CLASS has two exciting new roles available to support the deepening and broadening of the Community Savers network, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and the Tudor Trust.
We are recruiting a full-time Senior Development Worker and a part-time Finance and Operations Manager: please read on for further details and consider helping us achieve our aims by circulating these exciting opportunities through your networks!
Senior Development Worker **Deadline extended to Monday 14 March**
Community Led Action and Savings Support (CLASS) is looking for a Senior Development Worker to join our small and dynamic team.
CLASS is a charitable support agency for Community Savers: a network of majority women-led and neighbourhood-based community groups who are reducing poverty and inequality in our neighbourhoods, towns, and cities.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to community-driven development and wellbeing in North Manchester: supporting community associations to realise collective visions for their local areas; and deepening and broadening the reach and impact of the Community Savers network.
You will work in alliance with the Community Savers leadership, members of Miles Platting Community and Age-Friendly Network (MP-CAN), the CLASS Director, and other local partners to take forward plans for the protection and improvement of green space, the development of local community facilities, and capacity-building and skills-development of local community leaders. You will develop new relationships and connections across Manchester in support of regular community learning exchange and the mobilisation of new savings groups and associational networks.
About you:
You will be passionate about social justice and championing community expertise and have a compassionate, non-judgemental approach to working with others. You will have a strengths-based orientation with considerable drive, energy and determination to succeed.
Other knowledge, skills and experience you will need include but are not limited to:
- An excellent working knowledge of the context for community working in neighbourhoods where people have experienced long-term economic, social and political exclusion.
- Experience of translating resident/community-led ideas and visions into practical projects that deliver improvement.
- Experience of networking with statutory and non-statutory organisations to create new opportunities for resident-led community groups.
- Excellent active listening and interpersonal skills including conflict mediation.
- Experience of taking an enabling approach to the facilitation of resident-led community meetings, projects and partnerships.
About the role:
Job Title: Senior Development Worker
Salary: £27,741 – £29,577
Working commitment: Full-time
Contract: Fixed term for 2 years
Location: Working from home or in community settings in Greater Manchester
Benefits:
- 28 days annual leave in addition to public holidays
- Attractive workplace pension scheme
- Flexible employer sensitive to the needs of today’s workforce
- Commitment to continued professional development
This work will involve regular local travel and occasional national travel.
If you have the knowledge, skills and experience we need to advance our social justice goals then we would love to hear from you.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented women; including women from working-class backgrounds; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women; and women with disabilities.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to any stage of our recruitment and selection process, please email us at recruitment@class-uk.com. The application pack and form can be made available on request in alternative formats, where reasonable and practical.
>Download Application Pack
>Download Application Form
Please contact recruitment@class-uk.com to request an application pack by email.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
In accordance with CLASS policy and relevant legislation we will ask the successful candidate to be screened by the Disclosure and Barring Service. However, a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to your being able to take up the job.
Finance and Operations Manager
(Now closed to applications)
Community Led Action and Savings Support (CLASS) is looking for a Finance and Operations Manager to join our small and dynamic team. This is an interesting and varied role with attractive benefits.
CLASS is a charitable support agency for Community Savers: a network of majority women-led and neighbourhood-based community groups who are reducing poverty and inequality in our neighbourhoods, towns, and cities.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the growth and development of CLASS and the Community Savers network by ensuring we have the financial and operational systems in place to remain agile and effective in our provision of support and community benefit as the Community Savers network expands.
You will work closely with the CLASS Director, the Board of Trustees and the Community Savers leadership to plan, manage and monitor annual and project budgets, prepare management accounts, manage our day-to-day operations including policy review and implementation, and provide capacity-building support on financial governance to community groups.
About you:
You will have a commitment to advancing social justice, a compassionate co-working approach, and excellent attention to detail. Other experience and skills you will need include:
- Management-level accounting experience within a charity setting including processing payroll and pension contributions.
- AAT Level 3 qualification or above, or equivalent professional experience.
- Sound technical knowledge of current accounting regulations, and accounting software such as Xero and Quickbooks or similar.
- Ability to present financial information in a clear and concise manner to non-financial colleagues and community groups.
- Experience of monitoring, evaluation and reporting for charitable projects, and organisational policy development.
- Experience of developing effective systems for human resource management.
- Experience of supervising volunteers.
- Ability to work quickly and accurately under time pressure.
About the role:
Position: Finance and Operations Manager
Location: Greater Manchester (home-working desirable)
Salary: £11,097-£11,831 (£27,741-£29,577 pro rata)
Working commitment: 15 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term for two years
Closing Date: 5pm, Friday 4 March 2022
Interviews: Wednesday 23 or Thursday 24 March 2022
Benefits:
- 28 days annual leave in addition to public holidays (on a pro-rata basis)
- Attractive workplace pension scheme
- Flexible employer sensitive to the needs of today’s workforce
- Commitment to continued professional development
This work will involve some local travel within Greater Manchester and occasional national travel.
If you have the commitment, skills, and experience to develop and manage the financial and operational systems we need to advance our social justice goals then we would love to hear from you.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented women; including women from working-class backgrounds; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women; and women with disabilities.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to any stage of our recruitment and selection process, please email us at recruitment@class-uk.com. The application pack and form can be made available on request in alternative formats, where reasonable and practical.
>Download Application Pack
>Download Application Form
Please contact recruitment@class-uk.com to request an application pack by email.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
In accordance with CLASS policy and relevant legislation we will ask the successful candidate to be screened by the Disclosure and Barring Service. However, a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to your being able to take up the job.
Community Led Action and Savings Support – Registered Charity No. 1188480
