PROJECT OFFICER
Hours: 24 hours per week.
Contract: 2 years, fixed term.
Salary: £19,542.86 per annum (£28,500 pro rata equivalent at 24 hours per week)
Role Purpose:
Ensure all project delivery commitments are met, including reporting to funders on progress. Develop, establish and implement data systems to provide evidence of high-quality project outcomes.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working with the Oswin team to assure a high-quality service is provided to our partners and clients across all the Oswin Project’s initiatives.
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
- Develop existing measures to provide qualitative and quantitative data to monitor and understand the progress of the ex-offenders we support to assure best possible service and outcomes.
- Develop existing measures of impact reporting to provide qualitative and quantitative data to accurately portray the social impact of the Oswin Project’s work.
- Work alongside staff and volunteers to develop and maintain a system of regular skills audit to assure capability and capacity, and that changing/developing demands are met.
- Work alongside CEO and board of trustees to assure proper financial records are kept.
- Work alongside CEO and board of trustees to ensure regulatory compliance, e.g. data protection, safeguarding, governance.
- Support the development of grant funding applications, ideally with a view to taking on additional fundraising responsibility.
- Abide by the Oswin Project’s policies, procedures and code of conduct.
Knowledge/Skills/Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant undergraduate degree, or equivalent professional qualifications /experience.
- Ability to deliver projects on-time, within scope and within budget.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to form working relationships across the organisation (including with ex-offenders).
- Ability to lead teams towards the achievement of objectives.
- High level of written and verbal communication, including report writing.
- Established knowledge of regulations governing charitable organisations, including GDPR, Safeguarding, governance.
- A developed understanding of the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Understanding of the additional complexities and sensitivities involved in working with ex-offenders and within the prison system.
- Competence with basic Microsoft computer programmes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Desired
- Additional relevant qualifications such as MA, MPhil or PhD.
- Knowledge of advanced data analysis software such as SpSS or NVivo.
- Knowledge of Zero or other similar accounting software.
- Knowledge of training or education, particularly vocational education.
Experience
Essential
- Project Management
- Creating and utilising both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection.
- Converting data into organisational strategies.
- Presenting information in a clear an accessible way to audiences of varying sizes and levels of education.
- Working independently and on own initiative.
- Working with sensitive/confidential information.
Desired
- Working in charitable organisations.
- Working with ex-offenders or in probation, prisons, other areas of criminal justice or rehabilitation.
- Working with vulnerable people or those at risk of offending.
- Fundraising or grant applications.
- Financial management.
