Welsh Women’s Aid is the national umbrella organisation in Wales for third sector specialist services working to end domestic abuse, sexual violence and other forms of violence against women.
Our salaries and benefits
Culture
Our culture is one of mutual respect, creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Our approach is practical and we offer flexible arrangements and healthy work patterns to meet individual circumstances.
We give our employees room to grow as well. There are opportunities to work shadow other areas of the business, get involved in events, and gain additional skills.
Most of our roles are open to women only under the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1, which includes applicants with lived experience of being a woman.
We value diversity and are committed to promoting equality. We encourage applications from women from all backgrounds and communities – applicants from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority backgrounds and people with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Our benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, the majority of our roles are able to access the following:
Flexible working: choose when you work – you can carry out your contracted hours between the hours of 7am – 7pm.
Hybrid working: choose where you work – from one of our offices, from home, or a mixture of the two.
Choose how you work: we trust our employees to use their own judgement, initiative and skills to deliver their roles, with access to support and guidance when needed.
Health & wellbeing: free optician check-ups, access to our 24 hour counselling and advice helpline, in person/online counselling and CBT sessions, individual or group ‘Reflective Practice’ sessions to support you in delivering your role, regular team catch ups (virtual and in person) to get to know colleagues and for peer support, and opportunity to join our Intersectionality Action Group to discuss and take forward activities to further develop WWA as an inclusive workplace.
Pension: 6% employer pension contribution following completion of a 6 month probation period.
Time off: 25 days annual leave allowance, plus bank holidays, plus Christmas Eve, as well as access to paid family leave and compassionate leave for when life doesn’t go to plan.
Associate Trainers
Location: Flexible (Wales/Hybrid – Travel Required)
Request for expressions of interest.
Welsh Women’s Aid is seeking interest from people with experience in the fields of training and education to join our pool of associate trainers to help us to provide our innovative and impactful suite of training packages that drive real change.
Welsh Women’s Aid is the national umbrella organisation in Wales, working to end violence against women, domestic abuse, and sexual violence. We work with survivors, specialist services and partner agencies to prevent all forms of violence against women, and ensure high-quality services that are needs-led, gender-responsive and holistic. This work includes influencing legislation, policy, and practice; capacity building and strengthening specialist services; delivering direct services and projects and promoting collaborative working to achieve real change that lasts for survivors.
Role Overview
As an Associate Trainer, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating engaging training sessions, both virtually and in-person, tailored to the diverse needs of our clients. You will collaborate with our core team to design, refine and deliver training materials, ensuring an exceptional learning experience for all participants.
Associate Trainers will work closely with the training team on an ad hoc basis, with training being offered when available to all suitable people in the pool as and when it is available. All agreed expenses incurred will be covered by Welsh Women’s Aid.
Further information regarding our training packages can be found on our website here.
Welsh Women’s Aid are looking for trainers with the following skills & experience:
Essential
- Demonstrated experience as a trainer, facilitator, or educator.
- Proficiency in one or more areas such as violence against women, domestic abuse, or sexual violence.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Thorough understanding of GDPR and confidentiality.
- Ability to maintain accurate records of current information and progress. Experience of managing own workload without direction.
- Non-judgmental, empathetic and solution focused.
- Shares Welsh Women’s Aid’s ethos and values including a commitment to intersectionality.
Desirable
- Proficiency in the Welsh language – Both oral and written.
This post is open to women only, including those with lived experience of being a woman under the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1. We value diversity and are committed to ensuring that our organisation is an inclusive place to work. We encourage applications from women from all backgrounds and communities – Applicants from Black, Asian, or other ethnic minority backgrounds and people with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Benefits
- Access to training
- Access to counselling and clinical supervision
- The standard rate of £350 per day plus any travel and accommodation expenses accrued in line with Welsh Women’s Aid policies.
Application process
Please submit an expression of interest letter explaining your suitability for the role, an up-to-date CV including references and/or an example of your work to: [email protected].
For background information about Welsh Women’s Aid, please see our Annual Report, Strategic Plan, and further information available here.
Accreditation Consultants
Welsh Women’s Aid is seeking interest from experienced practitioners in the field of violence against women and girls to join our pool of consultants to provide robust assessment of our member services as part of our National Quality Service Standards.
Click here for more information.
Location: Flexible (Wales/Hybrid – Travel Required)
Application process: Please submit an expression of interest letter explaining your suitability for the role and an example of your work and an up-to-date CV including references to: [email protected].
Ways to apply for a role at Welsh Women’s Aid
There are 3 different ways you can apply for one of our open roles:
- By completing an online application form – details can be found in the job pack document. Before you start, you can view a list of all of the questions that you will need to answer.
- OR click here to download an MS Word version of the application and submit it by email.
- OR request a paper copy by emailing [email protected].
How long will it take to do this application?
- We have tried to keep the form as short as possible. We estimate that it will take between one and two hours to prepare and submit your application.
- Once you start the application form, you will not be able to save your work and return to it later, so we recommend that you download the list of questions and prepare your answers in advance.
- If you would like to have an informal chat about the role or if you have specific accessibility requirements you want to discuss with a member of our recruitment team, you can call us on 02920 541551 or send an email requesting a call-back to [email protected].
What happens after you submit your application?
If you are shortlisted, a member of our recruitment team will contact you with details about next steps.
Want to know more? Feel free to contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Call: 02920 541551
Ongoing recruitment
Are you interested in working with us?
Maybe you have relevant skills or experience that you think would make you a great fit for our organisation, but none of our current job opportunities are quite right.
Maybe you feel aligned to our core values, or perhaps you’re looking to move into the sector when the right opportunity arises.
If this is something you’re interested in you can fill out our job application form and we will review your application when we are recruiting for future roles.
You can either fill out an application specifically to apply for one of our most regularly recruited for roles (see below – please specify which one you are interested in), or you can tell us more generally about your skills, experience and why you would like to work for Welsh Women’s Aid.
If you have the following, we’d love to hear from you:
- Knowledge and understanding of violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence.
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities and ability to apply an intersectional approach to all areas of work.
- Adaptable and solution-oriented with a proactive and positive approach.
- Knowledge of the strategic drivers facing the violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence sector.
To apply please complete the application form and equal opportunities monitoring form via the link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NEWER23-24
Alternatively, you can email [email protected] to request a word document version of the application. This is a new application process, so please contact us if you have any issues applying.
We will hold your application forms on file for 6 months, at which point you can resubmit your application if you still wish to be considered for roles.