Job Details: Gateway Mental Health Project: Project Coordinator


Irish Future
Talbot Street
Dublin 1
irishfuture.ie
Gateway Mental Health Project: Project Coordinator


GATEWAY MENTAL?HEALTH PROJECT

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Founded in **Apply on the website** on community development
principles (participation, empowerment, collective action, and
equality), Gateway is a community member and peer led social support
organisation for people with self-experience of recovery and mental
health issues and works to promote positive mental health, recovery,
and social inclusion in the community.

It is hosted by Mental Health Ireland (MHI), who employ staff and
provide the financial and legal governance of the Project and
supported by a voluntary Management Committee (including Project
members and representatives from other organisations).

DETAILS OF PROJECT AND POSITION

Gateway currently has over **Apply on the website** members living
across Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W, 8, **Apply on the website**, **Apply on the
website** and **Apply on the website** who work together for social
support, positive mental health and recovery and to address
experiences of stigma, discrimination, social exclusion and
inequality.

It provides an essential resource where people, with self-experience
of mental ill health and recovery, can meet people, get support, and
be informed. Core activities include twice weekly drop-ins,
recreational, social, educational and cultural activities, supporting
members? wellbeing and integration locally. As a member led project,
Gateway also provides ongoing support and training opportunities/
information to members to become more active participants and leaders
in not only in the running of the project but also in progressing
recovery approaches to mental ill health and influencing national
policy*.

The Project Coordinator has overall responsibility for all aspects of
the day-to-day operations of the Gateway Project to ensure it remains
true to its founding principles as a member-led, recovery focused and
socially inclusive project for members.

While accountable to the Management Committee and MHI, the post holder
will be required to exercise significant autonomy. Responsibilities
include: leading and supervising a small team in line with MHI
processes, working with members in all aspects of the project,
supporting the organising the day-to-day activities and events of the
project, overseeing the Project?s budget, as well as actively
participating in discussions regarding the strategic development of
the project, developing a strategic plan and an annual work plan,
preparing reports for funders and support participatory research. The
post holder also will be required to represent the project at
inter-agency meetings and network with others, who can support the
project meet its core objectives.

* Since March **Apply on the website**, the project has continued, by
adapting many of its core activities and creating new activities in
accordance with public health guidance in relation Covid **Apply on
the website**.
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Type: Permanent
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Category: Health

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