Internal Content & Communications Creator
- Full time
- £23,400
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 22nd November 2024
- Advertised from 14th November 2024
- Hours per week: 37.5 Contract Duration: 12 months fixed term
Role
Introduction
People are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Day-by-day, person-to-person, we tailor what we offer to what people need. We’re here to provide consistent, friendly and informed support so people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards a positive future. We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences to our team – including those who have lived through homelessness. To make a difference, we need to work flexibly, with everyday leadership, humour and a ‘can do’ spirit. We want to make it easy, make it right, and make it happen – not only for the people we support but also for each other. Our #OneTeam ethos is at the core of who we are, and it means caring for and supporting each other regardless of our role, service, or location. This is how we roll. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland family.
Step into your career with the unique opportunity to join our Learning and Development team and support us to evolve our digital training content and improve internal communication.
Job Summary
Our Internal Content Creator will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and delivering engaging and impactful e-learning content that supports the organisation's mission of providing services to individuals experiencing homelessness. This role will involve collaborating with subject matter experts, including our staff, those we support and experience homelessness, and other stakeholders, to create innovative and effective e-learning modules that align with our organisational goals and values.
Another exciting element of this role is the opportunity to take part in leadership training funded by The Rank Foundation called Time to Shine. The programme will allow the successful candidate to develop their leadership potential, skills, and talent. Please click here for more information.
Job Purpose
We take pride in offering our staff invaluable opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills in alignment with our values and processes. Recognising our work's unique psychological and trauma-informed nature, we plan to co-develop training programs that reflect our practice by incorporating the insights of individuals with lived or current experiences. Our Internal Content Creator will collaborate with the Head of Learning and Development to explore and create specialised training to engage and motivate staff, equipping them with the skills needed to deliver safer services for people experiencing homelessness.
You will report to the Head of Learning and Development, work in harmony with the wider team, and look outwardly to develop your practice area in partnership with the Rank Foundation through the Time to Shine Programme. Participation in the programme will include attending leadership programme events, requiring travel across the UK and staying away from home. It is essential our Time to Shine leader attends all of the events throughout the year: Please click here for more information.
Key Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities in this post are as follows:
Content Development:
Develop and create high-quality e-learning content that effectively delivers learning objectives, including interactive modules, simulations, and assessments.
Collaborate with our staff and the people we support to ensure the accuracy and relevance of content, particularly on the subjects of homelessness, harm reduction and health conditions.
Utilise instructional design principles and adult learning theories to create engaging and effective e-learning experiences.
Project Management:
Manage e-learning projects from start to finish, including planning, development, and deployment.
Meet deadlines and adhere to project timelines.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Technical Skills:
Willingness to learn how to use LMS systems to create new e-learning content for our staff team.
Familiarity with video editing software and tools or willingness to learn.
Use AI to create content from existing Best Practice Guides.
Accessibility:
Ensure all e-learning content is accessible to learners with disabilities, adhering to accessibility standards.
You have additional responsibilities to align with our values:
Warmth and Regard
Recognising and valuing everyone (Equality and Diversity)
Treating people with kindness, dignity and respect
Acting with compassion
Showing warmth and welcome to everyone
Taking difficult decisions sensitively and with due regard to others
Taking a calm, professional and intelligent approach to stigma
Inclusion and Participation
Encouraging the participation and inclusion of people we support
Exploring choices and options with people we support or fellow colleagues
Making things easy for others
Embracing technology in delivering your role
Supporting people we support, staff and volunteers to become digitally included
Personalised and Creative
Innovation and creativity
Helping to find solutions that are a good fit for someone, irrespective of who they are or the problem they have
When someone isn’t at their best, quickly recognise there’s probably something else going on, and find ways to respond with care
Supportive and Ambitious
Helping to bring hope through our words and actions
Helping to build trust
Being supportive and showing care
Partnership and Collaboration
Fostering positive relationships with our partners
Building team togetherness and collaboration
Fostering a positive problem-solving vibe
Leadership and Learning
Making things happen
Motivating and inspiring others
Taking time to reflect on what’s working and what isn’t
Taking care of our ‘places and spaces’ so they feel tidy and welcoming
Asking for help and learning to do things better
Playing an active role in our social media strategy
*These core digital responsibilities are part of every role at the Simon Community.
Digital inclusion is embedded as part of our service delivery. Some of the people we support need to gain experience and knowledge of the internet and using email. If you are in a frontline role, you will be expected to help them connect, understand, and be safe, as well as promote digital inclusion for people unable to access the benefits of the online world. As a team member, you are also expected to be an ‘active learner’ yourself and support colleagues’ digital learning (e.g. sharing tips or advice on using our systems), so that we all get better at using digital tools.
Our digital platform is a key part of our working environment.Our operating platform is Google Workspace, a cloud-based system that allows you to share files, collaborate, communicate, meet, and access the organisation remotely. We will provide you with a Chromebook and Android smartphone to do this. Our Management Information System (MIS) is Netsuite. You will be trained in using Netsuite and its applications. Our Human Resources system is HiBob. You will be trained on how to access HiBob and use it effectively throughout your time with us. We have a team intranet—the IMPACT Platform—for updates, resources, and ‘all things Simon’.
Sharing our work publicly helps to change society’s misconceptions about homelessness and generate support.We use various forms of social media to inform, communicate, gather support and share what we do, including websites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We expect everyone to share what we do through various media outlets – e.g. helping to create blogs, videos, social media posts, information pieces and news items. This helps people understand what we do better understand homelessness. This helps grow public empathy for the people we support. We also get a huge amount of support from people and organisations, so we want to share what we do as a result of that support.
Application notes
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Closing date: 22 November, 2024
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.
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.
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- Full time or Part time
- £27,813
- Hybrid: oOffice based in Alloa, travel across locations within Forth Valley
- Closing 10th January 2025
Job Purpose: To provide an Emotional Support Service to children and families who have been impacted by childhood abuse.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To provide emotional support to children and families who have been impacted by childhood abuse
Qualifications and Skills
It is essential to hold a relevant qualification (e.g. counselling, psychology, social care or health, social work) and/or have experience of delivering emotional support work to children and/or families.
You should have experience and/or knowledge of working with children and/ or families who have experienced childhood abuse.
A qualification and/or training in working with trauma and abuse and experience of delivering group work to children and/or adults is desirable.
Reporting to:Team Leader: Children and Families Team
Prison Recovery Development Officer
- Full time
- £29,500
- On site: Glasgow with regular travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 14th January 2025
Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a pro-active, team player to join the team to work within our Prison and Healthcare project.
As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), reporting to the Prison Recovery Development Lead. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work within Scottish Prisons establishments developing and promoting peer lead recovery initiatives, creating a culture of recovery across the Scottish prison service by supporting the development of an operational approach to the “Recovery from Within” project, which works in collaboration with all stakeholders and promotes a person-centred approach to Recovery
The role involves facilitate groups delivering SRC’s “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents and staff across the prison service with a focus on developing community assets and supporting sustainable peer led Recovery development within prisons.
Your role will be to:
· Facilitate the delivery of SRC “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents, staff and partners developing greater awareness of the experience of addiction and recovery within key institutions
· Build relationships that will support the continuum of recovery for residents which compliments the core work and traditional approaches of prisons, substance use services, criminal justice and healthcare systems.
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