Do you want a job that makes a positive difference in people’s lives?

Age UK Croydon has a vision for a Croydon where everyone can love later life.  Age UK Croydon is a growing organisation, with a dynamic staff team. Our mission is to lead the way in empowering, enabling, supporting and connecting older people in Croydon to live well, healthily and independently. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to join our Personal Independence Coordinator (PICs), leading a small team on projects that are at the heart of our work. The PICs work within a complex and ever evolving environment working alongside health and care professionals, bringing together the local voluntary and community sector to support people and represent the person’s wishes.   You will be providing line management and day to day support to 4 staff members, alongside developing our external referrals.

All team leaders work two days a week as team leader and three days a week as a PIC.

Personal Independence Coordinator Team Leader

Salary: £27,000 FTE per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week

The important qualities we are looking for are; 

• Strong understanding of person-centred working
• Leadership experience
• Adaptable to change
• Positive, motivated attitude
• Excellent communication skills

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of the older people who use our services, and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to improve, then we would love to hear from you.

This role will require an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check

How to apply: Please click on apply and complete our online application form.
CV’s will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications:  9am, Monday 16th March 2020

Interview Date: Friday 20th March 2020

Mustard Tree aims to combat poverty and create life transforming opportunities for people who are homeless, or are at risk of becoming homeless.

Role Purpose
Working directly to the CEO, leading the services functions within Mustard Tree. This includes managing the Crisis provision, Freedom team and voucher schemes including Food Club. Represent the values of the charity both internally and externally, contributing to the Management team and overall development of the charity.

What you will be doing: Job Description

Referrals and Partnerships

• Develop an understanding of beneficiary numbers and needs and reflect these in the support services provided by the Mustard Tree through an integrated approach

• Manage referrals from incoming agencies including job centres, GPs, social care, work programme, mental health, drug and alcohol teams, churches

• Build relationships with external statutory and 3rd sector agencies to encourage referrals and signposting

Managing Services

• Manage the ‘Welcome’ function of the charity including reception and enquiries in line with our values and for all volunteers, guests and partners

• Manage the crisis provision within the charity for rough sleepers, asylum seekers and people in need including 121 support, help with finding emergency accommodation, action planning, provision of food and clothing and referrals to other agencies

• Manage the voucher plus schemes within the Mustard Tree including people on benefits, new tenancies and evaluate how we can best support people on low/minimum wage including decisions on gifting

• Manage the Freedom support team including referrals, assessments, 121s, safeguarding, incident management, work placements, Next Steps planning and exit strategies

• Work to budgets and manage day to day finances including petty cash, Freedom Volunteer expenses and the Freedom crisis fund.

Development of People

• Line manage all Freedom and support services staff, ensuring they are appropriately trained in order to carry out their duties within the charity

• Manage the Freedom team to support the Freedom trainees in the realisation of personal progression goals including induction and training.

• Maintain positive relationships with other Mustard Tree managers and providing occasional cover if required

Reporting and Outcomes

• Promote Mustard Tree values and develop suggestion boxes, monthly service user meetings and proactively communicate updates to the rest of Mustard Tree.

• Provide outcome monitoring for all Freedom trainees, Crisis provision, Voucher plus schemes, Reception, Helpdesk and other services as required using our database and reporting mechanisms.

• Work with the fundraising team and CEO to embed new services provision in line with funding received and provide tailored contract reporting information

Health and Safety

• Fulfil role of Safeguarding Officer (along with CEO and other managers) and provide guidance for the rest of the charity

• Manage the health and safety requirements of the support services including risk assessments, lone working policy, staff wellbeing and incident management

• Manage an effective signing in and out process and weekly rota for trainees

General Work duties:

• Support Freedom trainees to develop skills and behaviours and feel part of the community

• Work within health & safety guidelines and Mustard Tree policies and procedures

• Supporting other staff and departments and provide practical relief cover for work-streams

