Hours: / 20 hours per week (potential to increase subject to funding)
Salary: / £24,381 -£28,006 FTE (depending on experience)
Main Purpose: / To manage Engage Befriending’s service provision, staff and volunteers in accordance with its aims and objectives, and within The Mustard Tree’s vision.
Key Tasks: /
- Oversee the day-to-day running of the project
- Build partnerships and increase awareness of the service
- Secure funding and ensure long term sustainability
- Manage & support the Engage Befriending team
- Develop strategies and best practise, to increase the wellbeing of isolated and lonely older people
- Represent the Charity and its ethos
Reports to: / The CEO of The Mustard Tree
Strategy and Planning
- Develop Engage Befriending’s vision and strategy in order to meet the needs of the isolated and lonely within the Reading Borough
- Prepare budgets and regularly review the financial health of the project to ensure sustainability
- Source funding, including identifying grants and writing proposals, and developing individual and organisational giving
- Manage and support the Engage befriending team including sourcing and delivering training opportunities to develop staff and volunteers’ skills
- Complete necessary safeguarding training in order to train Engage Befriending staff and volunteers and respond effectively to any safeguarding incidents
- Attend Senior Managersand Trustee meetings. Work with the wider Mustard Tree team to bring about the vision and mission of The Mustard Tree as a whole
- Attending and guiding staff prayers and leading bible devotionals
- Work with other local service providers to reduce isolation and loneliness. Enabling a town wide joined up approach and generate referral and signposting routes
- Raise awareness of isolation and loneliness within the community and recruit suitable befriending volunteers.
- Work with our partner churches & other faith and community groups to identify suitable volunteers and opportunities for client engagement.
- Raise the profile of the service by doing presentations and attending events for various organisations including speaking at church services.(This will include some evening and Sunday working.)
- Produce and distribute publicity materials (including leaflets, newsletters, and articles for local publications)
- Develop the use of social media and update the website
- Produce monitoring reports for funding bodies and the Trustees as required
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
The Engage Befriending Manager should demonstrate competence in the following:
- Ethical Behaviour: Understand ethical behaviour, ensuring your own behaviour & the behaviour of Engage Befriending personnel is consistent with the values & ethos of Mustard Tree. Please read The Mustard Tree Ethos.
- Effective Communication: Listen, speak and write clearly, thoroughly and in a timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
- Innovation: Develop ways to improve project operations.
- Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and shape the Project to be effective.
- Leadership: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the project and our client group.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:
Essential: experience of managing/supervising a team, experience of financial management, good communication and presentation skills, PC literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), understanding of the effects of isolation and loneliness and the issues affecting older people.
Desirable: knowledge/experience of reviewing project activity & producing monitoring reports, experience of fundraising, experience of working in either the voluntary, health or social care sector with vulnerable adults.
OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT:
Under the Equality Act 2010, this post has an occupational requirement to be a Christian.
FOR THIS ROLE YOU WILL NEED:
- To have a DBS Enhanced Disclosure through The Mustard Tree, or a portable DBS.
- Citizenship of the UK or the EU, or have entitlement to work in the UK.
- To be able to access the Mustard Tree / Engage Befriending offices (unfortunately there is not currently any disabled access. The office is up one flight of stairs). If you would like more information about access, and anything we can try to put into place around this, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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