With public awareness of mental health higher than ever before, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the Corporate Partnerships Team at Mind. We’re growing and changing fast, but there’s still much to be done.

We’re looking for a Regional Corporate Partnerships Officer to join our successful and growing team. Mind has recently secured a high-profile seven-figure national partnership with a large-scale UK food retailer, for 2019-21. You will support the delivery of this partnership in your region, whilst also managing a small portfolio of your own partnerships. As a skilled relationship manager, you’ll provide first-rate account management and stewardship. You will develop creative fundraising and engagement plans to excite, inspire and maximise income and other opportunities for Mind. 

This role is homebased, covering the North West and Yorkshire, with the potential to be based at the retail partner’s site in Manchester 1-2 days a week. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract.

To apply, please follow the link below to our website.

Closing date: noon 4th November 2019

Interviews: week commencing 11th or 18th November 2019

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

With public awareness of mental health higher than ever before, there’s never been a more exciting time to join the Corporate Partnerships Team at Mind. We’re growing and changing fast, but there’s still much to be done.

We’re looking for a Regional Corporate Partnerships Officer to join our successful and growing team. Mind has recently secured a high profile seven figure national partnership with a large-scale UK food retailer, for 2019-21. You will support the delivery of this partnership in your region, whilst also managing a small portfolio of your own partnerships. As a skilled relationship manager, you’ll provide first-rate account management and stewardship. You will develop creative fundraising and engagement plans to excite, inspire and maximise income and other opportunities for Mind. 

This role is homebased, covering the West Midlands and Southern part of the North West. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract.

To apply, please follow the link below to our website.

Closing date: noon 4th November

Interviews: week commencing the 11th or 18th November

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

About us

At the Together Trust we believe everybody deserves an equal chance in life. There are no exceptions. Formed in the centre of Manchester in 1870, we provide a wide range of support services to over 2700 people in Greater Manchester and the surrounding area every year. Our services include care, special education, community and family support. In the current economic climate, the reality is that we are being pressed to provide more for less, and budgets are squeezed so tightly there would be little chance of providing additional resources without the help of our amazing supporters.

A wonderful opportunity has arisen with the Together Trust for an inspirational and ambitious Head of Fundraising to lead a passionate team of fundraisers at our central office in Cheadle, Stockport. The contract is to cover maternity leave for 9-12 months. If you are motivated by fundraising to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people to enable them to live their lives to the full, then read on.

As our head of fundraising you will…

Be experienced in delivering a successful fundraising strategy and inspiring your team to approach their fundraising creatively and resourcefully. Be motivated by the exciting challenge ahead, to maximise the fundraising opportunities offered by our landmark birthday in 2020, and an exciting capital appeal to refurbish and expand one of our community buildings in the centre of Stockport.

Be highly experienced in delivering a fundraising strategy that spans community and events, trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships and major giving. Be passionate about ensuring your team meets their objectives to significantly increase income from voluntary sources, and you will be keen to support them in involving the people we support wherever possible.

About you

You will have a strong track record of success in delivering strategies and campaigns across the fundraising mix.

Your team will feel inspired, supported, and energised by your leadership style. You will work to continuously improve upon yesterday’s work, to exceed fundraising targets and find and recruit more donors/supporters.

In a nutshell, your team will be excited to arrive in work every day too because of the cohesive, collaborative and valued approach you bring.

Closing date 24 October 2019

Interview date 4 November 2019

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time- 35 hours a week

Location: London (will also consider Birmingham or Manchester)

Our Corporate Partnerships Executive focuses on maximising the impact current partners, seeks new opportunities and develops innovative ways to engage partners and grow relationships.

You will have experience of relationship building and partnership management in fundraising and/or sales. They will be able to communicate effectively with stakeholders across various departments and levels of seniority. Managing a portfolio of abroad range of partnerships and supporting on our larger scale partnerships, we're looking for a candidate who demonstrates initiative and operates with energy and enthusiasm.

You will take a proactive role within the partnerships team, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes that create the biggest impact for young people.

To learn more about the role, please download the job description. 

About The Prince's Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince's Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application.To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince's Trust Behavioural Framework.

