Volunteer Coordinator

Bath Welcomes Refugees (BWR) was established in 2015 with the sole aim of bringing to safety and security in the UK those people persecuted and in danger in their own countries, and in particular to help them settle in Bath or the surrounding area.  

We are still a relatively young organisation currently supporting around 100 refugees and asylum seekers. At present we are an entirely voluntary organisation depending upon the enthusiasm, invaluable expertise, experience and dedication of our 100 plus volunteers covering a range of roles.  Our main areas of activity cover practical help with housing, resettlement and integration in the community, English language support and guidance on employment and benefits.

We now need to strengthen the organisation and build capacity to support the families and individuals building a new life in and around Bath. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit a part time Volunteer Coordinator.

This is an entirely new and evolving role which you will be able to develop. Initially you will work with the Chair, Language Support Coordinator and Membership Secretary providing administrative support with emphasis on the coordination of volunteers and the membership.

To be successful in this position, you will need to be

Someone who has the ability to develop relationships with volunteers, clients and other stakeholders, is resourceful, collaborative and enjoys working with others with diverse experiences and backgrounds. You should be able to work remotely on your own initiative, be highly organised and efficient. You should empathise with BWR’s aims, be flexible and non-judgemental.

Ideally your experience will include

1. Working with volunteers in the charity, not-for-profit sectors.
2. Recruiting, training and managing volunteers.
3. Supporting and developing volunteers in their roles.
4. Working with CRM databases.
5. Understanding of the data protection requirements in respect of volunteers and the organisation as a whole.

Outline of the Role

You will be the key volunteer contact, recruiting, training, carrying out background and DBS checks and supporting volunteers in their various roles across the organisation. Reporting to the Chair, you will work with and support Team Leaders to enable BWR to meet its aims.

1. Liaising with the Language Coordinator and volunteers to ensure we provide effective language tuition to our families and individuals to meet their individual specific needs.

• Monitoring progress and ensure that records are kept up to date.
• Providing analysis of activities as required from time to time.

2. Liaising with the Membership Secretary to ensure membership applications are processed timely and the system is updated with all relevant information.

• Maintaining the membership database

3. Assisting with the set up and populating of a new Case Management System.

• Liaising with IT Support in relation to the website and other digital communications.

4. Supporting the Trustees and members of the Management Committee from time to time.

Although this is a part-time role working from home there will be occasions when you may be required to attend events either during the evening or at weekends within the Bath and surrounding area.

The role is initially based on 16 hours per week but will be reassessed after an initial period when the successful applicant will have a better idea of the actual scope of the role.  The salary is £20-24k pa pro rata (commensurate with experience).

The role will require an enhanced DBS check.

To apply for this role please provide an up to date CV with a covering letter explaining in less than 200 words why you would be ideal for the role.

Applications to be emailed by 2 November 2020. Applications will be reviewed as received.

Interviews will be held: Week commencing 9 November 2020

For more information please see Detailed Job Description and Chart of BWR Activities.

Corporate Engagement Manager, The Good Food Institute Europe

Engage Businesses to Build a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Food System 

Industrial animal agriculture is at the root of many of the most pressing global issues of our time, from climate change and global hunger, to increased disease risk and poor animal welfare.

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology to replace the products of industrial animal agriculture with plant-based, fermentation-derived and cultivated meat, eggs, dairy, and seafood. Please check out our U.S. affiliate’s website (gfi [dot] org) and read the 2019 Year in Review (gfi [dot] org/2019, in particular pages 10-11 on our Corporate Engagement work), to find out more about who we are and what we do.

We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Corporate Engagement Manager to join our team. For more information about this role, please take a look at the job brochure here: shorturl.at/kmsxH.

How You Will Make a Difference
While many excellent alternative protein products and companies already exist, they still comprise a small percentage of the market share of conventional meat, eggs, dairy, and seafood. The Corporate Engagement Manager will drive action to accelerate the growth of the alternative proteins sector in Europe.

You will focus on building relationships with major established companies, influencing them to invest in alternative proteins, stock more alternative protein products, and create new products in this space. As well as engaging with individual decision makers, including senior executives at C-suite level, you will also help to catalyse the sector at the ecosystem level. You could also explore the potential for engaging with entrepreneurs, startups and investors, if this proves to be a strategic area for maximum mission-impact.

