We are seeking a coordinator (maternity cover) for our educational mentoring programme for young refugees and asylum seekers. The coordinator will oversee our East of England (Peterborough and Cambridge) mentoring hub by recruiting and training volunteer mentors, and matching them to young people needing additional educational support. As a key component of this work is instigating and maintaining relationships with partner and referral organisations, we’re looking for someone who’s skilled at building relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders including vulnerable young people, teachers and social workers, both in person and virtually. As the face of RSN in the East of England, we need someone who’ll be quick at getting a handle on the project’s existing networks and keen to both expand and deepen our relationships locally.

To apply, please submit your cover letter and CV through CharityJob by midday on Friday 9th October. Your cover letter (maximum 900 words) must:

1. Explain why you want to work at RSN in this particular role;

2. Tell us why you think you would be a good fit for RSN and this particular role;

3. Provide one or two examples of where you have built a successful relationship with an external organisation in a previous role;

4. Explain how your previous experience of working with young refugees, asylum seekers or other vulnerable young people equips you for this role;

5. Tell us about a time when you have had to be very organised and keep clear records - please explain why this was important and how you made sure it was done well.

Virtual interviews will take place on Thursday 29th October.

Product Owner - Business Intelligence
Reference number: A0740920
Location: Bedfordshire
Salary: Starting at £34,643 to £38,632 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent

Introduction
We're in curious times for which we need people with curiosity, who like to dig a bit deeper, have a strong focus to shape a better world and with a side hustle of needing to do something different with their work time. Maybe you've felt you want to make the right contribution to the world in some way? If this is you, and you love data, or what it can tell us about the everyday decisions we make to help nature, then your curiosity is needed at RSPB in a delivery focused team with a strategic appetite to create richer business intelligence resources for the whole organisation.

About the Role
Make no mistake, this is a management role with immense professional opportunity and a place in which you can make a profound difference to our conservation aims. Your role will be in the Digital Business Data team supporting our wider digital and technical agenda with our Fundraising and Communications directorate. We invite you to join the largest technical team in conservation. You'll bring together the requirements of many different users ranging from field and operational teams and understand how to best implement Business Intelligence to support them. You'll facilitate across our technical, fundraising, communications and conservation and volunteer teams to deliver solutions that give us insight about all our interactions. You'll have the leadership and vision to define how Business Intelligence develops as well as oversee and assure functional delivery. You'll unify and find the best value out of what Business Intelligence offers. You'll champion how data could be interrogated for greater insight to include wider functions across RSPB, including finance, HR and communications. There'll be plenty of exciting and rewarding challenges along the way. It's definitely no small task but one huge career opportunity.

About Us
RSPB Headquarters is based at The Lodge in Sandy, Bedfordshire. Passionate about nature, dedicated to saving it. Since we started on our mission in 1889, the threats to nature have continued to grow, but we've grown to meet them too. We're now the largest nature conservation charity in the country, consistently delivering successful conservation, forging powerful new partnerships with other organisations and inspiring others to stand up and give nature the home it deserves.

About You
You'll be an inspiration to the team; creative, bright and on the ball, focused on getting things done. You'll strengthen us but also challenge us and to think imaginatively about our purpose. You'll have ambition.

You need to communicate a vision, bring focus and lead with energy and creativity. Because we are a charity, every penny we spend needs to maximise the outcome for nature.

You will drive and direct change across a wide remit. The skills you have and the qualities you bring are more important to us than the list of who you've worked for.

You'll come to us armed with proven management and unique technical skills. You need to be engaged with people, projects and finance; to know when to collaborate, when to take ownership. You'll need a good working knowledge of data sciences, demonstrable use of BI platforms and solutions and broadly have at least a year of implementing and developing BI products. You'll know how to configure and develop PowerBI, cubes, SASS, Statistical models or have worked in an analytics service. You'll embed training and support processes, which deliver consistent intelligence. Experience in a charity or fundraising organisation is valuable as is experience in the public sector where insights supported service delivery.

Everything you do will be in harmony with our values and ambitions, putting wildlife conservation at the core of our work and in the minds of our supporter

Next Steps
We will be reviewing applications week commencing 12th Oct 2020, and if you are shortlisted, we'll invite you for a remote interview and presentation week commencing 19th Oct 2020.

