Praxis is a dynamic, award-winning human rights charity supporting migrants in crisis or at-risk, ensuring that their essential human needs are met and that they are able to overcome the barriers they face. We have more than 35 years of experience working with migrant communities, and in 2019 we supported around 2,000 people through expert legal advice, housing and peer support. Our holistic approach supports people away from a point of crisis and destitution towards safety, economic independence, social engagement and greater emotional wellbeing.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a significant role in a busy and cutting edge charity supporting migrants at risk or in crisis. You will ensure the safe and efficient running of our busy advice centre  and smooth operations by taking responsibility for - and developing - all areas related to reception, building and office services including IT, health and safety at work, service contracts, relevant policies and administrative systems.

You will have substantial professional experience in a similar role within a charity or public sector and have good knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks and compliance issues. You will be energetic, creative, resourceful and highly organized. You must relish a challenge and be able to combine a hands-on role with an ability to take responsibility, think strategically and solve problems. You must enjoy working collaboratively and be passionate about supporting Praxis to deliver its objectives.

This role requires flexibility, initiative and discretion. You should be highly organised and proactive with strong people and communication skills and have a good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 systems, including SharePoint and MS Teams. You should be committed to self-improvement and respond positively to constructive feedback when given, as well as being a committed team player.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage applications from those with lived experience of migration, and from diverse applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital/civil partnership status, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or pregnancy/maternity leave status.

For further details, please see the job description, and to find out more information about this role, please see our website and to find out more about our work.

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity that makes a difference?

We are recruiting a full time Community Team Manager to join our dynamic Full Circle Team within the County of Essex. Working in partnership with EPUT (Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust) you will support to deliver a highly performing service that works with Offenders with Complex and Additional Needs. Our team of experienced staff help people with substance misuse issues, learning difficulties and mental health to improve their outcomes and reduce reoffending. The post will be fixed term until 31st March 2023 and primarily based in the Chelmsford area.

As a Community Team Manager you will work to support the service to deliver its outcomes and targets. You will supervise staff in order to maintain a high standard for our service users, ensuring that any concerns relating to safeguarding and risk are appropriately managed as well as ensuring that adequate data is collected and reported on. You will represent the service across the County and will build excellent working relationships with our many partners.

Do you have?

• Experience of managing staff?
• An understanding of the complex issues presented by individuals within the criminal justice setting.
• The ability to build relationships with other professionals (health providers, the police, youth services, mental health & substance misuse organisations) and to maintain the excellent reputation of Full Circle and Phoenix Futures.
• The ability to be innovative and flexible in order to meet the needs of the service.
• Extensive experience of the substance misuse sector or related field.

If so join us and we will support you to

• Contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders.
• Achieve your potential with the support of an organisation rated as one of the Best 100 Not for Profit Companies to Work For.
• Access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.
• Help change the lives of individuals within the criminal justice setting.

The Phoenix Futures Group has more than 50 years experience of developing and delivering pioneering substance misuse services. We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise.

The role

The Commercial Manager will focus on working with the food industry to provide increasing volumes of surplus foods to the charities and community groups we support across the country, the success you have, together with your colleagues in the Food Team, will be critical to maintaining our growth.

Your role will be to identify, develop and manage new business relationships and strengthen existing business relationships with companies in the food industry, generating value for the partner and to secure growing and sustainable volumes of surplus food for the FareShare Network.

When it comes to our key partners, you will undertake a strategic account management role leading and coordinating FareShare’s engagement right across our organisation ensuring professional account management and enabling us to leverage the appropriate influence, expertise, and funding from these key partners as well as food.

You will work with food partners to help identify and overcome the barriers which exist to giving surplus food to people in need.  These include operational, financial and historical issues, including competition from income streams available to industry e.g. selling surplus food to anaerobic digestion or animal feed processors. FareShare has been able to secure external grant funding to help overcome these barriers and help increase the volumes of fresh foods which are redistributed. This role will include working with food partners and other stakeholders to identify opportunities to apply this fund, seeing initiatives through to completion, monitoring the impacts, benefits and evaluation.

