About Useful resource Futures
We’re an employee-owned, impartial, non-profit-distributing organisation with a 30-year
heritage within the waste and sources business. Our providers, a mix of consultancy and
group tasks, are designed to understand our imaginative and prescient of a sustainable world, with a give attention to
designing out waste and air pollution, retaining merchandise and supplies in use and supporting and
regenerating pure methods – a world designed based on round economic system ideas. We
aren’t solely obsessed with what we do, but in addition, extra importantly, about how we do it. We
are proud to be part of the worldwide B Corp motion to make use of enterprise as a drive for good.
Useful resource Futures’ roots are in group affect and our group tasks encourage people
and communities to behave on local weather points. The tasks we ship are many and diverse, and all
allow folks to play their half in decreasing waste and residing extra round lives. As well as
to robust outcomes associated to sustainability, these tasks construct native connections and
enhance group resilience.
The chance
It is a new position, and you can be becoming a member of the workforce at an thrilling level in its improvement,
as we take into account how we evolve the work. You’ll work intently with our Group Affect Result in
assist each the supply and the event of our group work. The Group Affect work
at Useful resource Futures is a crucial a part of our enterprise; it captures quite a lot of long-term
tasks that are on the coronary heart of our firm. These embrace:
- Group RePaint – a nationwide community sponsored by Dulux, which helps the reuse,
remanufacture and redistribution of leftover paint. - Group Motion Teams Devon / Group Motion Teams Somerset – countywide networks
which assist and empower various group teams to behave in direction of a extra sustainable future. - Fixy Challenge – cell, awareness-raising venture that promotes restore and reuse messages,
and likewise redistributes refurbished good tech to people in want. - Devon Waste Educators – an schooling venture delivering workshops, assemblies, and coaching
to advertise waste discount, useful resource effectivity and composting. - Gloucestershire Actual Nappy Challenge – a venture selling the associated fee financial savings and environmental
advantages of utilizing actual nappies. - Waste and Recycling Advisors – a long-term door-stepping venture in Devon selling
recycling and waste discount messages to native residents.
We wish to construct on our strengths and observe file of delivering high quality, impactful
group tasks. We subsequently have an thrilling alternative for an skilled particular person to
be a part of our Group Affect workforce.
What you can be doing
- Challenge supply: Getting concerned in venture supply, similar to foundational analysis for
venture improvement and delivering workshops. - Challenge administration: Overseeing the efficient supply of tasks, together with reporting, and
supporting the planning and arrange of recent tasks as they arrive on-line. - Innovation and Growth: Supporting us to enhance and develop our tasks and
programmes. Additionally, you will help in figuring out new tasks or funding alternatives and
contribute to the preparation of funding proposals. This may increasingly contain exploring choices for the
governance construction of this space of labor. - Advertising and marketing and communications: Selling our tasks, creating our exterior
communications and appearing as an envoy for our group work. - Monitoring and analysis: We’re on a journey to raised seize the affect of particular
tasks, and the affect that our group work has collectively. You’ll take an energetic position
in supporting this aspect of our work. - Partnership working: Collaboration is essential to our method. You’ll liaise with current
purchasers and companions for venture supply, develop new partnerships to additional our goals and
additionally participate in key networking and exterior occasions. - Workforce improvement: You’ll work intently with the Group Affect Result in contribute to the
improvement of the workforce, throughout our workforce conferences and away days. You may be comfy
managing employees, groups and subcontractors to ship desired outcomes. - Day-to-day operations: Working intently with the Group Affect Lead, HR and Finance, to
assist our distant venture groups, downside remedy points as they come up, develop our inner
methods and processes, maximise efficiencies and drive enhancements.
Important information, expertise, and abilities
- Good stage of data and expertise of working with the group/voluntary sector.
- Expertise of collaborative partnership working
- Expertise of venture administration, together with price range administration.
- Expertise of fundraising, bid writing and revenue era, or clear transferable abilities.
- Familiarity with reporting, monitoring and analysis processes.
- Competent IT person (e.g. Microsoft Workplace).
- Good folks administration and mentoring abilities to inspire and coordinate others.
- Wonderful organisational abilities and the power to juggle a number of workflows beneath
strain. - Means to be versatile, adaptable and to thrive on the problem of working in a creating
space. - Wonderful communication, influencing and relationship constructing abilities.
- Bold; keen to set and meet prime quality requirements.
Nice to haves
- Understanding of co-production and group session practices.
- Expertise of communications and advertising.
- Expertise working with native authorities and the personal sector.
- Data of waste, and wider sustainability points.
- Understanding of present strategic and coverage panorama in relation to reuse and restore.
- Expertise of differing governance constructions, similar to CIOs and CICs.
- Analysis and analysis abilities.
- Present UK driving licence.
Advantages
- Embedded flexi working tradition.
- 25 days annual depart, plus financial institution holidays, annually (professional rata for half time workers).
- One volunteer day annually (pro-rata for half time workers).
- A beneficiant moral pension plan (the corporate will match as much as 7% of your contribution).
- Life assurance cowl.
- Worker Help Programme, providing 24/7 GP entry, psychological well being assist, wellbeing
recommendation, monetary and authorized steering. - Cycle to work scheme and on-site safe bike parking and showers at our Bristol workplace.
- On-site charging factors for electrical automobiles at our Bristol workplace.
- Subsidised skilled membership similar to CIWM or IEMA.
- A chance to develop into an organization member, contributing to determination making and the long run
of our enterprise. - Entry to our Consultative Group platform – a consultant group of workers that
offers an nameless automobile for worker voice, elevating points and interesting senior
administration. - Common line supervisor 1:1’s and efficiency critiques, with alternatives to debate and construct
targets that encourage and push you professionally. - Two annual workforce exercise days, every adopted by night socials.
- A chance to hitch a pleasant, enjoyable, skilled, difficult, and supportive place to
work, and a workforce that’s collectively centered on making a optimistic affect.
We’re an equal alternatives employer, welcoming purposes from all, and we’ll at all times
take into account versatile working choices if acceptable. We’re Incapacity Assured and dedicated to
recruiting, retaining, and creating folks from the widest potential pool of expertise. We’re an
accredited Residing Wage employer, dedicated to paying a wage based mostly on the price of residing to all
of our folks.