Development Manager – Inspiring Change Manchester
- Employer
- Shelter
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £33,230-£35,860 pa plus excellent benefits (Fixed term contract until 31st March 2020)
- Closing date
- 29 Oct 2018
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- Function
- Marketing, Campaigning, Management, Business Development & Commercial, PR & Communications
- Sector
- Housing & Homelessness
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Contract
Job Details
This post is funded through Big Lottery Fund's £112m initiative to support people with multiple needs.
We’re looking for a results-driven individual with a proven ability to influence existing services in order to meet changing needs and priorities, to join us as a Development Manager and help deliver the vision and strategy of a vital city-wide initiative.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
Inspiring Change Manchester is a partnership, led by Shelter, with an ambitious vision that people who experience multiple needs can achieve significant and lasting improvements in their lives. How? By transforming the city’s systems and services. The programme involves a diverse mix of partners and stakeholders, including people with lived experience of multiple needs. We believe that people living in Manchester who have multiple and complex needs can achieve real, lasting growth and fulfilment. To make our vision possible however, we need to inspire a wide range of people across the city to change their beliefs and their behaviour. You’ll help ensure we do just that.
About the role
As well as helping the Programme Manager fulfil the Programme's vision and strategy, you’ll work with our partners to deliver the commissioned services, support service delivery and disseminate best practice. You’ll also be responsible for the marketing and communications of Inspiring Change Manchester across the partnership and sector through a variety of means, including website content and social media, often working alongside Shelter's central team. Leading and developing the co-production and membership development aspects of Inspiring Change Manchester will be important too, as will influencing commissioners to embed change.
About you
We’re looking for a proactive individual with the ability to challenge the status quo and influence system change in a services, social policy or campaigning environment. You’ll also need proven experience of managing relationships with stakeholders to drive systems and service change for people experiencing multiple and complex needs. Happy to represent Inspiring Change Manchester to multiple audiences, you have excellent analytical and communication skills and experience of using research findings and data to influence change. What’s more, you're as comfortable managing and motivating a team as you are using a range of project management tools and techniques to get the job done. And, if you can bring a strong understanding of service delivery, service design and funding, even better.
Benefits include 30 days’ annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
For further information about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Closing date: 29 October 2018 at 11.30pm
Company
The housing crisis is now a national emergency.
Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.
Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.
Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.
We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.
In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.
We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.
Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.
In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.
For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.
We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.
This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.
Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.
Polly Neate, Chief Executive
Helen Baker, Chair
- Website
- http://www.shelter.org.uk/jobs
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