Home Energy Advice Project Coordinator

Home Energy Advice Project Coordinator

About Us

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association is a registered charity founded by Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, who arrived as a refugee in the back of a refrigerated container with his young family in 1999. We promote social and economic integration of an increasing number of Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugees. We use a community development ethos to support the development of their potential within a mutually supportive framework and we work with a wide range of partners to reach vulnerable and isolated individuals and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.

Our experience and the quality of our provision is evidenced through our many achievements, including:

• Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2018, awarded in recognition of the excellent work and central role that volunteers play in the delivery of the essential services run by the ACAA
• Talent Match Mark Youth Friendly Gold Award from Youth Employment UK
• The charity's founder, Dr Nasimi, was awarded an MBE for services to refugees by King Charles III in the New Year Honours List 2023.

Project Description

We plan to launch The "Home Energy Advice for Refugees" project, a community-led and mixed-method awareness campaign in order to educate and drive behaviour change among Afghan and Ukrainian refugees living in West London. The ACAA's "Home Energy Advice for Refugees" project aims to:

a) Raise awareness among Afghan and Ukrainian refugees about:

• Energy efficiency practices
• Energy schemes
• Priority Services Register and how to sign up
• Risk mitigation for carbon monoxide, and other related topics
• Accessing Debt support

b) Improve the mental health of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees by providing advice during this period of high energy prices.

c) Increase the refugee uptake of available utility-related support and benefits.

Key Duties:

• Deliver a social media campaign on ACAA's social media channels to disseminate information in different languages (Farsi/Dari/Pashto/Ukrainian) on energy efficiency.
• Create short video clips and upload on ACAA's community TV channel
• Organise weekly workshops on energy efficiency
• Recruit volunteers to help with session delivery
• Recruit trainers to run the workshops
• Recruit participants and carry out outreach/community engagement
• Liaise and build links with local groups and public services, local authorities, Job Centres and GP’s
• Administer data monitoring and evaluation
• Overall responsibility for safeguarding and project outcomes
• Maintain and monitor project plans, schedules, budgets and expenditures
• Produce quarterly evaluation reports for the project and liaise with funder on a regular basis

Requirements

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Excellent organisational, planning and coordination skills
• Confident in communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds and from all seniority levels
• Competency in MS Office
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team and focus on multiple tasks at the same time
• Ability to manage own workload to meet tight deadlines
• Advanced experience of managing projects from conception to completion and evaluation
• Exceptional organisational, attention to detail and resource planning skills Ability to produce engaging documents and reports and communicate complex information clearly
• Excellent innovative problem-solving skills
• Have, or willing to undergo, a DBS check
• 3 years’ experience in coordinating projects for charities

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week

Salary: £2,300.00 per month

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: One location