Community Development Project Manager BIG Alliance
- Job Title: Community Development Project Manager BIG Alliance
- Reports to: Director of Partnerships, BIG Alliance
- Salary: £28,000 – £31,000 per year, plus generous benefits package
- Hours: 35 hours per week. Occasional evening work is required
- Duration: Fixed term 12-month contract (renewable)
- Annual leave: 27 days per annum plus public holidays
- Location: BIG Alliance, 13 Elliott’s Place, Islington, London, N1 8HX
- Application deadline: 10th January 2025, 5pm
- Interviews commence: 16th and 21st January
BIG Alliance (Businesses for Islington Giving) delivers business-supported employee volunteer programmes to strengthen links between businesses, community organisations and education institutions across Islington. In doing so, it aims to help address issues of poverty and isolation, which are prevalent across the borough, despite the perception of Islington being an area of high wealth. 47.5% of primary school children in Islington live in poverty, the third highest rate in London.
Established in 2012, BIG Alliance aims to make community investment easier, more effective and more rewarding for its business members. It is a partnership between, East London Business Alliance – a registered charity that has been supporting the social and economic regeneration of east London for 30 years, Macquarie Group – principal funder and founder, and Islington Giving – funder and founder. To date, BIG Alliance has placed more than 14,000 business professionals into volunteering opportunities within over 200 community organisations, schools, colleges and universities.
ELBA has an excellent employee benefits package including generous leave, flexible balance between working from home and the office, BUPA health cashplan; enhanced maternity and paternity pay; an active wellbeing and equalities programmes led by staff; a varied and busy learning and development schedule; cycle purchase scheme; and an Employee Assistance Helpline. including access to free accredited courses up to degree and post-graduate level.
Purpose of the job
The main purpose of the job is to facilitate development and delivery of the BIG Alliance’s skills-based volunteering programme, which utilises the skills, experience and sector-specific expertise of employees within our business partners to support Islington’s community organisations and residents.
Our skilled volunteers are placed with a community partner or beneficiary either individually or join one of our annual programmes which include: CoRe (Community Resourcing), Board Builders, Leaders in Partnership and Time to Talk. Over 2,500 employees have been placed as skilled volunteers through BIG Alliance since 2012 providing expertise in law, finance, IT, HR, and marketing and communications to name just a few.
The postholder will be responsible for the successful delivery of various aspects of this programme, delivering exciting, innovative employer supported volunteering projects that meet the expectations of specific corporate supporters, and the needs of the community with key geographical focus in Islington.
Click ‘Apply here’ below to apply. If you have any questions, email forida.khanom@elba-1.org.uk.