Closing date: 12 October 2020

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position. 

No agencies please.

Do you have an empathy and passion to ensure the voice of vulnerable and disadvantaged people is heard? Do you think co-production is important within service delivery and commissioning?

Title: Co-production Facilitator – Multiple Disadvantaged
Salary: £22,462p/a Pro rata – actual salary £8,985
Hours: 15 hours per week
Based: Countywide with an office base in Huntingdon.

This is an exciting opportunity to help develop co-production across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough within the field of those with multiple disadvantages (including, not limited to - Homelessness, substance misuse, mental health, family breakdown, domestic abuse). You can really bring your own creativity and ideas to this role.

You would be working in a small, friendly, and supportive team., Enjoying a generous leave allowance and a varied and fulfilling role, with plenty of professional and personal development opportunities.

The ability to engage and communicate confidently with those with multiple disadvantage and those at strategic and operational level is a must – Everything else can be learned on the job.

The role is countywide with an office base in Huntingdon – so a driving licence and access to a car for travel is essential.

Closing date: Friday 9th October 2020 12pm
Interviews W/C 19th October 2020

To apply, please complete the attached application form.

Carer Involvement & Development Worker – Mental Health and Drug and/or Alcohol misuse.

18.5 hours per week

Salary: £24,496 FTE – 37 hours per week (£12,248 pro rata)

Carers in Hertfordshire is a well-respected, independent, carer-led charity, established in 1995. The charity works to ensure that all Hertfordshire’s unpaid family carers are recognised, valued and supported in their caring role and have the opportunity for a life outside caring and can exercise a collective voice in the county.

We are looking for a confident and outgoing person to take on the role of Carers Involvement and Development worker within our Involvement team.

This role supports and enables unpaid carers to speak up about the issues that are important to them, particularly in relation to mental health and drug and/or alcohol misuse.  It will primarily cover parts of North and East Hertfordshire, although the post holder will be required to work across the County on occasions.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and an understanding of carers needs. 

A good standard of IT Skills is required, including use of databases, MS office and the internet.  You will need the ability to travel independently, have access to a car and have a valid driving license.

Closes: Wednesday 7th October 2020 - 17.00

Interviews:  Friday 16th October 2020

We launched our Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund on 18th March 2020. To date we have raised over £1 million and distributed over £730,000 in emergency funding to people across our county in the most vulnerable and needy situations. Now, more than ever, we need to strengthen and build resilience in our communities and we need a new team member to help us do that.

We are an accredited member of the UK Community Foundation Network and have been supporting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough since 2004. Last year we awarded £2.8 million to support our local communities and address need across our county. This year we need to do much more.

Description:

As Maternity Cover Grants Officer you will play a pivotal role in the programme team – assisting with marketing, planning, delivering and reporting on our grant-making programme to ensure targets are met.

Job Specification

• To identify groups and input marketing ideas to reach programme and fund spend targets
• To process/ oversee the processing of grant applications including advising applicants, scrutinizing accounts and governing documents, assessing applications, preparing paperwork and attending donor panels
• To take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of certain programmes
• To build specialist knowledge of CCF's database
• To take an active role in continuous improvement and best practice initiatives

Profile

Our Grants Officers require:

• Excellent communication skills
• Proven customer-facing skills
• Confident numeracy skills
• Commitment to quality

In addition the successful candidate will have:

• Proven eye for detail - be able to produce, analyse and proofread reports/communications to a high standard of accuracy
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office and proven experience of using databases

Some travel to meetings across the county (some rural locations) is required as are occasional evening meetings and events. Driving license and access to a vehicle is desirable.

The successful Grants Officer will be a positive and focused individual who can take the initiative as well as follow prescribed processes. Flexibility, enthusiasm and a commitment to our lively and ambitious team are key to our future.

Please send your CV and cover letter to the email address below.

Due to the amount of response we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give feedback to individuals, if you have not heard back within 7 days from the application deadline please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for.

We treat everyone equally.

