Contract Project Manager (Two Year ) Jobs
About the role:
Kinship is in our third year of delivering the first national peer support service for kinship carers in England. We are looking for a new Associate Director of Peer Support and Community to build and develop our model and to take the team to the next phase of growth and impact.
Your first priority will be to oversee delivery of the Department for Education national Peer Support Service contract in England. You will lead the development of our hub and spoke model, with an enhanced offer of national resources and support together with a continued focus on on-the-ground support for kinship carers to set up and sustain a network of peer support groups. You will ensure all members of the team have clarity and are empowered to meet new targets and ways of working.
The role will also lead on the strategic development of peer support approaches in Wales (for which we are seeking funding), ensuring innovation and good practice is shared across the nations.
Kinship peer support groups are powerful levers for change in local, regional and national ecosystems. Your team will ensure that every kinship carer in England and Wales has access to a peer support group, or support to set up and create their own. The team will be purposeful about offering developmental support to all kinship peer support groups, including independent groups, ensuring they remain or become sustainable. And that they have resources, training and peer networks to support this.
Reflecting our strategic focus on developing our Kinship Community of more than 10,000 kinship carers across England and Wales, you will lead a new community strategy, co-ordinating the development of opportunities for community connection and community power. This will include taking leadership for developing the Kinship model of community engagement and integrating across all our ‘in person’ and digital services and activities.
You will ensure a collaborative approach with services, alignment with national and local campaigning activity, and work closely with marketing and communications colleagues to support kinship carer reach and engagement with our community offer.
We’re taking an integrated approach to our services, so you’ll collaborate well across teams to ensure that support groups and their leaders have easy access to high quality advice, information and training. The team will need to work closely with colleagues delivering our new training and support contract, funded by the Department for Education.
Key responsibilities include:
- Innovation of the Peer Support Service.
-
Develop and rollout peer support and community strategy and operational plan.
-
Implement monitoring and evaluation and impact tools for timely and accurate reporting of activity and engagement.
-
Work with the Development team to develop proposals for the community and peer support which are ready for fundraising and business development.
Essential requirements include:
-
Substantial experience in scaling a national service or programme with high quality outputs. This includes overseeing delivery, strategic planning, budgeting, managing delivery, meeting KPIs, stakeholder engagement and reporting to funders.
-
Experience of governance and managing risk on high profile service delivery.
-
Experience of effective budget management.
-
Significant experience of leading the development and delivery of peer support services.
Key dates:
- Deadline - 9am on Monday 10 June 2024
- 1st interview - Friday 14 June 2024 (online) - TBC
- 2nd interview - Tuesday 18 June 2024 (in-person) - TBC
How to apply:
We will ask you for your CV and to respond to the following five questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together until the end and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question. You will have max 250 words per answer.
Questions for application (along with CV):
1. Outline why you want to work at Kinship in this role, and how your values align to the Kinship ones? Please include a bit about your experience in this section.
2. Please give one example of when you have had to develop from scratch OR innovate a national service. Please include what the service budget was, what you did and what the outcome was.
3. This service is a high-profile contract, funded by the Department for Education. Targets and SLAs need to be met while providing impact for kinship carers. Please give a previous example of how you’ve delivered and met targets with high quality outputs.
4. You’ll be leading a team who has been through a restructure, with new staff starting and a new model to develop and embed. You will need to work at pace, while providing strong leadership and clarity to the team. How would you approach the first three months, what will you prioritise and what will you need?
5. Given the strategic ambition of Kinship, the context in which we work and this role as Associate Director of Peer Support and Community, where do you see the opportunities and risks for the service in the next 1-2 years? How would you prepare or mitigate them?
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Poetic Unity
Poetic Unity is a Brixton based charity founded in 2015 that provides support and services for children and young people aged 10-30 years old across the UK. Our vision is to help young people find their voice, feel valued in society and to empower them to reach their highest potential. We use poetry as a tool to support young people's mental health, education, personal development, physical health, and community cohesion.
- 1,421 services provided across the UK to date
- 40,000 children and young people supported
The Role:
As the Chief Operating Officer, you will play a critical role in helping shape the future of our organisation, driving operational excellence, fostering innovation, and advancing our commitment to social justice and community empowerment. We are excited to welcome a dynamic and visionary leader to work with our CEO, sharing a passion for youth development and ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of young people. If you are driven by purpose, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are eager to be part of a mission-driven team, we invite you to explore this opportunity further!
Position: Chief Operating Officer
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Location: Office based in Brixton, London.
Hours: 35 hours per week (full-time), due to the nature of our work regular evening and weekend work will be required with this role.
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Contract type: 3 years, fixed term (extension subject to performance and securing funding.)
Key Areas of Responsibility:
Strategic Planning
Development and Management
Financial Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Team Leadership and Development
Risk Management and Compliance
Person Specification:
- Experience in senior management roles, preferably within the charity sector.
- Demonstrated success in developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
- Proven track record of effectively managing programmes and services, including programme development, implementation, and evaluation.
- Experience in financial management, budgeting, and revenue generation. Including proven success in grant writing, fundraising, and partnership development.
- Strong background in operational management, including process improvement, organisational development, and risk management.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and advocacy, with the ability to represent Poetic Unity effectively at various levels.
Skills and Abilities:
Excellent leadership and team management skills, exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, proven ability to manage multiple tasks with high level of integrity, professionalism and resilience.
Personal Attributes:
Passion for youth empowerment and social change, with a deep commitment to Poetic Unity's mission and values. Empathetic and compassionate approach with understanding of young people's needs. Self-motivated and proactive with a strong sense of initiative and a willingness to take ownership of tasks and projects.
All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, however, as an organisation that predominantly supports young Black people, the trustees are encouraging applications from candidates that are of Black or Black mixed heritage.
How to Apply?
To apply go to our website
Deadline to apply: 6pm on Monday 17th June 2024
Providing safe spaces, programmes and opportunities that enable marginalised young people to unlock their full potential.
About the role
This role is all about developing a welcoming and supportive support group community for kinship carers wherever they live. Building belonging, resilience and empowerment for support group leaders and kinship carers.
Funded by the Department for Education, our national Peer Support Service is creating a sustainable and life-changing legacy for kinship carers across England.
This is a game-changing service for kinship carers and builds on Kinship’s 10 years’ experience of developing peer support groups, and two years delivering a national service which has set up 145 new groups.
As a Peer Support Officer, you’ll make sure we deliver an exceptional and consistent peer support service for kinship carers.
You’ll set-up and develop new in-person groups in areas of high need, as well as supporting existing groups to thrive, developing a resilient and powerful peer support community.
Purpose of the role
Taking responsibility for the North West of England, you will reach out and work directly in local communities to develop sustainable kinship peer support groups.
You’ll need to think strategically – mapping areas and utilising resources to be effective and efficient in managing your time and building local connections.
Using community engagement techniques like coffee mornings, community events and linking with our training and support service, you’ll build local connections and relationships.
As you develop a group and recruit support group leaders, you’ll provide standardised training and help the group to navigate forming and storming – providing reassurance and support to empower the group.
Once the group is stable, you’ll transition the support group leader/s over to the ‘Hub’ team to build confidence and knowledge to run their group independently. You’ll also support online groups and special interest groups to transition to independence.
You’ll ensure targets are met and that kinship carers receive a good experience.
Key responsibilities include:
-
In person (face-to-face) strategic outreach into local and regional communities including setting up and attending local engagement events.
-
Set up and develop at least six new sustainable in person peer support groups annually, attending up to six sessions in person (if needed) before transition to self-sufficiency.
-
Recruit and retain support group leaders to develop their peer support groups.
-
Deliver standardised training to support group leaders (group roles and responsibilities, safeguarding, setting up, running and promoting a group).
Essential requirements include:
-
Proven experience in reaching and establishing strong relationships with hidden or underserved communities in person.
-
Significant experience developing peer support communities.
-
Proven experience of recruiting, managing, training and supporting volunteers in community settings with an emphasis on understanding and working with vulnerable volunteers.
-
Proven experience of ensuring outcomes and impacts of services are evidenced through high quality data collection.
Key Dates:
-
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 10 June 2024
-
Interviews: Tuesday 18 June 2024 (in-person, Greater Manchester)
How to apply:
We will ask you for your CV and to respond to the following four questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question. Once this is complete, both will be reviewed together. You will have 250 words per answer.
Questions for application (along with CV):
- Outline why you want to work at Kinship in this role, and how your values align to the Kinship ones? Please include a bit about your experience in this section related to the job description.
- This role needs to develop sustainable peer support groups, whereby sustainable means that the group is able to run by itself and has a strong peer support group leader (who is a kinship carer). Tell us how you would approach this.
- Give one example of a project, service or programme where you have delivered successful community outreach. How did you manage it, what were the targets and what did you achieve?
- When developing peer support groups with people with lived experience, what are the things you need to consider?
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
University of Oxford - Development and Alumni Engagement
Head of Development – Museums and Gardens
- Location: Oxford – hybrid working may be an option
- Salary: Grade 9: £52,815 - £61,198 per annum with a possible extension to £66,857.
- Contract type: Fixed-term to 30 September 2025
We are looking for a talented fundraiser, with a background in the cultural sector to join the Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM) Team within the Development and Alumni Engagement team of the University of Oxford.
You will be working with such iconic institutions as the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Oxford Botanic Gardens, the History of Science Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. In this role in any given week you might see a dodo, extraordinary thousand-year old Chinese ceramics, insects collected by Darwin, the first scientifically described dinosaur and drawings by John Ruskin, as well as work on projects involving saving the largest flower in the world or supporting world-leading restitution work.
The collections are important and renowned on their own accounts, but also play a key role in the University’s research. In addition, they are the open doors to the University of Oxford, encouraging a diverse range of communities to engage our academics and curators.
Your role will include fundraising for major gifts to support the museums and gardens, and leading a team of fundraisers who will work to support a wide range of activities across the institutions. You will also work closely with the Directors and other curators to raise funds from a range of donors and supporters. You will work with the Associate Director of Development – GLAM to develop strategies and manage relationships with the Directors and be part of the wider fundraising team for GLAM.
This is an opportunity to raise funds to support some of the most beautiful and significant objects and collections in the country, and to work as part of the highly successful fundraising team at the University of Oxford.
What We Offer:
Your happiness and wellbeing at work matters to us, so we offer a range of family friendly and financial benefits including:
- Flexible hybrid working
- An excellent contributory pension scheme
- 38 days annual leave
- Membership to CASE
- Training and Development opportunities
- A comprehensive range of childcare services
- Family leave schemes
- Cycle loan scheme
- Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs
- Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
Application process:
- Click the link to ‘Apply’ and follow the on-screen instructions on our Application portal.
- Applications must include of a CV and a letter of application, in your own words (in PDF format), outlining your motivations to apply for this role, your relevant experience and how you meet the criteria of the person specification.
Only applications received before 12.00 noon on 4 June 2024 can be considered.
Interviews are currently scheduled to take place on 14 June 2024, in person in Oxford.
Development and Alumni Engagement is committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We encourage applicants from all sectors of the community and are especially keen to encourage candidates from under-represented groups to apply.