Pride in Practice Co-ordinator / GMMH Sessional Worker (75 Hour Contract)
Manchester, Greater Manchester (office/field-based, covering Greater Manchester)

About Us

Nationally significant and focused on a fair and equal society, we are the LGBT Foundation, a charity supporting the needs of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans.

Serving over 40,000 people each and every year, we provide information to a further 200,000 individuals online, making us one of the most significant charities of our kind in the UK. We help all LGBT people to achieve their full potential and aim to be ‘here if you need us’, living by our hashtag #EqualityWins.

Pride in Practice is a quality assurance and social prescribing programme for healthcare services that strengthens and develops service providers’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) patients within their local communities. Due to the manner in which data is collected, the needs of minority groups, such as LGBT people, are often not recognised or addressed.

We are now seeking a Pride in Practice Co-ordinator / GMMH Sessional Worker to join our teams in Manchester and focus on LGBT inclusion within mental health services and sexual orientation and trans status monitoring. This is a contract role for a total of 75 hours which can be scheduled to fit around your needs.

Your Rewards

- Salary of £12.26 per hour
- Flexible working hours to fit around you
- The chance to make a real difference to LGBT healthcare

This is an amazing chance to get involved with a transformational project that is positively enhancing the healthcare system.

Since 2016, Pride in Practice has been rolled out to 445 health services, reaching over 2 million patients across Greater Manchester alone. The stats speak for themselves with 100% of health professionals evidencing improvements within their service as a result, nearly 90% of services implementing NHS England’s Sexual Orientation Monitoring Information Standard and 62% implementing trans status monitoring.

What’s more, Pride in Practice is endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners, Greater Manchester Local Pharmaceutical Committee, the Northern Optometric Society and is part of the Healthy Living Dentistry Framework. This means that we are backed by some of the most prestigious societies, frameworks and committees in the UK, lending legitimacy and expertise to our programme.

Your Role

As a Pride in Practice Co-ordinator / GMMH Sessional Worker, you will work as part of a small team that works with healthcare providers to deliver the Pride in Practice workstream.

Working closely with healthcare practitioners, you will seek to enhance their knowledge of LGBT-specific needs and ensure that Pride in Practice continues to be delivered to an excellent standard.

Your role will also include:

- Supporting the development of the Pride in Practice model for Mental Health Trusts
- Delivering onsite training sessions for staff based at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust
- Inspiring healthcare professionals to reflect on their service delivery and to implement Pride in Practice’s best practice model
- Providing a professional account management service to departments engaging in the project
- Supporting ongoing learning and development for staff, departments and services involved
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust and wider stakeholders

About You

To be considered as a Pride in Practice Co-ordinator / GMMH Sessional Worker, you will need:

- Experience of project delivery
- Experience of communicating with a range of professional and community stakeholders
- Experience of writing and delivering presentations
- Knowledge of the issues and experiences of LGBT people, particularly related to healthcare and access to services
- Knowledge of co-production, community involvement and collaborative approaches
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- To be professional and influential over the telephone and face to face
- To be confident, clear and diplomatic when delivering training
- The ability to multitask and manage multiple relationships and accounts

Please note, qualifications are not required, however qualifications may be useful in demonstrating competency for the role.

Other organisations may call this role Project Co-ordinator, Programme Co-ordinator, Learning Programme Co-ordinator, Learning and Development Co-ordinator, Sessional Worker, Mental Health Sessional Worker, Healthcare Support Worker, Training and Development Practitioner, or Training Consultant.

The closing date for this role is Wednesday 6th November 2019 and interviews are scheduled for Friday 15th November 2019.

We particularly welcome applicants who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), trans, and/or older (50+) as colleagues from these backgrounds are currently underrepresented in our organisation.

We use trans as an umbrella and inclusive term to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from the gender they were given at birth, including non-binary people, people who cross dress and all those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.

So, if you are ready to help deliver an incredible programme as a Pride in Practice Co-ordinator / GMMH Sessional Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Job title Regional Corporate Partnerships Officer
Organisation Mind
Location Home-based covering the North West and Yorkshire area, possibility to be based at the retail partner's site in MAnchester, 1-2 days a week
Remuneration - 28,750 (including the home based allowance)
Contract Full-Time, 18 month FTC

Harris Hill is delighted to be assisting the fantastic UK-based mental health charity, Mind, in the search for a new Regional Corporate Partnerships Officer, in the North-West of England.

