International Development Manager

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an International Development Manager to help manage and administer the international partnerships programme of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Bright Northumbria Healthcare Charity Team.
As part of its Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Bright Northumbria Healthcare Charity have developed and delivered an international philanthropic programme for 25 years, working in Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria, helping to develop healthcare services through teaching and training.
Our primary partnership with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania, enables trust staff to obtain valuable global health knowledge and experience whilst addressing health inequalities in one of the poorest countries in the world.
The award-winning programme currently has a vacancy for a permanent International Development Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a graduate with experience of international relations. We are looking for a committed project worker to join the dynamic charity team and help to develop this important work.
To work closely with the Head of Bright Northumbria Healthcare Charity to provide project management support for the international philanthropic programme run on behalf of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

To be able to work in a team or alone within the UK and international venues:

• Management of international projects involving trust staff and external staff within the UK and overseas.
• Project administration to support a number of individual project streams.
• Delivery of a communications strategy to raise the profile of the trust’s philanthropic programme.
• Development of high level international training programmes within the trust as part of agreed project activity, UK Aid grant funding or Commonwealth Scholarship programmes.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Responsible for the project management, development and organisation of projects as part of an agreed programme of international philanthropic activity
Responsible for the administrative and logistical support for international volunteers travelling overseas as part of agreed project activity
Responsible for the development of educational programmes for international guests visiting the Trust.
Responsible for writing of funding applications in support of the international programme
Responsible for the creation of proactive communications in support of the international programme
Responsible for the preparation of project reports, research and evaluation of projects for grant giver
Responsible for establishing effective policies and procedures relating to international volunteering to ensure good governance
Responsible for pastoral support to recruited Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) for the first 6 months after recruitment to Northumbria Healthcare.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational and international boundaries

Please refer the Job description for details