Background to the LifeSkills programme
Business in the Community Scotland (BITC) is the charity partner to Barclays LifeSkills in Scotland, delivering its LifeSkills Programme to target secondary schools and colleges. This role will involve working with target secondary schools and colleges in Glasgow, with some additional bespoke support for three Kilmarnock based secondaries and the Kilmarnock campus of Ayrshire college. Target educational institutions schools and colleges in Glasgow and Kilmarnock will be within a c.25-mile radius of Buchanan Wharf, where the new Northern European hub of Barclays will be housed.
The motivation behind the LifeSkills programme is to inspire millions of young people and equip them with the key skills to move forward into the 21st century workplace.
The programme focuses on teaching skills such as CV writing, interview skills, networking, problem solving, creativity, resilience, communication and managing online reputation.
Purpose of Job
This role will support educators and young people in making the most of free LifeSkills curriculum-linked employability resources such as lesson plans, videos and interactive tools, as well as delivering a series of workshops in target secondary schools and colleges, supported wherever possible by Barclays staff volunteers.
The role will manage full programme delivery including targets in relation to select schools and colleges around Glasgow and in Kilmarnock. This will involve a mix of relationship building with Barclays key programme personnel, in class volunteers and those who become mentors. It will also involve developing and maintaining relationships with key educational personnel in an agreed number of target schools/colleges as well as a specified number of class-based students.
The programme manager/facilitator will agree a delivery plan with each participating school/college. This delivery plan will include the programme manager/facilitator delivering a series of four interventions over a 1 - 2 year period at each school/college, as well as supporting educators there to enhance learning by helping them select from pre-prepared LifeSkills workshop ‘bundles’ for the teacher to deliver in class. While agreeing the delivery plan, advice will also be offered on student self-study, using the online resources including age specific interactive workshops, quizzes, games, videos and online toolkits.
Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Presentation and Facilitation (50%)
• Using the ready-made online resources, prepare for and facilitate LifeSkills workshops, ensuring that performance leads to improvement in agreed key indicators for students.
• Support Barclays volunteers to prepare for in-class delivery support, plus providing coaching and support on the day. Introduce and support Barclays mentors engaged in the Kilmarnock delivery.
Programme and Relationship Management (30%)
• Understand the contract deliverables and create a deployment plan to deliver key performance indicators including targeting, identification and meetings with school/college key personnel, engagement with target number of schools and students engaged over three years, teacher CPD, plus student, educator and volunteer evaluation.
• Act as a broker between target schools, colleges and Barclays’ volunteers, including Developing Young Workforce /employability or Personal and Social Education leads. You will prioritise those schools/colleges in greatest need and agree delivery plans which combine interventions by the LifeSkills Programme Manager/Facilitator, teacher delivery and student self-study.
• Develop a thorough understanding of LifeSkills programme, online resources and workshop content to inform discussions and agreement to delivery plans with target schools/colleges, including in-school presentations where necessary and support for teacher CPD
• Adapt the programme to online delivery to meet Covid19 requirements
• Lead on visits to schools/colleges by Barclays key personnel, including support and facilitation at events to which the media may be invited, should that be necessary.
• Supported by BITC colleagues, develop a communications plan which fulfils the needs of the contract including engagement with target schools/colleges
• Supported by your line manager, manage and support the partnership between Barclays and BITC Scotland, including participation on monthly calls with key Barclays personnel.
• Ensure sharing of best practice and collaboration within and across BITC’s programme managers/facilitators in Wales and Northern Ireland
• Maintain a working knowledge of, and be able to speak with confidence about, key issues in education and workplace skills development, to operate credibly with schools/colleges and Barclays personnel .e.g. ‘Developing Young Workforce’ and ‘Curriculum for Excellence’.
• Facilitate and respond to the needs and feedback of programme research and evaluation
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Management and Reporting (20%)
Supported by the LifeSkills coordinator:
• Establish and maintain systems for timely and accurate monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the effectiveness of the LifeSkills programme in line with contract requirements.
• Ensure volunteering opportunities are advertised to Barclays workforce using appropriate internal channels to agreed timelines, ensuring high levels of volunteer participation
• Devise systems for planning and monitoring of contract delivery, including up to date records of delivery plans for each institution and relationship management.