Mind is a National charity that works across the country, offering information and advice to people with mental health problems. The organisation relies on support right from the grassroots level all the way up to the government. Mind has recently secured a seven figure national partnership with a large scale UK food retailer, for 2019-21. Reporting to the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager, this role will be responsible for the delivery of the fundraising stream of this partnership in your region, while also managing a small portfolio of your own partnerships. Mind's Fundraising department consists of four teams, generating a combined net income of 32 million per annum. As the postholder, you will be a part of the partnerships fundraising team, which generates income from major donors, charitable trusts and foundations. Together the team raises over 12 million per annum gross income for Mind's work.

Mind are looking for an experienced Partnerships Officer to join their expanding Fundraising Partnerships Team. The crux of the role, as a skilled relationship manager, is for you to provide first-rate account management and stewardship and develop creative fundraising and engagement plans to excite, inspire and maximise income and other opportunities for Mind. Furthermore, you will be instrumental in the implementation of agreed fundraising and engagement plans.
This role requires certain levels of experience and skills that needs to be proven or demonstrated. A track record of providing high level of customer care including building and maintaining relationships with partners to secure repeat support. Experience of working on a complex account or project with several internal and external stakeholders. Proven ability to manage budgets including forecasting, monitoring, maintaining agreed cost/income ratios and regular reporting of outcome against KPIs. Demonstrable excellent written communication skills and project management skills. A proficiency in using Microsoft Office.
If you would like to receive a full job specification for this role or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Ruaidhri at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7312.

This is a rolling recruitment so early applications are encouraged.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and of being heard, because better understanding of mental health benefits everyone.

We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. An important part of our work is ensuring we generate enough income to continue offering support and to develop new projects where needed, as guided by our values of Openness, Belonging, Strength and Collaboration.

The Fundraising Officer will support our Fundraising Manager and Senior Fundraising Officer in continually developing our capacity and sustainability. This new role is a vital development within Manchester Mind at an exciting time of growth. We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to contribute to our long-term strategy.

Position: Fundraising Officer

Salary: £19,446 pro rata (£9,723 actual)

Hours: 17.5 hours per week

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Being able to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way.
• Experience of working in fundraising.
• Excellent organisational skills.

Application documents can be downloaded from this listing or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

Applications must be received by 12noon, Tuesday 29th October 2019.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

JOB DESCRIPTION

DESIGNATION           Central Administrator

HOURS                  36 per week (some unplanned social hours)

SALARY                    NJC Scale pt 10 - 20  £20,751 - £25,295

LOCATION                Warrington

RESPONSIBLE TO Chief Executive/SMT

PURPOSE OF POST To provide and oversee administrative support services within the charity; to act as PA to Chief Executive and offer admin support to Senior Management Team

KEY RELATIONSHIPS As per management structure

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide PA support to Chief Executive & Senior Management Team (SMT)

• Manage and support CEO/SMT electronic diary, assessing priority of appointments and reallocation as necessary.
• Manage CEO/SMT/Trustee travel arrangements (including accommodation).
• Maintain CEO/SMT office systems, including data management and filing.
• Maintain records of CEO/SMT contacts using internal CRM.  
• Screen calls, enquiries and requests, and deal with them when appropriate.
• Assist CEO/SMT in researching and following up with action on matters which fall within the CEO/SMT responsibility – chasing responses, triggering follow-up action.
• Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations for the CEO/SMT/Trustees as required.
• Organise meetings and ensure that the CEO is well prepared for those meetings, preparing agendas, pre-meeting briefings and meeting papers.
• Manage arrangements for Trustees’ and Sub-Committee meetings, including production/distribution of agenda and papers.
• Meet and greet visitors at all levels of seniority including offering hospitality.  
• Supervise all Trust incoming/outgoing mail.
• Any other duties as may reasonably be required by the CEO/SMT member

Deliver the charity’s outputs through management of day-to-day operations

• Manage the smooth running of Warrington sites, building and administration.
• Ensure standard administrative procedures across all sites
• Support development and maintenance of administrative policy and practice.
• To be the first point of contact for all building maintenance enquiries, reporting any issues to landlord and to follow up as required.
• Responsible for maintaining a database of key holders, equipment and ….ensuring that this is updated accordingly.

