Advert programme manager jobs near Reading, Berkshire

BMS World Mission is recruiting four key leadership roles, within its newly restructured Department for World Mission.

• Head of Programme - Developing Resilience (Most marginalised)
• Head of Programme - Evangelism and Discipleship (Least marginalised)
• Head of Programme - People on the Move
• Head of Programme - Capacity Strengthening and Cross-cutting (themes)

Are you a leader with experience in leading and empowering dispersed teams in diverse and complex mission contexts? Do you have a passion to see some of the most marginalised and least evangelised communities around the world experience abundant life?

Do you have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a high level of intercultural sensitivity and leadership experience? Do you also have the ability to lead teams towards collaborative, fruitful mission impact? Have you worked with or supported organisations in a variety of contexts, including in the Global South? Do you have a commitment to seeing mission from everywhere to everywhere, where the members of the Body of Christ share in mission collaboratively? And do you bring significant experience in one or more of the following areas of BMS’ mission priorities?

• Relief and/or International/Community development
• Evangelism, discipleship, and church planting
• Refugee ministry in diverse contexts
• Organisational capacity strengthening, gender justice or creation stewardship

We are looking for four individuals to take on these new and strategic roles within BMS.

Working closely with the Director for Mission, the Heads of Programme (HoPs) will take responsibility for one of BMS’ key programmatic areas of work (Most Marginalised, Least Evangelised, People on the Move) or its Capacity Strengthening and Cross-cutting themes (including gender justice and creation stewardship), while also sharing in the team leadership of the Department for World Mission.

HoPs will line manage specialist leads and oversee the management of BMS mission workers and others, within the team they are responsible for. Oversight of the programme will involve ensuring BMS delivers on its agreed strategic goals and is able to adapt to the changing missional needs of our work with partners around the world.

The successful applicant will be a committed Christian. The nature of this role means that this is a specific occupational requirement. 

Location:                Didcot, UK or within an international mission context where BMS works

Hours:                     35 hrs per week/full-time

Employment:          Permanent

Salary range:          Salary set at the national equivalent of a UK salary of £42,646-47,865 based on relative national salary levels of the relevant Global South/BMS mission context, and  increasing in periodic increments to the top of the band

Closing date:       9 am, Friday 15 July 2022

 Interview:            Planned between 21-27 July in Didcot, England

If you would like to discuss this role with the Director for Mission, Arthur Brown, please contact Elizabeth O’Brien via at BMS World Mission, Didcot to arrange a suitable time.

For full information and to download a recruitment pack, please visit our website for more details. 

In2scienceUK’s aim is to promote social mobility and diversity in science, technology, engineering and maths. We are looking for an office manager to play a critical role at In2scienceUK in supporting the operations of our quickly growing organisation. 

What we are looking for: 

You will be someone who thrives on being highly organised with strong attention to detail as well having excellent interpersonal skills to liaison with staff across the organisation as well as external stakeholders and suppliers.

You will be confident in providing a support role as well as independently identifying areas for improvement and leading on new solutions, with the ability to communicate new processes clearly and effectively to all staff.

Duties and responsibilities:

As Office Manager you will be a key part of a new operations team. Working directly with the Head of Operations you will ensure the continued effective administration and operations in a fast growing charity. This as a growth area for the organisation and as the workload for this area increases the staffing will also increase. 

Your specific duties will include: 

IT

• Supporting the management shared drives, folders and files in a way that is compliant with data protection policies.

• Supporting with the administration of systems and suppliers used across the organisation, e.g. Monday, Xero, Zoho Vault.

• Budgeting and tracking of IT and other assets necessary for the functioning of the organisation.

HR

• Coordinating therecruitment processes in line with the organisation's commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

• Supporting the onboarding process of new employees e.g. updating the staff handbook, providing working from home provisions, carrying out DBS checks.

• Supporting staff development through booking personal development and essential staff training.

• Support with tracking essential HR processes through Breathe HR systems.

Administration

• Providing ongoing administration for essential functioning of a remote working office, including monitoring shared email accounts.

• Scheduling and organising the logistics of team co-working days and virtual team meetings.

• Supporting trustee board management, to include scheduling and organising board and committee meetings.

• Supporting with the administration of essential documentation and compliance e.g. Charity insurance, Companies House, In2scienceUK policies.

