Project Officer

**Job Advert**:
Carmarthenshire Compass Service are looking for a **Project Officer** to join our team on a part time **(12 hours per week) basis on a fixed term contract until March 2027,** with the possibility of a two-year extension**. Your role will be to work with people with learning disabilities to raise awareness of the service and to support adults with a learning disability to co-produce the kind of services they want to see.

This role will not be office based as there will be a need to regularly travel around the Carmarthenshire area.

The Project Officer you will:

- Support the team to raise awareness of the service amongst people with a learning disability in the area
- Attend events to promote the service
- Build relationships with adults with a learning disability in order to support them to communicate what they need in their communities.
- Build networks across local community groups
- Explore opportunities for people with LD to connect with other people and community groups within the Carmarthenshire area
- Support people with learning disability build trust and belief in themselves
- Work closely with members of the team

The advert closes on 3rd October, and face-to-face interviews will take place on 7th October.

Mae Gwasanaethau Compass Sir Gaerfyrddin yn chwilio am ddau swyddog prosiect i ymuno â’n tîm. Eich rôl fydd gweithio gyda phobl ag anableddau dysgu i godi ymwybyddiaeth am y gwasanaeth a chynorthwyo oedolion ag anabledd dysgu i gyd-gynhyrchu’r math o wasanaethau yr hoffent eu gweld.

Ni fydd y rôl hon wedi’i lleoli mewn swyddfa, oherwydd bydd angen teithio’n rheolaidd o gwmpas ardal Sir Gaerfyrddin.

Bydd y Swyddog Prosiect:

- Yn cynorthwyo’r tîm i godi ymwybyddiaeth am y gwasanaeth ymhlith pobl ag anabledd dysgu yn yr ardal
- Yn mynychu digwyddiadau i hyrwyddo’r gwasanaeth
- Yn meithrin perthnasoedd gydag oedolion ag anabledd dysgu er mwyn eu cynorthwyo i gyfleu’r hyn sydd ei angen arnynt yn eu cymunedau.
- Yn creu rhwydweithiau ar draws grwpiau cymunedol lleol
- Yn archwilio cyfleoedd i bobl ag anabledd dysgu gysylltu â phobl a grwpiau cymunedol eraill o fewn ardal Sir Gaerfyrddin
- Yn cynorthwyo pobl ag anabledd dysgu i feithrin ymddiriedaeth a chred ynddyn nhw eu hunain
- Yn gweithio’n agos gydag aelodau o’r tîm

Mae hwn yn gontract cyfnod penodol tan fis Mawrth 2027

Yn Mencap, rydym yn gwerthfawrogi gweithle amrywiol a chynhwysol, ac rydym yn cynllunio’n fwriadol ar gyfer llwyddiant ein cydweithwyr ym mhopeth a wnawn. Rydym yn croesawu ceisiadau gan bawb, felly dewch fel yr ydych chi i ymuno â ni. Gyda’n gilydd, ni yw Mencap

Os yw'r rôl hon yn swnio'n berffaith i chi, cyflwynwch eich CV diweddaraf nawr neu ffoniwch 07432 499956 am ragor o wybodaeth.

Mae'r hysbyseb yn cau ar 3 Hydref, a bydd cyfweliadau wyneb yn wyneb yn cael eu cynnal ar 7 Hydref

Vacancy ID: 34609

**Benefits**:
Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.

Our benefits package offers **32 days of paid holiday** (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team

**About Mencap**:
Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.
- Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
- Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes
- Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long
- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.