Position:  Programmes Coordinator (Temporary)

Location:  London

Status:  Full-time, temporary (9 months, with a possibility of extending to 12 months)

Reports to:  Chief Programmes Officer (CPO)

Deadline to Apply:  28 January 2021

I. Position Summary:

The Programmes Coordinator provides extensive support to the Chief Programmes Officer (CPO) and the wider Programmes Department. Key responsibilities include providing support to the CPO with scheduling, travel, expense reports, as well as administering critical aspects of Malala Fund’s Programmes Department, project managing special initiatives, facilitating departmental coordination (including meeting management), providing logistical support for physical and virtual meetings with grantees and programme participants and corresponding with internal and external parties.

Excellent communication skills, time and priority management, strong attention to detail and discretion are essential for this role.

II.  Responsibilities:

Executive Support 

• Plans and coordinates diary scheduling for the Chief Programmes Officer (CPO).

• Compiles and helps prepare pre-read documents, interview briefs and trip information to ensure the CPO is well prepared for all meetings and events. 

• Manages critical deadlines and special projects for the CPO to ensure smooth implementation.

• Supports other members of the department’s Senior Leadership Team with logistical support for special projects. 

• Provides logistical support for travel, including booking air travel, hotels, visas and preparing expense reports. 

• Performs other administrative functions as necessary to best facilitate the CPO’s ability to effectively lead the Programmes Department and support Malala Fund’s Executive Leadership Team. 

Departmental Administration and Coordination

• Manages the Programmes team’s meeting schedule and agenda, takes notes, tracks departmental decisions and action items and prioritises conflicting needs to follow projects through to successful completion. Works cross-departmentally to ensure coordination across projects.

• Builds, maintains and manages excellent relationships with all members of the Programmes and Executive Leadership Team, grantees and other stakeholders. 

• Leads on logistics for group events and supports the Programmes Team in trip scheduling and event logistics, including booking travel and securing visas. 

• Coordinate and administer all departmental contracts, invoices, translations and consultant recruitment.

• Ensures key Programmes contacts are captured and recorded in a Salesforce database. 

• Compiles Programmes data as written summaries for internal and external stakeholders. 

• Helps facilitate onboarding of new Programmes Team staff members. 

Programmes Support

• As directed by the department’s Senior Leadership Team, project-manages projects for the Programmes department to ensure quality and timely delivery of objectives. 

• Develops and implements streamlined processes for furthering efficiencies in team systems.

• Conducts desk research as necessary to advance programme development and expansion. 

• Provides scheduling support to senior members of the team as required. 

Organisational Culture

• Upholds the values of Malala Fund.

• Actively contributes to making Malala Fund a diverse and equitable workplace through inclusive practice and openness to different perspectives, cultures and ideas. 

• Maintains behaviour and conduct that uphold the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.

• Acts as a role model for a ‘learning organisation’ culture by seeking insight and using problems as opportunities to learn.

III. About the Ideal Candidate 

Skills and Knowledge (Essential)

• Experience managing communications for high-level political, business and non-profit officials in the UK and/or the US and preferably internationally.

• Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with the highest level of discretion.

• Familiarity of project management, including planning, coordination and monitoring. 

• Experience planning and managing events, including facilities and external vendor contracts. 

• Experience managing complicated domestic and international logistics – ideally with experience securing travel visas.

Skills and Knowledge (Desirable)

• Formal certification in project management such as PRINCE2 or similar.

Experience and Qualifications (Essential)

• Superior organisation, prioritisation and project management skills with high attention to detail.

• Resourcefulness and ability to work independently and with excellent judgment, taking ownership of a wide range of responsibilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Availability to occasionally travel both domestically and internationally as needed.

• Pre-existing authorisation to work in the United Kingdom (given temporary nature of position).

Experience and Qualifications (Desirable)

• Experience of operating in international settings, especially any of Malala Fund’s programmatic countries.

• Experience  with any of the following would be a plus: budget management, large event management, or travel security protocols. 

Behaviours

• Strong commitment to Malala Fund’s mission, purpose and values.

• Strong commitment to gender equality, racial justice and other social justice issues. 

• Strong commitment to professional development and continued learning. 