• Take responsibility for professional development, attending training courses as required

• Leading by example, embodying Mustard Tree values and represent the charity as required

• Contribute towards being an environmentally responsible organisation as part of day to day activities

  including recycling and supporting ‘paper-lite’ practices

• Other tasks and duties relevant to the role as required by the organisation

What we are looking for: Person Specification

Essential:

1. Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in front line roles within 3rd sector/charity or similar

2. Experience of delivering a person-centred approach when supporting people with welfare issues

3. Ability to build relationships, develop external partnerships and represent an organisation positively

4. Good verbal and written communication skills including presentation and report writing

5. IT literacy including Microsoft word and excel and good administration skills

6. Knowledge of health and safety regulations, safeguarding, incident management and governance

Desirable:

7. Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a management role

8. Experience of working with and managing volunteers

9. Social Care / Community / business Level 3 qualification or a university level degree

PMO Co-ordinator
The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London

About Us

Created in March 2017, The Royal Parks is a charity that supports and manages 5,000 acres of historic parkland across London. Millions of Londoners and tourists visit our beautiful sites, which offer unparalleled opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and healthy living in the heart of the capital.

We look after eight of London’s largest open spaces; Hyde Park, Green Park, Richmond, Greenwich, St James’s, Bushy and The Regent’s Park, and Kensington Gardens. We also manage other important open spaces in the capital including Brompton Cemetery, Victoria Tower Gardens, Canning Green and Poet’s Corner.

We are now looking for a PMO Co-ordinator to join our team, working from our offices in the Old Police House in Hyde Park.

The Benefits

- Salary of £27,390 - £33,330 per annum DOE
- Pension scheme
- 26 days’ holiday per annum

If you are an administrative professional with fantastic support experience, this is a superb opportunity to enable project work that ensures the conservation of irreplaceable landscapes throughout London.

We provide comprehensive training to support you to build upon your current skill set and gain valuable experience in project management.

So, if you are looking for a career in administration with a difference where you can get a unique glimpse at how we manage some of London’s most beautiful spaces, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a PMO Co-ordinator, you will enable the work of the Director of Estates and Projects, the Project Manager and the Projects Team through support and admin practices.

Working on selected projects and programmes, you will:

- Arrange and circulate documents and take minutes for monthly meetings
- Manage budgets and track financial spending for multiple projects
- Support the administration of The Project Approval Group
- Assist in processing invoices and raising purchase orders and receipts
- Manage the diary for the department
- Ensure project ledgers, logs and databases are up to date
- Support the creation of first drafts of project briefs

About You

To join us as a PMO Co-ordinator, you will need:

- Substantial experience of providing a high standard of administrative support to a variety of teams, colleagues and projects
- Experience of monitoring and reporting on the progress of a range of different project activities
- Experience of using MS Excel to accurately track and report on financial data, the processing of purchase orders and recording invoices
- Experience of providing detailed and thorough minutes
- Diary management skills and experience of arranging meetings
- Strong IT skills including proficient use of Microsoft Office suite
- At a minimum, GCSEs at grades 4 - 9 or A* - C in Maths and English

Ideally, you will hold a PRINCE2 project management certification, but this is not essential. The ability to improve processes and procedures to provide better information to senior management and assistance to staff would also be beneficial.

Other organisations may call this role Project Support Officer, Administrator, PMO Administrator, Project Administrator, Personal Assistant, PA, Executive Assistant, EA, Officer Assistant, Project Team Assistant, Project Team Administrator, Project Assistant, or Financial Administrator.

The closing date for this role is the 1st of March 2020.

This is a full-time role, working 36 hours per week.

Webrecruit and The Royal Parks are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking for a diverse challenge as a PMO Co-ordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Sported team as our Marketing Coordinator. Sported passionately believes in the role of sport to transform the lives of young people. Particularly, those living in deprived areas. We have been highly influential in building the credibility and effectiveness of sport for change and have the UK’s largest network of grass roots clubsWe are looking for a highly motivated and self-driven team player with excellent organisational and communications skills, ready to take on this new UK wide role at our London office.

