About DAHA

About the role

The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate, and engaging professional to join our team!  

We are looking for someone who can work with our Training Lead to support the design & delivery of top quality, bespoke training packages to housing professionals. Are you someone who perhaps works, or has worked, frontline in the domestic abuse and/or housing sector who is looking for their next step? Would you like to be part of the change we need to see to empower, through knowledge, other professionals to identify domestic abuse early and provide the right response, first time, EVERY time? Imagine the difference this can make to the lives of those survivor/victims of domestic abuse who are, as yet unseen.

We value and recognise the skills of those who have lived experience of domestic abuse, although this is not essential, and you will never be asked to disclose your own personal experiences. We also welcome anyone who identifies as being part of an under-represented community.

Interested? Please read on and apply.

About DAHA

The Domestic Abuse housing Alliance (DAHA) is a partnership between Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA), Gentoo and Peabody housing associations. We are the leading specialist domestic abuse organisation supporting housing providers to improve their response to domestic abuse, through our membership model, accreditation framework and training packages. We use our practice-based experience to work alongside partners across the housing and domestic abuse sector to influence policy and national decision making through our DAHA-led National Domestic Abuse & Housing Policy and Practice Group

About Standing Together Housing Team

DAHA is a part of our wider Housing Team at STADA, which includes our Whole housing Approach Team, Housing First and Homeless team and DAHA. We work with housing providers across all tenure types to ensure that survivors in any housing circumstances, and with a variety of housing needs, receive an effective, safe and support response from housing providers, as a part of a wider Coordinated Community Response to domestic abuse.

How to apply 

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Training Lead, Emily Wood, by emailing her at e.wood@standingtogether.org.uk, or directly applying by using this link. Please note this is an employed role and we are not looking for freelance trainers for this position.  

To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you want this role and how you meet the criteria outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.  

If you prefer to apply by post or email or speak to our team about the role, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk to receive the application and address. 

Application deadline: 9am 26 October 2023. 

Interview: likely to be w/c 6 November 2023

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

Job Description

Responsible to: Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) Lead, with operational oversight by the DAHA partnership board and Senior Housing Manager
Work location: London - remote working/office based. Some travel to other locations in the UK for Team working
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Grade 4 £30,000 - £32,139 (based on experience)
Annual Leave: 25 days

Standing Together is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from within Black and minoritised communities.

About Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse

Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) is a UK charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse. We support organisations, including community and faith-based partners, criminal justice partners, housing, social services, healthcare workers and charities, to identify and respond effectively together to domestic abuse. Our aim is to help these communities, services, and agencies to work in partnership, so that people receive the best support at the time they need it. We do this through an approach that we pioneered, called the Coordinated Community Response (CCR). The CCR brings services together to ensure local systems truly keep survivors safe, hold abusers to account, and prevent domestic abuse. Our model of a coordinated local partnership to tackle and ultimately prevent domestic abuse is now widely accepted as best practice.

About the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)

The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) was established in 2014 as a partnership between three agencies who are leaders in invocation in address domestic abuse within housing: Standing Together, Peabody and Gentoo housing associations. DAHA’s mission is to improve the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process for London Boroughs and registered social housing providers in the London. DAHA is now a Membership model which means we are self-funded through our membership. The project and team have grown over the last 2.5 years and we are now reaching nearly 2 million households with the programme.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to promote and support DAHA Accreditation amongst London Boroughs and Registered Social Housing providers seeking accreditation, the post holder will offer support and guidance to members in adopting and embedding standards of good practice in response to domestic abuse and throughout their journey to achieving accreditation. The post holder will work with the wider Standing Together Housing Team to develop and maintain relationships with strategic and operational housing partners and to continually develop new housing initiatives and responses to domestic abuse.

About You

You will be passionate about ending domestic abuse and determined to be involved in the work to improve the housing response to survivors. You may be looking for your next career move from frontline domestic abuse /housing work. This could not be a more exciting time to join us as we evolve & grow. We are a largely remote team, but we work closely together ensuring that no one feels isolated or alone. We are supportive of each other, inclusive, and collaborative. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a great team on a project that has a national impact driving system change. Ideally, you will be London based or have easy access to the city and have some experience of working with or in London Boroughs so that you understand the unique challenges faced by housing services and providers in London.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify regional housing providers and local authorities and actively promote DAHA accreditation in line with the business plan. This includes maintaining a clear record of contacts and engagement with providers, providing resources on the accreditation process, leading promotional presentations and workshops and regularly meeting with strategic and operational leads to encourage commitment.

• Once a housing provider or local authority commits to accreditation, support them through the accreditation and assessment process. This includes scheduled DAHA accreditation assessments, maintaining contact with the staff leading on implementing the accreditation, attending steering group meetings, and offering regular guidance on accreditation progress.

• Deliver regular workshops/webinars on the 8 priority areas of DAHA standards. Plan, organise and deliver these workshops/webinars throughout the year.

• To promote and support housing providers and local authorities to seek DAHA membership, and play a vital role in the delivery of membership agreements

• To independently monitor and evaluate the delivery and outcomes of our work, including gaining feedback from housing providers and local authorities on the accreditation process to identify good practices and areas for improvement.

• To lead DAHA Regional Group for London bringing housing providers and local authorities together to share best practice, problem solve and identify key themes in domestic abuse and housing policy and practice to feed into the DAHA-led National Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy and Practice Group.

• To represent Standing Together and DAHA at relevant meetings as appropriate, including public speaking engagements.

• Support the team with updating DAHA resources and materials including the business case, workshops, website, and online toolkit.

• Support the team to review and update DAHA accreditation for social housing providers, and to develop, pilot, and embed DAHA accreditation standards for local authorities and Supported/Sheltered Accommodation providers.

• Maintain regular contact with the other DAHA Regional Leads in other project sites to share information and join up working with housing providers that cross multiple project sites

General Responsibilities

• To attend and participate in staff and housing team meetings. For housing team meetings, includes sharing in chairing and minute taking by rota

• Sharing information with colleagues (e.g. feedback from conferences and reports); keeping colleagues informed about issues arising from your work; consulting with colleagues.

• Active participation in the Standing Together team linking individual project learnings with the wider organisation and sharing in responsibilities such as training, attendance at external meetings, etc.

• To self-manage your workload administration e.g. typing, photocopying etc.

Accountability to DAHA Programme Manager

• To keep the DAHA Manager through your Senior Regional Lead line manager always advised about progress.

• To work to the milestones and time scale agreed with your line manager on
behalf of DAHA.

• To undertake any other tasks as requested by the DAHA Programme Manager

All these duties to be carried out in line with

• The STADA Equal Opportunities Policy
• The STADA Confidentiality Agreement
• The STADA Information Sharing Protocol
• The STADA Safeguarding Policy

and in a way which always respects:

• The independence of each individual agency participating in the project, whether from the statutory or the voluntary sector, and their status as equal partners in the project.

• The key principles, which guide and inform the project (survivors’ and children’s safety; offender accountability; clear messages that domestic violence is a crime which will not be tolerated in our community).

How to Apply

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Regional Lead (London & South), Jessica Tier, for an informal and confidential chat by emailing her at j.tier@standingtogether.org.uk

To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you would be good in this role and how you meet each criterion outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.

If you have any issues with Hireful or submitting your application, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk for help

Application deadline: 20th November 2023

Interviews will take place on week commencing 27th November 2023

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

Job Description

Responsible to: Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) Lead, with operational oversight by the DAHA partnership board and Senior Housing Manager
Work location: Remote working/office based. Some travel to other locations in the UK for Team working
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Grade 4 £30,000 - £32,139 (based on experience)
Annual Leave: 25 days

Standing Together is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from within Black and minoritised communities.

About Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse

Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) is a UK charity bringing communities together to end domestic abuse. We support organisations, including community and faith-based partners, criminal justice partners, housing, social services, healthcare workers and charities, to identify and respond effectively together to domestic abuse. Our aim is to help these communities, services, and agencies to work in partnership, so that people receive the best support at the time they need it. We do this through an approach that we pioneered, called the Coordinated Community Response (CCR). The CCR brings services together to ensure local systems truly keep survivors safe, hold abusers to account, and prevent domestic abuse. Our model of a coordinated local partnership to tackle and ultimately prevent domestic abuse is now widely accepted as best practice.