Finance:

• Basic bookkeeping, e.g. tracking receipts, expenses, invoices, billing cycles.

• Processing payments and invoices for funders, suppliers and programme participants.

• Provide support for cross-department budgeting.

• Provide support for payroll administration.

We want to hear from people who can passionately represent the interests of the diverse young people that we serve. We are not asking for particular qualifications. We don’t care what school you went to or what your parents do for work. We care about your character, your skills and potential.

Salary: £32-55000

Grade: 2- Senior Management/Specialist

Hours: Full time, Permanent. Flexible working considered.

Responsible to: Head of Supply Chain

Direct Reports: Junior Buyer, Buyers

Location: Truro, Cornwall or remote with quarterly trips to Truro

Travel: Infrequent work away from home may be required of the role and will be predominately UK travel.

Role Purpose:

This exciting role offers an exceptional opportunity to build on the procurement work carried out to date and set up strong procurement foundations for the whole organisation following an organisational strategy review.

ShelterBox is committed to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2030 and the Procurement Manager will be pivotal in designing procurement processes and policy to support this ambitious goal.

The key purpose of this role is to lead the Procurement Team, drive smart procurement decisions, deliver procurement strategy and policy for the organisation, and to achieve the highest degree of ethical and sustainable purchasing and the best value for money across all indirect spend activities. The Procurement Manager is leader of the Procurement Team and will provide mentoring support for their team members. CIPS qualification is available to all Procurement Team members including the Procurement Manager.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Responsible for all indirect procurement activities across the organisation
• Senior decision maker for indirect procurement activity, working closely with the Head of Supply Chain
• Subject Matter Expert for indirect procurement, acting in a consultative capacity across the organisation as required
• Manage, coach and develop Procurement Team to meet personal and organisational objectives, deliver best results and support the team’s wellbeing
• Lead the creation and implementation of best practice procurement processes and procedures to support continuous improvement and optimisation including policies
• Lead, build and implement Indirect Procurement Strategy 2022+
• Responsible for identifying and managing relevant procurement risks within the organisation, working closely with the senior colleagues
• Regularly review and maintain appropriate procurement processes for the different buying categories ensuring compliance with ShelterBox’s processes
• Lead negotiation of rates and contracts with suppliers across the organisation
• Report on cost savings and avoidance, and risk management
• Lead on indirect supplier contract management across the organisations
• Responsible for identifying procurement improvement priorities by analysing forecast spend, supply markets and specification options
• Lead procurement projects such as procedure implementation, sustainability and software introduction
• Procurement training, upskilling and development across the organisation
• Work with different departments in the organisation to ensure compliance with the Procurement Policy/ies, reporting on non-compliance
• Drive ethical and sustainable procurement practice across all buying activity
• Provide support to organisational projects as required
• Ensure procurement administration is kept up to date and appropriate
• Maintain confidentiality for all internal matters, and commercial confidentiality for matters pertaining to suppliers
   
• Represent ShelterBox as required

Other responsibilities

• Any other duties as required which are deemed appropriate to the level and grade of the post

Please not that Interviews will be held on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close the advert at any time

Public Relations Manager, Directorate of Development and External Affairs

Home-based (with travel to London and nationally when required)
30 hours per week (part-time, 4 days per week)

Grade 3 (upper) point 24-28: £30,751 - £34,072 FTE (£24,933.24 - £27,625.95 per annum)

+ £480 homeworking allowance per annum, pro rata

Permanent contract

Are you a dynamic and organised PR Manager, wanting to help shape Family Action’s PR strategy so that we can be a bolder, stronger voice for families?

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

We are looking for a proactive PR manager with proven experience in media relations, with a strong knowledge and understanding of the media or public affairs landscape that will enable you to deliver tangible results. You will need to have a hands-on yet strategic approach and be able to curate and deliver authentic and compelling communications, stories and media opportunities, building narratives around our brand and services to influence recognition and reputation of Family Action as a respected service provider and voice on policy and practice. This role will support influencing and communication effectiveness and help us capitalise on income development opportunities by evidencing organisational and service specific performance and quality at a local, regional and national level. The role aims to support our influencing of professional audiences, policy makers and the general public.

You will be a committed team player, confident to lead PR for Family Action, and adaptable to the changing needs of the organisation as we respond to external circumstances and develop our Directorate of Development and External Affairs. An interest in or experience of public affairs PR, the voluntary sector, health and social care, children and families or wider policy environment would be beneficial - this role reports to the Head of Insight and Influencing at a time when we are expanding our work in this area.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

What will we offer you?

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills then we look forward to hearing from you.  

For an application pack and further information please visit our current vacancies page.

We are unable to accept CVs alone, to be consider please complete an applicaiotn form. Email completed applications to the designated submission inbox (19).
 

Closing date: Monday 4th July 2022 at 09:00am

Interview date: TBC 

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.

Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

ID: 420

Who are we?

​Recently named one of the Third Sector's ‘Best Charities to Work For’, we are committed to moving further, faster to accelerate change for everyone affected by a brain tumour.​Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 in the UK than any other cancer. We know that a cure can’t wait. By recruiting a team that ‘can’, we can and will find one sooner.

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Our exciting job role!

We're looking for someone with a strong biological research background and a PhD who wants to use their skills to encourage and inspire leading experts, scientists and academic clinicians to support The Charity’s ambitious strategic goals. You’ll raise awareness of The Charity, its funding and service opportunities among the academic and clinical communities and represent The Charity at scientific meetings and conferences in the UK and internationally.

By identifying and critically evaluating potential drug discovery opportunities for development, and presenting them to the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll be sure to feel great pride in helping turn promising science into benefits for patients.

This role is full time - 37.5 hours, with some out of hours working. While contracted to our office in Fleet, Hampshire, our team supports a blend of office and home working provided you have adequate broadband and IT capability, with an average of 2-3 days in the office each week

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Key accountabilities

• Promote The Charity, its research strategy and funding opportunities to the academic and clinical communities
• Represent The Charity at scientific meetings and conferences in the UK and internationally
• Maintain up to date knowledge of The Charity’s funded portfolio and the results derived from that research
• Pro-actively promote the commercialisation of results of Charity funded research through close working relationships with university commercialisation services
• Present recommendations on opportunities to fund/support ventures, outside grant rounds, to the Chief Scientific Officer and The Charity’s Senior Leadership Team
• Build relationships with external organisations to provide opportunities for collaborative working
• Respond to enquiries about The Charity’s funded research and funding opportunities
• Understand the needs of the research community and communicate these back to The Charity to ensure the development of appropriate funding mechanisms

All of this will enable you to play your part to ensure that the money raised is invested in high quality research with the best potential for delivering benefit to those who are affected by a brain tumour.

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What we'd like from you:​

A thorough knowledge and understanding of the national and international research landscape, which will enable you to critically evaluate opportunities and provide diligence support to inform strategic decisions.

​We need you to be brilliant at building relationships, interacting credibly with scientists and clinicians, whilst also having the ability to describe complex scientific concepts in accessible terms.

​It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. We need the inspired and the inspirational – the people who completely embrace our values, offer a great cultural fit and who are determined to make real and lasting change for our community.

If this is for you, we’d love to hear from you!

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What we'd like to give you:

You’ll be joining a pioneering, passionate, collaborative and smart team of individuals connected by a passion to make a real difference.  While we face tough challenges along the way, we nurture an inspiring, fun and positive team environment where you feel valued for being you – the real you.  We'll also give you:

- Benchmarked salary c.£46,000 (dependent on level)

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays  

- Generous pension contribution*

- Life assurance cover*

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Opportunities to volunteer at our internal events and activities and work with our amazing community

- Plus a brilliant culture to work in, a great team and lots of fun (and cake!)

*subject to qualifying criteria

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How to apply to join our amazing team:

Please apply by clicking the green ‘apply for this job’ button above, attaching your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours.

The Brain Tumour Charity particularly encourages applications from minority ethnic groups and underrepresented communities.

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Advert close date: 13 July 2022

First interview date and location: 18 July over Zoom

Second interview date and location: TBC at our office in Fleet

Please note, early applications are encouraged and interviews will commence before the closing date if and when suitable candidates are identified.

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More about us:

Visit our website careers pages to find out more about our culture and what it’s like to be part of our amazing team.You should also check out our YouTube channel too.

Did you know that we were ranked 11th Best Charity to Work For 2020 by Third Sector? Oh yes, and crowned Third Sector’s Charity of the Year in 2018? Not to mention we have won a variety of other awards and have been ranked a top global organisation by renowned management consultants McKinsey! While we’re not boasting, we are particularly proud that our HeadSmart campaign scooped the NHS Innovation Award, a Third Sector Excellence Award, and a Charity Times Award and we've also won Best Charity Partnership Award (well, maybe we’re boasting a little bit!).

