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Poverty Proofing Co-ordinator (West Midlands)

Employer
Children North East
Location
West Midlands Region
Salary
£26,683 to £29,288 per annum (Scale Points 29-32).
Closing date
1 Jul 2021

Children North East exists because growing up can be hard.  We work with babies, children and young people through the rollercoaster of growing up in their families, schools and communities.

Children North East is an innovative charity and we are looking to recruit an excellent Poverty Proofing Co-ordinator to deliver the ‘Poverty Proofing© the School Day Programme’ in the West Midlands. Poverty Proofing© the School Day is a programme which combats the barriers to learning for disadvantaged students and involves engaging in meaningful and effective consultation with students, school staff and senior leaders.  You will also contribute to the wider work of the schools team including curriculum based outdoor education and wider wellbeing interventions

Main Responsibilities; To be accountable to the Poverty Proofing Team Manager for service delivery and development.

To carry out Poverty Proofing the School Day audits in both Primary and Secondary schools in the West Midlands.  This includes conducting research with children, young people, parents, school staff and governors, and feeding back to senior leadership teams your findings. This may also include other educational settings.

To support additional Poverty Proofing activities across a variety of additional sectors.

To gather the views of children and young people of all ages using a Children’s Rights based approach.

To respond to and report any Safeguarding concerns to your line manager, ensuring compliance with Children North East Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.

To develop, deliver training and CPD sessions to school staff, governing bodies and student teachers.

To contribute to the delivery and co-ordination of training the trainers packages both in and out of the West Midlands.

Create new networks and manage effective stakeholder relationships.          

Support the Service and Team managers in income generation for the service, including contributions to marketing and selling Poverty Proofing programmes, and funding bids.

To undertake recording, monitoring and evaluation tasks and prepare reports to meet service requirements.

Co-ordinate and lead on project evaluations and reports to demonstrate project impact.

To challenge policy and practice at a local, regional and national policy level.

To attend team meetings, individual supervision sessions and annual appraisal as agreed with the Poverty Proofing Team Manager.

To lead and manage students, sessional workers and volunteers in accordance with CNE management protocols.

To promote the work of Poverty Proofing by speaking at conferences and events and contributing to publications.

To undertake training as agreed with the Poverty Proofing Team Manager.

For a full candidate pack and to apply, please visit the “Our Vacancies” section of our website, www.children-ne.org.uk/work-with-us/vacancies

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

We welcome a diverse range of applications and are passionate about promoting equality, and valuing diversity.  We welcome applications from all suitable qualified persons particularly black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under represented in our workforce.

Closing date; 5pm 1st July 2021

 

 

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