Establishment of a Panel in 2 Lots for Mentoring and Coaching Services for Pobal clients participating in the ESF+ Achieve Together Coaching and Mentoring Programme

Description

Pobal seeks to assist social enterprises and community and voluntary organisations to identify, develop and implement novel and innovative solutions to sustain, scale up, adapt their processes or operational models to improve their services, community activities and/or employment opportunities, or identify new opportunities and services with a particular focus on those who are most disadvantaged within their community. Pobal intends to establish a panel of Mentors and a panel of Coaches to provide social innovation coaching and mentoring plus tailored supports to enable social innovators to overcome barriers to service innovation, quality enhancement and growth by providing individualised mentoring advice, guidance, dedicated coaching, bespoke learning, and peer engagement. Initially, a number of organisations participating on the Community Services Programme (CSP) will be offered bespoke mentoring and coaching services through an assigned coach and a mentor for a 12-month period. The service will facilitate, support, encourage and inspire each organisation to attain their social innovation goals. Sustainability in this context refers to contributing to achieving positive social innovation outcomes and improving the financial sustainability of the services and activities for organisations supported by the Community Services Programme under the Department of Rural and Community Development and Pobal.