Project Development Lead

Dorset (Community Based)

£28,000 - £30,000 per annum (pro rata, and depending on experience)

24 hours per week

Operations Lead

Head of Operations

At Intuitive Thinking Skills, we believe every person has strengths and talents and can use any past experiences to help shape their future. Our role isn't to fix people. It's to create opportunities, remove barriers and help people recognise the strengths that they already possess.

That's why we are proud to have established - CLARITY, Dorset's first Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO).

CLARITY exists to connect, shape and influence services across Dorset while providing an inclusive and encouraging community where people affected by drug and alcohol issues can find belief, purpose and a future through lived experience.

Working alongside Dorset Council, Waythrough, commissioners and local partners, CLARITY is helping to ensure that lived experience is at the heart of Dorset's recovery community.

As CLARITY continues to grow, we're looking for someone to lead the next stage of its development towards sustainability, and independence.

This is an opportunity to create and build a meaningful legacy.

This is much more than a Project Development Lead role.

As our Project Development Lead, you will work across the whole of Dorset helping CLARITY grow into a confident, sustainable and community-led organisation.

Working closely with Dorset Council, Waythrough, commissioners, recovery communities, mutual aid groups, voluntary organisations, employers and local community assets, you'll strengthen the connections that already exist whilst creating new opportunities for people affected by drug and alcohol challenges.

Rather than focusing on people's problems, you'll take a strengths-based approach, recognising the talents, experiences and potential that already exist within individuals and communities.

You'll support people with living / lived experiences to become volunteers, peer supporters, ambassadors, trustees and future community leaders, helping CLARITY develop the confidence, governance and sustainability needed to become increasingly independent over time.

Success won't simply be measured by activities delivered. It will be measured by stronger communities, empowered people, meaningful partnerships and an organisation that belongs to Dorset.

• Lead the continued development of CLARITY across Dorset.
• Take an asset-based community development approach, identifying the strengths, skills and resources already available within local communities.
• Create opportunities for people with living / lived experiences to become active members of their communities through volunteering, education, employment and social participation.
• Develop new recovery initiatives that respond to local needs through genuine co-production.
• Promote recovery as entirely strength focused, that happens within communities, not just services.

• Develop strong relationships with Dorset Council, Waythrough, commissioners and other important stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with local mutual aid groups, recovery communities, voluntary organisations, employers, housing providers, healthcare services and community organisations.
• Represent CLARITY at local partnership meetings and community forums.
• Promote CLARITY as an organisation that complements existing services and strengthens Dorset's wider recovery services.
• Build partnerships that create opportunities for people with living / lived experience to contribute to service improvement and community development.

• Recruit, train, and develop…