Vacancies

Employment and Education Advisor

Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 pro rata
Hours: 2.5 days per week (20 hours)

CARA is looking for a skilled and experienced Employment and Education Advisor to join their UK Programme. A dynamic self starter, you will have excellent communication skills, a sound understanding of the UK job market and experience of brokering employment opportunities for clients. Working as a member of a small charity you will be a supportive team player with strong organisational skills. An empathy with refugees is vital and prior experience of working with vulnerable groups is welcomed.

Working in conjuncture with CARA’s UK Grant Programme, you will be responsible for delivering one-to-one advice sessions with clients to develop and implement individual Professional Development Plans. A proven facilitator, you will organize employment focussed workshops to increase clients’ practical skills and knowledge. As a proactive networker you will broker employment opportunities within the Higher Education sector and other relevant sectors.

CARA was established in 1933 and provides practical support to refugees who worked as lecturers and/or researchers at universities in their home countries to enable them to rebuild their lives and careers in the UK.

Deadline for applications: Monday 29th March 2010
Interview date: Thursday 8th April 2010

Details of how to apply are in the Application Pack
For further inquiries please email info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk

Events Co-ordinator (part time contract)

The CARA Cycle Challenge is in its third year and raised over £10,000 in 2009 with over 70 participants cycling from Cambridge to London. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to build upon this experience and take on primary responsibility for the development of an effective fundraising event for a small yet busy charity.

Please see person specification for full details.

Applications by CV to joyce.cara@lsbu.ac.uk. Only those being considered will be contacted.

INTERN/ RESEARCH VACANCIES

Iraq Programme Intern-Immediate Start

The Iraq Programme Intern will be responsible for supporting CARA’s Deputy Executive Secretary in all activities relating to the programme. CARA was recently awarded a grant to set up a project operating out of the Middle East, therefore this is an opportunity to play a central role in the development of an exciting new initiative.

This is a full-time internship for 3 months.

To apply please send your CV and a cover letter.
to info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk .