Fixed Term Contract (1 x 12 Months & 1 x 3 Months)

Closing Date: 09/06/2020

Interviews: W/C 29th June 2020 – TBC

Do you want to end homelessness and make a positive difference to people’s lives? Are you highly motivated and looking for a challenge? Do you want to use your excellent people skills to support people to move away from homelessness?

Thames Reach are committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in delivery of our services.

Our Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) is supporting people with histories of rough sleeping in their accommodation, and are supporting people to achieve their aspirations. We are looking for applications from people new to the homelessness sector and experienced case workers.

The Assistant Support Worker role would suit:

• People interested in working with people with rough sleeping histories sustaining their tenancies.

• People with experience of face to face or customer service work.

• An understanding of how to support people to manage and sustain tenancies and engage positively with their local community.

• People with experience of supporting and motivating people to engage with health services, employment, training and education.

• People who are able to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationship with other agencies such as referral agencies, health services, benefit services and registered social landlords.

• Those with strong administration experience who would like to work to support a key front line homelessness service.

You will play a key role in the development of our services and your work will contribute to influencing the future of service provision across the UK. 

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

• The ability to provide a flexible and responsive service to people with rough sleeper histories.

• Excellent communication, organisation and creative problem solving skills.

• Commitment to working within the homelessness sector to support people to lead fulfilling lives.

• Creating and working through action plans and be strongly outcome focuses.

• The ability to follow instructions, manage and mitigate risk.

• The ability to use IT systems to communicate and record your work.

• Be confident in working autonomously as well as within a team, the role with involve office work and in the community.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:

• 6.5% employer & 1.5% employee contributory pension

• Development opportunities

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Reimbursement of the cost of annual eye test

• Season ticket/cycle loan

• Flexible Working

• EAP services

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

Age UK Kensington and Chelsea is seeking experienced care assistants who are available for weekend work, as well as those who are looking for regular weekday work. You will be joining our dedicated At Home Services team who provide a range of support services for adults who are either 55 years and over, or who have physical and learning difficulties. This support may include personal care, respite care, post hospital discharge care and light housework. Please see the Job Description for more detail.

Our aim is to support our service users to stay as independent as possible in their homes, by providing a personalised service to meet their needs. If you are passionate about providing person-centred care and looking for a rewarding role where you will make a real difference to the lives of the people you support, then we would love to hear from you!

Candidates for this role should have a minimum of six months experience and be able to demonstrate that they share our values. Training will be provided.

Age UK K&C are proud to be an accredited Living Wage employer, committed to paying our employees a fair wage that reflects the real cost of living.

Contract and Salary: £10.75 per hour on a zero hours contract.

Benefits of joining our team:

• Free DBS
• Ongoing training 
• Company smartphone
• Stakeholder pension
• Free employee assistance programme

Please send completed applications (or CV and cover letter) to At Home Service, Age UK Kensington & Chelsea, 1 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL 

The Youth Futures Foundation is a new, independent, not for profit organisation set up to tackle youth unemployment with a £90million endowment from the Reclaim Fund. We are looking for bold and impactful ways to help young people find and keep good jobs. There are over 750,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK. Young people are twice as likely to be unemployed than older adults in the labour market and BAME and disadvantaged young people disproportionately bear the brunt of it.

We are building an ‘empowerment foundation’ to identify practical solutions that work in a complex world yet are simple and cost effective enough to roll out across multiple locations, to reach as many young people as possible. To do this, we are now building our own inspiring team to help us achieve our vision.

As the Executive Assistant to the CEO, you will play a vital role in supporting Youth Futures Foundation to achieve our mission and deliver our ambitious strategy. You will develop and deliver a comprehensive organisational, administrative and management support service to the CEO, Chair and wider Youth Futures Foundation team. You will be dealing with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders and will be the first point of contact for the Chief Executive and Chair.

This role will suit someone who has experience as an Executive Assistant at executive level and would be excited at the opportunity to be involved across all aspects of the organisation to ensure we are operating efficiently and effectively to deliver on our purpose.  As part of a small and ambitious team, the post holder will have visibility of all areas of the organisation and have the opportunity to really help with shaping Youth Futures Foundation at this nascent stage.