We process your data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation. For full details, please read our privacy policy for job applicants.

The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.

The Government Property Agency is expected to grow exponentially over the first few years of its existence; this equates to transferring hundreds of assets (worth billions of pounds) onto its balance sheet from Government Departments, as well as gaining responsibility for the running of a large part of the central government office estate.

The Cash Manager is responsible for assisting the Head of Finance Operations with the efficient and effective operation of accounts receivable and cash management processes. The post holder will also ensure that GPA manages its cash balances effectively through the production of timely and accurate cash flow forecasts.

The responsibilities of the Cash Manager will include:

• Prepare cash flow forecasts to support cash management
• Provide cash flow reports to the Cabinet Office to support the monthly group submission to HM Treasury
• Work with the Cabinet Office Treasury team in relation to funding requests
• Support continuous process efficiencies and improvements across the function, delivering maximum value for the GPA and ensuring robust controls are in place
• Act as contact for external and internal auditors of cash and associated controls
• Build relationships with key staff across Finance and the business in order to maintain effectiveness. Working with stakeholders to ensure key information is provided to aid robust forecasting. 

To be successful in the Cash Manager post, you will be:

• Good experience of accounts receivable and cash management
• Strong attention to detail and ability to analyse and interpret significant amounts of financial data
• Ability to develop productive relationships and effective networks with stakeholders across government organisations
• Good experience of systems and reporting e.g. Oracle
• Good Microsoft Office skills
• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed team
• Experience of working in property or estates (Desirable)
• Experience of working in a working in a rapidly growing organisation (Desirable)

For more information or to apply please use the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Jack White at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.

Salary: up to £75,000 per annum plus benefits dependant on experience 

Contract: Permanent.

Location: Homebased – UK.

Advert Closing date: Monday 4th July 2022 

About Us  

Action for Children supported 600,000 children and families through our services last year, but with 4 million children in the UK living in poverty, we need to be able to do more. By building on what we already do - growing and delivering more services in more communities across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, we will be able to provide more emotional and practical care and support to children and young people who need it.

What you'll be doing:  

Reporting to the Director of Growth and Service Design, this a pivotal new role for Action for Children. You will drive and deliver our ambitious growth plans for Children's Services and build our external reputation as a provider of sustainable, high-quality and impactful services. 

In this leadership role, you shape and drive the growth plan delivery with your team of Service Development and Relationship Managers to establish new commissioning relationships and services in our priority service areas.  

Our four priority areas for growth are Family Support, Mental Health, Looked After Children and Disability. 

You'll do this by: 

• Managing the Service Development and Relationship Management team. 
• Growing the charity's income through lead generation and the development of relationships with potential, existing and new commissioners.
• Leading the service development in our four priority growth areas.
• Collaborating with the Head of Business Development to create robust plans to ensure that growth targets are met.   
• Developing a three-year plan for proactively prospecting to win and grow business, .
• Ensuring growth strategies and programmes are based on market understanding including policy changes and insights into new markets and opportunities. 

What we need from you:  

• Relevant professional qualification in Education, Health or Social care or equivalent experience.
• Experience of developing business strategies to secure service delivery contracts. 
• Experience of public sector commissioning and problem-solving, particularly from a third sector and/or social care perspective.
• Experience of working at a senior level in children's services or a related social care field.
• Experience of working within a challenging, competitive external environment, and working to clear internal business objectives and targets.
• Ability to identify and convert new business streams into successful new business.

Action for Children is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff, volunteers and the children and young people we support. We value the diversity of our staff and are dedicated to becoming the most inclusive Children's charity where all staff can thrive and be themselves. Therefore, we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups, particularly people with a disability and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within our organisation.

We are committed to our Diversity & Inclusion strategy and to becoming an anti-racist organisation. You can read more on our website here: Equality and diversity | Action For Children

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact David Simpson, Recruitment Partner.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.  

37.5 hours per week

Thames Hospice is looking for an ambitious, passionate fundraiser to lead its Community and Event Fundraising Team as Head of Community and Event Fundraising. Could this exciting role be for you?

