Regional Coordinator - Collective Resilience Project

Job Title: Regional Coordinator - Collective Resilience Project, North East Hub

Location: Remote, with ideal candidate based within Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham or Liverpool and the surrounding areas

Hours: Part-time

Salary: £30,000 - £31,500 FTE‍

Reports to: Siobhan Padayachee, Project Manager‍

Contact Type: Part-time 6-month contract with a probation period of 1 month, with the opportunity to extend the contract period beyond the initial 6 months.‍

Application Process:  Please send a CV with a cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position, including details of how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role to: jayne@beyondequality.org

Apply by: 15 October, 2023‍

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Beyond Equality work with men and boys towards creating gender equality, inclusive communities and healthier relationships. Over the past 10 years, we have delivered short and long-term interventions in settings including schools, workplaces, universities, prisons, professional sports, amateur sports, and government institutions. We have co-hosted international conversations on the topic, advised multiple parliamentary committees, and led leading research into the field. But our bread & butter, and the heart of our organisation are our workshops that have reached over 90,000 people.

We currently have an exciting Movember-funded project which will launch 6 new ‘Men's Health Hubs’ across the UK, ensuring we can reach more men with our impactful work. For each hub, we will be training a group of local Lead Facilitators to deliver bespoke workshops focused on masculinity, and mental health, to men within local community groups who may otherwise not be able to access such workshops.

We are looking for a Regional Coordinator to help build this project across the UK. This person will form a key part of the Beyond Equality team, helping to create and run the regional hub in Newcastle. This role will be a remote-working position, but due to the nature of the work, the ideal candidate will be based within Manchester, or Leeds, or Birmingham, or Liverpool & the surrounding areas, with knowledge of and networks within the local area.

The main duties of the role, are;

• Outreach
• Outreach to your existing network to find potential Lead Facilitators, and Community Groups interested in participating in our project
• Researching and reaching out to new contacts
• Recruitment drive to secure new Lead Facilitators
• Promotion of the workshop series to Community Groups
• Coordination
• Secure venues for training
• Coordinate facilitator training and onboarding - from arranging logistics, liaising with Beyond Equality trainers, distributing resources and updating training records
• Coordinate workshops - liaise with community groups, and facilitators to schedule and ensure smooth running of workshops
• Distribution of monitoring & evaluation surveys to community groups
• Project Administration & Reporting
• Fortnightly meetings with the Partnerships Coordinator or Project Manager
• Update “Hub progress tracker”

Required Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Access to an existing network of local youth workers, coaches, youth and community organisations OR the ability to find and build relationships with these key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of the local Newcastle area and the issues affecting men locally
• Comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, and holding telephone/video meetings
• Strong relationship-building skills
• Strong coordination skills
• General administration skills, comfortable using Gmail, Excel or Google spreadsheets, Zoom and Microsoft Teams
• Good email management skills

Desirable:

• Experience working with men, with a good understanding of issues men face, including masculinity and mental health
• Have worked in a community setting
• Experience leading and facilitating workshops or mentoring with young people/young adults
• Understanding of anti-oppressive practice, particularly around gender
• Comfortable using Canva or other creative software templates

Personal abilities

• Good communicator
• Well organised
• Interest in and ability to engage critically with men’s issues
• Able to work proactively, and hold yourself accountable to drive work forwards
• Comfortable liaising with a remote working team
• Accurate record keeping

Equal Opportunities

Beyond Equality values diversity and inclusion and we have worked to create an application process that is as accessible as possible, however, we still recognise that there is maybe more we can do especially for applicants who are minoritised in society, have specific accessibility needs and/or experience discrimination. If this is the case we are happy and open to discussing better ways to support your candidacy and make this application process as equitable as possible for you.

We’re open to non-conventional experience and expertise. People from communities which traditionally experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or immigration status; women; new parents; people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people are encouraged to apply.

We are a diverse organisation and welcome everyone but it is important to note that the intersections of your identity will not increase or affect the amount of labour you are asked to do. If you wish to draw on your own lived experiences that will be both encouraged and supported but it is not nor ever will be a prerequisite of this role. ‍

This is a hybrid/ working-from-home position and working hours are equivalent to 3 days per week with flexible working available.