Contract type/duration: | 6 months, with the possibility of extension |
Working pattern: | 37.5 hours per week, but flexible working arrangements available. Some evening and weekend working will be required by agreement |
Location: | Home working/remote, some UK travel, regular in-person meetings |
Salary: | £30,000 per annum |
Line manager: | Community Building Lead |
Who are we? Small but mighty: our dynamic and passionate team is dedicated to bringing people together around the UK to help welcome refugees into our communities. Our strength comes from the hundreds and hundreds of people who work together to prepare for new refugee arrivals. So far, we have helped to resettle more than a thousand people into their new lives in the UK, people escaping violence, torture, war, and persecution, from Ukraine to Syria and Afghanistan.
What do we do? It is not easy making a new life in a new country: a new culture, often a new language. New arrivals often need help finding a job, registering with the GP, enrolling their children in school, and – not least – finding somewhere to live, so we provide training and support to equip local groups to help refugees do this. We also work with local authorities and other agencies to ensure groups and refugees are well-supported, even when things don’t go to plan. It is inspiring, rewarding work.
Your core focus will be delivering training and support to those welcoming refugees to their communities across all our programmes. You will also deliver training to local authorities, business and other organisations which are engaged in refugee welcome. Most of our training is online, so you must be comfortable with IT and digital technology.
You’ll work with the Community Building Lead to develop new training opportunities and methods, making sure best practice is shared across our whole team at Reset, and to those welcoming refugees in their communities. As we create and develop new ways for communities to welcome refugees, you will be at the forefront of creating new resources to make this accessible for all. You will work with the Supporting Welcome team to manage the Reset training website, implementing self-led learning opportunities, and guiding our training strategy for the future.
You will work closely with the communications team to develop our approach to working with experts by experience.
% of time | |
Delivering training and advice | |
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75% |
Working with others | |
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25% |
Essential skills/experience
Desirable
28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees); plus the period between Christmas and the New Year at the Board’s discretion.
Unique professional development opportunities; collaborate with seasoned professionals.
Close involvement with frontline services, gaining insights into refugee needs.
Auto-enrolment pension scheme (3% paid by Reset).
Agile working enabling you to vary your working hours outside our 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm core hours.
Employee assistance programme, confidential telephone counselling service, or suitable alternative.
Please send the following to: [email protected]
Closing date 22 February 2024. (We will be assessing applications as we receive them and reserve the right to interview, if necessary, before the closing date).
Reset has a strong commitment to tackling inequality. We positively welcome applications from all parts of the community and with diverse cultural backgrounds, and particularly from people with lived experience of having refugee status or supporting refugees.
We recognise that candidates from underprivileged backgrounds are less likely to attend university and gain significant work experience. We encourage candidates who match most of the requirements (but not all) or who partly meet the requirements (but not fully) to still consider applying for the role. If you would like to arrange an informal conversation about your suitability for the role, please contact [email protected]
We will ask all shortlisted candidates to complete an equality monitoring form.
Candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions will be asked to let us know if they need any adjustments during the recruitment process.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.