• Excellent team player with ability to work independently and in collaboration with colleagues at all levels across departments and external stakeholders. 

IV. About Malala Fund

Registered as a public charity in the U.K. and U.S., Malala Fund is working toward a world where all girls can learn for 12 years and lead without fear. We advocate for resources and policy changes needed to give all girls a secondary education. The girls we serve have high goals for themselves — and we have high expectations for leaders who can help them. We invest in developing country education leaders and frontline organizations — the people who best understand girls in their communities — in regions where most girls are missing out on secondary school. We amplify girls’ voices. Malala Fund is building a movement of young education activists who, like Malala, speak truth to power around the world.
 

V. How to Apply

Before 28 January 2021, please submit your resume and covering letter, outlining how you meet the requirements of the role, through the “Programmes Coordinator” position on Malala Fund’s hiring page.

Please note that due to the very high number of applications we receive when positions are posted, we are only able to respond directly to candidates with whom we wish to move forward in the interview process.

Malala Fund is an inclusive organisation and welcomes applications from under-represented and intersectional groups including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are seeking people from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity, to provide a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights into the strategy, policies, culture and ambitions of Malala Fund.

Malala Fund is committed to ensuring the safety of those involved in our work. Our first priority is protecting everyone who comes in direct or indirect contact with our organisation. Malala Fund has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and exploitation by any of our staff, representatives or partners. We commit to ensuring that those who work with Malala Fund or on our behalf are able to work in an environment that is free from harm. To this end, Malala Fund reserves the right to conduct background checks on prospective and current employees.

Home-Start Birmingham North West was founded in 1993.We aim to safeguard and preserve to good mental and physical health of children and their parents. T prevent cruelty to.or maltreatment of children,relieve sickness and reduce poverty. To assist parents to build better lives for their children in thier own communities. 

Volunteers provide support to families in the families own home. We support families as they learn to cope, improve confidence and reduce risk of problems within the families from escalating. We tailor our support to the needs of the family, using a holistic approach to all support. We empower and enable families to make long term positive changes.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Family and Volunteer Coordinator. 

Purposes of the job

• To contribute to the effective day to day operation of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Memorandum & Articles of Association, Home-Start,

 Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.

• To maintain high standards of practice in supporting families within the Home-Start model
• To ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.
• Implement good safeguarding practice in all areas of work

Main Responsibilities

Supporting the work of the scheme

• Undertaking work as delegated by the senior member of staff to support the strategic management, development and future funding of the scheme.
• Supporting the implementation and review of all Home-Start policies and procedures.
• Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.
• Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the Senior Worker
• Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally.

Support for families

• Receiving referrals and assessing needs of families.
• Attending Integrated allocation meetings
• Completing reports as directed by the scheme manager
• Introducing families to appropriate support.
• Ensuring support to families is reviewed at regular intervals and at the end of Home-Start support, in line with current Home-Start guidance
• To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

Managing Volunteers

• Recruiting, selecting and preparing suitable volunteers.
• Matching and introducing volunteers to families.
• Contribute as directed to the delivery of the Home-Start preparation course in full and to a high standard to all prospective volunteers
• Providing support, supervision and initial and on-going training opportunities for volunteers.

Working in Partnership

• Ensuring appropriate liaison with referrers and other professionals
• Networking appropriately within the community.

The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.

Job Purpose

The Volunteer Lead will coordinate Trust House volunteers to support the service to meet the needs of the services delivered, including counselling, family support and the wellbeing service, as well as fundraising support and admin volunteers. The role also includes the support of sessional staff.  It will involve leading on the planning of, and the recruitment, training and induction of new volunteers as well as reviewing and planning training for existing Trust House volunteers; ensuring that all volunteers are supported through accessing regular meetings, attending reviews and clinical supervision and highlighting any gaps in training/supervision to the Clinical Lead. The role also involves ensuring that services are delivered in accordance with appropriate clinical standards/protocols and any specific requirements from Management Committee, funders, and commissioners.

