Project Co-ordinator

Would you like a different and difficult job the place you make a optimistic affect on folks and the
planet? Do you’ve the talents and enthusiasm to assist communities create inexperienced areas in city
locations?

Background to the function

An thrilling alternative has arisen to hitch our small, dynamic and rising social enterprise,
based mostly in Manchester. The profitable applicant shall be answerable for co-ordinating and
delivering a busy programme of horticultural coaching and group growth work, serving to
design and create new inexperienced areas, and sharing their data and fervour for the atmosphere
and concrete agriculture.

About us

  • Sow the Metropolis is a Manchester-based non-profit social enterprise, based in 2009 with a number of
    packets of seeds and a few compost to assist communities create greener cities and join with
    nature.
  • We accomplice with grassroots teams, group gardens, companies and organisations and are
    making a motion of individuals and organisations that care about nature in cities.
  • We remodel derelict and unused land into thriving group greenspace, tackling inequality,
    and delivering applications that enrich studying, and promote wellbeing.
  • Our portfolio spans a variety of tasks together with meals rising areas, allotment and
    wildlife gardens, biophilic design, well being gardens, nature restoration, inexperienced roofs, and well being
    and sensory gardens. Find out more here.
  • Since we had been based, we now have supplied programs/ workshops for 14,000 folks, facilitated over
    7,000 volunteering hours, and reworked nearly 7,000 m2 of unused and derelict land into
    helpful group greenspace and inexperienced infrastructure.
  • Our workplace is predicated at our group centre the Boiler Home (www.boilerhouse.org) in Moss Facet
    close to central Manchester. You’ll work delivering group tasks and workshops throughout
    Higher Manchester.

Particular tasks

  • Co-ordinate the supply of Sow the Metropolis tasks together with working with stakeholders to
    be sure that work complies with the situations of funding and meets the wants of the group.
  • Plan and put together session plans and educate horticultural and nature-themed workshops
    together with tailoring programs to differing talents and backgrounds.
  • Undertake website visits and develop designs for city inexperienced areas.
  • Handle volunteers and run volunteering days to assist our group tasks (e.g.
    group gardens).
  • Handle and organise a various workload with a number of purchasers and areas to fulfill undertaking
    deadlines.
  • Work carefully with accomplice organisations together with Native Authorities, Housing Associations,
    NHS and the voluntary sector to extend their involvement and enhance consciousness of Sow the
    Metropolis tasks and their advantages.
  • Contribute to figuring out and securing funding alternatives.
  • Work carefully with different members of the Sow the Metropolis staff and assist with different tasks and
    duties as required that are commensurate with the grade of the job.
  • Undertake casual and formal coaching as agreed.

Key tasks – all employees

  • To comply with our Sow the Metropolis insurance policies and procedures.
  • To bear applicable checks together with an enhanced DBS verify.
  • The put up holder shall be topic to efficiency targets agreed each 6 months.

Different particulars

  • 5% employer pension.
  • 30 days vacation per 12 months (together with financial institution holidays).
  • 35-hour working week (nonetheless we are going to think about an element time place or job share
    alternative).
  • Sick-pay is 4-weeks full-pay, 4-weeks half-pay adopted by statutory sick pay (topic to
    passable probation interval).
  • Aggressive paternity and maternity depart packages.
  • The function would require the profitable candidate to work versatile hours together with evenings
    and weekends. We offer a TOIL system together with compensation for any occasional ‘anti-social’
    hours labored.

The duties of this put up might fluctuate every so often with out altering the final
character of the put up or stage of duty entailed. 

Equal alternatives 

Sow the Metropolis
strives to be an equal alternatives employer and celebrates range. We welcome purposes
from folks trying to return to work and should not have steady employment historical past. 

HOW TO
APPLY
 

For a casual chat concerning the put up, please contact Emily Nook, Sow the Metropolis on 0161
465 6954 or e mail [email protected]

Utility is by CV and software kind explaining
the way you match the job description and individual specification. All application documents can be downloaded here. Submit your CV, software
kind and Equal Alternatives Monitoring Kind by e mail to [email protected]

The deadline
for purposes is 5pm on the twenty sixth March 2024. Interviews happen on third, 4th and fifth
April.

To assist us observe our recruitment effort, please point out in your e mail/cowl letter the place (globalvacancies.org) you noticed this internship posting.

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