Advice Workshop Facilitator (Peer Support)
Our new national Peer Support Service is working with thousands of kinship carers and kinship carer volunteers to create a network of support groups across England. Funded by the Department for Education, this new service is game changing for kinship carers. The support groups enable kinship carers to connect with other kinship carers, and offer them a safe space to share experiences, learn from each other and provide emotional support.
To support the peer support service, our specialist Advice Team offer expert information and advice to support groups through facilitating themed online workshops. You’ll be responsible for designing and delivering these workshops. You’ll also provide advice to carers on a one-to-one basis on the phone or online.
We’re particularly looking for someone with knowledge of advice enquiry areas such as welfare benefits, financial support, housing, employment, children’s services, childcare and/or education.
You’ll also be a confident and engaging presenter. Ideally you’ll have experience running online advice workshops, but if you have other transferable experience, please ensure you demonstrate this in your application.
There are up to three roles available for 21 – 35 hours per week depending on the requirements of the candidate. We can be flexible around when these hours are worked.
Salary: £22,603 per annum (out of London); £25,735 (including London weighting) (pro rata if part-time).
Working hours: 21-35 hours per week depending on candidate preference
Location: Home-based with occasional travel across England
Duration: 16-month contract (with potential for extension, depending on funding)
Closing date: 2pm on Wednesday 31 August
Interview dates: Wednesday 7 September
To apply: Please provide a CV and a 1-2 page cover statement addressing these four questions:
- Why do you want to work for Kinship?
- How does your experience match what we’re looking for?
- What are you most proud of in your career so far?
- What’s your ‘why’? (What motivates you at work)
Please send to recruitment@kinship.org.uk, along with a completed Equal Opportunities form (at bottom of page) by 2pm on Wednesday 31 August.
Team Coordinator (Peer Support)
We’re looking for a Team Coordinator to join our brand-new peer support service.
We’re particularly looking for someone who is a true team player, a highly organised people person with a positive can-do attitude.
Our team are all new – 18 people have been recruited into the service over recent months, so you’d be joining a welcoming team which is still in development – you could learn and grow with us.
If you are a kinship carer, or have caring responsibilities, this is a role you can make work around your other commitments. We are an incredibly flexible organisation.
Ideally, you’ll have experience supporting a large team with administration. But if you have other transferable experience, please ensure you demonstrate this in your application.
Salary: £19,774 per annum (out of London); £23,000 (including London weighting) pro rata if part-time.
Working hours: 21-35 hours per week depending on candidate preference (pro rata if part-time)
Location: Home-based with occasional travel across England
Duration: 16-month contract (with potential for extension, depending on funding)
Closing date: 11.59pm on Wednesday 24 August
Interview dates: Interviews will be scheduled as and when suitable candidates are identified
To apply: Please provide a CV and a 1-2 page cover statement addressing these four questions:
- Why do you want to work for Kinship?
- How does your experience match what we’re looking for?
- What are you most proud of in your career so far?
- What’s your ‘why’? (What motivates you at work)
Please send to recruitment@kinship.org.uk, along with a completed Equal Opportunities form (at bottom of page) by 11.59pm on Wednesday 24 August.
Project Worker – Kinship Reach (Nottinghamshire)
As project worker, you will deliver our remote support service, primarily across Nottinghamshire, in close collaboration with local authority staff.
You will provide remote one-to-one support for special guardians and other kinship carers within local authorities who have commissioned Kinship Reach. The post holder will provide remote one-to-one support to kinship carers, including digital up-skilling and developing and facilitating virtual peer support groups.
Salary: £23,500 per annum (out of London); £26,632 (including London weighting) pro rata.
Working hours: 14 hours (2 days) per week
Location: Home-based
Duration: 12-month contract until 30 Sep 2023, with potential for extension dependent on funding
Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 30 August
Interview dates: Interviews will be scheduled as and when suitable candidates are identified. Final interviews w/c 7 September.
Start date: Ideally October 2022
To apply: Please send a CV, 1-2 page cover statement and Equal Opportunities form (at bottom of page) to recruitment@kinship.org.uk by 9am on Tuesday 30 August.
Media and Communications Manager
We are looking for a Media and Communications Manager who will help to grow brand awareness and increase its impact in securing support and recognition for kinship carers.
The main responsibilities of the role include managing the Kinship press office, both responding to reactive requests as well as developing and implementing proactive PR strategies. You will draft press releases, pitch stories to journalists and spot opportunities to raise Kinship’s profile in response to external developments. You will also help to develop and maintain the organisation’s brand identity across all channels, develop and manage the organisations social media strategy and contribute to the development of performance indicator. All of this work will be with the overall mission of shaping and delivering strategies to raise awareness and understanding of kinship care and the urgency of the cause.
To be successful as a Media and Communications Manager, you will have demonstrable experience in developing integrated communications strategies across media, PR and social and leading communications projects, in a similar managerial position or as a senior officer who is now ready for the next challenge. You will have a proven track record in achieving positive coverage in a range of relevant media, developing content and media strategy for a range of different audiences and channels and of building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Overall, you will have exceptional written and spoken skills and a commitment to inspire action and drive change.
Salary: £34,775-£36,775 per annum (out of London); £38,000-£40,000 in London (including London weighting) pro rata.
Working hours: Full-time (flexible, working minimum of 28 hours/per week considered – pro rata)
Location: London office-based (Vauxhall), but would consider remote for the right candidate
Duration: Permanent
Closing date: 11.59pm on Sunday 14 August
Interview dates: Friday 19 August and w/c 22 August
To apply: For further information and to apply, please follow this link to our recruitment partner, Prospect-us.
Policy and Public Affairs Manager
We are looking for a Policy and Public Affairs Manager who will play a pivotal role in enabling Kinship to secure significant changes to policy legislation in line with their mission.
The main responsibilities of this role include developing policy positions that are rooted in Kinship’s insights and evidence to secure tangible and transformative changes to policy and practice. You will produce policy position papers, briefings and reports for key decision makers, government officials and politicians. You will project manage Kinship’s two annual surveys, represent the organisation at events, and draft responses to policy consultations. You will also help develop the organisation’s influencing and external affairs strategy, monitor parliamentary activity and identify areas for influencing.
To be successful as a Policy and Public Affairs Manager, you will have demonstrable experience of policy development and delivering policy and/or public affairs initiatives. You will have a track record of integrating policy and public affairs work for maximum impact and be an excellent project manager, able to build strong relationships with various people at all levels. Overall, you will have great understanding of UK political systems, an ability to create focussed and ambitious influencing strategies.
Salary: £34,775-£36,775 per annum (out of London); £38,000-£40,000 in London (including London weighting) pro rata.
Working hours: Full-time (flexible, working minimum of 28 hours/per week considered – pro rata)
Location: London office-based (Vauxhall), but would consider remote for the right candidate
Duration: Permanent
Closing date: 11.59pm on Sunday 14 August
Interview dates: Friday 19 August and w/c 22 August
To apply: For further information and to apply, please follow this link to our recruitment partner, Prospect-us.
Equality and Diversity
Kinship is committed to inclusivity and representing the diversity of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community. Applicants will be treated fairly throughout the recruitment process and we will ensure there is no unfair discrimination on the basis of race, ethnic origin, disability, gender, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation or any other relevant characteristic. We are actively seeking applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants who are currently under-represented in the charity. Kinship encourage those with kinship care experience to consider applying for roles throughout the organisation and we will guarantee interviews to any kinship care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
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