You will be responsible for leading, shaping and delivering Sported’s external communications activities. In this varied role, you will work across the different functions of the organisation and with our UK field team. Your main responsibilities will focus on providing social media, marketing and brand support to promote the charity’s work and to support interactions with members and volunteers.

The ultimate measure of success in this role is supporting key stakeholders produce consistent, effective material which conveys our key messages, plus using social media to increase awareness of our activity and the impact we have.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK’s leading charity working to improve life after brain injury.

Headway is the UK-wide charity that supports people affected by brain injury. Through a range of frontline services run from its Nottingham base and working with our network of more than 120 groups and branches across the UK, it provides support, services and information to brain injury survivors, their families and carers, as well as to health professionals.

We’re looking to appoint a Network Support Manager in Northern Ireland to manages a series of support networks. You will support the Headway branch network and manage services across the acquired brain injury networks providing high-quality rehabilitation and support services to individuals, families and carers affected by brain injury. You will also manage a small team of regional service coordinators, counsellors and volunteers.

To meet the demands of this challenging yet rewarding role, you will need to be committed, enthusiastic, flexible, and have a passion for making a difference. A working knowledge and understanding of brain injury would be preferable but not essential, as long as you can demonstrate a desire to learn about its complexities and consequences. However, comprehensive experience of working within disability and health and social care would be advantageous.

We are looking for confident self-starters who have previous voluntary sector experience or who have an interest in working within a health or social care environment.

If you are interested in furthering your career and improving life after brain injury, we would like to hear from you.

Headway – the brain injury association is an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date for applications: Midnight, Wednesday 26th February 2020

Anticipated Interview dates: Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th March 2020

We are seeking a Senior Child Rights Coordinator to help devise and deliver innovative strategies, develop our relationships with key stakeholders and make a significant contribution to reducing childhood statelessness in the UK.

We are looking for a policy and advocacy specialist with a proven track record in the area of child rights in the UK. Creative and innovative, the successful candidate will be a skilled communicator and pride themselves on producing high quality policy analysis, which they will use to influence change within civil society and among decision-makers. They will have solid experience of working collaboratively and building alliances which they can use to help us inspire others to join in the fight against childhood statelessness.

This is a 18-month part-time (21 hours) post based in London.

The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is a civil society alliance of over 150 non-governmental organisations, academics and individual experts in 41 countries, committed to addressing statelessness in Europe. Everyone has the right to a nationality. We believe this must be respected and those who lack nationality - stateless people - are entitled to full protection. We are dedicated to working with stateless people in Europe to advocate for respect of their human rights. We aim to reach our goals through law and policy development, awareness-raising, and capacity-building.

Sport and Thought Project Coordinator

Part Time Post (16 hours per week)

Salary:  ​£28,000 to £31,000 per year (pro rata)

Job Ref: BC350220

This is an opportunity for someone to join a very committed and dedicated team of professionals, who wants to support the growth and impact of the very much in demand Sport and Thought project. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious professional with a background in mental health, social care or, education.

The post-holder will coordinate and develop the Sport and Thought Project and provide Sport and Thought intervention to secondary age young people. This project combines football drills with mental health work. This is a unique and successful project that has been running for a number of years at secondary schools and also Youth Community organisations.

The Brent Centre for Young People (BCYP) is a long-time established, highly regarded and internationally renowned mental health institution and taking part in our projects can really make a difference in the lives of young people.

The post-holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will assist the Head of Clinical Services and other staff in the development of the Sport & Thought project.

Last date for application: 1st March 2020

Project Coordinator - Education
London, E1

About Us

Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership is a leading East London-based charity that bridges the gap between education and the world of work.