The post holder will also be required to work closely with other staff team members to ensure a coordinated approach to volunteer support across the service. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Main Duties

• To take day to day responsibility, for organising and managing volunteer and sessional staff recruitment, training, induction, supervision and ongoing volunteer support and development processes.
• To be responsible for delivering most elements of the Trust House Introductory Training and induction process.
• To coordinate and monitor volunteer access to clinical supervision, support, and training.
• To work closely with the Clinical Leads regarding the allocation of clients for face-to face support/counselling.
• To build and maintain relationships with key partners and stakeholders and particularly local colleges and universities
• To ensure that all Trust House Lancashire’s policies and procedures relating to the volunteers are up to date and relevant, and that all volunteers are working in accordance with these policies and procedures.
• To support volunteers and staff according to relevant guidelines e.g., BACP ethical framework, The Survivors Trust National Standards, fundraising and other relevant regulations.
• To support colleagues in organising volunteer engagement in new opportunities
• To participate in community fundraising events.
• To represent TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE as appropriate at stakeholder events and meetings; and as required deliver presentations and support awareness raising and networking activities as agreed with Line Manager.

Administration

• Maintain and monitor confidential records including volunteer clinical supervision, volunteer review meetings and training in line with TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE policies and procedures.
• Maintain and update shared and individual Outlook Calendar
• Undertake volunteer review meetings and complete associated paperwork and case management notes.
• Ensure that confidential records are maintained and stored in line with TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE policies and protocols.
• Complete and maintain monitoring and evaluation records in relation to the service.
• Contribute to the development of policies, protocols, guidelines, and strategies within practice area.
• To produce reports for the TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE management committee, commissioners, and funders

General

• Ensure that TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE administrative procedures are followed in every area of work.
• Ensure that TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE health and safety and safeguarding policies are adhered to at all time.
• Work effectively with TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE staff and volunteers.
• Work in a way that enhances diversity in practice, projects and encourages safe practice.
• Attend monthly line management.
• Access clinical supervision (as appropriate)
• To be an advocate of TRUST HOUSE LANCASHIRE
• Undergo a DBS check
• The role will occasionally involve travel across Lancashire.
• The role will require a degree of flexibility to work evenings and weekends.
• Some lifting and carrying will be expected.

Volunteering Services Coordinator - North England
Fixed Term (12 Months)
£21,500 - £26,000

The role is based in and around the North West, North East and North Cumbria region, and candidates from this locality would be preferred.

About the role
This is a pivotal role in which you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of volunteering roles in our health and social care services so that a wider range of people can get involved in supporting people affected by cancer.

You’ll support the growth of volunteering in these services by delivering volunteer involving opportunities and enabling their sustainability. A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively with your peers and lead volunteers to enable a positive volunteer experience and delivery of effective practical and emotional support interventions to people living with cancer.

About you
It’s particularly important that you demonstrate sound knowledge of policies and procedures relevant to this role and experience of planning. A rounded understanding of volunteering in its widest sense is useful in addition. Most important of all though, your successful track record in supporting a range of volunteer led services working with a vulnerable client group within a health and care setting is needed to achieve our goals.

And what do we offer you in return? We commit to actively developing you and offer benefits including private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous leave, and interest free loans for season ticket and gym membership.

Any offers on this role are made subject to a criminal records disclosure check or equivalent.

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Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies.

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths so we seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse nature of our society.

We will support you throughout the recruitment process with any reasonable adjustments required in accordance with the Equality Act. Please contact the Macmillan HR Team if you require support.

Coram Voice Leaving Care with Confidence Volunteer Coordinator and Advocate

Location - Greater Manchester - Home - based

Hours - 18 hours per week

Salary - £11,427.94 per annum (£22,221 FTE)

Contract - Permanent - Part Time

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

Coram Voice

Coram Voice is the leading specialist provider of advocacy and children’s rights services for children and young people in and on the edge of care. We support some of the most vulnerable children and young people in society, giving voice to the voiceless and reaching out to those who have missed out on the support they need. Join us as we work to transform the lives of children and young people by supporting them to uphold their rights of to actively participate in shaping their lives.

Coram Voice was established in 1975 and in 2013 joined the Coram group of charities which develops, delivers and promotes best practice in the support of children and young people. Coram’s vision is that every child has the best possible chance in life.

