The ISM is looking for an experienced professional to work closely with the CEO  to lead its external affairs function – it is an incredibly exciting opportunity for the right person. The ISM’s lobbying and advocacy is second to none so we are looking for an extremely committed individual who will go the extra mile and deliver real change across a range of policy areas from Brexit to Covid 19 and music education.

Your role will be to work alongside the CEO to manage the EA staff team together with the research, campaigning, communications and policy functions, ensuring that we do everything we can to support and protect musicians. The ISM has seen significant growth in terms of its membership over recent years which now stands at close on 11,000 members and much of this growth has been driven by its campaigning.

You will be a highly experienced external affairs professional and have at least 3 years management experience.  You will be able to demonstrate significant effectiveness in lobbying and advocacy and you will be a fantastic team player who can motivate colleagues and enjoys working in a very busy team.  You will have excellent written and interpersonal skills with great attention to detail and strong emotional intelligence. 

You will be joining a professional staff team who are normally based in Bayswater, London but are currently working from home, where the emphasis is on good communication and team work.

To apply please send a full CV and covering letter saying why you are right the person for the job and join us in supporting the music sector at this critical time.

Closing date is Monday 17 May at 9.30.  Interviews will be held shortly thereafter.

Purpose of the role:

The Workers` Educational Association is a unique charity and the UK`s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education. With a clear vision and a strong social purpose, we bring great teaching to local communities, with life-changing courses held in clubs, pubs, workplaces, schools and almost anywhere else you can think of. Since 1903, we have been giving disadvantaged people the opportunity to return to learning - inspiring them to realise their full potential and become active, engaged citizens. We see education as a tool for social justice, not just self-improvement, and we pride ourselves on making learning egalitarian and accessible. Volunteers play a central role in everything we do, from governance through to classroom support, helping us deliver courses to 50,000 people in 2,300 locations - and enabling us to reach 80% of the population.

All posts at the WEA will support the vision for "A better world - equal, democratic and just; through adult education the WEA challenges and inspires individuals, communities and society."

 

Key areas of responsibility:

To assist Line Managers with the accounting functions and financial monitoring, management and record keeping tasks of Association`s business units and ensure that these are undertaken to a high standard. To work with areas of the Association as deemed by Line Manager.

You will also be responsible for reconciliation, maintenance and submission of grant claims.

About you:

Do you have significant experience of working in a similar role?

Are you able to work accurately and keep to deadlines?

Do you have good quality IT skills particularly Excel (computer database packages, Microsoft packages Outlook, Word & Excel)?

Are you educated to NVQ level 3 qualifications or can demonstrate equivalent experience?

Do you have excellent customer service skills?

The job of a Save the Children's UK Business Development Pricing Lead is interesting and fulfilling.

• Are you commercially minded with a passion for data and numbers?
• Do you enjoy analysing and interrogating data?
• Are you passionate about using data to influence business decisions?
• Do you have exceptional interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Business Development Team Lead, the Business Development Pricing Lead is an active member of the Business Development Team that is responsible for demonstrating to our donors the benefits for them of working with Save the Children through the delivery compelling and mutually beneficial proposals which deliver real change for children.

As Business Development Pricing Lead, you will enable Save the Children to secure large-scale, multi-million-pound contract and grant funding from FCDO, The World Bank and other Institutional donors, working closely with Senior/Business Development Managers, Technical Leads, Finance Managers, and consortium partners in the UK and Country Offices, throughout the design process. You will also lead the pricing of proposals and support the development of winning commercial strategies using effective analysis to assess competitiveness of programme design and pricing.

Key duties will include leading the pricing and budgeting process for bids and ensuring proposal budgets and pricing are in line with technical design, operational planning and the commercial strategy. You will also play a lead role on undertaking analyses to support the development of pricing strategies, cashflow forecasts, financial risk assessments and payment-by-results contracting modalities.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Business Development Pricing Lead will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

• Play a lead role in the programme design process advising on the development of winning cost/price strategies, underpinned by robust assessment of funder ToRs and scoring criteria, market competition and programme need.
• Lead production of high quality, well-written narrative for commercial and financial proposals.
• Support Business Development Managers to agree and negotiate commercial arrangements with partners organisations. Serve as lead liaison point with consortium partners in relation to budgeting and pricing.
• Support Business Development Managers to undertake pricing and commercial negotiations with funders.

Tools, Templates and Capacity Building

• Create and maintain ready-to-use Excel-based pricing templates and tools for services/PBR contracts for key Institutional funders. Adapt templates as required for specific requirements of each opportunity.
• Troubleshoot and support end-users with application and use of templates and tools.
• Support COs and Regional Portfolio Teams to mobilise projects, post-win, for specific conditions of contracts and grants.
• Lead on commercial aspects of kick-off/mobilisation activities, supporting Country Teams to meet requirements of service contracts and other PBR funding modalities.
• Benchmark Save the Children UK’s costs and pricing in bids.
• Undertake on-the-job training and capacity building activities on commercial proposal development with country office operational and finance staff and HQ based staff, as appropriate. 

Person Profile

Technical Skills:

• Competent in the development of large budgets (£1m+) for institutional donors and presenting budget information to donors.
• Preference for experience of pricing contracts and/or grants involving payment-by-results.
• Preference for experience in consortium/partnership development or management, with a focus on commercial arrangements.
• Solid understanding of value for money (VfM) principles.
• Solid understanding of financial principles and systems. Experience of using financial systems.
• Confident in mathematics, an advanced user of Excel (advanced formulas and functions for example), with ability to translate qualitative information into logical budgeting/pricing.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent inter-personal skills and clear ability to build and maintain both internal and external relationships at a variety of levels.
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to provide support to multiple bids.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills in relation to complex stakeholder networks/matrix relationships.
• Fluency in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Rigorous and methodical, with excellent attention to detail.
• Willingness and ability to travel overseas several times a year.

Education/Professional Skills:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in programmatic/financial/commercial discipline.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Please note applications will be considered on a rolling basis

Background information

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust is the UK's leading charity dedicated to those affected by cervical cancer and cell changes (abnormalities). The charity was established in 1999 by James Maxwell following the death of his wife Jo, aged 40, from cervical cancer.

Since then we have provided advice and support to thousands of women and their families.

We offer a range of online and face-to-face support and information including: information materials, a free helpline, online forum, national and regional support days and an ‘ask the expert’ service. Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancer amongst young women (under 35) in the UK and Europe.

Two women a day in the UK will die from cervical cancer whilst over 3,000 women are diagnosed each year. In addition, some 220,000 a year are told they may have a cervical abnormality that may require treatment. Thanks to the NHS Cervical Screening and HPV vaccination programmes cervical cancer is a largely preventable disease. However, for those affected, the impact of cancer on a woman's life and that of her family cannot be overstated.

This is an exciting time to join the charity. In recent years awareness of our work and cervical cancer has grown significantly with annual income from £288k to £1.8m. The staff team has also significantly grown to 23 enabling us to reach more women than ever before.

Over the past few years our work has been recognised a number of times including winning a prestigious GSK IMPACT Award, Best Communications Campaign at the Third Sector Excellence Awards and a Plain English Osborne Memorial Award for our website, we have also achieved Investing in Volunteers accreditation.

Overview of the role

The post holder will have the opportunity to help the charity make a real difference by providing excellent administrative support to the Head of Finance and Corporate Services. You will be working across the teams and undertake a range of administrative functions including general administrative duties and finance support. The person should be highly organised and have at least two years of administrative experience.

The role will sit in the Finance and Corporate Services Department. It is a crucial role in sustaining and growing the charity’s income, and the person who fills this role should be comfortable with a range of administrative tasks.

Overall

To provide administrative support for the Head of Finance and Corporate Services

To apply for this role please send a CV and a covering letter to Julie Bradley, Head of Finance and Corporate Services

Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for application:  5pm on the 30th April 2021

Virtual Interview date:  Friday 7th May 2021

We’re looking for an inspirational people person to join us as an Assistant Manager in our Crouch End shop. You will be pivotal in assisting the Shop Manager in leading and empowering a team of volunteers to engage with the local community on Shelter’s cause, maximising the contribution of gifts of time from volunteers, the gifts of products from our donors and the gift of income from our customers.

You will be the ambassador of Shelter on the high street; raising vital money for our cause. If you want to make a real difference to people at risk of homelessness, this is a unique opportunity to do just that.

About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the role
You will assist the Shop Manager in the recruitment, support and development of a strong community focused shop team and empower them to maximise Shelter’s income. Representing Shelter in your local community, ensuring that you and your team share your knowledge of Shelter’s cause with customers, volunteers, donors and potential Shelter clients will also be important aspects of the role. You will always ensure a safe, clean, bright and happy environment for your team to work in and for your customers to shop in, in turn attracting potential donors and volunteers.

About you
You are a naturally energetic person with an enthusiasm for managing and empowering people. You know how to recruit and develop a team of volunteers and your extraordinary motivational skills will enable you to inspire your team to increase sales and control costs. Above all, you are ready to take on a new challenge and have a keen interest in Shelter’s cause.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. 

Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) network GAPS NETWORK ASSISTANT

Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) is the UK’s Women, Peace and Security civil society network. GAPS was founded to progress the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and to hold the UK government to account on its international commitments to women and girls affected by conflict worldwide.

The GAPS Network Assistant will support the coordination and development of the GAPS network. The role works closely with the GAPS Director, the GAPS Policy, Advocacy and Communications Managers, GAPS member agencies and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS). They will provide administrative support to the GAPS network as well as: support the development and launch of GAPS policy documents; support the work of the APPG-WPS; update the GAPS website and social media platforms; organise and take minutes at GAPS events; lead on the GAPS network’s internal communications with members, working groups and governance bodies.

The ideal candidate will be good at : administration; social media; using their communication and networking skills; working with civil society or government; have a commitment to gender and women and girls’ rights; have an interest in peacebuilding, development, and/or international relations. This role will suit someone wanting to gain experience in the day-to-day running of a dynamic and ambitious civil society network, and to grow their knowledge of working on international women and girls’ rights and/or peace and security policy.

GAPS is hosted by one of our member agencies, Women for Women International UK. Women for Women International was founded in 1993 to help women survivors of war rebuild their lives, their families and communities. The UK office was established in 2006. The GAPS Network Assistant would be expected to work within the framework of GAPS and Women for Women International’s core values, which can be seen here. Women for Women International UK is the legal employer of GAPS Secretariat staff.

Women for Women International UK is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their religious beliefs or political opinions, sex, marital or family statuses, races, sexual orientations, ages or whether they are disabled.

All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Reports to: GAPS Policy, Advocacy and Communications Manager

Proposed start date: May 2021

Location: 49-51 East Road, London, N1 6AH (currently working remotely, hybrid working model when Covid restrictions allow)

Working pattern: Flexible dependent on business and candidate requirements

Salary level: £22,500 per annum (based on Women for Women International UK’s salary scale) Application process: Complete Application and Diversity form.  We do not accept CVs 

Application deadline: 23.59, Wednesday 28th April 2021

Interviews: Week commencing 10th May 2021

Introducing Global Climate Collaborative

Global Climate Collaborative (GCC) is a new international organisation seeking to make a distinct and important contribution to tackling climate change — the greatest challenge facing humanity.

Our analysis: to overcome this challenge, we need to generate the political and societal will to take the specific actions needed to rapidly reduce emissions from different sectors. While an incredible array of organisations is building pressure to achieve this and winning many battles, we believe we need both to deepen trust and collaboration among these organisations and to expand this community in order to accelerate progress and increase our collective impact. We aim to make a significant contribution to this.

As a strategic convenor, we will bring together civil society, business and new champions for climate action. We will enable high-impact international and national coalitions to secure decisive action by governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, likely focusing on two to four issues annually. We will not focus on the international negotiating process.

In addition to convening campaigns GCC also aims to deliver wider and lasting benefits to the climate struggle, by enhancing connections and learning on how we achieve our shared goals among a diverse network of allies including the private sector. 

GCC is currently housed by fiscal sponsor Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, who are responsible for issuing contracts. 

Values

Our starting point is a commitment to practice four core values in all that we do.

1. Courage: we are highly ambitious for the impact we want to achieve, and determined to be open-minded and innovative in the strategies we develop to achieve this.

2. Collaboration: we work with others in all that we do.

3. Diversity: we reflect the diversity, scale and complexity of the climate struggle in our recruitment, our geography, and our external relationships.

4. Learning: we listen and learn from leaders driving change on climate, and learn actively from our own experience.

Summary of Responsibilities

The Executive Assistant will be a vital member of the GCC team, providing critical, executive administrative support to enable the Chief Architect and GCC to operate effectively as a fast moving and developing start-up NGO. 

The Executive Assistant will produce written briefings and carry out basic research where needed to support the Chief Architect in leadership of GCC. The duties associated with the role will evolve significantly as GCC evolves. 

The Executive Assistant reports to the Chief Architect.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage calendars, negotiating and managing the needs of individuals or groups requesting time with, or information from, the Chief Architect and other senior staff; commit their time based on an in-depth understanding of priorities.

• Assist the Chief Architect and other senior staff in preparing for meetings and appointments with external partners and allies, donors, board members and staff and external constituents by securing information and supporting materials from others. 

