Learning, Skills and Employment

We’re recruiting a Policy and Influence Manager

Purpose of the role

Manchester’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is made of thousands of organisations and individuals who use their skills to improve the quality of life in the city. They have insight that can help shape policy and decision making locally, regionally and nationally.

Advicenow: Housing Rights for Refugees - Homelessness & Temporary Accommodation course (5 days)

Advicenow is running a free housing rights course for frontline organisations supporting people with refugee status. The course will be delivered online and is funded by The Disrupt Foundation.

The course aims to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.

The course will be delivered online. You will be required to watch short introductory videos before each interactive session.

Week 1

Online

NPC: Developing a measurement framework for your charity

Did we make a difference? That’s what every charity wants to know. Answering this question can be tricky. It’s hard to collect reliable data about things that have changed. And even if you can, how do you know it was down to you? Would change have happened anyway? More and more charities therefore develop a measurement framework. Such a framework can guide you to measure impact in a structured and robust way. But how do you develop a good measurement framework?

This online webinar is for charities who want to develop or update their measurement framework.

Online

Cranfield Trust: The accidental leader – When stepping into leadership triggers imposter syndrome

Many leaders in the charity sector never set out to become leaders. They were passionate about the cause, good at what they did, took on more responsibility and, somewhere along the way, found themselves leading people, making difficult decisions and carrying expectations they never quite prepared for!

Online