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Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an inspirational leader to join the team, with a variety of experiences, specifically in the cultural, voluntary and / or community sector; someone who is passionate about working with communities everywhere and who has experience of being a bold advocate / campaigner for diversity, inclusion and cultural democracy.
We are thinking widely about this role, and are keen to hear from people from all backgrounds with a variety of ideas and interests. We will always want different perspectives, experience and knowledge contributing to Fun Palaces’ future. If you get the job and need additional adjustments or assistance to enable you to do it, we will work with you to put them in place.
Practically, the role is part time, with the opportunity for flexible working. We are also flexible about where you live - Covid has made it clear that we don’t need to be constrained by location. However, the job will eventually involve travel and there is an expectation that the small HQ team, of which this role is a part, will work together, at the Albany, Deptford, at least once a fortnight.
If you believe in our aim and objectives:
To equally value everyone’s creativity and every community, through working together, handing over control and challenging the status quo.
- To shine a light on and value everyone’s existing creative skills and activities.
- To reclaim local and regional public spaces for all.
- To connect people (and organisations) to collaborate for change in their communities.
- To make the most of local, regional and national strengths and assets, including individuals’ abilities.
- To shift the perception of culture to one that embraces and values everyone’s cultural participation and production, and for resources to be apportioned accordingly.
And have ideas and experience of working for long term change - you might be exactly who we need.
What skills and experiences are required?
The work of Fun Palaces HQ is multifarious and involves encouraging the creation of Fun Palaces in communities nationwide; supporting skill sharing and capacity building in the arts, sciences and heritage sectors; building a profile for the campaign both with the public and with decision makers; measuring the difference we are making; fundraising and strategic planning for the future.
The co-director role is responsible for all of this and more, and therefore demands a wide range of skills and experience. Job descriptions at Fun Palaces are very flexible and have so far been dictated by the skills and interests of the team. This is a leadership role and we would expect those interested to be able to provide most (not necessarily all) of the following:
- clear and strategic leadership for the next evolution of Fun Palaces;
- knowledge and experience of the voluntary and / or community sector;
- advocacy for the values of the campaign and cultural democracy to a diversity of stakeholders including high profile presentations and networking;
- experience in marketing and communications;
- equal, fair and flexible team management;
- experience in strategic financial management and fundraising.
As well as also being happy to do numerous administrative and practical tasks such as shifting boxes, encouraging Makers, updating the website and making tea. We are a very small team!
Fun Palaces supports local people to co-create their own cultural and community events, across the UK and worldwide, sharing and celebrating th... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job title: Health Policy Analyst
Location: Flexible, with travel to London expected (Currently home based due to COVID-19)
Role: Permanent, full time
Salary: Grade C, £36,150 plus £4k London weighting if applicable
• Are you fascinated by health policy and how the NHS works?
• Are you skilled at using data and other analysis to inform policy positions?
• Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment?
About the role
The NHS Confederation seeks a proactive, motivated health policy analyst to support NHS Confederation’s policy programme by managing and leading the delivery of key analytical work. From COVID-19 to waiting lists, you will contribute intelligence, statistical, and analytical support to our policy and advocacy programme, with a primary focus on NHS performance and capacity. This new role will contribute to NHS Confederation’s products and interventions to influence national policy on behalf of our members.
We can offer a level of flexibility regarding where you work. Later, you will be required to travel at times to our London offices, but we are comfortable with home working, so we can accommodate what suits you best.
We would love to hear from you if you:
• Have good knowledge of UK health policy, including key challenges for the NHS
• Have excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and like working with data
• Enjoy working as part of a team but can also design and deliver your own projects
• Have strong written and oral communication skills, including for presentations
• Can be responsive and agile in a rapidly changing environment
About us
The NHS Confederation is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks and a staff forum.
The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly to respond to changing circumstances and we want to ensure we do as much as possible to help support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and travel season ticket loans.
Application deadline: 7th March (midnight)
Interview date: 16th March
The NHS Confederation is an independent membership body that represents all types of organisations providing and commissioning NHS services in ... Read more
Do you want to play a key role in a growing, experienced and passionate team supporting and shaping CARE International UK’s Inclusive Governance portfolio? Join the Programme Quality Team!
Why work for us?
The Programme Quality Team is at the centre of CIUK’s new strategy for the delivery of high quality and impactful programming within CARE. The team delivers high quality technical assistance to CARE offices around the world in the areas of Women’s Economic Justice, Inclusive Governance, Emergency Shelter and Gender and Resilience. The team also provides thought leadership, learning as well as a global perspective to CARE programmes.
As a multi-sector, dual-mandate organization, CARE works in most of the world’s fragile and conflict-affected settings, where the majority of crisis-affected, poor and marginalized people live. A renewed focus of CARE’s new 2030 vision is to emphasize CARE’s capacity to support integrated pathways from crisis to stabilisation, recovery and sustainable peace and development.
