Job Opportunity for Part-time Appointments Administrator – 9 months Maternity Cover

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our award winning team as a part-time Appointments Administrator. This will be based at our office in Stockport town centre.

We are looking for someone with an excellent telephone manner and interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and good IT skills.  More important is a can-do attitude and a commitment to making the appointments service for clients the best there is.

We prefer that you have an understanding of the voluntary sector through voluntary or paid work, but this is not essential as we will provide thorough training and induction.

Beacon Counselling is a registered charity and exists to improve the lives of people experiencing mental and emotional distress. To achieve this Beacon provides counselling across the borough of Stockport and beyond.

Beacon Counselling is committed to safeguarding all individuals accessing our service, as a member of the BACP we are duty bound to adhere to safeguarding standards. This forms a crucial element of our work and all staff will receive guidance on the ways it will affect them in their role.

Job Opportunity for a Part-time Appointments Administrator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our award winning team as a part-time Appointments Administrator. This will be based at our office in Stockport town centre.

We are looking for someone with an excellent telephone manner and interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and good IT skills.  More important is a can-do attitude and a commitment to making the appointments service for clients the best there is.

We prefer that you have an understanding of the voluntary sector through voluntary or paid work, but this is not essential as we will provide thorough training and induction.

Beacon Counselling is a registered charity and exists to improve the lives of people experiencing mental and emotional distress. To achieve this Beacon provides counselling across the borough of Stockport and beyond.

Beacon Counselling is committed to safeguarding all individuals accessing our service, as a member of the BACP we are duty bound to adhere to safeguarding standards. This forms a crucial element of our work and all staff will receive guidance on the ways it will affect them in their role.

With over 350 shops nationally, significant plans to open more and offices in Warrington, London, and Devon, there is no better time to join the fantastic Age UK team and help make a real difference to the lives of others.

Essential to the success of our retail stores is having a great support team behind them ensuring they get the additional help and support they need. We are recruiting an experienced Administrator to join our Retail Support team in Warrington.

This is a busy role, in a lovely friendly department where the successful applicant will be providing admin support to the Shop & Field Teams. You will also be part of the team providing customer service support to the general public, and to shops with queries relating to bag collections and donations.

About you

* You will be an experienced administrator with the ability to provide administrative support to a broad range of people and teams.
* You should have excellent customer service skills and a great telephone manner gained from a customer service environment.
* You will need great IT skills including MS office, with the ability to update and maintain databases and generate reports.

What we offer in return

* 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
* Annual leave purchase scheme
* A fantastic pension (with up to 9% employer contributions)
* Health cash plan
* Annual Season Ticket loan (spread the cost of your commute)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Shopping discounts and many more excellent benefits

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support.

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruitment Administrator to join our Recruitment team based in our friendly, busy Head Office near the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes’ walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for a graduate who has interest in developing a career in Recruitment for a not-for-profit organisation.

For this interesting and varied role you will be responsible for proofing and advertising recruitment focused job advertisements online, in addition to the production and review of associated job descriptions and interview question sets. Additionally, you will provide first class customer service to applicants and managers and will support the wider Recruitment department with other functions such as the processing of applications, maintaining department records, Probationary Review paperwork and dealing with applicant queries.

As part of a central department of the organisation, other duties central to this role will include providing supporting with scheduled CQC inspection requests and the maintenance of related systems and records.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work flexibly under pressure in order to meet deadlines. You will have proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel and will have a confident but polite telephone manner. Additionally you will have strong administration skills and an excellent standard of English to proof read text for inaccuracies and create high standard role specific texts.

Our range of employee benefits includes:

• Guaranteed Contracted Hours, 37.5 hours per week

• Free life assurance

• Pension with company contribution

• A range of employee discounts

This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk. Interviews will take place week ending 08 December 2019

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs and is committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support. We are looking for a temporary Recruitment Administrator (Caseloads) to join our friendly, proactive and supportive team based at our Head Office located in Stockport Town Centre - with easy access to transport and shopping links. We are recruiting for two posts, the first is a full time permanent role, the second to provide maternity leave cover with a potential view to become permanent at the end of the temporary period based on a review of the role and employee performance.

You will be responsible for pre-employment checks including references, DBS checks, health screening. You will be part of a highly motivated successful team to ensure we process all new starters efficiently to ensure that candidates may begin their role with Creative Support as soon as possible. You will liaise with Managers and other members of the team to ensure that files are processed as efficiently as possible and that candidates have a good experience throughout the recruitment process. We need individuals to be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills, be organised and able to work to tight deadlines with a can-do attitude.