As the first Corporate Engagement hire in our growing European team, you will help radically transform the food system by:

• Setting the strategy for GFI Europe’s corporate engagement work, identifying and pursuing the top priorities for impact.
• Managing and delivering all aspects of GFI Europe’s corporate engagement work, and potentially leading a team of specialists in the future.
• Building relationships with established companies (including food manufacturers, co-manufacturers, ingredient companies, and life science companies), influencing them to invest in alternative proteins, produce and stock more and higher-quality alternative protein products, and create new products.
• Potentially also building relationships with other stakeholders, as and when this is strategic for mission-impact. These could include priority grocery stores, restaurants, and foodservice establishments, investors and financial institutions, entrepreneurs and start-ups.
• Acting as a liaison and ‘connector’ between European stakeholders, GFI’s US-based Corporate Engagement team, other GFI global staff, and our broader network.
• Potentially coordinating the creation of resources to help champion the alternative protein sector - for example, databases of investors/companies/ingredients, or ‘manuals’/guides for start-ups.
• Overseeing the generation of new consumer and market research data by contracting external firms, as needed.
• Building communities and coalitions of organisations to champion the alternative protein ecosystem, for example, by bringing together consortia to apply for grant funding..
• Preparing and delivering influential presentations to key corporate decision-makers.
• Being a thought leader by speaking at conferences, webinars etc.
• Performing other duties as required, as a member of our small, growing team.

Who We’re Looking For
You must have:

• A passion for GFI’s philosophy and mission.
• Significant relevant experience, for example in business, management consulting, corporate affairs/management/engagement, brand/product marketing, investment, venture capital, start-ups, food industry sales, or other relevant area.
• Excellent people-skills: the ability to influence, network, and build alliances.
• The ability, confidence and authority to engage with corporate executives, build long-term relationships with them, and to persuade and influence decision-makers.
• Strong team spirit and open and collaborative instincts: you will be working closely with colleagues in our US Corporate Engagement team and around the world.
• Excellent written and oral communication, public speaking and presentation skills.
• Strong strategic ability.
• A can-do approach: a self-starter with the drive and initiative to take responsibility for delivering impact.
• Comfort working remotely in a rapidly-growing and evolving organisation: the ability to work well independently and under pressure, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken (CEFR C2 level). We would also welcome applications from candidates who, in addition, can work in other major European languages.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritise an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.

The Fine Print

• Terms of employment: Full-time, permanent
• Location: Flexible - we will consider applicants from anywhere in Europe. You will mainly be working remotely: from your home, or wherever you choose. Once the COVID situation has cleared, you and the whole GFI Europe team will get together in-person approximately once every quarter for around 3-4 days at a time, most likely in the London area or Brussels. Subject to COVID, there may also be other frequent work trips within Europe, and occasionally beyond.
• Salary: £38,000 - £50,000. This range is based on a UK hire and will be adjusted if hired elsewhere in Europe.
• Right to work requirements: We are only able to consider applicants who are eligible to work and travel in the EU or UK.
• Application Deadline: 26th October 2020, 11.59pm GMT. We will be assessing candidates on a rolling basis, so please apply now!
• Application process: Please complete this short form, upload your CV and cover letter and complete a short task here: https://forms.gle/2rGC8f37sSt2k3Qd9 - thank you. Your cover letter (of 1-2 pages) and CV should set out:
  • What motivated you to apply for this role.
  • How you meet each of the requirements for the role as listed in the job description.
  • Which bit of the job description energises you the most.
  The full application process is outlined in the job brochure: shorturl.at/kmsxH. We really look forward to hearing from you!
• Any questions? If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at europe [at] gfi [dot] org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please feel free to share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.

Founded in 1963, we operate as an independent charity with a vision to make a real difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of mathematics education and learning.

We have always had a well-established and well-respected board, and in the last twelve months we have recruited several new board members to support MEI’s continued development through their wisdom, passion, and expertise. We are a friendly, supportive, and very committed team. MEI’s head office is in Trowbridge, in beautiful Wiltshire. Our team of mathematics education experts works from home, spread across England. Our dedicated staff of around 70 employees and our 10 board members make effective use of online technology to collaborate – never more so than this year.

MEI’s origins were in working to ensure mathematics education was relevant to equipping people to use mathematics effectively in their everyday lives and work. Much has changed in society since MEI was founded and mathematics education has never been more important. Our commitment to make a positive difference to people’s lives through mathematics education and learning remains as strong as ever.