We have around 60 employed staff, 100 self-employed advocates and independent persons, and 70 volunteers deliver services to children and agencies throughout the country. Together they provide Coram Voice with a high degree of specialist expertise in the fields of advocacy, children’s rights, mental health, complaints, secure accommodation and experience of working with children in care, in custody, in need and those who have recently left care.

Every day we make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people in and on the edge of care across the North West and West Midlands. Our advocacy teams are based in Greater Manchester and Shropshire and is made of up of experienced community advocates who work alongside our specialist advocates (who focus on direct work, supporting and developing good practice with young people who are homeless, 16+, or have a disability).

About the Role

There are two exciting elements to this role, one will coordinating our Independent Visitors Service in Greater Manchester, which will involve the recruitment, training and supervising of volunteers. As well as finding suitable Independent matches between volunteer and looked after children.

For the other you will work directly with children and young people providing advocacy and other children’s rights support which will empower and support them to navigate the care system. You will provide advocacy support for looked after children and care leavers, and homeless young people aged 16-25 years as part of Coram Voice's Leaving Care with Confidence project. This is a 3 year project funded by Comic Relief and other trust grants

You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, foster carers, commissioners, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.

If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to the application form.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 5th February 2021, 5pm

Interview Date: TBC

Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications from care leavers or individuals with experience of being ‘looked after’ by the state.

All posts are subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and successful candidates will not be able to work unsupervised with children or young people until the completion of this process. Coram Voice - working towards quality through equality and the development of a diverse workforce.

We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position. We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help.

Registered Charity Number 1046207

Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action

is recruiting

Volunteering Coordinator – North Warwickshire

22.5 hours per week

£21,074 pro rata per annum

Permanent, subject to funding

We are seeking a Volunteering Coordinator to facilitate the promotion and development of volunteering within North Warwickshire.

Excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team are essential for this role.

The successful candidate should have experience of working with people with support needs, volunteer management/coordination and best practice, giving advice or signposting individuals/organisations.

To apply for this role you are required to hold a driving licence and have use of a car for work purposes.

If you think you fit the brief for this exciting role, please view the job opportunity below and apply as per the guidance.

Download an application pack from our website.

No CVs please

Closing Date: Monday 25th January 2021 at 9am

Interviews: Thursday 4th February 2021

WCAVA is a Registered Charity no. 1123402 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 06531268

Volunteer/Training Coordinator

 Cruse Bereavement Care (Registered Charity Number 208878) is the largest UK Bereavement Charity providing specialist website, telephone, email and face-to-face (online currently due to the pandemic) bereavement support for adults, children and young people.

We have a new vacancy for full time (35 hours per week) Volunteer/Training Coordinator based in our Wales Hub.  The Volunteer and training coordinator will ensure all areas in the Hub sustain volunteer numbers through effective volunteer recruitment. They will also ensure that all volunteers are trained and developed in accordance with the agreed standards of Cruse Bereavement Care.

This role is office based however due to COVID restrictions, staff are currently working from home. 

The closing date for this role is the 26th January 2021 with interviews arranged for the week commencing 1st February 2021.

Your application should consist of CV and covering letter, which outlines your suitability for the role and should be no longer than two pages.  Please use the job description and person specification as a guide. 

Cruse welcomes and encourages applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. And if you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

In order to meet our ambitious growth plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some additional people to join our team in our new offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham. As such we are looking to recruit a Community Network Volunteer Coordinator on a part time basis, for 3 days per week.

The Community Network Volunteer Coordinator will focus on managing and growing The Vegan Society’s Community Network of volunteer activists. They will ensure the smooth running of the network, keeping the local groups engaged and developing actions that further The Vegan Society’s aims. The Community Network is split into two tiers, with both Organisers and Advocates. This role will communicate with Organisers, who in turn will manage Advocates in their local groups.

As Community Network Volunteer Coordinator, you will:

Manage the Community Network

• Build and maintain relationships with volunteer Community Network (CN) Organisers.
• Provide support to the CN Organisers and local groups where needed.
• Ensure that new CN Organisers complete a full induction and provide training to CN Organisers on various relevant topics.
• Monitor progress of CN actions and report back to the Campaigns and Policy team.

