The UK’s leading interfaith organisation is looking for an organised programmes officer.
The Faith & Belief Forum has worked for over 20 years to build good relations between people of all faiths and beliefs, and to create a society where difference is celebrated. Our vision is a connected and supportive society where people of different faiths, beliefs and cultures have strong and lasting relations.
To achieve this vision, we create spaces in schools, universities, workplaces, and the wider community where people from different faiths, beliefs or cultures can meet and learn from each other. We reach over 16,000 people a year in the UK through our programmes. This kind of direct contact between people is often the most effective way to tackle prejudice and challenge stereotypes – and create understanding and trust between people.
Job Purpose: To work with the Youth Voice & Universities team to deliver F&BF’s programmes and projects.
Salary: Band B
Contract: Permanent
Location: Remote within the UK, with availability to travel to universities for meetings and to travel to London once a month for staff meetings
Hours: 22.5 hours/week including occasional evening meetings
Reports to: Senior Programmes Coordinator
Duties and Responsibilities
All activities will be undertaken in collaboration with the Youth Voice & Universities team.
Delivery
- To support delivery of the UN award-winning ParliaMentors programme (2 days per week):
- Being responsible for 4-5 teams of university students.
- Supporting 20-25 students by: conducting coaching calls with individual students where you offer support and guidance; conducting sessions to support the teams with their social action projects and identifying areas for development; conducting sessions to work through any team dynamic issues that arise.
- Developing session plans and facilitating workshops related to social action, politics, leadership and interfaith.
- Administrative and logistical support at workshops and major events (e.g., room bookings, processing reimbursements, coordinating student travels).
- Collecting information and case studies for a range of outputs.
- To support delivery of Youth Voice work (1 day per week):
- Working closely with Youth Voice team to deliver programming for alumni of the ParliaMentors programme, including the Research and Policy project.
- Planning and delivering the annual Youth Interfaith Summit.
- Identifying and facilitating partnerships between alumni network and other relevant organizations.
- Collecting information and case studies for a range of outputs.
- To perform administrative and logistical tasks using agreed processes and conventions including planning, activity/event delivery, finance, tracking expenditure.
- To monitor and evaluate delivery, and to assist with the creation of those procedures.
- To follow a schedule of reporting requirements for own project and leading on the production of those reports.
- To contribute towards departmental and organisational reports e.g., by providing data and case studies.
- To contribute towards strategy development for F&BF programmes
- To observe delivery to ensure quality control (where appropriate)
Communications & Stakeholders
- To be an ambassador for F&BF, helping raise awareness of the programme and the whole organisation through speaking about our work in public, social media, writing articles/blogs (primarily related to departmental activities).
- To contribute towards external marketing and communications for the youth voice and universities programmes, and organisational communications (e.g., event publicity, brochures, exhibition guides, newsletter, social media)
- To be involved with relevant F&BF Policy initiatives
- To develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and maintain the database of contacts.
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