About the role
Some of our grants are made directly by residents. We believe that the people who are experiencing inequity should be able to make decisions about what services and approaches they think will provide the best solutions to the challenges facing communities in Islington. We ran our first resident led grant making panel six years ago and have since involved over 50 residents aged from 16 to 80 in our grant giving. You can read more about our resident led grant giving here.
We know that some people who take part in our panels are eager to do more, either more grant giving or to play a wider role in civil society and want to support them to do this. We’d also like to better help people who want to take the skills they have learned on one of our panels out into the work place.
The Alumni Manager is a new role. We anticipate the post holder spending the first few months talking to former resident panel members and others in the community in order to design a programme to best support our former grant makers. The remainder of the contract time will be spent implementing and delivering the programme.
Key duties:
- Working with resident grant makers to develop an Alumni programme that enables them to continue to develop skills and engagement within the community.
- Making links with grant givers and others in the voluntary sector to develop opportunities for resident grant makers to use their skills once they have been part of a resident panel.
- Providing 1-2-1 support to Alumni members to help them find support and services that build their personal power.
- Using learning from the programme to influence how Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Giving continue to share power with residents across all our programmes.
- Supporting the Alumni to play an active role in helping Islington Giving to reach underrepresented communities.
- Ensuring that Alumni members are appropriately compensated for their time.
- Monitor the impact of the Alumni programme, with a particular focus on ensuring it is meeting the aims of Cripplegate Foundation’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and Islington Giving’s strategic priority to: “share decision making more equally with residents.”
- Sharing learning from the project both internally but also with external organisations.
- Working with the Programme Team and others who run our resident led giving panels.
- Using learning from alumni to help improve how we work with residents across all our programmes.
- Work with the Development and Communications Team to share information about the alumni programme, including with the funder.
How to apply
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