• Take minutes of Leadership Team meetings, board meetings, and other meetings as needed.

• Chief Architect email management — identifying priority emails, ensuring follow-up is completed, drafting responses as needed.

• Ensure there are clear agendas and defined purposes to meetings, set up meeting rooms, conference calls and video conferences.

• Develop relationships with and act as a liaison with staff and external stakeholders, sustaining a high level of professionalism in interactions on the phone and via email.

• Draft written products and respond to information requests.

• Assist with research related to key organisational goals.

• Organise and support recruitment processes for new GCC staff.

• Complete and process expense reports.

• Create and maintain filing and other administrative systems.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will bring a proactive, creative and tactful approach to making logistics run smoothly, and will have strong interpersonal communication skills.

Essential

Experience

• At least two years work experience supporting an executive or senior-level manager in a similar function with a proven track record of autonomously managing a complicated schedule

• Experience and understanding of working in an international campaigning organisation

• Demonstrated experience in handling sensitive information in confidence and with discretion.

Competencies

• Resilience for working in a fast-paced, start-up environment

• Ability to work independently, and successfully handle and prioritize diverse, simultaneous tasks.

• Desire and ability to take initiative, and to learn as you go.

• Meticulous attention to detail, reliability and organizational abilities

• Poised, confident, tactful and flexible approach to communications.

• Excellent judgment, tact and discretion. 

• Ability to manage upwards and sideways

• Demonstrated experience working with and across teams and time zones

• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrable ability to get results working with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Excellent oral and written communications ability.

Qualifications

• Commitment to the values of the Global Climate Collaborative.

• Proficiency in office and collaboration tech tools, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).

Desirable

• Experience working in a start-up environment

• Demonstrated research skills

• Understanding of the climate issue and commitment to action on climate change

• Fluency in a second language, other than English.

Location

Remote, from Europe or UK.

Salary

Salary will be competitive, and depends on location.  Indicative range for Belgium: € 32.000-37.000

Diversity is a matter of principle for us. It is also critical to our long-term success. GCC aims to recruit leaders with different experiences, networks and perspectives, to help us design strategies that can be highly effective in many different national contexts and with different stakeholders.

HR Business Partner

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: 35 per week 

Location: London (currently working remotely)

Salary: £41,774 per annum + good benefits

Closing date: 3 May 2021 

Expected date of interviews: TBC

We have an exciting opportunity for an HR Business Partner, to join our small but busy team of 4, to provide centralised HR support to approximately, 300 staff and volunteers across 5 centres, situated in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow. This is a newly created role reporting to the Head of HR and working alongside another HRBP.

You will take lead responsibility on Diversity and Inclusion, and so it’s essential that you have significant knowledge and expertise in this area. You will also be expected to lead on the effective use of the HRIS and HR team’s processes, Contracts with third party suppliers and employee benefits, as well as acting as a Business Partner to Management.

You must have experience in managing a caseload, and be confident in providing, accurate timely advice and support, with up to date knowledge of HR best practice, UK employment law and GDPR. 

You will need to have a keen eye for detail, excellent planning and organisational skills and the ability to influence, persuade and negotiate at all levels within the organisation. It is also essential for you to be experienced in making effective use of HRIS and HR processes. 

Experience of working in a professional clinical setting and/or Charity sector would be highly desirable. 

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30 day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).

To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click the link provided.

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

No agencies thank you.

About you

You will be organised, a team player with strong attention to detail, and thrive in an environment where your day to day work is varied. You may already work for a charity or may be looking to join the sector. You will be a highly numerate problem solver who relishes implementing efficient administration and information management systems. You will enjoy juggling conflicting priorities and delivering for the team.

About the role

The Fundraising Support and Programme Assistant will support Carers UK’s growing Fundraising team to achieve our voluntary income target through administration, prospect research and coordination of the legacy and payroll giving income streams. This is a diverse role providing opportunities for the post holder to develop skills across several fundraising disciplines.

About us

Carers UK is the leading national charity, supporting, advocating for and connecting unpaid carers across the UK.

Established in 1965, Carers UK has a long heritage of making life better for carers, wherever they may be, through providing advice, information and support and campaigning for improved rights, recognition and support. With over 37,000 members Carers UK is the voice of unpaid carers in the UK.