For almost 30 years, we have worked in partnership with schools and businesses to provide fair and equal opportunities that enable young people to broaden their horizons and help them achieve their aspirations.

Our Do More Team delivers projects and programmes to prepare young people for the world of work, giving them work experience opportunities and holding events to hone their interview and employability skills.

We are now looking for a Project Coordinator to join our Do More Team and support projects being delivered to young adults.

The Benefits

- Salary of £22,890 per annum
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Great office location
- Friendly and inclusive environment
- Early finish on Fridays

If you have experience of coordinating charitable and/or educational programmes and projects, this is an amazing opportunity to support young people to learn more, do more and become more.

Joining a friendly and talented team, dedicated to educating communities and helping them thrive, you will gain valuable experience and deliver a service that encourages young people to reach their potential.

So, if you’re committed to help fight educational inequality and creating real change within your local communities, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Project Coordinator, you will support the Do More Team to deliver a variety of employability related programmes and activities to secondary schools and sixth form colleges throughout East London.

Specifically, your role will involve organising work experience for pre and post 16 learners, delivering our Getting Ahead and Head to Head programmes and a range of special events and projects.

Your role will also involve:

- Recruiting work experience providers
- Coordinating and supporting programme and event administration
- Attending, supporting and delivering workshops and events
- Recruiting and coordinating volunteers to support programmes and events
- Liaising with school staff to ensure successful projects
- Updating our database and compiling data and reports on business and volunteer activity

About You

To join us as a Project Coordinator, you will need:

- Experience of coordinating projects and/or programmes within a charity and/or education setting
- Experience of coordinating and/or supporting volunteers
- An enhanced DBS clearance or be willing to undertaken one
- Proficient Microsoft Office skills

Ideally, you will have experience of supporting community organisations or individuals, but this is not essential. Previous experience of working with children and young people would also be beneficial.

Other organisations may call this role Programme Coordinator, Workshop Coordinator, Skills Training Coordinator, Skills Workshop Coordinator, Careers Advisor, Careers Workshop Coordinator, or Careers Fair Coordinator.

We also welcome those with less experience who are just starting out in their careers.

Webrecruit and Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership Limited are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to empower young people as a Project Coordinator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Street League work with young people, progressing them into employment, education and training by engaging them through football, fitness, dance fitness and rugby. We specialise in helping our participants (16-24 years’ olds from disadvantaged areas) progress from our unique sport/fitness and education programmes into sustainable employment, education and training. We are now launching sports & fitness programmes aimed at engaging more people in physical activity initially across Greater London & Surrey.

We are a growing organisation and currently operate across the UK in 14 regions, including Greater London, the North West of England, West Midlands, Yorkshire and extensively across Scotland.

We are recruiting a Sports Coordinators in the west of London. The Sports Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of Street League’s programmes, in which you will deliver a range of engagement activities to a group of Street League participants focussed on sport, fitness, personal development and wellbeing.

The post involves outreach work and you will be responsible for recruiting participants and sustaining them on Street League’s programmes to ensure delivery targets are met. You will maintain partnerships with referral agencies and develop further partnerships with stakeholders to ensure suitable future opportunities for our participants. Monitoring and reporting are essential to this role. Local knowledge across Greater London is essential.

All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure Check.

Street League is an equal opportunities employer.

Service Manager

Are you a care professional who is looking for a new management challenge with an opportunity to set up a brand new supported living development in Ipswich?

Position: Service Manager – Supported Living

Location: Ipswich, Suffolk

Salary: Competitive

Hours: Full time (40 per hour week), permanent

Benefits: Full induction process, outstanding training opportunities, development and career progression, opportunities to gain recognised qualifications, free DBS screening, flexible working

About the role:

This is exciting opportunity to join a well-established and growing care organisation and lead a new supported living service opening in May/June this year.

As the Service Manager you will ensure our clients core values (Potential, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity and Empathy (PRIDE)) figure prominently in what you do to achieve the best possible outcomes for the people you are supporting.