• Manage marketing and communications requirements of the contract including agreed use of Twitter.
• Ensure compliance with all safeguarding requirements of the contract, including adherence to Barclays policy in relation to workshop photography/filming.
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Other Accountabilities
• Responsibility for ensuring a safe environment, in line with the responsibilities outlined in BITC’s Safeguarding Policy and Framework, ensuring that risks are identified, communicated and managed in line with BITC’s process, and concerns raised are responded to within 24 hours and reported appropriately.
• Lead, inspire and motivate LifeSkills coordinator to achieve results in collaboration with their line manager, fulfilling performance management requirements including support for personal development.
• Ensure that work and behaviour of teams are in line with our vision and values. Contribute to the overall effective management of the organisation, delivering optimal performance in relation to operational standards, financial budget, customer service and people management.
• Ensure that health and safety and safeguarding requirements are met in the areas for which the jobholder is responsible.
Disclosure Scotland requirement
Our offer of employment for this role is conditional and subject to a satisfactory outcome of an enhanced disclosure from Disclosure Scotland. Should the disclosure not meet the required clearance, Business in the Community reserves the right to withdraw the offer of employment.
The post holder may be required to carry out other duties that are reasonably to be considered as within the scope and purpose of the job and the aptitudes of the post holder.
This job description reflects the current requirements of the post. As duties and responsibilities change and develop due to changes in organisational and other circumstances, so the actual duties and responsibilities will vary from the particulars of this job description.
Special working conditions and homeworking
Although this role will be home based, a requirement of the role will require occasionally travel to our office in Edinburgh for team meetings and project meetings with the LifeSkills Coordinator/line manager.
There may be limited occasions where attendance at evening or early morning events may be necessary e.g. parent’s event at a school, therefore it is a requirement of the role that the applicant has access to their own mode of transport.
The homeworker has responsibility to ensure that they have the correct working environment at home, which means access to wifi/internet, a printer and a suitable desk and chair. By applying for a home-based role, you do so on the understanding that BITC are unable to provide your home with additional equipment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Position: Community Fundraiser (Southern Scotland & Northern England)
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), up to 12 months fixed term maternity cover
Location: Home-based (within location), working regionally
Salary: £30,010 - £34,577 plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band E, Level 1
Department: Community and Events
At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.
About this job
The MS Society is delivering some of the most exciting fundraising in the UK and we are seeking a talented and enthusiastic individual to join us as a Community Fundraiser in Southern Scotland and Northern England.
The Community Fundraising Team are focused on raising £1.5m+ each year, working across the UK. This role offers the opportunity to grow community fundraising with the enthusiastic support of people affected by MS, their friends and families, including members of our local groups.
The team works within a lively and creative fundraising department, where we try to break down barriers as much as we can and collaborate to ensure supporters at all levels get the very best service from the charity. You will be given free rein to develop your skills and experience, while building relationships with grassroots supporters to maximise income.
You’re likely to be in a similar role for another charity, confident, enthusiastic and with great customer care and communication skills. You'll know how work closely with supporters, volunteers, local groups and the wider fundraising team. You’ll be able to demonstrate a good understanding of community and events fundraising and a collaborative approach to teamwork. Most importantly, you’ll be supporter-focused and willing to go the extra mile to support our amazing fundraisers and help them reach their fundraising goals.
This role covers the south of Scotland and northern England and therefore we are looking for candidates based within this area.
If you’re enthusiastic, hard-working and motivated by helping others achieve something amazing in support of a cause that means the world to them, we’d love to hear from you.
We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), and various benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.
The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.
Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 10th November 2020
In order to apply for this role, please submit an updated CV and supporting statement indicating how you meet the criteria as set out in the person specification in the attached job description
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity.
No agencies please.
We are looking for a creative fundraiser with an entrepreneurial attitude towards fundraising to join our team. Raising funds is becoming more challenging and our destitution grant funds are in more demand than ever. You will be responsible for ensuring that these funds are continually topped up and maximised to meet demand. You will have considerable digital fundraising experience, including planning, evaluating and delivering successful campaigns.
