring all employees have a great induction to collating themes from our exit interviews. You also will be responsible for managing vital processes such as payroll, tracking new starters and leavers.

You will work alongside the People Partners and Head of People to support with key priorities such as recruitment coordination and the organisation of development opportunities, whilst making improvements to our current systems and processes.

We are looking for someone who has experience of facilitating groups of individuals, delivering information in a clear and professional way, alongside strong attention to detail and exceptional organisational skills. You will need to be experienced in managing a large and varied workload. We are looking for someone who has experience of facilitating groups of individuals, delivering information in a clear and professional way

The Selection Officer will be responsible for selecting applicants who have the potential to make outstanding child protection social workers. You will be designing and delivering best practice selection models and processes for the Frontline Leadership Development Programme. You will be involved in screening applications, assessing at our assessment centres, overseeing elements of the selection process, supervising assessment centres and contributing to the design and development of selection materials and the monitoring and evaluation of the selection activities.

This role involves some longer days from September-February when attending assessment centres (8.30am-6.30pm), and occasional weekend work in support of recruitment events.

Coram Family and Childcare

Fixed-Term (until November 2021), Part-Time

This is an exciting opportunity to work on an innovative programme at a dynamic national charity, enabling parents to signpost and co-produce family services and improving outcomes for 0-3 year olds in Nottingham.

We’re looking for an approachable, friendly and professional person who has the confidence and ability to communicate with a range of audiences. You’ll have experience of supporting volunteers, and be well-organised, flexible and a good team player. You will be supporting a group of inspirational parents – coordinating activities and training, supporting with recruitment and evaluation, and raising awareness of the opportunity to actively involve parents in the design of family services.

This post is contracted until November 2021, with a possible extension, and is being offered part-time (21 hours per week), based in the SSBC office in Nottingham, with occasional travel to the London office and other locations across the UK, and occasional evening work. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to the application form.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 9am, Monday 15th June 2020

Interview Date: TBC

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

We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position. We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help.

Registered Charity Number 107744

Schools and Community worker

This role is being advertised subject to a successful funding bid and, if secured, will be funded until June 2023 with the potential for extension

18 hours per week

Salary: £11,378 - £14,153 (£23,388 - £29,092 pro rata)

Location: Medway and North Kent

The Children's Society is expanding its operations into the Medway and the north of Kent. We are seeking to appoint an Service Manager to help grow our reputation for delivering excellent and impactful services, disrupting disadvantage and ensuring no young person feels alone.

This is a job with prevention and diversion away from high risk offending behaviours at the heart. We people to be as brave, impactful and authentic as the work that we do to support young people. Our strategy is radical, inspiring and distinctive and we want our teams to embody this ethos.

Through the delivery of this service, this role will have a significant element to ensure that the Children and Young People receive an outstanding service through the delivery of support and interventions that are of the highest quality, impactful and safe.

Please see the Job Descriptions for further information.

We are looking for a creative, collaborative, dynamic people with extensive experience of working with children and families. You will have substantial relevant experience of direct working with children, young people and families within schools and home environments. Strong skills in listening, assessment, advocacy, negotiation, and communication (written and oral) with children and families.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 7th June 2020

Interviews will be held on week commencing 15th June 2020

Family Support Worker

This role is being advertised subject to a successful funding bid and, if secured, will be funded until June 2023 with the potential for extension

37 hours per week

Salary: £23,388 - £29,092 dependant on office location.

Location: Medway and North Kent

The Children's Society is expanding its operations into the Medway and the north of Kent. We are seeking to appoint an Service Manager to help grow our reputation for delivering excellent and impactful services, disrupting disadvantage and ensuring no young person feels alone.

This is a job with prevention and diversion away from high risk offending behaviours at the heart. We people to be as brave, impactful and authentic as the work that we do to support young people. Our strategy is radical, inspiring and distinctive and we want our teams to embody this ethos.

Through the delivery of this service, this role will have a significant element to ensure that the Children and Young People receive an outstanding service through the delivery of support and interventions that are of the highest quality, impactful and safe.

Please see the Job Descriptions for further information.

