Purpose: All Saints Church has been completely refurbished with exciting potential for serving the people of Wokingham as an active community hub.
We are now seeking someone who will help realise that potential through recruiting volunteers and encouraging local groups to work with us and develop social and cultural activities.
Key Responsibilities
- To promote and develop the aims of the spaceforall project
- To recruit, encourage and manage volunteers from the community, using best practice and awareness of safeguarding requirements.
- To manage the requirements of different groups using the building and seek to find volunteers who can best facilitate fruitful working relationships.
- To actively encourage collaboration across community user groups, the church, users of the facilities and volunteers.
- To empathise with, and understand the needs of, vulnerable people in the community and think creatively about how we can engage with them in a meaningful way.
Experience is required in the following areas:
- Community development and outreach work
- Working with, motivating and empowering volunteers to take on responsibility and flourish.
- Communicating with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
- Planning and managing your own time to achieve goals.
- Establishing and sustaining a broad range of professional partnerships
Skills Required
- Passionate about making a difference in the local community.
- Able to adapt to differing needs of volunteers, community groups and users of the project.
- Able to think creatively, take the initiative and move things forward with a "can do" attitude
- Able to set priorities and work on own initiative.
- Good organisational skills
- Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills; good at meeting new people and developing relationships.
- Able to communicate, negotiate and influence across a wide range of audiences.
- Aptitude for building and maintaining professional relationships with community groups and working with communities in an empowering and supportive way.
- Good written communication skills, including IT proficiency, and able to produce reports and Management Information for a wide range of audiences.
- Comfortable using social media and aware of the pitfalls.
- Good record keeping skills, with an understanding of Data Protection requirements.
Applicants are expected to be in sympathy with, and supportive of, the Christian ethos and the ministry of the Church.
DBS clearance is required: The Church of England is committed to promoting a safe environment and culture for children, young people and vulnerable adults. The individual appointed to this role will be expected to work within the policy and procedures of the relevant safeguarding policies and attend all required safeguarding training.
Applications must arrive before Monday 16 September 2024. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 30 September.
Part Time Hours: 20-25 hrs pw with occasional evening and weekend work. Work days and hours negotiable
Contract: 2 years, fixed term
Location: Wokingham. Working in the community and at the church campus. Some home based working possible