Location: Your base will be the Advonet Office at The Unity Business Centre alongside delivery sites including hubs and community venues. As an operational leadership role, this post requires a regular presence in the office, at Autism AIM’s hub, and at key meetings alongside flexibility to work remotely where this meets service needs. The role requires occasional evening and weekend work.
Role Purpose: To support the AIM Manager in the leadership, management and development of Autism AIM services across multiple projects and geographical areas including Leeds, Bradford and Craven. The role holder will provide operational oversight of designated projects, ensuring high-quality delivery, continuous improvement, and responsiveness to emerging needs. They will also support, develop and lead staff and volunteers working across AIM services. The postholder is a member of the Leadership Team at Advonet and plays a key role in delivering organisational priorities.
We are looking for someone who has:
Essential:
· Managing or supervising staff or volunteers including those with additional needs. Partnership working across sectors.
· Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
· Co-production or user-led approaches.
Desirable:
· Lived experience of Autism or neurodivergence.
· Project management.
About Us:
Established in 2001, The Advonet Group is an independent advocacy charity based in Leeds. The Advonet Group is comprised of statutory and non-statutory advocacy services and specialist inclusion services (Asking You, CHANGE and Leeds Autism Aim). All our services support individuals to have their voices heard and their rights upheld.
We are united in our commitment to uphold the nationally recognised advocacy principles and have a diverse staff team of 80 people working within the organisation. We are a disability confident and Mindful Employer with Investors in People and Volunteers and have achieved the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark.
The Advonet Group values and respects the diversity of backgrounds, experiences and knowledge that staff, volunteers and job applicants bring. All our staff undertake mandatory training on both Equality and Diversity and LGBTQ+ Awareness to increase awareness and understanding of discrimination both in and out of the workplace, with a view to reduce the impact this has on our colleagues and the wider community. This creates a workplace where staff feel comfortable to be themselves and empowers them, and our service users, to use their unique experiences to inform their work.
Benefits of working with us:
· Up to 31 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
· Access to a cashback health plans and Employee Support scheme
· Flexible and remote working – We recognise that people work best when they can balance their professional and personal responsibilities. We offer flexibility wherever possible; while maintaining our commitment to putting the needs of the people we support at the centre of what we do
· Free parking near the city centre
· Welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment
· Generous pension percentage
Closing date: Tuesday 15th September at 12 Noon.
Interviews to be held on: Tuesday 29th September.
How to apply:
Please note this is a relisting of the role: Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest in this role during the previous recruitment process. Having carefully reviewed applications at that time, we are seeking to attract new applicants and therefore previous candidates are kindly asked not to reapply.
To apply for this role please send your CV with a covering letter explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the Recruitment Pack which can be found on our website and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, which can be found at Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, along with a detailed job description and person specification. Please return CV’s and covering letter to [email protected].
If you would like to discuss the recruitment process or need any reasonable adjustments to support your application with us, please do contact us by emailing [email protected].
If you have any questions about the role itself, please contact Autism AIM Service Manager Eloise Sutcliffe, [email protected], who is supporting this process.
Pay: £15,926.94 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