The successful candidate will have at least three years' experience supporting a senior management team member (i.e. CEO or Director), ideally in the charity sector, and will have excellent organisational, written, verbal and general project management experience.

The closing date is 11.59pm 8th June 2020.

About us

Christian Aid Ireland is an international aid and development agency, working with local partners in countries worldwide. Our vision is to end poverty. We believe in tackling the root causes of poverty, not just the symptoms. We believe that the world can and must be changed so that there is equality, dignity and freedom for all. We are driven to make this change happen and to inspire others to help make it happen.

We are looking for an Income and Administrative Assistant who can help us do that. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference.

About the role

This role will provide effective and efficient administrative support to enable the smooth functioning of the Dublin office and will be the first point of contact for the public with Christian Aid Ireland (CAI) through reception and telephone duties. This is a vital donor support role, providing an excellent level of service to Christian Aid supporters. The post holder will also support the Programme Development Unit (PDU) and Fundraising & Supporter Engagement Team.

About you

-Educated to leaving cert standard in a relevant discipline.

-High level of computer literacy including knowledge of Office programmes including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel. Knowledge of relevant database systems.

-An understanding and interest in global development issues

-Experience of working in an office based environment.

-Experience of using financial and administrative systems, setting up meetings and taking minutes.

-Thorough attention to detail, including accurate data entry skills.

-Experience of working in a rapidly changing environment where flexibility is essential

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnerships: Please describe a situation where you worked in a reliable, helpful and co-operative way with all colleagues and provided help to others without needing to be asked.

Communicate effectively: Please describe a situation when you have had to explain things simply and in a different way if someone appears not to have understood.

Realise potential: Please describe a situation where you have asked for information and advice to address your own knowledge and skills gap in order to learn.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We’re an organisation with a relentless focus on making society fairer. With the wealth of data collated from our services nationally, we have a unique insight into emerging trends and issues affecting people, and we use it to influence government, regulators and industry, to improve people's lives.

As a member of our policy research teams, you will work across different policy areas, using a wide range of research methods and creating outputs including blogs, reports, presentations and events. Our strong brand will give you unique opportunities to engage with those who have the power to make change. You will feed into our work influencing policy makers such as parliamentarians, the civil service, regulators and industry and you will work closely with our world-class news, campaigns, public affairs and data teams.

We are looking for exceptional individuals with good research and communication skills, curiosity, and ambition to achieve real change on behalf of our clients and consumers. Relevant professional experience is not essential for these roles, but a demonstrable interest in the policy landscape is vital.

Citizens Advice values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles. We are happy to consider flexible working, which may include arrangements such as part-time working, formalised flexitime, fixed (non-standard) working hours, working from home and job-sharing.

This is clearly an extraordinary time and a difficult point at which to change jobs - but we are committed to making this as easy as possible for candidates. We will arrange interviews by video-conference and ensure inductions can be done in a way which makes the successful candidate feel like a valued part of the organisation.

About our work and values

Do you have passion for your work, a commitment to excellence and a desire to support some of the most vulnerable and excluded people in our communities? Could you support us to make positive lasting changes in people’s lives?

Providence Row works with more than a thousand homeless and vulnerably housed people a year in East London, offering an integrated service of crisis support, advice, recovery and learning and training programmes.  Our aim is to ensure that people who are so often excluded from mainstream services gain the support and opportunities they need to create a safe, healthy and sustainable life away from the streets. Central to our work are our core values of Compassion, Respect, Inclusiveness, Empowerment and Justice.  These inform the content, style and delivery of all our services.

Providence Row’s Advice & Support service works with rough sleepers and those at risk of homelessness in the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and the City of London.  The role of Assistant Personal Advisor (Advice and Support Team) is to engage with and support people who are sleeping rough or vulnerably housed. This is an exciting new position for someone who is keen to develop their skills and knowledge in the homelessness sector. 

Our service is on the front line of both homelessness prevention and the local response to rough sleeping. Beginning with a volunteer led triage assessment process that begins in our Welcome Area clients are allocated according to specialisms in the team covering preventative work and support for rough sleepers. The main emphasis in the service is to do everything possible to move people into appropriate accommodation in a borough or community which they have rights and entitlements to services.  This work is often done in partnership with other organisations, some of which are funded to help people move away from a life on the streets or which may operate in other sectors such as health.

