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Mentoring Programme Coordinator
cranfield trust

Job Description

Cranfield Trust has been providing high calibre management support to frontline voluntary organisations for more than thirty years.  We start new consultancy and mentoring projects with more than 350 charities each year.  20-25% of these are Mentoring projects.  We are looking for a highly capable management professional to join us as a Mentoring Programme Coordinator to oversee our mentoring service.  This person will help us develop our mentoring offer, and, as part of our team, contribute to the continuous improvement of the Cranfield Trust’s services to charities.

Cranfield Trust is committed to enabling charities to be effectively managed and to support people experiencing poverty, disability or social exclusion.  This role is part of the Operations Team, reports to the Head of Consultancy, and will work alongside the Projects Coordinator and our network of regional Project Managers, who look after consultancy projects throughout England, Wales and Scotland.  You will also develop a close relationship with the volunteer network from within which the Volunteer Mentors come. 

The right candidate will ideally have an excellent range of management skills, including the ability to work with the Chief Executives and Boards of local and regional charities to help them address their mentoring needs through the support of our volunteer consultants.

You will need to have excellent relationship and influencing skills, to be able to write clearly and produce well defined mentor / mentee assignment briefs, and to present the Trust’s work confidently to potential supporters and partners, whether they are individuals or organisations.  As well as their role they will learn the role of the Projects Coordinator so that the two can mutually support each other when necessary, for example, during holidays.  We are therefore looking for a flexible, adaptable team player.

Cranfield Trust has a number of strong partnerships with grant making trusts and foundations.  We have worked with many of our current funders for many years, and we often work together, offering programmes of support to charities receiving funding from a foundation, and management support from the Trust.  The role will look to support all mentoring assignments whether independent or within programmes of work.

Please get in touch if you share our commitment to vital, frontline charities.  The role is home-based but may include travel around the region to meet our volunteers and clients and to our Head Office in Romsey for team meetings and working together.

We are committed to supporting you, your wellbeing and development, to ensure you enjoy working with us.  We offer 25 days / 187.5 hours pro rata plus Bank Holidays, a pension scheme, and opportunities for training and personal development.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.

Application Instructions

If you are interested in joining us, please send a CV and a cover letter, which should outline why the role is of interest to you and your suitability as a candidate for the role. We will schedule first-round interviews from Monday 21st June 2021 onwards. To discuss the post informally, please contact Alice Dabrowska using general contact form at Cranfield Trust.