Grow the Community Network

• Seek opportunities to grow the existing CN so that there are effective local groups in all areas of the UK.
• Assist with advertising and promotion of CN Organiser roles, including writing advert copy and selecting appropriate advertising platforms.

Build Community Links

• Reach out and connect with other local community groups (e.g. charities, foodbanks) to share and promote our campaigns and policy work.
• Look for opportunities to collaborate and connect with local community organisations to ensure our messages reach a diverse audience.

Job Title - Volunteer Coordinator – Independent Visitor service

Contract – Permanent

Hours -  21 hours per week 

Salary - Part time pro rata 15,600 FTE 26,000 (including London Weighting)

Location – London

About Coram 

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people. 

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive. 

About specific entity 

There are exciting opportunities to join Coram Voice as our Independent Visiting services continue to grow across London and SE. We are looking for a motivated person to build our volunteer group and services for looked after placed across London and South East. We currently hold contracts in Waltham Forest, Southwark and Hillingdon.

About the role

This post will require strong leadership, supporting and supervising a diverse team of volunteers, with excellent interpersonal skills. You will enjoy working with children and young people and will be driven to creating better chances for children though supporting them through care and accessing their rights. You will also be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with social workers, foster carers, commissioners, and other stakeholders.

We are looking for experienced child focused professionals who can lead, work as part of a team, and proactively contribute to service development. We are looking for people who like a challenge, want to make a real difference in the lives of the children and young people and will innovate to achieve this. Above all we want people who will be a champions for children and young people.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: 

Monday 25th January 2021 – 5pm

Information sharing sessions: 

Monday 18th January 2021 - 6.00 – 6.30pm

Interview date: 

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Thursday 4th February 2021

Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.

Are you warm, efficient and a great listener? Do you have experience of home visiting families? Family Friends is a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service winning charity based in North Kensington which specialises in befriending and mentoring. We are recruiting a full-time Family & Volunteer Co-ordinator to join our team. The charity provides long-term practical and emotional help to disadvantaged families living in Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and South-East Brent through a network of 40-50 volunteers. Each volunteer supports either the parent or child in a family. We have a great record for ‘helping families to help themselves’. In this varied and exciting role, the Family & Volunteer Co-ordinator’s work includes:

• Recruitment and training of volunteers
• Introduction, supervision and support of volunteers 
• Assessment of children and parents needs via home visits
• Monitoring and evaluating the services
• Some evening and weekend work is required
• Part-time with flexible hours. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary. 

FIXED TERM 12 MONTH CONTRACT

If interested in the position please download the application and send this in by email

Closing date: Friday 22 January 2021, 12pm

First interviews: Week commencing 1 February 2021

Second interviews: Week commencing 8 February 2021

Hours: 3 days per week (21 hours – Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Salary: £25,000 pro rata (0.6 FTE)

Location: Greenford UB6 (open to some home working)

Closing date: Tuesday 16th February 2021 – 9.00am

Interviews: Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Age UK Ealing is a small independent charity providing a wide range of services and support to older people in the London Borough of Ealing.

The Neighbourly Connectors Coordinator has a vital role to play in helping older people in the London Borough of Ealing in tackling loneliness and isolation and seeks to support older people in building and maintaining independence. 

Reporting to the Head of Services and working closely with the Volunteer Coordinator, the Neighbourly Connectors Coordinator will ensure that the delivery of the project meets the required standard, the support needs of the service users, outputs, outcomes, and targets.

To apply please send a supporting statement (max 2 pages of A4) and a copy of your CV. Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a Declaration Form and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Form.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

This post is offered subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Age UK Ealing strives to be an Equal Opportunities employer.

Age UK Ealing is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of older people and all vulnerable groups within the London Borough of Ealing.

Working across Thurrock Building relationships and connections with and between local people and local social associations (including community groups, faith networks, art groups, environmental groups etc.), Thurrock Council, supermarkets, shops and restaurants providing food or those who contribute food.

The role is a varied one and the post-holder will work with communities to identify local projects that support the distribution or provision of food to individuals and communities with the aim of avoiding excess food in one area, co-ordination across projects and avoiding waste.

