Outreach & Grants Officer / NNS Generalist

£28381

Birmingham Disability Resource Centre, Birmingham

Posted 3 weeks ago, 28 Aug | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System has set out an ambition to transform how health and care services are delivered in Birmingham and Solihull aimed at improving outcomes and tackling health inequalities. Over the next five years, services will become more integrated and delivered closer to where people live, whilst the focus will shift towards preventing ill-health. Key to achieving this will be working in and across communities to deliver activities in partnership with the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector.

To achieve this outcome, grants have been made available to support Innovative, new or additional services to address long-standing health and wellbeing inequalities. Projects to be funded would be aimed at the following themes.

On behalf of the Birmingham City Council's Adult Social Care Directorate, DRC has been commissioned to deliver the Public Health outcomes in the Yardley and Hodge Hill Constituency. Therefore, the role will carry out activities, functions and responsibilities that will ultimately enable the Directorate to achieve this outcome.

Neighbourhood Network Schemes are locality and Constituency based networks which enable the engagement with and investment in community assets. This is for the purposes of supporting younger people to connect to individuals, groups, organisations, activities, services and places in their neighbourhoods.

To develop and maintain a relationship through the Locality Delivery Partnership with key stakeholders in the locality in respect of the development of projects.

To work with stakeholders in the locality to ensure that the development of the FFF Locality Small Grants programme is co-ordinated with the FFF Locality Partnership Fund. There is a need to co-ordinate communication and engagement activity to avoid duplication of activity; to signpost assets to the most appropriate fund and to connect organisations and assets.

To work with community assets to prepare bids for consideration by the FFF grants panel - to be submitted via portal managed by the Grant Maker. NNS lead provider sponsorship will be required for all bids submitted.

To work with FFF leads, contributing to the development and delivery of communications and engagement activity and plans, which promotes the priorities, activities, services, events being funded through the grants programme, to local citizens, stakeholders, and communities.

To co-ordinate activity within the locality to ensure that the grant allocation for the locality is fully utilised and that the split of funding between constituencies is proportionate.

To work with the Grant Maker to ensure the correct value of grants are awarded in each locality

To provide regular reports to the Locality Delivery Partnership, to ensure awareness of progress and the status of the locality small grants programme.

To share updates with Fairer Futures Fund Contract Manager as part of quarterly meeting.

To contribute to Birmingham and Solihull FFF collaboration and learning forums to share experience and good practice across all parts of the FFF programme.

Work with the Grant Maker to identify gaps in the community offer through monitoring of applications and grants awarded against the priorities for the fund.

To work with FFF leads to periodically review the delivery arrangements for the programme with the intention of improving efficiency and effectiveness.

To develop and deliver communications and engagement plans and activity for citizens, community networks, groups and organisations to maintain their engagement and knowledge of the NNS

To Identify and map individuals, groups and organisations which can be considered as "community assets" across the Constituency's neighbourhoods

To work with and support Constituency communities, groups and organisations to develop their capacity

To work under the direction of the Service Manager NNS Team to meet contractual targets & key performance indicators

To work within DRC's adopted policies and procedures including Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Data Protection and Confidentiality