Salary: £15,000 p.a.

Tenure: One year fixed term

In order to support the continuing growth of The Reader Organisation we are looking for an exceptional individual with great potential, whose role will be to enhance, develop, extend and maintain our key communication tools such as web, printed promotional materials and updates.

The Communications Assistant will work closely with the Communications Manager and other members of the Communications Team to promote positive media coverage, ensure website and social media channels reflect current The Reader Organisation activity and to help plan the promotion of our events and campaigns. As such, you will be involved with writing, editing and overseeing the design of print and online materials such as bulletins, printed materials and the website. You will also provide research and administrative support.

This is a responsible and demanding role which calls for a creative, hardworking, intelligent, experienced, reliable, and flexible person.

Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 6th January 2012.

For more information about the job role, the person specification and how to apply, visit our website.

Our latest round of internships run from November 2011 to March 2012 (nb: the Communications role starts two weeks later) and all roles are based in The Reader Organisation’s HQ at The Friary Centre, Liverpool, L5 3LA. The roles available are:

Arts Administration

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Communications

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Information Management

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Leila Green, past Communications Intern:

“This was an extremely rewarding experience both professionally and personally. I was trusted early with a varied body of roles and responsibilities – from events management, to promotions, to media relations – which not only provided the opportunity to step straight on the learning curve, but also, crucially, the confidence to express myself and trust my judgment(s). The team is warm and welcoming, truly in love with TRO’s drive towards a ‘reading revolution’. It was a great working environment: encouraging creativity and nurturing individuality. Not every intern can say they get out what they put in – and more! By the end of the four months I felt proud of what I’d achieved, and grateful for being part of such an inspiring charity.”

Previous interns at The Reader Organisation have gone on to take up posts such as Editor at Vintage books, Marketing Manager at Princes Ltd, Digital Executive at a design company, Marketing Assistant at an architect’s firm, Accountant Graduate Scheme at KPMG, and a variety of positions within The Reader Organisation, including our current Communications Assistant, Training Administrator and National Development Manager.

How to apply

You can download more information about the specific internships in the list above.

Please complete this application form and return by email to jobs@thereader.org.uk or in post to The Reader Organisation, The Friary Centre, Bute Street, Liverpool L5 3LA.

Deadline for applications is 9am Monday 24^th October. You will be notified if you are to be called for interview by the end of the day on Thursday 27^th October. If you have not heard from us by then, you have been unsuccessful. Volume of applications may make replies to everyone impossible.

Interviews will be held at The Reader Organisation Office on Tuesday 1^st November.

If you have any queries, please call The Reader Organisation on 0151 207 7207.

• Part-time (2.5 days per week)
• 1 year fixed term contract
  
• £22,000  p.a. pro-rata (includes London weighting)

The Lambeth Project Worker is required to set-up, establish and facilitate weekly shared reading groups in order to promote reading, well-being and good mental health within the London borough of Lambeth. In addition, Project Workers are expected to take an active role and interest in the core business of The Reader Organisation which includes training others in shared reading techniques, communicating the work of The Reader Organisation effectively and fundraising.

The delivery of the reading groups will take place in a variety of settings, including hospitals, GP surgeries, libraries and community spaces. The Project Worker will work closely with the mental health trust and other local health and community organisations.   Client groups include people in hospital, members of the general population who might enjoy shared reading, people who may be socially isolated, and those with a range of physical or mental health problems.

For full details about the job, the person specification and how to apply, visit our website.

IT and Office Administrator

• Full-time
• £16,000 p.a.

As a result of an administrative re-structure and the installation of our own server we are able to offer this new and exciting systems based role.  We are looking for an exceptional individual to oversee both the smooth running of our IT systems and our more general administrative systems and procedures.

This is a responsible role which calls for a highly organized, reliable, and flexible person who is able to juggle a number of different priorities and has a technical curiosity alongside a willingness to learn new IT skills.

Deadline for applications: Friday 9^th September 2011 at 9.00am

For more information, please visit our website.

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Receptionist

• Full-time
• £12,000 p.a.

In order to support our continued growth, we now require a dedicated receptionist.  This is an important role sitting within our administrative team.  As TRO’s receptionist you will usually be the first person a visitor, funder, beneficiary or commissioner meets, speaks to on the phone or corresponds with by email.  We’ll be relying on you to make that all important good first impression, so above anything else you’ll need to have a good rapport with many different types of people helping them to feel looked after and at ease.

As well as looking after the reception we’ll also require you to undertake some additional administrative duties to help make TRO run as efficiently as possible.

Basic training will be provided if required.

Due to an unprecedented number of applications we are bringing forward the closing date for this post.   Please note and advertise an amended closing date of midday on MONDAY 12^TH SEPTEMBER 2011.

For more information, please visit our website.

This is a dynamic and varied job requiring you to be the on-site lead for an exciting new project TRO is undertaking with Liverpool Hope University.

You will help develop a widespread and deep-rooted culture of reading for pleasure among 500 first year students in the Education Faculty at Liverpool Hope University. You will be managed by TRO’s lead for Children and Young People, Samantha Shipman, and will work alongside the TRO Director, Dr Jane Davis, who will be based at Hope one day each week.

You will be responsible for representing the project to the whole University and for encouraging widespread active participation in the project. You will be outgoing, resilient and enthusiastic and you will have the confidence and enthusiasm to sell the reading for pleasure project readers and non-readers in an academic setting

You will promote, set-up, establish and facilitate weekly read-for-pleasure groups across the faculty, working with students, teaching and ancillary staff, as well as Liverpool hope’s educational partners.