You will also be required to work closely with FareShare colleagues within FareShare and across the UK in our partner organisations in order to identify and understand opportunities for creating mutual and shared value.

Main areas of responsibility

Business Development and Relationship Management

• Research, investigate and approach food companies that have the potential to divert surplus food products to the FareShare network.
• Research relevant key personnel within the organisation that will help drive its success and engage the relevant internal departments.
• Working with the partner and with FareShare’s supply Chain and Logistics Team develop systems and business processes which are appropriate for that partner and which will ensure they are managed in the most environmentally, socially and financially efficient way.
• Prepare and proactively promote the benefits of working with FareShare to existing and potential partners
• Working in conjunction with the Food Partners Senior Managers and other members of the team plan and manage delivery of the FareShare Food Strategy relevant to your accounts
• Be responsible for, and proactively drive, your own lead generation setting of appointments and meetings to progress these relationships
• Scope and implement partnership agreements and/or service contracts between Fareshare and Food Partners
• Implement food partner account management practices to support continued development and growth of key food partners
• Keep up to date with industry and charity insights and ensure this is reflected back strategically across ways of working and account management

Project and Initiative Management

• Be responsible for managing and communicating key projects and initiatives to increase food volumes and strategic value, securing support from a range of stakeholders within food partners and across the FareShare network.
• Work closely with Supply Chain and Logistics, Operations and Network Development teams with the aim of optimising food out to our network
• Develop and lead FareShare cross-departmental strategic activity to enable us to derive maximum value from key food partners including liaising with fund raising, marketing and volunteering teams

Competencies and behaviours

• Proactive, organised and able to work under pressure, whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication with effective presentation skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Offices packages, ideally at an advanced level and with a good level of numeracy and literacy
• Analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving
• Creative approach to problem solving and developing new opportunities and initiatives

Person Specification

As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.

• Demonstrable experience managing multiple accounts in the FMCG, food, retail or comparable sector with professionalism and integrity consistently meeting or exceeding challenging targets
• Good working knowledge of the key players across the food industry and their ways of working
• Successful track record of managing cross-functional projects to tight timescales and budgets, ensuring involvement of all key stakeholders
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at a range of levels and across multiple functions with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to use own initiative working independently and responsibly

Desirable

• Experience of working in a retail or food industry sector
• Experience of project evaluation, data-driven analysis and impact reporting
• Relationship and stakeholder management experience of large corporate partners

Knowledge of and interest in Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and experience of its application within the business environment

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.

Area Manager for Lancashire

Young Enterprise is a national charity which helps thousands of young people every year to develop the life skills, knowledge and confidence they need to succeed in the changing world of work. We are looking for an Area Manager to join our team in Lancashire and the neighbouring counties.

As Area Manager, you will coordinate projects and liaise with schools, volunteers and funders, alongside delivering our enterprise, careers and employability programmes directly to students. Coupled with occasional event management, reporting, and networking, the role will suit candidates who enjoy a varied work week.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter, who can inspire young people to achieve their potential, enable educators to meet their goals, and engage supporters in seeing the benefit of the charity's work. Experience of recruitment, training and onboarding of volunteers from community or corporate sources would be highly advantageous.

You'll be working alongside an experienced and passionate small team, with a 'can-do' ethos of supporting each other and sharing knowledge across programmes and geographies.

As part of Young Enterprise you will also benefit from:

• A People-focussed, friendly and supportive work-place culture
• An active commitment to equality and diversity
• Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks
• Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Group Life Assurance of 2x annual salary

This role is 4 days per week (30 hours) and is home-based, with significant travel throughout Lancashire and neighbouring counties.

It is a fixed term position until 1st August 2022 in the first instance, though may be extended subject to funding. For full details of the role, please see the attached Job Description.

If you think you are right for this role, we would love to hear from you.

Interviews will take place with Anthony Brown (Regional Manager for North West and North Wales) and Claire Dever (Operations Director) via MS Teams on Tuesday 12th October.