With over 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK and 6,000 individuals becoming a carer every day the need to support them is growing and urgent. Unpaid carers save the UK state an estimated £530 million each day, and are vital to the friends and family members they support, as well as to the wider community.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected carers across the country. Our recent polling suggests that the figure for unpaid carers could now be as high as 13.6 million, with an estimated 4.5 million people literally starting to care overnight due to the impact of coronavirus on services and individuals.

This is an exciting time to join Carers UK as we enter our new strategic period, Vision 2025 taking us to our 60th anniversary.  Rather than producing a detailed five year plan we have developed an ambitious direction of travel, recognising the challenges of planning in the ongoing and uncertain environment created by COVID-19. We believe our flexible approach throughout 2020 enabled us to react quickly to the needs of carers, and by adopting a direction of travel, backed up with annual business plans, we will continue to meet the growing needs of carers.

Carers UK relies on voluntary income, our future plans will depend on unrestricted income to meet the growing need.

Deadline: 7th May 2021 at 5pm

First interview: 12th May 2021

We're looking for a New Business Manager to help our charity expand upon our consultancy and training offer. A newly funded post, the role holder will help us to embed an entrepreneurial approach into our charity, ensuring that we have a brilliant offer that meets the needs of our clients whilst also fulfill in our mission of ensuring that  decision makers listen to and act upon the views of young people.

In this role you will be mapping our audiences and creating a new and improved offer. Through developing this programme of work you will help to bring in much needed funds to the charity, supporting our continuing work to bring young people together to find their voice and use it for social and political change.

If you have experience of sales and marketing, developing a business proposition or a passion for helping charities to develop their entrepreneurial approach then we are want to hear from you.

Central London Healthcare CIC is the GP Federation covering the Central London CCG area. The organisation supports 34 General Practices and 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs). We operate a number of NHS contracts including a Care Navigation Service, a Clinical Pharmacy Service, a Community Dermatology Service, and Partnership in Practice (PiP) - an out-of-hospitals provision which is sub-contracted to its 34 General Practice members. Our vision is to be recognised as a leading GP provider network, run by clinicians for the benefit of our local population. We will achieve this by working with patients and partners to ensure that general practice remains sustainable and independent. Our approach is to deliver exceptional assistance to our 34 General Practice members and to operate our NHS contracts in a manner that supports our Practices and their patients by providing services economically, locally, promptly, and in a familiar environment.

A primary responsibility of this role will be to provide effective oversight, management, and coordination of the integration of the Network Contract DES Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) within PCNs as well as enabling the timely and efficient recruitment and allocation of new roles within this scheme, ensuring roles are successfully embedded into PCNs.

This combined PCN and CLH post is a vital role within a complex environment of primary care management. The role will deliver on a wide range of business, data submission, transformation, and improvement initiatives across the four PCNs in Central London, providing strategic transformation support and leadership.

This post holder will be instrumental in advancing our PCN development plans and promoting sustainable services for delivery via CLH. The post holder will also work with member practices to break down challenges to implementation across our population.

The post holder will need to be extremely well organised and possess excellent time management skills. A highly motivated individual with initiative is key to take ownership of the role. You will be a team player, professional at all times and able to develop strong relationships and engage with a wide range of stakeholders across the PCNs to ensure collaborative approaches to service development and delivery. In doing so the post holder will improve integration with the broader community services as our networks mature. The post holder will be responsible for managing agreed projects with a focus upon developing the partnerships across primary care, community services, social care, mental health, the voluntary sector and secondary care that are enabling on-going MDT development.The post holder will actively support integrated ways of working whilst promoting standardisation and efficiencies for each network.

The World Community for Christian Meditation  is establishing a Retreat and
Conference Centre near Poitiers – Abbaye de Bonnevaux, Centre pour la Paix. The centre is run by our French charitable arm, Association Bonnevaux pour la Paix (ABP).  We hope from the autumn to be able to provide physical retreats. In the meantime, and in view of the current pandemic, we have a very busy online programme of events which is proving popular with our membership and the public beyond.

We are looking for a talented, creative and responsive individual to assist the Associate Director in the creation and mounting of our programme which ranges from talks to seminars to retreats and  conferences. At present these are offered online, in time they will revert to in-person events with an online option.  You will help with the organisation of aspects of all varieties of event.  For the moment you will be able to work from home, with the eventual option of hot-desking from our London Office. There may be occasional visits to the centre France.

The successful appointee will be bilingual in French and English, have experience of all aspects of conference and event organising, a sound understanding of the requirements of online broadcasting and the administrative work associated with all of these activities. Sharing the vision and mission  of our community, you will be systematic, organised, have excellent administrative and people  skills and huge initiative to deal with whatever technical problems may arise in the course of the  holding of an event.

