Role Purpose:

This role will focus on delivering the TACT mission of ‘delivering programmes and projects that make a difference to people’s lives by encouraging, supporting and promoting community action’. The Project Coordinator role is multifaceted and involves having a wide range of skills. We are looking for a resilient, flexible individual who likes working with people and has a ‘can do’ attitude. It is essential that you have the ability to build respectful, honest and trusted relationships with the beneficiaries, volunteers and our partners.

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure the ongoing development of Kindness Krew in accordance with its vision;
• Ensure Kindness Krew targets are met and delivered successfully;
• Effectively manage a portfolio of casework with competing demands and produce a quarterly report to your Line Manager;
• Contribute to the organisation’s website, bulletins, newsletters and other publications to promote the Kindness Krew Project;
• Take personal responsibility for contributing to high quality standards in customer relations, service delivery and communications;
• Work with colleagues to implement systems for measuring, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of our approaches;
• Actively seek opportunities for the ongoing development of the Kindness Krew in accordance with its vision and strategic direction.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Provide initial training for volunteers and ensure any additional training needs of volunteers are met;
• Carry out assessment for all suitable referrals involved in the Kindness Krew;
• Supervise and support pairings between beneficiaries and volunteers;
• Ensure feedback is received from both volunteers and beneficiaries after every interaction;
• Liaise with referring partners i.e. Services Access Team and Community Link Workers and attend any inter-agency meetings where necessary;
• Liaise with specialists to gain advice, support and provision of the most appropriate services for individuals involved in the Kindness Krew;
• Manage a caseload of referrals and volunteers;
• Ensure that the agreed outcomes in each assessment and plan are being met and delivered successfully;
• Maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken on internal project spreadsheet and MILO database;
• Participate in regular monitoring and evaluation of the project;
• Work as part of a team contributing to the smooth and effective running of the project;
• Attend and contribute to regular supervision sessions and team meetings, providing updates;
• Assist monitoring of budgets/financial reporting where appropriate and follow financial procedures;
• Contribute to the strategic development of the project;
• Liaise with funders and participate in funding applications and reports where appropriate;
• Carry out the duties of the post with regard to TACT policies and procedures and a clear understanding of both Child Protection and Adult Protection policy and procedures;
• Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by your line manager;
• Act in a professional and respectful manner which reflects our Code of Conduct.

Additional Duties

• Protect and enhance the organisation’s public reputation when speaking on its behalf.
• Maintain accountability for your continuous professional development by identifying personal training needs which will increase performance and are relevant to responsibilities and discuss with your Line Manager.
• Work within the framework of TACT’s ethos and policies as described in our code of conduct.

Because of the changing nature of our business your job description will inevitably change. You will, from time to time, be required to undertake other activities of a similar nature that fall within your capabilities as directed by management.

Background

Working in Saltcoats since 2014, Saltcoats Link Up has developed a unique asset-based community development approach to tackle inequality and disadvantage. It does this by enabling local people to help themselves, each other and their community.

Building on the strengths of our existing partnership on Link Up , The Ayrshire Community Trust (TACT) and Inspiring Scotland have secured an additional three-year investment to continue to develop our place-based work. This development maintains the original Link Up approach at its core but aims to establish new ways of working in which local people and organisations (public, social and commercial) collaborate to identify and develop sustainable opportunities and solutions to local issues; setting in place long-term changes that contribute to material reductions in poverty and disadvantage in Saltcoats. We seek to make these changes the ‘norm’ rather than part of a cycle of time-limited pilots and projects.

Employed by The Ayrshire Community Trust and reporting to the Saltcoats Link Up Manager, we are looking for an individual who shares our passion to make a difference and to join our Link Up team. Your focus will be on the continued development of our core Link Up approach1. You will believe in the need for social change and understand and be committed to the role that grassroots community development can play in delivering this.

The Ayrshire Community Trust are recruiting for an additional Project Worker to join The Positive Steps with Partners Project Funded by North Ayrshire Council’s Your Next Move Employability Partnership.