We raise funds in support of the University’s academic priorities, securing donations for all aspects of academic and student endeavour.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Here at 42nd Street, Senior Mental Health Practitioners (Snr Prac) work at the heart of our service, delivering our vision of inclusive, trauma informed, accessible mental health and wellbeing support and opportunities for all young people.
42nd Street offers a choice of effective, creative, young person-centered and rights-based approaches, demonstrating local impact with national significance, we drive meaningful change that makes a positive difference to the lives of young people.
We celebrate our diverse team and inclusive workplace reflective of our service users; with a people-centric focus for our work-life balance; employee development and learning; wellbeing and mental health approaches.
Senior Practitioners deliver our services to young people alongside providing supervision and management and playing a vital role in keeping our management and practice connected for the success of our clinical best practice.
We are considering applications for Senior Mental Health Practitioners in both our Integrated Community Response (ICR) team and Safezones team, you can apply for either or both roles.
Both ICR and Safezones provide de-escalation support to Young People in crisis or experience high levels of distress in the community.
Safezones, is part of the Greater Manchester Children and Young People’s Crisis Care Pathway and may include weekend work depending on the needs of Young People and the service.
Apply if you can offer:
- Young People-centered approach to your Mental Health practice;
- Support to Young People in crisis or distress, with a solution focused approach;
- Passion for supporting inclusive and anti-discriminatory best practice and management;
- Excellent diligence in safeguarding and record keeping;
- Deliver confidential and accountable practice;
- Transferable skills from previous experience as a Youth Worker; Social Worker, Teacher; Counsellor; MHP in child and adult services; etc.
We Offer:
- People focused leaders, developmental line managers and an excellent team to work alongside with a strong 42nd Street culture focusing on equal opportunities and continual learning.
- Annual personal training budget to support your continued professional development, on successful completion of your probationary period.
- 42nd Street is a Real Living Wage Foundation accredited employer.
- Role locations are varied offering the service both out in the community and office based. 42nd Street can offer a hybrid working set up, in a way that fits both your needs and the needs of the service.
- 27 days’ annual leave and x8 bank holidays per year (pro rata), rising to 30 days’ annual leave after 5 years’ service.
- Pensions Scheme - 3% employer contributions.
- Cycle To Work scheme.
- Internal training calendar with modules identified by staff.
- x4 paid team well-being afternoons off per year to use as you wish.
Job description, person specification, job application form and equal opportunities form on the 'Work with Us' page on iur website.
We look forward to receiving your application. To ensure we offer an equal recruitment experience for all, we do not accept C.V. applications. Please use the application process as directed on our website.
If you have access needs that require additional support to make an application, please let us know and we can discuss best how to support you during the application process.
Roles available: There are x1 MHP ICR roles and x1 Safezones Snr Prac roles, see application for more information on selecting the roles you want to apply for.
For more information or to discuss ICR or Safezones opportunities in more detail, please contact Time Eaton, his contacr details are on the webiste.
Applications open: 17/05/2024
Applications close: 10 am, 07/06/2024
Interviews, W/c: 17/06/2024 and 24/06/2024.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £35,745.00-£40,221.00 per year (pro-rata)
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 07/06/2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Salary: £18 per hr (Self-employed )
Contract and term: 12-month contract, with the possibility of extension
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible hybrid working with one/two days a week in our offices in Tower Hamlets or Southwark
Start date: May-June 2024
Benefits of working with Kineara:
· Flexible, hybrid working and locations
· 10 Wellbeing Days, plus bank holidays
Kineara is looking for someone who can grow our fundraising potential and engage key stakeholders across the sector, while delivering engaging communications and outreach campaigns that demonstrate our social value and grow our support base. They will play a key role in helping Kineara develop our newly formed charitable arm, alongside our community interest company, to generate income through engaging fundraising campaigns, impact-driven communications and relationship-building with existing and potential funders.
You will work closely with the Project Managers to identify how support services can reduce barriers to secure housing, work and school; prevent evictions and homelessness; and improve health and wellbeing of people facing challenges. You’ll use this understanding to motivate new stakeholders to invest in our work - whether charitable trusts, corporate foundations or individuals.
You will feel real ownership over your work and need to be self-starting, flexible and hungry to grow with an already impactful charity with a strong social mission and vision. You will be keen to understand how our work makes a difference to people and use our impact to demonstrate our social value. This role crosscuts a range of key charitable specialisms, so you may have experience working in communications and be keen to widen your skillset; you may have a background in impact evaluation; or you may have worked in fundraising or development for a non-profit. We are keen to invite candidates with a range of experience from a variety of non-profit roles and are especially interested to meet candidates who have been part of – or are ready to be part of - the strategic growth of a charitable organisation.
Why us, now? Kineara is going through exciting changes this year: as a newly registered charity, we are opening up to new avenues of finance, engagement and growth. Our most recent projects have put us at the forefront of innovative ways of delivering support to private renters, working in partnership with housing services, private landlords, solicitors and health services to envision secure housing for all. We are also a team with lived experience and are a culturally diverse, spirited and mission-focused group that takes care of each other.
Why you? You are motivated by seeing vulnerable and marginalised people thriving and you have the drive to grow the reach of our organisation so that more people in need can access our support. You have a wide skillset and open attitude, ready to learn what you don’t already know and confident to lead on your projects but understand the value of listening, collaboration and working to joint and shared ambitions.
Job Description
Communications:
- Develop, contribute to and implement impact-driven and strategic communications campaigns that build Kineara’s fundraising capacity and raise awareness of the issues
- Develop brand identity for Kineara’s new charitable arm, ensuring it is consistent across all activities in the organisation, while maintaining Kineara’s overall ‘look and feel’ to ensure coherence in branding, colours, messaging, style and approach.
