At RBMind we place a huge value on our volunteers and greatly appreciate the dedication and enthusiasm that they bring to our organisation. Our services benefit from around 150 volunteers a year, collectively providing thousands of volunteering hours, and significantly increasing the outreach and support that we are able to offer.We also provide invaluable opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions to gain skills supporting others, which often forms a huge part of their own recovery journeys.

This is your opportunity to lead these services for RBMind, and to continue to develop and expand our volunteering and peer led opportunities to support our clients, our volunteers and our organisation. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about supporting volunteers, and will encourage individuals to develop their confidence, skills, and personal development. You will need to be skilled in motivating and coaching individuals with mental health issues, and have an understanding of how the recovery approach can support individuals on their recovery journey through volunteering.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a good role model for our volunteers and members.You will be experienced in delivering volunteer led services, and able to guide our teams in delivering effective volunteer led support.  You will also need to have clear project management skills to support our range of peer led interventions moving forwards.

Richmond Borough Mind values diversity and difference.  We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, particularly individuals with lived experience of mental health problems. 

Salary: £28,000 per annum (pro rata), 30 hours per week   

The closing date for applications is 9am Mon, 4th October 2021

Interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place on Thursday, 7th October 2021

The location of the role is flexible (must be based near one of our offices in either central London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol or Manchester).

Anyone who completes one of our programmes joins the Frontline Fellowship. A growing community of over 1,500, the Fellowship is a space for social workers from across the country to connect, collaborate and innovate. The Innovation Lab is an exciting new area created at Frontline to increase the number of opportunities for fellows to have a lasting impact on children and families without a safe or stable home.

The manager will lead the Innovation Lab, and its annual 16-week innovation programme and by doing so deliver the Frontline goal to have more than five sustainable fellow-led ventures operating by 2025. To do this the Innovation Lab manager must ensure a minimum annual pipeline of more than 25 diverse fellow-led innovative ideas to develop via the innovation programme. This will be achieved by championing the Innovation Lab across local authority partners, Frontline’s Fellowship network and internally within the organisation.

The Programme Management team manages the national logistical and support functions for Frontline programmes, ensuring the central curriculum team and regional teams are well supported to deliver the progamme effectively.  ​The role of DLT within this primarily focuses on the management of digital learning platforms and supporting the design and delivery of teaching content across the Frontline Programme, Consultant Social Worker Training Programme and others. ​

The Digital Learning Manager oversees Frontline’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and a range of other digital learning platforms, which in turn support classroom and practice based (distant) learning and assessment.  Working with the Curriculum team, you’ll also have the opportunity to identify content gaps and develop innovative digital resources to improve the learning experience for participants. You’ll work to support, evaluate and continuously improve Frontline’s platforms including innovating for new programmes.​

As the Digital Learning Manager your role will span multiple work streams, you could be advising on new learning platforms and processes, creating content, working with subject matter experts and much more. One of the pivotal parts of this role is managing the project lifecycle of all these streams, communicating progress and being a mentor to develop and further your team. ​

Frontline is just beginning it's the journey into  blended learning. Having made the fast paced and successful transition to online learning in 2020 with a 97% satisfaction rate, Frontline were able to bring forward our long-term digital learning strategy. Having learnt what successful online delivery looks like we are now looking towards creating a high quality blended learning model. DLT are a key part of making this work in collaboration with Curriculum and Delivery Teams.  It is an exciting time for the team to drive innovation and quality improvement.  ​

To help us achieve our mission, we are recruiting qualified social workers with direct experience of working with children and families, and knowledge and experience of supporting social work students. We are looking for candidates who can lead the delivery of teaching across the year, support participants in their local authority units and supervise participants during the 2nd year of the Frontline programme.

Practice Tutors (PTs) work closely as a peer group to share effective ways of working across participant units, local authorities and regions. They play a key role within the development and delivery of our social work curriculum, contributing knowledge and expertise to create a culture that promotes outstanding social work education and enables teams to do their best work.

PTs are responsible for teaching and developing participants at the five-week summer institute, regional recall days and, in the participant units within local authorities. PTs support a number of units, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each unit is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW).  Core to the Practice Tutor role is the ability to provide support, challenge and guidance to participants and CSWs to ensure a high quality practice learning experience.

Applicants need a good understanding of the social work role and have the ability to make links with adults’ and children’s services. To apply you need excellent social work practice skills, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory. In doing so you to be a committed to evidence informed practice models and have an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models. PTs are supported to gain fellowship status with the HEA if not already held.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our organisation and therefore are actively encouraging applications from ethnic minority and/or disabled candidates.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team whose work has a direct impact on the perception and capability of Frontline to bring about change. This role has a high level of autonomy, creativity and the potential for significant skills development. You will be tasked with identifying and executing a range of activities and content to connect with and influence key audiences, with a focus on media and parliamentarians, to raise awareness of Frontline’s mission to create social change through excellent social work. ​

We are looking for an experienced communications and media professional to join the Communications team, which sits within the External Relations (ER) division. The ER division is responsible for the message and reputation of Frontline, and inspiring support for the charity. The Communications team leads on messaging, press, digital content, public affairs and events, alongside the Fundraising and Marketing teams. Frontline has a reputation for high quality, high impact communications. Whether it be broadcast, web, film, audio or social, our work cuts through to deliver the charity’s messages. ​

Our communication activity directly impacts on the success of the organisation by attracting recruits for our programmes, showcasing our work to funders, influencers and decision makers and highlighting our role in creating social change. This role provides the right candidate with an exciting opportunity to play a key role in building the charity’s profile and increasing the profile of our work among key stakeholders.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly driven leader with strategic experience working within apprenticeships and technical skills to lead on all activities relating to our national competition-based training programme, careers advocacy and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work. As a fixed term maternity cover post, the successful candidate will need to have had extensive experience in leading and delivering, at pace, multiple programmes that have achieved high profile and impact. With a proven track record of consistently driving high quality results the successful candidate will have a passion for working within a charity that focuses on developing young people from all backgrounds to achieve success in work and life.

At WorldSkills UK, we have big ambitions to help the next generation, our education system and the economy.

We are working to help create a world-class further education system that tackles vocational snobbery head on, so more young people get better opportunities and are not written off because going to University isn’t right for them.

We are working to showcase that the WorldSkills UK way of mainstreaming global best practice is working to drive up standards in training, helping more young people and employers succeed.

We are working to help create a more inclusive skills system that gives more young people from diverse backgrounds a better chance of success in work and life.

We are a unique platform working with leaders in education, business and governments across the UK and our partners across the world.

As an employer ourselves we aim to be truly inclusive, offering a hybrid and collaborative working culture. We pride ourselves on having a flexible approach to our working practices and are happy to discuss flexible working options with suitable candidates. Although operating from a London-based headquarters, we welcome applications from candidates across the UK and will always consider requests to work from other locations on a case-by-case basis subject to business requirements.

Join us, if you are ambitious to shape the future of further education, change lives and help create a world-class skills economy for the UK. Because when young people succeed, we all succeed. WorldSkills UK is an independent charity and a partnership between employers, education, and governments. Together, we are using international best practice to raise standards in apprenticeships and technical education so more young people and employers succeed.

The Bridge at Waterloo, based at St John’s Church, Waterloo, offers a wide range of community projects – employment, gardening, arts and culture. We are currently completing a £5m renovation of our site. We are seeking someone to lead our outreach into local communities, increase participation and build links with our partners. You will work with our existing team to ensure that we reach the people we are hoping to support, so that TBAW can make a real difference. You will have at least 2 years experience of working within communities and connecting to people who have traditionally been seen as hard to reach.

Clifton College is a leading independent day and boarding school educating over 1,200 pupils aged 3 months to 19.

Founded in 1862, the College provides an exceptional all-round education that successfully combines a rich heritage with modern state-of-the-art facilities.

Located in one of the most beautiful suburbs of the vibrant city of Bristol, Clifton College continues to lead the way as one of the best independent schools in the country.

Clifton College offers day education, flexi and full boarding and is a proudly inclusive and supportive community, with over 40 nationalities represented.

The Database and Annual Campaign Administrator is a tremendously important Member of the Development Office Team. The incumbent will be responsible for database management and tracking of all College constituents. Included in this is populating our database with accurate information on parents and alumni including gift entry. The role also includes stewardship activities and account reconciliation. Essential to this role is the smooth running of the College's numerous calling programmes aimed at attracting support for prioritised capital projects and bursaries for qualified means tested pupils. 

The person selected will have advanced experience working with donor management databases and knowledge of charitable activities preferably at an Independent School or similar charity. If you are interested in working within a dynamic team of individuals whose goal is to maximise the charitable benefits to Clifton College then please do apply.

