Rotherfed is recruiting an Open Arms Project Supervisor to lead day-to-day delivery of the Open Arms project: supervising staff, coordinating community engagement and events, and ensuring strong monitoring, evaluation and reporting. If you’re an organised, people-focused leader with community project and partnership experience, we’d love to hear from you.
About the role
• Lead operational delivery, planning and review in line with the project plan and funder requirements.
• Deliver targets/KPIs; manage risks and address underperformance.
• Supervise staff/volunteers: 1:1s, induction, coaching, rotas and performance support.
• Plan and coordinate community events/engagement (venues, logistics, suppliers, staffing and promotion).
• Lead monitoring, evaluation and reporting: data capture, systems, returns and outcome reports; use learning to improve.
• Build partnerships with council, VCS and other stakeholders to maximise referrals and impact.
• Ensure safe delivery and compliance (safeguarding, H&S, risk assessment, data protection and confidentiality).
What we’re looking for
• Experience supervising and supporting staff/volunteers; organising workloads.
• Experience delivering community-based services/projects to targets and deadlines.
• Monitoring and reporting experience (quantitative and qualitative).
• Strong partnership working and stakeholder management skills.
• Event/community engagement planning, coordination and promotion.
• Strong planning and prioritisation; supportive leadership style.
• Confident communicator (written/verbal) able to represent the project.
• Good IT skills (data, reporting and digital communications).
• Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, boundaries and data protection.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Further requirements
• Occasional evening/weekend work.
• Travel across Rotherham Borough.
• Full clean driving licence and access to a car.
• Enhanced DBS check (required).