Home-Start Kirklees is a volunteer led family support charity, offering volunteer support and practical help to families in Kirklees with pre-school children under the age of 5.

We provide a unique service – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with young children at home who are struggling to cope.

We offer practical help and emotional support to any family in Kirklees who have at least one child under five and not yet in full time education. The families we help are struggling to cope because of a range of concerns such as ill-health, disability, poor mental health; debt or housing problems; family breakdown; loneliness. In addition, families may also have experienced a multiple birth, be new to the area, or be socially isolated.

Our trained volunteers offer weekly support to young families to help alleviate the challenges and pressures of family life, increasing the family’s capacity to cope, help reduce isolation and build confidence and resilience.

We are part of a national network of Home-Start schemes around the UK. Each scheme is run locally and is responsible for raising their own funding. Home-Start Kirklees has been operating since 1999, and we have helped over two thousand families since then.

Home-Start Kirklees is entering an exciting new phase. We are developing and expanding on a range of our core services for families, increasing our efforts in fundraising and launching a new marketing strategy to increase knowledge of the charity and attract donations.

We are looking for someone who has a leadership role or substantial experience in marketing and communications, passionate about applying their expertise to a good cause to help promote and raise the profile of the charity.

A Home-Start Senior Marketing Advisor would:

·         offer time as and when needed.  There is no regular fixed time commitment expected to the role.

·         be invited to contribute on marketing and brand topics covered by the board or sub-committees.

·         work with the senior management team on specific marketing tasks to advise and troubleshoot.

·         keep Home-Start Kirklees abreast of updates and external developments within marketing

·         advise on resources, equipment or technology that would benefit the organisation.

·         be a critical friend to the organisation and advise on areas for improvement.

·         help promote the organisation and raise its profile within the Kirklees district.

A Home-Start Advisor is responsible to the Fundraising Manager.

Submit your details below if you would like to discuss this further.

• Application form required
• References required
• DBS (criminal record check that the organisation will organise)

• 18+