SOS Project Manager ( Ref: SPM-241)

Are you a dynamic, influential and collaborative individual with a proven ability to provide effective support, supervision and coaching to staff? 

Do you have strong project management experience, including coordinating activity and liaison with a range of stakeholders to achieve an agreed set of aims and objectives?

If so, St Giles has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Project Manager to provide effective management to six teams working on the development and delivery of our pioneering SOS and Vanguard projects, which provide vital support services to people aged 12 - 25 and their families who are at risk of involvement in serious youth violence or gang related activity.

About St Giles Trust 

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Our successful candidate will provide proactive and inspiring management to a team of SOS caseworkers, where you will plan and support the team’s daily workload, monitor and review probation periods, conduct annual performance reviews and ongoing one-to-one throughout the year and review ongoing personal development plans and agree appropriate training.  You will be expected to provide advice and support to team members and attached volunteers in the form of team meetings, regular supervision meetings and daily contact, plus attend community events and meet with commissioners of service to promote the service and build relationships.

We will count on you to provide monthly and quarterly reports to contract managers and funders and to accurately and regularly collect information and evidence to support with the monitoring and the evaluation of the services, while also ensuring that all referred clients are assessed with reference to St Giles Trust practices and that staff produce detailed support and risk management plans based on these assessments.

What we are looking for

• To have worked on an offender-led support project, had personal experience of the criminal justice system, served a prison sentence, or still be serving a prison sentence in a prison within reach of London
• Experience in negotiating and networking with partner agencies to establish links to further the aims of a project
• Extensive supervisory experience in a Criminal Justice setting
• Experience of working with vulnerable young people and adults
• Experience of setting up and operating systems to monitor and report on work with clients
• Mentoring Level 3 qualification (or be willing to work towards this)
• Excellent prioritisation, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred DBS Check.

We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuro-expansive, neuro-diverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.