Job Purpose

We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and experienced administrator to join a small but successful team delivering community led approaches to tackling the climate crisis.

The postholder will be responsible for admin support for BWCE’s small staff team and board, as well as supporting the further development of BWCE’s organisational systems and maintaining them on a day to day basis. The postholder will have a specific role providing admin support for a three year, EU funded project developing a community approach to home energy demand management.

For a full job description and application form, click the 'Apply on website' button that will take you to our website where you will be able to download more details.

Bath & West Community Energy (BWCE)

BWCE is a not for profit, Community Benefit Society. Since launching in 2010, BWCE has built over 12 MW of community owned solar power systems and one small hydro scheme, enough power to meet the equivalent annual electricity demand of around 4,000 homes. For more information see www.bwce.coop. 

BWCE is working to put people at the heart of the energy transition, placing ownership and control of energy in the hands of consumers via clean energy projects that actively involve and benefit local communities. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and are keen to develop a team that is more representative of the communities we serve.

The Green House Bristol provides free counselling for adults and children who have experienced sexual abuse at any time in their lives.  

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Children & Young People’s team as designated CYP Service Administrator.  

We are looking for a friendly, sensitive and efficient person who will be the first point of contact for incoming calls and enquiries from families and professionals. 

The CYP Service Administrator is an integral part of the team and is responsible for processing incoming referrals, data entry, overseeing the waitlist and assessment allocations. They will support the CYP therapists in their role in working with children and families.  

An ideal candidate would be someone with knowledge and experience of working within children’s services, though this is not essential. 

For now, this role will be a mixture of home-working and office-based, at our therapy centre in St Agnes Lodge, St Pauls.   

For more information on the role, you can download the job description and person-specification here. To make an application for the position, please complete an application form evidencing how you meet the criteria in the job description and person-specification and also an equalities monitoring form.   

We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all genders and backgrounds. All appointments are made subject to references and an   

enhanced DBS check.  

Applications must be summitted by 9am Tuesday 9th February

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 16th February  via Zoom video link 

We’re looking for a motivated, imaginative and organised human to be the heart and soul of this small team and large community. You would be responsible for innovating and implementing new Covid-safe cycling adventures whilst meeting ambitious fundraising targets to support Choose Love. 

Thighs of Steel

Our purpose is to raise money and awareness for refugee-supporting organisations. We do this by running empowering and community building cycle adventure events. To date, we have raised over £450,000 for Choose Love, Europe’s largest donor of grassroots refugee aid, providing emergency support and long term solutions where they are most needed.

Our rides are deliberately uncompetitive, accidentally but proudly feminist, and offer genuine adventure. Our organisation is small, purpose-led and independent. The team consists of two Directors, who will coach you into the role and work together with you on strategy, finances and impact goals. There is also a dedicated team of volunteers within our community who run aspects of the organisation including Comms and the London Cycle Club. With this small team around you, you will be the driving force of the organisation, spending more time working on it than anyone else. Our community of cyclists are so engaged we see them as a wider part of the organisation . With many of our community craving adventure after lockdown, but social distancing necessities reaching into 2021, it is a creative time to join the organisation as new events and adapting existing ones will be the first priority.

Essential responsibilities:

• Inventing: Creating new fundraising cycle adventures, that empower, challenge and are enjoyable for participants. They must also be financially sustainable and add to our purpose, fundraising for Choose Love

• Fundraising: Meeting an ambitious fundraising goal of £150,000 per year for Choose Love.

• Organising: Making the cycle adventures happen on time and to a budget. Recruit and organise training for the core team for the rides. Build a team of volunteers from the community to support you with route planning, booking accommodation, etc

• Community Building: You will be the point of contact for all communication with participants. You’ll be a highly organised and easygoing person that always has time for people on and offline. Community building will include ensuring the Cycle ‘Clubs’ are thriving and led by the community itself as much as possible. 

• Partnerships: Collaborating and communicating with our key partner, Choose Love, including regular check-ins about our fundraising progress, comms collaboration and event opportunities. Additionally, building and exploring new partnerships to help us meet our goals. 

• Comms: Creating the strategy and delivering content to engage and grow our audience through online and occasionally offline mediums. This includes social media platforms, website building, content creation and designing. Comms strategy will involve working towards building the breadth of our community, in collaboration with Choose Love.

About you 

• Experience in an organisational role in the third sector (social enterprise, charity etc)

• Passionate about refugee rights and freedom of movement 

• Have an interest in cycling and adventures

• Organised with good attention to detail and comfortable organising online with tools such as Mailchimp, Slack and Google Drive incl Sheets, Docs.

• A good communicator, sociable and able to contribute and encourage a close knit community. 

• Good at multitasking a varied workload

• Comfortable being your own boss, taking initiative and responsibility, whilst co-creating a team who collaborate and respect each other.

• Flexible with workload, there may be times in the year where things are busy and other times where it’s a lot quieter, so weekly hours will vary, whilst monthly pay remains at an average of your annual workload. 

• You are passionate about helping to create an inclusive, anti-oppressive organisation that treats people with respect and dignity. Considering accessibility in the ways you work, such as in communication and events design

Practical information

Contract: 12 months (possibility of extension depending on funding) with a 6 month probationary period

Salary: £21,000 pro rata, 0.6FTE, therefore pay is £12,600. 28 days of holiday pay are offered, including bank holidays, pro rata. Salary is the London Living Wage.

Hours: 3 days a week on average, if working 7.5 hours a day. 

Location: Whilst Covid-19 restrictions make supported group rides impossible, the role can be remote. However once rides are possible you would need to be able to work regularly in Bristol or London, where the majority of our community are. If this wouldn't be possible but you still feel you are right for the role, please do apply and let us know your location and how you think it would work.

Our approach to hiring:

We encourage applications from a wide variety of backgrounds who can drive and inspire change for refugees and displaced people. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic candidates, and candidates with disabilities.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We are happy to talk about flexible working and we promote a workplace where you can be your authentic self and achieve success based only on your merit.

• 3-4 days per week
• 6 month contract with a view to being made permanent after this period

Why do we need this role?

Müllers exists today to “Strengthen the Church to meet the needs of the vulnerable.” In all we do, we work to help Christians use their skills and influence for the benefit of the most disadvantaged people of our world. We do this through training, resourcing, praying, teaching, networking, mentoring and inspiring. None of this is possible without clear, helpful, effective, robust, honouring and proactive administration happening behind the scenes. In fulfilling the role of bookkeeper and administrator, you will play a key role of ensuring the internal health of Müllers is strong, therefore enabling those in need to experience the hope, love and wholeness on offer in Jesus.

Overview of role

As part of the Operations Team, you will be responsible for managing the records of our financial activities, carrying out routine bookkeeping tasks and following our financial processes to ensure the smooth running of the charity. In addition to this, you will be responsible for other important administrative tasks such as organising meetings, minute taking, events and reception duties. 

Our work

Last year, Müllers resourced 228 global partners through prayer and donating £1.4 million as they met the practical, financial, spiritual and health needs of the most vulnerable of our world. We taught a free, year long theology course to 22 students to inspire their faith and strengthen their minsitry. We equipped 49 youthworkers to engage with young people in Bristol. We saw record numbers visit our museum, we hosted workshops on caring for the elderly and mentored church leaders, all so we can continue to pursue George Müller's vision, "that it may be seen that God is faithful still and hears prayers still." Would you consider joining us to make future years even better?

For more information, download the job description or contact us via email.

NCT are recruiting for a critical role of Helpdesk Administrator to provide essential IT support to our staff members, Practitioners and Volunteers.  This role will be full time for a fixed period February 2021 - September 2021.

The Helpdesk Administrator will need to respond to support queries and issues, solving problems directly, alongside more senior employees or via a service contract.

The majority of our users are currently home-based using cloud-based applications alongside a remote desktop environment. However there is a requirement for the role to be based in our Bristol office to ensure support with equipment and servers are maintained. During COVID restrictions there may be a requirement to attend the office at least once per week, and post COVID restrictions the role will be based solely from the Bristol office.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the team that enables NCT to be productive with Technology. We are looking for someone who has: 

• Demonstratable IT Skills including Microsoft 365.
• A strong focus on customer service skills, including empathy, patience, clarity and a commitment to great service levels.
• The ability to remain effective when working under pressure.
• Excellent problem solving skills, able to investigate, learn, test and solve problems using technology.

