Capacity Building Training Officer

High Trees are seeking a dynamic and creative Community Capacity Building Officer to providetailored development support to local organisations and manage projects relating to sector support. You will be joining us at an exciting time following the formation of a new Research and Development team which is starting to deliver a new Capacity Building offer to the local Voluntary and Community Sector, including one-to-one mentoring and the production ofhigh-quality resources based on our experience of working with Lambeth communities for over 25 years. We deliver Capacity Building support both directly and through our partnership work.

This is a hands-on, practical role and the right candidate will have a wide skillset. You will be working on a variety of projects which focus on Capacity Building and VCS infrastructure support. Your day-to-day work will be varied and over the next 12 months we expect this to include tasks such as supporting local VCS organisations on a one-to-one basis to improve their policies and procedures, managing a local grants programme, creating high quality templates and user guides, and running workshop or training sessions using the resources we have developed such as our Collaboration and Employment Toolkits. We will be developing and refining our offer to the local VCS sector over the coming year and expect this to lead to further new and exciting pieces of work.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to draw learning from our work and the work of our partnerships, to distil this learning for the benefit of others and to effectively motivate, coach and support others to develop their practice.

Benefits of working at High Trees

• 35 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays and 3 Christmas days) rising by 1 day each year after 2 years’ service (capped at an additional 8 days)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave after 2 years’ service
• Save money off a new bike with the Cycle to Work scheme
• Up to 7% contribution to the staff pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Support Line
• Clear pay structure with yearly increments (based on performance)
• Annual Staff away day
• Premium eye-care vouchers through Specsavers and season ticket loans