Role Purpose: This is an independent fundraiser role reporting directly to the Chief Executive. Primarily responsible for continuously raising money to ensure grant funds exist to meet demand. Responsible for the development and successful delivery of imaginative fundraising activities including digital campaigns and contributing to our fundraising strategy.
Job Title: Fundraiser
Hours: 17.5 hours per week, may involve some evening and weekend work
Location: Glasgow (with occasional travel), initially home based
Reporting to: Chief Executive
Salary: £29,917 pro-rata (SJC scale point 31) plus NEST workplace pension
Scheme, 6% employer contribution when you contribute
Duration: 12 month Fixed Term appointment, with scope for extension subject to funding
The Refugee Survival Trust (RST) vision is a welcoming, inclusive, safe Scotland for refugees and asylum seekers, where all live free of destitution and have the means and opportunities to realise their full potential. Our mission is to provide refugees and people seeking asylum with practical support when it is most needed, build connections between people and use what we learn to campaign for change.
After a period of growth and diversification we’re improving our structure and focusing on longer term strategic planning and governance. We have recently appointed a CEO to develop and implement the future strategy and work of RST’s vision and aims. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for an independent, driven and creative individual to join a small committed team who deliver incredible impact for their size.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying and imaginatively generating charitable income for the Destitution Grants fund. Through a variety of fundraising activities, including donors, community support, Individual giving and digital campaigns and marketing
- Developing and implementing new ways to generate income to secure the financial sustainability for all of our work, broadening the income base
- Effective donor stewardship, including building the number of regular donors and developing effective CRM
- Maximise reach, develop and coordinate web-based fundraising. Delivering online giving campaigns and utilising RST’s website and social media channels
- Write and submit successful applications to small trust and foundations
- Write applications and mailshots, using direct mailing to reach a range of potential and current donors
- increase funds by researching and targeting charitable trusts and philanthropists whose criteria match the charity's aims and activities
- Strategically representing and promoting RST’s mission at community and professional events with a view to networking and nurturing relationships
- Contribute to the development of the Fundraising Strategy
- Monitor and evaluate the results of fundraising, spotting trends and adapting methods as required
- Raise awareness of the charity and contribute to raising the profile
- Support volunteers and community fundraising initiatives and motivate and facilitate supporters to maximise the funds they raise
- Develop fundraising systems and record keeping
- Manage and update databases to record donor contact and preference information
- make risk analyses and balancing time-cost ratios to focus effort on the fundraising activities that are most appropriate and will have the highest chance of success
Person Specification
Technical skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential:
- Significant and demonstratable experience of successful donor development, stewardship and legacy management
- Demonstratable experience of designing and delivering successful online fundraising campaigns
- Substantial digital fundraising or digital marketing experience, including planning, evaluating and delivering successful campaigns
- Experience of generating income from small trusts and foundations
- Excellent writing skills to engage, influence and secure funding
- Excellent communication skills, ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and funders
- Ability to identify, create and edit strong fundraising content
- Experience of fundraising event management
- Existing relationships with funders
- The ability to work towards and meet financial targets
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously
- An empathy with volunteers and an understanding of their needs
- Excellent Digital & IT skills to
- Ability to maintain clear and accurate records
- Good organisational and project management skills
Desirable:
- Membership of the Institute of Fundraising
- A relevant qualification
- Knowledge of asylum and refugee issues
Personal skills and attributes
Essential:
- Creative with an entrepreneurial attitude towards fundraising
- Resilient, particularly when faced with setbacks
- Sensitivity to the needs of volunteers and donors
- Target driven and results orientated
- Organised and demonstrates a high level of attention to detail
- Ability to quickly understand new ideas and concepts
- Ability to work collaboratively with others
- Strong sense of ownership for quality of work, deliverables and service
- Commitment and empathy for the mission and aims of RST
Applications:
Please apply with CV and covering letter by midday on Thursday 12th November 2020. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the role further, please feel free to get in touch.
Our Vision
A welcoming, inclusive, safe Scotland for refugees and people seeking asylum, where all live free ... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.