Please see the attached job description for further information. 

We’re seeking an enthusiastic Senior Fundraising Officer to join our small fundraising team as we look to develop our existing income generation streams. With a focus on building relationships you will work with donors who give in different ways, such as individuals, community groups, trusts and foundations and corporate partners.

You will need to have great interpersonal skills, be confident when meeting new people, and have a desire to find new opportunities to promote the work of Designability and our case for support. You’ll be encouraged to put forward and develop your own fundraising ideas and a good level of creativity would be a benefit.

Designability is an independent national charity that enables disabled people to live with greater independence.  Our expertise is in user-centred design, creating products with and for disabled people to improve and enrich their lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that develops new products and provides innovative services which deliver greater choice for disabled people. We are a creative and inspiring team, operating with the freedom to explore and deliver exciting new ways of working, beyond statutory provision.

You will be joining a team which includes mechanical and electronics engineers, workshop technicians, product designers, occupational therapists, fundraisers, researchers and administrators. Our team is led by strong values: we are creative, inclusive and practical, with our vision being to create a future where every person with a disability has the products they want to live the life they choose.

Support Worker

As well as our existing contracts, we expect to launch a number of new projects in 2021 and so are looking for people who can commit to full or part time hours (3 days per week) for three months (and possibly longer) as well as bank staff.

Support Worker Responsibilities:

As we are looking for bank staff as well as those who can make a firmer commitment to part-time or full-time hours, this is an ideal opportunity for anyone studying, with caring responsibilities or who already has a part-time job and we would welcome a discussion on how this work could fit around the other commitments in your life. As well as offering flexible working from the start of your employment, our staff benefits include access to mental and emotional health support via our partner agencies and opportunities to further develop your skills, including by our own excellent in-house training. Our culture is open and we encourage everyone to contribute to the direction of the organisation. Successful candidates will have to undertake a DBS check.

Support Worker Requirements:

To be considered for this role, you must be qualified in Information Advice & Guidance (IAG) to level 3 or have an equivalent qualification or have at least one year’s experience of IAG in a role supporting / mentoring clients to develop a plan to improve their situations. You should be a great communicator with a naturally coaching style and the ability to provide a service that is welcoming to all. You will have insight into the needs of vulnerable people from diverse backgrounds and understand the need for confidentiality when working with personal information.

You must be a competent user of IT, including email and using the Internet, as well an organised administrator. It is absolutely essential that you share our values. It would be helpful if you have an understanding of discrimination and equality and diversity issues, including those not set out in law such as the ‘poverty premium’. An understanding of housing rights would also be an advantage..

The ability to speak Arabic, Bengali, French, Gujurati, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian or the language of another group that is affected by financial and digital exclusion would be an advantage.

About Clean Slate Training & Employment CIC :

Clean Slate is an exciting and innovative social enterprise working towards a world where everyone can provide for themselves and their families, where society addresses everyone’s needs and where it does not cost more to be poor. We believe in fair opportunity for all so anyone willing and able can access employment. We enable people to improve their financial wellbeing, supporting them to access the help they need to manage their money well and find work. Clean Slate, in partnership with Quids In! magazine, is re-writing the rulebook on helping low income households to become better off.

Clean Slate is expanding. We are looking for Support Workers to join our team to support us in delivering remote services for people who are struggling with their finances: the risk of debt, rent arrears and ultimately even homelessness. You will make contact with new referrals by phone and email and provide information, support and guidance, including signposting them to specialist advice and regulated bodies. You will help people to use digital tools to be better off. You will support clients to build their skills, take control of their finances and find employment. You will work with partner agencies and statutory bodies in the local area and will assist us with the money skills and employment workshops and training run by our tutors.

Location: London

Salary: £25,650 per year including London Weighting, £22,500 per year for applicants based outside London, Pro rata for part-time hours

Type: Full Time, Part Time and Bank Staff, 3 months Fixed Term Contract

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Care Staff, Residential Care Worker, Challenging Behaviour, Social Care Worker, Community Services, Care Assistant, Healthcare Assistant etc.

Ref: 96372

HorseWorld Trust is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of abandoned, neglected and mistreated horses, ponies and donkeys, and giving them a second chance to have a happy life.

We also run our ground-breaking Discovery programme which unites some of our abandoned and mistreated horses with disadvantaged young people.  Founded in 2007, Discovery is now a well-established alternative learning provider, providing vital support to over 200 students each year and is seen as one of the leading equine-assisted learning programmes.

Founded in 1952, HorseWorld Trust (formerly The Friends of Bristol Horses Society) is located between Bristol and Bath.  Our dedicated team of staff care for around 100 horses, ponies and donkeys on site at our farm and provide after-care and support for around 200 more that have been re-homed throughout the South-West.

We have a great opportunity to join the charity as our Human Resources Manager, providing maternity cover for the next 12 months.  You will need previous HR and administration experience, excellent interpersonal skills and a good eye for detail.

For more details and to apply for this role please download the Role Profile/Person Specification and Application Form.

We are seeking to appoint a Telephone Energy Advisor for a fixed term contract until March 2022. The new role will be part of our Household Energy Services team. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, with an enthusiasm for giving advice about household energy efficiency and income maximisation. The post-holder will be someone with the ability to cope with sometimes distressed/vulnerable clients in crisis, who is keen to be part of a busy team at the forefront of CSE’s work.

The main focus of this role is provision of our Western Power Distribution (WPD) Power Up project, our Home Energy advice line and any new telephone advice services that become available. This will involve providing accurate and appropriate advice on all aspects of home energy efficiency. The role will also involve general administrative tasks including data inputting, updating customer records and the sending out of post-advice follow-up material.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge and lived experience of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship.  As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Been in prison or on probation?
• A People person and a good listener?
• Good IT/literacy/numeracy skills?
• Turned your life around and want to help others?
• Have something to give and can say what it is?
• Manage your own life well, and can prove it?
• Highly motivated and passionate about change?

If the answer to ALL of these is yes, then we want you…!

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• FPart-time positions
• 12 month fixed-term contract
• Up to £25,000 depending on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
• 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)

* The post is subject to a 6 month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check

We are currently recruiting in the following ares

• Cumbria
• Bristol, Gloucestershire, Dorset
• Sussex & Surrey - Prison based
• Kent, Surrey & Sussex - Community based
• Hampshire & The Isle of Wight

HOW TO APPLY?

Visit our website to download and application form and send to us with yorur CV 

Apprenticeship Manager
Up to £40,000

Charity Overview

Combe Grove is owned by The Elmhurst Foundation, a charity that is transforming the site into a centre for work-based learning excellence with a range of high quality, enhanced apprenticeships.

A key objective of the charity is shaping the Combe Grove estate into a health and wellness retreat in harmony with the environment, respecting our woodland location within an area of outstanding national beauty, re-invigorating the gardens and enhancing wildlife habitat, biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Combe Grove apprenticeships are offered across each team including the business disciplines of marketing, finance, personnel and technology, the service disciplines of cooking, hospitality, therapies, and personal training, and the estate and buildings disciplines of land management and horticulture and the maintenance of our listing buildings.

Combe Grove apprenticeships include being involved in a range of projects, citizenship development and work experience and placements with other local aligned organisations. Our purpose is to provide high quality training and development enabling our apprentices to fulfil their potential and develop a sound foundation from which to embark on a successful career.

The Role
This role is at the heart of our organisation and you will be an ambassador and a key member of our Executive Team establishing Combe Grove as a centre of excellence and an Apprenticeship centre of choice.

You will be an expert in apprenticeships and have a strong understanding of the requirements to mentor, develop and nurture apprentices.

You will manage the introduction of up to 90 apprenticeships over the coming years and their perpetual provision in the charity. You will assist the apprentices over the course of their time with the charity and support them at the completion of their course to find their next role.

The role will include liaising with local community partners, schools and colleges and co-ordinating with the apprentices’ mentors and managers, ensuring that the apprentices are effectively supported and developed.
 

The Ideal Candidate

Experience in apprentices, apprenticeships and liaison with managers/Masters and training providers

Skilled in providing advice and support in recruitment, induction, training and development together with performance reviews

Strong presentation skills and excellent communicator at all levels

Ability to implement appropriate systems and processes to manage the apprenticeship programme

Ability to develop trusted relationships at all levels, both internally and externally

Ambassadorial skills

Management of a budget and the ability to negotiate with a range of service providers

Organised, disciplined and uses appropriate tools to inform and manage the workflow

A strong interest and appreciation of health and wellbeing

Experience

Strong practical hands-on apprenticeship management is required.  A background in Personnel could be helpful but not essential.
 

To Apply

For further information about Combe Grove please visit our website and to apply send your CV and a covering letter stating why you feel you would be suitable for this role to our personnel department.

Please note that health and wellness is of the utmost importance to us at Combe Grove and we have a strictly no smoking policy (inc. vaping) across the whole estate.

Closing Date:  Friday 12th February 2021

First Interview Date:  To be advised and will take place on-line

No Agencies Please

ABOUT US

Dean Farm Trust established in 2007 is a registered charity and animal sanctuary. Operating in Chepstow South Wales we offer a home for life to unwanted, neglected and abused animals. Our sanctuary is currently home to 185 farmed animals in 62 acres of pasture, paddocks and woodland, We promote compassion and a vegan lifestyle. Our sanctuary is open to the public, private visitors along with hosting tours and events throughout the year. Our ethos is to treat every single animal as an individual, caring for it giving the correct enrichment, feed, space, freedom and companisnship for their life. In the short time we have been open thousands of visitors have come to the sanctuary, many returning with their families and friends.

The primary aim of the Trust is to provide a home for life, shelter, warmth, food, and enrichment, to sick, ill-treated, and abused animals and animals that have been subjected to farming or sport.

To promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing care, treatment, protection, and security for animals and to educate the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals. The Trust also promotes compassionate living and humane behaviour towards animals through a variety of public education and outreach activities.

Our Charity was delighted when earlier this year the wonderful "Matt Pritchard" became our Patron. He is an animal advocate and is about to embark on a huge challenge of Rowing aacross the Atlantic Ocean to raisefunds for our charity. 

We have had a number of articles written about us in the local and National magazines and papers supporting the work we do and sharing our stories.

In the sHORTt time we have been established our charity has one a number of awards and recently been voted the "Favourite Animal Sanctuary" in the UK by the prestigeous Vegfest.

In 2021 we plan to open our sanctuary doors full time from April to October  for visitors, educational tours and events to share the work we do and promote compasionate living.

PLEASE SEE PERSON SPECIFICATION AND JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED

ONY SUCCESSFULL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED

PLEASE SEND COVERING LETTER WITH YOUR REASONS FOR APPLYING ALONG WITH YOUR CV

The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

We have new funding from MHCLG/PHE to increase support to people with substance use issues who are homeless or vulnerably housed. The aim of this specialist housing role is to lead on the recruitment, training, deployment and support/supervision of Peers in a range of placements across the housing and homelessness services including the new drug and alcohol tenancy support service as part of the MCHLG/PHE Rough Sleeper and drug and alcohol initiative.

If you would like an informal conversation about this role, please contact HR to arrange a call with Sam Wheeler. 

How To Apply

Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday Friday 5th February 2021. For further information, please visit the DHI website. 

The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

Do you want to help young people turn their lives around at a time which makes a big difference to their future?

DHI is looking for an experienced, energetic, committed and resilient person to support our 17–25 year old clients to either exit our services having met their goals, or successfully transition into adult treatment services where a bit more support is still needed.

What our staff say:

"I love my job"

"Every day is different even after all these years"

What our clients say:

"I couldn't have done it without you"

"You saved my life"

"I have my family back"

How To Apply

Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday Wednesday 27th January 2021. More information available on the DHI website