Establish and maintain efficient and effective administrative systems:

HR

• Responsible for ensuring that all staff and volunteers are subject to DBS checks. Maintain an up-to-date database housing this information.
• Manage the recruitment inbox – responding to all speculative applications and agencies as appropriate and passing CV’s on for further consideration
• Liaise with agencies and organising the advertising of roles internally and externally as appropriate
• Maintain internal database in regards to staff holiday, absence and sickness

Office management

• Report any office issues to line manager as soon as possible and undertake agreed actions.
• Liaise with IT support to maintain a fully functional IT including website and telephone operating system.
• Manage the office diary.
• Prepare reports and correspondence as requested.
• Deal sensitively with all enquiries and directing telephone, postal or email enquiries to the appropriate member of staff
• Attend Business Meetings as requested, take minutes and disseminate within agreed timeframe (usually within a week of when the meeting took place).
• Maintain the Policy and Procedures Manual, ensuring that staff have up-to-date copies of agreed protocols at all times.
• Manage stock control and requisition according to policy.
• Assist in producing visual aids / presentation material for PAPYRUS representatives.
• Help to facilitate training delivery nationally, responding to email and telephone enquiries, ensuring preparation, materials, resources, venues, for all events are in place when required.
• Ensure relevant data is recorded and up to date on database system.
• Collate evaluations and feedback from project work

General PAPYRUS duties

• Respect confidentiality within PAPYRUS policy and manage data appropriately in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) tailored by the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Understand relevant duties and manage matters relating to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults within PAPYRUS policy.
• Attend and contribute constructively to regular line management supervision and appraisal protocols.
• Attend the AGM and any PAPYRUS events where required. Help to plan, contribute to and attend PAPYRUS conferences and seminars as required.
• Attend training courses as required.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES   

It is the nature of the work of PAPYRUS prevention of young suicides that tasks and responsibilities are in many circumstances, unpredictable and varied. All staff are, therefore, expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises and when tasks not specifically covered in their job description have to be undertaken. These additional duties will normally be to cover unforeseen circumstances or changes in work and they will normally be compatible with the regular type of work. If the additional responsibility or task becomes a regular or frequent part of the member of staff’s job, it will be included in the job description in consultation with the member of staff.

CONFIDENTIALITY     

It is expected that all PAPYRUS employees understand that our work is confidential and that neither details about those who use its services nor any other PAPYRUS business should be divulged to members of the public. A confidentiality agreement must be signed on taking up this post. Further details are outlined in the PAPYRUS Confidentiality Policy.

BASIC PRINCIPLES   

The post holder is expected to be familiar with and have regard to the ethos and values of PAPYRUS and work within that framework. He/she must be prepared to operate without prejudice to all who approach PAPYRUS or work with the organisation at any level. 

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE     

Conditions of Service are broadly in line with those set out by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services. PAPYRUS has a probationary period of 6 months for all posts. Appointment to this post may be subject to satisfactory Enhanced CRB Disclosure and/or completion of Vetting and Barring Scheme checks.

QUALIFICATIONS   

See Person Specification

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic person to join our innovative Creative & Digital team. Working across a broad range of online and offline channels, you’ll be supporting the profile and positioning of Ambition Institute. You’ll be responsible for delivering creative, high-quality and impactful campaigns and content. This role will develop your communications skills in a variety of areas such as digital, design, audiovisual, and copywriting. If you’re a self-starter with great organisational skills who is eager to learn and has a good understanding of putting together communications campaigns, we want to hear from you.

Our ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

Essential:

• A strong commitment to our mission and values
• Good writing skills, producing copy for a variety of audiences including those online
• An aptitude for visual design and eye for detail
• Experience of working on social media accounts
• A natural team player who can also work independently
• Excellent organisational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to reflect and learn from experience
• Seeks feedback to improve performance
• Experience of working across organisations and collaborating effectively
• Administrative experience

Desirable:

• Experience of working on marketing campaigns
• Experience of using design software (e.g. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Basic understanding of website development, Google Analytics, SEO, online advertising, and PPC/Google Grant
• Experience of using a range of digital platforms
• Experience of contributing to the production and design of digital content

Our offer:

We are happy to be able to offer you:

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
•  A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply 

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive at this stage we will not be able to contact unsuccessful applicants.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation. 

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.  

Responsibilities

- Act as the central point of contact for CYF Manchester for external parties, volunteers, students and other CYF programmes.

- Act as the central point of contact for the city for CYF management.

- Oversee accounting, expenses and funding with appropriate support from CYF management.

- Organise the booking of venues, childcare and, where necessary, transport for class purposes.

- Liaise with volunteers, students and CYF management to help develop the direction of CYF as an organisation and the activities of the city cohort.

- Programme development and sustainability.

- Develop partnerships with other organisations to help support the functioning of regular classes as well as to support training and employability for students/graduates.

- Take an active role in student recruitment and contact suitable organisations to facilitate this.

- Process student and volunteer applications for the course and arrange meet-ups when required.

- Undertake communication by email and monitor the functioning of the central email account for city.

Essential Skills & Experience

Suitable candidates should be able to able to demonstrate the following attributes in their application and interview:

- The ability to self-organise and manage a range of tasks required to fulfil the responsibilities of the role

- Knowledge of social issues faced by refugees, asylum seekers and otherwise socio-economically disadvantaged people, especially in relation to access to education and employment

- Knowledge or connection to local organisations that assist refugees, asylum seekers and otherwise socio-economically disadvantaged people

- An understanding of the organisation and delivery of small scale projects

- An ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams of volunteers in dispersed locations

- Good office IT skills using Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail and Calendaring applications

- A working knowledge of social media platforms

Working Hours

This is a part-time role requiring 15-20 hours work per week, depending on requirement. This includes an expectation that some weekend working may be needed to support student & mentor needs during class sessions.

Manchester Mind and Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust work in partnership to provide an assertive outreach pathway within Community Mental Health Teams in the city. We work with hard-to-reach individuals with severe and enduring mental health needs and complex issues including homelessness, substance use and offending.

Manchester Mind wishes to appoint to the following post:

Position: Support Time and Recovery Worker (8 month post, cover for a secondment)

Location: Central East Area Team, Rawnsley Building, MRI, Oxford Road, M13 9WL.

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: £19,819 + working weekend enhancements + 5% pension contribution

Holiday: 28 days per year + bank holidays

Supporting people in their journey to recovery is an integral part of this job. To ensure that this happens we are looking for a creative, innovative person with excellent engagement skills and a positive and collaborative approach to working with people with complex needs.

You will need to be a team player but also not afraid to take the lead when needed and we expect you to have experience working with people with mental health needs and/or with people who are hard to reach. Experience of using mental health services will be an advantage. Successful applicants will be able to show that they can maintain a positive approach to providing recovery-focused support to service users, and have the ability to inspire hope in service users at all times.

All application documents can be downloaded from this listing and from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

The deadline for submission of applications is 12noon, Monday 4th November 2019.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services.

Manchester City Centre

Starting Salary £50,340 per annum (plus contributory pension, 25 days)

Must be able to travel overseas for up to two weeks at a time, potentially each quarter.

Full to Part time hours considered.

MAG saves lives and builds futures by working with others to reclaim land contaminated with the debris of conflict, to reduce the daily risk of death or injury for civilians, and to create safe and secure conditions for development. MAG shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for our work to ban landmines. Our vision is a safe and secure future for men, women and children affected by armed violence and conflict. 

We are looking for an exceptional Head of Financial Compliance to join our dynamic and successful Finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to a join an international charity that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace-Prize.  Our Finance Department is currently undertaking a dramatic and significant transformational change that sees a new structure and a number of high-level additions, including our recently hired Deputy Director of Finance. This is an exciting and integral role that will support our growth; thereby enabling us to make a real difference, supporting our lifesaving work across the globe.

Based in our Manchester HQ, you will lead the development, implementation and monitoring of financial policies, procedures and processes and also be accountable for MAG’s financial compliance framework. Therefore, you will need a solid background in financial analysis and demonstrable experience leading on all external audits. Reporting in a commercial or NGO environment and have diverse experience in wide-ranging improvements in financial processes and procedures would also be essential. You will need to be accredited, either in CCAB or some other international equivalent professional accounting qualification, e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA.

This is a fast-paced role, which will require high levels of initiative, pro-activeness and strong multi-tasking skills. Above all, you will need excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and are able to build effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders. You will need to be approachable, flexible, have a good eye for detail and be ready to work in a busy and varied role. You will also recognise that good financial support can make a real difference to MAG’s success in saving lives and building futures.

Please note that as part of MAG's commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to background checks before an offer of employment is confirmed.

HOW TO APPLY

Further information and details of how to apply, please visit our website before the closing date of Sunday 10th November 2019. If you are wishing for part-time hours then please specify what days/ working hours you would require.  We do reserve the right to contact candidates sooner than the closing date due to the urgency of this role.

Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every application. If you have not heard back from us within 3 weeks of applying, it means that your application has not been successful.

Creative Support is a national not-for-profit organisation, providing housing and support to individuals with a wide range of needs.  We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Client Finance Officer to our Housing and Welfare Rights Team based in Stockport.

The Housing and Welfare Rights Team provide a warm, friendly and responsive service to all clients supported by Creative Support, offering support and guidance to clients, staff and partner agencies on matters relating to tenancies, housing law, welfare benefits advice and budgeting.

Client Finance Officers are warm, empathetic people with a passion for helping vulnerable adults improve and maintain their quality of life, through the effective maximisation of benefits and budgeting skills.  You will be warm, positive and accountable with the ability to build positive, trusting relationships with clients, staff, families and partner agencies.

You will have an interest in financial inclusion and specifically the DWP benefit systems.  You will have some knowledge of the benefits system, and of the current welfare reform and its potential impact on vulnerable adults.  You will need to be self-motivated with a keen interest in rules and regulations and how we can use this knowledge for the benefit of our clients.

You will be responsible for a caseload of appointeeships, managing the benefit claims and budgeting for a number of vulnerable adults who do not have capacity to do this for themselves.  You should be motivated, organised and able to meet deadlines.  You will be friendly, approachable and confident, and you will be able to communicate clearly with clients, staff and other partner agencies.  You should not be averse to dealing with sometimes challenging and / or emotional cases, and you will demonstrate professionalism and empathy as necessary.

Creative Support is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to delivering high quality care through a diverse, well trained and supported local work force.

Closing Date: 10th November 2019

Entry Level/Junior Fundraiser

Salary: £18,000

Primary Location: Chell Fundraising Ltd, Unit 2, 263 Woodhouse Drive, Wigan WN6 7NR

Responsible to: Fundraising Director

Primary Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (occasionally evenings and weekends)

Hours: 37.5 per week

Starting: January 2020

About us

Chell Fundraising Ltd was founded to give affordable, high-quality fundraising solutions to charities throughout the UK. We exist to support charities of all sizes with their unique fundraising needs and have a vision to see a time where charities are no longer held back due to lack of funds. We now have an exciting vacancy for a driven individual to join our small and passionate team with opportunities to professionally develop as our organisation grows.

About you

We are looking for someone who shares our vision, has excellent creative writing and verbal communication skills, as well as a genuine heart for the third sector. For this role, fundraising experience would be an advantage although not a requirement as full training will be given. 80% of our clients are churches and Christian ministries. This being the case, whilst it is not an occupational requirement to be a practicing Christian, it would be advantageous if you were familiar with Christian culture in the 21st Century. 

The Role

You will help to deliver a wide range of fundraising packages, each tailored to our client’s brief and supporting our fundraising consultants. When representing a client on any fundraising task, you will communicate on behalf of each client with their specific voice, visions, passions and ethos. Based on your skills and experience this could include:

• Trust fundraising 

• Event Management

• Direct Mail and Online Giving Campaigns

• Major Donor/Corporate Fundraising and Prospect Research

• Fundraising Training

 Apply

Please do read through the Job Description and Person Specification for this role before sending a CV and covering letter to our Fundraising Director, Mark Perkins

Stage 1: The first stage of the application process will be an informal phone interview. 

Stage 2: If successful we will then invite you to the second stage interview held at our office in Wigan