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Contract: Fixed Term from 1 May 2024 – 30 April 2025.
Term: 0.6 FTE / 21 hours per week.
Salary: £23,175 per annum pro rata.
Hours per week: 21 hours.
Days per week: Flexible working will be considered.
Reporting to: Development Manager.
Location: The Reader, Mansion House, Calderstones Park, Liverpool L18 3JB.
Employer Bio
The Reader is a national charity that wants to bring about a Reading Revolution so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which they believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well. By reading with school groups, families, adults, looked after children, older people in care homes, adults with physical and / or mental health conditions, people coping with or recovering from addiction and individuals in the criminal justice system, their work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities.
Job Overview
This post sits in the Development Team, which is responsible for delivering income to sustain and grow The Reader’s work and developing the relationships that can help make that work happen. You’ll be working in a small, fast-paced team that needs to be flexible to opportunities as they arise. This role will work across income streams, developing funding bids, cultivating and stewarding funders and partners and actively supporting the work of the Development Managers.
What else can they offer you?
- Flexible Working Options including home working
- Generous holiday entitlement
- As part of your role, you will personally experience the wellbeing benefits of Shared Reading – you will participate in their immersive “Read to Lead” Shared Reading course to enable you to deliver groups, they do lots of reading with partners and you will see first-hand the impact of Shared Reading in communities
- Opportunity to spend some time in their beautiful Head Office location at Calderstones Mansion House, in the middle of Calderstones Park. Here you can benefit from walking meetings in one of Liverpool’s largest parks and staff discounts in their café and ice cream parlour
- Great colleagues – As Regional Partnerships Lead for Liverpool City Region, you’ll be working with a whole range of supportive, committed colleagues who make Shared Reading happen for people who need it most across the region, especially with other members of the Partnerships Team, their Shared Reading Practice Team and their Development Team.
To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.
Deadline: 9 AM at Monday 22 April 2024.
Contact Details: laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk.
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