You will build good working relationships with numerous internal and external stakeholders including regulatory bodies, ensuring that all issues identified are resolved professionally and promptly.

The Service Manager’s responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the provision of high-quality care by participating, observing and sharing experience.
• Lead and manage an empowered, engaged, motivated and highly effective care team.
• Ensure employees rotas are cost effective and are appropriate for the needs of the people our client supports.
• Manage annual and other inspections.

About you: 

You will be an experienced leader of teams within a health and social care setting and have a relevant Health & Social Care qualification NVQ Level 5 or above. Proven experience of creating and developing teams of care workers is essential.

As a Service Manager, you will need to be caring, energetic and have strong organisational skills in order to fulfil this role. Knowledge of managing within complex mental health and learning difficulties will be a distinct advantage.

We very much welcome previous experience working as: Service Manager, Assistant Service Managed, Service Leader, Home Manager, Deputy Manager etc.

About us

akt is the UK’s national LGBTQ Youth Homelessness charity.  We provide safe homes, mentoring, and support to ensure that no young person needs to choose between a safe home and being who they are. Currently 24% of young people facing homelessness in the UK identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender, and 77% cite abuse and rejection by their families after coming out as the primary reason for seeking help. The charity was founded in 1989 and operates service centres in London, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and works online through a digital service providing support and opportunities for e-mentoring across the UK. In 2012, akt opened the UK’s first emergency safe house for young LGBT people in the UK.  akt works with over 2,000 vulnerable young people a year providing both face to face and online assistance.

The team

This role sits within akt’s London Service Centre as part of the fundraising team and will be directly supervised by the Director of Fundraising.  The akt fundraising team comprises of:  The Director of Fundraising (London), Manager of Engagement (London), Community Giving Coordinator (London), Supporter Care Officer (London), Trust and Foundation Officer (Newcastle; part-time) and Community Giving Officer (Manchester; part-time). 

The role

The Annual Giving Coordinator plays a key role in maintaining and enhancing relationships and growing income from corporate and individual donors (entry and mid-level) and corporate LGBT Networks.

Main duties and responsibilities

• With the Director of Fundraising, develop stewardship, cultivation and recognition plans for individual and corporate (entry to mid-level). 
• Plan and undertake face to face cultivation and solicitation visits with mid-level prospects of all types, with a view to establishing ownership of a growing number of prospects and donors.
• Strengthen and develop relationships with existing and new corporate LGBT networks to grow this income stream and facilitate volunteer opportunities. 
• With the Supporter Care officer, be responsible for the administration of gifts including managing gift renewals, recording new gifts and records on the database (ThankQ), generating thank-you letters and dealing with administration of Standing Orders, Direct Debit payments, etc.
• Dealing with enquiries from donors, supporters and volunteers, etc. in a welcoming, friendly and helpful manner, and ensuring that their requests are acted upon speedily and efficiently.
• Attending events as required.
• Performing other duties, as required, to fulfil department’s responsibilities and help other members of the wider team at busy times.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of working in a fundraising and/or income generation team
• Excellent communication and presentation skills required to build relationships with potential donors
• Experience with CRMs / donor relationship management database (ThankQ or similar)
• High standard of computer literacy (MS Office)
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work well in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of working to deadlines and to income targets
• Ability to work in collaboration as part of a small but dynamic team as well as working independently
• Strong self-motivation

Desirable

• Knowledge of issues faced by young LGBTQ+ young people and/or homelessness
• Knowledge of UK charity regulations

At akt we are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity, we are committed to our team reflecting the diverse community we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability or age. We particularly encourage applications from BAME, transgender identities and disability groups, who are currently under-represented within akt. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Jewish Care is attempting to change the way our services for people in community centres are presented. An increasing sophisticated, mobile and diverse community has developed different expectations of their lifestyle as they get older. It is apparent that our community programme provide less care and our staff need to be more involved in the development and delivery of programmes and activities both within the campus and externally. This role forms a part of the strategy to redefine our work in this area in line with the vision for the Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre.

