Community Grant Co-ordinator

The Community Grant Co-ordinator will be employed as part of the newly awarded contract for The South Yorkshire Early Years Neighbourhood Pilot (Bump Birth and Beyond) across South Yorkshire working in partnership with community organisations including Family Hubs and voluntary/community providers.

The Bump, Birth and Beyond Service offers support in specific neighbourhoods (Worsbrough, Eastwood and East Deane, Mexborough, Firth Park and Fir Vale) to ensure a joined-up approach to providing interventions at the earliest opportunity for pregnant women, birthing people and their families, making access easy and provided by trusted organisations across the designated areas. This project has 7 Peer Connectors in post who work accross the neighbourhoods offering one-to-one support and group work to families.
- Promoting the Community Grant Process.
- Planning and attending grant monitoring and reporting meetings

This post is predominately office based at Moorgate Rotherham, however there may be an element of travel across the neighbourhoods to meet with the voluntary and community organisations.

We are able to offer flexible working arrangements and the hours for this role are 17 hours a week in year 1 and 15 hours a week in year 2. Although funding is due to end in March 2026 we are constantly reviewing and discussing the work which could result in a proposal to extend work beyond that date.
- Pay & Reward Framework
- We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's _values_. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people._
- For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our _People & Culture_ Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay._
- Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
- About Barnardo's
- At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.