- Oversee the creation, development, distribution of compelling, impact-driven story-telling about Kineara’s work and beneficiaries using interviews, blogs, case studies, etc.
- Use a range of platforms to distribute print and electronic content including, but not limited to, newsletters, brochures, leaflets, posters reports, e-newsletters, and Kineara’s website
- Work closely with IT and business managers to ensure smooth running of internal communications
- Impact:
- Work closely with Operations Manager and practitioners to embed outcomes, create frameworks for monitoring and evaluate Kineara’s projects; and produce yearly evaluations and Impact Report of Kineara’s services
- Use learning from impact analysis to share with team and deliver impact-driven communications and to share our social value to funders and other stakeholders.
Business:
- Perform market research and analysing the Kineara audience and its needs
- Working with management to create and plan public relations strategies and campaigns to enhance brand image and voice
- Writing publicity content such as press releases, newsletters, speeches, website copy, leaflets etc
- Contribute to Kineara evaluation and reporting on projects and proposals
- Contribute to Kineara grant funding application
- Coordinate promotional events and attending conferences, press launches and exhibitions
- Monitoring and responding to feedback from the media and the public about the organisation on traditional and digital channels
- Recording media coverage and measuring impact of publicity campaigns on audience engagement
- Developing and disseminating publicity materials that increase visibility among stakeholders
- Ensuring that digital marketing content aligns with the company’s brand identity and message
Person Specification:
- Attributes
- With a strong alignment with Kineara’s values, you will be:
- An outstanding communicator who can engage, inspire and support colleagues, donors, trustees, volunteers and other stakeholders.
- Confident in promoting thought leadership to share our knowledge to develop external alliances and discuss topical issues online
- Passionate about addressing poverty and inequality, and commitment to equality and diversity
- A self-starter and a team player, with a flair for building relationships.
- Creative, enjoy innovative thinking and using your initiative.
- Adept at big picture thinking and project management, but also be able to engage with the detail to ensure projects are successfully completed.
- Comfortable with and skilled at change management and relish the strengths and challenges of a small and dynamic team in an evolving organisation.
- Analytical and reflective, but with excellent time management and ability to work under pressure.
Experience and Skills:
- We’d like to see a strong track record that is relevant to each of the key components of the role, although we recognise that you may have stronger experience in one or more areas. You will be able to demonstrate that you could deliver in:
- Planning, executing, achieving targets to grow income streams, including donor prospect research, developing new donor relationships, and grant writing.
- Working on effective online or offline fundraising campaigns that influence a range of stakeholders, with a reflective, creative and innovative approach.
- Using impact and outcomes to engage and promote services to funders, partners and other stakeholders.
- Developing brands and brand awareness in line with organisational objectives
- Creating communications plans in support of strategic objectives, and executing these to a high standard, reflecting and improving these to achieve greater impact.
- Familiarity with social media channels such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and solid experience of content creation and website management
- Creating and executing community, outreach and fundraising events.
- Strong IT skills and familiarity with CRM databases, MS Office, Word Press.
- Ability to put together and manage project budgets.
- Creating, developing and adapting outcomes tools such as survey, questionnaires, and focus groups
- Planning, creating and executing evaluations of projects, including creating surveys, events, questionnaires and feedback tools
- Managing communications/fundraising officers and external consultants
How to applyTo apply for the role, please send an up-to-date CV and a cover letter (up to two pages), describing how you meet the person specification. Please provide concrete examples and experience where possible, however we are open to hearing how you might develop or demonstrate these abilities or attributes if you have not yet had many years of experience in the field. You can also include:
- Why you wish to apply for this role
- Your relevant experience, knowledge and skills, based on the person specification above.
- What other qualities you have that you could bring to the role
- When you are available to begin work
Here at 42 Street, Mental Health Practioners (MHP) work at the heart of our service, delivering our vision of inclusive, trauma informed, accessible mental health and wellbeing support and opportunities for all young people.
42 Street offers a choice of effective, creative, young person-centered and rights-based approaches, demonstrating local impact with national significance, we drive meaningful change that makes a positive difference to the lives of young people.
We celebrate our diverse team and inclusive workplace reflective of our service users; with a people-centric focus for our work-life balance; employee development and learning; wellbeing and mental health approaches.
We are considering applications for Mental Health Practitioners in both our Integrated Community Response (ICR) team and Safe Zones team, you can apply for either or both roles.
Both ICR and Safe Zones provide de-escalation support to Young People in crisis or experience high levels of distress in the community.
Safezones, is part of the Greater Manchester Children and Young People’s Crisis Care Pathway and may include weekend work depending on the needs of Young People and the service.
Apply if you can offer:
- Young Person-centered approach to your Mental Health practice;
- Support to Young People in crisis or distress, with a solution focused approach;
- Passion for supporting inclusive and anti-discriminatory best practice;
- Excellent diligence in safeguarding and record keeping;
- Deliver confidential and accountable practice;
- Transferable skills from previous experience as a Youth Worker; Social Worker, Teacher; Counsellor; MHP in child and adult services; etc.
We Offer:
- People focused leaders, developmental line managers and an excellent team to work alongside with a strong 42nd Street culture focusing on equal opportunities and continuous learning;
- Annual personal training budget to support your continued professional development, on successful completion of your probationary period;
- 42nd Street is a Real Living Wage Foundation accredited employer;
- Role locations are varied offering the service both out in the community and office based. 42nd Street can offer a hybrid working set up, in a way that fits both your needs and the needs of the service;
- 27 days’ annual leave and x8 bank holidays per year (pro rata), rising to 30 days’ annual leave after 5 years’ service;
- Pensions Scheme - 3% employer contributions;
- Cycle To Work scheme;
- Internal training calendar with modules identified by staff;
- x4 paid team well-being afternoons off per year to use as you wish.
ICR and Safe Zones Job descriptions, person specification, job application form and equal opportunities form on our ' Work With Us' page on our webiste.
We look forward to receiving your application. To ensure we offer an equal recruitment experience for all, we do not accept C.V. applications. Please use the application process as directed on our website.
If you have access needs that require additional support to make an application, please let us know and we can discuss best how to support you during the application process.
Roles available: There are x2 MHP ICR roles and x4 Safezones MHP roles, see application for more information on selecting the roles you want to apply for.
For more information or to discuss ICR or Safezones opportunities in more detail, please contact, Tim Eaton, contacts are available on our website.
Applications open: 17/05/2024
Applications close: 10 am, 07/06/2024
Interviews, W/c: 17/06/2024 and 24/06/2024
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £29,269.00-£36,648.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 07/06/2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Job Description: Community Outreach Worker
Responsible to: Community Project Coordinator
Salary: £12.00/hr (£23,400 FTE)
Hours: Part-time 30 hrs per week
Contract: Fixed Term 3-year contract to April 2027
Location: Units 2&3 Cobb Way, Park Wood, Maidstone ME15 9XF
Driving Licence and own car essential
This role requires an enhanced with barred DBS check
About Fusion:
Fusion Maidstone is a health & wellbeing charity based in Park Wood. We opened our doors in 2003 and set about developing programmes, activities and services to address the changing needs of the residents of Park Wood with a strong focus on addressing health inequalities. Fusion works in the community to offer assistance in four key areas Public Health, Food/Food Poverty, Social Inclusion, Mental Health. Services are either delivered directly by Fusion or by a network of partner agencies. We bring services to local people thereby removing barriers to engagement.
Park Wood Connects Project
Courtesy of the National Lottery Community Fund Fusion Maidstone are able to launch their Park Wood Connects project which is a three year engagement and support initiative co-designed with the local community to support people struggling with the combined effects of the cost-of-living crisis, the mental health crisis, and high levels of social isolation/loneliness in one of the South East’s most deprived communities. To address the growing numbers of vulnerable local residents we propose to do two things through the Park Wood Connects project:
- Reach out better across the community to make more people aware that we and our partners are here to help.
- Make more services available locally by encouraging more people and organisations to begin delivering support locally.
About the Community Outreach Worker Role
Fusion is employing a Community Outreach Worker who has a great sense of community and customer service, enjoys working in an outreach environment and who is looking to make a positive difference to the local community.
Working closely with a second Community Outreach Worker and the Community Project Coordinator you will be performing tasks associated with community outreach including identifying and directly engaging with hard-to-reach individuals and families, providing responsive and effective support, deliver drop-in information sessions, recruit, induct and train volunteers to support the project, organise and host community engagement events throughout the year.
Who You Are
You are an active listener and an empathetic communicator who is able to deliver confidently to a wide variety of audiences.
You have excellent administrative, organisational and time management skills.
You have the ability to deal with beneficiaries, colleagues and partners tactfully in difficult situations and be assertive as appropriate.
You are able to be flexible in response to the organisation’s needs and requirements.
What You Will Offer Us
You will contribute to the design and development of activities and partner services in response to identified need.
You will contribute to and attend steering group meetings to represent the voice of the community and aid in the development of the project.
You will be responsible for your own administration with accurate data entry and working with our customer relationship management (CRM) system.
You will be a positive addition to the team and happy to represent Fusion Maidstone.
Key Responsibilities
To identify and directly engage with hard-to-reach individuals and families in Park Wood to raise awareness of Fusion.
To provide responsive and effective support.
To ensure immediate needs are assessed and met, respecting the wishes of individuals and families.
Act as a ‘keyworker’ for the co-ordination and delivery of individuals and families support with the assistance of the wider Fusion team.
Build a relationship with the KCC Community Wardens with a view to developing partnership working.
Recruit and induct a total of 15 volunteers from the local community to assist with the project 5 in year 1, 5 in year 2, and 5 in year 3.
Organise and deliver 4 community engagement events each year of the project.
Organise and deliver a minimum of 12 drop in surgeries each year of the project in various locations.
Assisted by the Community Project Coordinator attend regular stakeholder steering group meetings
Benefits Package
Mileage will be paid outside of commute journey at the rate of £0.45 per mile provided the successful applicant has business insurance
DBS paid for by Fusion
Employer Assistance Programme available 24/7 for advice and guidance
Full induction
Ongoing training and development
Support with career progression and personal development
Paid 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Pension scheme with NEST
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief or sexual orientation. In addition, during the various stage of recruitment, specific measure can be taken to ensure equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs.
Fusion are committed to the Disability Confident charter. We actively recruit staff who have lived experience. We recognise and value the unique combination of skills, knowledge and perspective that employing people with lived experience, at all level across the organisation, brings. We create a trauma-informed, person centred environment, where the sharing of experiences and vulnerabilities to support others and create positive change is welcomed.
DETAILS
- Salary: GBP 34,000-37,000 per year dependent on experience (the range is aligned to London cost of living and would be adjusted according to the appointee's location)
- Location: Flexible. But must be prepared to work at least four hours per day 1300 – 1700 Coordinated Universal Time. Location in London or Berlin may be an advantage.
- Contract Type: Maternity cover (one-year), full-time
- Closing Date: 5 June 2024
- Interview Dates: 17-18 June 2024
- Start Date: 1 September 2024
TO APPLY: Complete and return our application form via our jobs portal. Kindly note that the application form is required; we will not accept CVs.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is seeking a Communications Officer (Media) with sharp news sense to join our growing team. The successful candidate will bring talent, enthusiasm, and relevant knowledge and experience to support press and social media strategies and communications across the entire global organisation. The role sits in our global communications team, working with, and reporting to, the Head of Communications. We are a small, high-performing team tasked with increasing the media and social media coverage of BHRRC’s analysis and key findings, as well as supporting and amplifying the efforts of our partners on the ground that are fighting to achieve justice and remedies for victims of abuse.
About us
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre works with partners to put human rights at the core of companies’ business models; to empower communities and workers to secure their rights and gain accountability for abuse; and to encourage governments to create the right regulation and incentives to facilitate these outcomes. We are a global organisation committed to cooperation with diverse actors in our movement. We have more than 80 global team colleagues based in 20+ countries around the world, who work with a wide network of human rights advocates.
With our international network of allies, our global approaches to deliver this vision are:
- Working to achieve equality of power in negotiations which further human rights between workers and communities, with business and governments;
- Build transparency regarding allegations of human rights abuse in business, highlighting advances and challenges;
- Use the evidence and data we generate to positively influence decision-makers including business, investors and national and regional governments; and
- Strengthen corporate accountability, due diligence and effective remedy for abuse.
Responsibilities
The Communications Officer (Media) will have a particular focus on increasing international media coverage of BHRRC’s work and research, and the activities of our partners, including in the field of labour rights. Responsibilities will include:
Drive a proactive and strategic press approach: Spot opportunities for high impact coverage in target outlets, building on existing press lists, develop relationships with priority journalists, and create and pitch compelling content to media, including media advisories, press releases and related materials.
Develop high-impact communications products, synthesising complex research and data sets: Work with our Global Team to develop materials which speak to our key audiences. Develop key messages for our priority programmes and also discrete outputs including individual briefings and research reports.
Contribute to organisational and project communications strategies and planning: Support the Head of Communications to implement our communications strategy. Advise project managers on strategic communications and support launch project planning. Keep our planning calendar up to date and help ensure deadlines are met.
Produce well-written content: Write and edit channel-appropriate content for our audiences. Support the Global Team to produce high-quality and newsworthy reports, op-eds and blogs.
Support digital outputs: Support the Web Content and Senior Digital Officers as appropriate, creating content for our digital platform and social media platforms (including priority platforms LinkedIn and Twitter).
Support the communications team: Provide on-call cover for the media line, with occasional infrequent out of hours work, and share admin jobs.
Key competencies and attributes
Experience: At least 3 years’ experience in a communications role, including working in a busy press office, communications department or as a journalist.
Media: Sharp news sense and editorial judgement; ability to conceive, craft and pitch news stories and carry out fast reactive work. Knowledge of and experience of working with the mainstream media, including knowledge of the editorial positions, audiences, and sections or programmes of key outlets. In addition, ideally, knowledge of international business media or media in some specific countries or regions.
Relationship building: Track record of developing relationships with journalists on key issues. Any existing contacts of relevance to BHRRC’s work a bonus.
For-impact communications: Excellent understanding of how strategic communications can work with research and advocacy approaches to achieve change. Proven ability to synthesis and communicate complex and sensitive information; understanding of how to tailor content to different audiences, contexts and channels. Outstanding written English and good oral communications ability.
Project management: Track record of leading and/or implementing complex projects including planning (timelining), execution and evaluation of lessons learned.
Strategic thinking: Track record of helping to develop successful communications strategies to effect change. Experience tailoring communications products for diverse international audiences an asset.
Supporting staff: Enthusiasm for supporting colleagues with communications. Experience supporting staff either through training, coaching or assisting with media advice an asset.
Team player: Experience of, and commitment to, working in high-performing teams that are highly collaborative and focused on outcomes. Experience of working with colleagues remotely, and in multicultural and diverse cultures and working environments also desirable.
Knowledge of human rights issues: A strong interest in international issues and familiarity with social justice issues desirable.
Languages: Must be fluent in English. Additionally Japanese or Spanish in particular, and/or French, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, or Russian language skills would also be an asset.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a diverse, global team. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background and we acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in progressive movements. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Latinx and other minorities, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGTBQ+.
TO APPLY: Complete and return our application form via our jobs portal. Kindly note that the application form is required; we will not accept CVs.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Join the ACU as the Marketing and Communications Officer and use your communication and marketing skills to help us build a better world through international collaboration in higher education.
The ACU offers a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the higher education sector. We are one of the largest, most diverse international university networks, bringing together over 400 universities in 40 countries. Championing the power of higher education to improve lives, we support our members – and our people – in contributing to sustainable development across the Commonwealth and beyond.
The role
The Marketing and Communications Officer supports the delivery of multichannel marketing and communications campaigns for a portfolio of projects from across the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU’s) membership, scholarships, and programmes and projects business units.
This role has a particular focus on the project management and production of engaging print publications for the ACU’s programmes, and social media and email campaigns which drive engagement and conversion. As well as working within a team of 4 other MarComms colleagues, you will be working closely with colleagues across the ACU, such as the Senior Communications and PR Officer, colleagues from within the Commonwealth Scholarship Alumni team, the Commonwealth Scholarship Programmes team, and the ACU Programmes team, to help promote the programmes, grants, and projects run across the ACU.
The postholder will be advised by the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager of the priorities for the role over the year, including compilation, copyediting, and visual editing of the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission’s (CSC’s) Annual Report, two Common Knowledge magazine editions, assistance with 65th Anniversary campaign activities, CSC and ACU website updates, a regular programme of mailings, and support with general Scholarship and programme promotion over social media.
