Project Support Officer - Literacy and Numeracy for Refugee Women

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council is seeking a highly motivated female candidate for a project aimed at supporting refugee women in Coventry. This role involves delivering various support sessions to empower women, enhance their confidence, and foster community integration. The position is a fixed-term contract of 18 months at 37 hours per week, emphasizing a genuine occupational requirement for a female candidate. Comprehensive experience in working with refugee populations is essential, as you'll facilitate both personal and professional development opportunities for participants.

Benefits

Rewards and benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience working with refugee women is essential.
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate one-on-one support.
• Ability to deliver literacy and numeracy sessions.

Responsibilities

• Support refugee women in building confidence and wellbeing.
• Deliver tailored ESOL and financial literacy sessions.
• Provide mentoring and work placement opportunities.

Skills

Working with refugee women

Confidence building

Community engagement

Mentoring

Job description

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

Coventry City Council’s Migration Team exists to meet the needs of newly arriving communities and facilitate a successful integration journey into the city. As recognised leaders in refugee resettlement, we provide tailored support to vulnerable individuals through initiatives that promote employment, education, language acquisition and training, empowering people to contribute to the economic, civic and social fabric of our vibrant city.

We work in close partnership with local organisations and national programmes to deliver innovative projects. Previously projects like the EU‑funded ‘Mi‑Friendly Cities’, CMF‑funded "Building Bridges" and AMIF‑funded "My Coventry" celebrated diversity and championed equality while ensuring the rights and opportunities for all were valued. Currently alongside UK Government sponsored resettlement schemes we are driving forward new place‑based initiative schemes including "Our Coventry", "Step Forward" and the "Health Access for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Project (HARP)" ensuring that every newly arrived Coventry resident has the opportunity to build a safe and fulfilling life in our city.

Join us in making Coventry a place people choose to live, learn, and work.

Our Values

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

This post has a genuine occupational requirement for the successful candidate to be a female. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE ROLE we are only able to accept applications from female candidates.

We have received fundingto deliver an exciting project in partnership with World Jewish Relief. The aim is to support the successful integration of refugee women who have made Coventry their home. The project aims to enable refugee women to:

• Develop and improve their confidence and wellbeing
• Recognise their skills and experience as valuable assets
• Plan their future pathways and involvement in the community.
• To achieve the above outcomes, the project will focus on delivering: one to one support; literacy and numeracy sessions; tailored ESOL; digital and financial literacy; mentoring as well as providing volunteering and work placement opportunities.

We are looking forahighly motivated individual with experience of working with refugee women.

This is a 18 month fixed term contract, 37hours a week.

Working with the Programme Delivery Manager and Project Manager you will be a natural self-starter with a can‑do attitude.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone who champions Coventry’s diversity and is passionate about breaking down barriers to integration.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long‑term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview Format: Panel and Presentation

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting‑edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies