Advocacy & Projects Officer – HOPE Project (Hybrid)

Age Cymru Group; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 27 days

Employer pension

Life assurance

Job summary

Age Cymru is seeking a full-time Project Officer to support the HOPE Project across Swansea and surrounding counties. You will recruit and train volunteers, coordinate advocacy activities, and help older people and carers have a stronger voice in decisions that affect them.

The role is hybrid, requiring occasional travel within Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. A car for business use and salary of £28,497 per year are included, with a fixed-term contract until 31

Qualifications

• Experience of working with others to deliver successful projects and services.
• Recruiting, managing and working with volunteers.
• Knowledge of the issues affecting older people and carers.
• Knowledge of local services in the public or voluntary sector.
• Experience of coordinating and undertaking a range of communications, marketing and promotion.
• Excellent administrative skills, ability to maintain systems, manage processes and attention to detail.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships, work collaboratively but also on own initiative.
• Experience of coordinating events such as meetings, conferences, workshops, and seminars.
• Strong IT, data management and analysis skills.
• Welsh language ability in addition is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train and manage volunteers who support older people.
• Maintain regular contact with older people and carers.
• Receive and assess advocacy referrals, and allocate suitable referrals to volunteers.
• Help develop advocacy services across the region and deliver HOPE Project’s early-intervention objectives.
• Coordinate communications, marketing and promotion for HOPE activities.
• Occasional travel within Swansea and surrounding areas as needed.

Skills

Experience delivering projects

Volunteer recruitment and management

Advocacy knowledge

Older people issues knowledge

Inter-personal skills

Event coordination

IT/data management

Welsh language (Desirable)

Job description

Age Cymru is seeking a full-time Project Officer to support the HOPE Project across Swansea and surrounding counties. You will recruit and train volunteers, coordinate advocacy activities, and help older people and carers have a stronger voice in decisions that affect them.

The role is hybrid, requiring occasional travel within Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. A car for business use and salary of £28,497 per year are included, with a fixed-term contract until 31