Participation & Prevention Manager

Supporting the development of Good Company’s participation and prevention strategy, ensuring that those affected by poverty are central to decisions about how to tackle it. You will be responsible for helping to implement the recommendations of the East Surrey Poverty Truth Commission and facilitating other projects aimed at tackling the root causes of poverty in the local area. 

As the Participation & Prevention Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the development of our participation and prevention strategy, ensuring that those affected by poverty are central to decisions about how to tackle it. You will work with other members of Good Company to implement the key recommendations from the East Surrey Poverty Truth Commission, as well as acting as our link with the Poverty Truth Commission Network.

You will be line managed by the Participation & Prevention Director, and work with other colleagues in the Good Company team on the different participation and prevention projects. 

Key responsibilities: 

Your main responsibility will be to help develop and deliver the recommendations from the second phase of the Poverty Truth Commission. This will include some, or all, of the following projects: 

• Promoting our Poverty Awareness Training Workshop, to raise awareness of poverty and help frontline agencies in supporting service users who are in financial hardship.  

• Helping to create a local network of safe community spaces and advice cafes, where people can access support, if they need it, before they reach crisis point. 

• Establishing an online referral network, to ensure that people receive the holistic support they need. 

• Coordinating the development of learning materials to support healthy relationships education for children and young people. 

• Planning a local multi-media campaign to raise awareness of mental health and how to access appropriate support. 

• Supporting our Civic Commissioners in disseminating and embedding their learning from the PTC within their own organisations and networks. 

The aim would be to co-design and deliver each of these projects with a group of both Community and Civic Commissioners. In addition, you would assist in rolling out Good Company’s End Poverty Pledge, seeking to ensure that other local organisations are encouraged and equipped to do what they can to reduce and alleviate the effects of poverty in their local community.