eVOLve Project Manager

Located: JLGB Head Office in East London

Reporting to: JLGB Chief Executive

Salary: £27,000 - £34,000 depending on experience

JLGB are looking for an exceptional and experienced collaborative thinker with a passion for youth social action to lead ‘evolve’ – our young volunteering and skills initiative. evolve is JLGB's response to the ever-changing needs of young Jewish volunteers. The initiative and digital platform is a revolution in youth volunteering, creating an age-progressive volunteering journey for Jewish young people throughout primary and secondary school and on to university.

evolve removes faith and cultural barriers to participation to enable young people to take part in national volunteering awards and accredited programmes, including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, National Citizen Service and Open College Network Accreditations. evolve enables and equips over 2,500 Jewish young people each year to fully engage in meaningful social action, enhancing their employability and transferable skills to become active citizens in their local community and wider society.

This role will enable JLGB to expand the reach of evolve through communication and engagement activities. The Project Manager will drive this expansion by engaging and supporting evolve’s key stakeholders, such as charities, synagogues and schools. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in project management and be skilled in creating and delivering timelines and campaigns with measurable outputs. A minimum of two years’ experience in a similar role would be an advantage.

As evolve Project Manager you will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team, working alongside the Director of Operations and Director of Communications and other key programme managers, all of whom report to the Chief Executive. You will report regularly to the trustees, setting the timetable and process for review of the evolve initiative. As we expand evolve to reach over 15,000 young people over the next three years, JLGB is excited to recruit a dedicated Project Manager.

Development and Expansion

• Oversee the continuing development and expansion of the evolve initiative, with a key focus on working directly with evolve’s key stakeholders; young people, charities, parents, teachers, youth and community groups, synagogues and employers to strengthen the youth voluntary sector.
• Line manage the evolve team so that progress is measured against indicators and targets at agreed intervals.
• Project manage the delivery of all timelines, documents, analysis and reports relating to the evolve initiative.
• Build further our strong partnerships with schools to prioritise youth volunteering, liaising with key teaching staff, heads of year and informal educators to deliver a full engagement plan, including launch assemblies, volunteering fairs, follow up sessions and parents’ evenings.
• Work closely with new and existing partner charities, youth groups and synagogues to help them in becoming more youth friendly and faith sensitive, actively supporting them to develop and upload exciting volunteering opportunities to the evolve online platform.
• Manage events, seminars and the creation, planning and delivery of award launches and graduation ceremonies.
• Increase young people’s participation in volunteering and social action through evolve, with specific delivery targets for each award, using a range of digital systems to keep effective and up to date records.

Review and implementation

• Work alongside JLGB’s Director of Operations to maintain, review and update the evolve digital platform to increase engagement and ensure the best user experience for all stakeholders.
• Develop new and innovative methods of evaluation with young people including opportunities for them to share their volunteering experiences.
• Set the timetable and process for review of the evolve strategy, and advise on redevelopment for the next strategic period for evolve.
• Work with the Chief Executive and report to trustees on delivery performance on a regular basis and further develop and review objectives and plans.

Communication and leadership

• Work alongside JLGB’s Director of Communications to implement and deliver a retention and communications strategy to raise the level of completion rates across awards.
• Provide supportive, encouraging and inspirational leadership to all young people, staff and volunteers throughout the evolve journey.
• Deputise for other Senior Leadership Team members as appropriate and agreed.
• Ensure all JLGB’s safeguarding standards, policies and procedures are closely adhered to.

ESSENTIAL

• Passion for youth social action and the empowerment of young people
• Proven track record in project management
• Ability to build, maintain and facilitate effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of key evolve stakeholders, including funders, teachers, charity workers and faith, youth and community leaders
• Skilled in creating and delivering timelines and campaigns with measurable outputs
• Ability to review and evaluate data and implement improvements
• Experience leading, mentoring and managing a dynamic team
• Full clean UK driving license

DESIRABLE

• Experience of working with young people from different faiths, backgrounds and communities
• Experience of working across the youth and voluntary sectors with charities, schools, youth and community groups and faith leaders
• Training in volunteer recruitment and management
• Experience of event planning and management
• Knowledge of current issues and government policies affecting young people
• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of digital systems and an interest in how they can be used to increase youth engagement in volunteering

QUALITIES

• Committed to ensuring high standards and quality programmes
• Commitment to JLGB’s vision, mission and values
• An independent, proactive and positive approach
• Willingness to take on additional responsibilities as required
• Flexible, lateral approach and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

The chosen candidate will be enthusiastic, ambitious and driven and will need to be sensitive to the needs of faith communities when working with JLGB’s young stakeholders and their families, and be respectful of their observance, dietary and practise needs.

Successful candidates will be required to be flexible in their approach. The work will include some evenings, Sunday and weekend work as well as summer residential programmes.

To apply: please send your CV and a cover letter to vacancies@jlgb.org by midnight Sunday 19th August.