Children's Services Manager
Reference number: 20409
Location: Ubuntu
Contract type: Permanent (Fixed term funded post)
End date: 31st Dec 2028
Hours: 37
Salary: £42,016.00 – £53,176.50
Closing Date: 16 February 2025
Interview Date: 26th Feb 2025
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to be part of a new and exciting project?
Barnardo's is seeking to recruit an experienced Children's Service Manager for it's new Ubuntu project and also to manage it's Refugee support and Irish Traveller services.
Ubuntu “I am because we are” is an exciting new project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and delivered by Barnardo's.
Ubuntu will be managed by Barnardo's Northern Ireland and delivered in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Hertfordshire.
Aims of the Ubuntu Project
* Ensure that providers work together jointly across geographies, sharing aims, information, tasks and responsibilities to prevent problems arising which may impact on the health and educational outcomes of children from a sanctuary-seeking background.?
* Support the positive integration of families from a sanctuary-seeking background using a community development approach and providing training and support.?
* Support parents from a sanctuary-seeking background to develop positive parenting skills that will reduce the risk of poor health and educational outcomes in their child.??
* Identify systemic issues impacting negatively on families seeking sanctuary which can be addressed through devolved structures and working with local and regional government agencies to effect change.?
* Identify systemic issues impacting negatively on families seeking sanctuary which are reserved matters and advocate to effect change at national level.?
* Ensure that young people's voices are heard by decision makers and inform policy and strategy in the sector.?
* Ensure that the practice models developed in NI are effectively implemented in Scotland and Central England with the learning from the project is disseminated across the partnership.
Refugee Support Service
Established in 2015 as part of the UK Vulnerable Person Relocation Scheme, NIRSS works in partnership with local statutory and voluntary organisations co-ordinated through the NI Executive Office and the Home Office to support the integration of families who have fled conflicts and arrived in Northern Ireland through government schemes. The service is currently supporting those who have arrived from Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
Irish Travellers Service
Barnardo's NI has been working with Irish Travellers since 1993. The Travellers Early Years' Service provides home based family support to Traveller families. The service also delivers the Travellers Transition Service. This service is a year-long programme for Traveller young people as they transition from primary to post primary.
25 hours of this post will be for the Ubuntu Project which is funded until 31st Dec 2028.
12 hours are for the Refugee and Travellers Service.
Please make sure you demonstrate how you meet the following essential criteria in your application:
* Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Youth and Community Work, Community Development, Teaching, Social Work or other relevant degree
* Demonstrable experience of developing and leading projects including supervision of staff
* Demonstrable experience of working with networks of agencies in the children and family sector
* Demonstrable experience of managing complex budgets and reporting to funders
* Demonstrable experience of setting up, managing, monitoring and evaluating projects
* Understanding of the issues affecting ethnic minority families in Northern Ireland and the UK
* Experience of influencing and advocating for change
* Demonstrate you can meet the travel requirements required for the role
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