Open Arms Project Supervisor
Rotherfed is recruiting an Open Arms Project Supervisor to lead day-to-day delivery of the Open Arms project: supervising staff, coordinating community engagement and events, and ensuring strong monitoring, evaluation and reporting. If you’re an organised, people-focused leader with community project and partnership experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: Rotherham Borough (travel across the borough required)
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (some evening/weekend work required)
Contract: fixed term until 31st March 2027 (initially) with further 2 years expected thereafter.
Salary: £33,000 per annum
Responsible to: Rotherfed Project Manager
About the role
- Lead operational delivery, planning and review in line with the project plan and funder requirements.
- Deliver targets/KPIs; manage risks and address underperformance.
- Supervise staff/volunteers: 1:1s, induction, coaching, rotas and performance support.
- Plan and coordinate community events/engagement (venues, logistics, suppliers, staffing and promotion).
- Lead monitoring, evaluation and reporting: data capture, systems, returns and outcome reports; use learning to improve.
- Build partnerships with council, VCS and other stakeholders to maximise referrals and impact.
- Ensure safe delivery and compliance (safeguarding, H&S, risk assessment, data protection and confidentiality).
What we’re looking for
- Experience supervising and supporting staff/volunteers; organising workloads.
- Experience delivering community-based services/projects to targets and deadlines.
- Monitoring and reporting experience (quantitative and qualitative).
- Strong partnership working and stakeholder management skills.
- Event/community engagement planning, coordination and promotion.
- Strong planning and prioritisation; supportive leadership style.
- Confident communicator (written/verbal) able to represent the project.
- Good IT skills (data, reporting and digital communications).
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, boundaries and data protection.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Further requirements
- Occasional evening/weekend work.
- Travel across Rotherham Borough.
- Full clean driving licence and access to a car.
- Enhanced DBS check (required).
How to apply
For further details and to request an application pack, please contact: Sarah Fletcher on 07538 625113 or email sarah.fletcher@rotherfed.org
Closing date for applications: Friday 29th May 2026 at 10am
Interviews to be held on: Tuesday 2nd June 2026