Opportunities with us

The service administrator will reduce administrative activities across teams by becoming the central operational and administrative support across departments.

Ensuring effective and consistent coordination and system use across the organisation. You will maintain high quality data and documentation in line with funder requirements and provide clear operational insight to support decision making and performance.

The role also contributes to partnership coordination, youth engagement activity, and external communications across the wider network.

To lead on strengthening early years to young people’s (0-12) voice, ensuring they are meaningfully involved in shaping services, projects, and decision-making across the organisation and in the community. The role will build and sustain effective engagement opportunities, support young people’s participation in governance and advocacy, and develop inclusive and empowering practices.

Powered By CAN are looking for a creative and passionate Senior Service Coordinator to join our successful play, physical activity and public health service. In this role, you will plan, coordinate, and deliver high-quality extra-curricular sessions within both local community and educational settings. We are seeking an individual with a firm grasp of sector strategy, exceptional relationship management skills, and the commercial acumen necessary to support our goals for sustainable growth and high-impact delivery.

Are you passionate about using creativity to transform lives? Do you believe that arts, culture and civic action can create lasting opportunities for children and young people?

Powered by CAN (PbC) is looking for an ambitious, innovative and relationship-driven Arts and Culture Manager to help shape the future of arts and cultural engagement across the Black Country.Working alongside the CEO and Head of Programmes, Participants and Principles, you will lead the development of inspiring creative programmes, build meaningful partnerships and champion opportunities that empower children, young people and young adults (up to 35 years old) to thrive.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence regional and national conversations around creativity, inclusion and social change while delivering high-quality programmes that make a genuine difference within underserved communities. The Service Manager should champion the rights for children, young people and young adults and drive opportunities for them to become socially engaged in arts, education, culture and civic change.

Help bring funding and investment into communities across the Black Country -and make sure local voices shape decisions about their future.

Charging Up Change is our place-based approach to tackling inequality, strengthening youth and community voice, and supporting long-term change across the Black Country. At its heart is the Black Country Network (BCN), bringing together VCSE organisations, cultural partners, public bodies, funders and decision-makers to strengthen collaboration and collective impact.

As Community Investment & Funding Officer, you will identify and develop funding and investment opportunities, build relationships with funders, investors and partners, strengthen the resilience of Network members, and help connect community priorities with regeneration and investment decisions.

This is a relationship-led role at the intersection of community development, funding, philanthropy, social investment and place-based change. We welcome relevant and transferable experience from a range of sectors and career paths, including VCSE, grant-making, philanthropy, regeneration, partnerships, local government and cultural organisations.

Powered by CAN is recruiting dynamic and passionate Freelance Creative Practitioners to join our Arts Collective and Talent Pool of Creative Facilitators. We are looking for skilled individuals across a variety of art forms to deliver high-quality programmes, workshops and masterclasses for young people aged 2-21 years in the Black Country.

Our programmes cover a broad spectrum of creative disciplines and are designed to inspire, educate, and engage children and young people through participatory learning and artistic expression. If you are an experienced facilitator in one of the following areas, we would love to hear from you:

• Media & Digital Content

• Performing Arts

• Visual Arts

• Cultural Skills

• Creative Enterprise

Are you passionate about a fairer future for young people? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of young people in the Midlands and beyond? Could you help Powered by CAN move into our next ten years with purpose and vision?

We are looking for YOU!

We want new voices and additional skills to expand the breadth of experience and influence in our board members.

We are particularly seeking areas of focus and experience in;

• Human Resources
  
• Finance
  
• Capital Projects & Building Management

We would also welcome interest from those experienced in the following sectors;
Legal, Environmental Sector, Education Sector Sales & Marketing/Digital Media and Broadcasting.

Are you under 35? As a youth-led organisation we would love to welcome young board members.  

Download our Board Pack here, or contact ea@poweredbycan.org for an informal conversation.