Area Manager for Outer East London and Essex

Young Enterprise is a national charity which helps thousands of young people every year to develop the life skills, knowledge and confidence they need to succeed in the changing world of work. We are looking for an Area Manager to join our team in Outer East London and Essex.

As Area Manager, you will coordinate projects and liaise with schools, volunteers and funders, alongside delivering our enterprise, careers and employability programmes directly to students. Coupled with occasional event management, reporting, and networking, the role will suit candidates who enjoy a varied work week.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter, who can inspire young people to achieve their potential, enable educators to meet their goals, and engage supporters in seeing the benefit of the charity's work. Experience of recruitment, training and onboarding of volunteers from community or corporate sources would be highly advantageous.

You'll be working alongside an experienced and passionate small team, with a 'can-do' ethos of supporting each other and sharing knowledge across programmes and geographies.

As part of Young Enterprise you will also benefit from:

• A People-focussed, friendly and supportive work-place culture
• An active commitment to equality and diversity
• Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks
• Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Group Life Assurance of 2x annual salary

This is a home-based role, but will require significant travel throughout Outer East London and Essex.

If you think you are right for this role, we would love to hear from you.

Interviews will take place with Mike Anderson (Regional Manager) and Claire Dever (Operations Director) via MS Teams on Friday 8th October.

Passionate about Retail and want to make a Difference to Local Lives?

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic Sales Assistants and a Shop Manager to join our St Wilfrid’s Retail team, to help raise income for St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

Sales Assistants - £9.08 per hour

Chalcroft Lane, Bognor Regis
22.5 hours per week, including weekends on a Rota basis.
(Closing date: 14 September 2021)

East Street, Chichester
15 hours per week, including weekends on a Rota basis.
(Closing date: 21 September)

The successful candidates will have strong customer service skills that are professional and welcoming. You will provide support to the Shop Manager in every aspect of the day-to-day running of the shop to generate and maximise income to support the work of St Wilfrid’s Hospice. You will be able to work independently and as part of a supportive team to create a well-presented shop where customers receive great service.

Manual handling and key holder responsibilities are involved in the role.

Flexible availability is necessary to accommodate shift patterns that include weekends and bank holidays and the opportunity to work extra hours to support the needs of the business.

Charity Shop Manager - £21,111 per annum (pro rata)

Queensway Bognor Regis
22.5 hours per week, rota basis including weekends and bank holidays
(Closing date: 22 Sept 2021)

We are looking for a permanent Shop Manager for our Charity Shop in Bognor Queensway. Our Queensway Shop offers unique treasures plus high volume at low prices.

As the successful applicant you will love meeting our customers & supporters in the local community. You will lead a team of staff and engage volunteers to help develop our retail experience. Through this work we generate vital income for our Hospice by meeting the shop’s sales targets plus our strategic and operational goals.

This is a hands-on role, involving manual handling, are you creative and adaptable, with the ability to plan, prioritise, delegate and take responsibility for the shop. Are you IT competent and have strong communication skills, as you will be required to collaborate with colleagues across the Hospice and in the community.

Reporting to the Retail Area Sales & Development Manager you should have experience managing a shop, preferably in the charity sector.

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes a generous holiday entitlement starting at 27 days per year plus bank holiday entitlement (pro rata), a contributory pension scheme, or continuation to the NHS Superannuation Scheme, life assurance, and a contributory cash reimbursement plan.  We offer a friendly, challenging, yet supportive working atmosphere with a committed team of colleagues.

We strive to continually lead with our values to develop individual potential in the workplace.  We welcome, recognise and encourage the valuable contribution that people from all backgrounds and experiences bring and are committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of discrimination.

Interested? 

If you would like to apply and find out more about these positions, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can see the full job descriptions and download the relevant application form.

No agencies please.