We are looking for a creative, collaborative, dynamic people with extensive experience of working with children and families. You will have substantial relevant experience of direct working with children, young people and families within schools and home environments. Strong skills in listening, assessment, advocacy, negotiation, and communication (written and oral) with children and families.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 7th June 2020

Interviews will be held on week commencing 15th June 2020

Interim Marketing Engagement Manager 

Remote working with occasional visits (when conditions allow) to the office in Liphook, Hampshire

Opportunity open to an individual or marketing agency
Temporary contract (up to 6 months) with potential to move to permanent
Individual - £30,000 pro rata per annum or Agency - £3,000 per month
Full-time or part-time hours available (28 – 35 hours)

About Us

Dreams Come True is a national charity with a big heart and a clear purpose. We exist to fulfil the dreams of children and young adults with serious and life-limiting conditions.

We are the only wish granting organisation that fulfils the dreams of children and young adults with such a wide range of backgrounds, medical conditions, locations and ages. We believe that because of this, we are answering an unmet need by allowing these two to 21-year-olds – who would usually otherwise be missed – a chance to have their dream transformed into a reality.

And that’s what makes us unique – we have a simple principle that we aim to help those that others can’t and in doing so, place our amazing Dreams Families at the heart of every decision, every action and at every opportunity. We are a charity that focuses on impact and making a positive difference to those we seek to help.

The Opportunity 

We’re looking for an interim Marketing Engagement Manager or suitably qualified marketing agency to join us on a contract (for up to six months) which has the potential to become a permanent position. 

This is a key role within the charity, as it is the driving force behind increasing our awareness, supporter base, digital impact and donations.  

As the Marketing Engagement Manager, you will work collegiately across all areas to ensure that the right message is delivered, to the right audience, at the right time. 

You will lead the planning and delivery of all marketing activity that at its heart has clear and concise messaging, compelling dreams stories, calls to action and ultimately positions the charity as “one that can”.

This role is about building on good foundations with the primary focus being on taking ownership of the charity’s website and social media, campaign development and delivery and being responsible for all marketing engagement activities utilising all channels. 

Key requirements include:

- Driving marketing communications activity through the supporter base and the wider like-minded supporter universe 
- Developing and delivering campaigns that take account of the current pandemic and instil a desire to take part and donate
- Being responsible for all engagement activities including the production of website content, social media, public relations and email marketing

About You

To join us, you will need: 

- Previous experience of charity marketing, including brand proposition, audience development and increasing awareness and associated return
- Experience of making a significant difference in marketing engagement, both on and offline 
- A track record of updating databases and utilising CRM, website management and development and overseeing and developing marketing campaigns, both organic and paid, utilising all social media channels 
- The ability to write and proofread creative copy

Other organisations may call this role Marketing Manager, Marketing Campaign Manager, Charity Marketing Manager, Engagement Manager, or Digital Marketing Manager. 

Additional Information 

We are committed to safeguarding. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check prior to appointment in line with Safer Recruitment.

Dreams Come True values equality and diversity, and welcomes applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.  

So, if you are an individual or a marketing agency seeking an exciting new challenge as a Marketing Engagement Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

About ReachOut

ReachOut is a mentoring charity that works with young people in disadvantaged communities in London, Manchester, Oldham and Liverpool to raise aspirations and help them grow in character and academic attainment. We improve Numeracy, Literacy and Communication Skills whilst reinforcing our core values of Fairness, Self-Control, Good Judgement and Staying Power.

Role Description

We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative and positive individuals to join our Leadership Programme and become Project Leaders. As a Project Leader you will run a weekly mentoring project at either a primary or secondary school, facilitating the 2-hour sessions alongside other responsibilities. The Leadership Programme is an opportunity to gain and improve your leadership, management and communication skills whilst having a massive impact on the lives of young people. You will be supporting them to raise their aspirations, develop their character, and build their academic attainment and self-confidence. Are you up for the challenge?

