Project Officer

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

Job title**:Employment Project Support Officer**

Role Type: Freelance, temporary

Reports to: Programme and Partnerships Manager (Employment)

Manages: N/A

Geographic focus: Lambeth - office working is required, along with opportunities to work from home

**Salary**: £150 a day rate

Hours: 3-5 days a week (to be negotiated), for a minimum of 3 months

**About Black Thrive**

We exist to change the odds stacked against Black people by embedding race equity into systemic change so that thriving is not the exception but the norm.

Black Thrive Global evolved from the work of the Black Thrive Lambeth Partnership, which was established in 2016 to address the inequalities that negatively impact the mental health and wellbeing of Black people in Lambeth. Black people’s cumulative exposure to negative experiences and poor outcomes are not unique to Lambeth and Black Thrive Global was founded in 2020 to address the detrimental outcomes for Black people of African and Caribbean descent wherever they may be located.

Our work covers all life stages - children and young people, working age adults and older adults. Our guiding principle is to centre the lived experiences of Black communities in all that we do and our strategic priorities are to embed race equity in systems change and to decolonise the evidence landscape.

**Purpose of the role**

The purpose of this role is to support the effective delivery of the employment project, funded by
Impact on Urban Health, which is key to promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health as well as to supporting recovery from ill health or slowing progression from one-to-many health conditions.

**Duties and responsibilities**

1. Assist the Programme and Partnerships Manager (Employment) to deliver Black Thrive’s employment project funded by Impact on Urban Health.

2. Develop and maintain comprehensive administrative and electronic systems to ensure that the overall project can be delivered efficiently.

3. Design and maintain databases to support relationship management and engagement with key project stakeholders.

4. Work with partners to ensure the collection, analysis and reporting of quantitative and qualitative data to support understanding, action and monitoring relevant to the employment project.

5. Support the Programme and Partnerships Manager with project management and reporting arrangements relating to the achievement of objectives and milestones.

6. Organise meetings and events and manage the associated administration such as room bookings, preparing and distributing of agendas, minute taking and action tracking.

7. Produce and deliver presentations, reports and other material relevant to the role.

8. Support the Programme and Partnerships Manager (Employment) to ensure effective communication of Black Thrive’s employment work to relevant audiences using the internet, social media and other appropriate channels.

9. Ensure compliance with legislation and policies relevant to the job role, including equality, safeguarding, health and safety, data protection and financial probity.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Employment Project Support Officer**
**(Freelance, Temp)**

**Experience**

1. Building effective working relationships with colleagues, external partners and community members.

2. Supporting the management of programmes and projects

3. Setting up and maintaining databases and administrative systems that are compliant with data protection legislation

**Ability, skills, knowledge**

4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

5. Good numerical and analytical skills

6. Ability to support research and evaluation *

7. Ability to work through ambiguity and uncertainty and remain calm under pressure

8. Ability to remain enthusiastic, optimism and solutions-focused in the face of adversity and to deliver tangible results with mínimal supervision

9. Competent use of Microsoft Office software and of social media

**Job Types**: Temporary contract, Freelance, Graduate
Contract length: 3 months

**Salary**: £150.00 per day

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Common surfaces in the office are sanitised daily. We offer flexi-working where individuals can work from home at times.