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Job description

Job title:  Risers Programme Managing - London, Part-Time

Reporting to: Managing Director 

Remuneration: £28,000 (Pro-rata, part-time, 0.5FTE)

Days and Hours: 0.5FTE, 2.5 days a week (18.75 hours), Flexible hours, availability to occasionally support a minimum of 4 hrs over the weekend. Wednesday the team work at our coworking space in Brixton, and Risers training sessions run on Wednesday evenings. Ideally, the working pattern would be Mondays and Wednesdays, with occasional work on either Sat or Sun.

Duration: Permanent contract.

Location: London, Coworking Space in Brixton several central areas and expanding reach.

Start: Jan 2025 / Apply ASAP, Deadline 31/12/24

Wellbeing Pack: Employees have access to enhanced Holidays, Flexible Working, Coaching Sessions and monthly wellbeing expenses. Check our Wellbeing Pack.

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Breadwinners is growing, and we are delighted to offer an amazing opportunity for a Part-Time Programme Managing to deliver the ‘Risers’ programme, supporting young people from refugee backgrounds to gain work experience, training and mentoring.

We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and innovative Programme Managing with a passion for supporting young refugees and young people seeking asylum. We are a small and ambitious social enterprise, so a can-do attitude and the drive to work within a small focused team and deliver a huge impact is essential, together with an ability to occasionally assist our young people at the market stalls over the weekend.

The role will be to run the Risers Programme. 

You will be working with the Managing Director, Market Coordinator, charity partners, and volunteers to recruit, train and support ‘Risers’ (Young people aged 16 to 24 seeking asylum in the UK) to get the most out of their work experience, mentoring sessions and training. You will be organising and leading skills training activities, work experience days, and mentoring sessions. 

You will have the chance to see the impact your work has, meet amazing people who deserve better opportunities, work together with them and learn every day in a fun and positive environment.    

Key Responsibilities 

Programme Management

Designing and delivering engaging programmes that support refugees into work, using our market business model as a platform. Running and developing our already successful Risers programme supporting young people from refugee backgrounds with work experience, mentoring and training. Designing and creating new programmes subject to funding. Making sure the needs of young people are at the centre of all programme design.

Group Facilitation

Running engaging, informative and fun weekly employability skills training sessions for young people, as well as occasional community social activities. 

Volunteer Coordination

Recruiting, training, and offering continuous support to volunteer mentors supporting young people on the Risers programme.

Recruitment

Recruiting young people from refugee backgrounds to the Risers Programme. Working to recruit and train volunteer mentors with the support of the Managing Director. 

Performance Management - Supporting the development of people

Implementing a supportive development plan for ‘Risers’ and volunteer mentors, to ensure everyone is making the most out of their involvement with Breadwinners. 

Effective Operations - Supporting the Markets

Working with the Managing Director and Markets Coordinator to support the market stalls, ensuring the logistics run smoothly, that they have the correct equipment, are adhering to the best health and safety practices, and that ‘Risers’ and volunteers are supported with training and on-hand experience to run our Market Stalls and offer excellent customer service.

Charity Impact

Working with the Managing Director to measure the positive impact of our programmes and report to funders, using different tools such as Participatory Action Research, and continuously learning from the needs and experiences of unemployed refugees in London to improve Breadwinners’ programmes.

Governance

Ensuring safeguarding and health and safety procedures are followed, with any concerns or issues reported in a timely manner. Upholding our code of conduct for all participants.