This is a full time, permanent role and the rate of pay is £25,000 per annum.

We are committed to creating and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce that better reflects our community. Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, age or disability. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Clifton College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We are currently looking to appoint an experienced and passionate community leader to the exciting new role of Community Movement Lead within Oasis. Our community movement is core to the overall vision of Oasis, putting those in our communities at the heart of everything we do. This new key role will work closely with colleagues from the Oasis family to take an active lead on growing the community movement.  This is a national role.  Location can be flexible, depending on the candidate.  Working spaces can be provided in one of the Oasis Hub communities.

As the Community Movement Lead you will be responsible for building on existing work to grow a sense of community ownership and movement, whilst also ensuring that ethos and character development remains at the heart of our community work. Responsibilities will include the development of ‘alumni’ programme across the Oasis family, the development of youth voice and action within the organisation and to be the lead for community movement across Oasis’ community work.

About OCL and the Oasis family

With 52 academies, Oasis Community Learning (OCL) is widely recognised as one of the leading educational organisations in the UK. At the forefront of transformational education, we are a dynamic, inclusive family of academies with the aim of transforming lives within communities and offering exceptional education to over 20,000 students across four regions of England.

As part of the Oasis family OCL works closely with Oasis Community Partnerships (OCP) who are responsible for the 18 local Hub charities in Oasis communities, working closely with Academies and other entities to outwork for Oasis vision for Hub locally. This post will be part of the OCP core leadership team.

Our ideal Candidate

We are seeking a highly relational and experienced Community Leader to join us in this exciting position. To be successful in this role, you will require:

• Knowledge and experience of developing a community movement
• Experience of community delivery and charity governance
• Knowledge and experience of working with young people and facilitating youth voice
• The ability to act strategically whilst also being involved in delivery
• Experience of growing projects from the initial start-up phase through to maturity

What we can offer you

• A commitment to extensive CPD opportunities
• The opportunity to work across a diverse partnership of communities
• Defined benefit pension (including life cover, lower tax rate and ill health cover)
• Free eye tests
• Opportunity to access private healthcare
• Access to free counselling service
• The exciting opportunity to be part of our vision of community transformation

upReach is an award-winning social mobility charity supporting less-advantaged students to secure graduate jobs in sectors including Consulting, Government & Public Sector, Law and Technology. We deliver a comprehensive programme of professional development to over 2,000 students, working in close partnership with leading employers such as Civil Service, Deloitte, FactSet, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Slaughter and May.

upReach is recruiting for our unique Future Charity Leaders Programme (FCLP). This opportunity would suit individuals who have a passion for social mobility and are looking to gain exposure to various aspects of charity management while working with young people who are exploring their career options. We would welcome applications from those with experience in the corporate world who are looking for a career change, recent graduates, and those graduating in 2021. 

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Key Information

upReach’s Future Charity Leaders Programme is a unique 2.5 year programme combining delivery work supporting our Associates (4 days per week), with exposure to key aspects of charity management (1 day per week).

Programme Coordinators work directly with students, partner employers and universities to deliver our core programmes of support across all career sectors. 

Role: Programme Coordinator, FCLP

Location: Bristol, London, Manchester, Newcastle, or Nottingham

Hours: 40 hours per week, 9am - 6pm 

Start date: January 2022, with a few spaces available for an immediate start

Duration: Permanent 

Reporting to: Programme Manager

Salary: £23,000 per annum (£24,000 if based in London)

Application Deadline:  5pm Thursday 30th September 2021
 

About the Role & The Programme

upReach’s Future Charity Leaders Programme (FCLP) is a 2.5 year programme combining delivery work supporting our Associates (4 days per week) with exposure to a range of aspects of charity management (1 day per week). The programme is designed either for high-calibre graduates from any university, academic subject and background, or for those with experience in the corporate world who are looking for a career change and experience in the charity sector. 

The programme works on a rotational basis, providing individuals with six months experience in up to five of the below areas of charity management:

1. Alumni Programme

2. Branding, Design & Marketing

3. Employer Partnerships

4. Development Events & Projects 

5. External Affairs 

6. Finance & Operations

7. Fundraising & Development

8. HR & Governance

9. Safeguarding & Associate Welfare 

10. Impact Measurement & Reporting

11. Social Media & Communication

12. Tech Project Management

13. University Partnerships

14. Volunteer Management

In addition to the charity management rotations, an FCLP Programme Coordinator will be responsible for delivering personalised employment-­focused support to a cohort of approximately 80 Associates, helping transform their lives by giving them the necessary skills to secure a top job. During a typical week, you should expect to be working with undergraduates and supporting the charity in a key area of its operations. 

Core delivery responsibilities for an FCLP Programme Coordinator will include: 

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Associates, supporting them to achieve their career goals

• Developing and delivering professional development­-focused support

• Individual and small group work with Associates 

• Supporting Associates when applying to undergraduate positions and graduate jobs 

• Developing sector and/or employability skill knowledge while building resources to support all Associates

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with university and employer partners

• Planning and delivering events and workshops with partners

Person Specification 

This position would be suited to individuals who are committed to upReach’s mission and are interested in learning about, and gaining experience in, charity management. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about social-mobility and believe that background should not be a barrier to graduate employment. 

Essential Skills/Experience:

1. Experience working in a fast-paced environment and working independently to find solutions to problems 

2. Strong organisational and time management skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage a varied workload

3. At least a Grade ‘B’ in Maths and English GCSE (if you have extenuating circumstances, let us know)*

4. University degree (2:1 or higher) in any discipline, or equivalent experience

5. Self-motivation and an ability to work in a small team as well as independently

6. Excellent communication skills and strong written English

7. Ability to engage and communicate confidently with undergraduates, corporate volunteers (mentors) and employers via phone, email, and in person

*The nature of the role requires a high standard of Maths and English, and the ability to quickly review a large amount of information and identify and communicate key themes clearly. Applicants may demonstrate this through the academic qualifications shown above and/or other relevant experience. As our beneficiaries are all undergraduates, a good understanding of the university experience is essential, although it is not necessary that this was acquired through personally gaining a degree.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

1. Knowledge of the graduate labour market in the UK and experience supporting individuals through an application process 

2. Strong negotiation skills and experience in roles requiring influence 

3. Experience with public speaking or leading workshops

4. Experience working in one or more of the career sectors that upReach support Associates applying to

Values & Competencies

upReach upholds the following values:

• Perseverance

• Integrity

• Advocacy

• Aspiration

• Proactivity 

We are looking for candidates to display the following competencies during the application stages:

• Problem solving and decision making

• Planning and organising

• Collaboration

• Passion and motivation

• Communication skills

Over the past seven years, Frontline has leveraged its success to build committed, high impact partnerships with a number of prestigious supporters including corporates, individuals, trusts and foundations. Our new fundraising strategy focuses on increasing our network of supporters, growing our fundraising events and identifying new potential funders.

We are looking for an experienced fundraising officer to join the fundraising team, which sits within the external relations division. The fundraising team is responsible for raising between £1m and £1.5m in philanthropic revenue annually, from corporate foundations, trusts and high net-worth donors. Frontline’s philanthropic revenue compliments the contract revenue it receives from central and local government and enables the charity to carry out its broader mission to create social change for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children by developing excellent social work.

This position is one of two fundraising officer roles within the fundraising team. The successful candidate will work closely with the head of fundraising and other fundraising officer to implement Frontline’s annual fundraising plan, taking specific responsibility for researching and engaging new corporate, trust and foundations funders, developing strong relationships and writing thoughtful and creative funding proposals. They will also be responsible for managing a number of key existing accounts, ensuring a high level of engagement with Frontline, and the delivery of high-quality grant reports. The successful candidate will also support the rest of the team in identifying new donors and new sources of revenue, including but not restricted to HNWI, event fundraising and small donor programmes. The fundraising team is supported by the marketing, events and communications staff of the external relations division. 

Please use the email address on our careers page if you would like us to send you the job pack in a different file format.

The location of the role is flexible (must be based near one of our offices in either central London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol or Manchester).

The Fellow Innovation Lab supports fellows to take an idea that could improve the lives of children families forward to a potential sustainable venture; inside or outside of a Local Authority. As a part of this programme an annual 16-week innovation programme is delivered. These activities help us achieve one of our charity goals to have more than 5 sustainable fellow-led ventures operating by 2025. This role will have operational oversight of the innovation programme, including budget and pipeline management and quality assurance. This role will also be responsible for agreeing the impact indicators for fellows’ innovations and evidence success and/or learning both externally and internally.

As a new venture at Frontline, in this role you will be a champion for the programme across the organisation and externally with our Local Authority partners and work along side the Fellowship Officers to support fellows through their innovation journey.