Development and Operations Support Worker
8 days ago
London
Overview • Position Title: Development and Operations Support Worker, • Company: Well Adapt, • Location: Hybrid (Mostly remote with ad-hoc in-person meetings), • Duration: 13th July 2026 – 12th October 2026 (Contract may be extended for 1 year; this will be confirmed in August, subject to funding), • Application Deadline: Sunday 28th June 2026, 23:59, • Hours: 12 hours a week (flexible between 10 am and 6 pm on weekdays, with the exception of core meetings), • Pay: £46,100 (pro-rata) with 3% Employer Matched Pension Contribution About Well Adapt Well Adapt is reimagining health and social care through the lens of disability justice. Disabled and chronically ill people are regularly abandoned by health and social care systems leading to completely avoidable pain, hardship and death. Well Adapt supports chronically ill people to manage symptoms like pain and fatigue. We work with policymakers, healthcare providers, and communities to build health and social care systems grounded in disability justice – recognising that intersecting marginalisations such race, gender, class, and sexuality all shape how people experience health and care. Responsibilities This role is primarily a support role to the CEO, the following: • Writing grant application and tenders, • Writing and responding to emails, • General administration Essential Qualifications These skills and experiences don’t need to have been developed in a professional context. Feel free to think of skills and experiences from your personal life as well. Skills • Strong persuasive writing skills, • Strong ability to absorb and organise lots of information, • Strong ability to take verbal instruction, • Attention to detail Experience • Experience with writing any kind of fundraising application Personality • Feeling confident challenging people in positions of authority, • A genuine enthusiasm for our mission and the topics we cover Desirable Qualifications: Experience • Lived experience of disability, chronic illness, or neurodiversity is highly desirable., • Experience in the disability sector or other social impact sectors OR experience in grassroots activism outside of work, • Experience writing grant applications, • Experience writing government tenders, • Experience forming partnerships (extra points if it’s with disability focused organisations) Location and Working Hours: As this is primarily a support role to the CEO, your working hours will need to take place during the CEO’s working hours of between 10am – 6pm Monday to Friday. The specific timings within those hours are flexible except for core meetings. They currently take place on Thursday and Friday mornings but this may be negotiable depending on the availability of the rest of the team. Other meetings between you and the CEO will be negotiated depending on mutual availability. The role will primarily take place remotely with occasional in-person meetings, negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Please state in your application your current availability for these working hours. Application Process * Send applications 1st stage: Initial Application (Deadline Sunday 28 June 2026, 23:59). Please send a CV and covering letter • Why you think disability advocacy is important (we want to know what you think, not what a generative AI thinks here), • Your availability throughout the week (please see the above section on location and working hours), • Any experience or skills not present on your CV (please don’t repeat information that is already on your CV) We will assess your initial application as follows: • We will check whether you have followed the application’s instructions. Applications that don’t cover the three points above as asked won’t be considered. This is because one of the skills required is “attention to detail”., • We will score candidates based on the essential criteria to create a shortlist., • We will score the desirable criteria from the shortlist to choose 5-6 candidates to invite to the next stage. 2nd Stage: Paid Interview Task on 1st July 2026. If you are successful at the 2nd stage, you will be notified on the 2nd July. 3rd Stage: Interview on 6th July 2026 If you are successful at the 3rd stage, you will be notified on the 7th July. Start date of role: 13th July 2026 Accessibility As an organisation run for and by disabled people, we are committed to meeting the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. Please let us know if there’s anything you need to be able to engage with the recruitment process to the best of your ability by messaging
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