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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Refugee and Migrant Centre, a well-established and award-winning charity dedicated to supporting refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants. Our mission is to break down barriers to integration and empower individuals to achieve equal citizenship through holistic support services.
As an Advisor, you will play a vital role in delivering professional and effective advice to a diverse range of service users. You will work within a dedicated team to provide advocacy, guidance, and casework support, ensuring the best possible outcomes for our beneficiaries.
Purpose and Scope of the Role
- To provide high-quality advice and advocacy to service users in areas related to their welfare.
- To support the team and management in meeting the needs of beneficiaries and achieving service targets.
- To uphold the professional and organisational standards in the delivery of advice services.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Casework and Advice
- Provide one-to-one support, advice, and advocacy for clients on immigration, asylum, and welfare-related matters.
- Ensure casework is conducted professionally, accurately recorded, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain confidentiality in all interactions and ensure clients' needs are met in a sensitive and satisfactory manner.
- Support and mentor volunteers where required.
- Stay up to date with legal and policy changes relevant to the sector.
Teamwork and Collaboration
- Work closely with senior colleagues to drive efficiency and improve service delivery.
- Represent RMC at external meetings and events when required.
- Maintain strong working relationships with partners, stakeholders, and external agencies.
- Share knowledge and best practices within the team to create a collaborative working environment.
Training and Development
- Participate in ongoing training and development opportunities.
- Keep accurate records of training attended and share learning with colleagues.
- Contribute to internal and external training sessions as required.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Experience providing advice and casework support to asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly to distressed clients.
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise a demanding workload.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and working in a multicultural environment.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working in a multicultural setting with sensitivity to different cultures.
- Ability to work independently and self-motivate.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Strong listening skills and the ability to empathise while maintaining professional boundaries.
Terms and conditions of employment
The following conditions of service will apply:
Salary
£23,500 – £25,00 (dependent on experience)
Location
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall or Dudley
Pension
RMC will contribute 3% of gross basic salary
Holidays
21 days per year plus public holidays pro rata for part-time post. Holiday entitlement increases to 24 days after 2 years and 29 days after 5 years
Hours of Work
35 hours per week (excluding lunch breaks). Some evening and weekend work may be required for which time off in lieu should be claimed
Probation
This post will have a probationary period of 6 months
Notice
One month’s notice of termination of employment on either side.
Disability
We are committed to making every reasonable adjustment to the workplace or working arrangements so as to accommodate people with disabilities.
Enhanced DBS:
Employment in this post will be subject to a satisfactory police clearance being obtained. Because of the nature of the work for which you are applying, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exception) Order 1975 and you are, therefore, not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act.
Travel expenses
If travel around the Black Country is undertaken in your own vehicle for work purposes this can be reclaimed at the rate of 45 pence per mile.
Training
Access to external paid training and regular internal training provided by Senior Caseworkers
Commitment to supporting you to develop and upskill in the field of immigration and asylum
Flexibility
In order to deliver the stated aims of this post, a degree of flexibility is needed and the post holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties will fall within the scope of the job within the appropriate pay grade. The job description will therefore be subject to periodic review with the post holder to ensure it accurately reflects the duties that are being performed.
Equal Opportunities
We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Closing Date: 07/05/2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date.
Please note that RMC is not a sponsoring organisation. If your visa requires an extension within the next 12 months with the support of employer sponsorship, the Refugee and Migration Centre is unable to provide assistance with this.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Can you help young athletes beat their personal best?
Then come and join a small team of doers, who have banned red tape, silos, politics and “computer says no” scenarios to work for a really uplifting cause. At SportsAid we exist to encourage, enable and empower the next generation of athletes to achieve their ambitions in sport and life. For decades, we have been side by side with Britain’s greatest emerging sporting talent, from Mo Farah to Jessica Ennis-Hill to Ade Adepitan, Paula Radcliffe and so many others to give them vital support before they became Olympian and Paralympian stars.
We are looking to appoint a new Head of Fundraising and Communications to lead a very capable, motivated and collaborative team and provide strategic leadership to develop an integrated approach between fundraising, communications and athletes/alumni engagement.
Over the last two years we have developed a new fundraising strategy, new partnership models and won an incredibly exciting strategic partnership opportunity that will deliver impact for 60,000 young athletes. You will be instrumental in taking the strategy forward and push our income and impact even further.
