Project Officer
£26,000 per year
Full-time, 35 hours per week
Fixed-term role until 31 December 2025
Based in London / home and flexible working
Our client empowers people with the reading and writing skills they need to succeed in life. Together they’re helping people change their stories. You could join our client to support their work with volunteers across the country.
What you’ll be doing
Our client’s project trains, engages and supports volunteers to work with them to design new and exciting ways to promote reading and writing in their neighbourhood or workplace. This action includes everything from community book-swaps and reading corners to book gifting and reading groups.
Our client is recruiting a Project Officer to help deliver this work. Alongside their Project Manager, you will be responsible for working with individual and corporate volunteers. This will include helping them to identify volunteering opportunities, providing training and support, mobilising key community partnerships, and project administration including ordering resources, processing safeguarding information, and maintaining accurate records.
You will also help create processes and resources that will allow these volunteers to deliver sustainable projects and activities that improve children's and young people’s reading and writing outcomes.
You will be based at our client’s London office, although able to work from home regularly if you prefer. However, you will need to be able to be in the office when required, which could be at least two or three times a month. There will also be some national travel.
What our client is looking for
You will be experienced in planning and supporting the delivery of a project or event(s) in a charity or similar context, and have excellent knowledge of safeguarding practices. You will also have good communication skills, the capacity to work logically, adaptability, and strong problem-solving capability. Experience of training, engaging, and supporting volunteers would be an advantage.
Why our client’s work is so vital
Reading and writing changes everything. It gives you the tools to get the most out of life and the power to shape your future. It’s the key to knowledge, confidence, and inspiration. It’s better results at school and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it’s harder to get where you want to go.
Our client is an independent charity helping people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words – reading, writing, speaking, and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs, and beyond.
- They work collaboratively in local communities, focusing their work in 20 areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
- They support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
- They campaign to make reading and writing a priority for politicians and decision-makers.
- They support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system, and young offenders’ institutions to build their skills.
What our client offers you
Our client’s team are passionate about their mission and have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. They offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to their success, whoever you are.
As well as a competitive salary, our client offers 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.
Application details
Our client’s people are their most important asset and they value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). Our client particularly welcomes applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which they work. Our client would like to increase the 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, Tuesday 1 October 2024
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