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Community Organiser and Project Leader

Employer
Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire
Location
Coventry, West Midlands
Salary
£27,905 - £29,636 plus benefits
Closing date
8 Apr 2019
Reference
GV/PBSA

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Sector
Charities / Voluntary
Job Type
Community
Contract Type
Full time permanent
Working Pattern
Flexible hours
Hours
Full-Time

Job Details

Creating a thriving community is all about what ordinary people (and their local services) can do together. That’s why we want to help spark and sustain social action in Stoke Aldermoor, in Coventry.

Community organisers build relationships and networks in communities so that together people can tackle their local issues. 

You will be managing as well as delivering an important flagship project for Grapevine. You will be a self starter who loves people. You love to see people grow. You don’t take over. You will be out and about finding and helping lots of ordinary people start up initiatives to make their place a better place. You will be working with the funder and the public sector too.

Keen to join us in action? Please complete an application form, tell us about your previous experience and where you have used your skills to shine. If you can please email your application to us. Alternatively send your application to: Cathy Allen, Grapevine 123 Upper Spon Street, Coventry CV1 3BQ

Working Pattern 
Flexible 37 hours per week; 8% pension contribution
If shortlisted you will be invited to a  half day long recruitment 'assessment' event. These will take place in Stoke Aldermoor on  Monday 15th April. Interviews on Monday 29th April.

Company

We’re a social action charity that’s best at reinventing itself in response to people’s needs.

We help services, funders and systems find new ways to create deep social change. We’re willing to be bold, remove the box and bring edge-based solutions into the middle.

Our three strands of action in Coventry, Warwickshire and nationally are strengthening people, sparking community action and shifting power. 

In November 2020, we hosted a summit to help harness community spirit for the future with 98 people from all walks of life and a public sector summit for 68 professionals to help cement new ways of working accelerated by the pandemic into everyday practice.

We were keeping over 500 isolated people strong and well as the crisis struck. That number more than doubled to 1,232 during 2020.

Our experience

We celebrated our 25-year anniversary in 2019 after starting life in 1994 as a drop-in in Spon End, Coventry for people with learning disabilities.

We learned who they were, what their dreams were and what they could offer and realised that way of working could help many others too. The answer to their problems lay in community, not specialised services.

Now we work with all kinds of people experiencing poverty, disadvantage and isolation.

Working for us

We offer a friendly workplace with a strong culture of helping people uncover their potiential. We’re committed to diversity and inclusion in our team and across our work, treating every person we meet as an individual with unique passions and skills.

In addition to our ethos, our employee benefits include:

  • Flexible working
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (for full-time roles, pro rata for part-time)
  • Stakeholder pension scheme plus eight per cent employer contribution.

Meet the Grapevine team

Here’s what some members of our team have to say about working for Grapevine. We look forward to getting to know you too!

“I came to Grapevine as a service user, I grew to believe in their work and saw how much it helped our family to grow and change our thinking.” (Mel Smith, Grapevine Deputy CEO)

“Our jobs are so varied. Seeing people achieve things that either they thought they wouldn’t be able to or were told by society they couldn’t. I can’t help but miss people when they move on to great things but I know it’s because they feel confident to do it without our support and that’s great.” (Molly Gillespie)

“Grapevine has helped both my family and myself to find a new outlook for our lives. I have also witnessed several other transformational journeys as Grapevine staff have walked side by side with someone.” (Melissa Smith,  community organiser)

“I’m proud of the difference Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire is trying to make in a UK that just keeps getting tougher for vulnerable people.” (Andrea Mbarushimana,  from Help and Connect)

Company info
Website
Telephone
024 7663 1040
Location
123 Upper Spon Street
Spon End
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 3BQ
GB

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