Administrator jobs near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary and benefits:
Salary of up to £24,000 (full time equivalent of £30,000 per annum) for 4 days per week + 3% employer pension contribution.
20 days annual leave (pro rata)
We are happy to discuss flexible working options. Occasional evening working for events is required. This is a one-year fixed term contract, with the scope to extend beyond this if funding allows.
The role will be based remotely and expenses will be paid within reason. There may be a requirement for occasional travel to Manchester for meetings or to other locations in the UK for events.
Context:
Peaches Womb Cancer Trust is the leading UK charity dedicated to improving the lives of those with and affected by womb cancer, the 4th most common cancer in women. We aim to support women, raise awareness and fund and promote research.
Peaches Womb Cancer Trust is currently run by a dedicated team of volunteers. We are delighted to have obtained sufficient funding to allow us to hire our first employee - a Fundraising and Operations Manager who will help us to take our organisation to the next level.
The purpose of this role is to coordinate and manage the running of the charity, to organise events, to build upon and expand fundraising activities (including grants and trusts fundraising), to develop our marketing and communications and to build relationships with service users, funders and other organisations. The employee will be required to prepare documents for meetings, to ensure that the accounts are prepared in a timely manner and that good records are kept of our activities. They will also liaise with and provide administrative support to the Trustees and volunteers to facilitate the smooth running of the charity. This post is vital to ensuring that we can support our fantastic community and grow Peaches Womb Cancer Trust.
We are looking for someone with experience in the charity sector who is motivated and tenacious. There is enormous potential for Peaches Womb Cancer Trust to grow and an opportunity for career progression for a proactive and ambitious individual.
Main responsibilities:
- To act as a key point of contact for organisations and individuals contacting the charity
- To support and coordinate the work of the Trustees and volunteers, ensuring good governance and compliance with statutory requirements, supporting the Board in performing its responsibilities, attending and contributing to Trustee meetings and preparing reports as requested
- To ensure financial management and procedures with the support of the Trustees and an accountant
- Organise, coordinate and oversee patient information and support events for the charity
- Organise, coordinate and oversee fundraising activities and events for the charity
- Coordinate fundraising applications for grants, trusts and foundations
- Coordinating with the volunteers who run the charity’s website and social media channels to ensure content is up to date and engaging
- Manage the charity’s volunteer and supporter database
- Ensure that donations are acknowledged in an appropriate and timely manner and are correctly identified within the charity’s records
- Maintain all Charity Commission requirements
- Undertake general administration duties of all kinds
Essential criteria:
- Evidence of administration experience in the charity sector gained in a paid or voluntary role
- Knowledge and experience of banking and charitable finances
- Knowledge of governance in the voluntary or public sector
- A track record of fundraising successes within community and individual giving
- Ability to communicate with a diverse range of people including healthcare professionals
- Working knowledge of office IT and social media
- Experience in working with and managing volunteers
- Experience of trust and foundation fundraising
- Experience of managing events
- Knowledge of data privacy requirements for personal and sensitive personal information.
- Strongly motivated, self-organised and able to work from own initiative
- Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately work permit applications cannot be supported.
Desirable criteria:
- A professional fundraising qualification
- Experience of growing an organisation
- Knowledge of Wordpress or other website hosting software
- Experience of using social media channels for an organisation
- Experience of managing staff
- Creative, resilient and comfortable with lone working
Through working for Peaches Womb Cancer Trust the successful candidate will have an opportunity to expand our small organisation, work closely with a small, friendly and enthusiastic team of trustees and volunteers and share in the growth and success of the charity. There is scope for creativity, innovation and opportunities for learning and growth. As we are a newly-established charity the employee will gain a varied experience in this role as we build our organisation. The job role will involve working with our growing community of people affected by womb cancer who are enormously supportive of our charity, allowing the successful candidate to be part of something special and genuinely see the impact that their work is making.
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Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it motivates our Strategy, Policy and Evidence team to maintain our position as an influential, informed and forceful voice at every level. Join us as a Business Support Assistant and lead progress that means more.
The Strategy and Knowledge Directorate is responsible for developing and monitoring the NSPCC strategy, influencing public policy, championing an evidenced-based approach in all our work, designing impactful services and developing and managing our knowledge and information services.
The Business Support Assistant will work closely with the Head of Strategy Delivery to oversee S&K operations and to ensure that our processes run smoothly, on time and to quality standards. These include health and safety, queries and complaints, risk management and reporting. This would suit someone with some experience in an administrative and business support functions such as invoicing, forward planning, action logs and dashboards, although training will be provided where needed. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and we’ll consider flexible working options.
As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.
Starting Salary: £32,019 - £33,526 (£35,703 - £37,210 if based in London)
Contract: 12-month contract, full-time
Location: UK-based/flexible location with potential for remote working
Job Profile
Do you have what it takes to drive proactive and sustained media coverage about our work?
Do you understand the media landscape, particularly regional media?
Are you passionate about using storytelling to bring to life our social justice work and help drive change?
If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and energetic press officer to join the media team of one of the UK’s largest international development agencies.
Part of one of the world’s largest aid networks (Caritas Internationalis) which has a presence in 193 countries, CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. We stand alongside some of the most hard-to-reach communities across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, working through the Catholic and secular organisations to reach people of all faiths and none and places that others can’t.
We’re a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee, we inspire huge trust among our supporters – which we don’t take for granted – and we’re well known and respected among UK policymakers.
We’re looking for an experienced press officer to take on a varied Media Officer role with a particular focus on building CAFOD’s public profile through regional media outlets, by spotting strong angles for media stories and by crafting compelling creative pitches that hit the right spot for journalists, editors, and producers.
You’ll be tasked with searching for and developing regional media angles across the full range of our work, including our long-term development programmes, our emergency humanitarian response and our contribution to Disasters Emergency Committee appeals, our campaigning, policy and advocacy work and our major annual fundraising initiatives.
You’ll be responsible for teasing out and building creative media pitches to ensure week in, week out we are pitching stories to the biggest regional outlets that resonate for their audiences. You’ll do this by building relationships with colleagues across the organisation and identifying what we need to bring regional stories to life, whether that’s additional research, a local spokesperson or internal data on how local communities have supported our mission to date, working with the Head of Media where necessary to resource these additional needs.
About you
The ideal candidate will have a strong nose for a story, be proactive about hunting out media opportunities across the full range of our work and will be tenacious about seeing these through until coverage appears.
You’ll have an in-depth knowledge of the regional media landscape across England and Wales and will be comfortable pitching to a range of producers, journalist and editors, have a sense of what makes a good broadcast spokesperson and be comfortable helping colleagues to prepare for media opportunities. International development experience is not essential, but you’ll be able to show a strong interest in our work and be passionate about helping deliver our mission.
CAFOD offers a range of flexible working options and there is the potential for this role to be undertaken on a hybrid basis (working 40% of the time in the office) or to be based at home. At such it is an ideal opportunity for a press officer based outside of London. Interviews to be held on Thursday 21st July online.
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying newsworthy media opportunities, crafting and delivering strong broadcast media pitches, and writing press releases, statements and comment pieces which generate maximum impact; ensuring all media pitches and content is repurposed efficiently for our owned digital channels
- Organising media interviews, briefing materials and supporting the briefing and preparation of spokespeople, including identifying and building the confidence of new spokespeople across the organisation where necessary
- Building media relationships and contacts across all major broadcast, print and online media outlets, predominantly with a regional focus, but providing surge capacity on national media pitching to the wider media team where necessary
- Crafting a range of content for our social media channels and ensuring media stories are being designed and pitched with our digital channels in mind from the outset
- Collaborating cross-organisationally, influencing teams, and achieving good media outcomes in support of our work
- Building strong relationships with teams across the organisation to gain a full understanding of our work and to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the organisation that might be media-worthy
- Spotting potential story ideas and developing these, using additional resources if necessary, into compelling media pitches for regional broadcast, print, specialist and online media
- Helping influence and advise colleagues so information and content is gathered and shared to allow the media team to successfully deliver coverage for the organisation
- Contributing to the successful day to day activity of the media team
- Working alongside the Head of Media and other media officers to ensure resources are appropriately focused on CAFOD’s agreed media priorities and key moments
- Providing surge capacity where required to support other media officers’ briefs and working close with teams across the communications department (including digital and creative content colleagues) to ensure media input into overseas content gathering and to help plan other ongoing communications work
- Engaging with our celebrity Ambassador programme providing creative input and ideas for their involvement in key CAFOD fundraising and campaigning moments
- Providing input into the multi- channel planning work on content
- Playing an essential role in the media team and communications team as a whole, ensuring all media coverage is appropriately logged, media databases are kept up to date and helping to ensure essential media team admin is undertaken
Skills and experience
- A nose for a story and a keen insight into news and current affairs
- Experience writing key messages such as press releases, media briefings and opinion pieces
- Experience of managing multiple media briefs across different outlets and able to meet deadlines and make decisions on what to prioritise when working under pressure on several stories
- Strong communication skills, both written (able to produce polished and compelling copy often to tight deadlines and with a good understanding of what works for CAFOD’s digital channels) and verbal (able to be persuasive with pitching media ideas to producers/journalists/media outlets)
- Able to support cross-organisational initiatives integrating corporate objectives into media work and support, motivate and develop staff in understanding what works best for media
- Able to work on issues that are often complex and sensitive to find the best approach for CAFOD’s media engagement
For more information on this vacancy as well as the application process, please visit the CAFOD jobs page.
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Role outline and purpose
Responsible for the delivery of a professional, responsive and inclusive employee experience. Achieved through excellence in administrative and project support and assistance to members of the People Experience team. Ensure that the team is fully supported to deliver against the requirements of the People function and business.
Role responsibilities
- Provide responsive cross-team administrative support to the People Experience team according to priorities and capacity, supporting colleagues in providing information as appropriate, drafting letters or proposals and taking minutes at meetings.
- Provide excellent customer service to employees ensuring that the central People inbox is managed well and all emails and requests are responded to accurately and in a timely manner.
- In collaboration with the People Partners and People Administrator support in the delivery off all employee life cycle tasks such as recruitment, onboarding, employee benefits and off boarding.
- Responsible for maintaining the People Experience team SharePoint site and administering and maintaining HR systems.
- Work closely with colleagues to maintain central information by updating, maintaining and collating information such as spreadsheets for recruitment and the all-organisation chart, ensuring data is accurate, up to date and rectifying and escalating where necessary.
- Monitor HR data and information to identify trends and raise awareness of key issues.
Person Specification
Technical skills and minimum knowledge:
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Previous HR experience
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint.
- Competent user of Software systems including HR Information systems.
- Knowledge of standard office administration practices and procedures.
- Highly organised - manages own time effectively; consistently meets deadlines and objectives.
Behaviours and competencies:
- Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust.
- Demonstrates empathy for people from disadvantaged, marginalised or socially- excluded backgrounds
- Demonstrates a good understanding or capability to learn the principles underlying GDPR, other applicable legislation and best practice.
- Maintain confidentiality and protect operations by storing information securely.
- Produces accurate outputs to a high standard.
- Effectively plans and organises tasks and activities which involve multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrates personal integrity and commitment to compliance and ethical standards.
- Role models inclusive behaviours and values.
Key Stakeholders
- People Experience
- Director of People & Inclusion
- Finance
- Learning and Development
- People and Governance Board
Our Values
The Trussell Trust is a charity that works to end the need for food banks. It is founded on and shaped by Christian principles.
Our values of dignity, justice, compassion and community, are central to all that we do and therefore supports our aim to be an organisation where the diversity of all employees is valued. We welcome people of all faiths and none and those that are committed to these values.
We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
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HR & Payroll Manager
Up to £32,000
37 hours per week
Permanent
About Us
Sheffield Museums Trust is the independent charity that operates six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites and cares for Sheffield’s collections of art, human and industrial history and natural science. We work with our communities to tell the remarkable story of Sheffield and its people, and celebrate its reputation for excellence in art, craft, making and innovation. Together with local, regional and national partners, we showcase home-grown creative talent and bring outstanding cultural experiences to the city.
We’re a people-focused museums service that strives to represent, celebrate, and inspire the communities we serve and visitors to the city alike. We believe our staff team is our greatest asset; each of our colleagues plays an important role in enabling the city’s museums to thrive and helping audiences to find meaningful connections with the collections we care for and the stories they tell.
As a valued member of the team, you’ll get 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata if part time) and wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme. We also promote a flexible working culture.
For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, hybrid working and flexible start and finish times. Please wait until the job offer stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what’s possible for the role.
About the Role
This is a new and exciting role, and the successful candidate will have the scope to really make a difference.
As the HR & Payroll Manager, you’ll provide operational HR support on all people related issues as well as managing the monthly payrolls to ensure that each stage of the process is completed correctly and that our colleagues are paid, and third-party payments are accurate and on time.
You will be responsible for the provision of a high-quality HR and Payroll function, and you’ll also support senior managers to maintain and develop a positive organisational culture.
Fundamental to the role will be the maintenance of HR & Payroll records to enable accurate and timely reporting that supports and informs operational and strategic decision making.
About You
The successful candidate will have:
- a CIPD level 5 qualification and a willingness to undertake a payroll qualification
- experience providing HR advice and guidance to managers
- experience of working with HR/ Payroll systems (including as an Admin user)
- knowledge of employment and payroll legislation
- excellent attention to detail, numeracy and record keeping skills
- proficient in Microsoft Excel, able to use complex formulas
- be committed to providing the highest standards of customer service
Application Details
This vacancy is open ended. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. It is advisable to apply early to avoid disappointment as applications will be assessed on a regular basis.
All applications should be submitted using our Networx Recruitment system. Please note that we do not accept CV’s. No agencies please.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Finance and Operations Assistant will be part of the operations team at the Tax Justice Network which is led by the Director, Operations & Communications and includes the Finance Manager, who this post will report into, Operations Manager and Project Manager. The team lead and deliver on a range of operational services from financial management, risk management, project management, event management, Human Resources, IT systems and other enabling functions.
The two primary functions of the role (and the focus of each one of the roles if split) will be to support the financial management of the organisation by processing and reconciling financial records and running payroll, and to support the operational functions by administrating our human resource systems, recruitment processes and annual leave processes. All aspects of the role will focus on ensuring documents and records are accurate and appropriately electronically filed.
The operations team is a busy team in a fast moving and agile organisation. Therefore you need to be someone who is a problem solver and top multi-tasker who enjoys getting stuck into projects. You will need to masterfully juggle tasks and activities, anticipate what needs to be done and be proactive in pursuit of top quality operational support delivery. Due to the nature of the work we need someone who has an exceptional eye for detail, is driven by and excels in being accurate and ensuring tasks are complete and followed up as necessary.
The Tax Justice Network is a virtual organisation with all the team working remotely. You therefore need to be self-motivated and comfortable working alone, and alongside being thorough, diligent and independent you should have strength and confidence to judge when to reach out to colleagues to assist and support.
We are flexible on where the postholder is located, though ideally within the UK or one of the countries we have employment contracting arrangements which would include France, Germany and Spain. As mentioned above we are willing to consider splitting the role into two part-time posts or two part-time people job sharing as well as 1 person filling the role full time. We are also flexible about the working hours as long as the hours worked are spread over at least three days per week.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Finance
- Processing of all purchase invoices and expenses, including confirming authorisation, correct allocation to budget lines/tracking categories, preparing payment runs and ensuring proper record keeping throughout
- Processing the monthly UK payroll and liaising with non-UK payroll agents, maintaining record keeping and assisting with related accounting procedures
- Providing first line response to day to day finance queries, escalating or asking for input as required
- Administration relating to online donations and where applicable online sales (eg for ticketed events), including reconciling donor reporting between systems
- Preparing funder specific reporting, maintaining any funder required audit trails and assisting with project audits where required
- Undertaking monthly bank reconciliations of multiple bank accounts and assisting with other reconciliations and month end duties as required
Operations (including Human Resources)
- Supporting and administrating recruitment processes
- Ensuring staff HR records are up to date and accurate
- Administering the annual leave and absence systems
- Ensuring staff timesheets are maintained and authorised in a timely fashion
- Supporting the Operations Manager with the administration of events, both virtual and in person
- Assisting with team travel bookings/planning
- Providing project assistance to teams across the organisation, including project administration tasks as required
- Being knowledgeable about all internal operational systems, providing administration where required and supporting colleagues in their use of such systems
- Assisting with policy related administration as required, and ensuring compliance with organisational policies at all times
General (applicable to both posts if split)
- Maintaining effective communication and a collaborative approach, ensuring that all relevant information is shared with relevant staff
- Provide general support as required – you may be asked to jump onto other work where it’s needed
- Understanding and working towards individual, team and organisational objectives
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills and experience
Essential
- Experience working in a similar finance and/or operational role
- Experience of undertaking fast-paced and varied administrative tasks
- Being able to demonstrate with experience a keen eye for detail and a thorough and methodical approach
- Strong IT skills with at least intermediate knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office 365 suite and preferably skills and experience of Airtable
- Ability to communicate effectively, accurately and succinctly in English, in writing and verbally
- For applications including the Finance responsibilities only:
- A knowledge of how finance transaction coding structures work and an understanding of double entry bookkeeping
Desirable
- Experience of implementing systems and processes
- Highly competent in working with a variety of cloud-based platforms: Airtable, Xero, SharePoint, Slack, Zoom, Wordpress
- For applications including the Finance responsibilities only:
- Experience of working in a not-for-profit and within a small to medium sized organisation
- Experience of working with restricted funding grants
- Experience of working with multi-currency transactions
- Knowledge of payroll processing, including an understanding of withholding tax, social security and pension contributions
- Holding or working towards a finance qualification such as AAT
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work independently, and comfortable working with a fully remote team
- Highly organised with excellent time management, forward planning and prioritisation
- A proactive and calm problem solver
- Comfortable working at times under pressure and to regular deadlines
- Can work cooperatively and collaboratively both as part of a team and when engaging with external partners
- Open to feedback and review with the ability to adapt work and working style accordingly
- Commitment to own professional development
Desirable
- Passion for tax justice and international development issues
HOW TO APPLY
Please upload a CV (resume) and answer a set of questions addressing some of the skills and attributes listed along with your motivation for applying using the link provided by 09:00 GMT+1 on Wednesday 6 July 2022. Please apply in English.
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Learning Coordinator
About Relief International
Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
About the opportunity
- Remote homebased in the US / UK or can be based remotely in a RI country of operation.
- The post holder will require the right to work in their homebased location and national terms and conditions will apply.
- This role is classified as requiring a standard pre-employment check.
As Learning Coordinator you will support RI’s Organizational Development and Training (OD&T) goals to develop and retain high quality staff through a comprehensive Learning and Development offering, which reflects RI’s global aims, and best practice, supported by a Learning Management System that is user-friendly, flexible and meets all reporting requirements.
You will form strong working relationships across all RI teams to support the delivery of a culture of continuous performance improvement, ethics and compliance and professional development
Working closely with the Director of Organizational Development and Training you will:
- Administrative support in learning rosters organisation, analysing data and reporting, as well as the curation of the Learning Management System.
- Support organization-wide learning sessions across various time zones, to meet the needs of the Global, Regional and Country-level team members.
- Support, monitor and track on boarding processes across the organisation.
- Act as primary point of contact / helpdesk for RI Academy learner support; answering questions, providing guidance, resetting passwords
About you
With a strong interest in the humanitarian and development sector, you will have a record of achievement in a similar role, with experience in supporting the design and development of eLearning content and learning management systems.
Experienced in working with different kinds of information, both qualitative and quantitative, you are equipped with excellent IT skills, strong technical expertise in Microsoft Applications and the ability to use advanced Excel
You are a great communicator, flexible and willing to learn, with robust organizational, analytical, and administrative skills, including a strong ability to focus on detail and quality assurance.
How to apply
To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page.
You will be asked to upload a CV and Cover Letter. The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.
Closing date. Note the closing date as per the job board listing, however, please apply immediately as we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis and may withdraw the position before the job board closing date.
Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Relief International has a zero-tolerance policy for unlawful harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.
Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.
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Are you the SVP's next Legacy Manager? Someone with the experience, drive, resilience, agility, creativity, and flair to implement the recommendations of its recent strategic legacy review to grow income from gifts in wills and in-memoriam fundraising at national and regional level? Then this is a great opportunity to join a busy, ambitious, and friendly team for your next career move in legacy fundraising or individual giving. Perhaps you are a legacy officer wishing to move into management or an experienced legacy manager in a small charity wanting experience at a national charity.
Using the experience and skills you have already gained in the charity sector, in legacy fundraising or individual giving, you will work closely with the Head of Fundraising to support members and staff to establish legacy giving across the Society. Through stronger donor relationships and increased income from gifts in wills and in-memoriam donations, we will ensure the Society is able to continue responding with its services and acts of kindness to so many people who will need our help, now and into the future.
Working Hours: You will be contracted to work 30 hours per week (full-time hours may be considered as part of the 2023/24 budgetary review).
Location: Remote or hybrid with the option to work from our London or Bradford office depending on location. (There will be occasional travel to the London or Bradford offices for in-person meetings, training, or team development days and visits to our projects as and when required.)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £28,997 - £33,521 per annum pro rata (plus London Weighting if applicable)
Benefits Package: 33 days holiday (pro rata) per year inclusive of bank holidays, a competitive pension scheme, employee assistance programme, retail discounts, birthday day off, buy/sell holiday scheme, enhanced paid leave, cycle to work scheme, free will writing service and lots more.
YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To implement the recommendations of the strategic legacy review.
- To ensure momentum and progress with the new legacy fundraising strategy including creation of new materials, the promotion and execution of campaigns, identifying and organising engagement opportunities and stewardship events, and overseeing legacy training to staff and members.
- To put in place new ideas, plans and recommendations to grow income from legacies and in-memoriam donations to meet financial targets.
- To develop and grow the legacy fundraising pipeline against agreed targets and KPIs, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on a regular basis.
- To provide and oversee the administration of legacy enquiries, pledges, and notifications of legacy gifts.
- To identify, recruit and manage the Society’s Legacy Ambassadors and Legacy Champions.
- To act as a source of specialist knowledge for the Society in legacy fundraising, legacy marketing, and legacy administration.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL NEED:
- To be passionate about legacy giving and willing to inspire, enthuse and engage with key stakeholders across the Society
- Demonstrable experience and skills in either legacy fundraising, legacy marketing, legacy administration, or individual giving
- A good level of knowledge and understanding of legacy fundraising and the legacy sector
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen, be empathetic, and handle challenging, sensitive conversations
- Good organisation skills with the ability to lead on projects and bring people on board
- Good time management with the ability to juggle many priorities and competing deadlines
- Good attention to detail with the ability to handle complex legal and financial information
- To be a creative thinker with flair and an ability to problem solve and think out of the box
In return, we’ll provide you with the opportunity to work for a welcoming organisation that offers support, guidance, training, and development.
HOW TO APPLY:
If you feel you have the relevant experience and skills to fulfil this role successfully, please apply in the first instance with your CV. All suitable applicants will be sent a short application form to complete.
Closing Date: 14th July 2022
Deadline for Application Packs: 19th July 2022
Interviews: 28th July 2022
Previous candidates need not apply. Unfortunately, if you have not received a response within four weeks of your application, you have not been successful on this occasion.
Whilst we ask that staff have sympathy with the Society’s Christian values, religion is not considered in recruitment as we value people of all faiths or none.
ABOUT THE SVP:
The St Vincent de Paul Society is an international Christian voluntary organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage in all its forms by providing practical assistance to people in need.
Our work is based on person-to-person contact and spending time with people is our greatest gift. Motivated by their faith, our 10,000 volunteer members in England and Wales are committed to meaningful and long-term befriending in their local communities. They visit people in their homes, hospital, prison, and care homes on a regular basis and offer sincere friendship and practical support such as food, furniture or financial help where needed and they organise trips and events for older and isolated people. We offer help to anyone regardless of faith, ethnicity, status, or sexual orientation.
This varied role works across the Programme and Development teams within Cause4. The role will involve managing a client portfolio, building relationships with, and providing expertise to clients, whilst also taking responsibility for the marketing and administration of key programmes, including Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy and Heritage Compass.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join Cause4 as a Programmes and Development Coordinator, giving you an in-depth insight into the charity sector, spearheading your career in the charity sector or in consultancy practice.
This role will enable you to develop broad expertise across a range of areas, whilst working towards a specialism of your choice (such as marketing, fundraising or programme management) from year two onwards through additional training and support.
As a Coordinator you will gain first-hand experience of Cause4’s entrepreneurial fundraising and programme delivery on behalf of charities, philanthropists, and social enterprises.
Your initial role will be to support the team in the administration of our programmes, including event management, marketing and communications, evaluation, project delivery, budget management, and sales. You will also work alongside the development team to support a range of charities in areas of fundraising, strategy, and marketing.
Key responsibilities will include:
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Supporting the team in the delivery of our programmes to achieve the outputs and outcomes agreed with our funders.
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Supporting with event management both online and face to face, including providing technical support to participants on platforms for online training and providing excellent customer service.
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Running the administration of courses and public-facing activities including preparing course materials, analysing feedback, and liaising with charity representatives and course participants.
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Managing the day-to-day communications of our programmes, including the delivery of marketing campaigns, participant communications and audience development research.
