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Engagement Team Member

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We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement and support everybody can change.

Are you ready to use your inside knowledge and experience to help change the criminal justice system from within?.

Your Skills

Have been in prison or on probation.
A people person and a good listener.
Good IT / Literacy / Numeracy skills.
Turned your life around and want to help others.
Have something to give and can say what it is.
Manage your own life well, and can prove it.
Highly motivated and passionate to create change

Terms & Conditions

Full-time or part-time available.
12 month fixed-term contract.
Up to £25,000/annum pro-rata, depending on experience.
Bank holidays plus 25 days holiday pro-rata.

Apply Now

1. Read the Application Pack

2. Complete the Application form

3. Complete the equality & diversity form

4. Send both forms and a copy of your CV to: recruitment@uservoice.org

Further Details

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship. As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

Individual Team Members will demonstrate some, but not necessarily all of these skills and as a result will be responsible for different areas of delivery as assigned by the Regional Manager as set out below.

Engagement

Service user engagement and recruitment – Including through presentations, surveys, focus groups and workshops
Staff engagement – including through presentations, staff and individual meetings
Stakeholder engagement – including other statutory and voluntary sector partner agencies

Coordination

Coordinating tasks and activities within the project plan and producing regular reports
Keeping accurate and up to date records – including participants details, engagement levels, diversity/equality monitoring data
Assessing risk, working within safeguarding best practice and reporting incidents

Retaining relationships

Providing training to an accredited standard
Facilitating groups, including meetings, focus groups, workshops and large events
Recruiting and managing service users and volunteers – including providing clear activities, support and signposting to further opportunities

In addition to the above duties, the post holder will be required to perform other duties, which are assigned from time to time. However, such other duties will be reasonable in relation to the individual’s skills, abilities and grade.

For more information speak to our Regional Manager Brendan Doyle on 07939 661 135