Your focus will be on:
· Building community fundraising and alumni engagement and support the implementation of corporate partnerships plans
· Ensuring the fundraising team are fully equipped with the tools they need: a strong case for support, accurate financial and impact reports, consistent and engaging brand and communication assets
· Leading on the development of a new SportsAid communications and digital strategy, so it has a comprehensive narrative for SportsAid, translated into key messages that underpin the charity’s aims and objectives.
· Support, coach and manage a strong, collaborative and motivated team of five
Does this sound like you?
· You are a confident, empathetic and experienced leader. You have the courage to advocate and drive for change and influence at the highest level of the organisation and you are also self-aware and committed to listening, inclusion and well-being
· Over 5 years’ experience as fundraising leader in the charity sector, either a head of an income stream or as a Head of Fundraising
· A track record of setting and meeting seven figures income targets as part of a multi-faceted fundraising strategy
· Substantial experience of developing an integrated approach between fundraising, communications and beneficiary engagement.
· Specialist expertise in community fundraising and or alumni engagement
· Knowledge of marketing and communication principles and practice, digital marketing, and social media
The salary is £65,000-£70,000 p.a. based on your experience and opportunities for flexible working are available.
SportsAid Head Office in London (near London Bridge) with hybrid working. We are normally all in the office on Mondays and one other day of our choice. We are flexible about start times to help with the cost of commuting and we are genuinely flexible all round. If you have any questions about flexibility, do tell us and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Want to find out more?
Serena Castiglione, our current Head of Fundraising and Communications, would be more than happy to have an informal chat to help you decide if this is for you.
SportsAid recognises that certain sections of the community have been affected by structural inequities and may be denied the opportunity to participate equally and fully in sport at all levels. SportsAid as an organisation believes our role is to remove the barriers that our most under-served, at risk and minoritised groups of young people experience when trying to access sport and physical activities.
SportsAid therefore positively welcomes, and seeks to achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants, volunteers and employees receive equal and fair treatment. We positively encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, disability, marriage and civil partnership status, gender identity, background, religion, faith, sexual orientation, maternity status, pregnancy, belief or nationality.
Please apply with your CV and one page outlining how you meet the essential criteria above by 16th May 2025.
On receipt of your application, you will be sent a confidential equal opportunities form which all applicants will be asked to complete.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited by 23rd May to have a preliminary online conversation with the current Head of Fundraising and Communications on or near 27th May. Interviews will be held in person in London on 2nd and 3rd June 2025.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Since 1899, Birmingham Settlement has been working to create opportunity and choice – connecting and empowering people through action, activities, and shared learning to build and sustain wellbeing for all.
Debt & Welfare Benefits Adviser / Debt & Welfare Benefits Trainee Adviser
Four posts
Salary: £29,063 pa for experienced adviser.
£23,500 pa for trainee (review after 6-months)
35 hours per week, 25 days A/L + contributory pension scheme
Birmingham Settlement has an opportunity to join our Money Advice Team, either as an experienced Debt & Welfare Benefits Adviser or a Debt & Welfare Benefits Trainee Adviser.
As an experienced Debt & Welfare Benefits Adviser you will already have a background in providing effective, high-quality debt and welfare benefits advice to a wide range of clients in differing circumstance. As a Trainee you will have a basic knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting people experiencing debt and benefit problems along with some experience in an advice service or customer facing setting along with the ability and willingness to undertake training and development.
Based at our Newtown office with outreach work in other areas of the city, you will be adaptable with excellent communication skills, flexibility, and the ability to manage your own workload.
You will be joining a long established and professional Money Advice Team providing specialist advice with a holistic approach that covers all areas of debt and welfare benefit along with training to build and continually improve money management and financial capability.
This is a great opportunity to join a progressive charity making a real difference to people’s lives – see our website
For an informal discussion about the roles call Theresa Gniadkowski
For an application pack visit our website, email us or write to Human Resources, Birmingham Settlement – Sports & Community Centre, 600 Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, B44 9SH
Closing date for applications: Friday,23/05/2025 at 5pm
Interviews: Friday, 30/05/2025
Birmingham Settlement is committed to Equality of Opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Registered charity number 517303
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.