Here we embrace the humanitarian-development-peace nexus – focused on reducing demand for humanitarian assistance by addressing its root causes which lie in poverty, inequality, poor governance and denial of human rights.
To do this we adapt our programmes and partnerships to support humanitarian and development outcomes that contribute sustainable governance and peace, ensuring CARE has the right programming and capacity in the right context and can quickly and effectively shift between interventions as appropriate. We emphasise emergency preparedness and prevention through building environmental and economic resilience, social capital and cohesion, and systems strengthening and social accountability as part of durable solutions, particularly in protracted crises. At the centre of this we place gender equality, with a strong focus on women’s voice and leadership.
About the Role
In support of this renewed, strategic focus to 2030, this new role will lead on framing and rolling-out CARE’s approach to triple nexus programming from a governance, gender and peacebuilding perspective. This will help expand our global governance team’s expertise in strengthening hybrid governance systems in fragile states affected by crisis so that they are better able to respond and build durable, peaceful solutions. This includes putting women at the centre of these solutions to ‘Build Back Equal’. It requires an individual with significant, grounded expertise, who has analytical, social and leadership skills to manage complexity as part of a large, global Confederation, and embrace collaboration and accompaniment as part of their role.
About You
You are a passionate, self-motivated and experienced expert on Governance and Peacebuilding with strong knowledge of the institutional donor landscape in this field, including US, UK and EU donors. This will include understanding of the key donor technical frameworks and priorities in this field, as well as experience of building partnerships, donor relations and successfully winning large grants/contracts.
About CARE
CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places. We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.
Safeguarding
CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy (link here) and our Code of Conduct (link here). They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.
Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:
- satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (link here).In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
- appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check, link here).
By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to Equality and value Diversity.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch.
We also encourage people from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or LGBT+ to apply for roles at CARE International UK.
Please note that the post holder will be required to travel internationally up to approximately 30% of the time.
Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK
Who We are
A global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to saving lives and ending poverty
... Read moreThe client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Chief Executive Officer
Do you have the passion, energy and drive to grow the social enterprise sector in Birmingham and beyond?
We are looking for a CEO to be responsible for the day to day running of a strong and vibrant “can do” organisation with a reputation for innovation, responsiveness, quality and excellent customer service.
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Birmingham (In the current Covid 19 environment the majority of work is undertaken from home by the CEO and other staff members)
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week full time (open to consideration of flexible hours)
Salary: £60,000 p.a. plus discretionary performance bonus
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 5% self-contribution and 5% company contribution, 35 days per annum including 8 bank holidays.
Closing Date: Thursday 12th March at 12 noon
Interviews: From 18th March 2021 onwards
The Role
The CEO will lead the organisation through its next phase of bold growth, have responsibility for the strategic direction and the financial sustainability of the organisation and will run both the Digbeth Social Enterprise Hub and the Sparkbrook Women’s Community and Enterprise Hub.
You will be an inspirational and motivational thought leader for social enterprise supporting initiatives such as ‘Birmingham as a Social Enterprise City’, City Drive and the ‘Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter’.
About You
As CEO, you will be focused on continuous improvement and will be empowered to “think outside the box” as you lead the organisation through a complex and ever-changing social enterprise and businesses support landscape and in pursuit of opportunities for the growth of business for the sector. This particularly applies in the current Covid 19 and post-Covid 19 environments.
You will have
- A first degree in an appropriate discipline or relevant experience
- Proven experience of leading a successful business as CEO or in another senior management position
- A background in social enterprise or trading charity leadership with strong leadership experience
- Proven experience in leading and motivating a diverse group of staff in values led businesses
- Proven experience in leading on and writing successful bids
- Demonstrable experience in informing and influencing programmes and policy development
- Proven, successful experience in assessment and management of business risk
- Commercial and revenue generation acumen, including experience in developing profitable strategies and implementing vision
In return, you will have the privilege to work with and support a team of highly talented and committed professionals who are motivated and energised by our achievements to date and the opportunities available to us.
As part of the recruitment process you will be asked to submit a CV and Cover Letter to support your application.
About the Organisation
The organisation is a B2B social enterprise whose purpose is to grow the social enterprise sector in Birmingham, West Midlands and beyond. It provides high quality support and services to social enterprises and trading third sector organisations across every stage of the social entrepreneurial journey from engagement of citizens and communities through to high end business growth. The organisation aims to be a leading social enterprise in terms of ensuring that it implements and encourages others to follow best practice in this field.
The organisation commits that all existing and potential employees receive equal consideration and is committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination. The organisation welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and communities, and in particular those from Black, Asian and other ethnic groups who may experience racism in our society.
Other roles you may have experience of could include CEO, COO, Chief Exec, Chief Executive, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Head of, Chief.