Community Influencing Manager (Wales)

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Samaritans Cymru have an exciting opportunity to join their team as Community Influencing Manager.

You’ll lead our Community Development Project to increase Samaritans local profile, connection and influence in Wales. This is a varied and flexible role where you will use your communication and influencing skills to build partnerships and engage with local communities and Samaritans branches. You’ll coordinate and support Samaritans representation on local and regional groups in Wales, relevant to suicide prevention and develop a plan to engage at risk communities and individuals, helping to increase suicide prevention and ensure fewer lives are lost to suicide in Wales.

It’s a great time to join Samaritans as we're currently delivering our strategic delivery plan and the work you do in this role will contribute towards our vision that fewer people die by suicide.

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The role:

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• Initially a 12-month fixed term contract covering for maternity leave
• Full time – 35 hours per week
• £40,000- £41,500 per annum plus benefits
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
• Based in Wales, with a blend of home working and from our Cardiff based office, with frequent travel within the Welsh region.
• Some occasional out of hours/weekend attendance at events/meetings within the Welsh region

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Full Job description here.

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Employee Benefits

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We offer some brilliant benefits including flexible working, family-friendly policies, and training to support your development. You'll have 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and we match your pension contribution up to 5%. You can claim money back via a Health Cash Plan and wellbeing options including a free subscription to Headspace and a PerkBox account.

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Find out more about working for us in our recruitment brochure here. Welsh version here.

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Hybrid and flexible working:

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We are a flexible organisation, and we embrace hybrid working – a mix of connecting in-person and virtually. We’re aware that the world is changing, and we all want and need different things from our work and home lives.

From January 2025, alongside the ability to work from home, we’re moving to a framework of mandated, in-person time each year. This expectation is around 2 days per month. This includes a blend of in-person meetings with your line manager, team meetings and working in-person with colleagues in other areas of the organisation. We believe this approach will enable our people to communicate, connect and collaborate in the most effective, positive and inclusive way. We’ll also looking at how we improve effectiveness of how we work together virtually. Further info can be found on our careers website.

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Application

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Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. We warmly welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to everyone and are flexible in how we receive information. If you would like to apply via a different format or let us know how we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact the People team.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply. You’ll be asked to upload your CV and a covering letter outlining your transferable skills and experience. You’ll also be asked to answer some application questions. This role will close for applications at midnight on 18th February, with interviews taking place on 03 and 04 March.