Advisor Jobs in Camberwell, Greater London
About Us
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.
Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.
We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.
About the Role
The successful candidate will contribute to the fulfilment of MSI’s mission in Nigeria and India by facilitating effective project and donor-funded grant management; supporting financial and narrative donor reporting and compliance; contributing to the development of strategies to strengthen capacity in our country programmes as needed and supporting key business functions and processes including business planning, monthly performance reviews and risk and compliance meetings.
About You
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.
To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to organise and present information in a compelling way
- Ability to design, implement and monitor effective project management
- Excellent analytic skills with ability to effectively and efficiently review performance data and identify trends and outliers.
- Understanding of, and ability to write and edit donor proposals and reports
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to manage a heavy and fluctuating workload as well as competing priorities and remain calm under pressure.
To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:
- Demonstrated administrative, finance and programme management experience
- Demonstrated project management experience of significant donor-funded grants.
- Knowledge of donor regulations, policies and procedures
- Experience of proposal development
Personal Attributes:
We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.
For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:
- Able to work proactively, with an enthusiastic, positive and determined mind-set
- Able to work well with others in a team environment and across diverse disciplines and cultures
- Excited about reproductive health care and pro-choice
- Readily embraces MSI values
- Able to travel to country programmes up to 3-4 times per year
- Pro-choice.
For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification on our website.
Location: London Support Office (hybrid working, 2 days per week in the London office).
Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours).
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £34,200 - £42,750 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary bonus + benefits.
Salary band: BG 7
Closing date: 9th April 2024 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
Please see the job description on our website.
For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.
SELF EMPLOYED ASSOCIATE PROPERTY ADVISERS
APPLICATION DEADLINE: THURSDAY 11 APRIL 12 NOON
INTERVIEWS: WEDNESDAY PM 17th APRIL at our Farringdon offices 70 Cowcross Street EC1M 6EJ or via Zoom.
The Ethical Property Foundation is the only dedicated property advice charity serving the UK voluntary sector. We support over 450 voluntary organisations p.a. with expert and independent property advice and education. We are currently seeking one or more self-employed Chartered Surveyors (or with an equivalent professional qualification), to augment our team and specifically, to assist us in delivering our affordable consultancy.
We are particularly looking for surveyors with an ability to think and report strategically or offer specialisms such as building surveying and planning.
Our Associate Property Advisers are all extraordinary people: senior property professionals. As part of this team, you will be assigned projects to lead on or supporting other members. You will use your communication skills to gain the trust of our clients, many of whom support vulnerable people in challenging circumstances, and empower them to expand their property knowledge and confidence. You will use your wide knowledge of the property sector to investigate/analyse client issues and develop suitable options and solutions. The projects you will deliver include property health checks, feasibility studies, options appraisals & development of client property strategies. Average project time allocation: between 4 – 5 days. There may be opportunities to deliver webinar training too.
Our clients support every kind of good cause and are responsible for every type of property. In the last 12 months, besides conventional office premises, we have advised on: church buildings, oast houses, former schools, industrial units, fields, warehouses, libraries, theatres, and mills.
Location: Flexible working from home. Projects will include client site visits in England, Wales and Scotland.
Day Rate: £220
Reporting to: Head of Property Advisory
Website: propertyhelp (dot )org
Start date: by mutual agreement
Working hours: variable to suit agreed assigned project deadlines
Professional Indemnity insurance: The post holder falls within the definition of ‘Person Employed’ and are therefore included within EPF’s PI insurance.
DBS Clearance: This will be obtained for you. All our Associates must have DBS clearance
Application procedure
Applicants must send a c.v. with full contact details and a covering letter detailing why they wish to apply for this work, by clicking on ‘Quick Apply’; what they feel they can offer our clients; plus, their voluntary sector and professional experience.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: THURSDAY 11 APRIL 12 NOON
INTERVIEWS: WEDNESDAY 17th APRIL at our Farringdon offices 70 Cowcross Street EC1M 6EJ or via Zoom.
Informal discussion
For an informal phone discussion, email our Senior Property Adviser Simon Taylor FRICS to arrange a mutually convenient time. simon.taylor(at)ethicalproperty(dot)org(dot)uk
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About us
Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
The Homelessness and Housing Law Specialist Advisor will work alongside our client services teams across England, to prevent and end homelessness for people we support. Providing expert advice, support and advocacy to our staff and members in the most complex cases.
