Community Organiser (Newport Parent Power)

Payment: £10,520 per annum (0.4 FTE - salary is pro-rated from £26,300)

Contract: Part Time, Fixed Term until 31st July 2025

Hours: 15 hrs per week

Based: Remote, in Newport. Some travel will be required, and travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Start: Immediate 

The Organisation:

We are excited to recruit a Community Organiser for our Newport Parent Power project. This role offers a meaningful, paid professional development opportunity. The Brilliant Club will work in partnership with Jesus College, University of Oxford and King’s College London to engage with parents in Newport. The parental engagement model used will be based on the successful Parent Power South London and Oldham Parent Power projects.

Parent Power supports parents and carers to develop skills in community organising and advice and guidance on accessing higher education, empowering them to make change to support their children’s future and ensure that they have a fair chance in education and their future careers.   

The Community Organiser will:

• Support local pupils from underrepresented backgrounds by empowering their parent/carers to become higher education experts.
• Receive community organising training from Citizens UK and develop transferable skills.
• Join a nationwide community of community organisers making a significant impact on university access.

Person specification

Time and Resource Management:

• Essential – Able to plan sessions in an organised and efficient manner and adhere to agreed deadlines.
• Essential – Excellent timekeeper, ensuring prompt arrival to meetings and 1-1s; well organised within 1-1s and sessions.
• Essential – Capable of adapting quickly to new systems/ processes.
• Desirable – Confident in using digital systems for delivery of online sessions in parent meetings.
• Desirable – Experience of creating resources.

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management:

• Essential – Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Essential – Awareness of role as a visitor within a school; understanding of the other commitments held by professionals within a school and by parents/carers.
• Essential – Understanding of The Brilliant Club’s mission.
• Desirable – Prior experience of community focused work.
• Desirable – Ability to understand and relate to the barriers faced in the local Community
• Desirable – Ability to understand the barriers young people face to university access and some of the ways these might be overcome.
• Desirable – Ability to understand the current climate in the UK school system and some of the challenges young people and parent/carers might be facing.

Communication:

• Essential – Awareness of how to engage parents and adapt university style learning for a school setting.
• Essential – Able to communicate in a timely and professional way with project stakeholders.
• Essential – Able to take a relational approach to communication with parents/carers, especially in 1-1s.
• Desirable – Experience of group facilitation.

Developing Self and Others:

• Essential – Able to identify own strengths and areas for development, with an openness to feedback.

Role Specific Knowledge and Skills

• Essential – adhere to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual and complete information security training.

Role specific Experience and Qualifications

• Desirable – Holds a qualification at Level 4 or above (as listed here) or has prior experience of community focused work.

Deadline: Friday 26^th July 2024 at 9 am

Interviews: Tuesday 6th August 2024

Further Details: Please visit www.thebrilliantclub.org or email recruitment@thebrilliantclub.org

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