At the same time, you will know how to communicate efficiently and sensitively 
across a wide spectrum of people, nationalities, generations and social backgrounds. This role offers an amazing opportunity to be part of a team contributing to the creation of a new space of healing, in an exceptional location and dedicated to silence and contemplation.

About you and the role

The Hansard Society is looking for a Membership and Operations Manager to strengthen our organisation and develop our supporter base.

If you are interested in politics and think what Parliament does matters, then this is a great opportunity to help us with our mission to foster knowledge and understanding of the Westminster Parliament and ways in which Parliament can be made more effective.

The purpose of this new role is to:

• develop a larger and more active and engaged membership community to support the Society’s research and educational work in the years ahead;
• strengthen the Society’s operational functions, enhancing its capacity, resilience, and future development.

We are therefore looking for someone who is highly motivated and will embrace a new role, in a small, dynamic research Society with an international reputation, where you can make a big impact and enjoy significant autonomy. You will have some relevant experience in a membership or similar role, perhaps at a bigger organisation, but will relish the opportunity to take what you've learnt and apply it to help revitalise the Hansard Society's membership model and help us engage more effectively with our supporters. You will manage business-critical functions, gain in-depth experience of all aspects of running a charity, and take an entrepreneurial approach to improving our operations.

As our Membership and Operations Manager, here’s a taste of what you’ll do:

• Expand, develop and manage the Society's membership. You'll develop and implement a new membership strategy, oversee production of new marketing materials, communicate regularly with our members, and organise members-only events, including our AGM.
• Financial administration and governance. You'll co-ordinate each week with our accountants about invoice-raising, payment-chasing, expense claims, and credit card reconciliation. And you'll liaise with our Statutory Instrument Tracker® clients about contracts, invoicing and subscription renewals, and help keep our CRM (contact relationship management) system up to date.
• Operational improvement. You'll review and develop our operational policies and procedures (e.g. on diversity and inclusion, health and safety, data protection and privacy) and keep them up to date, with the ability to call on our external HR advisers for advice where necessary.  
• Support the operational delivery of our programme of public and private events. As and when we can return to in-person events, you'll book venues, catering, and other suppliers. You'll keep our CRM system updated and maintain the financial records. And, working with other members of the team, you'll liaise with speakers, sponsors and attendees.
• Support the Director with the governance of the charity. You'll liaise with our Board of Trustees and assist with our corporate reporting and compliance with charity and company law. You'll also help with reporting to funders and sponsors.
• Ensure the smooth running of the office. As the first point of contact you'll liaise regularly with the landlord and our suppliers. And occasionally we may need you to provide PA-type support for the Director and other staff such as organising staff meetings, co-ordinating diaries, ordering supplies and booking rooms and travel.

This is a new role, so you will help shape how it develops, but the ability to multi-task and juggle priorities is essential. The role carries considerable responsibility, with a lot of potential for growth and development in the future. 

Our office is situated near Westminster on the 1st floor of Millbank Tower. As and when the pandemic-related lockdown eases, staff will need to spend some time in the office together, but we anticipate being able to offer hybrid arrangements with some continued remote working.

Your skills and experience

You'll be the right person for this job if:

• You have some experience of working within the membership team of a membership organisation or professional association or similar body.
• You have excellent organisational and project management skills, an eye for detail, and the ability to juggle priorities and work with minimal supervision.  
• You have exceptional people skills and are a collaborative team-player.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have excellent IT skills: are familiar with CRM systems and are proficient in using Microsoft Office software.
• You are a creative thinker and problem-solver with a 'can do' attitude.
• You appreciate our mission, have good political awareness, and can commit to the non-partisan values and ethos of the Hansard Society. 

For full details about the role, the Hansard Society and the application process, please read the job information pack. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team providing solutions which deliver greater choice for disabled people.

We are seeking an Operations and Commercial Manager to join our Operations team, helping to maximise the commercial potential of Designability’s products, as well as supporting the overall operations of the organisation.

You will have:

• Experience in business development or commercial management
• Strong operational management experience, working to deadlines and delivering on time and budget
• Exceptional communication, influencing and negotiation skills

You will joining an independent, national charity based in Bath. Our creative and inspiring team includes engineers, technicians, product designers, occupational therapists, fundraisers and administrators. We are led by strong values: we are creative, inclusive and practical, with our vision being to create a future where every disabled person has the products they want to live the life they choose.