The main purpose of the role is to maximise members' independence, dignity and choice through the provision of the activity programme, use of transport and providing person centred care. The list of principal accountabilities/responsibilities below is not exclusive.

You will;

* Assist and support the Day Services Wellbeing Coordinator, and the Centre Manager to plan and deliver recreation and leisure activities within the centre, and externally within the community including new ground breaking initiatives to agreed standards to increase attendance and engagement
* Run and evaluate weekly Dynamics reports regarding members wellbeing
* Manage attendance list and update Community Centre manager of any changes in the members lives
* Manage the volunteer who manages attendance list and help him with the communication to the families about unattended members
* Support and deputise in all aspects of the coordination and delivery of the Meals on Wheels service,when the coordinator is on leave and to up date members of this service when is needed
* Support the manager with line management duties of support workers
* Get to know the members and their changing needs
* Work in partnership with local stakeholders in identifying the needs of the community by providing programmes/activities and to work towards a collective vision
* Enable people at all stages of their lives to feel that they are valued members of their Jewish community (however they identify themselves as Jewish)
* Provide support to volunteers and designated sessional workers involved in the activities to agreed standards and to ensure volunteers are valued and encourage teamwork
* Develop day service programmes for the community that influence people's approach to their own and others ageing, in an informed and person-centred way by taking account of the recommendations in the Jewish Care paper, An Agenda for Ageing Well
* Plan, monitor and organise the quality and diversity of the recreation, art, IT and leisure activities to agreed standards to enable us to review activities and evaluate
* Manage all aspects of the transport and database systems in conjunction with the Day Services Wellbeing Coordinator and administration team
* Work one Sunday a Month providing a Sunday Social to service users (lieu time will be given)
* Drive for the centre in all aspects of the core services and outreach services provided by the centre
* Provide support to service users in line with Jewish Care policies and procedures and the General Social Care Council's Code of Practice for social care workers
* Ensure the activities are delivered within a Jewish context to meet the requirements of our service users across the religious spectrum
* Work alongside volunteers delivering recreational and leisure activities to agreed standards to ensure volunteers are valued and encourage teamwork
* Encourage current and future users to develop and achieve their interests by providing an ageing well approach to ensure that users are involved in the centre
* Enable people at all stages of their lives to feel that they are valued members of their Jewish community (however they identify themselves as Jewish)
* Promote and provide a creative and dynamic range of activities that successfully integrates users into the social life of the services provided to agreed standards to increase attendance and engagement
* Build relationships with lay and professional leaders within the local Synagogues, and through area resource meetings to engage them with the work in the day centre and how we together can benefit the older community

You will need;

* NVQ level 3 or above in Social Care (preferred
* Current driving license with D1 category (essential)
* Experience of working in the field of activity/event organising
* Experience of activity planning and coordination
* Experience of administration and evaluation of recreational and leisure programmes Experience of working with older people

This post is for 30 hours per week @ £9.89 per hour (£15,470 per annum) you will be expected to work 1 Sunday a month, and you will need to hold a catergory D1 Drivers Licence or passed your driving test before 1997.

Benefits

Jewish Care offers excellent benefits and training to all staff. Benefits include, free meals, 20 day's annual leave, Jewish Care Pension scheme, various discounts, L

Harris Hill are pleased to be working with Canal & River Trust, to recruit their new Community Engagement Coordinator based in Brent.

The Canal & River Trust is one of the UK's largest and newest charities, having been set up in 2012 to care for over 2,000 miles of historic inland waterways. Their waterways contribute to the health and wellbeing of local communities and economies, creating attractive and connected places to live, work, volunteer and spend leisure time. These historic, natural and cultural assets form part of the strategic and local green-blue infrastructure network, linking urban and rural communities as well as habitats. Their waterways are on the doorstep of 8 million people and reach some of the most deprived communities within the UK. By caring for the waterways and promoting their use they believe they can improve the wellbeing of our nation.