About the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)

The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) was established in 2014 as a partnership between three agencies who are leaders in invocation in address domestic abuse within housing: Standing Together, Peabody and Gentoo housing associations. DAHA’s mission is to improve the housing sector’s response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process for social housing providers in the South. DAHA is now a Membership model which means we are self-funded through our membership. The project and team have grown over the last 2.5 years and we are now reaching nearly 2 million households with the programme.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to promote and support DAHA Accreditation amongst Local Authorities and Registered Social Housing providers seeking accreditation in the South of England. The post holder will offer support and guidance to members in adopting and embedding standards of good practice in response to domestic abuse and throughout their journey to achieving accreditation. The post holder will work with the wider Standing Together Housing Team to develop and maintain relationships with strategic and operational housing partners and to continually develop new housing initiatives and responses to domestic abuse.

About You

You will be passionate about ending domestic abuse and determined to be involved in the work to improve the housing response to survivors. You may be looking for your next career move from frontline domestic abuse /housing work. This could not be a more exciting time to join us as we evolve & grow. We are a largely remote team, but we work closely together ensuring that no one feels isolated or alone. We are supportive of each other, inclusive, and collaborative. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a great team on a project that has a national impact driving system change.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify regional housing providers and local authorities and actively promote DAHA accreditation in line with the business plan. This includes maintaining a clear record of contacts and engagement with providers, providing resources on the accreditation process, leading promotional presentations and workshops and regularly meeting with strategic and operational leads to encourage commitment.

• Once a housing provider or local authority commits to accreditation, support them through the accreditation and assessment process. This includes scheduled DAHA accreditation assessments, maintaining contact with the staff leading on implementing the accreditation, attending steering group meetings, and offering regular guidance on accreditation progress.

• Deliver regular workshops/webinars on the 8 priority areas of DAHA standards. Plan, organise and deliver these workshops/webinars throughout the year.

• To promote and support housing providers and local authorities to seek DAHA membership, and play a vital role in the delivery of membership agreements

• To independently monitor and evaluate the delivery and outcomes of our work, including gaining feedback from housing providers and local authorities on the accreditation process to identify good practices and areas for improvement.

• To lead DAHA Regional Group for the South bringing housing providers and local authorities together to share best practice, problem solve and identify key themes in domestic abuse and housing policy and practice to feed into the DAHA-led National Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy and Practice Group.

• To represent Standing Together and DAHA at relevant meetings as appropriate, including public speaking engagements.

• Support the team with updating DAHA resources and materials including the business case, workshops, website, and online toolkit.

• Support the team to review and update DAHA accreditation for social housing providers, and to develop, pilot, and embed DAHA accreditation standards for local authorities and Supported/Sheltered Accommodation providers.

• Maintain regular contact with the other DAHA Regional Leads in other project sites to share information and join up working with housing providers that cross multiple project sites

General Responsibilities

• To attend and participate in staff and housing team meetings. For housing team meetings, includes sharing in chairing and minute taking by rota

• Sharing information with colleagues (e.g. feedback from conferences and reports); keeping colleagues informed about issues arising from your work; consulting with colleagues.

• Active participation in the Standing Together team linking individual project learnings with the wider organisation and sharing in responsibilities such as training, attendance at external meetings, etc.

• To self-manage your workload administration e.g. typing, photocopying etc.

Accountability to DAHA Programme Manager

• To keep the DAHA Manager through your Senior Regional Lead line manager always advised about progress.

• To work to the milestones and time scale agreed with your line manager on
behalf of DAHA.

• To undertake any other tasks as requested by the DAHA Programme Manager

All these duties to be carried out in line with

• The STADA Equal Opportunities Policy
• The STADA Confidentiality Agreement
• The STADA Information Sharing Protocol
• The STADA Safeguarding Policy

and in a way which always respects:

• The independence of each individual agency participating in the project, whether from the statutory or the voluntary sector, and their status as equal partners in the project.

• The key principles, which guide and inform the project (survivors’ and children’s safety; offender accountability; clear messages that domestic violence is a crime which will not be tolerated in our community).

How to Apply

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please feel free to contact our Senior Regional Lead (London & South), Jessica Tier, for an informal and confidential chat by emailing her at j.tier@standingtogether.org.uk

To apply we ask you to follow the link to Hireful and write a statement, in no more than 1500 words, detailing why you would be good in this role and how you meet each criterion outlined in the person specification which you’ll find in the job description below.

If you have any issues with Hireful or submitting your application, please contact hr@standingtogether.co.uk for help

Application deadline: 20th November 2023

Interviews will take place on week commencing 27th November 2023

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION