Hfu Project Administrator

RMC is a regional charity with 25 years of experience working with newly arrived communities. We aim to assist refugees and migrants through crisis and disadvantage by removing barriers to their integration and enabling them to become equal citizens.

Imagine arriving in a new country, a new city, trying to build your life and integrate. Not knowing how the system works and everything being new. You do not speak the language, do not know anyone.

That is the reality for many refugees and migrants when they arrive in the UK. There are many barriers they face to being able to settle and integrate effectively. This is the reason why RMC exists and has grown and evolved for over 2 decades providing a variety of services to newly arrived communities. We support refugees and migrants by providing free services including immigration advice OISC accredited up to level 3, Education, training and access to employment support, welfare benefits advice, access to healthcare and housing advice.

For the past 8 years we have also developed expertise in providing wraparound resettlement support for refugees who arrived via schemes such as SVPRS (Syrian Vulnerable Resettlement scheme), ARAP/ACRS (Afghan. Relocation Assistance Policy), UKRS (United Kingdon Resettlement Scheme), BNO (British National Oversees) and HFU (Homes for Ukraine Scheme).

The post holder will work within our very diverse and multi skilled Resettlement Team where everyone is valued and collaboration within this team and at all levels across the wider organisation is essential.

Purpose and Scope of the Role

To manage and work as part of a team to enable and empower newly arrived often vulnerable refugees to settle into their new communities with confidence. The postholder will have responsibility for the services quality, monitoring and ensuring funder targets are met. Ability to provide a wraparound service to our clients across Birmingham and the Black Country, including services around housing, health, education and employment. 

A key part of the role will be to exercise your own judgement in the timely provision of reports, recommendations resulting from service evaluation and data analysis to the Regional RIM, partner agencies and other stakeholders ensuring they are in line with RMC’s values and within the scope of the service.  

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

· To manage high-quality holistic services and time limited projects that enable refugee families and/or individuals to sustain independence within their new communities. 

· To support with the development and maintaining of effective partnerships with voluntary and statutory sector stakeholders to ensure the provision of appropriate services to newly arrived refugees. 

· To undertake line management responsibilities as agreed. 

· To record, monitor and evaluate all aspects of the projects you manage and complete monitoring and feedback reports of outcomes for funders to a high standard with the support of the Regional RIM

· To train, develop and support staff and volunteers in accordance with service and project needs.

For the Charity 

· To ensure appropriate liaison with other teams in RMC. 

· To represent RMC as and when required.  

· To set up and attend regular team meetings, to share information, monitor services and foster effective and supportive team working. 

· To participate in management meetings, training sessions and staff meetings and conferences as and when required. 

· To participate in own supervision and appraisal. 

· To carry out administrative tasks in support of her/his own work (e.g. word-   processing, filing) 

· To carry out other duties consistent with the nature of the post, and in furtherance of the project. 

· To carry out all the above in accordance with the aims, values and policies of RMC confidentiality, impartiality and

Equal Opportunities. 

The above duties will be prioritised by the Regional RIM in consultation with the post-holder.  The post-holder may be asked to re-organise his/her work to help RMC to respond to changes in type or extent of needs of refugees, which can arise from time to time.  This would be done in a way consistent with the purposes of the post and in consultation with the post-holder. 

A DBS check will be carried out for this post.

Please see attached the full Job description and Person specification