Our links with students have generally been through their teachers, but the rapid changes in society and the way that people engage with knowledge and learning mean that we need to deepen our understanding of the needs and perspectives of students. The young trustee role is a new role on the MEI board that will help us to do this. It is only one part of a number of activities with this aim. We would expect the young trustee to help support these developments.

The Board of Trustees is looking forward to having a young trustee within our team, and benefiting from the contributions and experience of the successful candidate. This will not be a ‘token’ position. The successful candidate will have the same influence, responsibilities, and liabilities as any other trustee. In turn, we commit to provide the support, training and development that you, and indeed all new trustees, need to undertake this role. As our pioneer young trustee, you will be able to help us shape the role and the way we work so that we harness your experience and wisdom at a critical stage as we drive forward our developing ambitions for the future.

If you think you have what it takes to bring a new perspective, and you are passionate about the development of the next generation, we would love to have you on board

MEI is committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We will not discriminate unlawfully in any aspect of employment and want MEI to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Further information available on application.

Main role and responsibilities

The overall purpose of the role is to support the Chief Executive, the Executive Team and the Chair and Trustees to develop and to deliver ShelterBox’s mission, strategy, and plan.

ShelterBox will be undergoing a strategy review in 2021. The role of Strategy & Planning Officer will play a key role in helping the CEO and the organisation to reflect and refresh the organisational mission and goals. It will be the key liaison between functional departments who deliver and the CEO who coordinates and sets direction.

The role will work closely with the CEO to support ShelterBox in achieving both the goals of the Operating Plan 2021 as well as ensuring the new strategy is relevant and an effective tool for the organisation.

The position holder will be involved in a wide range of roles from supporting the management of ShelterBox Board, Executive, & Senior Leadership Team meetings (in a company secretary capacity), to budget management/coordination and developing working briefs on a wide range of topics.

The role will also be expected to represent the CEO at key internal discussions and exercise superb judgment, interpersonal skills, and absorb information quickly.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the role will work very closely with the Executive team and the Board on a range of strategic initiatives that impact the wider organisation as well as be an effective partner to senior leaders. The role will also support the Chair of the ShelterBox Board in various duties.

Working with the CEO, the role will:

• Coordinate and integrate the work of the CEO’s office with the rest of the organisation, ensuring effective engagement with all departments.
• Use sound judgment to advise the CEO on complex and sensitive policy issues and questions.
• Assist the CEO and leadership to deliver on the ShelterBox strategy (post 2021).

Who are we looking for?

ShelterBox is seeking an accomplished and highly competent Strategic Planner/Executive Assistant to provide excellent support to the Chief Executive, the Executive Team, and the Board.

You must have proven EA experience at Director/CEO level or have held a role where a high degree of autonomy and highly developed planning and organisational skills are required.

We are looking for candidates with a relevant degree (or equivalent experience) in a field relevant to policy making, strategy, international development/humanitarian affairs, public administration. Ideally, you will also have knowledge or experience of working for the voluntary sector or a charity.

The position holder will need to flex between areas of work on humanitarian thought leadership and response, funding diversification and growth strategies, and partnership building between ShelterBox, its affiliates, strategic donors, and other key organizations.

This is a varied and busy role and to be successful you must have strong prioritisation and time management skills, excellent verbal, and written communication skills along with the ability to develop effective and positive working relationships internally and externally.

You will be a strong team player, who can also work autonomously to clear deadlines. You must also be politically astute with the ability to analyse and summarize large amounts of information quickly.

Strong interpersonal, relationship management and influencing skills are also important, as is the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders with different agendas

The role requires a rigorous and critical thinker, able to ask probing clear questions and drive toward solutions quickly. You must have the ability to anticipate and assess situations accurately and recommend/implement effective courses of action, with a predisposition toward simple and practical solutions, through consensus building.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

Policy and Influence:

• Coordinates and/or oversees the development of policies, procedures, speeches, and strategies relating to complex policy issues for the CEO’s office.
• Conducts research and analysis to support the strategic aims of ShelterBox.
• Drafts strategy documents, reports, speeches, briefing notes, and talking points at the request of the CEO.

Strategy and Planning:

• Lead on the review and consensus building around the process to develop the ShelterBox Strategy 2021.
• Through coordination with Exec team, keep an active overview of the work of departments to ensure effective and coordinated support to and response from the CEO.
• Works with the CEO to set short- and medium-term priorities for strategic engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies challenges in the short and longer term, to successfully implementing the ShelterBox strategy and workplans and works with relevant stakeholders to develop proposed solutions.
• Manages strategic projects from inception to completion as assigned by the CEO.

Planning and Coordination

• Provides timely and effective communication of instructions and decisions of the CEO to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure Executive Team meeting agendas are developed, and key matters are tabled for discussion.
• Support the CEO and Finance Director in the ongoing strategic oversight of the organisational budget and financial management.
• Ensure minutes are taken at key meetings and for ShelterBox board meetings, including action items and follow up.
• Tracks and documents key strategic internal and external meetings, ensuring that key action points are communicated and follow up occurs.
• Works with internal and external stakeholders to commission and/or develop briefings.
• Works with internal stakeholders to commission and/or develop itineraries and agendas to ensure the CEO engagements are effective in promoting ShelterBox and its mission.
• Fosters teamwork and communications among the Exec Team, Senior Leadership Team, and other key staff.
• Represents the views of the CEO at key internal meetings such as with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Maintains sensitivity and diplomacy with senior colleagues.

Communications

• Represent ShelterBox and CEO at relevant senior meetings and conferences and present the work of the organisation where necessary.
• Be an effective communicator on behalf of and in support of the CEO to the global ShelterBox audience, with a particular emphasis on maintaining effective partnerships and collaboration between ShelterBox and its supporters, as well as the network of partners and affiliates.
• Ensure good working relationships and support the integration of activities across ShelterBx departments.

For the Board of Trustees:

• Distribute high quality papers, taking and producing minutes of board and subcommittee meetings and monitoring implementation of agreed actions.
• Organise, maintain and when necessary, re-organise the meeting schedule for the Board meetings and subcommittees, ensuring the timing of subcommittees leads into quarterly board meetings.
• Organise trustee board away days, organising the venue, papers, and any other resources, including booking travel and accommodation.
• Provide administrative support to the Chair and other trustees as required to enable them to fulfil their duties for ShelterBox
• Maintain a record of board level policies, updating as necessary

Since 1907, Improving Lives Plymouth has been working within the city of Plymouth and the surrounding area, delivering services and developing new ones to meet the needs of individuals, community and voluntary organisations.We describe ourselves as a small but perfectly formed organisation informing and influencing the quality of services delivered not only by us but also our partners in Plymouth.We operate across two hubs, our Mannamead Hub focuses on our Health and Wellbeing services whilst our Veterans and Family Hub and Information and Advice Service operate from our City Centre offices.

For many years the organisation has been led and shaped by our CEO and thanks to him and our excellent team, we have discovered how resilient we are during the recent pandemic.  Our longstanding CEO retires in 2021, hence this recruitment.

The CEO of Improving Lives Plymouth (ILP) leads a progressive and responsive charitable organisation that has a big impact, wide reach and valued reputation.‘A business head with a charity heart’ is the hallmark of our CEO’s work and indeed, the organisation itself.Balancing the challenges and opportunities of today with ensuring a bright and sustainable future supporting people who need our help by leading a team of brilliant and committed staff and volunteers.

We are therefore looking for someone:

• with the rare ability to balance high level strategic priorities with key operational, organisational and financial activity
• who engages with a wide range of professional people; possessing the confidence, gravitas and social skills to speak with passion and integrity in a variety of settings and locations
• with a love of leading, inspiring and developing teams, identifying skills and potential in others and helping them to develop
• who is looking to further develop a culture and working environment which attracts and retains great people
• and who is values-driven and passionate about people, families and communities

We are working with Jackie Dawkins of Shine Charity Recruitment who will support and guide the Trustees to find and appoint our new CEO.For further information about the role and how to apply, please download the information pack.

Key Dates

• Closing Date30th October 2020
• First Interview (with Jackie Dawkins)W/c 2nd November 2020
• Second Interview and Assessment DayTuesday 8thth December 2020
• Final InterviewTuesday 15th December 2020

It's an exciting time to join NHS Charities Together, and we're looking for a great administrator to support our Grants programme to members.