Role Details

As a Project Leader you will:

• Spend 2 hours planning and 2 hours delivering your mentoring session each week during term time for 10 - 16 young people and their mentors.
• Manage and support the young people.
• Manage and support the volunteer mentors.
• Attend meetings with school contacts alongside the ReachOut team and provide information to the school when requested by ReachOut.​
• Complete monitoring and evaluation activities to assess project success.​

Please download the information pack for full details about the job role.

Personal Specification

Experience

• Has worked with groups of young people in the range 9 to 16 years old
• Has the potential to take on a leadership role
• Can demonstrate commitment to a cause / activity and has taken an active role in that (e.g. captain of a sports team, president of a society)
• Has professional work experience (e.g. internships, summer placements, etc.) This can include regular voluntary experience but should be positions where you have had responsibility for something, worked to deadlines, worked with others etc.

Skills

• Maths and English skills, (minimum grade C at GCSE or equivalent)
• Communication skills (face-to-face, email, text, phone)
• Good organisation skills (can manage tasks effectively, accurately and in timely fashion)
• Confident in use of MS Word and Excel

Personal attributes

• Passionate about ReachOut’s mission
• Demonstrates ReachOut’s Character Strengths: Fairness, Good Judgement, Self-Control and Staying Power
• Demonstrate good team work skills such as collaboration and delegation
• Open to feedback with a genuine desire to learn and develop personally
• Enthusiastic and energetic
• Excited by challenge
• Prepared to be adaptable and creative
• Positive
• Sociable

Application Instructions

To apply for the Leadership Programme, please visit our website where you can apply. Applicants must ensure they are available to attend a Residential weekend from 4th to 6th September. The residential weekend will be in London. Accommodation, transport from Manchester/Liverpool, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday will be provided. Upon completion of the residential training weekend, all Project Leaders will be paid a lump sum of £50.

Application assessments and interviews have been temporarily suspended due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Applicants are encouraged to still apply, however, applications are unlikely to be assessed for a few weeks.

Brainwave is a long-established national charity and since 1982 has been providing therapy to children predominantly aged between 6 months to 12 years.  The children we work with have a range of conditions and diagnoses including:

• Cerebral Palsy
• Developmental Delay
• Autism
• Brain Injury
• Down’s syndrome
• Other genetic conditions, and children with no formal diagnosis.

We are looking to appoint a Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with experience of using a range of interventions and strategies to support complex communication needs of children with learning disabilities and profound and multiple learning disabilities.  Formal training or relevant experience of using Parent Child Interaction approaches, Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) methods (Switches, PECS, Eye Gaze, Makaton signing etc.) and knowledge of Dysphagia assessment and treatment and Sensory Integration approach is desirable.

HCPC and RCSLTregistration is essential. 

Part time or Job share will be considered.

Practice Educator

ASYE Academy

£44,110 - £46,257

Buckinghamshire

Morgan Hunt are currently working with the newly formed Buckinghamshire Council to recruit a team of Advanced Practitioners tasked with being Practice Educator to their ASYE Academy. This is the ideal opportunity for an experienced social worker looking to make a difference while not holding a caseload but having a genuine impact on the social worker of the future.

This Academy is the next step in Buckinghamshire's ambitious journey of improvement and shows the commitment being shown to learning, well being and career development of its staff in a time when we all need it more than ever.

Buckinghamshire Council are growing our ASYE Academy and as such, are looking for a Practice Educator to lead and support the next generation of social workers through a range of innovative schemes i.e. the ASYE academy, Apprenticeships and Step Up to Social Work.

Your responsibilities

• providing reflective supervision and mentoring to a cohort of Newly Qualified Social Workers
• observing practice and assessing evidence of progression
• facilitating regular one-to-one and group feedback sessions
• working closely with NQSW line managers to ensure records of support and assessments are completed

About you

We are looking for a committed social work professional, who is passionate about supporting and developing Newly Qualified Social Workers towards excellence in practice.

You will have:

• a Social Work Degree or equivalent
• significant experience as a Social Worker
• a Stage 2 Practice Educator qualification (e.g. Practice Teacher Award or PEPS)
• excellent communication and managerial /organisational skills
• proven teaching and assessing skills

For more information, please contact Chris Armstrong on 07525 873 280 or apply now.