Yorkshire

Do you have good administration experience, great customer service skills and consider yourself a good team player with a flexible approach? All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as an Area Administrator.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

We are looking for someone like you to play a vital support role at a number of our services across Yorkshire. Enthusiastic and keen to develop, you’ve got good communication skills and a professional telephone manner as well as experience of completing financial returns/ records. It goes without saying that you have strong IT skills and are able to prioritise a busy workload and work to deadlines. You will work closely with the Service Manager to devise and implement administrative and financial systems as well as maintaining efficient and up to date records of all financial transactions, including petty cash systems and client funds.

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits including 25 days' holiday, contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme and childcare vouchers, plus exceptional professional development and training opportunities? Apply now via our website.

This is a permanent role, requiring the post-holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

The salary for this role is £17,549.00 per annum.

Recovery Focus is committed to working towards equal opportunities and we select staff solely on merit irrespective of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, social class, religious belief, disability or history of mental health or addiction problems. If you need support to apply for the role or adaptions at interview please contact the recruitment team to discuss.

The closing date for this post is 30th September 2021. However, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a sufficient number of applications being received prior.

It is a mandatory requirement of the application process for this post that candidates submit a CV and Supporting Statement, thus only candidates that provide this, and who meet the essential criteria within the person specification,  will be considered for an interview.

Fundraising Manager

Primrose Hospice provides exceptional care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses in the Redditch and Bromsgrove area. We are looking for an experienced Fundraising Manager to lead our committed fundraising team.

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated, creative and enthusiastic, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a fundraising role.  The Fundraising Manager must have experience using Donorflex / other CRM software, advanced level general IT skills, strong communication skills (both written and verbal), superior attention to detail, organisational and planning skills (including events), as well as maintaining total honesty and integrity.

The successful applicant will be confident, pro-active, experienced in fundraising, (preferably within the charity sector), responsible for preparing and meeting the Hospice’s fundraising income targets and focused on helping the organisation function effectively and efficiently.

The Fundraising Manager is a key role within the Hospice, reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, and is a member of the Senior Management Team.  If you feel you have the skills and experience and would like to make a difference to the area’s local hospice, we would be very interested in hearing from you.

If this is you, please apply to join our creative and professional hospice team in this exciting year ahead, as we raise over the £1.75million needed to deliver our expert care.

Visits to the Hospice are more than welcome, or for an informal discussion please contact Angélique Dalton, Chief Operating Officer.

To apply please visit the Hospice website and complete the application form.

Wadars Animal Rescue has been providing care and protection of animals of all kinds for over 50 years. We rescue and rehabilitate more than 1,500 wildlife and rehome around 400 dogs, cats and other companion animals every year.

As our Wildlife Manager you will be pivotal to the sucess of the Charity in ensuring our wildife unit continues to deliver exceptional care and expand our current service provision. You will also directly contribute to the development of our new wildlife unit to be built during 2022/23.

You will have extensive experience of British wildlife within a similar rehabilitation centre or veterinary setting including initial assessment, first aid, crop feeding and administering medications. You will be an excellent leader and be prepared to train and motivate our team of staff and volunteers, as well as being hands-on in the role. 

Initial assessments will take place via Zoom throughout the recruitment period. Final interviews will be held in Ferring on Wednesday 13th October 2021.

Closing date:  12 noon on Wednesday 6th October 2021.

It is important that you read our recruitment pack and apply using our application form. CVs are not accepted.

We exist to change the odds stacked against Black people by embedding race equity into systemic change so that thriving is not the exception but the norm.

About Black Thrive

Black Thrive Global evolved from the work of the Black Thrive Lambeth Partnership, which was established in 2016 to address the inequalities that negatively impact the mental health and wellbeing of Black people in Lambeth. Black people’s cumulative exposure to negative experiences and poor outcomes are not unique to Lambeth and Black Thrive Global was founded in 2020 to address the detrimental outcomes for Black people of African and Caribbean descent wherever they may be located.

Our work covers all life stages – children and young people, working age adults and older adults. Our guiding principle is to centre the lived experiences of Black communities in all that we do and our strategic priorities are to embed race equity in systems change and to decolonise the evidence landscape. 