Who are we looking for?
You will need:
- Excellent content compilation, copywriting, and copyediting skills, including writing for (and understanding of) different audiences and channels, and sensitivity for different cultural contexts, with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams to fulfil joint objectives.
- Experience of editing and proofreading content for publications, such as reports and/or magazines.
- Experience of working with external suppliers and internal stakeholders on the production of publications, including commissioning content and working to production deadlines.
- Experience of producing and uploading digital content for multiple platforms and channels, e.g. websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
- Experience of achieving impact, engagement, and conversion through multichannel marketing and/or communications campaigns.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines.
- Ability to be flexible to respond quickly to shifting priorities, with advice on priorities from the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager.
- Proficiency in the use of the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
- Proficiency in the use of Canva graphic design software.
What to expect:
We see equality, diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our mission and we value the many different perspectives that people from all backgrounds bring to our collective performance (you can find out more about our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and safeguarding on our website by clicking here).
We believe in investing in all our people and creating cultures in which everyone can thrive.
We offer a fantastic package of benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time employees), plus 4 Christmas closure days
- Generous pension scheme – 5% employee contribution, 10% employer contribution
- Volunteering days
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave
- Give As You Earn charitable donations scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sabbatical leave
- Ability to request flexible working from day one
Closing date: 7 June 2024.
If we receive sufficient applications before the closing date, interviews may take place earlier, so you are encouraged to apply early.
It’s an exciting time to join the Third Age Trust as we develop our member communications across the u3a movement and look to the future, continue to raise our profile, reach out to new communities, and encourage a continued growth in membership.
Reporting to the Communications Manager, this role will work closely with the Communications Officer already in post. You will support the team to deliver the Trust’s strategic plan, enhance our digital offer and improve our liaison with the third party who deliver our member magazine.
A talented wordsmith, you’ll know how to spot a good story and have proven skills at engaging audiences, both new and existing. You will bring ideas and energy to the role and have a track record of developing content that inspires across a broad range of channels including website, print, email and social. You’ll understand the power of data and pay attention to user feedback and analytics to continually improve engagement.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Impact and Insights Officer
We are looking for someone who has the ability to bring technical analysis to life in a youth work setting and can communicate insights in an accessible style to different audiences. You will be passionate about embracing the power of youth work and be keen to support youth zones in evidencing the impact created with young people.
This is a brand new, unique role to be an impact catalyst across both Carlisle and Barnet youth zones, generating support and building towards a ‘culture of impact’ in both organisations such that outcome measurement and impact reporting becomes routine and ‘every day’.
Position: Impact and Insights Officer
Location: Home-working combined with a minimum of 8 days per month across both Barnet and Carlisle youth zones (travel expenses will be covered as part of the package)
Salary: £38,000 – £42,000 (dependent upon experience)
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours/week)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 3 years
Benefits: Agile working organisation with flexibility in working hours; 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days with length of service) plus bank holidays, birthday leave and annual leave purchase scheme (from day one of employment); company matched pension; company sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay; voluntary benefits with discounts on health and wellbeing, retail and leisure.
Closing Date: 9am, Tuesday 4th June 2024
About the Role
You will lead on data analysis and reporting on the data held in Salesforce CRM, improving both the quality and quantity of monitoring and evaluation processes, driving improvements in data capture through training and upskilling the Youth Work team, strengthening the ability of both youth zones to demonstrate the measurable impact of youth work delivered.
You will also be responsible for measuring and demonstrating both charities’ impact to stakeholders; authoring and providing the necessary data to the leadership and fundraising teams and Board (as required), annual publications such as Trustees Reports and annual Impact Reports. Innovation is a key aspect of this role, involving the introduction and embedding of new methodologies to enhance the qualitative data capture process.
You will collaborate closely with a cross section of teams within the youth zones, working with the Youth Work delivery teams to feed data into decision making, and with the Communications and Fundraising teams to provide impact measurement and analysis content for use with stakeholders and in donor reporting. Furthermore, it will align impact and data work with national and local policy, and use national census, health, police and other statistical data to position both youth zones for new income generation opportunities.
About You
You will have experience in data analysis or a similar role, including handling large datasets, using data to derive insights and data-led decision-making and of using data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau). You will bring impact expertise and creativity to create buy-in and drive improvements in data capture, with the ability
This role requires someone who can bring impact expertise and creativity to create buy-in and drive improvements in data capture; and someone who is keen to work flexibly and closely with teams of passionate youth workers and who is unafraid of the challenge presented by Youth Zones in two very different geographic locations.
As a growing and ambitious charity, you will be offered responsibility, variety and the chance to work with a team wholly invested in providing young people the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
About the Organisation
A national charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose that fund and build state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound youth centres called Youth Zones in the country’s most economically disadvantaged areas. The organisation trains the amazing people that run them and offers continuing support to youth zones nationwide through a national network of independent youth charities,
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from under-represented groups; in particular from Black, Asian, Mixed Race & other ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ communities. Our dedicated Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group, with support from the Senior Leadership Team, is actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion, ensuring a culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
You may have experience in areas such as Impact, Insight, Impact and Insight, Impact Officer, Insight Officer, Impact and Insight Officer, Evaluation, Impact and Evaluation, Evaluation, Impact and Evaluation Officer, Data Analyst, Database, Data Officer, Data and Impact Officer, Data Insight, Data Analyst and Impact.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are looking for an experienced stakeholder engagement professional with exceptional people skills and a good understanding of nature recovery to help take ANT to our next level of impact by leading on landowner engagement for the Lower Chew Landscape Recovery project.
