We believe that strong data and evaluation will accelerate Frontline’s impact and we need the Evaluation Manager to drive and lead this crucial area of work. They will have the exciting opportunity, alongside another Evaluation Manager to help build a strong, data-driven culture of reflection and continuous improvement in everything we do.
The Evaluation Team lead in conducting evaluation projects that contribute to positive improvement both in our programmes and more broadly across the organisation. Equally important, the team works to equip, upskill and support other teams to monitor the effectiveness of their work.
You’ll need to be highly analytical, with an excellent grounding in evaluation methodology. You’ll also need to collaborate across a charity that values employees’ different perspectives and experiences, and so strong communication and influencing skills are a must.
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We have an immediate opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our UK-based team. The role is to provide a pivotal role to support the Trust’s finance team with accounting, reporting and financial management and implementation of Oracle PeopleSoft modules.
The RZIM Zacharias Trust is a UK-registered Christian charity with a friendly, welcoming culture and a warm working atmosphere. Our organisational vision and mission is to provide thoughtful answers to difficult questions.
As a successful applicant, you will report to our global Chief Financial Officer (based in at RZIM Headquarters in Atlanta, USA) and will be responsible for the timeliness and effectiveness of the Finance and Accounting functions in the Trust, leading and ensuring the accurate and timely preparation of Actuals, Forecasts, and Budget reports for both internal and external distribution, as well as effective supervision, development and oversight of the UK finance department.
You will also have the opportunity to become a member of a stimulating Christian community, where you will take an active part in the prayer life of the team. Your main responsibilities would include:
• Leads preparation of monthly financial statements annual budgeting process to enable its submission to the Board of Directors for approval and funding.
• Collaborates with the Headquarters Finance Team to ensure alignment with finance processes and procedures to achieve global reporting consistency and cohesiveness.
• Interprets the Trust’s monthly financial results/variances to communicate them to key internal contacts and works with budget owners to prepare and deliver forecasts and financial analysis as needed and champions global internal control policies, processes, and procedures.
• Leads the Zacharias Trust annual independent external audit.
• Ensures full compliance and accurate reporting as required by external parties and acts as the main liaison for the Charities Commission, Companies House, UK SORP, insurance, banks, and other vendors or relevant in country government authorities.
• Processing and record keeping of all employees’ National Insurance (NI), payroll taxes, including pension deductions, and Gift Aid recovery.
• Leadership of UK Finance function.
To be successful in this role you will be an experienced finance professional, of graduate calibre (preferably with a degree in finance or accounting), with extensive experience of Microsoft Office Suite applications and PeopleSoft, Hyperion Planning, or other financial reporting software. You will also have an ACCA, equivalent qualification in accounting or full CIMA membership and committed to uphold financial integrity and achieving timely, high quality results and service, with a proven ability to work effectively with both finance and non-finance professionals to inspire sound stewardship and financial decision making. You will also be skilled and experienced in the area of Finance and Administration, with strong working knowledge of UK charities financial reporting under UK General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), FRS 102 and UK Statement of Recommended Practices (SORPs) as well as knowledge of British General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The ideal candidate will be well organised with the ability to set priorities, displaying resilience and remaining calm under pressure, and meet timely deadlines. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, with a strong work ethic, and will have a proven ability to work alone but also to build strong collaborative working relationships with colleagues across functions and organisational levels and securing trust and respect of colleagues, using positive influencing and relationship building skills. They will have well developed interpersonal and communication skills to effectively communicate evidence a high level of emotional intelligence. In particular, they will be able to use a high degree of tact and sound judgment in dealing with financial and other sensitive information while maintaining high levels of confidentiality. They will display the leadership qualities that will enable them to lead and develop the finance team and are likely to have managed staff.
In return we offer a pleasant working environment, a friendly and open team atmosphere, generous pension scheme, death in service scheme and a range of other work benefits.
Please note: as a result of our Christian ethos, this post is covered by a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) under the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be expected to be a practicing Christian with a mature faith and to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the statement of faith and values as well as the mission, principles and practices of the Trust.
You will also need to provide proof of your right to work in the UK as part of the application process. This role is also likely to be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) standard check. If you are interested in applying, please email your CV, together with a covering email outlining your suitability, details about what your Christian faith means to you and motivation for the role to our recruitment team.More detail is available on our website.
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The job will involve working with people in custody or subject to supervision in the community, to engage them in learning, training and employment opportunities, either through one-to-one or group work. You’ll need to be proactive, a good communicator and effective at working with partner organisations to ensure the best results for our participants. Recording of accurate information on participant plans is an important part of the job, so you’ll need to be comfortable working on databases and systems and have a strong attention to detail.
We are especially looking for applicants who can connect with people to help move them forward, embrace the quality and compliance requirements of working on a contract and have the skills to work towards individual performance targets.
We’ll give you all the training you need to do the Case Manager job and provide you with support to get established in the new role. We employ a team of 45 Case Managers across the NW, who are very proud to work on this highly successful ESF programme.
Our full-time staff enjoy a reasonable 35h working week and we also offer flexi-time, so when we ask our staff to do extra, we always make sure they’ve got those hours to take back another time. It’s a great benefit of working for Career Connect.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Fundraising Manager – Individuals
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust, taking the reins of Individual Giving fundraising. This is your chance to join a passionate local charity that is committed to safeguarding the Severn Valley Railway. In 2012 the Charitable Trust was established to help future proof this much loved major tourist attraction, and eight years on we have raised over £5million. We are now embarking on our next chapter, to raise £10million, would you like to come on board?
Overview
Post: Fundraising Manager, Individual Giving
Reporting to: Director of Development
Employer: Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust
Salary: £30,000 to £35.000
Primary location: Number One, Comberton Place, Kidderminster
Hours: Part-time (30 hours)
Holiday: 31 days (inclusive of Public holidays)
Summary of Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your proven fundraising experience in individual giving to this driven and passionate heritage charity. The Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust is a separate entity to the SVR Holdings Company who operate and run this much loved attraction. The Trust’s focus is to help secure the future of the Severn Valley Railway through donations, grants and sponsorship. This position is a hands on role and initially comes with line management of a part-time Fundraising Co-ordinator and 3 volunteers. We envisage this area of the business growing as the successes of your initiatives are realised. We have been extremely successful in our individual giving thus far, but it is time for a new experienced fundraiser to take it to the next level, focusing on both acquisition and retention, and building a stronger fundraising volunteer base to assist you in delivering your plans. Your remit will involve a mix of fundraising techniques, including 1-2-1 fundraising to our high value donors.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
- To increase income generated from individual giving fundraising activities.
- To create and execute a donor acquisition and retention strategy.
- To manage the individual giving budget in line with objectives and KPIs, reporting to the Director on income and expenditure and highlighting variances in a timely manner.
- To test, monitor, evaluate and implement existing and new channels and key messages that allow two-way engagement with donors.
- To develop long term sustainable income through identifying the audiences, channels and messages that will maximise effectiveness and efficiency.
- To develop high quality supporter care including responsive and prompt donor care and stewardship and to support the Fundraising Co-ordinator to implement these.
- To develop a volunteer-led model of fundraising.
Direct Marketing
- To manage and deliver integrated online and offline campaigns.
- To manage the design, print and production of direct marketing activity, negotiating bought in services and ensuring invoices are in accordance with quotes.
Administration and Reporting
- To manage the Individual Giving budget and provide monthly updates to the Director.
- To keep accurate and up to date records of all activities, using ThanksQ CRM database, extracting reports for the team as required, and maintaining high standards in customer care and record keeping.
Managing Relationships
- To provide management and guidance to the Fundraising Co-ordinator to ensure that KPIs and objectives are achieved and a clear personal development plan is in place.
- To build strong internal working relationships with colleagues and externally with supporters.
- To work with the SVR Holdings Marketing and Communications team to gain support and cross selling opportunities within the different SVR audiences.
Development
·To work with the Director to review the Trust’s CRM database and consider an Organisation wide CRM system.
Other
·Proactively ensure all materials produced are accurate and compliant with relevant GDPR protection and Gift Aid legislation.
·To undertake all activities in line with best practice standards and processes as set out by the Fundraising Code of Practice and industry regulatory bodies.
·To keep abreast of all developments in Individual Giving and ensure charity compliance.
·To contribute to the Fundraising Team’s strategic planning and budget process.
·To carry out any other tasks as reasonably requested.
·To actively implement the principles of Equality and Diversity.
Person Specification
Educated to degree level and / or an accredited fundraising qualification such as Certificate or Diploma in Fundraising.
Experience
- Developing and implementing an Individual Giving strategy.
- Managing and developing team members.
- Increasing income through donor acquisition and retention.
- Using a fundraising database to record data and extract intelligence accurately.
- Implementing donor segmentation, targeting and positioning strategy.
- Knowledge of a range of fundraising products, recruitment channels and engagement channels.
- Managing income and expenditure budgets.
- Presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
Skills and abilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to engage audiences using a range of communication tools.
- Strong direct marketing skills; skilled at devising and delivering social media and print campaigns.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and to secure resources and support from colleagues in different business areas.
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; confident and personable with the ability to manage and build strong relationships with key individual donors and organisations.
- Strong organisation and time management skills. Able to plan / prioritise own work and meet agreed deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail and methodical approach to tasks.
- Competent use of MS Outlook, Excel, Word and the Internet.
- Strong numerical / budgeting skills.
- Strong data processing skills.
- Experience of social media campaign management.
Attitude and Personal Qualities
- Motivated, reliable and professional.
- Flexible, able and willing to respond to changing priorities.
- Strong team player with collaborative working style, who enjoys individual and team working.
- Willing to participate in all activities relevant to the role.
- Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.
- Commitment to GDPR and Fundraising Code of Practice.
- Commitment to the principles of Equality and Diversity.
The Haberdashers' Company is one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies. Over 500 years old, today it fulfils its charitable purpose primarily through its involvement with schools.
The Company is trustee of four main grant-making foundations and four school foundations. The latter were established by members of the Company in the 16th and 17th centuries and now support, directly or indirectly, twenty schools in both the maintained and independent sectors. The charitable foundations own the land and buildings of some of the schools, providing income to them, and the Company also directly sponsors the associated Academies, providing or nominating the majority of governors for both Schools and Academies. There are about 12,000 pupils in all and nearly 1,400 staff.
The Haberdashers’ Hall in West Smithfield provides a contemporary and modern home to the Company, affording the membership a highly desirable place to convene, both to carry out the work of the Company as well as for social events. It is here that the Clerk and a relatively small team, which includes the Head of Charities and the Grants Administrator, are based.
Job Description
The Head of Charities is part of a small, highly motivated and focused team which jointly executes the decisions and policies of the governing body, the Court of Assistants, and its committees. The post holder is Secretary to the Charities Committee, which has responsibility for the Company’s charitable activities. The post holder also acts as Secretary to all sub committees of the Charities Committee of which, at the moment, there is one: the Foundation Sub Committee.
The Head of Charities will lead, manage and advise on the Company’s grant-making to both charities and individuals, most of the latter being scholarships, bursaries and awards to pupils and former pupils of the Haberdasher Schools.
Reporting to the Clerk, the role involves:
- Managing the Company’s four grant-making foundations and ensure the available funds are used appropriately and effectively. This includes responsibility for preparing the budgets and the control of expenditure.
- Conducting regular strategic reviews of the Company’s grant-making and other charitable activities and operational reviews of specific programmes as required.
- Planning and preparing agendas for the Charities Committee, its sub committees and write minutes for those meetings.
- Assessing and evaluating applications received and make recommendations for funding to the Charities Committee. After grants are made the Head of Charities is also responsible for ensuring compliance with grant conditions and evaluation of their impact.
- Working with key people at the Company’s schools to ensure that the charitable support available to schools and pupils is well known and to help them access it.
- With the help of members of the Company, maintaining close contact with the eight Church of England parishes of which it is Patron and fulfil the Patron’s duties in respect of the appointment of new incumbents and to maintain an overview of the Company’s role as Patron to the William Jones’s Almshouse Charity.
- The Head of Charities is required to make arrangements for a series of annual Company events and have significant input into others especially where the charity representatives or grant recipients are involved. Some evening attendance will be required as well as occasional overnight travel to schools and parishes.
- Be required to manage communications regarding the Company’s charitable activities, this includes being responsible for the Charities edition of The Haberdasher magazine, the Charities section of the Company’s website and other related tasks.
Essential Requirements
- The ability to identify charities that are working in areas the Company wishes to support, assess their effectiveness and evaluate the grants made.
- Education to a high standard, preferably university degree or equivalent and to be able to express his or herself clearly orally and in writing.
- Ability to initiate and manage change.
- Excellent administrative skills, a good knowledge of Word, Excel and other Microsoft Office product and experience with grants databases and grants audits.
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships at a variety of levels both within the Company and outside.
- A good knowledge of the voluntary sector.
- An understanding of fundraising.
- Familiarity with the UK education system.
- Experience of managing people.
- Flexibility and being able to work as part of a small team.
Desirable Qualities
- Sound financial skills including the ability to assess accounts and to construct and control budgets.
- Experience of managing events.
- A working knowledge of the Church of England its structures and procedures.
- Experience of working in or with schools or other educational establishments.
- A commitment to the voluntary sector either through employment or voluntary work.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply via CharityJob and submit a covering letter, detailing your experience and suitability for the role, along with a copy of your CV to Helen Shardlow, Membership Secretary .
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Job Purpose
As Interim Digital Integration Manager, you will be responsible for the successful onboarding
and delivery of priority data integration projects over the next six months to deliver effective and predictable digital engagement experiences for our campaigners and other supporter groups.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise working with cross-functional teams and third parties to help onboard and project manage delivery of a range of digital integration projects, implementing an industry standard digital project management methodology.
- Manage the end-to-end process for digital integration projects including planning and defining the scope of work, stakeholder engagement, resourcing, tracking, budgeting, risk analysis and project managing implementation. This includes translating requests into tasks for internal teams and external agencies.
- Accountable for digital project delivery to cost, time and quality parameters, including the development of robust monitoring and evaluation processes to continuously improve delivery.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to accurately scope digital solutions, researching best practice, platforms, tools and technology to meet the charity’s objectives. This includes exploring and testing the potential of digital to enhance the development and delivery of our services, campaigns or fundraising offer.
- Across projects, work closely with relevant teams to ensure website content is optimised for SEO and we’re ‘data smart’ – optimising data and data capture opportunities to deliver insight-led growth and a great online experience for all our audiences.
- Work closely with the IT, CRM and Information Governance teams to ensure digital systems are secure, aligned with the technical enterprise architecture and business continuity is maintained.
- Advise on the technical roll-out of new products and/or features to maximise the potential from our digital engagement platforms.
- Across platforms, establish the best scalable solution for the charity, including identification of areas that can be automated.
- Cut through the ambiguity and identify the core issues to help improve internal practices.
- Have fun and challenge yourself at work, model the charity’s values and abide by our policies and practices
Other Duties:
- Observe and comply with Independent Age policies, including key policies and procedures on Confidentiality, Data Protection, Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Information Technology.
- Ensure that all digital activities adhere to charity law, compliance/best practice, including data protection, marketing consent, vulnerability and accessibility.
- Undertake other reasonable duties as directed by the Head of Brand & Marketing, and/or Director of Policy & Communications as new needs emerge.
- This role may require occasional travel and overnight stays.
Job descriptions are not exhaustive and the post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the level of the role.
Independent Age is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating discrimination and all employees are expected to adhere to the principles set out in our Equal Opportunities Policy.
Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and we expect all colleagues to share in this commitment. As part of our recruitment and selection process, we require a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check for all individuals who work with our service users.
Experience & Knowledge
- Sufficient management experience in a technical integration context with strong communication skills.
- Experience of managing digital platforms and integration projects for a charity – from technical expertise to how we map user journeys and display content.
- Proven track record of CMS integration projects (ideally including Drupal).
- Background in development and technical project management.
- Strong ability to build relationships, influence and collaborate across an organisation and with third party suppliers.
- Ability to work independently and under pressure.
- Strong knowledge of legislative frameworks and governance related to digital best practice, database systems and The Data Protection Act.
- Expert knowledge of current digital landscape and emerging trends.
- Ability to provide structure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Highly motivated and with a positive attitude.
- Seeks out opportunities on a continuous basis to enhance the customer/supporter experience as they arise.
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We are looking for a Manager to join our award-winning Healthwatch Brent team.
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Hours: 5 days per week (35 hours).
Contract:All Healthwatch contracts run for fixed periods. This post is offered until March 2021.
Pension Payment: CommUNITY Barnet will make a pension contribution into a workplace pension scheme
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, excluding bank holidays
Based at:Wembley office with travel across NW London as required.
An excellent opportunity for a Manager with the ability to lead a team, to work operationally and strategically, to involve a range of local residents to help improve health and social care services, as part of a national programme.
Background
Healthwatch Brent is a successful and innovative organisation forming part of the national Healthwatch England Network. We were awarded the 2019 Outstanding Individuals have recently won an award by Healthwatch England Awards for the team’s contribution to improving services. Our role is to be the independent voice of residents using health and social care services and to present that voice to statutory partners and commissioners. We aim to influence and improve how local health and social care services are delivered.
Local Healthwatch organisations are a statutory function defined by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Healthwatch Brent Manager will be responsible for operational delivery of the Healthwatch services. The successful candidate will be part of a small, focused and friendly team who work together to listen to and engage residents, to carry out community research and work with health and social care to improve services.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
The closing date for applications is Monday 13th July 2020 at 9am.
Interviews will be held via Zoom
Please send your CV, with a covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the person specification (page 4 of the Job Specification).
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Fundraising & Partnerships Manager
Location: Flexible, but with regular travel to our office in Oxford. Able to work from home providing a good internet connection.
Do you have experience of winning funds from institutional donors and developing partnerships with organisations to collaborate on projects? Want to take on a new challenge as a fundraising & partnerships manager and help a pioneering organisation change the world for the better? If so, read on.
About Us
INASP is an international development organisation with over 25 years’ experience of working with a global network of partners in Africa, Latin America and Asia. We believe that research and knowledge have a crucial role to play in addressing global challenges and contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Our mission is to support individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge, in support of national development.
We’re now looking for an experienced, highly motivated funding and business development specialist to join our team. You’ll help us to attract further funding and develop strategic partnerships in support of our vision to put research at the heart of development. You will ideally be based within easy reach of Oxford to enable regular time to be spent at INASP’s Oxford office, but you will be able to work from home (providing you have a good internet connection).
Why You Should Get Involved
This is an amazing opportunity to make a big difference in a small organisation that is rapidly diversifying its funding base to support a growing portfolio of programmes and projects with a wide range of partners.
It’s an exciting time to join our team and this role will suit someone who is passionate about international development, winning funds and developing the partnerships we need to deliver projects that have the power to change lives.
We are committed to creating a positive working environment and investing in our staff. As a member of our team, you’ll be eligible for the below rewards and benefits:
- Salary of £32,000 - £39,000 per annum
- Flexible working
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Group income protection insurance
- Death in service scheme
- Travel benefits
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Travel insurance for work-related travel
- Vaccinations and security training for work-related travel
- 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 30 after five years (exclusive of bank holidays)
- Time off in lieu
- Aviva Employee Assistance Programme
- Professional development opportunities
Your Role in INASP
As our fundraising & partnerships manager (known internally as Partnerships & Business Development Manager), you will be responsible for managing INASP’s funding and business development activities - identifying and developing funding opportunities, responding to proposals and building new programme partnerships.
In this vital role, you will liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders including trusts and foundations, government funding bodies, think tanks and NGOs across the globe. We are looking for a highly motivated, resilient and dynamic individual who is able to remain calm under pressure and deliver quality work to tight timeframes.
Your duties will include:
- The ongoing development and implementation of institutional funding strategy with a focus on strategically important donors across a diverse range of funding streams
- Working closely with the Executive Director, Programme Director, Head of Marketing & Communication and other teams to identify opportunities, develop proposals, and build relationships with prospective funders and partners
- Developing and maintaining a pipeline of funder prospects and prospective collaborative partners
- Overseeing the ongoing development of our CRM database and business development processes to deliver efficient and timely business development support to the organisation
- Reporting on business development activity and areas of potential concern/advantage to the leadership team
What You’ll Need
- Knowledge and experience of responding to funding calls from government funders and developing funding relationships with trusts and foundations
- Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with organisations to collaborate on project ideas and respond to funding calls
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
Other organisations may call this role International Fundraising Manager, Business Development Manager, Funding Manager, Partnerships Manager or Charitable Fundraising Manager.
INASP is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities in employment, respecting diversity and avoiding unlawful discrimination at recruitment and during employment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their race, gender identity, biological sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
So, if you are ready to do something great with your career as our fundraising & partnerships manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
Program Overview
Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND), is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The objective of ASCEND is to achieve progress towards the 2020 NTD roadmap targets for the targeted NTDs across priority countries and to strengthen elements of the national health systems which are required for sustainable NTD control and elimination. The Programme focuses on five NTDs: lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, visceral leishmaniasis, and trachoma.
The Role
The HSS Manager is a hands-on technical and managerial role, based in the UK, with occasional travel to East and Southern Africa and South Asia. The HSS Manager will work alongside the Global HSS Lead and Regional HSS Lead to support HSS activities across twelve Ascend Lot 1 countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
The HSS Manager will also provide technical input across Abt Britain’s wider portfolio of activities, as required.
Some of the HSS Manager’s responsibilities on ASCEND are:
- Coordinating Abt’s HSS, governance and PEA inputs on Ascend and ensuring that HSS is mainstreamed across the Ascend Programme
- Coordinating all HSS inputs across the Ascend consortium and ensuring all are aligned with the HSS strategy. This includes workstreams for supply chain improvements, information management systems, health financing, management of secondments. These functions and workstreams are led by a variety of consultants, Country Leads, HQ team colleagues from other consortium members and short term technical assistant experts
- Supporting, coordinating, occasionally leading the design and delivery of activities to improve health financing. Coordinating closely with the CA PFM team working across Crown Agents’ PFM projects
Beyond Ascend, the HSS Manager will be also responsible for:
- Supporting business development, including providing technical content for proposals, interviewing candidates, engaging partners, and representing Abt at relevant external meetings and events
- Providing technical assistance and strategic support across Abt’s wider portfolio of programmes, as required.
Key Requirements
- Relevant qualifications with experience of health systems reforms in low- and middle-income countries (including in East African or South Asian countries);
- Minimum six years of global/in-country experience in implementation of HSS programmes, in cross-cutting areas;
- Technical experience in following areas: public financial management, supply chain management, information systems human resources for health, domestic resource mobilisation and broader health financing;
- Demonstrated success in building, managing and maintaining effective working relations with key stakeholders and communicating programme impact;
- Demonstrated organisational skills with excellent writing and ICT skills;
- Previous programmatic work with DFID and/or FCO, either programme management, or technical work – other donor experience welcome.
ROLE: Finance Manager
SALARY: Band 8a £52,643 - £58,558 (inclusive of HCAS)
LOCATION: Waterloo Road, Central London
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week
TYPE: Full-time, Permanent
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) is a unique and complex emergency service network serving a diverse population and responding to 1.8 million emergency calls per year. In addition they are the current provider for NHS 111 / Integrated Urgent Care in both South East London and North East London. Demands on urgent and emergency care providers across the capital are increasing and the Trust is developing new innovative services to provide care closer to home for patients. This has required the Trust to evolve its operating model and a number of exciting opportunities have arisen through this restructure.
The Finance Manager is a key member of the finance department who will report into the Finance Business Partner. You will take responsibility for a team of up to five Finance Analysts providing a financial management service, including management accounting information and financial advice, to one of the Directorates in the London Ambulance Service.
Key duties and responsibilities of the Finance Manager will include:
- Preparation of monthly reports for assigned Directorates
- Reporting on Key Financial Indicators
- Planning, development and monitoring of the budgets for assigned Directorates
- Liaising with the relevant Directorates to build an informative and robust forecast
- Regular audit of overtime and other payments made by the Trust
- Provide financial input on project development work and relevant costings for Business cases.
- Lead on the production of workforce plans and reference costs
- Design and present financial management training courses for budget holders
- Develop, maintain and comply with Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Scheme of Delegation and financial procedures
- Deputise for the Head of Financial Management when required
- Line management and mentoring of a team of up to five Finance Analysts
- Managing all aspects of the Trust’s income including the main SLA, staff recharges and CQUINs if relevant to the assigned Directorates.
- Process improvement within the finance department and the wider Trust
- Working very closely with the Finance Business Partner of the assigned directorates.
Your key areas of influence will be:
- liaising with budget holders
- liaising with senior finance team managers
- provision of financial information
- staff development
Finance Manager Person Specification:
We are looking for candidates with management accounting experience who can also develop an understanding of an organisation and assess the financial implications of business changes and proposals. Your interpersonal skills, innovative approach and ability to lead by example are therefore as important as your management accounting skills.
- qualified CCAB Accountant (or similar technical knowledge gained through equivalent experience)
- experience of working in a management accounting environment (preferably NHS)
- understanding of international financial reporting standards
- excellent software skills in Excel
- experience of staff management and leadership
This is an exciting and challenging position for an individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, demanding and highly flexible environment. You will be a part of a high profile and influential organisation, making life better for Londoners by helping the Trust to achieve its vision of becoming a world-class ambulance service for a world class city.
Your salary and benefits:
- Band 8a £52,643 - £58,558 (inclusive of HCAS)
- 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (holiday entitlement raises to 33 days with service)
- Excellent training, learning and development opportunities
- Generous pension scheme (including 20.68% employer contribution and a tiered system of employee contribution depending on your salary from 5% to 14.5%).
- A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme
- Health services discounts (retail, holidays, entertainment and restaurants)
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
APPLICATION PROCESS:
To be considered for the role you will need to apply before the closing date at midnight on Friday 5th June. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
Allen Lane are our recruitment partner for this campaign. If you would like to find out more information before applying please contact Brooke Cooper at Allen Lane
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Cruse Bereavement Care is recruiting a regional Hub Manager for Wales- a new and exciting role created as part of our new strategy to develop Cruse.
The Hub Manager is responsible for the delivery of high quality bereavement support across the Nation. This includes strategic planning and budgetary control, staff and volunteer management, planning and monitoring service provision.
The roles will either be based in a local Cruse office or home based within the region. The post holder will be able to travel easily within South Wales.
Cruse Bereavement Care is the largest bereavement charity in the UK. Our mission is to offer support, advice and information to children, young people and adults when someone dies and to enhance societies care of bereaved people.
The closing date for this role is 27 July 2020 with interviews being held on 6th August 2020
To apply for this role, plesae send your CV and covering letter, which outlines your suitability for the role and should be no longer than two pages.
Cruse welcomes and encourages applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
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Overview
If you are looking for an exciting role focused on programme management in a fast moving, ambitious organization, we encourage you to apply for our new vacancy as Programme Manager – Sierra Leone.
At Street Child, we believe that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. We have programmes in fourteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, priding ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places. We have been working in Sierra Leone since 2008, initially supporting a small number of street children with access to education. Following the Ebola outbreak in 2014 our work grew rapidly as we responded to the crisis, resulting in a broad portfolio of programmes including education, child protection and livelihoods.
We are seeking an outstanding professional with the ambition and skill to drive quality programme delivery in Street Child’s flagship Sierra Leone programme. The successful candidate will have relevant field experience in development programming and grant management, with an excellent ability to build strong relationships with our local partners. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply following the steps outlined below.
Key Responsibilities
Programme management (75%)
- Work closely with Street Child’s national partners to ensure excellent programme delivery
- Prepare donor narrative and financial reports in collaboration with national partners, in particular for three large UKAID funded projects.
- Lead on budget management across all live projects, liaising with partner and SC UK finance teams
- Support the development and implementation of robust MEL systems, conduct frequent field monitoring visits, and complete SCUK internal reports
- Directly provide partner capacity development support in priority areas, as required
Proposal development & reporting (15%)
- Collaborate closely with SCUK, EU & US branches on trust and foundation fundraising opportunities, including proposal development and report writing
- Support high level proposal and budget development as required alongside the Sierra Leone Country Representative
- Support partners to identify opportunities, needs and gaps and develop funding proposals aligned with the organisation’s strategy
Safeguarding (5%)
- Undertake active monitoring of exploitation and abuse risks as the country safeguarding focal point
- Support the design and implementation of appropriate mitigation measures in liaison with SCUK Lead Safeguarding Focal Point and local partners
Street Child UK support (5%)
- Coordinate staff/stakeholder/donor visits as required
- Proactive engagement with SCUK fundraising and communications teams
- Support Sierra Leone based events in coordination with SCUK fundraising teams, including the Sierra Leone marathon, bike rides & international teacher training programme
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Bachelor degree level or higher
Desirable
- Masters degree in International Development or related field; or attendance at specific relevant training courses
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant field experience of development programming, with a commitment to and respect for local partnership;
- Demonstrable experience of grant management, budget management and developing / delivering MEL approaches;
- Relevant experience of working in support of local partners
- Demonstrable experience of proposal development and report writing
Desirable
- Strong working knowledge of education, child protection and livelihoods; approaches
- Strong working knowledge of the Sierra Leone, Liberia or wider West African context;
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent relationship building skills, with an ability to skilfully navigate both national and international stakeholders;
- Ability to skilfully balance independent working with wider teamwork with both UK and international teams
Desirable
- Proven coaching/capacity building skills
Other
- Excellent written and spoken communications in English (additional languages welcome)
- A ‘can-do’, and agile attitude, a passion for problem solving and adaptative thinking;
Benefits
Attractive benefits are included – details available on request. Please note that this role is unaccompanied and not suitable for candidates looking for a family posting.
