Community Development Assistant (North)

CISWO; Knowsley; Presencial; GBP 16 000 - 20 000; Tempo parcial

Resumo da oferta

CISWO is expanding its Community Welfare Service in England and Wales, seeking a part-time Community Welfare Assistant (North) to support miners’ charities across the North England region. You will help with governance, funding, and sustainability, delivering training and resources to trustees.

The role involves travel, site visits, and coordinating training events, with flexible evening work and a pro rata salary reflected by part-time hours.

Qualificações

• Experience in community development or charity sector.
• Experience supporting or working with volunteers.
• Experience designing and delivering training.
• Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication, including report writing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and data management systems.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Excellent teamwork, flexible and creative service delivery.
• Ability to work flexibly including some evenings.

Responsabilidades

• Support the creation of tools, resources and training content for miners’welfare trustees.
• Support development of policies and templates for trustees.
• Deliver training and networking events for miners’welfare trustees.
• Undertake site visits with charity trustees across the region.
• Deliver in-person and online training events to support trustees to network and learn.
• Assist with evidence gathering for funding applications.

Conhecimentos

Community development experience

Volunteer management

Training delivery

Planning & organisation

Verbal & written communication

Microsoft Office

Data management systems

Full UK driving licence

Teamwork & flexibility

Maths & English GCSEs

Evening work availability

Formação académica

GCSE Maths and English

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Data management systems

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job Title: Community Welfare Assistant (North)

Reports To: Development Manager (North)

Location: CISWO Head Office: Whiston, Rotherham (with regional travel)

Salary: £18,118 pa (£30,197 pro rata)

Job Type: Part-Time, Permanent

Hours: 22.5 hours per week with flexibility to work during the evening when required (working days to be agreed with successful candidate)

As part of exciting growth of CISWO’s Community Welfare Service, we are expanding our dedicated regional support teams working to support and sustain miners’ welfare charities across England and Wales.

This role will play a vital part in helping local miners’ welfare charities thrive by providing practical guidance, resources and training to volunteer trustees. Working closely with the Development Manager, the postholder will support charities with governance, funding, financial sustainability and capacity building, ensuring they are well equipped to continue serving their communities.

This role is people-focused, involving regular engagement with local volunteer trustees, site visits, delivery of training and events, and contributing to the development of tools and resources that respond to the needs of miners’ welfare organisations. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing team within the organisation and to make a meaningful impact in former coalfield communities.

Learn more about our Community Welfare Service: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1920629035240779

Job Purpose

To assist the Development Manager in providing support for local mining charities in the North England region with issues such as charity governance, funding, financial sustainability, and trustee training.

Key Responsibilities

• Supportthe creation of tools,resourcesand training content to support miners’welfare trustees manage their charities.
• Support the development of policies and proceduretemplatesto enable charity trustees undertake their role effectively.
• Support the delivery of a range of training and networking events for miners’welfare trustees.
• Undertake site visits to miners’ welfare charitiesacross the region,meetingwith local charity trustees, highlighting good practice,identifyingpotential areas for support,andnurturing development opportunities.
• In co-ordination with the Development Manager, deliver in person and online training events and forums to support local trustees tonetwork and engage in learning opportunities.
• Support the gathering of evidence and information for producing internal and external funding applications.
• To undertake monitoring and reporting with regards funding, activitymonitoringand evaluation.
• Support with the delivery of marketing activity toraise awareness of thesupport we offer for miners’welfares,the impact we have, andattend events to raise our profileand help to promote wider CISWO services.
• Take an active role in ensuring CISWO holds up to date information on miners’welfare charities.
• Utiliseorganisationdatabasestoassistwithrecording,evaluationand reporting purposestoevidencethe impact of our work.
• Attend training, staffmeetingsand external forums relevant to the role.
• Any other duties as reasonablyrequiredto meet theobjectivesof the organisation.

Skills/Qualifications/Experience

Essential:

• Experience of workingincommunity development, charitysectoror related area
• Experience of supportingor working withvolunteers
• Experience of designing and delivering training
• Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including report writing.
• Proficiencyin Microsoft Office and data management systems.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Excellent team working skills, with a strong work ethic and flexible and creative approach to service delivery.
• Good standard of education, with GCSE or equivalent (grade C or 4, or above) in Maths and English.
• Ability to work flexibly including some evening working.

Desirable:

• Experience of funding for charitable organisations.
• Knowledge and understanding of former coalfield areas.

This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the jobholder andidentifiesthe level of responsibility at which the jobholder willbe requiredto work.

This job description may be subject to review and/ or amendment at any time to reflect the requirements of the organisation.