Role Profile

Job title:                               Community Producer Manager

Location:                              HEY Smile Foundation, Hull (providing support across the East Riding)

Reports to (Job Title):           Head of Community Development

Salary scale:                         £28,000 – £30,000

Working Hours:                     37.5 hrs per week

Contract Duration:                Fixed term to 31st March 2022 with a potential to extension subject to funding and business needs. 

Closing date:                        Midnight – 9th May 2021

There has never been a more exciting time to join the HEY Smile Foundation team. Our work spans across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE), as well as connecting opportunities with the private and public sector.

We are connected, joining assets to community knowledge, creativity and inspiration. We are helping VCSE organisations of all shapes and sizes be heard and play a part in solutions, not just highlight community problems.

We have grown significantly in the last 11 years but are still agile enough to respond to the communities need, not prescribe the same methodology ‘because that’s what has always been done’.

We are sustainable in our own right. Whilst developing others, we have ensured we had one eye on our own platform, securing £3m in assets and generating an average of £800k turnover a year in earned income to by masters of our own destiny and focus on the Wow not Woe in our communities across the Hull and the East Riding.

Covid 19 has provided us with an opportunity to share our way of working further and in the East Riding we are seen as a community lead and the Go to Charity, now more than ever.  We are proud to say we now have the strongest charitable board in the region, and likewise we have a team of highly skilled and proactive charity leaders.

Since 2009 HEY Smile Foundation has equipped local charities, voluntary and community groups with the tools and confidence to face the future stronger and more resilient. We work alongside passionate and experienced partners from across the private, public and voluntary sector, connecting the expertise and know-how from local generous leaders and strategic steering groups.

The Smile Community Hive Team work in partnership with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The Team of Community Producers offer free 1-2-1 development support, while brokering opportunities and resources to enhance the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE) across the East Riding.

There has never been a more important time to support the East Riding VCSE. These groups provide much needed community-led solutions that has made a difference to the health and wellbeing of residents. Being part of the Smile Community Hive Team, you will have the responsibility to give the VCSE a strong voice, strengthen their work, evidence impact and connect funding and resources as a trusted and honest broker.    

As a Community Producer, you will join a talented team of individuals that consistently delivers and thinks differently to achieve the right outcomes for the East Riding community. Collectively bringing together a wealth of knowledge to strengthen Governance, Volunteering, Safeguarding, Fundraising as well as Place-based Partnership working.

We welcome an informal chat to help understand the work we do and what experiences you could bring to life within your application. Before arranging an informal conversation, please take a look at the following website resources:  

www.Beecan.org a place for VCSE groups to access free resources, request support and apply for funding.

www.vcse.uk explore latest sector news and links to external resources.

For an informal discussion about the role contact Nick Middleton, Head of Community Development. 

To view the full job description, please click here. 

To apply for the role, please submit your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification and detailing why you would like to take up this role to here. Please make sure you put the name of the vacancy you’re applying for in the subject box.