This Girl Can Newcastle Coordinator for Rise

Contract Type: Fixed term

Role Type: Employment

Hours: Full time

Application deadline: Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 00:00

Based: Hybrid

Salary: £29,536 to 34,079 Per Annum

Salary Type: Salary Scale

Location: Tyne and Wear

Role description: Project Support

The role is initially funded for 15 months but may be continued depending on future funding and programme efficacy.

Rise is a leading North East charity with a vision to create a higher quality of life for communities that need it the most in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear. Our purpose, which sets out how we intend to achieve that vision, is to help our partners to unlock the power of physical activity and collectively effect long-term system change in order to positively impact more lives across our region. We want to enable our partners to see things differently, work smarter, and maximise their results using physical activity. 

Applicants will be interested to know that we have recently completed a 12- month trial of a 4-day working week, where full time employees worked for 30 hours per week between Monday and Thursday, rather than the contractual 37 hours format from Monday to Friday (with no change in salary). The trial was so successful in terms of maintaining full time productivity whilst ensuring a good work/life balance, that we have now adopted this way of working moving forward, with an annual review to ensure it is still working for everyone. If you join us, you will be eligible to opt-in to a 4-day working week. 

Our culture is important to us so we are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.  

Our values are: 

Catalyse change: we believe that change is possible and we’re ready to lead the exploration; 

Positively disrupt: to challenge the norm and cause radical change through innovation and learning; and 

Collaborate: together we are greater than the sum of our parts. People make the change. 

Do you share these values? If so, read on… 

Our behaviours 

Our values support our vision, shape our culture, and reflect how we work and behave. What that means to us as individuals, and how we demonstrate this is through our Behavioural Framework. This sets out the positive behaviours we advocate at Rise and the associated negative behaviours we repudiate. Adopting these positive ways of working makes Rise a great place to work.   

Equality, diversity and inclusion at Rise 

Rise is committed to providing equal opportunities for all.  We wish to increase the diversity of our staff and welcome applicants from all sections of the community, particularly from people with disabilities and those from ethnically diverse backgrounds, as these groups are currently under-represented within our workforce. We welcome requests for flexible working, including part-time working or job sharing. 

About the role

The role will coordinate the This Girl Can Newcastle programme on behalf of the programme partners (Rise and Newcastle City Council).

The two key objectives of the programme are:

• to create a network of voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations and volunteers who can own and empower appropriate and accessible physical activity opportunities for women and girls in Newcastle;
• and to upskill professionals within services relevant to women and girls in the city (e.g. Family Hubs) and leisure operators to be advocates for physical activity through both their interactions with women and girls and how they practically support more women and girls to use their community assets and services.

The role is initially funded for 15 months but may be continued depending on future funding and programme efficacy.

How to apply 

Further information is available in the Recruitment Pack for the role

All applications must be submitted to recruitment@wearerise.co.uk using the application form in the recruitment pack. Please note CVs will not be accepted.  .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role please email jade.scott@wearerise.co.uk