Community Engagement Officers - North of Scotland
- Full time or Part time
- £25,000 – £28,000
- Remote with travel
- Closing 26th February 2024
- Advertised from 12th February 2024
- Contract: Temporary, 18 months. Salary pro rata for part time posts.
Role
Are you passionate about supporting young people? Can you delve deep into local networks and find people who want to champion our young people through volunteering? Are you searching for a role where you can make a real difference? Where your time can be transformational?
MCR Pathways is a transformational secondary school mentoring and talent development programme supporting over 5000+ care experienced and other vulnerable young people experiencing disadvantage to realise their full potential through education. MCR’s programme dramatically improves educational achievement, wellbeing and post-school destinations.
At its heart, MCR's model is relationship-based mentoring that has evolved into an integrated programme supporting primary school transition and delivering weekly group work in the first two years of secondary school. Young people from 3rd year upwards are carefully matched with a volunteer, trained mentor, to meet in school, one-to-one, on a weekly basis. Young people also have the opportunity to access talent taster employability, further and higher education experiences.
We’re looking for 2 Community Engagement Officers who wants to be an integral part of our programme in the North of Scotland based in:
- Lochaber
- North Aberdeenshire (Banff, Fraserburgh, Huntly, Mintlaw, Peterhead and Turriff).
You will complement our national and regional approaches to marketing and partnership building, by focussing on engagement work at a local level and in close collaboration with your local MCR school(s) and our Pathways Coordinators based there.
The role will involve hybrid working. This means there is some home working but you must be able to work in person on the ground and in schools in your designated area. You must also be willing to undertake occasional travel across the north region to meet with colleagues and attend training as required.
Job Purpose
The Community Engagement Officer will support our school teams to make real, substantive change for the better for our young people. Your role is to truly engage at the grassroots level and stay connected to, and have a presence in the area you serve. It is a diverse role in which you’ll need to be a talented and organised multi-tasker: you could be peppering a local area with a new marketing campaign one day, and presenting to the local faith community the next. You’ll be the focal point for local awareness and information events, and you’ll be training those mentors coming through our recruitment pipeline in your local area. You’ll need to be able to support your local Pathways Coordinator in school in the event of absence, ensuring that mentoring relationships are organised and supported in their absence.
You will need to be a flexible person for this role. You’ll need to read beyond the job description and help us do whatever it takes to reach our MCR vision. As we try to unlock the potential of young people, no matter their circumstances, we work collectively as a team to unlock our potential, no matter our circumstances. The year has its peaks and troughs across our different teams, so sometimes you’ll be called on to focus on one area over another. Working together as a community will help us achieve our vision easier and faster across the North of Scotland.
Please note: A driving licence and having a vehicle available for work is essential for this role. You will be reimbursed for all work related mileage.
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Closing Date: Monday 26th February 2024 at 9am
Pathways Coordinator – Blairgowrie High School
- Full time
- £24,600
- On site: Blairgowrie
- Closing 10th January 2025
We are looking for a Pathways Coordinator at Blairgowrie High School, to work with young people, mentors and school staff involved in our programme.
About the role:
You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.
Key responsibilities:
- Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.
- Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
- Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.
- Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.
About you:
- Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors and local employers.
- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.
- Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.
- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need.
- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.
- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.
You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain in self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
We are looking for a Strategic Communications Lead to develop and implement our communications strategy, engaging a wide variety of audiences. Collaborating across teams, you’ll oversee media relations, storytelling, digital campaigns and stakeholder engagement to ensure MCR’s voice is heard by a wide variety of audiences and inspires action.
About the role:
The Strategic Communications Lead oversees a small communications and campaigns team to create, build and deliver spectacular multi platform campaigns and communications activities. The role is crucial in managing both internal and external communications, enhancing public engagement, supporting partnerships staff in mentor recruitment and supporting fundraising activity aligned with the mission of bridging the education, skills and opportunity gap for Scotland's most disadvantaged young people. The role involves strategic thinking, creativity, operational planning and delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver an integrated communications strategy aligned with our goals.
- Lead media relations, securing impactful coverage and managing key relationships.
- Oversee content creation, including digital, social media, and campaigns, ensuring consistent messaging.
- Act as brand guardian, ensuring clarity and cohesion in all communications.
- Provide strategic advice to leadership on key messaging and public engagement opportunities.
- Powering our drive to be recognised nationally, and loved locally and regionally in the communities we serve.
About you:
You’ll have a proven track record in strategic communications, media relations, and campaign delivery, ideally within the charity sector. A skilled communicator and collaborator, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a passion for delivering positive change for young people. You’ll have a relevant portfolio of work that shows your passion for high quality communications and impactful creative output.
About us:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity with a passionate team dedicated to helping the UK’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential through mentoring. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our relationship-based mentoring is transformative and has profound positive impacts on young people in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. All MCR mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also volunteer mentors.
Associate Minister – Aberdeen South Parish
- Full time
- £31,642 – £38,884
- On site: Associate Minister – Aberdeen South Parish
- Closing 13th January 2025
Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.
We are looking for someone to support the Parish Minister and ministry team, providing ministry, worship and pastoral care in the parish; with a particular focus on pioneering new forms of worship or fresh expressions of church across the communities of the parish.
It is essential you have the right to work in the UK before applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.
Top job! Director of Studies - Faith Action
- Full time
- £50,584 – £55,965
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 7th January 2025
We have a new and innovative post which will work on our Initial Ministerial Education (IME) programme with the opportunity to shape courses, conferences and policy. You will be responsible for ensuring that our academic courses for our trainee ministers and deacons are meeting the Church of Scotland needs and reflective of the demands of modern ministry. As you will be working closely with our Lead Academic Partner you will bring your own experience of theological study alongside a track record of delivering a training and/or education training programme.
Bringing strong interpersonal skills including influence and negotiation combined with your knowledge of the workings of the Church of Scotland and its training and formation will allow you to lead and advise on our new IME programme.
The postholder is required to be a committed Christian with a live Church connection which is a Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010.
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