Purpose of the role

We are working with Lottery Community Fund, Impact On Urban Health and Lambeth Living Well Network Alliance (LWNA) to build a Black led culturally appropriate peer support and advocacy (CAPSA) service, designed by Black people for Black communities in Lambeth. CAPSA supports people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or are experiencing difficulties in accessing services that will improve their mental wellbeing. It will be made up of compassionate and caring individuals like you. We will also help community members who are already using mental health services and would like more support.

Do you have the vision, expertise and person-centred values to be able to make a real difference to the lives of people with mental health support needs? The service manager will be responsible for the smooth running and delivery of the CAPSA service. As Service Manager, you will lead a team of workers in achieving these goals through line management, coaching, supervision and mentoring.

Closing date - 6th October at 5pm

Interviews on - 14th and 15th October

Application Instructions: Please upload a CV of no more than 3 pages, alongside a cover letter of no more than 2 pages. Candidates should also complete and upload a copy of our equality and diversity monitoring form.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate manager to help realise the vision of the Pimlico Million partnership.

Pimlico Million (PM) is a community project, making the Pimlico area in Westminster a better place to live. PM is part of the Big Local programme, a 10 year initiative running till 2026, overseen by Local Trust, giving 150 areas across the UK £1 million of Lottery money to make positive changes to their community. Each area forms a partnership group of local residents and decides how to spend their funds. Many, like Pimlico Million, employ staff to bring their ambitions to life.

Following on from local consultation, the PM partnership has set out an ambitious new plan for the next two years. They are now looking for an energetic and organised manager, with a deep understanding of community development work, to play a key role in bringing their plans to fruition and of supporting the partnership to think creatively and strategically about its legacy for the Pimlico Million area. The Big Local programme offers a unique opportunity in community development; balancing some direct delivery of services alongside an exciting locally focused grant giving programme, working alongside the partnership board to bring about long-lasting impact.

Some working from home is possible but there is also a new office available at the Ebury Edge development near Victoria station, with space for the manager and for the two, soon to be recruited, community engagement officers to use as a base.

We’re looking for someone who holds themselves to high professional standards, who prides themselves on nurturing warm and successful relationships with local communities, partner organisations and key local stakeholders. Alongside these leadership qualities, you will be practical, creative and willing to be hands on – we’re looking for someone who relishes the opportunity to be out and about spreading the word about our work. You’ll have a strong understanding of the nature of community work and a passion for resident-led change that addresses the challenges and barriers that can be faced by low income communities.

This is an exceptionally exciting time to join The Sick Children’s Trust as we make plans to celebrate our 40th Anniversary of keeping families together and develop our new five year strategy.

The Communications Manager we’re looking for will be a creative self-starter with excellent verbal and written skills, have strong management skills to mentor our Communications Officer and be able to support the Head of Communications. This is a brand new role which is varied and interesting where you can utilise your broad skills and make a real difference to the charity.

Your experience and skills will include:

• Exceptional communications skills across all channels
• Line management experience
• Experience of developing plans
• Significant experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders

We offer an excellent benefits package including a 35 hour working week, flexible working, 25 days annual leave, pension scheme, permanent health insurance scheme and a commitment to your wellbeing.

If you’d like to join a very friendly, committed, hardworking and high achieving team, then please  submit your CV and a covering letter.

Please state why you wish to work for The Sick Children’s Trust as the Communications Manager and how you meet the person specification in your application.

Closing Date: Friday 8 October at 5pm

We are reviewing applications as we receive them, so early application is advised. We reserve the right to amend the closing date.

Doing Difference Differently! Open Theatre is a fast-growing medium-scale charity and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) which work with children and young people with learning disabilities using our unique Practice.  We are currently seeking an experienced Finance Manager to help take us into the next phase of development.  This is a senior management role with responsibility for the strategic and operational development, implementation and on-going management and maintenance of financial practices, policies and systems for the company.  You will work closely with the Director to produce the annual budget; prepare monthly management accounts; quarterly finance reports, monthly payroll as well as manage the preparation for the external independent examination and year end statutory accounts. If you have an interest in the arts, young people and accounting and wish to help move the company into our next stage of development then visit our website for more information: