RAFT CASUAL WORKER: TUTOR TEAM LEADER (INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CAFE)

Job Description

Terms and Conditions 

Casual worker contract

6 hours per week

Salary: £12.60 per hour

Fixed-term contract to 31/03/2026 (option to extend, pending funding)

Based at the International Welcome Cafe, Alive Lincoln Central, with home-based administration

You will have access to the Acts Trust Office at Beaumont Manor

Some travel may be required (eg: networking meetings)

Description

Act Trust is a dynamic Lincoln-based charity founded by Alive Church with a mission to Empower People to End Poverty. To fulfil our mission we mobilise volunteers and run projects which are constantly adapting and developing. These currently include:

• Lincoln Foodbank: Providing emergency food for people in crisis
• Restore Programme: Supporting people to overcome poverty causes through skills and knowledge development (Life Skills, Money Management, Employability, Wellbeing and International Welcome Cafe)
• Energize: Support young people to raise their aspirations, improve their life choices and reduce the risk of exclusion
• Night Light Cafes: Providing safe spaces every day of the week to support people’s mental health 
• Community Grocery: Providing low cost food shopping for membership, alongside support

We are a passionate and determined team who love to learn and serve together. And with 15 years of experience working in the City, we are a bold, empowering and reputable force for good.

The role of the RAFT Casual Worker: Tutor Team Leader is to lead the ESOL teaching team at the International Welcome Cafe (IWC). This will involve running one of the teaching groups while supporting the team in the delivery of the other teaching groups. Preparation for the groups and informal training will form part of the role, as will representing the IWC at occasional meetings and events. The IWC is an Alive Lincoln Central community group, and so part of the role will be to liaise with the Community Worker to support them as they lead the group.

You will be part of the internal RAFT department (Restore And Food Teams) which currently includes Lincoln Foodbank, the Restore Programme and Lincoln Community Grocery. You will be line managed by the RAFT Services Manager.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Delivery and Team Leading

• Planning and delivering the Beginners group
• Overseeing the availability of tutors and checking all teaching groups are covered
• Leading and liaising with other ESOL tutors and supporting them with any preparation and printing of materials
• Organising team meetings for the tutors
• Planning and delivering informal ESOL training (for volunteers leading ESOL groups), including trauma-informed practice and secondary/vicarious trauma
• Advertising other providers’ events as required, which invariably involves printing their advertising (e.g. LEAN, Lincoln College, Family Learning, Lincoln City Foundation)
• Managing a £1,000 budget from the East Midlands Grant Budget (mainly for teaching resources and workshops/gifts), including keeping and submitting receipts

Communication and Promotion

• Liaising closely with the Community Lead at Alive Lincoln Central, who will have responsibility for the smooth running of the IWC and its volunteers. This includes speaking on a weekly basis to ensure the community and the teaching runs seamlessly as one project. 
• Seek all opportunities to raise the profile of the IWC, Acts Trust and Alive Church, including sharing Acts and RAFT social media posts and press releases.
• Consider onward pathways for individuals who attend the IWC. In most cases this will be through the existing community that you have delivered to, with the host team taking responsibility for this. However, you may have wider insight for onward support.
• When possible, attend Acts full team meetings once a month on a Wednesday (1.5 hours, included in 6 hours per week)

Performance Analysis and Development

• Collect and collate session reports such as registers, feedback forms and any other paperwork required.
• Provide feedback to aid the development of the ESOL courses.

Other duties

• Engage with training to enable you in your role
• Abide by health and safety guidelines and share responsibility for your own safety and that of colleagues
• Represent the ethos and work of Acts Trust and our IWC partner, Alive Church
• Carry out any other appropriate tasks as requested by the RAFT Services Manager, Acts Senior Leadership Team or CEO

Person Specification

• ESOL qualifications (at least CELTA or equivalent) and at least 2 years teaching ESOL
• Experience of working with refugees and asylum seekers
• Experience in leading teams
• Administration experience

Acts Trust actively seeks to recruit the right mix of talent, skills and potential, promoting equality for all, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. We select all candidates for an interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and commitment to our values and purposes.

As an organisation seeking to deliver services within a Christian context, some posts can only be filled by Christians. The nature of these posts or the context in which they are carried out, and their link to the ethos of the organisation, give rise to a ‘protected characteristic’ (or ‘genuine occupational requirement’) for the post-holders to be Christians. 

This post has been identified as having an “occupational requirement” under Schedule 9, Part 1, paragraph 1 and 3 of the Equality Act 2010 where it is a requirement that this post be filled by a Christian due to the requirement of the post holder to lead or participate in worship, prayer and bible-study.

The postholder will be required to demonstrate an active and clear commitment to the Christian faith.

Application Deadline: 30th September at 5pm