Regional student volunteering officer jobs

You will work closely with our Collective Action Manager to implement a community-based approach, addressing the challenges related to education-to-employment transitions, in the London boroughs of Brent and Ealing.

You will help to build the networks, resources, and expertise required to support 30 secondary schools, to implement effective employability skills and work readiness development. The ultimate objective of which will be to ensure that 16-to-18 year olds, identified as furthest from the labour market, are able to effectively transition into sustained employment and pursue rewarding careers.

You will work directly with schools to develop a careers curriculum plan for the year ahead. You will be responsible for supporting partner schools and employers to develop and benefit from sustained relationships, through activities including; career workshops, cv and interview skills development, workplace visits, and work experience placements.

To succeed in this role you will need to be a highly motivated and driven person, able to thrive with a sizeable workload, in a busy environment. You will need to be very organised, and able to function as part as a team, as well as being able to work well independently. You will need to be excellent at developing and maintaining productive relationships, with a desire to have a positive impact on the lives of young people.

This is a great opportunity for a creative and proactive person to join our small but passionate Fundraising & Communications team. We are looking for someone with some social media, digital and marketing experience looking to take their next step in developing their career as a Marketing & Communications Officer. The successful candidate will support the delivery of the charity’s digital communications and fundraising activity as well as support the charity’s wider marketing and communication strategy. This is an exciting and varied role where you will be helping us achieve our mission to improve the quality of life of all children in Wales living with cerebral palsy.

Salary: £25000

Location: Based at our children’s centre in Llanishen, Cardiff, however, we operate a flexible, hybrid model which includes home working

Line Manager: Marketing & Communications Manager

Sector: Disability / Children and young people

 The role

The Marketing and Communications Officer will support the Marketing & Communications Manager to deliver our Marketing and Communications Strategy as well as our Digital/Social Media strategy. Digital income has grown considerably for the charity over the last few years so digital fundraising is a key focus of the role. Your responsibilities will include maintaining our website and engaging with users on our social media platforms to promote events, campaigns, and appeals. You will help create both internal and external content to engage with and grow our existing audience and extend the reach and scope of our charity’s communications alongside helping to manage our charity’s brand.

Key duties

- Create high quality and engaging content for website, social media and other online platforms to promote the charity and the charity's brand and image including managing social media content and interactions

- Assist with the co-ordination of print and and publication production including various internal and external facing charity literature

- Support the development and delivery of our Marketing and Communications strategy and undertake further marketing and communications activity to support this

Key requirements

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience of writing engaging copy for online and print publications

- Experience of working within a modern digital environment and using a range of online platforms and enthusiasm for demonstrating the potential of digital marketing

- Organised and able to work autonomously, take initiative, prioritise and make decisions

- Empathy with and commitment to Cerebral Palsy Cymru's values, purpose and environment

About us

We are the leading charity in Wales for children and families living with cerebral palsy. As a national Centre of Excellence and experts in the field of cerebral palsy, we provide specialist physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech & language therapy in a transdisciplinary way so that each child benefits from the combined expertise of our therapists. Our Family Support Service offers a listening ear, practical advice, and emotional support. We share our knowledge and skills through collaborative working, courses, national and international conferences. Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in children in the world and our mission is to improve the quality of life of all children in Wales living with cerebral palsy. We are an ambitious, passionate, hardworking, and friendly team who are motivated by the life-changing difference we make.

Employee benefits

Cerebral Palsy Cymru recognises that being a rewarding place to work means more than just a job. Our benefits and the rewards that we offer our team reflect this.

• Work-life balance is important to us and so we offer 28 days annual leave per annum, which increases with 5 and then 10 years’ continuous service.
• Employees are able to opt into our company pension scheme with 5% employer contributions (when matched by the employee) and access to the NHS pension scheme for those eligible.
• We have extended maternity pay, and other family-friendly leave initiatives including paternity leave, parental leave, and adoption leave.
• We have a number of well-being initiatives across the staff team and encourage employees to take a ‘well-being hour’ each week.
• We support employees who want to request flexible working hours.
• We have generous sick pay policies.
• We can offer hybrid working opportunities for roles where part home working is possible.
• We have car and secure bicycle parking on site.
• We have staff development opportunities and have previously funded study opportunities for staff across all teams

To apply 

Please read our full job description in the supporting documents, then visit our website for an application form.

Closing date

This role is open until 5 September 2022. Interviews will take place on 15 / 16 September 2022.

