Community Resilience Placement Volunteer - London, United Kingdom - British Red Cross Volunteer

British Red Cross Volunteer

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Tasks:
Support community engagement and community organising among voluntary sector organisations, faith groups and local organisations.

Prototyping training toolkits and other tools, bringing ideas to life and rapidly testing them to find out what works and what doesn't work.
Development of codesign session bringing stakeholders and users together to generate ideas for potential solutions; identify themes; and prioritise ideas.
Develop and maintain scalable solutions that can be used for working with community groups. Starting from real human needs and actively involving stakeholders in cocreation (including corporate and institutional partners).
Design and conduce research and evaluation activities using qualitative and quantitative approaches, participatory mapping, peer led approaches and coproduction techniques.
Support the development scalable volunteer support and training packages that can be extended beyond the pilot stage
Skills:

Passion about working with the community and voluntary sector;

Interest in working on resilience issues — for example climate change, risk reduction, health, livelihoods/ Interested in building work experience in the resilience sector.
Interest in participatory approaches such as coproduction, participatory mapping, community research, volunteered geographic information;
Interested in working with statutory agencies and local government;
Interest/experience in using research for evaluation and monitoring purposes;
Experience of/interest in working in a diverse community setting
Experience or understanding of some of the socioeconomic and cultural issues faced in the London areas involved in the programme or similar urban areas;
Experience of/ interest in working collaboratively on projects;
Good communication skills/ IT literate;
Benefits: A full induction, with ongoing support and supervision throughout your placement
Access to relevant inhouse training and development opportunities, including British Red Cross intranet site, elearning facility and onetoone career sessions or career development workshops
Valuable exposure to the work of the Red Cross in the UK and around the world
A great opportunity to develop your existing skills and to gain new ones
Reasonable travel and lunch expenses paid
Being a volunteer for the British Red Cross means that you can proudly say you are part of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, and one of our 13 million volunteers across the world.