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Community Welfare Assistant (Wales)
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Community Welfare Assistant (Wales)
Job Title: Community Welfare Assistant (Wales) Reports To: Development Manager (Wales) Location: Wales, Pontypridd (with regional travel) Salary: £18,1118 pa (£30,197 pro rata) Job Type: Part-time, Permanent Hours: Part time, 22.5 hours per week with flexibility to work during the evening when required (working days to be agreed with successful candidate)
As part of exciting growth of CISWO’s Community Welfare Service, we are expanding our dedicated regional support teams working to support and sustain miners’ welfare charities across England and Wales. These newly created roles will play a vital part in helping local miners’ welfare charities thrive by providing practical guidance, resources and training to volunteer trustees. Working closely with the Development Manager in each region, the postholders will support charities with governance, funding, financial sustainability and capacity building, ensuring they are well equipped to continue serving their communities. These roles are people-focused, involving regular engagement with local volunteer trustees, site visits, delivery of training and events, and contributing to the development of tools and resources that respond to the needs of miners’ welfare organisations. They offer a unique opportunity to be part of a growing team within the organisation and to make a meaningful impact in former coalfield communities.
Job Purpose To assist the Development Manager in providing support for local mining charities in the Wales with issues such as charity governance, funding, financial sustainability, and trustee training.
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Key Responsibilities Support the creation of tools, resources and training content to support miners’ welfare trustees manage their charities. Support the development of policies and procedure templates to enable charity trustees undertake their role effectively. Support the delivery of a range of training and networking events for miners’ welfare trustees. Undertake site visits to miners’ welfare charities across the region, meeting with local charity trustees, highlighting good practice, identifying potential areas for support, and nurturing development opportunities. In co-ordination with the Development Manager, deliver in person and online training events and forums to support local trustees to network and engage in learning opportunities. Support the gathering of evidence and information for producing internal and external funding applications. To undertake monitoring and reporting with regards funding, activity monitoring and evaluation. Support with the delivery of marketing activity to raise awareness of the support we offer for miners’ welfares, the impact we have, and attend events to raise our profile and help to promote wider CISWO services. Take an active role in ensuring CISWO holds up to date information on miners’ welfare charities. Utilise organisation databases to assist with recording, evaluation and reporting purposes to evidence the impact of our work. Attend training, staff meetings and external forums relevant to the role. Any other duties as reasonably required to meet the objectives of the organisation.
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Skills/Qualifications/Experience Essential: Experience of working in community development, charity sector or related area Experience of supporting or working with volunteers Experience of designing and delivering training Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills. Strong verbal and written communication skills, including report writing. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and data management systems. Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle. Excellent team working skills, with a strong work ethic and flexible and creative approach to service delivery. Good standard of education, with GCSE or equivalent (grade C or 4, or above) in Maths and English. Ability to work flexibly including some evening working. Desirable: Experience of funding for charitable organisations. Knowledge and understanding of former coalfield areas.
This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the jobholder and identifies the level of responsibility at which the jobholder will be required to work.
This job description may subject to review and/ or amendment at any time to reflect the requirements of the organisation.
Location Pontypridd Department Community Welfare Employment Type Part-Time Minimum Experience Experienced Compensation £18,1118 pa
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