Location
Wolverhampton, West Midlands | United Kingdom
Job description
Project Officer
£26,000 per year pro rata (0.8 FTE)
Part-time, 28 hours per week
Fixed-term contract for 12 months
Based in the Black Country as a home working role
Our client is on a mission to give children and young people from disadvantaged communities the reading and writing skills to succeed in life. You could join them to support their work with volunteers in the Black Country.
What you’ll be doing
Our client’s project identifies, trains and supports volunteers who work with them to design new and exciting ways to promote reading and writing in their community.
They are recruiting a Project Officer to deliver this work across the Black Country – Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Working alongside a local project manager, and their national communities’ team, you will develop new strategies for recruiting volunteers and mobilising key community partnerships to increase their reach and build sustainability. You will also organise and deliver training events and maintain regular contact with volunteers, gather data, share learning and develop case studies to build an evidence base of impact.
You will be based in the Black Country, working from home with regular local travel, as well as occasional national travel when necessary.
What our client is looking for
You will be experienced in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers, and providing project support in a charity or educational context. You will have excellent knowledge of reading and writing issues, working with schools and community-based organisations, coupled with experience of developing resources and training materials.
Why our client’s work is so vital
Poor reading and writing skills and resulting inequality are not inevitable. Our client improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.
They make society fairer. Poor reading and writing skills create social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor reading and writing skills earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.
They enable social mobility. A child without reading and writing skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.
Our client’s work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of reading and writing skills. They support schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners who bring reading and writing alive. They campaign to make reading and writing a priority for the nation’s leaders.
What our client offers you
As well as a competitive salary, they offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.
They support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to their success, whoever you are.
Application details
Our client’s people are their most important asset and they value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). They particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which they work. They would like to increase representation of these groups among their staff as they know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for their work.
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Closing date: 10am, Monday 9 October 2023
Please note our client does not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.
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