Job Opportunity: Community Co-ordinator

Reference ID: WASHCC
Job type: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £25,779.00 per year
Location: Dolphin Centre, Washwood Heath B8
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 09/09/2024

Norton Hall Children and Family Centre are seeking an experienced volunteer and community engagement professional with a genuine passion for nature and climate to help deliver their new Washwood Heath Adaption and Sustainability Hub (WASH) project, delivered in partnership with SWM member Herefordshire New Leaf.

Norton Hall is a small, but growing charity with a vibrant team based in and working with the community of Washwood Heath, in East Birmingham. The WASH will be based at the Dolphin Women’s Centre in Ward End Park; a much valued, Green Flag accredited 54-acre public space with a Lake and the Wash Brook.

Thanks to National Lottery players, Norton Hall has received a five-year grant from The National Lottery Community Fund.  

The funding will be used to engage the local community in nature and climate learning activities, connecting them with the rural environment, increasing their connection to their surroundings and encouraging them to understand what it means to them. Shaped by volunteers, service users and partners, the WASH aims to see improvements in everyday lives, including food and growing skills, career opportunities, improved mental and physical health, and confidence building.

To succeed in this role, you will have good experience of supporting volunteers from a range of backgrounds and delivering community events, ideally within an inner city setting. Your interpersonal and communication skills will enable you to develop excellent relationships with community, organisations, volunteers, partners and beneficiaries.

You will be a self-motivated individual, whose organisational skills will help you ensure that volunteers have everything to fulfil their roles and to help achieve project objectives. Ideally you will have had experience of involving volunteers and service users in decision making and ideally you will speak Urdu which is the main community language.

In person interviews are preferred but they can accommodate online participation. They welcome applications from people who have a disability.

They can only accept applications from people with the right to work in the UK and are unable to sponsor working visa applications.

If you would like an informal conversation about this role please contact Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Knipe.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted, and that you will need to include a cover email with your application outlining how your experience, skills and attributes makes you an ideal candidate for the role.

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