Direct Marketing & Supporter Services Manager – maternity cover                                             

Salary:  £35,000 per annum pro rata (initial 9 month contract – with possible extension)

Based: Baker Street, London and home working

All We Can is looking for an experienced direct marketing professional to lead our individual giving and direct marketing programme as a key manager within our Public Engagement team. You will help build on the success of recent years, including our Regular Giving Programme, as part of our individual giving programme. Our Methodist donor base has been our key supporter constituency over the years and one we seek to maintain and develop while also introducing new supporters, from new markets.

This person will be highly motivated, passionate about the impact of great fundraising, and committed to the vision, mission and values of All We Can.

With proven abilities drawn from a number of years direct marketing fundraising experience, you will have demonstrable skills in increasing fundraising results and engagement with supporters through direct marketing channels, combined with a strong understanding of best practice in back office processing, data management and supporter care. This is a perfect role for an experienced direct marketing fundraiser looking for an opportunity to lead a team and take overall responsibility for a direct marketing function within a charity. It would also suit an experienced direct marketing manager looking to break into fundraising within the international development and relief sector.

All We Can is an international development, relief and advocacy organisation. It helps people in some of the world’s poorest communities to become all that they can. Its approach of investing in partnerships with local organisations has improved the quality of life and created positive, long-term change for hundreds of thousands of individuals and families.

With a 70 year history, All We Can is a faith based organisation with its vision, priorities and values grounded in Christian principles and its roots in the Methodist Church. You will be joining a growing and friendly team at an exciting time in the organisation’s development.

The maternity cover would ideally start Tuesday 1 December 2020 to allow for some handover, with cover expected to continue until early September 2021,

To find out more and apply, please download the application pack from our website or get in touch for further information.

Closing Date:  Midday Monday 5th October 2020

Interviews will take place on:  Wed 21st October 2020  

All We Can is the operating name of the Methodist Relief and Development Fund, a charity registered in England and Wales, number 291691.

Introduction:

Thank you for taking the time to consider the role of Investment Committee Member at Big Society Capital. 

The Investment Committee plays a crucial role at Big Society Capital. It approves all of our social investments, currently around £70-90m per year, and takes an overview of our investment strategy. The Committee includes Big Society Capital’s Chair, CEO, Chief Investment Officer and a mixture of other executive and non-executive members. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced non-profit sector professional to play a strategic role as part of Big Society Capital’s Investment Committee. 

Overall Purpose of the Role:

We are looking for a new non-executive member for the Committee, who can bring insight, rigour and new perspectives to our decision-making. We are particularly looking for someone with a strong understanding of and credibility within the non-profit sector.

Big Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential. We especially welcome those from groups that are under-represented in social investment.

Person Profile:

Essential

Experience of leadership or governance within the non-profit sector – charities, social enterprises or foundations (either UK or international)
Strong understanding of a range of social issues and the needs of the organisations that address them
Demonstrated ability to use complex financial information in decision-making
Ability to take a strategic view across competing priorities
Commitment to Big Society Capital’s mission to improve the lives of people in the UK through investment with a sustainable return
Ability to perform an advisory role, communicate complex issues clearly and to engage in challenge and debate in a constructive way.

Desirable

Experience of making and/or taking on investments, ideally investments with a social purpose
Experience of developing strategies to achieve social change at a systemic level
Familiarity with different types of investment product.

Terms of appointment:

The Investment Committee meets around 20 times a year, usually first thing on a Wednesday. There is a significant amount of information provided for each meeting to inform decisions

Members also need to be available for ad-hoc conversations with members of the investment team who are working on an issue on which the Member may have particular insights. Total time commitment is 7-8 hours per month on average
The role reports to the Chief Executive. The appointment is for an initial three-year term, with possibility of renewal

Remuneration: £5,635 per annum

All applicants must have an existing Right to Work in the UK

Big Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential

The GOsC is the UK-wide statutory body established by the Osteopaths Act 1993 to regulate and develop the osteopathic profession and ensure public protection. We are looking for five new members to join our fitness to practise committees, as follows:

• A new chair for our Professional Conduct Committee plus two non-osteopath members (one who will also be appointed as panel chair).
• Two new members for our Investigating Committee. We are looking for one member who is an osteopath, and another member who isn’t an osteopath and who will also be eligible for the panel chair position.

The Investigating Committee considers all complaints against osteopaths received by the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC). Investigating Committee panels make an initial determination whether there is a ‘case to answer’ and if the matter should be referred to the Professional Conduct Committee. The Investigating Committee also has powers of interim suspension in relation to osteopaths.

The Professional Conduct Committee hears and adjudicates complaints referred to it by the Investigating Committee relating to professional misconduct, incompetence or where an osteopath is convicted of a criminal offence. Professional Conduct Committee members also sit on the Health Committee which considers cases where an osteopath’s health may impair their ability to practise.

We are keen to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and will consider suitably qualified applicants who do not already sit on other regulators’ panels/committees.

Payment for these roles is £306 per day. Travel and subsistence expenses are also refundable in line with our expenses policy. Appointments commence 1 April 2021 (initially for up to four years).

For further information and to apply, please visit our website by clicking the apply button or contact Amanda Chadwick, Human Resources Manager, whose contact details are available on our website.

Closing date for Investigating Committee: 11:30am on 14 October 2020

Closing date for Professional Conduct Committee: 11:30am on 15 October 2020

The GOsC is a charity registered in England and Wales (1172749). We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity.  

About the Role

The Audit and Risk Committee is a Board Committee of the Trustees of the two charities: The Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and St John Ambulance. We are recruiting a recruiting an Independent Member of the Audit and Risk Committee to assist the Committee in discharging its role effectively by providing advice and scrutiny of the Audit and Risk Committee’s four fundamental responsibilities:

1. to oversee financial reporting;
2. to oversee the process related to risk management and internal control, including financial, clinical and all other operational risk and controls;
3. to oversee the Internal Audit process; and
4. oversee the External Audit process.

Throughout the year, you will attend a number of Committee Meetings to ensure the effective running of the charity by reviewing management, Internal Audit and External Audit reports on the effectiveness of the risk management systems, internal controls and financial reporting.

(For full details on the role and responsibilities, please refer to the Recruitment Pack)

About You

To be successful as an Independent Member of the Audit and Risk Committee, you will have experience of serving in a non-Executive / Trustee role with recent and relevant internal / external audit experience. You will have experience of risk governance and an interest and knowledge of the challenges faced by charities.

This position is a volunteer position and is not remunerated, although reasonable expenses are reimbursed.

About Us

The Priory

The Priory of England and the Islands is part of the international Order of St John, a charity that spans over 40 international Priories and Associations and has a Christian heritage going back over 900 years, still providing healthcare in the Holy Land. The St John establishments are mostly in countries of the British Commonwealth.

The Priory carries out the Chivalric objectives of the Order’s Honours system, maintains the historic buildings (St John’s Gate, the church and the museum) and promotes the work of the Priory through over 40 County Priory Groups.

The Priory established St John Ambulance as a separate operating charity to deliver its first aid and community services and it is the country’s leading first aid charity.

St John Ambulance

St John Ambulance is currently involved in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic with more than 5,000 St John People having given their time to the front line, supporting local communities and the NHS. From providing ambulances and crew, supporting the delivery of care in hospitals, driving GPs and Nurses to community appointments, providing logistics to ensure supplies of equipment and of course the training, communications and administration to back up all of this, the operation is ongoing and represents the charity’s largest ever deployment.

The charity’s strategy is rooted in its heritage of supporting the health of communities. It aims to improve the health of the nation through communities that preserve and protect life through volunteering for health and first aid.

Close to 30,000 volunteers and 2,000 employees are involved in providing and supporting St John’s charitable services.

St John Ambulance volunteers provide first aid services at thousands of public events, from the London Marathon to Premier League football to the village fete,

St John Ambulance is also a major national ambulance provider of 24/7 support to NHS trusts as well as specialised services such as neo-natal transport.

St John Ambulance teaches first aid in workplaces, in communities, in schools and through its youth programmes. It teaches more people first aid than any other organisation in the country – more than 800,000 annually.

How to Apply

Application is by CV and covering letter that addresses your interest in the role and how your experience equips you to perform the role.

Please send your CV and covering letter to Tommy Hyun, Director of Governance.

Are you a friendly, efficient English and French speaker looking for an exciting opportunity to join a charity making a real difference?

As a Caseworker at Prisoners Abroad, you are integral to the work of the Prisoner and Family Support Team.

Delivering a friendly and professional service, you will be the first point of contact for Britons arrested overseas and their families, who are often in distress. You will provide advice and information on foreign criminal justice systems, liaise with lawyers, prison authorities and consular officials, and monitor people’s well-being in order to provide appropriate practical and emotional support. You will also liaise with our resettlement team to assist prisoners with preparing for release.

With experience of advice work with prisoners / prisoners’ families or experience in a similar advice or information-giving capacity, you will have excellent recording and administrative skills to manage your caseload, the ability to communicate articulately and sensitively and be able to work well in a team. We are looking specifically for a French speaker to join the team at this time.

This post is offered as a fixed-term contract for one year in the first instance but, subject to funding, we hope to make it permanent. 

Interviews are scheduled for Monday 5th October via Zoom and second interviews on Friday 9th October 2020.

Prisoners Abroad is a unique welfare and human rights charity providing advice and emotional support to people affected by overseas imprisonment. We help people during their incarceration, when they return to the UK and need resettlement services, and we also support their family and friends throughout the trauma.

In this role, you will provide crucial advice to embassies, consulates and country caseworkers at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on human rights issues affecting British nationals abroad, including claims of torture and cases where a British national could be or has been sentenced to death.

An outstanding communicator with an in-depth, comprehensive practical knowledge of human rights law (particularly relating to fair trials and prisoner rights), you must also hold a legal degree and preferably a formal qualification in human rights.

This post is based at the FCDO with one day every fortnight at Prisoners Abroad, although it is expected to be home-based during the current situation due to Covid-19

Interviews are scheduled for w/c Monday 5th October 2020 via Zoom.

27.5 HOURS PER WEEK

PERMANENT CONTRACT

£24,111.27 (pro rata)

Closing date: Wednesday 30 September. 5pm.

Interview date: Week commencing 12 October 2020

Age UK Bolton are looking for an experienced Information and Advice Officer to help us provide essential support for local people over 50.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop the service to meet the changing needs of older people and adapt working practices as we look to reopen for face to face appointments. 

With an up-to-date knowledge on benefits and pensions, strong IT and customer care skills you will be responsible for handling a wide variety of enquiries as well as supporting a team of volunteer receptionists and advisers.

Please complete the application form and the equalities form 

If you would like to discuss the position, please contact Paul, Corporate Services Manager.

We're looking for a great communicator who is highly organised to provide administrative support to the clinical team and liaison with the young people and the network of support around them in order to facilitate their attendance at Baobab.

The role includes facilitating the work of Baobab’s staff and volunteer team by organising clinical and casework sessions and multi-disciplinary meetings with support networks, liaising with referrers, lawyers, foster carers, social workers and key workers and occasionally with the Home Office and Social Services managers. The role also includes administrative management of clinical files, supporting staff to access and manage their notes and filing using the online database, and coordinating the referral and assessment process.

The Baobab Centre works with young asylum seekers and refugees the significant majority of whom arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors. All have experienced either or both organized and inter-personal violence and most have experienced a very difficult journey into exile in the UK . All experience significant difficulties in the UK in accessing care and destitution, housing education, adequate health care and asylum. All, as a consequence suffer specific and particular vulnerabilities including the cluster of symptoms referred to as complex post- traumatic stress disorder, as a consequence of the interaction of their overwhelming experiences, in their home countries, on their journeys into exile and in exile in the UK. Most also have significant strengths and resiliencies and the capacity to develop new resiliencies. Our aim as an organisation is to address and work through their vulnerabilities and to enable them to access old resiliencies that have been suppressed by their traumatic experiences and to enable them to develop new resiliencies and strengths through participating as fully as they are able in the life of the Baobab Non-Residential Therapeutic Community.

The post-holder will become part of our multi-professional team and the expectation is that s/he will participate fully in the life of the Baobab community.

The Trustees of Waterhouse and Mackintosh Memorial Homes wish to appoint a Lead Warden and Assistant Warden to support the Residents' of Waterhouse and Mackintosh Homes, Halifax.

If you are looking for a new challenge, come and join our Community and Team at Waterhouse and Mackintosh Homes, Halifax!

The Trustees of Waterhouse and Mackintosh Homes are seeking to fill the roles of Lead Warden and Assistant Warden (which may be part-time) commencing early 2021. For further information regarding the Charities please visit the Charities' website to gain an insight into our warm and welcoming community.

The roles would suit a couple, two people with the appropriate skills who are used to working together in a similar environment or the two roles could be considered independently. The roles are rewarded by an attractive renumeration package including accommodation (Lead Warden), pension contributions and holiday entitlement.

The Lead Warden has historically been a live-in role. The Trustees are looking for a warm, engaging and approachable person with experience in providing high standards of compassionate care for older people. They will have good IT skills, preferably be qualified in First Aid and Manual Handling or have a willingness to gain the relevant qualifications. They will be able to foster good working relationships with other members of staff and Trustees.

The Assistant Warden will be equally approachable, have IT, maintenance and gardening skills, the ability to supervise visiting contractors and note the general maintenance of the properties. They will have a willingness to gain qualifications in First Aid and Manual Handling and will be able to foster good working relationships with other members of staff and Trustees. This does not have to be live in role but the Assistant Warden must live within a reasonable distance of the Homes in case of emergency.

Both roles will include a degree of 24hr cover for the Residents’ of the Homes; additional cover is in place for when Wardens wish to take holiday entilitement.

Both roles will be subject to an enhanced DBS check

The closing date for Applications is 5pm on 18th September 2020.

If you require any further information please contact The Clerk via email through the Charities' website

The current Wardens retire following a twenty seven year period of service in January 2021; it is anticipate that interviews will be held on October 8th 2020, Covid-19 restrictions permitting.