We are one of the busiest and most innovative hospices in the country. Based in the heart of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, we offer compassionate palliative and end-of-life care and support to our community in our state-of the art 28-bed facility and in people’s home.

This role is pivotal to support the income generation ambitions of Thames Hospice. You will be responsible for engaging with our local community in the vital work of Thames Hospice and leading on the charity’s portfolio of community and event fundraising activities, so that we can continue to be there for even more families now and in the future.

You’ll be results-oriented with the experience, skills and drive to take Thames Hospice to the next level in its fundraising strategy, maximising fundraising opportunities, demonstrating a can-do attitude and living and breathing our vision, mission and values.

We offer a great range of employee schemes and benefits, including generous annual leave, flexible and hybrid working, free parking on-site, discounted meals in our on-site cafe, EAP, access to NHS pension scheme if eligible, Blue Light Discount Card and so much more!

If you would like a chat and to find out more please contact Amy Chambers, Director of Fundraising and Marketing via telephone or or e-mail. 

Closing date: Monday 11 July 2022

Interview date: Monday 18 July 2022

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.

This appointment is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Salary - £32,000 - £35,794 + Up to £5,000 accountancy allowance

The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.

Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices.

The Management Accountant role in the GPA is integral to ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, producing management information, forecasts and supporting the business and GPA clients to make informed decisions.  Working across a diverse portfolio of projects and related overheads, the post holder will need to build key relationships across the business, ensuring accurate management accounting and providing analysis and analysis interpretation to key stakeholders.

The responsibilities of the Management Accountant will include:

• Producing management accounts for relevant budget holders
• Preparing property reconciliations to ensure all expenditure has been fully recovered from tenants
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations including accruals and prepayments
• Analysing financial performance to identify variances and ensuring transactions are accounted for correctly
• Preparing and processing journals
• Supporting internal and external audits
• Facilitating forecasting and reporting
• Identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the financial data
• Ensuring Record to Report principles are embedded within the GPA
• Producing financial reports for GPA clients

To be successful in the Management Accountants post, you will be:

• Working towards or, willing to work towards professional qualification
• Good experience of management accounting, ideally in a public sector context
• Strong attention to detail and ability to analyse and interpret significant amounts of financial data
• Good experience of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• Proficient using Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders 
• Ability to work in a geographically dispersed team

For more information or to apply please use the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Jack White at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.

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.

Head of Practice Development, Services & Innovation
Home-based (with travel to Head Office and Family Action services when required)
37 hours per week (full-time, 5 days)
Grade 5 point 39-46: £44,983 - £52,087 per annum + £480 homeworking allowance per annum
Permanent Contract

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

We’re incredibly honoured to have won Charity of the Year at Third Sector Awards in 2021 and 3 Star award for staff engagement in Best top 100 companies. A 3 Star accreditation, as the highest standard of workplace engagement, representing organisations that truly excel, are awarded to organisations with a BCI score of 738 or higher, reflecting 'world class' levels of workplace engagement. Amazing recognition for our work over the past 12 months in response to the pandemic and beyond. These awards are some of the most important ways the third sector publicly recognises excellence and achievement, and so to win these are true testaments to the hard work, passion and commitment of our staff and supporters.

This is an important role in Family Action. You will report directly to the Director of Services & Innovation and your key purpose will be to Lead the organisational development of best practice across the 140+ services to achieve excellent outcomes for children, families and adults. You will lead the development and coordination of an organisational strategy and delivery plan for the thematic work areas across Family Action’s services, enabling a managed and effective delivery of evidenced informed practice, achieving excellent outcomes, maximising our ability to win new service contracts, and enhancing our influencing work on external policy.

You will also support the organisation to adopt a culture of learning, enabling and embedding the required learning and development across services and Family Action. You will lead, establish and coordinate Family Actions thematic groups across our identified service areas and develop organisational repositories for evidence based and informed practice tools, outcomes tools, and shared learning across the organisation.

You will be able to work collaboratively across the organisation, mapping and managing the organisation wide project interdependencies that will be critical to the success of thematic working, within services and Family Action organisationally.

Your role would be varied, exciting and incredibly worthwhile. At its heart is a striving for excellence, maximising outcomes and the need to ensure that children and adults get the right support, of the highest quality at the right time. If you are you looking for a diverse, ambitious and fast paced organisation, you have found it.

We are looking for an autodidactic self-starter, who can draw learning from a range of sources, contextually analyse the evidence, recognise the generalisable from the one offs, and piece it all together with strategic finesse. We need someone with substantial experience of frontline and management practice working in services for people. Alongside this, you must have extensive experience of  supporting organisational development and staff development including evidence informed practice as a means of continuous learning and improvement. You would need to be resilient and tenacious; and bring an understanding of the challenges faced by staff and managers, learnt through your direct experience.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

What will we offer you?

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. We are happy to talk flexible working. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills then we look forward to hearing from you.  

Closing date: Sunday 17th July 2022 at 23:59 (midnight)

Interview date: TBC 

We’re recruiting for a Test Lead, who will help people with sight loss live the life they choose by leading a team of test analysts and being the gatekeeper of quality configuration, customisation, and data for our Digital platforms.

As a Test Lead working in an Agile environment across a large and complex enterprise architecture, the successful postholder will be a key player in ensuring that all software change is optimised to the very highest quality.

Responsibilities include:

• developing a test strategy and function
• formulating and executing test cases, managing test data, and supporting the  team and colleagues in the execution of Business Acceptance Testing

We’re looking for someone who can be hands-on in ensuring the effective utilisation of defect tracking software (Jira), and who’ll work closely with our Technology Delivery Manager and other Heads of Technology verticals to ensure effective communication, coordination and feedback across our testing, development and delivery functions.

This homebased role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate profile

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• ISTQB certification or recognised equivalent certificate in Testing
• Experience in leading and managing test analysts
• Experience in developing testing strategy to support an organisations technology stack
• Experience in creating/Implementing Test Cases, Plans, Scripts etc.
• Experience of Selenium Webdriver
• Good interpersonal skills / friendly and approachable, strong facilitation skills. 

Desirable

• Agile accreditations
• Experience working in the non-profit sector
• Defining Test Strategies for functional and non-functional testing

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

At Connection Support our staff team and volunteers work alongside people to overcome life’s challenges, with the goals of solving homelessness and achieving independence. We do this through our values of empowerment, collaboration, compassion and taking a personalised approach in all aspects of our work.

We are excited to announce extended funding through Buckinghamshire Council to enable us to provide support to ex-offenders to access and maintain accommodation through the private rented sector. 

People who have spent time in prison can find it challenging in finding somewhere to live. With our support we aim to reduce the possibility of reoffending and lower the risk of rough sleeping. 

We are looking for a support worker who has a good level of understanding of what it takes to support people with an offending history who may also be experiencing issues with mental health and addiction.

What you will be doing

You will provide people with a history of offending, planned intensive support to access and retain accommodation, whilst helping them to build an appropriate network of support in their local community.

Your empathetic understanding will ensure you encourage and promote dignity, independence and control, to empower the individual to have purpose, and develop their skills so they are able to live their lives independently.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. 

To succeed in this role you will need,

• A natural ability to connect with people, with excellent listening skills.

• The ability to approach challenging circumstances with a patient, calm approach. 

• A good understanding of support planning processes. 

• Ability to use Microsoft office and outlook. 

• Access to a car as this role is based across Buckinghamshire 

• Ability to support clients to understand their finances such as rent, benefits, budgets.

• Ideally at least two years’ experience of working in a problem-solving role. 

This role will require face to face support for our clients across Buckinghamshire, with a mixture of hybrid working between home and office (Aylesbury or High Wycombe)

This post is Fixed Term until 30 September 2023

Connection Support is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all our services and workplaces.

We encourage people with lived experience to apply.

This role will close on the 19th July at 10.00am
Interviews to be held on 22 July 2022 via Microsoft Teams

To apply for this vacancy please visit the Guide Dogs careers page

Supporting people with sight loss to live the life they choose is at the heart of what we do.

As Marketing Campaign Officer (known as a Committed Giving Retention Officer at the charity) you will play an important part in this.

The Marketing Campaign Officer leads on the tactical delivery of retention and upgrading campaigns for Sponsor a Puppy, Lucky Lottery, and other committed giving products.

As part of a dynamic, enthusiastic, and diverse team the successful candidate will lead the day-to-day delivery of our fundraising activity and help us achieve campaign objectives to budget on time.

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.

We are committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team, and the organisation.

For this role, there will be opportunities to work from home as well as the office. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximise their potential and best serve our stakeholders.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found on the Guide Dogs careers page.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.