Project Officer

Overview

Project Officer

£26,000 per year pro rata (0.6 FTE) / £15,600 per year

Part-time, 21 hours per week

Maternity cover contract for nine months

Based in Dundee as a home working role

Our client empowers people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Together, we're helping people change their stories. You could join them to support their work with children, families and volunteers in Dundee.

Our client is looking for an enthusiastic and organised individual to provide administrative and programme delivery support for a range of activities as part of a small local team in Dundee. This will include a collaborative and flexible service to support families by improving their wellbeing, their confidence in their literacy skills and their connections with each other, other families and local services.

You will also contribute to other community-based activities, including regular rhyme/story sessions and book-gifting with local organisations and at local community events. You will be instrumental in the delivery of their project, which identifies, trains and supports volunteers who work with them to design new and exciting ways to promote literacy in their community. This may be in person or online and includes everything from community book-swaps and reading corners to setting up homework clubs and creating videos.

You will help identify potential volunteers and volunteering opportunities, and develop new strategies for recruiting, training and supporting these volunteers, as well as mobilising key community partnerships.

You will be based in Dundee, working from home with regular travel locally, as well as national travel when necessary. This will include coming to London for induction and regular staff days, which take place three times per year, as well as three team days per year that take place in other locations. All travel expenses will be covered.

This role is subject to a Disclosure Scotland PVG check, in line with our safeguarding policy.

You will be experienced in providing project support in a charity or educational context, including developing new ways of working and reporting against project plans and budgets. You should also have excellent knowledge of literacy issues and working with schools and community-based organisations. You will need to be a confident communicator who is able to make links in the community and build and maintain relationships with a wide range of people.

Knowledge of volunteer management and safeguarding practice would be an advantage, as would experience of recruiting and training volunteers and delivering events.

You will need to live in Dundee and have a good knowledge of the area. Due to the nature of delivery, you will need a full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle. This role will also involve managing book stocks and other resources.

Reading and writing change everything.

They give you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. They’re the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. They’re 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 helps 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 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.

Their team are passionate about their mission, and they have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared…