The Clock Tower Sanctuary (CTS) is the only drop-in day centre for young homeless people in Brighton and Hove. We provide practical and emotional support to 16-to-25-year olds experiencing homelessness, so they can move from crisis to stability. Our vision is that no young person becomes part of the long-term homeless population. We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Fundraising & Communications Officer to join our team on a maternity cover basis and to help ensure our income generation and communication plans are delivered. The role is very varied and will offer the right candidate a fantastic way to gain valuable experience across multiple areas of responsibility.

Business Development Officer

Location: Flexible

Job ID: 2020-2356 

Type of Contract: Permanent

Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 33 to 36 (£31150.00 - £33568.73)

Overview

Change Grow Live are looking for Business Development Officers to join our national Business Development Team

Responsibilities

We want excellent writers who share our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.

Change Grow Live is one of the UK’s largest charities. We provide a range of services including community and prison substance misuse, criminal justice, children and young people’s and housing/homelessness.

Joining us means being part of a well-established and successful team, and the chance to develop your skills, knowledge and experience whilst working with great people from across our organisation.

Last year we won tenders with an annual value of almost £50 million but what this really means to us is that we can provide more support to more people across the UK.

Working as part of Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team you will play a key role in the development and writing of tenders and proposals for a variety of health and social care services.

You will engage with people and teams across our organisation, from Consultant Psychiatrists and Nurses to Data Analysts and Web Developers, to produce high quality written tenders and proposals that clearly demonstrate the positive impact that our services have on people’s lives.

You will support our successful and growing Business Development Team to improve the quality of our work and develop our team culture, by thinking creatively, sharing your own knowledge and experiences, and challenging existing ways of working.

Ultimately you will contribute to the design, development and delivery of our services and help us to deliver on our organisational aims, strategy and values.

This role offers a great opportunity to learn and develop while using your established skills, and you’ll be encouraged to take on more responsibility as you progress.

Check out the job description for more information, and you can call to discuss this role further.

About you

You’ll be a confident and highly competent communicator with excellent writing skills and an exceptional eye for detail.

You’ll have proven experience of writing tenders, proposals or grant applications, or writing in other professional or academic environments, for instance journalism, research or marketing.

You’ll have good IT and research skills and be able to analyse data and interpret evidence.

You’ll be proactive and creative, and happy to give and receive challenging feedback.

You’ll share our passion for our values and mission, and you’ll be ready to work hard to achieve these.

Above all, you’ll want to use your skills and experience to develop and write winning tenders for services that help people to make positive changes in their lives.

Why work for Change Grow Live

We’ll support you to develop and grow. You’ll be joining a diverse team which welcomes new ideas and ways of working, and you’ll receive structured support, training and coaching to help you to progress in your career.

Joining Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team means you’ll benefit from a positive, supportive and flexible working environment which includes:

• Regional offices across the UK, including London, Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds;
• The option to work from home;
• Flexible hours and working patterns including compressed hours and job share options.

We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and inclusive workplace and this is evidenced through our 2019 Stonewall Top 100 Employers Award and Investors in People Silver Award.

For further infomration, and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing Date: 23/8/2020

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through, please contact us.

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Scheme check at a basic level. 

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible

The Social Connection Project is an exciting new initiative which aims to recruit volunteers and match them with people exiting homelessness in Brighton & Hove. The volunteers will support people to engage in the wider community using a variety of means such as mentoring, befriending & connecting people with community groups & activities. The aim of the project is to reduce social isolation, improve tenancy sustainment and build people’s well-being

Justlife have been operating in Brighton for 8 years and provide engagement work for people who are homeless, helping clients improve and maintain their health, by accessing primary care, attending appointments and linking with relevant services, as well as a weekly activities programme and support specifically for those in emergency accommodation. The Creative Studio provides art opportunities for people who have experienced homelessness. We also engage in research into the effects of unsupported temporary accommodation, which informs our work locally, as well as enabling us to have conversations on a wider scale to bring about positive change.

This role is responsible for delivering the Social Connection project as part of the team. Working with the Operations Coordinator, this will include recruiting and training volunteers, managing referrals, developing a client social event, group volunteer support sessions, developing publicity and promoting the service within the city.

Responsible to: Operations Coordinator

Responsible for: Volunteers

1. Job Description

The Social Connection Project Coordinator will coordinate and deliver the project which will include:-

1. Recruiting and training for volunteers
2. Managing referrals
3. Developing promotional materials and promoting in the city
4. Ensuring effective monitoring of the project
5. Administration of the project
6. Supporting volunteers
7. Representing Justlife to external stakeholders across the city to increase awareness and engagement with the project
8. To be part of, and contribute to, the Justlife staff team, attending meetings and events as appropriate and to be involved in staff development, training and supervision

Are you a skilled, creative grassroots organiser and trainer with experience of divestment campaigning?  We are looking for a Campaign and Community Organiser to lead Friends of the Earth’s work on fossil fuel divestment.