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Conducting research into Trusts and Foundations, corporates, and individuals to establish relevant background information and potential for receiving approaches for funding.
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Supporting the preparation of client strategy documents, using sources of information provided and through conducting desk research.
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Developing a full understanding of individual profiles of specific clients within the portfolio of Cause4 and use this to help develop Cases for Support and other funding documents.
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Drafting documents and producing statistics and figures for inclusion in client documents, together with sets of measurable outcomes and evaluation methods.
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Producing corporate sponsorship presentations and individual collateral documents with support from Senior Management and other colleagues.
Cause4 is a fast-paced agency environment with an opportunity to support the charity sector and further develop your own skills and knowledge. We are looking for an ambitious individual with an interest in a future leadership role in the arts, charity or enterprise sector.
Cause4 is a Gold Award holder for Investors in People and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our definition of diversity encompasses responding to issues around race, ethnicity, faith, disability, age, gender, sexuality, class and economic disadvantage.
To apply, please sent your CV, a Cover Letter (no more than 2 pages), and an equal opportunity monitoring form to Annie Jarvis by 25th July 2022. If you have any questions prior to applying please do get in touch with Annie directly.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Home Worker (England, Wales and NI)
Salary: £23,384 - £24,328 per annum (depending on skills and experience) + London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week
Closing Date: 04 July 2022
Interview Date: TBC (via Zoom or Teams)
Contract: This is a fixed term/secondment opportunity for 12 months
Please note, the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 23:59pm on the closing date.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About Us:
Who we are
Alzheimer’s Society are a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia. We will not rest until people with dementia and their carers live more fulfilled and less fearful lives, free from stigma and inequality.
What we do
We support people affected by dementia through some of the hardest and most frightening times, to improve their lives and help to avoid crisis.
No matter whoever you are, whatever you’re going through, you can turn to Alzheimer’s Society/us for expert support through practical advice, emotional support, and guidance for the best next step
We join forces with people affected by dementia, leading scientists and policy makers, amplifying voices to push for cutting edge breakthroughs and societal change that’ll improve the lives of people affected by dementia, now and in the future
How we do it
We’re the friendly face of support, the warm voice at the end of the phone and the determined minds who will fight passionately for the cause of everyone affected by dementia
About the role
We have a new and rewarding opportunity for a Supporter Engagement Coordinator to join our Fundraising division.
The role is varied and exciting, with a core focus on putting the supporter at the heart of everything we do here at Alzheimer’s Society. We support the Regional Engagement team with governance of certain processes that enable them to work effectively and offer the best supporter experience.
The role requires a high level of organisation with multiple supporter channels being the focus of your role daily. We use a central CRM system and additional reporting methods which you will be completing to a high level.
The role is the gateway into the wider Regional Engagement team, triaging all community led supporters from fundraising through to dementia friends and events. We focus on quality, delivering an unrivalled journey for our supporters which we constantly look to improve and develop. The successful candidate will help drive this development through excellence and passion.
About you
Ideally you will:
- Be able to demonstrate a high level of supporter centric focus and experience,
- Attention to stewarding our supporters with their specified Fundraising journeys.
- Ability to work working remotely
- Confidence to work as a team and to set deadlines.
- Excellent IT skills including MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook and MS PowerPoint
- Experience of managing and working with fundraising database systems (full training provided).
- Have a passion for supporter care and stewardship (desirable)
- Ability to multiple tasks through your day with an eye for details and accuracy.
You may have experience of the following: Fundraising Administrator, Supporter Engagement, Sales Support, Sales Administration, Project Support Project Coordinator, Telemarketing, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Executive, Fundraiser, Membership Services, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit etc.
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Age UK's Digital and Technology team are recruiting for a Service Request Analyst.
The successful applicant of this fantastic home-based opportunity will deliver the efficient and timely fulfilment of all IT service requests within Age UK.
Working within a friendly and supportive team, you will contribute to continual service improvements, ensuring all improvements are aligned to business objectives and deliver an excellent end user experience.
Utilising your skills and previous experience you will maintain the IT Asset Register, manage the lifecycle of assets, assist with the facilitation of audits and reporting, and carry out JML (Joiner Mover Leaver) processes for colleagues across the whole charity.
This fulfilling role offers home-based working and would suit a proactive and friendly person with experience in service requests.
Please note that due to some of the essential functions of the role, the successful applicant must be UK based.
You will have:
- Experience as a Service Desk Analyst or other relevant skills and knowledge
- A proven track record of delivering outstanding Customer Service.
- Experience in delivering customer service in a complex environment.
- A strong working knowledge of ITSM or other Incident and Request logging tools.
- A background in Service Desk with a demonstrable knowledge of how ITSM processes are utilised to deliver service.
- A solid understanding, of the Joiner Mover Leaver process and how this relates to end user experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with an ability to understand and translate requirements.
- Demonstrable experience of carrying out IT processes, with experience of managing end users' expectations in an IT environment.
- An excellent knowledge of and ability to implement an outstanding Customer Services approach
- High IT literacy with experience in documenting all Customer interactions and procedures.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
- An understanding of asset management and procurement processes.
- An ability to work with a variety of suppliers and to understand how these relationships impact service delivery.
- An ability to use monitoring tools and provide analysis, to understand and interpret complex procedural documents.
- The ability to translate IT jargon into comprehensive end user guides.
- An understanding and ability to comply with data protection laws, in particular in understanding the impact of the current Data Protection, GDPR and other related UK or EU-driven regulatory compliance initiatives.
What we offer in return
* Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme.
* Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Heka Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.
Additional Information
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 minimum 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.
Who we are
Age UK is the country's largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Read more
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Data Warehouse Developer / SQL Developer to use the data warehouse and complex sources to develop reporting base tables and views to support Business Partners in organisational reporting sources and the Data Science team in their analysis and visualisation reporting base. You will act as an expert on technical matters and on complex data sets available to the organisation.
What will you be doing in this role?
- Your role as Data Warehouse Developer will be to analyse, understand, and interpret highly complex data from multiple sources to produce requisite base for reporting layer to support the Business Partners and the Data Science team
- You're going to be building extremely complex T-SQL code including the use of dynamic SQL to reduce the complexities from reporting layer used by Business Partners and the Data Science team
- Your remit includes maintaining development of database objects within DevOps using integrated development environment
- You'll conduct periodic audits of various database objects to ensure that the delivery layer meets organisational reporting demands
- As the Data Warehouse Developer you will also participate in scoping and understanding the transition of CRM migration between the current system and other systems that the business is migrating to
- You will identify and solve a range of problems within our current data object delivery
- You'll also act as an expert on the data systems within the organisation
- Your role will also involve developing the organisational data mappings and data flows using specialist ERD tools and maintaining organisational data catalogue using specialist tools
- You will manage the data engineering delivery infrastructure for the business including SQL databases and data warehouse objects
- You'll work with the IT team to plan and coordinate data engineering deployment and upgrades
- The Data Warehouse Developer will be responsible for the ongoing performance of database objects
- As well as this, you will lead on the development and maintenance of the database systems including the underlying design, inform on the ETL processes, and understand data mats design and existing reporting layers
- Your remit will include coordinating the definition process for Data Engineering standards, guidelines, and principles for all Data Engineering design and solutions within the organisation and you will be responsible for ensuring they are implemented
- You'll review new datasets and data sources and assess implications for improving the delivery of the base reporting layer
What do you need to apply for this role?
- Ability to collate, analyse and interpret extremely complex data sources
- Proven ability explain complex analytical methods to non-analytical people
- Ability to deliver documentations for complex data flows
- Ability to manage a workflow and achieve short deadline
- Intermediate Level of MS Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, Visio and SharePoint
- Experience of managing multiple databases and DBA knowledge
- Experience of using ERD tools (e.g. Erwin) to map Data Flows and create a Data Catalogue
- Experience of designing, developing and managing data warehouses or other complex relational databases
- Experience of designing, developing and managing ETL Processes
- Experience of using Power BI and creating reports/analyzing data using it
- Experience of working with and combining data contained within different data sources
- Extensive experience of complex SQL code to include development of scripts, functions, procedures, views and dynamic SQL
- Experience of using and implementing SSRS and SSIS
- Experience of maintaining database back end processes such as jobs, backups and linked servers
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Finance Manager
Home based, UK or Europe
This is a critical support function to the Finance, HR and Administration team. It is a multi-faceted role with responsibilities for accountancy, in particular the management of the annual audits and accounts. Be the point of contact for HR and Administration functions. Working with our accounting firms, payroll firms in the respective countries, this role will lead on all of the audit processes for the UK, EU and Australian arms of the Foundation and will also provide support to the US and Hong Kong as and when necessary.
Finance:
- Lead on the format and messaging of the global accounts and global annual review and ensure that we provide an accurate and transparent report.
- Lead on the UK, German, Italian, Luxembourg and Australian audits and work with relevant stakeholders to ensure they are completed accurately and on time each year. Point of contact between the finance team and external auditors to ensure queries are resolved throughout the audit process.
- Work with the gift processing teams, third party fulfilment houses and the Finance team to ensure all income and expense records are filed correctly to support annual audit processes and in line with charity/company regulations.
- Ensure accurate coding is in place across all financial systems.
- Monthly accountancy - perform or assist with the book-keeping for each market as required.
- Manage staff expenses including reimbursement.
- Point of contact for staff credit cards. Manage allocation and use.
- Manage global bank accounts. Responsibility for keeping signatories, users and authorisers/directors up to date and in line with internal policies and when there are staff changes. Provide financial info to the Finance team as required. Oversee the set up of new accounts as required.
- Ensure day-to-day banking is carried out in line with our Customer Service Charter.
- Manage monthly transfers between bank accounts, supplier accounts and merchant providers for all markets in liaison with Finance team located at headquarters. Obtain required approvals and ensure operational balances are in place.
- Carry out finance related reconciliations such as expenditure reconciliation, bank reconciliation and payment platform reconciliation.
- Point of contact & account manager for payment platforms and merchant accounts, keeping information up to date etc.
HR and Administration:
- Recruitment and retention, including labour engagement for UK, German, Italy, Luxembourg and Australia.
- Work with our Global HR team to ensure Training and Development, performance maintenance, employee relations are well maintain.
