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Top job! Community Outreach Officer
- Part time
- £24,000 pro-rata
- Perth (with responsibilities in Perth and Dundee)
- Closing 8th June 2020
- Advertised from 30th March 2020
- Fixed Term 31st March 2021 (with the view to extend dependent on funding) 21 hours per week
Role
The post will engage with communities in Perth and Dundee, finding practical ways that people can participate in active travel; mapping these out in co-designed events with 3rd Sector, council and community organisations. We will offer support and resources to facilitate a range of activities including Dr Bike, Led rides, Cycle Training, Bike Loans, as well as skills and maintenance training.
The post will be responsible for building relationships with these communities and key stakeholders to articulate these barriers as an Active travel Action Plan and a key role in empowering these communities to start walking cycling and wheeling more often as a first choice for travel thereby empowering their communities to reduce heath and transport inequalities and build stronger communities.
The Officer will work with the Cycle Friendly Officer, Social Cycle Officer and Communities Manager to provide advice to organisations on opportunities to dovetail with this programme in schools, campus and community settings to share cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as funding opportunities.
The work is based in Perth Bike Station with travel to Dundee.
Key Responsibilities
- Set up an Active Travel Action Plan with a Perth and Dundee Community.
- Support the Bike Station’s membership scheme.
- Develop and deliver activities to support the Bike Station’s Community as a Cycle Friendly Community.
- Providing advice to these Communities on cycling opportunities, cycling best practice, in combination with the Cycle Friendly Award Officer.
- Utilising social media to support the delivery of the programme.
- To operate within a set delivery budget that is prescribed and monitored.
- To comply with all current legislation and Recycle to Cycle policies.
- Work with the Bike Station team.
- Provide advice to organisations on the Cycle Friendly programmes in schools, campus and community settings to promote cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as on available funding opportunities.
Person Specification
Experience:
- Delivering behaviour change programmes using a community development approach.
- Partnership working with local authorities, community planning partners and the community and voluntary sector.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision; enthusiastic and self-motivated.
- Good level of IT literacy including use of MS Office suite.
- Good understanding and experience of community development theory and practice.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the workings of the community and voluntary sector.
- Understanding of local and national social policy.
- Developing and delivering projects in seldom heard communities.
- Excellent track record of organising, promoting and carrying through events.
- Leading group workshops and training activities.
- Contributing to successful funding applications.
Skills:
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of the community and voluntary sector.
- Good time-management skills and attention to detail.
- Innovative, analytical and a great problem solver.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Experience of participatory processes of community engagement.
Application notes
Please complete and return the application form to recruitment@thebikestation.org.uk
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The Dunblane Development Trust (DDT), a community development trust based in Dunblane, is seeking a part time Volunteer Co-ordinator to support and take forward our work with volunteers.
Our activities are almost entirely managed and carried out by volunteers mainly through the operation of our working groups which cover a range of activities from environmental, handy person and supporting vulnerable members of our community.
We currently have nearly 200 volunteers from all walks of life. We are now looking to expand both the numbers of volunteers we have, the types and range of volunteering opportunities available to people, and through our volunteers, expand the services which we can provide to the local community. This post, funded through Big Lottery, will allow us to progress our ideas.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed person to work alongside the board and our working group leaders.
Project Lead (Job Share)
- Part time
- £25,000 – £29,000 pro-rata
- Edinburgh Muirhouse base
- Closing 21st January 2021
Community Renewal is a social enterprise and registered charity that works to build community, improve quality of life and alleviate poverty by engaging individuals and families and supporting them to achieve sustainable employment, improved health and to become more involved in their community.
The purpose of the Local Conversations Project Lead position is to take up the key role in the delivery of the People’s Health Trust Funded Programme in Muirhouse, Edinburgh; ensuring all aspects of the outcomes for the Local Conversation Project are met.
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To start in April 2021, we are seeking enthusiastic, pragmatic, optimistic people who are excited by what spirit-led growth might mean in a faith context. Our expanding local development team is a key part of our plans to reinvigorate Quakerism and to help Quaker communities thrive.
As a local development worker, you will support Quaker communities to be inclusive, welcoming, and all-age. The support areas include worship, community, organisational management, social action, collaboration in the wider community, and outreach. You will provide accompaniment, facilitation, project support, and training. You will work alongside others in Britain Yearly Meeting and Woodbrooke Learning to provide resources and opportunities that grow from the identified needs of local Quakers.
We invite applications from people who are:
- good listeners, with experience of working with groups to develop and deliver a shared vision
- familiar with Quaker worship, community, witness, and organisation
- organised and resourceful; able to research information, analyse and sift it, and apply it appropriately to a range of situations and personalities
- creative and adaptable; able to encourage innovation and support experimentation
- digitally curious; willing to experiment in using digital platforms and programmes to develop community and to progress work.
As one of our local development workers, you will be required to work 28 hours per week including some weekends and evenings. Frequent travel (when restrictions are lifted).
You can be based at home or in a suitable office in the region. One post each in:
- Scotland
- Yorkshire (based in Carlton Hill Friends Meeting House, Leeds)
- East Anglia
- Cumberland and the North East
Alongside the opportunity to transform the experience of Quakers across Britain, we offer a generous benefits package. To arrange an informal discussion about the role, please email Sophie Smith at sophies@quaker.org.uk
Join Bethany's new outreach project in Perth
This is an exciting opportunity to pioneer and oversee new outreach service in Perth which responds to the expressed needs of homeless and vulnerable people through consultation with the local church and third sector groups, incorporating practical interventions, mental health first aid. This new service will run twice a week growing to three times.
You will need a ‘can do’ attitude, be self- motivated and able to work with staff, service users and volunteers. You must have the ability to organise, network effectively and deliver some training to volunteers. Competency in Microsoft Office is essential as is the ability to make day to day decisions in the running of this project.
Most of all we want someone who has a real passion for helping disadvantaged people, who believes everyone deserves a home and a right to contribute to society.
As Bethany is a Christian organisation this post carries an OR in line with Employment Equality Act 2010, applicants should have and be able to evidence an active Christian faith and commitment. Successful applicants for this post will require an enhanced disclosure and membership of the PVG scheme.
More details can be found in the attached job description.
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