development coordinator Remote
Job description
Kids Kitchen Development Coordinator
We create fun, healthy, food activities with parents and under fives. Through this we aim to tackle social isolation of parents with young children, childhood obesity, and the environmental and financial impact of food systems.
Started in 2011 by two parents wanting to cook healthy food with their own young kids, we are now a network of locally-focused hubs, supporting each other with the same mission in what suits each area, and providing the resources and support for new hubs too.
Role Overview
We are a non-profit social enterprise and long term, aim for a mix of income - 50% grants, and 50% self generated. Our current priority is growing our self-generated income.
We are a team of part-time employees and freelancers, working flexibly and remotely, the majority of whom are, or have experience being the primary carer of a child.
Our hubs are the places where people, families, experience what we do, how we do it and are inspired to do it themselves.
This role is part of this core team - maintaining the infrastructure and support systems that enables our hubs and projects to continue - and grow.
The core team is made up of three roles, effectively a three-way jobshare running the organisation: this role is the one that gets the money in and supports everyone else in the part they play to get the money in too. The role works alongside a training and team coordinator, and a central coordinator.
It is an opportunity for you to use your strong communication skills to bring both fun to families and a lasting change to our food system!
The Development Coordinator:
- Grows new income streams to achieve impact and sustainability, building relationships towards this
- Identifies and applies for potential grants that fit with Kids Kitchen’s values and goals
- Hears what the team and wider Kids Kitchen Collective is experiencing and analyses the impact that we are having, and can have in the future
- Shares the work that we do and the impact we have in places that raise our profile
Detailed Role Description
Specific to this Role
Leading on income generation for the whole organisation
- Collaborating with the whole Kids Kitchen team and our partners to understand ambitions and future plans
- Creating funding plans and find income that fits these ambitions (both external grant funds and self-generated service delivery)
- Write and submit funding bids or tenders
- Develop sales proposals and partnerships
- Submit reports to funders and partners as required
- Nurture and support hubs to develop their own income generation skills
Showing our impact
- Monitoring the impact of our work: designing the kinds of impact evaluations that highlight what we do well whilst avoiding intrusion into people's lives
- Evidencing impact of the work we do, to support current and future funding bids
- Supporting the whole Kids Kitchen team to build and share skills around evaluating our work
Communicating externally
- Writing and making content that shows our great work, in order to generate income
- Checking for and using external references to Kids Kitchen online
- Co-ordinating the compilation and publication of our Annual Review
Alongside other members of the team
Recruitment
- Writing and editing role descriptions
- Getting associates on board for specific work, and agreeing their contract
- Writing adverts, organising recruitment, shortlisting, interviewing
Managing the Organisation
- Future planning with Directors and Team
- Organising whole-organisation payments including Companies House, Insurance etc.
- Seeking whole-organisation level advice when there are changes including GDPR, safeguarding, etc
- Writing, communicating and facilitating whole-team review of the business plan
- Staying agile to the current needs of the organisation
Checking in with and supporting the wider Kids Kitchen team
- Sharing ideas around the core work of what we do, and hearing the whole team’s ideas too.
- Supporting other coordinators and team members informally
- Contributing experience to trainees, mentees and new session leaders
- Collaboration, forward planning and joint strategy through regular review and planning meetings.
Any other reasonable tasks related to Kids Kitchen coordination.
Person Specification
We aim to provide realistic work for parents with young children. Our core coordinator roles complement and support each other so it is not always essential to fulfil every point of this specification. The role is wide-ranging and busy, training is available and we are open to working with people who want to develop their skills and confidence.
Essentials
- A track record of raising money for a non-profit/social enterprise - through a blend of well-designed and well-marketed services, partnerships and grant funding bids
- Experienced in managing income generating project plans from start-to-finish
- Experience of securing funding or contracts from local authorities
- Excited and passionate about building sustainability, creating opportunities for families and improving wellbeing
- Collaborative, coaching style of working to develop and enable others to play their part in income generation
- Good organisational skills: able to plan and organise dates, times, locations and people and communicate what's needed
- Good written communication - ability to share concisely and simply
- An ability to take other people’s data and experience and turn that into good relevant copy
- A working knowledge of tools which make remote working clear, simple and inclusive - we use Airtable, Mighty Network, Google Drive, Zoom and WordPress.
- Personal alignment with the values of Kids Kitchen
- Undaunted - excited even - by lofty goals
- Comfortable talking to and working with a range of different people - adults and children, hearing their stories
Some of These:
- Experience writing £70k+ funding bids for multi-project national organisations
- Able to track spending and check in on budgets
- Able to speak about Kids Kitchen's services confidently and persuasively
- Experience working collectively in a flat structure
Hours and Rate of Pay
12 hrs a week. Our employee hourly rate is £14.10 (£27600 pro rata)
Where?
Our team is fully remote and will always be this way – this role can happen from anywhere with a good internet connection. We will aim to meet in person for certain occasions if possible, a maximum of twice per year.
The role is flexible – the only non negotiable things are attendance at our monthly meetings and that some of the work will need to be done in daytime in order to catch other people’s work times. Your hours would be coordinated with the availability of the rest of the team.
To apply:
- Please send an email with the subject ‘Application for Kids Kitchen Development Coordinator’
- Explain how you fit the points of the person specification above; where possible please provide examples, we are committed to working with people who may not have had this type of work experience before, so examples of how you have these essential skills from education, home life, or volunteering are equally welcome.
- To[email protected]
You can also email [email protected] if you have questions about the role.
Deadline: 9am Friday 14 July
Interviews: 19-21 July - we will work with you to find a convenient time if shortlisted.
Ideal start date: w/c 4 September
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 12 per week
Salary: £14.10 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- Flexitime
Work Location: Remote
Application deadline: 13/07/2023
Expected start date: 04/09/2023