This would be an excellent opportunity for those who have the right skills and attitude to work for a highly dynamic organisation. You will promote the highest levels of internal and external customer care, positive person-centred values and a respectful, confidential approach. This job will offer great job satisfaction to people who enjoy hard work and achieving great outcomes for our business and our people.

You will be an experienced administrator with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Word & Excel) and a strong attention to detail though this role would also be a valuable opportunity for a graduate looking to begin a successful career within a not-for-profit organisation.

This role is recruiting on a rolling basis and may be withdrawn if appointed to before the closing date. This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk.

About Us

The Vegetarian Society inspires, educates and enables people to be vegetarian. We work with meat eaters, vegetarians and vegans to help everyone find out how great veggie food is and how it is kind to your health, to the planet and to animals.

As part of our support for vegetarian food and the vegetarian lifestyle, we have a cookery school offering a range of unique veggie and vegan cookery experiences. We are currently seeking an Assistant Cookery School Manager to join us.

The Benefits

• Salary starting at £21,589
• 33 days’ holiday (including Bank Holidays and Christmas closure)
• Pension scheme
• The chance to make your mark with our forward thinking organisation

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced catering and customer service professional to advance their career into the charity sector and make a real difference to the face of vegetarianism.

You’ll be provided with ongoing training and development to ensure you reach your full potential and the support to become a vital asset within our organisation.

What’s more, you’ll be working with a number of talented and highly knowledgeable individuals with years of experience in teaching, nutrition and the catering industry.

The Role

As the Assistant Cookery School Manager, you will help ensure the cookery school runs smoothly and efficiently and offers excellent customer satisfaction.

Your role will also involve:

• Ordering food, looking after storerooms and stock rotation and completing paperwork.

• Clerical and administrative tasks within the school around bookings, customer service, organisation and hygiene standards.
• Making sure the premises and equipment are kept to the highest standards of cleanliness and are tidy and well presented.
• Working with the Head of the Cookery School to schedule and book courses, tutors and catering assistants
• Representing the Vegetarian Society and the cookery school at public events and across media platforms alongside tutors and the manager.
• Researching and keeping up to date with food trends, styles and products in catering and home cooking
• Ensuring staff, customers and visitors adhere to health and safety policies

There is scope within the role for the right candidate to taking on more responsibility and progress to training for either teaching cookery classes or doing media and making recipe videos.

About You

To be considered as the Assistant Cookery School Manager, you will need:

• Experience of working in a catering environment
• Previous customer service experience
• Excellent organisation skills
• Great people skills

Whilst not essential, previous experience of managing staff and training or teaching groups of people would be beneficial to your application.

This is a full time role, working 35 hours per week, including evenings and weekends.

To apply for this post please send a covering letter detailing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description and person specification along with your CV.

The closing date for applications is 5pm Sunday 1 December 2019.

You must be available for interview on Monday 9 December.

Stockdales is a well-established charity based in Sale, Manchester. We are committed to making a difference to children and adults with learning disabilities and life-limiting conditions and their families through our residential and community services. Each year, Stockdales helps hundreds of people to be the best version of themselves regardless of the challenges they face.

Short Job Description

The fundraising manager and fundraising officer make up the fundraising team at Stockdales. They work closely together to make sure all aspects of fundraising are covered successfully: individual supporters, fundraising volunteers, community groups, companies, charitable trusts/foundations and events. They are also responsible for all aspects of Stockdales’ marketing and PR.

We’re looking for a friendly, well-organised and committed person to join our small but busy fundraising team as our fundraising officer. This is an existing role which has been carefully developed over the last 5 years. Do you have what it takes to make this role your own and shape it even further?

As our fundraising officer, you will enjoy a varied, exciting role, with no two days the same! Your responsibilities will include all aspects of the fundraising administration, managing small scale community events, raising awareness of the organisation locally, putting the content together for our website, social media pages and newsletters (currently 3 times per year) as well as making sure our supporters have a high quality experience.

You’ll need to be a good all-rounder, think on your feet and work independently and flexible because there will be some evening and weekend work. You’ll also have a flair for creative writing as you will be putting interesting stories together for our newsletters and punchy posts for social media. A ‘head for numbers’, an eye for detail and strong problem solving skills and IT skills are also needed.

Excellent people skills are a must. In this role you will meet all sorts of people from many walks of life, so you will need to be confident and a good communicator. The fundraising team is in regular contact with the people we support too. This might be whilst taking photos, showing supporters round or simply dropping in to say hello. We support people of all abilities, some with severe learning disabilities and complex health needs. It is essential you are comfortable with this.

This is a thoroughly rewarding role for the right person. You might already come from a fundraising background or you may have all of the transferrable skills needed to make this your move into the charity sector. Whichever, if this is you, then we’d love to hear from you!

One Million Mentors is looking for an experienced, full-time Office Manager to be responsible for diary management, meeting organisation and general office management across several office and remote locations. 

About One Million Mentors:

One Million Mentors (1MM) is a project within UpRising Leadership, working in Greater Manchester, Cardiff Capital Region, West Midlands and expanding into London.

1MM’s mission is to transform the process of mentoring for all in the UK. We aim to train, recruit and connect a million mentors to a million young people in order to increase youth employability, support social action and help break down social barriers.

We recognise the value of high quality mentoring for young people and are determined to widen the scope of mentoring, increase the provision of mentoring to areas across the UK and strengthen the mentoring network by connecting existing organisations through our shared online platform.

The Role:

As Office Manager you will be responsible for Chief Exec’s Diary, organising team travel, supporting some functions of HR, Health and Safety including safeguarding, data protection, finance support, and where required insurances and banking. 

Applicants will need excellent communication skills as well as the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple deadlines. Please note this is a full time role offered on an initial 3-month contract and can be based in either our Manchester or our London office.

For full information about the role (including complete job description; frequency of work and rate of pay), please see our job pack attached.

Application is made by submitting a CV and personalised Cover Letter:

- CV should be tailored to demonstrate how you meet the competencies. Cover Letter should highlight how you demonstrate good secretarial skills, diary management and broader office management skills.

- Cover Letter should also detail why you are interested in the role, why you want to work for One Million Mentors, and how your values match those of our own. The Cover letter should be no more than 2 pages of A4.

Important application details:

Application deadline: 12 noon on Friday 6th December 2019. Please note, that we may be contacting suitable applicants before the deadline, so you are encouraged to apply early.

Interview dates: Tuesday 10th December 2019 in Manchester / Friday 13th December in London.

The Sycamore Project (Zac's Youth Bars) is seeking a new CEO to have oversight and responsibility for all aspects of the organisations work. "Zac's" is a Christian charity providing a wide range of activities and support for over 1,400 young people annually in Bolton and seeks to have a positive and lasting impact, helping young people to achieve their potential.  

We are looking to appoint an exceptional individual who will continue to build on the foundations, address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities to lead the charity forward. You will be working alongside a dedicated team of currently seventeen full and part time staff, together with a team of volunteers.

The successful candidate will be required to provide Christian leadership and have specific focus on funding bids and fund raising, as well as ensuring aims are achieved, targets met, and legislation and regulation complied with.

Overall, you will need to be able to hold and manage the  bigger picture.

Zac’s ( The Sycamore Project) has always put the needs of the young people at the heart of all it does, and so its projects are always evolving, with new services being set up all the time in order to meet the increasing needs of its young people and the wider community.

As well as centre-based activities,schools work emerged as another important strand of the charity, with support being offered to several schools across Bolton, in a variety of ways (e.g. lunchtime clubs, pupil mentoring support, and targeted issues-based work).

In 2017, with mental health concerns emerging as a major issue for the young people in the community, a new “Young Persons Listening Service” and “Healthy Minds” peer support group was set up as part of a new “Thrive alliance” working in partnership with other Bolton based charities and with funding from Bolton CCG.

Whilst the charity has changed and evolved since being formed, the heart of serving the community and being faith based not biased has never and will never change.

Please submit a cover letter, together with CV and supporting statement outlining how you meet the requirements of the person specification by 5.00pm Tuesday 26th November

Manchester City Centre
£25,272 per annum (plus contributory pension)

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is a global humanitarian organisation that finds, removes and destroys unexploded landmines, bombs and munitions from places affected by conflict. We make it safe for communities to use their land again so people can take themselves out of poverty and live without fear. We also provide education programmes, particularly for children, so people can live, work, travel and play as safely as a possible until land can be cleared. Since 1989, MAG has helped over 17 million people in 40 countries rebuild their lives and livelihoods after war.

We are looking for an exceptional IT Support Officer to join our dynamic and successful IT team. This is a fantastic opportunity to a join an international charity that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace-Prize. 

This role, based at our Manchester HQ, is responsible for providing IT Support and administration to MAG employees around the world in a timely and efficient manner.  You will be the central point of contact liaising with international IT Technicians for all IT related requests, issues and queries.

The successful candidate will be working with our HQ team, as well as remotely with our programmes overseas, so excellent communication and time management skills are a must. You will also have great team-working and high quality customer support abilities, and be able to take on new challenges with enthusiasm and commitment.

Finally, you will be well versed in the following technical areas, which are essential for the role:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows OS (versions 7, 8 & 10) and Office suites (up to Office 365)
• Knowledge of Active Directory (and ideally Azure Active Directory)
• Knowledge of computer hardware including desktops, laptops, components, printers and other peripheral devices
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and standard networking hardware
• Ability to maintain records with high degree of accuracy and to report on data
• Ability to install and configure hardware and software according to set procedure
• Understanding of anti-virus, malware and basic security concepts
• Ability to provide high quality technical support to users, face-to-face and remotely
• Ability to explain solutions in a clear and concise manner

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

For further information and details of how to apply, please visit our website before the closing date of the 1st of December 2019.

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.

The Programme

One Million Mentors, is a project within the charity UpRising Leadership, its mission is to transform the process of mentoring for all in the UK. Our ambition is to train, recruit and connect a million mentors to a million young people in order to increase youth employability, support social action and help break down social barriers.

The impetus for 1MM comes from the recognition that there is significant opportunity to widen the scope of mentoring, increase the provision of mentoring to areas across the UK and generally strengthen the mentoring network by connecting existing organisations through the shared online platform.

The Role

The purpose of this role is to strengthen our research, evaluation and monitoring work, being clear about who our key stakeholders are, the recipients and their demographics, the impact of mentoring on the mentor and mentee as well as the challenges and opportunities our offer presents.

The post-holder will promote 1MM, raising our profile and communicating the impact of our work and learning to different audiences through a variety of tools and channels. You will also work with the CEO to identify and apply for fundraising opportunities, as well as to maintain relationships with current funders, providing them with up to date information of our impact via evaluation reports.

Other responsibilities include producing blogs, tweets, social media; maintaining and developing internal communications and to our external audience and liaising with our tech team to ensure the continual development of the One Million Mentors platform.

We are looking for an experienced individual who is able to work well managing the multiple responsibilities outlined in the complete job description.  Applicants will need excellent communication skills as well as the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple deadlines. Please note this is a full time role offered on an initial 3-month contract.

For full information about the role (including complete job description; frequency of work and rate of pay) and what we’d like from you in your application please download our job pack attached.

Important Application Details

Application deadline: 12 pm noon on Friday 6th December 2019. Please note, that we may be contacting suitable applicants before the deadline, so you are encouraged to apply early.

Interview date: Tuesday 10th December 2019 in Manchester.

To Apply 

Please submit a CV and cover letter.  Applications should include your notice period and two referees which we will only contact with your permission.

• CV should be tailored to demonstrate how you meet the competencies
• Cover Letter should highlight how you demonstrate three of the competencies in more detail, with the opportunity to demonstrate how you are working towards any competencies you feel you are lacking in. You may include voluntary, unpaid and paid work.  The Cover Letter should also detail why you are interested in the role, why you want to work for One Million Mentors (UpRising), and how your values match those of our own. The Cover letter should be no more than 2 pages of A4. 

We regret that we will only be able to offer feedback to shortlisted applicants.

At St Ann’s, there’s one thing that motivates us, and that’s providing excellent care and support to those living with or affected by life-limiting illnesses.

We’re continuously developing our plans for delivering world-class, innovative care and to ensure St Ann’s is in the best shape possible for future generations.

You’ll be challenged, inspired and empowered to help us achieve our purpose and to play your part in making a difference.

Have you got what it takes?

• Are you a communications professional looking to make a real difference with your work?
• Can you demonstrate a can-do attitude and appetite for creating campaigns that cut through the noise?
• You must be passionate about our patients and a collaborative colleague.
• Most importantly, you must be wholeheartedly committed to and motivated by the purpose and values of St Ann’s Hospice.

This is an exciting time to join an ambitious, much loved charity and help us achieve our goals. If you’re looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.

Dependent on the job role a DBS Check maybe required, the cost of which is covered by the hospice. St Ann’s Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and children.