Job Purpose
Your legacy will be a tangible impact on slowing down climate change, helping nature recover and creating social impact by leading on landowner and stakeholder engagement for the Lower Chew Landscape Recovery project that will see thousands of acres of local land managed in harmony with nature. You will join a fast-growing organisation that started in 2019 with four volunteers and has grown to a staff team of thirteen (which will double over 2024), over 1,000 volunteers and ownership of 170 acres (soon to be 600 acres) of land that will grow woodlands of over 160,000 trees.
The project
Landscape Recovery is one of Defra’s three environmental land management schemes. Avon Needs Trees has been awarded development phase funding for Landscape Recovery in the Lower Chew. This is a unique opportunity to help co-design nature’s recovery and social impact at a landscape scale. The project will engage existing landowners and managers across over 867 hectares of land in the Lower Chew, an area where good quality but fragmented woodland provides a basis for woodland connectivity and large-scale woodland creation, as part of a mosaic of grassland and woodland habitat. This locally-cherished landscape of rolling farmland on the edge of Bristol is the strategic setting for delivering local environmental and social priorities.
Main responsibilities
● Leading on stakeholder engagement for the landscape recovery project, including:
○ Designing and delivering engagement workshops
○ Gathering and baselining landowner data and existing farm practices
○ Ongoing landowner engagement
○ Collating and incorporating landowner feedback
○ Homeowner liaison with those living within or adjacent to the project site
○ Outreach, engagement and events, working alongside our Outreach and Communications staff
● Helping to write plans for ecological and social impact that will be delivered over the next 20-25 years
● Contributing to land management, monitoring and evaluation, and access planning, including:
○ Desk based analysis and research
○ On site appraisals and information gathering
○ Ecology appraisals
○ Carbon and soil surveys
○ Sensitive habitat / species assessment
○ Helping to identify social, economic and ecological impacts
● Being a strong advocate, internally and externally, for the landscape recovery project and the benefits it will deliver
● Work with the wider Avon Needs Trees team to help build a resilient, multi-site charity and undertake any other work necessary to pursue our aims
● As with all Avon Needs Trees roles, contributing to grant writing and fundraising activities
● Other duties and opportunities as required.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a strong financial leader with a passion for the natural environment and the ability to galvanise teams to deliver ambitious goals?
Avon Wildlife Trust is looking for an exceptional individual to become our new Director of Finance and Operations. You will be a finance leader with broad commercial acumen. strong people management skills and the appetite to drive and hold accountability for the Trust’s membership and income growth ambitions.
The Trust has exciting plans to create and restore habitats, enable people to take action for wildlife, and secure more land for nature for wildlife across the West of England.
As Director of Finance and operations, you will be at the heart of our organisation’s success.
You will:
-
Lead AWT Group’s financial planning, operations and accounting
-
Ensure effective management of the Trust’s people and resources
-
Drive development of the Trust’s fundraising and commercial activities
-
Work with the CEO and Leadership Team to develop, implement and periodically review the Trust’s strategic and financial plans
-
Work closely with all Departments to ensure effective financial and operational processes, support financial planning and inform future decisions.
If this is you, we look forward to hearing from you.
We want to see nature restored on a grand scale across the Avon region. We have big plans between now and 2030 to see this happen.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £30,000 PRO RATA £18,000 for 0.6FTE – 21 Hours per week
Contract length: 1 YEAR Fixed Term Contract
Location: Thames21’s main office at the Guildhall, City of London or at our Satellite Office in Bow; but we also offer hybrid working.
Responsible to: Head of HR
About Thames21:
Thames21 is an environmental charity putting healthy rivers at the heart of community life. Through environmental improvements, community engagement, education and advocacy we bring about effective and lasting change by working hand-in-hand with communities to deliver tangible and measurable improvements to our network of rivers.
Diversity at Thames21
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Thames21 is key to our success and as such we employ staff from a diverse range of backgrounds, this we feel is key in ensuring that everybody has an equal opportunity and is not treated differently or discriminated against because of their characteristics. We value the voices of our individual employees, and we strive to work in a collaborative, innovative balanced way. The postholder must actively support this.
Purpose of the job:
This newly created HR Officer position will support the Head of HR in a busy HR function potential for a busy charity. The role will concentrate on the operational and administrative aspects of HR and will also act as a first line support to staff but will also provide administrative support to the Operations Manager. There will also be an opportunity for the HR Officer to get involved in project and research work.
This a part-time role of three days which can be worked in number of ways with either three full days or with less hours across four days, but you will be required to work at least two days in the office.
Main duties and responsibilities:
· Be the first point of contact for general HR queries
· Oversee the HR and recruitment inbox
· Drafting contracts and offer letters
· Produce and place job adverts
· Coordinate and arrange interviews and book meeting rooms
· Manage onboarding documentation for new joiners
· Manage both incoming and outgoing reference requests
· Manage the DBS checks and Safeguarding training systems
· Conduct right to work checks prior to employment
· Work with the Head of HR to ensure HR policies are updated when required
· Updating the Thames21 Org Chart
· Communicate any employment law updates
· Carry out research and other projects as required by the Head of HR
· Manage and maintain the HRIS (Breathe HR)
· Manage and maintain HR files on SharePoint
· Research, source and book training for staff as and when required
· Support the Operations Manager with any Health & Safety administrative tasks as required
Other Duties
This job description cannot cover every issue or task that may arise within Thames21. At various times the post-holder will be directed to carry out other reasonable duties in support of other Thames21 activities that are consistent with those in this Job Description.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.