A highly visible presence within communities will be required, including possible evening and weekend work which will fit into the flexible roles.

About Empower to Plan

Empower to Plan is an initiative set-up and run by Population Matters to enable more women globally to have the access to safe, modern contraception that they want, the choice over the number of children they have, and so the knowledge, right and freedom to take control of their own fertility.

Currently, according to the UN over 270 million women globally have an unmet need for that safe, modern contraception and so lack choice over their family size.

We partner with carefully selected NGOs and groups active at the grassroots, in communities across the world (including the UK), which are working to provide choice and address that unmet need. Our Empower to Plan partners are focused on delivering practical action, aligned with our mission and values, and have a proven track record of making a positive difference (Empower to Plan projects also work with boys and young men to achieve related positive outcomes).

NB - Empower to Plan is about identifying, supporting and crowd-funding appropriate grassroots delivery projects and partners, PM is not involved directly in that delivery.

Our part, and the job of this role, is to identify potential partners and projects, carry out due diligence, promote selected projects for crowdfunding via our website, administer and coordinate the provision of that funding to the recipient projects. We cover all administrative costs, make up any shortfalls in funding to allow promoted projects to proceed, and showcase partners and project outcomes to create greater awareness of this issue and leverage greater national and international action.

Women around the world want the power to choose how many children to have – and when. Evidence shows that where women are empowered, there’s a natural fall in birth rate. Help us empower more women to plan – for their own sake, and for the wellbeing of future generations and the planet that sustains us all.

 “The way forward is the full realisation of reproductive rights, for every individual and couple, no matter where or how they live, or how much they earn. This includes dismantling all the barriers— whether economic, social or institutional — that inhibit free and informed choice.” 

- UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem

About the Role

Population Matters (PM) is looking for a Project Coordinator to help us to achieve our vision of a future in which a stable human population co-exists in harmony with nature and a healthy planet.

With supervision from the Campaigner (and support from the Director), you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration and running of our Empower to Plan crowd-funded, practical project scheme, and maintaining regular communications with our Empower to Plan partners.

Empower to Plan is a catalyst through which PM can help to empower local communities, especially women and girls, to make a choice on their reproductive health by enabling grassroots NGOs and community groups deliver vital on-the-ground family planning services, alongside enabling the provision of practical environmental solutions. Examples can be found on our website under Empower to Plan. It also offers our supporters the opportunity to contribute to selected grassroots’ practical projects, so enabling PM to engage our supporters more directly in our work and impact positively upon individual lives.

About You

You will have experience of assisting with project management, ideally including working on fundraising and grant-making programmes. You will be a strong communicator, with experience of building and maintaining relationships with international external stakeholders. You will be educated to degree level, ideally in a relevant discipline, such as development, environment, international affairs, politics, communications, or women’s/gender studies (Evidence of interest, other experience in these areas is valid too). You will also have comprehensive administrative and record-keeping skills.

About Us

We are a small but expanding team, where everyone’s contribution matters.  You will be a self-starter, organised and be able to work accurately to deadlines. This role is home-based, with occasional travel to London and possibly other locations. Being able to work on your own initiative and virtually is a key part of this role.

Population Matters is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other category protected by law.

The deadline for applications is midday on Friday 5th February 2021 Interviews will be held between w/c 18th - 26th February 2021

Please accompany your CV with a covering letter (of no more than 500 words), explaining how you match our requirements, and telling us more about what you will bring to the role.

Ready for a new challenge?   
  
We are looking for an organised, self-motivated and confident individual to join our established Social Prescribing team working with adults with complex needs, helping them to access the support they need to live independent and healthier lives.   
  
The position is available in Ashford, and applicants must have experience of working with adults, and a background in medical or social care. 

You will work alongside multiple GP practices, independently managing a caseload and new referrals, providing personalised support and connecting patients with health and community services to improve independent living, health and wellbeing. It is essential that you have an understanding of how to prioritise need, and be able to recognise when to refer on to specialist services, being confident in your ability to communicate at different levels across both the health and social care sectors.  
  
You will need to demonstrate a robust knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and boundaries in all aspects of your work. Car driver essential.   
  
It’s time to make a difference.