How to apply
Please click apply to submit your CV and cover letter by midnight on Friday 24th July 2020. We will review applications as they are received and reserve the right to bring forward the closing date. As this role is based in country, appropriate pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy.
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Recruiting a Compliance Manager to join our Property Service team in Westminster!
£50,000-£55,000 per annum, 35 hours per week plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.
The Compliance Manager will ensure the safety of tenants, members of the public and Look Ahead properties and common areas by planning, controlling and delivering the periodic testing, servicing, maintenance, remedial and inspection programs required.
The post holder will oversee the management of the compliance administration team. They will ensure that all compliance systems and databases are continually updated and reflective of the live environment and all records are maintained to the highest degree of accuracy.
The Compliance Manager will play a lead role in the successful management with all compliance works streams namely: gas, electrical, lifts, fire safety, water hygiene, and asbestos. They will also manage the completion of remedial actions arising from inspections ensuring all works associated with compliance activities are completed to the relevant statutory and regulatory standards.
The post holder will ensure that all timescales for testing, servicing and remedial works are kept, handle all compliance issues with external agencies and enforcing authorities, and property compliance issues for the business.
They will ensure good financial management of allocated budgets and providing periodic reports on actual and forecast spend.
Key Responsibilities
Operational
- Provide successful management of day-to-day of all compliance work, namely fire safety, gas safety, water hygiene, electrical, lifts, asbestos amongst other areas of property compliance
- Manage the team and contractors, to ensure that all testing, servicing and inspection regimes are undertaken on time and in line with regulations and policies
- Ensure completion of maintenance and remedial works required in the effective management of asbestos, legionella, fire safety, electrical, gas and lifting equipment to LACS stock ensuring that the highest levels of compliance are achieved
- Manage the team to maintain accurate compliance and other records and update IT systems from the activities of the Compliance service. Provide technical support for issues arisen from compliance issues
- Provide up to date information as and when required, and produce in depth analysis for KPI's in weekly compliance meetings
- Effective management of staff, including functions such as recruitment, training, professional development, appraisals, regular one to one, team meetings and general performance
- Attend various meetings, both internal and external, to represent LACS and conduct joint site meetings with LACS staff, contractors and external agencies
- To have overall responsibility for the review of certification, determine resolutions and undertake remedial action
- To have overall responsibility for the instruction of contractors, follow up recommendations and ensure priority works are carried out
Contract Management
- Manage all contracts for asbestos, legionella, fire, electrical, gas and lift contracts (planned testing, inspection, servicing, responsive repairs, improvement works and all associated remedial works) and chair regular contract management meetings
- Make visits to site to monitor contractor performance against key performance indicators and to validate servicing and remedial works being undertaken to ensure that they are to a high standard
- Ensure the team is managed to facilitate smooth running of all contracts and programmes of works
Finance & Budgets
- Manage the budgets for all 6 areas of compliance, promptly raise any concerns (under or overspend), and provide information as required for budgeting and business planning purposes
- Authorise works up to the delegated authority for the post holder
- Work with Project Managers to ensure all works are compliant and provide value for money
- Promote a culture of value for money and sound financial practice within the role
For more information or to apply please visit our website.
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About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
The brilliant Individual Supporters Team at Crisis plays a key role in our successful and innovative Fundraising Programme – raising in excess of £30m per year. The team is vital to the long-term income growth of the organisation, recruiting new individual supporters and increasing the engagement of existing supporters through an audience – led communications programme of diverse channels and products.
About the role
As Year Round Giving Manager, you will develop and deliver strategies informed by insight to achieve increasing levels of net income and lifetime value for the Individual Supporters Team, through year-round activities. This will be delivered in accordance with the organisation’s plans for growth in sustainable income from new and existing supporters, through a planned programme of targeted acquisition and retention activities.
About the role
As Year Round Giving Manager, you will develop and deliver strategies informed by insight to achieve increasing levels of net income and lifetime value for the Individual Supporters Team, through year-round activities. This will be delivered in accordance with the organisation’s plans for growth in sustainable income from new and existing supporters, through a planned programme of targeted acquisition and retention activities.
About you
To be successful in this role you will be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and have extensive experience of strategy and planning of large-scale direct marketing programmes including donor acquisition and retention programmes across a range of media. As well as a detailed knowledge of print production and mailing techniques.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your on-going development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team, contact details can be found on our website.
Closing date: Sunday 26 July 2020 (23:59)
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
For more information about our work please visit our website.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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