Job title: Employer Engagement Manager

Location: Based remotely in the North East England or Yorkshire

Responsible to: Head of Engagement North East, Yorkshire and Humber

Starting Salary: £28,000 - £34,000

Full recruitment banding: £28,000 - £38,000

Contract: Full time, 37 hours a week

Closing date:Friday 26th August 2022 at 9:00am

Interview Date: Week commencing 29th August 2022

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Location requirements

Although this role is based remotely, having knowledge of employer engagement in the North East or Yorkshire is required. Please note, you may be required to travel to client locations in and around the North East or Yorkshire; therefore, you should live within a commutable distance without impacting productivity or adding a substantive financial burden to the charity, to be successful in your application. This role will cover all areas in the North East and Yorkshire. Please only apply if you are based in the North East of England or Yorkshire.

Why us?

Speakers for Schools are a dynamic, swift-moving and fast-growing charity. We are on a mission to support a million young people across the UK annually by 2023. Having taken the first steps on the road to achieving this, our team has doubled in size in the past year. This has supported 278% growth in our Experience programme and 10% growth in our Inspiration programme during the past 12 months.

We want to level the playing field, making sure that all young people can access inspirational opportunities and experiences to fuel their ambition.

We are united and unique in our mission to transform lives through raising aspirations of millions of young people every year. Each year, 1,500 senior leaders, celebrities and industry experts deliver a difference to by sharing their story with students in schools and colleges in every corner of the UK. We connect employers such as Disney, The Bank of England, Spotify PwC and almost two hundred others to communities to provide access to the top opportunities for all across the UK. With us, you will be part of inspiring a generation to reach higher, broaden horizons and get equal access to the top.

To keep growing our charity and our impact, we need top talent and we are committed to treasuring, developing and supporting them to thrive within their roles.

Speakers for Schools Values

PASSION:  We are committed to levelling the playing field for young people across the UK, creating social mobility and tackling disadvantages.

AGILITY:  We challenge our ideas of what is possible in order to better meet the needs of those we support. We are human, make mistakes, learn, evolve and adapt.

INTEGRITY:  We act with empathy and bring our authentic selves to work every day. We value and respect the talent, time and intentions of those we work with.

COLLABORATION:  We are one team with one mission and only by working together can we deliver better outcomes for young people. We support each other unconditionally and feel motivation in shared success as well as individual progress.

DIVERSITY:  We know it takes people with different ideas, strengths, identities, interests, and cultural backgrounds to make our organisation succeed. We encourage constructive debate and critical friendship.

Role Summary

Working to targets you will focus on business development by researching and reaching out to new business as well as account management of existing relationships in your dedicated region. You will work to deliver our customer experience across a portfolio of programmes, forging a regional ecosystem to provide quality experiences for young people with regional employers.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

• Effective business research and development to enable outreach to and the onboarding of new host employers, helping to grow our employer network to reach ambitious targets for Experience and Progression Programmes (and others as they develop).
• Delivering commercial income from employers, and education & training providers to meet ambitious regional income targets
• Account managing relationships with participating employers, education & training providers, supporting them in the design of programmes (where appropriate) and engagement with our leading technology platform.
• Outreach to discount and opportunity providers, helping grow the range of discounts and opportunities for young people through our Youth Card programme.
• Responsible for delivery and completion of own operational and administrative activity.
• Supporting programmes as needed on any contact, phone conversations with stakeholders, programme delivery tasks and wider charity work in support of wider organisation aims and needs, particularly during peak delivery periods.

Key skills and experience:

Essential: -

• Experience of business development with a variety of stakeholders and owning, managing and delivering an ambitious commercial target.
• Experience in a similar environment working with a variety of stakeholders
• Clear and concise communicator, capable of producing written content to a professional quality
• Confident liaising with and managing relationships particularly with stakeholders from all levels
• Comfort and experience in working with technology and data management
• Proven capability of working through high volumes of work and delivering on targets across varying objectives within delivery
• Sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Excels at organising their workload and enjoy driving work forward independently

Desirable: -

• Previous experience working with HR/Recruitment/CSR/Engagement teams an advantage
• An understanding of the UK Education System and a familiarity with careers provision within UK schools and colleges would be an advantage
• Proficient use of the Salesforce CRM, to track relationships and ensure proper data management.

Benefits offered at Speakers for Schools:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Morning of your birthday off
• Pension scheme
• 3 voluntary days per year
• Wellbeing programme
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption package
• Subsidised office furniture
• CharlieHR perks
• Perkbox
• £500 a year training allowance

Diversity at our core

Speakers for Schools is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating discrimination. 

Disability Confident Employer

Speakers for Schools are glad to be Disability Confident Employers. This means that if you have a disability and you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be invited to interview.