Your contribution to our work and values

Passionate about providing quality support to some of the most vulnerable and excluded people in East London, you will have the drive and ambition to support your team to make positive lasting changes in people’s lives.

You will be keen to develop your skills and learning in working with frontline services, to support vulnerable adults who have experienced homelessness.  You will have good communication skills and a knowledge of how factors such as rough sleeping, mental health and substance use can affect an individual’s confidence and perceived ability to progress.  You will be confident to work alongside our Welcome Area volunteers, supporting them to develop their skills in completing initial triage paper work. 

You will utilise your organisational and time management skills to ensure a smooth running of service. You are an excellent communicator and can create positive working relationships with a wide range of people. 

An exciting full-time opportunity with CPSL Mind.

Title: Digital Marketing Assistant
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: 6-month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: NJC Salary Scale Range 1-10, £19,554.00 - £20,751.00 per annum
Location: Home-based initially

CPSL Mind is a progressive and expanding mental health organisation, looking for individuals who are committed to improving the lives of people using mental health services.

As our Charity Digital Marketing Assistant within CPSL Mind’s Campaigns and Communications Team, you will have a Marketing or Digital Marketing Degree or similar qualification and a passion for online communications. Some practical experience and knowledge across a range of social media channels, including content creation, scheduling, and analysis.

You must have strong copy-writing skills, a keen eye for detail and understand the concepts of digital marketing to achieve goals.

Some experience of working with people at all levels will be helpful as is the ability to forge working relationships remotely. This is a great opportunity for a graduate looking to take a next step in their career at a time the virtual space is growing.

Closing date: Monday 15th June 2020, 09:00 hours
Interviews: Monday 22nd June 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

We will only accept complete applications, which should include:
CPSL Mind Application Form, Covering Letter & completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring form. 

No agencies please.
Charity number: 265087

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

About Feedback

Feedback is an environmental organisation that campaigns to regenerate nature by ending food waste and moving towards a better use of food, resources and nutrients within the food system. We work with governments, international institutions, businesses, NGOs, grassroots organisations and the public to change culture, markets and legislation for a fairer, more sustainable food system.

We are a friendly team, priding ourselves on maintaining a positive and values-led organisation. We aim to provide a flexible working environment with a good work/life balance and we welcome interest from candidates who are returning to work after maternity leave, career breaks or career changes.

Days: Flexible, with a preference for 3 days (22.5 hours) per week with the possibility of overtime at busy periods We are fully committed to being as flexible as possible so would consider term time only or shorter days (such as school hours or other) over the full week

Duration: Initially a 1 year contract with strong possibility of renewal/permanent role

Location: Currently remote in line with the government’s COVID 19 guidelines; usually office in London Fields ,Hackney, with a planned move to an office in Blackhorse Road (Victoria Line), Waltham Forest by then end of the year, with possibility for some home working

Main responsibilities

1. Assistance to the finance team (approx. 35% of time))

a) Accounting Systems (Xero and Receiptbank):

In relation to Xero, maintaining financial records and data accurately and within agreed systems, to include:

• Raising sundry invoices and entering suppliers’ invoices, ensuring that they are properly coded, authorised and paid.

• Keeping a diary to ensure that invoices for project funding are raised on time.
• To monitor and ensure prompt payment of invoices (within terms) and to monitor amounts due to the organisation.
• Supporting staff with the correct usage of Receipt Bank and other expense processing and ensuring that expenses are uploaded in a timely manner.

b) Online Banking system:

• Processing BACS payments for expenses and maintaining accurate records of authorisation and notification to the payees.
• Assisting the Senior Finance Co-Ordinator with month end bank reconciliations.
• Banking admin duties – updating mandates etc.

c) Other:

• Assisting the Senior Finance Co-ordinator to maintain and keep updated the organisation’s timesheets
• Providing support to the Senior Finance Co-Ordinator and Finance Director by providing analyses and other information from the accounting system as required.
• Other Finance duties commensurate with the role as requested by the Senior Finance Co-Ordinator and Finance Director.

2. Assistance to the Operations Manager  (approx. 45% of time)

• General office administration including stationery orders, processing incoming and outgoing mail and dealing with general departmental emails and telephone calls as appropriate, managing printers and stationery

• Assisting with the organisation of events, including booking meeting rooms and assisting with the logistical planning and management of meetings, away days and other events
• Supporting the Operations Manager with staff recruitment and maintaining systems and procedures for all stages of the recruitment process, including new starter and leavers processes
• Updating staff handbooks and policies on a regular basis
• Assisting with the day to day IT support for the team
• Proactively participating in the development of administration systems and processes

commensurate with the role as requested by the Operations Manager and Executive Director.

3. Acting as the Personal Assistant to the Executive Director (approx. 15% of time)

• Supporting the Executive Director with PA duties such as diary scheduling and organising meetings email management assistance, booking travel
• Supporting the Executive Director with other administrative tasks as requested, such as expenses, timesheets, printing etc

4.Supporting other members of the SMT and senior colleagues (approx. 5% of time)

• Supporting other senior colleagues as requested with ad hoc administrative tasks

Essential Experience:

• The ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times throughout all duties and responsibilities.
• The ability to work to deadlines, while remaining well-organised.
• Good IT skills including intermediate Excel and the ability to quickly learn new systems
• The ability to pick up new skills quickly
• Enthusiastic about being part of a busy and fast-moving office
• Proactive and able to take the initiative when necessary
• Efficient and able to multi-task and prioritise workloads
• Supportive of Feedback’s mission to regenerate nature by transforming the food system
• Identify with Feedback’s values- bold, collaborative, celebratory, impact-driven, inspiring

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of working in a small charity environment, particularly an international charity running a number of restricted projects.
• Bookkeeping and/or financial administration experience
• Experience in using Xero or other comparable cloud-based accounting package

• A strong interest in the environment and/or food and farming

Skills:

• Numeracy and literacy commensurate with the role.
• Ability to act on own initiative and organise personal workloads effectively.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills.

How to Apply

Please submit a CV and cover letter (no longer than 1 side of A4)  explaining how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work at Feedback.

Deadline: 5pm 12th June  

Notification of interviews – during the week commencing 15th  June

Interviews will be held  24th June

Specifications: Part Time (0.6 FTE), Permanent

Salary: £24,500 FTE, 14,700 pro rata

Location: Flexible – Preferably London or Freiburg

Application Closing Date: 29th March 2020
 

This role is an exciting opportunity to use your experience as an Administrative Assistant to make a difference in the field of health care research. 

The Administrative Assistant will provide effective and efficient administrative support to the Chief Executive Officer’s Office, primarily supporting the Governance and Strategy Unit and the External Affairs and Geographic Groups’ Support Unit.

The key areas of this role include:

1. Support to the Head of External Affairs & Geographic Groups’ Support:

• Scheduling quarterly meetings between the Head of Unit and Geographic Groups;
• Administrative/logistical support for Cochrane Geographic Network meetings (including US, China and India);
• Maintaining the fundraising database and other Excel databases;
• Maintaining Centres and Directors profiles on our membership database.

2.  Support to the management of Cochrane’s Governance, strategic planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting Unit, including:

• Assisting the CEO Office’s governance support to the Cochrane Council and Executives;
• Organising in-person and online meetings or teleconferences, including co-ordinating agendas, circulating papers, organising refreshments and taking minutes;
• Maintaining administrative systems (databases/spreadsheets);
• Assisting the CEO Office’s governance support to the Cochrane Council and Executives.

3. Support to both Units:

• Diary support for the Head of Governance and Strategy Unit and the Head of External Affairs and Geographic Groups Unit, as required;
• Arranging travel and accommodation for the Heads of Units;
• Administration of the annual financial monitoring of all Cochrane Groups;
• Assisting with the production of PowerPoint presentations and other materials for use at meetings;
• Minute taking and following up on action points;
• Management of mailing lists related to the CEOO;
• Providing support to and cover for other administrative staff as and when required in order to ensure continuity of service;
• Undertaking other duties as necessary.

We are looking for a self-motivated and highly organised individual who is able to work effectively and collaboratively with a diverse range of contacts across the world.  The successful candidate will also have:

• Previous experience of providing administrative support to a team, many of whom are remote workers;
• Experience in complex scheduling and diary management;
• Intermediate level IT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Strong organization and prioritization skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Professional telephone manner;
• Ability to work methodically and accurately;
• A flexible approach with the ability to respond quickly to issues as they arise;
• A pro-active approach to problem-solving;
• Awareness of handling confidential and sensitive information.

