Greater Manchester Rape Crisis Jobs

About us

Who we are

Greater Manchester Rape Crisis began over thirty years ago as a feminist collective responding to the needs of women who shared their experiences of sexual violence. GMRC is now a registered charity providing vital services for women and girls throughout Greater Manchester, and beyond.

The aims of Greater Manchester Rape Crisis are:

GMRC aims to deliver on this vision by pursuing the following actions:

Encouragement of initiatives aimed at the prevention of sexual violence

Improve and expand the support and protection services available to women and girls who have survived rape and sexual abuse and, where necessary, promote the development of new services and facilities

Promotion of inter-agency co-operation, training and awareness of others active in the field

Provision of information about current services available via posters, leaflets, cards and directory and social media etc.

Monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the service being provided in relation to equal opportunities

Our culture and values

In order to fulfil these aims, the objectives of GMRC are:

to provide a service for women which includes telephone, one-to-one and group work support
to provide a telephone support service for supporters of survivors
to provide information and advice to other individuals and agencies
to provide training and talks to external agencies in the local community
to recruit volunteers

to provide adequate training, support and supervision for staff and volunteers
to monitor and evaluate service provision and policies on a continual basis involving staff, volunteers and women who use the service
to work with other individuals and agencies to further the aims of GMRC
to raise funds to meet the needs of the service
to identify areas of unmet need and take appropriate action