Breadwinners seeking Programme Manager, Brighton, UK

[Antonia Gillett]

Breadwinners is recruiting!

Risers Programme Manager - Brighton, Part-Time

• Reporting to: Brighton Project Director 
• Remuneration: £28,000 (Pro-rata, part-time)
• Days and Hours: 2.5 days a week (20 hours), Flexible hours with very occasional weekend working. Currently the team work together on Wednesdays and trainings run on Thursday evenings.
• Duration: Permanent contract.
• Location: Brighton and Hove
• Start: August 2024

Breadwinners is an ambitious grassroots charity set up in April 2016. We provide customers with the best organic artisan bread while empowering refugees through employment, work experience, entrepreneurship opportunities, training and mentoring.

We are delighted to offer an amazing opportunity for a Part-Time Programme Manager to deliver the Risers programme - supporting young people from refugee backgrounds to gain work experience, training and mentoring.

We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and innovative Programme Manager with a passion for supporting young refugees and young people seeking asylum. We are a small and ambitious social enterprise, so a can-do attitude and the drive to work within a small focused team and deliver a huge impact is essential, together with an ability to occasionally assist our beneficiaries at the market stalls over the weekend.

The role will be to run the Risers Programme (find out more on our website here.) 

You will be working with the Project Director, Market Coordinator, charity partners, and volunteers to recruit, train and support ‘Risers’ (Young people aged 16 to 24 seeking asylum in the UK) to get the most out of their work experience, mentoring sessions and training. You will be organising and leading skills training activities, work experience days, and mentoring sessions. 

The job description and person specification are attached and also available on our website here: https://www.breadwinners.org.uk/jobs-and-volunteering

The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment and the appointment is subject to DBS Checks.

Please apply as soon as possible, by submitting your cover letter and CV to ant...@breadwinners.org.uk. Please use “Risers Programme Manager Application” as the email subject. We will arrange interviews for great applicants as they come in and might offer the position before the deadline. No more applications will be taken after the 31st of July.

We actively welcome applications from people with lived and relevant experience. If you have any questions or want an informal chat about the role please call Antonia Gillett at ant...@breadwinners.org.uk.