Cochrane is a global, independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. We do this by synthesizing research findings to produce the best available evidence on what can work, what might harm and where more research is needed. Our work is recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.

If you would like to apply for this position, please send a CV along with a supporting statement with “CEOO Administrative Assistant” in the subject line.  The supporting statement should indicate why you are applying for the post, and how far you meet the requirements for the post outlined in the job description using specific examples.  List your experience, achievements, knowledge, personal qualities, and skills which you feel are relevant to the post.

For further information, please download the full job description from the attachments.

Deadline for applications: 29th March 2020 (12 midnight GMT)

Interviews to be held on: From 17th April 2020 onwards

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Role

You will be responsible for:

• the preparation of monthly income and expenditure management reports
• the preparation of funder reports
• support with budget planning and forecasting
• accruals (income and expenses), prepayments, fixed assets depreciations, apportions
• support with operational finance when needed
• adhoc work

A. Main Purpose of Job

• Ensure monthly management accounts are produced within established deadlines and distributed to budget holders.
• Provide monthly analysis of accruals and prepayments.
• Complete the financial sections for funder reports within reporting deadlines.
• Support the preparation and download of budget worksheets.
• Support the preparation and compilation of monthly key performance indicators.
• Compliance to agreed standards and procedures for all finance operations.
• Work with other Finance colleagues and Solace staff.
• Adhoc project work as needed.

B. Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Whilst every endeavour has been made to outline the duties and responsibilities of the post, these duties are not exhaustive.

Ensure the monthly management accounts are produced within established deadlines and distributed to budget holders

• Prepare monthly accruals and other permanent journals (depreciation, central and other allocation journals) for review by the management accountant.
• Upload journals and generate monthly management income and expenditure and balance sheet.
• Provide variance analysis.
• Deal with routine queries from budget holders.

Provide monthly analysis of accruals and prepayments

• Reconcile the accruals (income and expenditure), prepayments, fixed assets depreciations on a monthly basis for review by the management accountant.

Complete the financial sections for funder reports with budget holders

• Comply list and timing of funder reports through regular contact with budget holders.
• Complete funder reports (finance sections) with review by the Management Accountant and Chief Operating Officer in time to meet all deadlines.
• Support with new tender applications.

Support the preparation of budget worksheets and analysis

• Support preparation of budget worksheets and analysis of expenditure items.
• Support the Management Accountant to manage planning cycles.

Support the preparation and compilation of monthly key performance indicators

• Support the Management Accountant to prepare KPIs at agreed intervals.

Compliance to agreed standards and procedures

• Ensure finance standards and accounting requirements for internal reporting are adhered to.
• Comply with all Solace Women Aid’s policies and procedures.

Agree internal service standards and ongoing monitoring

• Reporting of management information at quarterly Team Leaders meetings.

Working with other Finance colleagues and Solace staff

• Respond to queries from the Management Accountant, Chief Operating Officer and other firm wide managers.
• Support the Management Accountant with special projects and process improvements.
• Collaborate with other managers to support overall organisation and departmental goals and objectives.

Adhoc project work as needed, including necessary cover duties           

• Provide lunch time cover for reception duties once a week (at a pre-agreed fixed day of the week). 
• Provide holiday and emergency cover for the Management Accountant.
• Provide occasional support for Finance Operations.
• Other adhoc duties as needed.
   

ITF is an international federation of transport workers’ trade unions recognised as the world’s leading transport authority. We fight passionately to improve working lives, connecting trade unions from 150 countries that may otherwise be isolated and helping their members to secure rights, equality and justice. We are the voice for 20 million members working men and women across the world. The ITF Head Office is based in Borough, London. International offices include Amman, Hong Kong, Montreal, Abidjan, New Delhi, Ouagadougou, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. 

The successful candidates will be responsible for efficient processing of Agreement applications monitoring consultations, assembling and verifying evidence in support of beneficial ownership; representing the ITF to ship-owners, affiliates and inspectors in connection with agreement processes and related matters; responsible for identifying source of unallocated cash receipts relating to Welfare Fund and membership fees and preparing special agreements and related documentation.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues; secure the active interests of ITF’s aims and objectives and provide narrative reports for relevant decision-making bodies including constitutional and non-constitutional entities within ITF structures.

