Fighting With Pride – LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker (VCW) (Midlands)

£29,400 per annum, pro rata, based on 37.5 hours per week.

Based in the Midlands region

Partially remote worker (as the role will involve some face-to-face activity across the Midlands region).

Fixed Term Contract for 3 years.

Full time hours for years 1 and 2 and 0.7 FTE for year 3. These hours are in line with grant funding. (There is scope, which is not guaranteed, to expand these hours subject to other funding streams).

Fighting With Pride (FWP) is looking for an outstanding regionally focused LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Worker covering the West and East Midlands region (Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, West Midlands, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire). For a fixed term contract of 3 years, this fundamental, enabling, rewarding and busy role will make a real difference to the lives of LGBTQ+ Veterans, serving personnel and their families, around the UK. You will be working as part of team of VCWs covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (AFCFT) are funding this post.

FWP was formed in January 2020 to support LGBTQ+ Veterans, serving personnel and their families and is a registered charity, founded by Caroline Paige and Craig Jones, now led by Peter Gibson and overseen by a dynamic and experienced Board of Trustees.

An increasing number of Veterans are contacting our charity, particularly since the publication of the Etherton Report, and we want to add to our exceptional team to support them. You will be signposting service users to organisations where they will receive a warm welcome and will develop their self-esteem, self-confidence, independence and resilience, and working those organisations to enable positive LGBTQ+ inclusion. In addition, you will be highlighting access to the scheme of reparations arising from the Etherton Report.

An LGBTQ+ Veterans Community Team Manager will support you, along with the Executive team at FWP.

You will have a keen interest in, and thorough understanding of, the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ Veterans community (or other related community), previous experience of supporting and developing service users, strong relationship building skills and be a self-starter with a passion for helping people.

If you are interested in joining this friendly and supportive team, please contact Julia Muir at julia.muir@fightingwithpride.org.uk, for a full job description. Please then apply, sending your C.V. and a maximum of two sides of A4 covering letter, addressing each aspect of the Person Specification (contained in the job description) to Julia Muir at julia.muir@fightingwithpride.org.uk by 12.00 p.m. on Friday 20 June 2025.

FWP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

FWP is an Armed Forces Covenant Employer. We support and encourage service spouses, veterans, and reservists in the workplace.

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