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Contract: Fixed Term until 31 August 2026.
Term: Part Time.
Salary: £21,630 (pro rata).
Hours per week: 21 hours.
Reporting to: Children and Young People Team People and Partnerships 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 Description
They are looking for a highly organised coordinator with strong interpersonal skills to join their Reading Heroes team. This role is responsible for coordinating the Reading Heroes project, which promotes the benefits of 1-2-1 reading by matching Care Experienced children with trained volunteers. The Reading Heroes Coordinator recruits these volunteers and offers regular, specific support from the setting up of a placement, through the 6-month reading journey, and as a reading placement ends. The Reading Heroes Coordinator is also responsible for the handling of referrals and contact between referral partners, regular contact with carers, and the promotion of Reading Heroes legacy events, to keep their participants engaged in Shared Reading. The project aims to develop child confidence, self-esteem, improved relationships with reading and reading for pleasure.
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 learn more and to apply, please click here.
Deadline: 9 AM on Monday 28 August 2023.
Contact Details: laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk.
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