The main purpose of this role is to develop and implement the overall divestment strategy, ensuring that there is connection with local divestment campaigners and national campaigns to help grow a stronger UK divestment network. You will be supporting activists, local groups, politicians, and others to push institutions and political bodies to divest from fossil fuels and break ties with fossil fuel companies.

We are looking for a strong campaigner who is passionate about designing, developing, and running campaigns that will make a real difference to people.

Closing date: Sunday 16th August 2020 (23:59)

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Fixed Term Contract until December 2021

Flexible location with significant travel to London required

Regional based: £34,190 to £36,190 per annum

London based: £37,270 to 39,270 per annum

YMCA DOWNSLINK GROUP

Youth Homelessness Prevention Project Coordinator
East Sussex (office base Eastbourne / Hastings)
Fixed Term Contract until 31st August 2021
15 Hours per week, ideally worked over 3 days
£22,910 per annum (pro-rata)
£9,163 per annum (actual)

Ending youth homelessness is a pledge YMCADLG and East Sussex Local Authorities are committed to.  To achieve this we recognise that work needs to start early on to try and reduce the risk of homelessness, including education in schools and colleges informing young people about the realities of homelessness at a young age and a range of early information and targeted support for young people at risk of homelessness, before they reach crisis point.

YMCADLG in partnership with East Sussex County Council have secured funding through the Local Authorities of Eastbourne, Lewes, Hastings, Rother and Wealden, to recruit a Youth Homelessness Prevention Project Worker.

The position comes with excellent benefits, including 27 days annual leave per annum (plus bank holidays), a company sick pay scheme, a life assurance policy of 2x your annual salary, a health and wellbeing cash plan, and a cycle to work scheme. Please download a job pack for more information about other benefits offered.

We are looking for someone with experience of coordinating homelessness prevention awareness raising workshops to schools, colleges and community groups, working with young people to devise and potentially deliver these sessions.

You will also have experience of working with young people and an understanding of the relevant legislation and a thorough awareness of safeguarding practices.

If you are an applicant interested in this post and would like an informal discussion having read the job pack, please visit our website for contact details. We will not respond to agencies. 

As part of our Safer Recruitment guidelines, we only accept applications completed on our application form. Due to Covid-19, we are not accepting paper copies of forms and are currently only accepting application forms submitted by email.

YMCA DownsLink Group welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and promote inclusion, which we demonstrate through our activities, as well as in our policies and working practices. Reinforced by our culture and values, we seek to create an inspiring and inclusive place to work.

YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.

Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). 

Closing date for applications: Monday 31st August 2020 at 9am

Interview date: Thursday 10th September 2020

When submitting your application please save your application form as (your)surname, (your)firstname APPLICATION FORM and put the job title and location in the email subject line. Please submit your application as a Word document where possible, or as a PDF if completed in Pages.

Please note that we do not accept CVs.
To apply, please download an Application Pack and an Application Form from YMCA DownsLink Group.

You probably will have heard of YMCA, the largest and oldest youth charity in the world, but you may not have heard about us. YMCA DownsLink Group is a grouping of local YMCAs who provide support to young people across Sussex and Surrey. Our work covers a wide range of areas including accommodation, general advice, sexual exploitation, mental health, housing advice, childcare, counselling, mentoring and apprenticeships.

We are committed to transforming local communities across Sussex and Surrey so that all young people and families can belong, contribute and thrive. Each year we offer more than a 1,000 young people, at risk of homelessness somewhere safe to live where they can develop the skills and confidence to go on to independent living. Annually, we provide over 6,000 children and families counselling and emotional wellbeing support. last year we provided youth work support to over 3,000 young people across the communities we work in.

We are seeking to recruit at least two new Trustees to join our Board and bring wise governance and strategic guidance to our work. In particular, we are looking for people who have a leadership background in the following domains: safeguarding, health, fundraising, IT / Digital and Legal.

 Drawing on its long Christian heritage, our charity seeks to welcome, support and inspire everybody it works with - young people, staff and volunteers of any faith and none. Our board sustains YMCA DLG's Christian foundation and all applicants for the role of trustee are required to demonstrate an active Christian faith as part of the selection process.

For further information, including details of how to apply, please see our website  for a Trustee Application Pack. The closing date for applications is Friday 4th. September 2020.

As part of our Safer Recruitment guidelines, we only accept applications completed on our application form. Due to Covid-19, we are not accepting paper copies of forms and are currently only accepting application forms submitted by email.

YMCA DownsLink Group welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and promote inclusion, which we demonstrate through our activities, as well as in our policies and working practices. Reinforced by our culture and values, we seek to create an inspiring and inclusive place to work.

YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.

Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Dis