Manchester ESOL Project Manager Manchester, England
Job description
Manchester ESOL Project Manager
About Us
The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association is an award-winning 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
We will deliver women-only English classes for Afghan, Iranian and other refugees in Oldham, Rochdale and Salford. We will offer face to face sessions at three venues (one in each location) once a week. Each session will last two hours. The English Language sessions will cover Functional English skills and applying learning to practical situations.
We are recruiting an ESOL Manager to engage with refugees in Oldham, Rochdale and Salford to support their integration into British society and to manage this project. With the arrival of many refugees in Manchester in recent years, there is an enhanced need to support integration at this time.
Key Duties
- Recruits qualified sessional trainers
- Recruit project volunteers
- Identify and hire a suitable venue
- Recruit participants and carry out outreach/community engagement
- Produce a personalised action plan for each student
- Liaise and build links with local groups and public services, local authorities, Job Centres and GP’s
- Secure an accessible venue 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
Job Types: Part-time, Contract, Permanent
Contract length: 10 months
Part-time hours: 15 per week
Salary: £1,200.00 per month
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
