PROJECT WORKER: SESSIONAL COURSE TUTOR

Job 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: Course Tutor is to support the delivery of the programme by running sessions in accordance with our annual plan. This includes planning, preparing, delivering and reporting/gathering evidence on sessions delivered.

Current course modules and activities include:

● Life Ready
● CAP Money
● CAP Job Club
● Hour of Wellbeing

We may develop new courses over time as well as revising existing course material.

Under the leadership of the RAFT Services Manager and in line with the annual programme, you will be invited to deliver sessions to guests/ beneficiaries in the following areas, listed by priority:

1. Existing Alive Church Community Groups
2. Community Groups run by partner churches, particularly those delivering Foodbank and Night Light Cafes
3. Any other partner organisation who request to partner with us to deliver courses to their existing community groups

Courses will be delivered for members who are already connected to the groups above, however from time to time some of these will also be advertised to members of the public by the RAFT team. As part of your role we encourage you to support this promotion.

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.

Delivery

● Undertake training in order to lead the courses that have been agreed with you to run. These could include:

○ CAP Job Club Manager training
○ CAP Money course facilitator training
○ Life Ready course facilitator training
○ Hour of Wellbeing / Wellbeing courses
○ Any other courses as developed

(It is likely that you will run once session a week, during school term time)

● Deliver sessions as directed by the RAFT Services Manager, on average 1 session per week during ‘term time’ (‘Term time’ mainly follows the school term periods, to enable engagement in courses by adults with responsibility for children.)

Communication and Promotion

● Seek all opportunities to raise the profile of the Restore Programme including sharing Acts and RAFT social media posts and press releases.
● Consider onward pathways for individuals who attend your sessions. 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, particularly for individuals who have been externally recruited for courses.

Performance Analysis and Development

● Collect and collate session reports such as registers, sign up sheets, feedback forms and any other paperwork required .
● Provide feedback to aid the development of courses and to help identify new course ideas.

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 founder, Alive Church
● Carry out any other appropriate tasks as requested by the RAFT Services Manager

Terms and Conditions

Casual worker contract
Paid for hours worked as agreed (no contracted hours)
£12 per hour
Description

There is a rolling deadline for this post while we build the team

Email office@actstrust.org.uk for an Application Pack