Coordinator
Description
As a Read Easy Coordinator, you would be meeting and enrolling adults who want to learn to read and interviewing volunteer Reading Coaches (alongside another volunteer). You would then pair them up and offer ongoing support throughout their reading journey, visiting their reading sessions occasionally and maintaining support through regular calls with both Reader and Coach to check all is going well. The role will take up around half a day of time per week, but this will likely be spread over the week. You will need to be flexible to meet Readers and Coaches, so ability to be available at several different times throughout the week will be important. Please note that we only operate in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
The impact you'll have
Knowing that you are helping people learn to read and developing an understanding of how that helps to change peoples lives. The role provides lots of variety and is often described as ‘the best role in Read Easy’ because it is so rewarding.
The skills you'll need
You will need to have the following skills in order to participate:
Good communication and people skills, with a commitment to maintaining confidentiality. Strong organisational, time management and record keeping skills. The ability to use initiative and willingness to work independently and as part of a team. A non-judgemental attitude. Energy and enthusiasm. Reasonable confidence in using IT.
When
Commitment
Ongoing
Available Slots
1
You will need
Criminal record check required
Minimum age: 18
Getting here
E17 5AL
READ EASY WALTHAM FOREST
Education, employment and training
Read Easy Waltham Forest is a charity that works within Waltham Forest with adults who struggle to read. There are as many as 16,000 people in Waltham Forest who struggle to read or cannot read at all. This makes all aspects of their work and family life more challenging. Learning to read can be transformational.
Read Easy Waltham Forest recruit and train Reading Coaches who then work one to one with individuals, using a proven programme, until they can read. All reading coaching is free. The Reading Coaches have a team of volunteers behind them to support them in their roles by providing literacy support, promoting the service, finding appropriate public venues for coaching, raising funds and providing financial and administrative back up.
All our team are volunteers. We work as a supportive and friendly team, helping each other in our volunteering roles, and the results are very inspiring. To hear that a parent can read to their child for the first time, that someone can read the aisle names in supermarkets or that someone has been able to fill in a form by themselves for the first time in their life means that we know that we are making a positive change. One of our Coaches said that being a Reading Coach is the most rewarding thing they had ever done! One of our management team said that they thought they were just volunteering but now realise that they were also making new friends! Our aim as a group is to continue to expand the number of Readers we can help and to do that, we need to expand our team.
Do you have some time each week you could use to help someone learn to read? We have various roles on the Team where you could use your enthusiasm and skills to help. Would you like to be part of a wonderful team quietly making a big difference?