Project Manager - Birmingham
Maternity Cover
As Project Manager, you will be the prime point of contact for Embrace and co-ordinator of activity. You will be responsible for modelling and promoting Embrace's ethos and values, and supporting volunteers to do likewise. As well as providing direct, practical and spiritual support to vulnerable women through the week, you will manage a team of volunteers who support the work of Embrace. You will also coordinate the day to day running and be the primary 'face' of Embrace to partners, public and service users.
Job Description
Provide a single point of contact to service users and provide practical and spiritual support. This will include assessing the needs of each woman, and could involve supporting women to appointments, supporting with particular problems such as housing or debt, supporting engagement with police or courts, or taking a woman out for coffee to provide relational and emotional support.
2. Co-ordinate volunteer recruitment and induction process, responding to enquiries, processing applications, references and DBS applications.
3. Provide management and coordination of the volunteer team, including assisting in planning and organising volunteer events and training.
4. Lead an evening outreach session (8 - 10pm) at least twice a month.
5. Support income generation initiatives including preparing grant applications, bids and fundraising events, promoting the Embrace vision and work.
6. Build strong working relationships with partner organisations work in partnership with them, particularly where there is a multi-agency approach to supporting a service user/attend meetings as required.
7. Represent Embrace, its vision and values to external partners, public and churches, building relationships with churches in the area
8. Manage Embrace communications with supporters and volunteers, including communication with partner organisations and churches. Manage Embrace social media accounts and ensure a positive representation of Embrace is upheld.
9. Have a high commitment to safeguarding staff, volunteers and women. Attend annual safeguarding training, train new and current volunteers in safeguarding specific to the work and update safeguarding policies.
10. Take responsibility for coordinating the day to day running of the service, including:
a. Manage Embrace’s reporting and activity logs, ensuring records, policies and procedures are up to date, ensuring accounts and reporting requirements are completed on time, and reporting to trustees
b. Administrative tasks, including word processing, printing, and filing, managing emails, website, updating records, documentation, agendas and databases as necessary.
c. Maintain stocks of consumables, ordering/ buying supplies as necessary. Oversee the upkeep of the Embrace vehicle, ensuring tax, insurance, MOT, servicing are up to date.
d. Complying with health and safety responsibilities as outlined in the Embrace Health and Safety policy.
11. Participate in times of prayer and spiritual input with co-workers (currently Director, Trustees and volunteers) and service users.
12. Attend trustee meetings on a quarterly basis, reporting on Embrace activity
13. Work with a team of volunteers to develop a programme of fundraising and team building events
14. Further develop Embrace taking account of other models and national developments.
15. Any other tasks that may be reasonably expected and requested.