The role will assist NHS Charities Together grants function as an important service to our member charities.  The post holder will provide a first class administrative and secretarial service in support of our grants team and grants sub groups.

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.

Adviser (Environment)

You will provide skilled professional guidance and technical support to our clients members on a range of environmental, land use, climate change and planning issues affecting farmers and growers across a region or regions.

Adviser (Environment) Responsibilities;

- Provide specialist, professional advice on statutory environmental and land use issues to members in a region, or regions.
- Represent our client, within national guidelines, on all statutory environmental planning and land use issues within a region or regions.
- Lead for region on all matters environmental.
- Maintain a detailed knowledge of environmental, planning and land use legislation, including conservation schemes relating to the opportunities, rights and obligations of their members.
- Interpret and communicate relevant national and local legislation, regulations, emerging climate change agenda and associated information to meetings of members and appropriate staff.
- Provide specific advice to members on rural development schemes, highways, water and land drainage, flood defences, land compensation, major environmental and land use schemes, laws (including Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control and environmental cross-compliance requirements) and designations. This would also include other appropriate specialist services, in conjunction with regional colleagues, Group Secretaries, Headquarters staff and, when appropriate, with selected local professionals.
- Maintain basic knowledge of land tenure legislation to assist other specialist colleagues in this area.
- Establish and lead practices and precedents, within national guidelines, that are favourable to the farming and growing community.
- Represent the interests of members, and of our client, at selected public or private hearings, and when appropriate, to Members of Parliament, Members of the European Parliament and other opinion formers or decision makers.
- Represent members and negotiate with government, agencies and non-statutory bodies within the region/s to develop favourable conditions for members in matters relating to the environment, transport, highways, rights of way and access, planning, water, land use, farm woodlands, health & safety, training & education and other related issues.

Adviser (Environment) Requirements:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a related discipline.
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of key land use and environmental issues.
- Demonstrate knowledge of land compensation, rights of way, conservation schemes and climate change.
- Have an excellent understanding of the farming industry and the associated environmental agenda.
- Experience of influencing with Government and non-statutory bodies.
- Relevant experience of representing farmers and growers on environmental issues.
- Experience of providing regulatory and technical advice.
- Experience of environmental and land legislation.
- Experience of researching, interpreting and communicating regulations and legislation.
- Ability to lead and manage colleagues in a project or team environment.
- Ability to work outside normal working hours.

Desirable Skills/Attributes:

- Demonstrate knowledge of rural development, land tenure legislation, farm assurance, health and safety, transport, highways and farm woodlands.
- Experience of working with various sector boards.
- Experience of managing projects or initiatives relevant to this role.
- Experience of town & country planning.
- Accomplished public speaker

About our client:

They’re the voice of British farming, and their members are at the heart of what they do. On their behalf they lobby government and other stakeholders, develop policy and provide a range of frontline services.

Why join their team?

Working for them means working alongside great people, who are recognised for their knowledge and expertise and who will invest in your development. Benefits include 25 days annual leave (plus statutory bank holidays), National Employment Savings Trust pension scheme, a performance related pay award scheme, a range of discounts through their benefits employee portal and subsidised staff restaurant.

Location: Petersfield, Hampshire

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £34,869

You may have experience of the following: Environmental Advisor, Environmental Science, Environmental Officer, Environmental Coordinator, Agricultural Advisor, Farmers, Farming, Defra, Policy Research, Policy Coordination, Town Planning, Town & Country Planning, etc..

Ref: 94744

Summary:

Our client is the leading international professional membership body dedicated to patient safety in aesthetic plastic surgery and the provision Aesthetic Education Worldwide ®. They do this by promoting and providing the highest quality education and training, providing lifelong learning, and developing opportunities for knowledge exchange.  They currently serve a growing membership of more-than 4,500 Board certified plastic surgeon members in 110 countries.

They now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Membership Manager to join their team.  You will play an instrumental role in supporting and developing the services to their international community of plastic surgeons and in furthering their mission to improve and provide education in aesthetic plastic surgery for the benefit and safety of patients.

This is an exciting time to join this organisation as they transition the organisation from its office in New Hampshire USA to a more global virtual office and staff structure. They have just established their UK entity to employ staff to work with their newly appointed Executive Director in London. 

The post provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced member services professional to develop their career within a growing organisation.  You will be working within a small but dedicated team to support their established international Society through its next stage of development.

The role will be home based in the first instance, but candidates will need to be willing to travel to and work from London as required, as well as to travel internationally, once current travel restrictions are lifted.
 

The duties of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure the highest quality standards in all member communications and activities.
• Support the Executive Director and ISAPS staff team to deliver the Board’s strategic objectives for membership.
• Act as the first port of call for all member enquiries, including technical queries, and respond on a timely basis
• Facilitate and support new member applications, the applications review process, approvals, upgrades and membership renewals, on a timely basis.
• Maintain member records accurately and in line with GDPR
• Continuously and proactively strive to improve the systems, processes, and user journey for our members
• Liaise with our CRM system supplier (X-cd) on all areas of systems maintenance, testing and development
• Liaise with ISAPS National Secretaries and report to the Membership Committee Chair as required to facilitate member approvals and service improvements
• Communicate member updates, benefits and activities and liaise with other departments and external suppliers as necessary to do so.
• Promote membership and additional upgrade opportunities at meetings and events
• Support the set up and delivery of ISAPS core member services in events and education
• Update the membership areas of ISAPS website and ensure they remain current
• Produce reports for the Executive Director, Membership Committee Chair and Board as required
• Collaborate and communicate proactively with our small team to inform and update on all issues relating to our member services
• Travel to London for meetings and to represent the organisation and promote its membership offering at international events when needed
• Additional duties as may arise from time to time.

What we would like from you:

• Educated to degree level, with demonstrable experience in customer relationship management
• Previous experience within a membership organisation
• A strong customer focus with the highest quality outputs
• Exceptional organisational skills and self-motivation
• Ability to work to high standards with a broad and variable workload
• Ability to work to your own initiative and within a small team
• Proven ability to develop customer relationship management systems and processes
• A meticulous approach with proven ability to analyse and evaluate needs promptly and efficiently and a keen eye for detail
• Proactive, adaptable, diplomatic, solutions focused and culturally aware
• The ability to embrace and enjoy evaluating, improving and developing new systems and processes
• Good working knowledge of electronic communications
• Comfortable in managing your own workload with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work from home and travel to London for meetings
• Willingness to be available for out of hours meetings due to the international nature of the business
• Working with medical professionals, familiarity with applications review processes, and additional language fluencies would all be an advantage albeit not essential in this role.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours Monday to Friday.  The role is appointed on a temporary basis in the first instance to allow for effective handover of the role whilst the organisation is still in transition.  The role will be available as a permanent position once the transition is complete.

If you are interested in applying, please apply with your CV and covering letter, giving an indication of your current remuneration and explaining your suitability of the role.

The initial closing date will be the 2nd October 2020 with the possibility of extension; however, since the position is immediately available, the organisation reserves the right to conduct interviews and appoint prior to the closing date dependent on the calibre of applications received. If you do not hear from us within 14 days of our closing date, you may assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

This is an exciting time to join us. Recognised as the UK’s Best Charity to Work For by the prestigious Sunday Times Annual Awards in 2019, we have developed three high-impact programmes that more and more churches across the UK are running and funding. This has led us to double in income in the last four years. We expect to do so again by 2026.

With more than 100 staff and income of over £5m, we have been upgrading our finance system and growing the finance team to keep pace but there is much more to do. Your task will be to continue this good work so that we have the appropriate systems, reporting and team capabilities for our scale now and in the future. Overseeing a team of 5 staff across finance and compliance, you will bring coherence, order to complexity and organisational excellence. You will also serve as Director of our commercial subsidiary Hope Park Business Centres that generates £800k of unrestricted funds for the charity.

We’re looking for a commercially minded and relational leader capable of developing the finance team and bringing strategic financial leadership to the organisation at every level. You’ll enjoy working in a growth context and come with an entrepreneurial, problem-solving mindset and the high expectations that inspire excellence in all those around you. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team and playing a central role in developing the organisational strategy and culture you will have outstanding judgement and integrity.

If this sounds like you and you share our passion to see UK churches transforming the lives of struggling children, then we would love to hear from you.

To apply for this role, click apply and send your CV and covering letter explaining why you meet the criteria.

Initial Interviews will take place on Friday 6th November via Zoom and final interviews at National Support in West Yorkshire, Thursday 12th November.