- Coordinate / arrange the European staff salaries, and other markets as required.
- Oversee supplier accounts/services & contract management: Keep records up to date, manage payments, maintain online accounts eg, office facilities and insurances. Management of global PO Boxes and international postal services. Ensure they are renewed in time.
- Manage all subscription requirements for the Supporter Engagement team (IT, sector, compliance etc).
- Management of staff mobile phone contracts.
- Control and monitor purchasing costs, including office.
- Manage UK petty cash.
- Manage the global fixed asset registers.
- Create and manage inventory of staff resources incl. IT equipment.
- Assist the budget preparation.
- Assist with the creation of performance reports and other (ad hoc) reports as required.
- Provide support for financial, HR processes as required.
- Design and maintain filing systems.
Inter-department relations:
- Ensure that inter-department and inter-personal relationships are positive, cohesive, and contribute to the overall mission of AAF.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with management in regard to work procedures and employee relations.
Continuous Improvement and Misc.:
- Contribute to the on-going review, development and implementation of changes to improve the productivity and efficiency of AAF.
- Participate in staff training and performance and development appraisal process to assist in the achievement of AAF objectives and mission.
- Ensure procedure manuals are updated in line with changes.
To apply Please send CV’s with covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification and why you should be considered for this role.
Please include the job title in the subject line of your email.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is looking for a Data Engineer. It is an exciting opportunity to join our Data Science & Insights team on a full-time basis.
As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the RSC data warehouse. The role is highly technical and hands-on and involves running projects to ensure that data is consolidated, standardised and accessible in a manner that is useful to the business. You will play a key role in data management, consolidation and analytics delivery across the RSC, ensuring a better use of data as an asset and a joined-up, shared view of customers, products and services.
You will be involved in building and maintaining a secure, cloud data infrastructure to support the RSC’s needs.
We are looking for someone who has an experience in setting up a data warehouse and who enjoys communicating with the stakeholders.
We are looking for someone with:
• Substantial data warehousing experience. Including familiarity with data related AWS technologies (e.g. Redshift and documentDB), pipelining (e.g. AWS Lambda and AWS Glue) and associated core technologies (e.g. SNS/SQS).
• Strong programming skills and substantial experience designing and building data pipelines (e.g. Python).
• Experience in data standardisation and QA techniques.
• Familiarity with developing data interrogation and visualisation tools such as a single customer view (e.g. consolidating data from multiple CRMs) and analytics (e.g. PowerBI)
• Able to confidently work within a team and independently and clearly communicate technical concepts to both a technical and a non-technical audience.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. We are a provider of knowledge, a professional body and a voice for chemical sciences, with a heritage that spans 179 years. We work with industry and academia to promote collaboration and innovation. We advise governments on policy, and we promote the talent, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science.
The Royal Society of Chemistry offers excellent benefits. The contractual base for this role is Cambridge, however we are currently embracing hybrid working, and therefore you will have the opportunity to work from a location other than this, as agreed with your line manager. Applicants should be aware that there is an expectation that employees will attend the offices as needed for their role.
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £52,191 - 63,789
Position Type: Permanent, Full-Time
You may have experience of the following: Data Engineer, SQL Server, Database Administrator, T-SQL, SQL Server Reporting Services, C# Programming, Git, TFS, XML, etc.
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Who are you
You would love to work for an organisation which celebrates the incredible impact pets have on our lives.
If you are enthusiastic and energetic, proactive and driven and flourish in a small-team, hands-on environment read on.
Who are Pets As Therapy
Pets As Therapy (PAT) is a national charity founded in 1983 whose work is delivered in local communities. Through a vast network of dedicated volunteers across the UK, we provide therapeutic pet visits.
Our volunteers and their pets bring comfort and companionship to people living in residential care who may feel isolated, confused and lonely. We support schools to help young people improve their literacy skills and encourage confidence and concentration in the classroom. Our hospital visits can aid a patient’s recovery and rehabilitation and help improve mental health and wellbeing.
In a typical year around 1 million people will be impacted by PAT team visits.
What is the role
To help us to do more, we are setting up our first local area hub in North West England. Local area hubs are the mechanism to ensure PAT is an active member of the communities in which it operates while maintaining its national reputation. There are 4 key elements to the role:
- Volunteer management (Volunteer Area Co-ordinators, Assessors, PAT Team Visiting Volunteers, other volunteer roles)
- Managing and supporting establishments
- Community engagement and outreach
- Local fundraising, marketing, PR and communications
This exciting new role is our first Hub Co-ordinator and you will set up and deliver our first local area hub. Full time & based at home (with some requirement to attend activities taking place in the hub area)
How to apply
Read through the role description and send over your CV and an accompanying supporting statement (no more than 2 sides of A4, minimum size 11 font) telling us why you are suited to the role and what you will bring to the PAT team.
We want to hear how you will be successful in carrying out the role, as well as examples of your recent work (paid or voluntary).
Timetable
Your application needs to get to us by Sunday 3rd July 2022
We will be shortlisting w/c 4th July 2022
Interviews will take place w/c 18th July 2022
Formed in 1983, Pets as Therapy (PAT) enhances health and wellbeing in the community through the facilitation of visits of trusted volunteers w... Read more