Every person fleeing persecution should be able to access safe and legal routes to sanctuary but today millions of people fleeing conflict are trapped in harm's way with no safe and legal way out.

Safe Passage International was founded in response to the refugee crisis in Europe. We have grown from a small project of the charity Citizens UK, to a separate international organisation. We now comprise 23 members of staff based in the UK, France, and Greece, supporting refugees to access safe and legal routes to asylum across Europe. To date over 2,000 individuals have travelled to safety through routes we have opened.

Chair

London

Unremunerated

At this critical time, Safe Passage is seeking a new Chair of Trustees who is truly committed to our mission; to open up safe and legal routes to protection through advocacy, community organising and legal work. We then support people's first steps to rebuilding their lives in the UK.

The new Chair will bring a strong understanding of the role of Charity Boards as well as good governance experience and significant strategic leadership. You will serve as an effective ambassador working closely with the CEO and motivated board. It would also be advantageous to bring knowledge of the International NGO sector or an international context.

We are particularly interested in applications from candidates with lived experience of seeking asylum. We value the unique insight this experience brings to shaping strategy and mission as well as maintaining a direct connection with communities who are directly affected by the issues we work on. We are also committed to building a board that is gender balanced, diverse and international in its composition.

For more information about the organisation and this important opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please find the appointment brief below.

If you wish you have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisors Lottie Wihl or Camille Revuelta

Closing date: Sunday 18 October

First stage interview via Zoom: w/c 26 October

Second interview via Zoom: w/c 2 November

Safe Passage UK Board Meeting (newly appointed Chair to observe): 16 November

Funded initially by the Lottery's Community Fund for a year, we are looking for an experienced counsellor who can provide one to one counselling to people experiencing homelessness. Developing and supporting a psychologically and trauma informed service and working within our multi-disciplined Intervention Centre, we are looking for someone who can bring a solutions based approach to building resillience and helping people to overcome the barriers that can contribute to a cycle of homelessness. 

If you are passionate about making a real diference to people's lives and have the necessary experience for this role, we would love to hear from you.

As the representative body for homelessness, housing and support services in Wales we aim to make a big difference to people's lives. We're looking for a new Finance Manager to work as part of our small team of friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff help us to end homelessness in Wales.

Our ideal candidate will possess relevant accountancy qualifications, demonstrate exceptional organisational and interpersonal skills, have experience in using excel and finance packages, and the ability to clearly communicate financial information to staff and Board members.

We are a small and friendly team, we support flexible working practices and provide 30 days annual leave per year (pro rata), a generous pension contribution, life insurance, and an employee assistance programme with free counselling.

• This is a part-time role, working 17.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE)
• The salary is £16,065 per year (based on a full time salary of £32,130)

Application deadline: 00:01 on Monday 5th October

the role

The purpose of the Programme Coordinator role is to ensure the smooth running of all charity projects. The post holder will support the Programme Manager in the administration and delivery of all current and future charitable programmes. This will include assisting with the research, planning, delivery and evaluation stages of all programmes.

The post holder will also be responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating our new food delivery service (the BOX-IT project) to people who are experiencing food poverty.

You’ll be working with a truly dedicated team to support the delivery of a range of health and well-being programmes and helping to make a difference to the lives of women in the community.

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you

• You’ll have the highest level of organisational and management skills as we’ll rely on you to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
• You’ll have amazing interpersonal skills allowing you to work collaboratively with colleagues and service users.
• You’ll be passionate about health and well-being and about supporting others to live happy, healthy lives.
• You’ll be compassionate and care about every detail of the Charity’s offer to its service users.

Convince us that you’re the one.

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our mission:

Working to reduce inequalities in health and wellbeing by supporting women to make positive life choices.

our vision:

A world where women are empowered to live positive, healthy lives.

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want to join the team?

If you think you are suitable for the above role, please send us your CV + completed application form.
(NB. CVs without an accompanying application form will not be accepted.)

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for applying!

Have you been successful in establishing B2B partnerships and are looking for a new challenge in the charity sector?  We are a growing cause that is looking for someone who has the skills to identify, negotiate and secure high value corporate partnerships.  You will have established track record in sales or have already worked in corporate fundraising with another cause.

You will be working as part of a supportive team at Bipolar UK. 

Bipolar is a severe mental illness characterised by extreme highs and depressive lows. Having the condition increases the risk of suicide by 20 times. Bipolar UK is the national charity for people affected by the condition. Our mission is to empower everyone affected by bipolar to live well and achieve their potential. This includes close friends and family.

We already have momentum with the corporate sector, so this won’t be a standing start.  You will be given sufficient lead in time to grow the programme. The post is a two-year fix term contract, but it is expected to become permanent should income targets be met.

Please review the recruitment pack and then send an email covering letter to the CEO, Simon Kitchen, with your CV and we can set up a discussion about the role.

The closing date is:  5th October 2020