TLG welcomes applications from many diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The development of our people and of our culture are organisational priorities for The Diocese of Sheffield.  ​The HR Director is therefore a vitally strategic appointment for us.  The person in this role, in conjunction with the Bishop’s Senior Staff Team (BSST), will be responsible for helping us to reimagine the way we develop and nurture our people, our culture, our structures and our policies.

The HRD will provide strategic direction and expertise across the Diocese and help us to deliver best practice. They will serve as close adviser and thought partner to the CEO and to all members the Bishop’s Senior Staff Team with regard to leadership, development, coaching, employee relations, talent acquisition, stakeholder engagement, culture, organisational design and change, performance management, learning and development. The successful candidate will also oversee a comprehensive human resources (HR) service to the DBF in respect of its ordained and lay office holders and employees and will provide employment support to parishes and linked organisations.

• Competitive attractive salary
• PT 28 hours per week - flexible working options will be considered
• Non-contributory pension is provided
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Based in Church House Effingham Street Rotherham

Founded in 1963, we operate as an independent charity with a vision to make a real difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of mathematics education and learning.

We are passionate about mathematics and mathematics education, and the users of our services are at the centre of what we do. We offer professional development for teachers and innovative resources for teachers and students, and are recognised national experts in mathematics curriculum development. We find our work hugely rewarding and stimulating, and our innovative and collaborative work with a range of partners, including government, enables us to deliver flagship mathematics education development programmes for teachers, as well as informing national policy. We run some government contracts, in partnership with others, where we believe they are consistent with our charitable objects. We also promote innovation through ground-breaking development work and awareness raising.

We work at the forefront of innovation in education. To maintain and build on this innovation and leadership we hope to work with a wider range of donors who share our aspirations for improved maths education for everyone. The fundraising trustee is a new role to help us steer this new ambition.

If you have the experience to support us, and you are passionate about the development of the next generation, we would love to have you on board!

We are looking for a Trustee with experience of fundraising with corporate funders and high net worth individuals. In addition to the standard trustee responsibilities of setting strategy and policy for the organisation while ensuring that it is operating efficiently and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations, the Fundraising Trustee supports the development and overall governance of MEI’s fundraising and related communications strategy, working closely with the CEO, Deputy CEO and the contracts and finance committees.

This is a new post and an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to a national charity at a critical stage in developing its ambitions for the future.

The statutory duties of a trustee:

• To ensure that the organisation complies with its governing document, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
• To ensure that the organisation pursues its objects as defined in its governing document.
• To ensure the organisation uses its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects: it must not spend money on activities which are not included in its own objects, no matter how worthwhile or charitable those activities are.
• To contribute actively to the Board by giving strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
• To safeguard the good name and values of the organisation.
• To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation.
• To ensure the financial stability of the organisation and its sustainable growth.
• To secure the appointment of the Chief Executive and monitor his/her performance.

It is expected that the new Trustee will:

• have senior strategic level experience or as a charity Trustee;
• understand the role of the Trustee and be able to add value to the charity through expertise, counsel and sound judgement;
• understand the competing pressures (financial, operational, personnel) involved in running a complex organisation;
• have experience of dealing with the challenges associated with delivering organisational and governance changes;
• have a broad range of business and financial skills and experience;
• be able to contribute strategically on a wide range of issues;
• take collective responsibility for the direction of the organisation, be good at working in teams, and able to be effective in a complex organisational environment where significant cross-boundary collaboration and partnership are essential.
• In addition to these generic duties and responsibilities, the specific responsibilities of the fundraising trustee will entail the following:
  • To have a substantial background in either a corporate giving/CSR or fund/foundation management role, or as a senior charity fundraiser with a sound understanding and experience of charity fundraising at strategic and operational levels.
  • Bring overall leadership and drive as the Fundraising Trustee, supporting the development and overall governance of MEI’s fundraising and related communications strategy, working closely with the CEO and Trustee for Finance.
  • To ensure that there is the right breadth and depth of fundraising and related communications skills within MEI and the Board of Trustees, with access to the right networks, in order that the charity is in the best possible position to develop and deliver high quality strategies in fundraising and related communications.
  • To be an active member of the Finance, Audit and Risk (FAR) Committee, ensuring that fundraising and related communications strategies are aligned to the wider budget strategy.

MEI is committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We will not discriminate unlawfully in any aspect of employment and want MEI to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Further information available on application.