Morgan Hunt is a multi award winning Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

The Digital Marketing Specialist sits in the Digital Marketing team that is part of a wider team encompassing Creative and Digital Content. The team operates as a center of expertise, providing strategic consultancy and digital transformation to the whole organisation.

The Digital Marketing Strategist is primarily responsible for providing digital marketing strategy across a broad range of channels, supporting client teams to deliver effective, sector leading digital marketing campaigns. In addition, this role leads the cross-organisational paid social strategy, ensuring the optimum use and growth of this channel.

If you are a digital marketer/media planner with a proven track record of planning and building effective multi-channel marking campaigns as well as depth of experience delivering paid social activity, then we would love to hear from you.

Streets of Growth is seeking to employ an experienced and entrepreneurial individual as a Youth Intervention Coach on a full-time basis who has a strong track record of working with young people (15-25 years) and their families. 

Streets of Growth is an outcome driven charity, working to reduce harm and positively transform the lives of the most vulnerable and at-risk young people and their families in Tower Hamlets East London. We do not wait for the young people to walk through our doors, or to be referred by an agency, instead we engage and reach out to young people across the streets and neighbourhoods. Working to build a relationship of trust, truth and transformation with each young person, coaching and enabling them to support themselves to change negative lifestyles, move away from violence and harm, stay out of prison, get good jobs, and create a better future for themselves.

If you are entrepreneurial in your thinking of working with young communities, want to achieve high standards for the young people and their families  you work with and are looking for an exciting opportunity in which you can grow both personally and professionally then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate will be skilled in engaging, assessing and delivering interventions designed to support young people to build personal resilience and move away from harm and violence. Plus, the successful candidate will possess sound risk assessment skills and safeguarding knowledge.  A key component of the job role is, case management and good practice models, which underpin Streets of Growth practice.

Roles and duties:

1. Implementation of Streets of Growth’s Appropriate Intervention Model (AIM) via Bridging programme, across the areas of Lifestyle, Enterprise/Employ-ability, Education and Engaging Institutions.
2. Working on a case management basis with a caseload of referred and street engaged young people.
3. Working in partnership with families and other key people in a young persons’ life to build a strong network for positive change and progression for each young person and their family.
4. Working with the frontline team to deliver targeted street work to engage and build up relationships of trust with high risk and vulnerable young people (15-25 years) in the estates and youth crime hotspot areas across Tower Hamlets. 
5. To work to and meet set progression targets within agreed time-lines and deadlines based on the needs of the young people and their families on your caseload.

Qualifications and Skills

• Three years or more frontline experience of working with young people in one of the following areas, youth work, targeted youth work (such as gang intervention, county lines) family intervention, social work, youth justice, probation, education or health.
• A professional qualification in one of the following areas: youth and community work, social work, probation, family intervention, health, education OR relevant degree and experience of working with children, young people and families.
• Experience of providing high quality coaching support and knowledge of approaches including those relating to coaching and emotional intelligence that ensure young people and their families can develop the resilient skills needed to move out of crime, violence, harm and poverty.
• Good IT skills and ability to use Microsoft packages and previous experience of inputting data on CRM system.
• Desirable is the experience and or a good understanding of the needs and challenges facing young people and communities of Tower Hamlets and East London.

Contract: Initial One-Year fixed term contract with the potential to be made PERMANENT dependent on progression achievements and funding. Full time 37 hours per week (however, part time applicants will be considered). Evening and weekend working will be required but will be reflected in workload and working hours.

Benefits

• 20 days annual leave + bank holidays.  FTE,( if part-time post is awarded this will pro rata of days worked)
• Pension scheme up to 8% contributions (this will be reviewed on an annual basis)
• Ongoing support for professional development and training (internal and external)

Please send a current CV along with a covering letter stating your

• suitability for this role,
•  skills and qualities you will bring to the role
•  any other information relevant to the post.

Please note that applications sent WITHOUT a Covering letter will NOT be considered. 

For informal discussion about the post you can contact Diane Peters, CEO on 020 7 515 7356

Streets of Growth will be interviewing selected candidates as applications are received and reserves the right to close the post before end date if a suitable candidate is appointed.