Your job will be to engage and connect with new and existing communities along the canal within in specific project areas, and drive transformation that will materially change how local people perceive and use the waterways they live by, to make local waterways relevant and build community ownership so that the momentum is sustained and wellbeing benefits are realised.

This will involve building strong relationships with stakeholders, partners and communities, and working with them to establish and develop a local project plan. You will also be responsible for creating a programme of volunteering and community activity designed to improve health and wellbeing in the area.

This is contract until May 2022.

Key Responsibilities:
-Provide a concentrated effort into key strategic areas to increase local engagement and engrain the canal network into local communities and maximising the benefit it brings. Transforming places, generate greater community engagement and cohesion and build stronger local networks.
-Develop and maintain positive and strong relations with key stakeholders, partners and communities.
-With internal teams, external partners and local communities establish and implement a local project plan for the successful delivery of the required outputs within the project area and set timescales. This will include the proposed financial spend required.
-Create a programme of volunteering, community activity and recreation to improve health and wellbeing and engagement along the canal.
-Ensure local groups are embedded into the Trust's regional teams for continued support and management.
-Prepare progress and financial reports to allow for efficient and effective monitoring and evaluation of the project.
-Work closely with the Regional Directors and steering group to develop models for success that can be utilised across the Trust's network of canals and waterways.
-Ensure that diversity and inclusion are integrated into all aspects of the project.
-Promote and recognise the community contribution through press, media and appropriate communication channels
-Investigate further funding opportunities

Skills and Experience required:
-Experience working within community engagement and volunteering environment
-Experience in delivering community and volunteering projects.
-Experience in youth engagement.
-Ability to work with a diverse group of people, including minority or marginalised communities
-Ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally to a wide variety of audiences and using a variety of methods suitable to different audiences.
-Experience of budget management and control
-Proven ability to be able to influence and collaborate with other departments/stakeholders
-Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills. Ability to operate in a complex organisation and influence the delivery of others.
-A proven ability to build robust relationships with key stakeholders to deliver excellent services, programmes or projects.
-Evidence of developing relationships with partner organisations and communities to deliver mutual benefits and outputs, building strong relationships and influencing

Prospectus is pleased to be working with a leading charity that provides advice, guidance and support to local residents and within the surrounding areas. They are currently seeking to recruit a Service Manager to assist with the oversight and day to day running of the organisation on a full time (40 hours per week) on-going basis.

As the organisation's Service Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of a comprehensive advice and information service provided to beneficiaries. You will oversee performance measures and ensure that they are being used to efficiently manage operations, assist with identifying risks and the effects they may have on organisational change. Working in partnership with funders and key stakeholders, you will monitor the performance and effectiveness of the service delivery, ensuring it continues to meet local advice needs. To ensure service delivery standards are met, you will be confident in evaluating the effectiveness of the service, developing common practice and, where necessary delegating, monitoring and evaluating work. As part of the role, you will also be responsible for the development and implementation of the organisations health and safety policy and procedure.

To be successful for this role, you will have a substantial experience of managing operations, developing good quality advice services, supervising frontline staff (including volunteers) and planning and developing the delivery of advice services to meet the needs of the local community. You will have a good working knowledge of IT packages, an understanding of supporting and supervising frontline staff to encourage their motivation and personal/professional development. Adaptability and a positive approach is key to this role, as well as being able to use your own initiative and work collaboratively with the wider team. The ability to work well under pressure is an essential element. In addition, ideally you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills and have the confidence to  deliver presentations, write reports and communicate in a clear and engaging manner.

To be considered, you must be available to start immediately or within a 2 week notice period. The working pattern for this position in Monday - Friday and on-going for up to 3 months with the possibility of a permanent position. Â