Ubuntu Project Worker 2 (PT Maternity Cover)

Ubuntu Project Worker 2 (Part-time maternity cover)

• Do you have experience of facilitating workshops and training in a range of community and youth settings?
• Are you looking for a healthier balance, with more daytime hours and only occasional evening/weekend work?
• Are you looking for a new challenge and want to be a part of developing an exciting new service?

Barnardo's is seeking to recruit a Project Worker who will support the delivery of the Ubuntu Project across NI.

This role offers the opportunity to focus on delivery of the Ubuntu Community Development offerings while supporting activity across all three Ubuntu strands. (Please refer to the linked Additional Information Sheet containing more info)

About the post

Part-time: 18.5 hours per week

Fixed term (maternity cover): 16th November 2026 to 16th August 2027

This role involves delivering direct work across Northern Ireland, and we're flexible about where you're based.

While there are occasional evening and weekend commitments, these are scheduled in advance and balanced with opportunities for occasional home working. At its busiest, the role may involve around one Saturday and up to two evenings per month, along with no more than two short residentials a year. However, in practice these commitments can reduce, for example, when schools are off sessions typically move to daytime.

More about TheUbuntu Project

Ubuntu roughly translating to“I am because we are”is an exciting new project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and delivered by Barnardo's. The Ubuntu Project is focussed on supporting communities and connecting voluntary and statutory organisations working directly with children, young people and families who have arrived into NI seeking sanctuary – this includes those who have arrived as refugees and those who make a claim for asylum after they arrive. The project has 3 strands, Ubuntu Youth Voice Network, Ubuntu Practitioners Network and the Community Development Strand.

Our Community Development work can support Community Groups and Statutory Organisations to meet the needs of those seeking sanctuary by providing workshops, facilitating programmes for parents, programme development, and sharing practical resources that promote integration, wellbeing, and shared learning. We offer a Youth Voice Network for young people aged 12-21 who have arrived seeking sanctuary. The focus of this youth provision is to amplify young people's voices using a rights‑based, participatory approach that empowers them to influence policy and lead change. Alongside this, the Ubuntu Practitioners Network connects agencies regionally to share intelligence, improve systems, and advocate collectively for better outcomes. Together, these three strands create a unified model that champions belonging, builds capacity, and drives meaningful, sustainable change to improve the lives and outcomes for children, young people and their family's seeking sanctuary.

Barnardo's will be holding a waiting list of appointable people, where you may be offered similar jobs of the same grade should they come up within 12 months post interview.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced Access NI with Child and Adult Barred list check.

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.

We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line withour pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:23814
• Job Title:Ubuntu Project Worker 2 (PT Maternity Cover)
• Location:Ubuntu
• Contract type:Fixed term
• End date:16th November 2026 to 16th August 2027
• Hours:18.5 hours per week
• Salary:£14,343.50 - £16,901 pro rata (£28,687 – £33,802 FTE)
• Closing Date:12 October 2026
• Interview Date:26th October 2026

Benefits

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Additional Info

• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (164.07 KB)
• Project Worker 2 - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (262.63 KB)
• Storage Handling Retention and Disposal of Disclosure Policy Northern Ireland 2023.pdf (162.93 KB)
• AccessNI Revised Code of Practice.pdf (71.58 KB)
• AccessNI Privacy Notice - May 2025.pdf (141.60 KB)
• Ubuntu Additional Information- Project Worker 2, PT Maternity Cover.pdf (280.77 KB)

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