Dad Matters Surrey Project Lead

We are looking to recruit a new Dad Matters Project Lead, who will adopt an ownership mentality to shape and deliver the Dad Matters Project across Surrey.

Employer: Home-Start Surrey. The post holder will be working across Surrey.

Hours of work: 37 hrs per week to include some evenings and weekend hours.

Salary: circa £45k.

Responsible to: Dad Matters Surrey Steering Group Lead.

Base: Remote with county-wide travel.

About the Dad Matters Project: Dad Matters Surrey (a Home-Start Surrey Project) exists to support dads to have the best possible relationship with their families. We do this by providing 1:1 and group peer support, helping Dads make sense of parenthood, and providing or signposting Dads to mental health support and access to relevant services. Working closely with other professionals, we are able to better support dads in the first 1001 days of their parenting journey.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Recruiting a team of volunteers (and eventually staff) to expand the project.
2. Playing a key role in awareness, fundraising, and support provision.
3. Articulating a strategic plan, identifying the steps necessary to make that plan a reality, and taking action.
4. Managing multiple responsibilities around service setup, delivery, and forward planning.
5. Working collaboratively with others, being open to learning and asking questions.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. Passionate about Men's Mental Health.
2. Experience in Project Launch, Governance, Project Strategy and Management, Men's Mental Health, Safeguarding, and Individual or Group Service Delivery.

Home-Start is committed to equality of opportunity and diversity, and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences, including those with lived experience of, or insight into, socio-economic disadvantage. We are also committed to safer recruitment practice as an important part of safeguarding and protecting children and adults. An enhanced disclosure check will be required.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 26th January 2025 at 11:59pm.

Interviews: To follow.

How to apply: Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role. Please note that although you may be asked by the job board to upload a CV, you are not applying at this stage. No agencies please.