Advocacy and Outreach officer - East Belfast & North Down areas

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibility of the Advocate and Outreach Officer is to oversee the delivery of the project across the target area, to ensure that it delivers the agreed outputs and outcomes within the time-scale and budget established by the Project Manager.

The aims of the “Open Doors” project are to:

• Strengthen relationships between the ex-prisoner/ former combatant (EPFC) community, and other groups and sectors across the region, founded on the principle of reconciliation and understanding
• Demonstrate the partners commitment to peace
• Create a partnership to build understanding and joint activity between groups representing both loyalist and republican EPFCs
• Build new relationships with other legacy groups to create dialogue about the past and promote understanding and healing
• Establish relationships with external service providers to address welfare, mental health and well-being issues experienced by EPFCs and their families
• Present proposals to address the perception of EPFCs in wider society

Specific tasks:

• To undertake out-reach activities with members of the ex-prisoner/former combatant community to reduce levels of marginalisation and promote re-integration
• Provide social supports to the community including the provision of welfare advice and counselling (training will be provided)
• Facilitate delivery of “Conflict Transformation” Training, including the recruitment of participants
• Engage with both statutory and non-statutory service providers to promote re-integration by improving access to services
• Engage with community and voluntary sector organisations to promote relationship building across society
• To liaise closely with the Project Manager, and to keep them appraised of the progression of the project through the submission of written reports and attendance at project management meetings
• To build effective working relationships with the consortium partners, the project manager and other Area Co-ordinators involved in the delivery of project outcomes
• To attend, as agreed with line manager, any internal or external meetings
• To carry out any other reasonable tasks associated with project delivery.

This post is subject to funding.