Coventry ESOL and Employment Manager Coventry, England
Job description
Coventry ESOL and Employment Manager
About Us
The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association is a registered charity founded by Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, who arrived as a refugee in the back of a refrigerated container with his young family in 1999. We promote social and economic integration of an increasing number of Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugees. We use a community development ethos to support the development of their potential within a mutually supportive framework and we work with a wide range of partners to reach vulnerable and isolated individuals and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.
Our experience and the quality of our provision is evidenced through our many achievements, including:
- Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2018, awarded in recognition of the excellent work and central role that volunteers play in the delivery of the essential services run by the ACAA
- Talent Match Mark Youth Friendly Gold Award from Youth Employment UK
- The charity's founder, Dr Nasimi, was awarded an MBE for services to refugees by King Charles III in the New Year Honours List 2023.
Project Description
The aim of this provision is to support 72 residents in Coventry whose second language is English to increase their prospects of moving into work by undertaking an employability focused ESOL course. The course will improve understanding of work related questions and instructions and how to demonstrate a knowledge of delivering excellent customer service, the ability to source and apply for suitable vacancies and then to successfully achieve an interview and subsequent employment.
We will deliver 96 hours of ESOL tuition over a 6 week period at local premises in Coventry City Centre for each cohort of 12 students. Each week will include 4 hours per day, 4 days a week for a period of 6 weeks. All of the courses will be face to face held in a convenient part of the city of Coventry. There will be 6 cohorts.
Key Duties:
- Manage project delivery for 6 cohorts spread across 8 months - one cohort over a 6 week period
- Recruit qualified sessional trainers in Coventry
- Recruit a Romanian translator
- Organise trips for students to visit local sites in Coventry
- Liaise with Job Centre work coaches on a daily basis
- Produce a personalised action plan for each student
- Secure accessible venues in Coventry for the sessions
- Administer data monitoring and evaluation
- Overall responsibility for safeguarding and project outcomes
- Maintain and monitor project plans, schedules, budgets and expenditures
- Organise and facilitate internal meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes / actions log and manage all logistics for meetings where appropriate
- Produce quarterly evaluation reports for the project and liaise with funder on a regular basis
Requirements
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Excellent organisational, planning and coordination skills
- Confident in communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds and from all seniority levels
- Competency in MS Office
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team and focus on multiple tasks at the same time
- Ability to manage own workload to meet tight deadlines
- Advanced experience of managing projects from conception to completion and evaluation
- Exceptional organisational, attention to detail and resource planning skills Ability to produce engaging documents and reports and communicate complex information clearly
- Excellent innovative problem-solving skills
- Have, or willing to undergo, a DBS check
- 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects for charities
Contract
40 hours a week
£25,600 for 8 months
Job Types: Part-time, Contract, Permanent
Part-time hours: 10 per week
Salary: £3,200.00 per month
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: One location