Please note that in certain recruitment situations, such as a high number of applications and seasonal and high-peak times, Speakers for Schools may limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

We usually ask for a CV and covering letter to be submitted as part of the application process. However, we understand that this is not always accessible to everyone, so we welcome video and phone call applications as alternative ways to apply. For additional information or support, please contact us.

How to apply:

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one-page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period. Please note, that if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.  

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.

You must have the right to work in the UK to apply.

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:

The closing date for this role will is Friday 26th August at 9:00am. 

Successful candidates will be invited to interviews on the week commencing 29th August 2022. Please try to be available this week as alternative dates may not be possible.

Our new team member will start ASAP. 

If you have not heard from us two weeks after the interview date, please presume your application has been unsuccessful.

The Director of Engagement will work in close collaboration with the Executive Team and shares collective responsibility to deliver the charity’s vision of a world where encephalitis matters to everyone. The role’s particular focus is to be responsible for planning, developing and delivering the charity’s awareness and communication strategies.

This role will inspire those affected by encephalitis, their families and communities to engage with the work of the Society. This role will lead in our campaigns such as World Encephalitis Day and lead on key growth areas such as membership and fundraising. This role will be expected to take the lead on the strategy and planning of all our communications work, and to work closely with colleagues working on fundraising and support to deliver consistently high quality messages and campaigns.

The person appointed must be sensitive to the personal nature of information relating to individual members that will be available to them and be both willing and able to maintain strict confidentiality in this area. All data must be dealt with in a sensitive and professional manner.

KEY OBJECTIVES AND SPECIFIC AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Communications
• Plan, develop and deliver the Communications and Engagement strategy that enables the Encephalitis Society to meet its strategic objectives.
• Identify opportunities for growth and develop new campaigns and opportunities for awareness raising in line with the strategic plan.
• Drive innovation and continuous evaluation of content formats and dissemination strategies, including testing new channels and approaches to reach audiences
• Be responsible for developing and driving a social media strategy that supports our objectives.

Act as an ambassador for the Encephalitis Society including but not confined to undertaking speaking engagements, acting as a spokesperson with the media, attending events, attending networking events and conferences.

• Network and collaborate with other organisations and promote a collaborative approach wherever possible.
 

Marketing & Media
• Be responsible for the development and delivery of the charity’s marketing plan, with a focus on segmentation and greater insight-driven campaigns to grow brand awareness and engagement with target audiences
• Source and work closely with PR agencies to ensure regular coverage in international, national, sector and regional media
• Oversee the annual development, delivery and evaluation of a media strategy, and use media to increase our impact through the year.
• Act on KPI information from monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and evaluation frameworks.
• Drive innovation and continuous evaluation of content formats and dissemination strategies, including testing new channels and approaches to reach audiences.

Fundraising
• Line manage and empower the fundraising team to meet their targets as outlined in the Fundraising Strategy
• Establish and nurture relationships with leading income providers including individuals, grants, trusts and statutory bodies
• Horizon scan for fundraising trends and opportunities
• Network and steward key Society contacts
• Ensure we meet all relevant statutory requirements and industry standards in relation to income generation.
 

Strategic Management
• As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLcontribute to the development of an effective strategy and support the delivery of the Encephalitis Society’s strategic objectives, as set out in the Strategic Plan.
• Develop and review relevant policies and procedures to ensure safe, effective practice and ensure compliance across the charity.
• Ensure all data collection follows our GDPR and Information Governance policies.
• Develop and maintain a culture that embeds, promotes and protects the values of The Encephalitis Society.
• As a member of SLT, contribute to effective risk management across the Encephalitis Society and ensures delivery of the risk management strategy.

This is an exciting 12-month external secondment opportunity with The Prince’s Trust and Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust (GSTT).

You will work closely with The Prince’s Trust and GSTT to identify employment opportunities within the NHS and wider Integrated Care System, engaging key stakeholders to participate in our employability programmes, offering young candidates the chance to interview for permeant and apprenticeship roles within the health and social care sector. 

You will play a vital role in helping to improve employment opportunities for young people, supporting them through 1:1 sessions and group workshops. You will develop and deliver our Health and Social Care employability programmes (Get Into and Get Started) to ensure young candidates are work-ready, actively engaged and can make an informed decision when considering their next step within health and care.

You will be responsible for interviewing, supporting and mentoring candidates undertaking the programmes, while working closely with the employer partner organisations to ensure that all young people can access local job opportunities within their area.

This role is an opportunity for you to showcase your passion for youth work and further enhance your project and partner management skills, with the opportunity to bring your own unique ideas to the table and we would welcome an application from you