Salary: £38,585 (regions) or £42,746 (London) per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week (open to compressed hours in line with Crisis’ Flexible Working Policy)
Location: To be based in any of the Crisis Skylights in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Oxford, South Wales, Central London, Croydon, or Brent, but with home working as an option in line with Crisis’ Hybrid Working Policy
About the role
We are looking for an expert on homelessness legislation (the Homelessness Reduction Act) and relevant housing legislation to contribute to Crisis’ mission of ending homelessness. You will provide advice and casework covering complex areas of both housing and homelessness legislation to frontline employees working directly with people experiencing homelessness and at risk of homelessness in England. You will be an advocate for our members, by using housing law knowledge to request temporary housing from local authorities, for those who are street homeless. You will have the opportunity to produce housing law briefings, template letters and a toolkit of resources including checklists to support staff when working with beneficiaries.
About you
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Demonstrable track record of successfully preventing and relieving people’s homelessness through advocacy and the application of relevant homelessness and housing law, including complex cases such as people with different immigration status.
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Expert knowledge of relevant homelessness and housing legislation, including Housing Act 1996 Parts VI and VII, Homelessness Act 2002 Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, Protection for Eviction Act 1977, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
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Knowledge of the issues affecting homeless people and the impact and interaction of welfare and immigration policies on homelessness
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Familiarity with local authority housing options services and their processes
You may have experience in, Housing and Homelessness Law, Local Authority Homelessness or Housing Options teams, Advice and advocacy, specialist casework.
We believe diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that Crisis truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission of ending homelessness for good. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. We particularly welcome applications from people who have lived experience of homelessness, and people from all marginalised groups, communities, and backgrounds.
Working at Crisis
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
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Interest free loans for travel season ticket, cycle to work, and deposit to secure a tenancy
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Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 8.5%
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28 days’ annual leave
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Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay
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Flexible working around the core hours 10am-4pm
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And more! (Full list of benefits available on website)
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.
When you join us, you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.
How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.
Closing date: Sunday 14 April 2024 (at 23:59)
Interviews will be held W/C 22 April 2024
Accessibility
We want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Talent Acquisition team to discuss how we can help.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Us
Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets (VCTH) is a small charity, established in 2008. Our mission is to increase the quality, quantity and impact of volunteering in Tower Hamlets. We work with one of the youngest, most diverse populations in the country. We broker residents into inspiring volunteer roles. We train and advise charitable organisations on running inclusive, high quality volunteering programmes, and we advertise their volunteer roles.
Do you share our passion for volunteering and believe that it can transform lives and build fairer, more compassionate communities? If so, you could be just who we are looking for to join our supportive and impactful team.
As our Volunteering Advisor, you will work across two programmes, both of which support people from Global Majority communities into volunteering. You will help volunteers gain the skills, experience and confidence that they need to increase their employability, and you will lead on delivering our Minoritised Ethnic Trustees (METs) programme, recruiting, training and supporting local residents to become charity trustees.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- promoting volunteering widely; running stalls at community events, giving targeted presentations, organising borough-wide Volunteer Fairs, and working with referral agencies
- developing trustee training materials and facilitating engaging, interactive sessions, then matching trainees to trustee positions
- enrolling volunteers, motivating them to overcome barriers, helping them to secure and sustain volunteering placements, and tracking their progress
- working with hundreds of local Volunteer Involving Organisations to develop and advertise inspiring volunteer roles that meet a wide range of needs, abilities and interests
- using your analytical and proficient IT skills to produce reports and help review services.
We are currently office-free. This hybrid role is home-based, but with a requirement to undertake regular work at community venues around Tower Hamlets.
We are open to discussing how the 21 hours are worked across the working week.
The ability to speak a community language and local knowledge of Tower Hamlets would be an asset, but are not essential. We are very keen to hear from candidates with lived experience relevant to this role, from Volunteer Managers, and from people who are passionate about volunteering.
Benefits include:
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Full Time Equivalent 33 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays, rising with length of service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training for continued professional development
- Time Off In Lieu
Closing date for applications is 9.30am on Tuesday 9 April 2024.
Interviews will take place the week commencing 15 April 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you have demonstrable experience of giving money and budgeting advice or support in a student facing environment or financial services setting? Do you have an understanding of issues facing students in Higher Education?
We are recruiting for a specialist Money & Budgeting Advisor into our Advice Service to provide money, budgeting and debt advice to our members, oversee the application processes for our expanded hardship funds and to run our new financial literacy programme. This role will work alongside another Money & Budgeting Advisor and with our wider Advice & Wellbeing team, supporting each other to achieve positive outcomes for our students. The post holder will provide accurate finance, debt and budgeting advice and information to students using the Advice Service including casework, support and advocacy.
This is an exciting role in a unique organisation. Our vision is of an outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world. We aim to build a vibrant and empowered student community with real influence in UCL and beyond, that enables students to enjoy their time at university; pursue their interests and passions; see things in new ways; and develop the skills and experience to change the world for the better.
We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.
It's an exciting time our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking new Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We support flexible working, with hybrid working for all staff.
Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.
This role is a fixed term maternity cover role for 9 months (with possible extension).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are seeking an exceptional person with a legal, policy or digital rights campaigning background to work with us furthering privacy and free speech in the UK (principally, challenging facial recognition surveillance and scrutinising counter-disinformation powers) at one of the UK’s leading rights NGOs.
The right Advisor will help us to lobby UK Parliament to further privacy, free expression and data protection rights; advise on important litigation on human rights and technology; and help guide public advocacy campaigns for real change.
The contract will also cover the party conference season, where the Advisor will help position Big Brother Watch as an influential force on our key issues in a strictly cross-party manner.
The contract may require some spokesperson duties. The Advisor will help to cover an organisational capacity gap during staff sabbatical leave.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Prospectus is delighted to be working with Plan International UK to recruit a Protection in Emergencies Advisor to be responsible for developing and driving the organisation’s strategic direction for child protection and gender-based violence programming in emergencies.
Plan International UK is a global children’s charity striving for an equal world where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future.
The Protection in Emergencies Advisor will ensure an increased portfolio of quality programming in protection from violence in humanitarian crises. The role supports the scale-up of Plan UK’s humanitarian work by ensuring effective programme design and implementation in collaboration with the unit, the directorate, and colleagues globally. The post holder will actively support the identification of new funding opportunities, leveraging sector-wide stakeholder relationships and knowledge. You will provide technical advice to new programme development supporting team members to ensure proposals integrate Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE) standards and best practices.
We are looking for candidates with significant experience providing Child Protection in Emergencies and Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies technical input to sector standards into the full project management cycle. The post holder needs to have experience working in various humanitarian crises and contexts including conflict and post-conflict settings. You will have a strong monitoring and evaluation background, with knowledge of approaches to measure changes related to protection, including experience designing theories of change and advising on the selection of log frame indicators.
As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
In order to apply, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call to brief you on the role.
Please note that cover letters are not required for this recruitment process but we will ask you to answer some specific questions in writing instead.
We are recruiting for an interim HR Advisor to join a non- profit organisation based in South London, for a fixed term contract of 4 months. Working closely with the Head of HR and wider HR team, this role will provide valuable support whilst other hiring to the team is taking place.
Your role will be varied and include supporting the Head of HR with management of and advising on first stage ER process such as sickness cases, disciplinary and grievances, ensuring consistency and with a timely approach. You will also be advising staff and managers on issues relating to employee lifecycle, assisting with the re-tender of Occupational Health and EAP provider and helping develop a new job evaluation process. As well as these projects you will be support the HR Officer and recruiting managers with increasing ATS functionality and support with ad-hoc HR team activities and tasks required for CQC compliance and to deliver on the People Plan.
Hybrid requirements are 3 days onsite as minimum for this role, Clapham location.
Protection in Emergencies Advisor
Location: Hybrid, Old Street, London
Salary: 55,840 per annum
Hours: 34.5 hours per week
Job Type: Full-time
Contract Type: Permanent
Our client is a global children’s charity striving for an equal world. One where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future.
They bring people together to protect children’s rights and keep girls safe, in school and in control of their bodies – even when disaster strikes. And they won’t stop until we are all equal.
They are looking for a talented individual to develop and drive their strategic direction in the Protection in Emergencies (PiE) sector in order to ensure an increased portfolio of quality PiE programming.
Reporting to a Senior Programme Manager, this is a pivotal post supporting quality protection interventions and multi-sectorial approaches across a range of humanitarian contexts, as well as supporting the scale up of the organisations Humanitarian work by ensuring effective programme design and implementation in collaboration with the unit and colleagues globally. The post holder will maintain an overview of the UK portfolio of PiE related projects and will identify priorities for further project development. You will also support the Humanitarian Unit to develop high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies and tools to monitor programme quality for performance and results.
To be successful, you need to have significant experience of working in a range of humanitarian crises and providing PiE technical input to sector standards into the full project management cycle. The post holder needs to have experience of supporting PiE at a programmatic and organisational level, with a strong gender lens, including training delivery and upskilling teams. You will have solid stakeholder management skills including relevant donor relationship. You will have strong monitoring and evaluation background, with knowledge of approaches to measure changes related to PiE, including experience designing theories of change and advising on the selection of log frame indicators. It is desirable but not essential to have French, Arabic and/or Spanish language skills.
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For further details of this role, please see the job profile. Please refer closely to the Person Specification section during your application, to demonstrate your suitability for the role.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 07 April 2024
Interviews will take place on 24 and 25 April 2024
They are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults in their work. They, therefore, apply rigorous recruitment and selection processes to ensure that only those who are suitable are recruited to work for them. Accordingly, appointment to all their roles is subject to a range of vetting checks including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working for them; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences
Our client is committed to being an inclusive employer and they welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
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Are you passionate about making a real difference in the world? Do you want to leverage your skills to combat homelessness for children and young people? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking to recruit an Employment & Learning Advisor to progress a caseload of clients on their journey into meaningful and sustainable employment. This is an exciting role in our Employment and Learning team that will assist clients to make constructive choices and decisions in their agreed, person-centred action plans by coordinating a range of employment-focused provision through 1:1 interventions, workshops, courses, and supplementary training opportunities.
You will also identify, develop and maintain external relationships and partnerships with relevant organisations, employers, and training providers and work alongside your line manager to deliver a comprehensive learning and employment service, that meets client need, delivered in line with the organisation’s strategic aims, objectives, and outcomes-based approach. The role is pivotal in order to reach the Centre’s ultimate goal of helping people achieve greater resilience and wellbeing.
Please refer to the job description for further information.
To apply, please submit a CV, cover letter and criminal record declaration form. The criminal record declaration form can be found in the job advert on our wesbite. In your cover letter please outline how you meet the requirements of the role, why you would like to work for us and address the following two questions:
1. Can you give examples of any employment and learning advice work you have been involved in with young people 16+ and what approach did you use? (max. 300 words)
2. Can you give examples of any employment and learning advice work you have been involved in with asylum seekers and refugees and what approach did you use? (max. 300 words)
Please note that this role is a client facing role, therefore, you will be required to be predominantly based at the Centre. There may be the option to work from home up to 2 days per week as per service needs and with prior agreement from your line manager.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The Centre requires job applicants, staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check. This post requires an enhanced DBS check and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior Quality Improvement Advisor
£52,365 - £57,532 pa, plus excellent benefits
London (including flexible working)
Permanent
Here at the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, we deliver a number of national quality improvement (QI) programmes to enable the delivery of high-quality, equitable, mental health care.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Quality Improvement Advisor for our exciting new QI programme to improve the culture of care on Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism inpatient wards in England.
This is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious, high-profile programme aiming to support change to the culture of inpatient care in England, and we are looking for coaches who share our values, and who are driven improve mental health care.
Applicants should have a track record of QI coaching and some leadership experience. We are looking for people who are able to work flexibly and creatively according to the needs of the teams that they are working with.
We are looking for someone who is committed to co-production, equity and sustainability in the way that they work, as well as an enthusiasm for learning.
The College values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, reflecting the population it serves.
We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.
We will provide appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.
We only recruit the best and in return for your commitment the College offers an attractive salary and benefits.
We operate a hybrid working model of onsite and working from home/remote, which helps to ensure a flexible work life balance.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional membership body for psychiatrists and promotes excellent care for people with mental illness. It has 19,000 members and engages with government and the media as the leading voice of the UK’s mental health services. The College is a values-based organisation and, in 2019, was named Charity of the Year in the European Diversity Awards.
Closing date: 10am, 2 April 2024.
Interviews: 17 April 2024.
- Position Title: Fire Safety Advisor
- Department/Division/Faculty: Fire Safety/Central Safety
- Location: London campuses (travel required to other campuses)
- Reports to: Fire Safety Manager
- Supervisory Responsibilities: None
- Internal Relationships: Building Managers, Senior Project Managers and Engineers, Maintenance Team, Faculty & Campus Safety Managers, Departmental Safety Officers
- External Relationships: Enforcing Authority Inspecting Officers, Building Control Bodies, external Regulators, Fire and Rescue Services, Architects.
Would you like to join a small team led by the Fire Safety Manager as a safety Champion?
You will be part of a small team dedicated to ensuring the college fulfils its legal requirements, providing the adequacy of future construction projects, and fosters a culture of continuous fire safety improvement. In this role, you will be conducting fire risk assessments throughout the college estate to ensure compliance with current fire safety laws.
As Fire Safety Officer your everyday tasks will include:
- Conducting, documenting, and reviewing fire risk assessments for college buildings across all campuses and offering improvement & implementing recommendations as needed.
- Providing legislative and technical fire safety advice to senior managers and appointed personnel.
- Offering technical and legislative guidance for college projects, liaising with project managers, architects, and building control bodies.
- Conducting fire safety audits and inspections.
- Developing and implementing fire safety policies and codes of practice.
- Coordinating with Enforcing Authority Inspecting Officers during inspections, addressing concerns and collating relevant documentation.
- Developing and reviewing emergency plans for college buildings and implementing fire drill programs.
- Investigating fires and fire alarm activations, establishing causes and making recommendations to mitigate future occurrences.
- Providing technical advice for personal emergency egress plans and supervising hot works permit applications.
- Planning and delivering in-house fire training, compiling statistics on fire safety incidents, and producing associated reports.
- Liaising with event planners regarding conferences and events held on College premises.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant College policies, including Financial Regulations, Equal Opportunities Policy, Health and Safety Policy, and others.
As Fire Safety Officer your attributes, skills & Experience will include:
- Possession of a Level 3 professional qualification or equivalent, such as the NEBOSH National General Certificate, coupled with relevant experience in a comparable position.
- Proven comprehension of fire safety laws, relevant technical standards, guidance documents, codes of practice, and practical fire safety management.
- Proficient in intermediate IT skills, encompassing Microsoft/Office 365 Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and familiarity with cloud-based storage systems, with delegated access to emails and calendars.
- Capable of analysing fire risks and devising appropriate, often technical or intricate, mitigating or control measures with minimal need for referral.
- Skilled in interpreting architectural and engineering plan drawings and offering constructive feedback on proposed designs.
- Extensive and up-to-date background as a full-time fire safety specialist, consultant, or authority inspecting officer, operating in diverse major premises.
- Notable proficiency in fire risk assessment, employing PAS 79 methodology, across a spectrum of large and intricate premises with various risk scenarios.
- Hands-on experience in implementing fire safety legislation, management strategies, and fundamental principles of fire engineering.
If your experience aligns with the requirements above and the role appeals , please apply without delay.
The closing date for application for this position is March 28th, please apply with your CV.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
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Are you driven by the desire to make a difference? Join our Advice & Support Team at Providence Row and support those at risk of homelessness.
About us: Providence Row believes that no one should have to sleep rough and that everyone should have access to the support they need to find a safe place to call home. We work with those affected by homelessness and those vulnerably housed in Tower Hamlets, offering an integrated service of housing advice & support, access to substance use, physical & mental health services, as well as, training and progression programmes. We ensure that people often excluded from mainstream services gain the support and opportunities they need to create a safe, healthy and sustainable life.
About the role
- Delivering support to people who are experiencing homelessness and are rough sleeping in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
- Conducting person-centred assessments with those who self-present at the service for support
- Agree plans, in conjunction with service users, to move into accommodation and access specialist services which will address the underlying causes of their homelessness.
- To make referrals into Tower Hamlets and Pan-London local authority housing options services, using Homeless Reduction Act
- To work with partner agencies to provide joint support to service users where appropriate
- To build relationships with housing providers and the private rented sector, to increase the portfolio of affordable referral routes into accommodation.
- You have excellent communication skills and can create positive working relationships with a wide range of people, including external services.
- You will support the development of the service and ensure that you are delivering a solution-focussed and strength-based approach.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Employee assistance programme
- Monthly reflective practice
- Wide range of learning & development opportunities
To apply: Please upload your CV with a covering letter, detailing how you meet the job specification. CV’s without a covering letter will not be considered.
Research shows some people, especially women and marginalised groups, may hesitate to apply unless they match all the criteria. However, we want to assure everyone that we encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of whether they fulfil every point in the job description. Your unique perspective matters to us – please apply with confidence.
Interviews
Please note that we may interview on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.
Providence Row is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales; company number 07452798 registered charity number 1140192.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking to employ a highly motivated GeneralistAdvisor (Welfare Benefits) for Camden Disability Action's Advice services. You will have 2 years' recent experience in a welfare rights advice role and up to date knowledge of welfare benefits especially relating to Disabled adults and young Disabled people and their families. You will work in a holistic way, managing and holding complex cases and advocating for clients across statutory services, specialist advice partners and community organisations. Although we anticipate approximately 70% of the work will be related to welfare benefits, 30% will be general advice work. You will also need a basic understanding of housing, social care and independent living issues as they impact on Disabled people and a willingness to seek further training in this area.
You will be committed to learning more about the Social Model of Disability and you will share our vision for a radically inclusive world where people with differences are never Disabled by the society in which they live.
The role is full time and based in the London Borough of Camden. Hybrid and remote working options considered for the right candidate.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Wellbeing and Organisational Change Advisor
Reference: MAR20243493
Location: Flexible in UK
Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 Pro Rata
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave
Contract: 15 months
Hours: Part Time, 22.5 hours per week
We are looking for a part-time Wellbeing and Organisational Change Advisor to assist the Wellbeing Manager in providing timely and appropriate support around workplace wellbeing over a period of organisational change.
This is a wonderful opportunity to join a great team saving nature and inspiring people in the UK’s largest conservation charity. The workforce around us plays a key role in achieving our mission and we are looking for someone who shares a passion for nature and people.
We're looking for a candidate who embodies the following qualities:
- Passionate: About advancing the people agenda.
- Inquisitive: A natural curiosity to explore and understand.
- Bold: Willing to contribute innovative ideas.
- Positive and Personable: Fosters a collaborative and enjoyable work environment.
- Comfortable Challenging the Status Quo: Strives for continuous improvement and challenges conventional thinking.
Key responsibilities will include:
- To track the reach of sessions to support departments around wellbeing and organisational change.
- Aid the production of resources to be used in support sessions, including PowerPoint slides and Microsoft Forms.
- Produce resources to show stats and evaluation evidence about the reach and value of support sessions, tailored to various internal audiences.
- Create SharePoint pages of resources to complement support sessions.
- Support processes around collecting feedback from leavers.
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the Wellbeing Team and HR colleagues to ensure fit with other Wellbeing and HR work.
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- Experience of working in an administrative role within a supportive function.
- Experience of working with limited supervision and resolving unforeseen issues and challenges
- Ability to undertake assigned tasks in timely manner to an acceptable standard.
- Experience of working with Microsoft 365 suite including Word, Excel and Teams
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Experience of SharePoint management and creating Canva documents.
- Experience of working within an HR, HSE or Workplace Wellbeing team
Additional Information:
- This is a fixed-term role for 15 months, part-time for 22.5 hours per week.
- The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising dependent on business needs at the end of the contract term.
- You will be home based but may be dual located if you live near one of our offices.
- As an employer we are committed to flexible working and supporting a work life balance.
Closing date: 23:59, Tuesday 9th April 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position as soon as a candidate presents themselves, so please do not delay in applying.
Please note that we are actively recruiting for this vacancy, and reserve the right to close once sufficient applications have been received.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
As part of this application process you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
No agencies please.