Cvs Lead

3 weeks ago

Watford, United Kingdom Watford and Three Rivers Trust Full time

**CVS Lead (Three Rivers)**

**Hours**:Part-time (17.5 hours per week**)**

**Line Manager**:W3RT Operations Manager

**Salary**:£17,000 pa (pro rata with a FTE salary of £34,000)

**Place of work**: This role will be based at Holywell Community Centre in Watford, with regular meetings throughout Hertfordshire and opportunities to work from home.

**Summary**

The post-holder will lead the effective delivery of assigned CVS services to meet commissioner requirements and ensure our community benefits from voluntary organisations that are welcoming, accountable, effective and sustainable.

**Specific responsibilities**
- Be a recognised source of knowledge on the local voluntary sector and ensure W3RT holds accurate details on voluntary group activities
- Manage such budgets that are delegated, and deliver such targets and outputs as are required
- Champion W3RT’s vision, purposes, values, and mission
- Lead on the recruitment and support of CVS members
- Support and enable community organisations to be welcoming, accountable, effective and sustainable
- Deliver an agreed programme of face-to-face, online and hybrid events, including training and networking opportunities, workshops, consultations, and conferences
- With colleagues, lead or support relevant local networks, forums and partnerships
- Attend meetings as required to represent and promote W3RT CVS - including with external stakeholders
- Contribute to internal W3RT prioritisation, co-ordination and planning.
- Ensure all CVS operational processes are accurately documented within W3RT wikis
- Ensure all systems are used as intended and all relevant data is accurately recorded
- Champion W3RT digital systems including NationBuilder, Golden Volunteer, the Community Directory, the Herts Funding Database
- Maintain effective relationships with funders - deliver on KPIs, collate data, submit reports, attend meetings, and manage funds as required.
- Elicit feedback from users and stakeholders to assess needs to improve service provision.

**Behaviours, knowledge and skills**

The post-holder must demonstrate and maintain the following knowledge, skills and behaviours.

**Knowledge**
- A strong understanding of the legal structures available for charities and community organisations
- A good working knowledge of Hertfordshire’s statutory sector and especially as it relates to the funding and engagement of community organisations and the commissioning of services.
- An excellent understanding of voluntary organisations active within Watford and Three Rivers, including key individuals, networks, forums, and influencers.
- An excellent understanding of key individuals, businesses, networks, events, activities, services and commissioners, in Watford and Three Rivers.
- A good understanding of local and national organisations, services and resources supporting community organisations - including quality systems and standards.
- A very good understanding of project and organisational management, business planning, branding income generation, policy frameworks.
- A good understanding of outputs, outcomes and impact measurement.
- Knowledge of current policy debates relevant to these areas of work including eg ABCD, social prescribing, loneliness, etc.
- A strong understanding of the legal and regulatory framework for community organisations including re: employment, volunteering, fundraising, contracts, charity law, health and safety, equalities, operations.
- Excellent knowledge of W3RT ICT systems including Teams, National Builder, Golden Volunteer, and Idox.

**Skills**
- Excellent analytical skills to understand organisations, networks, and power relationships.
- Able to identify needs, strengths, opportunities and risks.
- A trained and reflective approach to using Asset Based Community Development.
- Excellent skills in networking and negotiation: the ability to establish relationships, influence discussions and persuade or recruit people to your point of view.
- Excellent people and listening skills: help people to speak truthfully and articulate their needs or views, confident that you will listen and respond appropriately.
- Skills in researching, statistical analysis, and writing reports, plans, options and bids.
- A high level of competency in W3RT ICT systems.
- Social networks: competence and confidence operating on different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Teams, etc).
- Proven experience of working people who are vulnerable or face barriers, recognising the issues that affect them and identifying ways to engage and support them.
- Able to balance a complex workload and objectively prioritise competing demands.

**W3RT Behaviours**

All W3RT staff are expected to consistently display the following behaviours.

Teamwork
- Remember you are a valued part of W3RT’s team - be proud of your role and of the trust
- Ask for support, guidance and training where needed - and wherever possible, offer the same when requested of you

Integrity
- Be transpa

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