 

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following points:

• Passionate about supporting young people from refugee backgrounds, with either personal, professional or volunteering experience.
• Strong project management skills, planning tasks and activities, liaising with stakeholders and partners, supporting young people and volunteers, overseeing reporting and impact measurement, ability to adhere to governance, safeguarding and health and safety procedures.
• Experience in facilitating group sessions or training sessions for youth work or similar
• Experience working in customer service and/or an entrepreneurial or business role.
• Ability to communicate effectively with groups and individuals from different backgrounds and with varying levels of English. Comfortable communicating across different platforms (face-to-face, video call, email, WhatsApp)
• Energetic and self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of a team. Ability to motivate others and create a fun and positive environment, trying out and implementing new approaches. Ability to multitask, cover other responsibilities when needed, and delegate. A simple approach, finding quick and effective solutions to problems and setting up new processes. 
• Network and partnership building, developing and maintaining professional relationships to support the vision and mission of the organisation. Attending meetings, training etc both in person and online as required. 
• Computer literate with good knowledge of Google platform including email, calendar, drive, sheets, docs, and slides. Comfortable using Chatgpt, Salesforce and Xero.
• Good spoken and written English is essential. An understanding of additional languages, such as Arabic, Farsi or Kurdish, is a plus.   
• Experience in designing and/or delivering personal development programmes; recruiting, training, supervising and motivating young people and volunteers, is desired.

Key details:  

• Salary -  £28,000 pro rata to 2.5 days a week (20 hours).
• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), adjusted pro rata. Increased 1 week in your second year, and another one in your 3rd year.
• Flexible time and work locations (Currently the team work in the office on Wednesdays, and delivery of Risers training sessions is on Wednesday evenings.) 
• Opportunity to work directly with young people and volunteers, and make a difference in their lives and yours. 
• Contribution to the growth and direction of a new, ambitious, award-winning charity.
• Working directly with the Managing Director and programme managers alongside a supportive and passionate Board of Trustees.
• The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment.
• Appointment subject to DBS Checks. 

About Breadwinners (watch video)

Breadwinners is an ambitious grassroots charity set up in April 2016. We provide customers with the best organic artisan bread while empowering refugees through employment, work experience, training and mentoring. 

Today, Breadwinners sells the highest quality organic artisan bread on farmers' markets across London and Brighton, and through our wholesale model sourcing socially responsible corporations, restaurants and cafes. We are the first stepping stone for unemployed refugees and young people seeking asylum into a safe and supportive working environment, where they can gain the skills, confidence and experience to move into long-term work and improve their well-being. 

• We have built relationships with high-quality bakeries including, Celtic Bakery, Flour Pot and Flint Owl, who support our social cause and provide us with bread at discounted prices, allowing us to have a cost advantage. 
• We work in partnership and take referrals in London from Refugee Council, DOST, Young Roots, Voices in Exile, Hummingbird Project, Colleges and social workers. 
• We currently run 9 markets across London and 4 in Brighton. We have supported over 604 young refugees to do their first UK work experience with Breadwinners, with 91% reporting an increase in well-being after participating. 
• We have plans to grow in London, starting new markets to offer more opportunities for work experience and in the future to take the model to other UK cities.
• We adapted to COVID-19 and started a wholesale business, allowing us to provide further IT training on a new programme called “Proofers”, providing work as online sales representatives.
• We have won several Social Enterprise and Charity awards for our Impact!

People love our bread, brand and our social mission. What makes us a unique charity is the fact that we sell something people want, and this allows us to tackle the barriers refugees face to finding employment directly, by providing amazing people with the opportunity to work. You will have the chance to help scale Breadwinners to further young people across London. If you're looking for a job which you can own, which will challenge and excite you every day, while meeting incredible people and making a big difference - you've found it here. 

“We believe refugees have extraordinary potential as entrepreneurs, employees and members of local communities. We sell the best artisan organic bread to support them to build a fresh start, providing self-employment, training, and business opportunities, to become an active part of the community”

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Application information

Please apply as soon as possible, by submitting your cover letter and CV to martin@breadwinners.org.uk. Please use “Breadwinners Programme Managing Application” as the email subject. We will arrange interviews for great applicants as they come in and might offer the position before the deadline. No more applications will be taken after the 31st of December 2024. 

We actively welcome applications from people with lived and relevant experience. If you have any questions or want an informal chat about the role please call Martin Cosarinsky Campos at 07783996918.

 

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