About Migrant Help:

Migrant Help is a leading charity that has been established for over 50 years and delivers a range of support and advice services to migrants across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable migrants, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.

We are currently looking for a Project Coordinator to join our team on a Permanent contract. The successful candidate must be able to attend one of our offices in either Dover, Birmingham or London and be able to travel nationally when required.

We place a high value on employees in relation to the work that they do and the benefits the organisation offers, with an ethos of being a Great Place to Work.

These are some of the benefits we offer:

• Flexibility and work life balance
• Enhanced family friendly provisions
• Additional holiday entitlements
• Perkbox benefits
• Non-contributory pension scheme.

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At Migrant Help, we foster a culture in which equality, diversity and inclusion are recognised, valued and encouraged. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, we match your skills with the needs of our organisation. As long as you share our values, vision and goals. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of their age, religion or belief, race, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.



The Role:

Project Coordinator will play a key role in the development and progress of the Migrant Help Strategy 2020-23. Working with internal colleagues and stakeholders, the postholder will be responsible for aspects of strategy delivery with a focus on researching opportunities, scoping projects, developing project proposals, supporting with the improvement and efficiencies and providing project support to teams across the charity. The post holder will be responsible for aspects of strategy delivery such as monitoring outcomes, staff involvement and communications.

In addition, this role will create evidence-based project proposals that support the objectives in the strategy and work with departments to plan and mobilise projects that are approved. The Project Coordinator will develop evaluation and monitoring methodology to support the outcomes of the projects and also for the ongoing impact of the strategy.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy

​• Maintain a list and map of organisational partnerships, identifying geographic and service gaps.
• Ensure projects contribute to the strategy objectives.
• Support the progress of the Migrant Help Strategy including developing and monitoring strategy projects.
• Establish evaluation strategies to assess the impact of the Migrant Help Strategy.
• Manage research and scoping of projects.
• Compile data from across the organisation and seek out opportunities to maximise its use.

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Project Development

​• Lead and manage the development of a range of straightforward strategy project proposals and business cases concurrently, ensuring relevant deadlines are met.
• Provide project support to teams across the organisation as required.
• Build relationships with internal partners to understand the requirements of the project and find ways to collaborate.
• Produce project proposals, including determining resources, researching options, developing outputs, producing cost analysis, evaluating methods and identifying risks.
• Begin project planning for the mobilisation of successful proposals and work with colleagues to get the project up and running.
• Prepare plans and proposals for approval at a variety of levels and report on progress.



The above list of job duties is not exhaustive; the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide a service to, applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process.

- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

Therefore the applicant must:

Be able to provide documents to show their right to work in the UK i.e. passport or other right to work documents such as work visa, settled status document, certificate of registration, naturalization as a British citizen, Biometric Residence Permit etc.
Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment.


​​We encourage applications from disabled people by offering them an interview if they meet the minimum criteria for the job