The role is a demanding but a rewarding role for a person with drive and initiative. The post holder will be required to work with a degree of flexibility supporting long term unemployed people of North Ayrshire in their journey towards employment.

The post holder will co-deliver a combination of in-house Personal Development Sessions, arranging partner information/training sessions, case manage volunteers and support volunteer progression onto a variety of positive destinations.

Our ideal candidate will have significant experience of working with people from various backgrounds. Such as people experiencing poor mental and physical wellbeing, low confidence low motivation, Self-belief and mindset issues and will be able to demonstrate a range of qualities, abilities and experience such as:

• Demonstrably excellent communication skills

• Strong team player skills

• A successful track record of supporting volunteers/individuals to work towards realistic and achievable goals.

• Ability to adapt to individual needs

• Experience of providing support on a 1:1 and group basis.

• The ability to manage and motivate volunteers

• Ability to network, promote project and attract new referral routes

• Work to achieve project targets

• Ability to review and evaluate progress within own practice and that of the volunteers involved

Responsible to: Lead Employability Worker

Working in Saltcoats since 2014, Saltcoats Link Up has developed a unique asset-based community development approach to tackle inequality and disadvantage. It does this by enabling local people to help themselves, each other and their community.

Building on the strengths of our existing partnership on Link Up , The Ayrshire Community Trust (TACT) and Inspiring Scotland have secured an additional three-year investment to continue to develop our place-based work. This development maintains the original Link Up approach at its core but aims to establish new ways of working in which local people and organisations (public, social and commercial) collaborate to identify and develop sustainable opportunities and solutions to local issues; setting in place long-term changes that contribute to material reductions in poverty and disadvantage in Saltcoats. We seek to make these changes the ‘norm’ rather than part of a cycle of time-limited pilots and projects.

Employed by The Ayrshire Community Trust and reporting to the TACT Executive Director, we are looking for an individual who shares our passion to make a difference and to lead our Link Up team. You will believe in the need for social change and understand and be committed to the role that grassroots community development coupled with strong local collaboration can play in delivering this.

Note: TACT and Inspiring Scotland will also be launching a second recruitment process for a Community Development Worker (reporting to the Manager) to join our Saltcoats Link Up team. This will be advertised in the next week or so.

To implement a place-based approach and deliver a high-quality service to communities and partners, with a focus on improving life chances and empowering people to make positive changes through a capacity building approach. Key work areas will be to support the Community Empowerment agenda via Community Asset Transfer (CAT).

The Community Asset Transfer (CAT) Development Officer will be part of the Third Sector Interface (TSI) Team and will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality services to the communities of North Ayrshire.

This role will focus on delivering the TACT mission of ‘delivering programmes and projects that make a difference to people’s lives by encouraging, supporting and promoting community action’. The CAT Development Officer will provide a wide range of information and support to North Ayrshire groups and organisations with an interest in Community Asset Transfer.

Please download the Job Profile for further details about the role.

Saltcoats in North Ayrshire is amongst the most deprived communities in Scotland, but recent community development activity has shown that the community has the passion, skills, knowledge, resources and motivation to turn around their fortunes. Building on the strengths of our existing partnership on Link Up*. The Ayrshire Community Trust (TACT) and Inspiring Scotland have secured investment from a range of funders to implement a potentially ground-breaking community-led approach to delivering long-term change. We continue to call this new and evolving programme, Link Up.

This development of the Link Up model maintains the original approach at its core and aims to establish new ways of working in which local people and organisations (public, social and commercial) collaborate to identify and develop sustainable opportunities and solutions to local issues; setting in place long-term changes that contribute to material reductions in poverty and disadvantage in Saltcoats. We seek to make these changes the ‘norm’ rather than part of a cycle of time-limited pilots and projects.

Employed by The Ayrshire Community Trust and reporting to the Link Up Saltcoats Manager, we are looking for an individual who shares our passion to make a difference to join our Link Up team. Your focus will be on the continued development of our core Link Up* approach. You will believe in the need for social change and understand and be committed to the role that grassroots community development can play in delivering this.