Competent in Microsoft Word and Excel at intermediate level ; broad experience in general administration and data inputting as well as knowledge of the transport industry is desirable. High level communication skills, both verbally and in writing are key plus a proven ability to develop positive relationships with organisations and individuals across diverse cultures. Due to the nature of the organisation and the role, knowledge of a second language would be an advantage.

Further details about the role and the person specification are found in the attached JD.

This role offers a salary of £39,990 per annum, plus a non-performance related guaranteed bonus equating to 1/12th of your annual salary.

ITF offers a highly competitive final pension salary scheme, flexible working as well as the opportunity to work in a state of the art modern office building in central London. For further information on the staff benefits that we provide please see our website.

If this sounds interesting to you, please apply by sending your CV and covering letter to our dedicated HR Team by 5 June, 2020. Interviews are due to take place 17 June 2019. Please note that due to COVID-19 all interviews will take place via video conference

Finance Assistant

Bristol

£21,000 per annum

Permanent, full time

NCT is the UK’s largest charity for parents, serving 150,000 new families each year face to face and many more online.  Our vision is of a world in which no parent is isolated and all parents are supported to build a strong society.  Our mission is to support parents through the first thousand days, to have the best possible experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.  We do this through sharing knowledge, creating networks and harnessing voices. 

We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated people who share our vision and values. You do not have to be a parent to share this vision and working for the NCT is a rewarding experience. It gives you the opportunity to apply your experience and expertise to help enrich the lives of thousands of parents in the UK. It offers you the opportunity to develop valuable skills and gain insight into working for a charity in the not-for-profit sector. NCT is committed to positive organisational culture, productive workplace and work-life balance that respects the individual.

We are looking for a Finance Assistant to become part of the finance team in Bristol, a team of seven people. This is an exciting time for the NCT as we shall be implementing a new CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system in 2020 and this role will interact with the new system on a daily basis and input into the development of new processes. In this role your primary responsibilities will be: to act as a key point of contact in the finance team, managing the finance mailbox and dealing with queries from inside and outside the organisation; reconciliation of one of the charity’s main bank accounts; regular processing of Direct Debits (mandates, claims and refunds); and to review purchase invoices and process the weekly payment run.

We will short list throughout the application process and reserve the right to close the application process early, so if you feel you are the right candidate for the role then please apply now! 

See the Job Description for full details of this exciting opportunity.

Closing Date: 7th June 2020 midnight

Finance Assistant Temp (2 roles)

Bristol

£21,000 per annum

Temporary, full time

NCT is the UK’s largest charity for parents, serving 150,000 new families each year face to face and many more online.  Our vision is of a world in which no parent is isolated and all parents are supported to build a strong society.  Our mission is the support parents through the first thousand days, to have the best possible experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.  We do this through sharing knowledge, creating networks and harnessing voices. 

We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated people who share our vision and values. You do not have to be a parent to share this vision and working for the NCT is a rewarding experience. It gives you the opportunity to apply your experience and expertise to help enrich the lives of thousands of parents in the UK. It offers you the opportunity to develop valuable skills and gain insight into working for a charity in the not-for-profit sector. NCT is committed to positive organisational culture, productive workplace and work-life balance that respects the individual.

We are looking for two Finance Assistants to join our finance team in Bristol on an temporary (6-12 month) basis. This is an exciting time for the NCT as we shall be implementing a new CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system in 2020 and this role will interact with the new system on a daily basis and input into the development of new processes. Your primary responsibilities will be to assist with the processing of course transfers and cancellations and the resulting in refunds to parents.  You will also be assisting with other tasks such as checking purchase invoices, preparing BACS payments and responding to questions by users of the system on claiming expenses.

Although advertised as full time roles, we are open to flexible working arrangements.

We will short list throughout the application process and reserve the right to close the application process early, so if you feel you are the right candidate for the role then please apply now! 

See the Job Description for full details of this exciting opportunity.

Closing Date:  7th June 2020 midnight

The Paid Search Marketing Lead (PSML) will act as a senior practitioner within the search marketing team and will develop, implement and optimise cross-channel strategically aligned campaign activity for our clients.

