EM Community Outreach Officer

• Project is Scotland wide with office base being Glasgow (Hybrid)
• Closing13th May 2024
• Advertised from 25th April 2024
• £15,600 - 21 hours per week. Fixed Term to 31st March 2026.

CEMVO Scotland is a national race equality intermediary organization with the aim of building the capacity of theethnic minority voluntary sector and its communities.

We are seeking a person with experience in undertaking ethnic minority community engagement and outreach work torecruit EM volunteers onto a programme of activities which in this case will be volunteer energy advisers whowill be trained by Changeworks to help deliver energy related events to EM groups.

Your role will be to promote the partnership programmme through all mediums, to recruit and support volunteers and toorganize energy efficiency events with EM groups / organisations across Scotland.

You will require a range of the following skills and experience:

• Experience in EM community engagement and outreach work.
• Experience in volunteer recruitment and support.
• Experience in organising and delivering events both online and in person, and so knowledge of delivering events on Zoom / Microsoft Teams will also be highly useful.
• Experience in delivering promotional activities, including skills and experience in digital marketing through social media, etc.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 13th May 24

Please note: Interviews will be on Friday 17th May 24

We are seeking a person with extensive experience and understanding of equality and diversity, especially around raceequality to provide support to environmental sector organisations to help improve their capacity to tackleracial inequality and meet the needs of EM communities.

In this role, you will have responsibility in providing consultancy support to environment sector organisations tohelp develop actions that tackle racial and other intersectional inequalities. Thus, you will require experiencein the development of race equality policies and practices that address racial and intersectionalinequalities.

You will also be designing and delivering race equality training to wide audiences so good training skills arerequired, along with the ability to organize and deliver events that share good race equality polies andpractices.

Although you will be part of the environmental team, this project will complement our Race for Human Rights (R4HR)Programme and so you will also be working closely with the R4HR team as there will be areas of work wheresupport or events can be co-delivered, including EM community engagement.

If you are committed and enthusiastic about equalities, particularly around race, then this post will provide a greatopportunity to help influence and progress race equality within the environmental sector.

• Home based covering West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond areas. (Remote)
• Closing3rd May 2024

Want to help children and young people from armed forces communities to realise their potential and thrive?

Deliver life-changing experiences to develop new skills, build confidence, and forge friendships through a sense ofbelonging, shared experiences, and collective purpose.

Co-produce impactful projects, services, and campaigns that amplify lived experience, transform attitudes, and leadtoward meaningful change in local communities in the West of Scotland and for over 12,500 peers acrossScotland.

Establish and maintain a network of youth forums in Helensburgh, West Dunbartonshire, and Lomond. Promote and developactive involvement to reach and support greater numbers from early learning settings and with additional supportneeds (ASN).

Some of the essentials we are looking for in candidates

A relevant qualification, to a minimum standard of HNC/SVQ 3 (SCQF level 7) in a discipline related to working withchildren and young people, or equivalent work experience.

Ideally, you will have experience working with children in Early Years settings.

You will also need a minimum of two years’ experience working in youth work, community, or education settings, aswell as demonstrate knowledge of co-production, child protection, participatory decision-making, and muchmore.

Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? Weare looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that beyou?

Who are we?

Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work withdeaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people toachieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.

As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking forpeople who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment andenthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh andGlasgow.

We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you wouldneed some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.

We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If youhave knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.

The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website .

The role

You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will belone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their ownliving environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring thatwherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include bothactivities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.

You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent,high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supportedto develop and maintain such a service.

Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.

*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.

You will be asked:

• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and PerformanceDevelopment Reviews/Reports (PDRs).

• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safetyresponsibilities.

• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegatedgroup of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.

• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.

• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.

• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills andabilities to achieve identified outcomes.

• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.

• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.

• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.

• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from theservice provided.

• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.

What is on offer? What do we offer?

• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.

• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.

• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.

• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.

• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process

Interested in joining the Links Worker Programme at the ALLIANCE? We are looking for someone dynamic, organised andwith great people skills to join our well-established Links Worker Programme.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project toGlasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complexsocial circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programmedelivery

You will have:

• Experience at delivering advice to a wide range of citizens and be familiar with benefit entitlements as well asshowing empathy and understanding of the issues faced by our citizens.
• Knowledge and understanding ofthe environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private andvoluntary sectors in tackling them.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice tolow-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
• Self-motivation and the ability to workwith limited supervision.
• The ability to work with a wide range of people and proven experience ofworking with vulnerable householders, low income and/or other disadvantaged groups, including a strongunderstanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of deprivation in relation to livingwell.
• Tact and diplomacy when liaising with a wide range of organisations.
• A solution-focusedapproach.
• Non-discriminatory values.
• Proven and highly effective interpersonal and communicationskills in working with people on a 1:1 basis and with organisations.
• Excellent influencing, negotiationand motivational skills in order to engage people and to enable them to take up a wide range of communityservices and activities.
• Excellent networking, recording and information managementskills.
• Knowledge of facilitating service improvement and appreciation of different organisationalcultures and workforce development.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on owninitiative.
• IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and the internet.
• An ability andwillingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.

It would be desirable for you to have experience of:

• Experience of project-based work in the fields of energy efficiency, community development and regeneration,housing, health, social policy or consumer issues.
• Education to a degree level, equivalentqualifications, or relevant experience.
• Experience of the preparation and delivery ofpresentations
• Experience of speaking to groups

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 days public holiday (equivalent of 13 days) that canbe taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pensionscheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work fromhome for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Corporate ratesfor gym membership
• Time of in lieu
• Cycle Scheme

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talkflexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meetevery point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we stillwant to hear from you.