Community Action Lead - Manchester

South West Community Chaplaincy; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

South West Community Chaplaincy in Manchester invites applications for a lead role in driving social justice through community-led action and partnership development. You will work with Community Savers Leadership and partners to foster action across gender, housing, climate and economic justice in Manchester neighbourhoods.

This is a 0.6 FTE three-year fixed-term contract with a pro rata salary and responsibilities including strategic development, partnership building and community mapping.

Qualifications

• A deep understanding of facilitating community action and development projects in areas with long-term inequalities.
• Ability to maintain a positive can-do attitude while negotiating complex political/relational dynamics.
• Experience in community-led action; advocacy; campaigns, fundraising, communications, leadership development, partnership brokering, equality and inclusion, conflict resolution, safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic development of community action, projects and partnerships to reduce health inequalities and promote social justice.
• Build relationships with statutory and non-statutory partners to support community-led development.
• Coordinate support for affiliated groups and leaders to ensure a community-led process underpins leadership development.
• Support community mapping, visioning, action planning, reflection and evaluation.

Skills

Community-led action

Advocacy

Fundraising

Leadership development

Partnership brokering

Equality inclusion

Conflict resolution

Safeguarding

Job description

Join a passionate committed team with a lead role in driving forward social justice through community-led action and partnership development!

You will work in alliance with the Community Savers Leadership and key partners to support creative organising for gender, housing, climate, and economic justice across Manchester neighbourhoods. This role is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund (Reaching Communities).

You will need:

• A deep understanding of the context for facilitating community action and community-led development projects inareas experiencing long term and intersecting inequalities.
• The ability tomaintain a positive ‘can do’ attitude while negotiating complex and potentially obstructive political or relational dynamics.
• Skills & experience inthe following areas: community-led action; advocacy; campaigns, fundraising, communications, leadership development, brokering partnerships, equality diversity and inclusion, conflict resolution, safeguarding.

Role summary: You will work with the Community Savers Leadership and key partners onthe strategic development of community action, projects, and partnerships that reduce health inequalitiesand promotesocial justice. This will include networking and building relationships with existing and potential statutory and non-statutory partners; bringing in appropriate expertise to achieve community-led development projects; direct support for community action such as community-led research projects and partnerships; community mapping, visioning and action planning; supporting reflection and evaluation; and sharing learning widely. You will also supervise the coordination support provided to affiliated groups and leaders by our Community Action Coordinator (Manchester); ensuring a community-led process underpins leadership and associational development.

Please download the application pack for further information and a full job description noting that this is a 0.6% FTE 3-year fixed term contract (actual salary pro rata).

Note that Community Savers is a majority women-led and transinclusive movement. Membership is open to anyone of any gender identity and community action aims to benefit all people in the areas where wework. Leadership and governance structures seek to celebrate and amplify the voices of working class women.