The PSML will leverage their advanced search marketing skills, as well as third-party tools and scripts to support the team to understand client objectives, audit current campaign activity, overhaul search and display strategies and implement new internal processes which help us to exceed client expectations.

The team gets a lot of autonomy to show their skills, so you’ll be confident and independent enough to really shine.

Ideally, you are: 

• super-keen on paid search marketing;
• passionate about making a positive difference in the world;
• organised;
• lovely to work with;
• someone who has worked in-house at a charity or agency-side leading on paid search and display.

Location:  Currently remote, then from Runway East in London Bridge (SE1)

Role type: Freelance or Fixed term contract. PT or FT considered.

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 pro-rata (depending on experience)

Closing date for applications: Rolling applications. The job will remain open until the right candidate is found.

How to apply: Fill the form. If you would prefer to submit a video application, rather than a written one, email us and we’ll let you know the best way to do that.

Not sure if you should apply? Got a random question? Just email – we’re happy to answer them before you apply.

About Platypus Digital

Platypus Digital is a digital marketing agency for the charity sector, based in London. We work with charities, social enterprises and other organisations doing great work.

We believe that digital is a powerful force to get important messages in front of people when they need them the most.

Duties and responsibilities

Planning and delivery – 75% of your time

• Plan, implement and improve on the internal processes to ensure maintenance, monitoring and optimisation of our portfolio of client Ad Grants and paid Google Ads accounts takes place on time, within budget and on target, organising the split between manual and automated processes through scripts and third-party tools
• Lead on the active account and campaign optimisation, from understanding the strategy for the accounts to setting up scripts to performing common tasks and working with team members to implement changes
• Help refine our technology stack to improve our auditing and benchmarking process, incorporating user and stakeholder insights to make sure our client’s account deliver on target
• Plan and deliver detailed keyword research to develop account structures and goals based on these criteria
• Write and sign off effective, keyword-rich ad copy tailored to objectives that also adhere to Google’s best practices
• Act as an external brand ambassador, making sure all campaign activity is closely aligned with client brand guidelines and overall tone-of-voice guidelines
• Build strong relationships with client-side managers, agency partners and freelance designers and copywriters to plan, optimise and improve upon search and display campaigns capabilities for our clients
• Provide guidance to junior colleagues on targeting, spend targets, bidding strategy, messaging strategy and overall visual design
• Plan and oversee reporting cycles and report formats to ensure campaigns across search and display are reported back with results, insights and recommendations are fully understood by our clients. 

Client management – 25% of your time

• Work with the head of search and data to ensure client objectives are at the forefront of all campaign activity and that opportunities across other channels are properly identified and pitched in to clients
• Liaise with clients to understand internal stakeholder requirements to information requirements in order to plan and build detailed client-facing reports that help inform our clients to understand how we are meeting their objectives using Google Data Studio and other third-party reporting tools
• Act as our client’s external search and display expert to ensure a full understanding of our work throughout the organisation

About the person

Experience

• In-depth technical knowledge of the tools, standards and platforms needed for digital project delivery – as well as knowing what is and isn’t possible
• Advanced knowledge of Google Ads platform, Google Campaign Manager and expert knowledge of search theory including the ability to explain the methodology in an easily understandable way
• Advanced knowledge of Google Analytics – proven ability to base insights on data and confidence in relaying this insight to stakeholders at multiple levels across organisations
• Demonstrable experience in setting up and managing Google Ads campaigns through Google Ads Editor and Google Ads Scripts to improve management of the accounts
• Strong attention to detail across copywriting, formula and processes

Values

• A commitment to the work of charities
• Keen to set a high standard for yourself and others
• A self-starter with a natural curiosity in finding the best solution to a problem
• Strives to nurture junior colleagues by taking a proactive attitude towards professional development and the welfare of team members.

How to apply 

1. Fill in the form, giving details of your relevant experience and reasons for wanting to work for Platypus Digital.
2. If you sound like a good fit, we will invite you an informal call to discuss the role.
3. If your chemistry call goes well, we will invite you complete a short task to make sure you have the right skills we are looking for. This will be sent to you at a time of your choosing and we will then assess the results.

And if you have any questions about the role or whether you think you’re a good fit, just email  – we’re happy to answer them before you apply.