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Racing Welfare is a national charity supporting all those working in and retired from the British horseracing and breeding industry.  Following an exciting period of growth and development we are looking to appoint a Deputy Head of Welfare to support the Director of Welfare in order to deliver an effective and efficient welfare service to the horseracing industry.

The new post holder will have direct responsibility for a number of key welfare projects and will ensure successful delivery and development of these as well as being responsible for supervising, coaching and guiding the Regional Management Team.  Reporting to the Director of Welfare you will have proven and demonstrable experience of safeguarding and supporting vulnerable people and will ensure that standards of excellence, best practice and efficiency are delivered through highly effective teams.  It is essential that you have the ability to manage budgets, allocate resources, line manage, decision make and problem solve. 

You will be a highly driven self-starter and an innovative, strategic thinker.  It is essential that you have a keen interest and knowledge of the horseracing industry in addition to being passionate about improving well-being outcomes for people working in racing.  You will be an excellent communicator across a range of stakeholder groups and will remain strategically aligned to the charity’s core objectives and purpose. This post can be home or office based or a combination of both and you should be willing to travel across the UK as part of the role.  

VoiceAbility are recruiting for a full-time advocate to join our Cambridge & Peterborough team. VoiceAbility supports people who face disadvantage or discrimination to have a voice that counts. Providing advocacy and user involvement services across England, VoiceAbility is a growing organisation working with people who are vulnerable or marginalised to raise their voices and have their rights respected.

About the role:

Advocates support people who may be marginalised or vulnerable to speak up and be heard. Their work strengthens voices, supports human rights and changes lives. Advocacy can be vital for people who cannot speak up for themselves, or people who feel they do not have the power to do so. Advocates work in the front line delivering positive outcomes for the people they support. Advocates will support and enable service users’ understanding of their options. Advocates empower individuals to communicate their views in decision making processes, supporting them to make challenges when necessary and asking pertinent questions on the person’s behalf where they are unable to do so for themselves.

Location: Temporarily homebased due to Covid-19 with travel across Cambridgeshire to care homes, hospitals, and clients’ homes. Following temporary homeworking, office based in Oakington, Cambridge with travel across Cambridgeshire to care homes, hospitals, and clients’ homes. 

Hours: 37.5 Full time role

Contract Type: Permanent

Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays; 5% employer pension & 3% employee contribution; Salary sacrifice pension scheme; Separate Life Assurance Cover; Staff discount scheme including supermarkets, fashion, restaurants, cinemas, holidays and much more; Discounted Gym Membership; Cycle to Work; Employee Assistance programme; Supportive working environment fostering a good work/life balance; Support with professional development.

Closing date for applications: 12pm Friday 9th October 2020.

Interviews: 22nd and 23rd October 2020.

About you:

• Be passionate about empowering and enabling individuals to have their wishes, feelings, beliefs, and needs taken into account when decisions are made about their care

• Demonstrate excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills

• Have the ability to engage with people with complex needs and communication difficulties

• Be experienced in influencing and working with health and social care professionals, legal services, care staff, family members etc.

• Be able to build good relationships with clients, health and social care professionals, legal professionals and carers

• Be able to identify and act appropriately where issues of safeguarding individuals arise

• Have strong IT skills to accurately record information in line with policy and current data standards

• Be experienced in working with marginalised and vulnerable adults and/or children

• Be able to research complex and sensitive issues independently, using case law, national policy and guidance for advocates to work for resolution of issues

• Be able to work to tight and changing deadlines

• Be able to work independently

• Hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have access to own transport. There is travel involved in the role.

Desirable skills or experience:

• Hold or be working towards Independent Advocacy Qualification.

• Knowledge and experience of the, Care Act (2014) and Mental Capacity Act (2007),The Principles of Human Rights and Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007).

NB If you don't already hold the Independent Advocacy Qualification, it is a requirement of that you complete this within 12 months of commencing employment.

You may have experience of the following: Advocate, Vulnerable Adults, Social Worker, Healthcare, Policy, Legislation, Support Worker, Charity, Third Sector, Advice & Guidance.

How to Apply: To apply for this role, please complete the online application form using the criteria in the person specification and upload your CV detailing your work history. NB CV's will not be used to short list.