Coordinating and developing Our Read, TRO’s annual shared reading project, at Hope will be an important element in the development of the project, and you will work with student volunteers and Hope’s school partners to extend the current reach of the Our Read.

The work will take place both on campus and extra-murally, in term and during vacations.

Read more information and find out how to apply on our website.

Please see our website for full details about all three jobs and how to apply.

• Trainee Project Worker, Liverpool

Full-time; one year; £15,000

The Reader Organisation is looking for a trainee Project Worker, to join our Get into Reading project teams in Liverpool. A key element of this particular job involves working with boys in secondary school, who may be highly disaffected or disengaged, and who are in need of personal encouragement in order to begin to enjoy reading.

• Project Worker, Tower Hamlets (London)

Part-time; one year; £22,000 pro-rata (includes London weighting)

The Tower Hamlets Project Worker is required to set-up, establish and facilitate weekly shared reading groups in order to promote reading, well-being and good mental health within Idea Stores. In addition, Project Workers are expected to take an active role and interest in the core business of TRO which includes training others in shared reading techniques, communicating the work of TRO effectively and fundraising.

Deadline for applications:  5pm Thursday 11^th August.

Please see our website for full details about all three jobs and how to apply.

• committed to working with them for three years

• open-minded and willing to learn

• friendly and who enjoys talking to people

• serious about developing as a person

After an initial period of training and confidence building, the apprentice will read with Year 5 pupils in primary schools and follow them through, over a three-year period, to secondary school. Pupils will be selected for inclusion in the project by a variety of criteria: social isolation, literacy problems, negative attitude to reading and behavioural problems.

Included within the apprentice’s programme of work would be opportunities for further education which would build on their experience within The Reader Organisation, so they are equipped with the skills they need to start their career.

Kate McDonnell, The Reader Organisation’s Wirral Project Manager, says:

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who may not have had the best start in life – educationally, emotionally, or professionally – to be nurtured. It will get their working life off the ground and develop a love of reading which can then be passed on to the primary school children they’ll be trained to work with.

The Seacombe area of Wirral, where the apprentice will be based, is an area of acute deprivation: it scores badly on the Child Well-Being Index compared to the rest of Wirral and more than one in four young people are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET). The Reader Organisation has discovered first hand that being turned on to books and reading at an early age can have a profound effect on the life chances of individuals growing up in deprived areas.

For people that want to find out more, The Reader Organisation are holding an informal drop-in afternoon on Friday 29th July, between 2pm-5pm, at The Lauries Community Centre, 142 Claughton Road, Birkenhead, CH41 6EY or contact Kate on 07973 247707 or katemcdonnell@thereader.org.uk

We recognise that volunteering has a key role to play in our future and are now are seeking to appoint a Volunteer Manager to run a new project funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.  This new project will engage people experiencing or at risk of experiencing mental health problems in a range of volunteering opportunities across The Reader Organisation in the Merseyside area resulting in a free volunteer-run reading service to residents of residential care homes; providing them with meaningful activities.

TRO has established many reading groups in the Merseyside area, but will be offering volunteering opportunities for this beneficiary group for the first time; recognising the potential the provision would have upon people suffering from mental health issues. Links have been fully established with local library services and residential homes through current provision.

For more information about the role and responsibilities, and to read the person specification, please download the full job description and person specification.

Please complete this Recruitment Monitoring document and return along with your application.

How to apply:

For an information pack and details on how to apply please email leekeating@thereader.org.uk or telephone 0151 794 2830

Deadline for applications:  5.00pm Friday 22^nd July. Please note: applications arriving after this deadline will not be considered.

We will shortlist by Wednesday 27^th July. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 2^nd August 2011.  Please make sure your contact details include an email address and a phone number by which we can contact you if you are called for interview.

Interviews will take place at The Reader Organisation offices, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7ZG.

The appointed person will start work as soon as possible.

• Hours: part-time 3-4 days per week
• Duration: 1 year
• Salary (pro-rata): £20,000-£23,000, depending on experience

About this post:

The main aim of this new role will be to expand our current markets beyond those described as ‘in need’ or ‘hard to reach’, for example with existing book-buyers and Literary Festival goers, people in their workplaces, or through the public library or mainstream education systems.

The successful candidate will plan and deliver an annual programme comprising (if successful) work associated with our HLF bid, as well as  author events, literary suppers, Penny Readings, Readers’ Days, Annual Conference

In addition, the Events and Publications Manager will work TRO regional managers and with literature festivals and others to develop a model that enables festivals/organisations to meet their CSR aims by: taking shared reading into what would be considered ‘difficult’ places, e.g. prisons, acute mental health settings, pupil referral units; and to arrange author visits from, e.g. festivals, into those settings.

The Events and Publications Manager will also coordinate activity in relation to The Reader Organisation’s publications (Our Read, A Little, Aloud, Poems to Take Home, The Reader magazine, etc.), creating links with literature festivals, authors and publishers.

For more information about the role and responsibilities, and to read the person specification, please download the full job description.

How to apply

Send your CV, with a covering letter, to Jen Tomkins, Communications Manager: jentomkins@thereader.org.uk

Please complete this Recruitment Monitoring document and return along with your application.

Deadline for applications: 12th July, 5.00pm
NB applications arriving after 5.00pm will not be considered

You will be notified if you are to be called for interview by 14^th July. If you have not heard from us by then, you have been unsuccessful. Volume of applications may make replies to everyone impossible.

Interviews take place Wednesday 20^th July

Role begins Tuesday 30^th August