We are looking for someone with a positive attitude and thorough approach to their work, to ensure RESTORE provides a suitable, safe and secure working environment for its employees, volunteers and members.
Overall aims of the post
The Head of Quality & Infrastructure is responsible for ensuring that Restore’s services can be operated safely, efficiently and effectively, with the right tools and resources - and can demonstrate impact through data collection and measurement. This includes overseeing IT, Health & Safety and Facilities Management across 4 locations in Oxfordshire, with a small team of staff, volunteers and contractors. As a member of Restore’s Executive Team, the postholder has responsibility for ensuring a consistent approach to Quality across the organisation and, as such, has a leading role in the Quality & Performance Sub Committee. The ability to demonstrate impact is paramount in an organisation like Restore.
Restore’s workplaces are situated in Oxford, Banbury and Didcot. This post will be based at Restore’s Manzil Way offices in Oxford but the postholder’s responsibilities extend across all Restore sites and projects.
The Head of Quality & Infrastructure has responsibility for controlling the budget in all related areas.
Responsibilities
In relation to Quality
- Work with the Quality & Performance Sub Committee and Executive Team to develop, implement and maintain a quality management system for Restore
- Lead on monitoring and evaluation across the organisation including selection and implementation of appropriate data management system(s) and production of relevant reports
- Develop, implement and oversee data management across all activities in line with Restore’s Business Plan and contract requirements.
- Oversee consistency of systems across all operational areas
In relation to IT
- Oversee contracts relating to IT (for routine IT administration, troubleshooting, website hosting and database design and maintenance)
- Establish that all IT contractors are providing an efficient and effective service that present value for money
- Liaise with contractors routinely and for periodic contract reviews
- Work with relevant colleagues to make sure that all staff have suitable IT equipment, training and support and maintain an IT asset register
- Work with the Executive Team to create and implement an IT strategy in line with the Business Plan
- Ensure that IT expenditure is kept within budget
- Ensure that IT is compliant with General Data Protection Regulations
In relation to Health & Safety
- To take the lead in devising, reviewing, communication and implementation of robust policies and procedures relating to Health & Safety and GDPR/Data Protection
- To ensure that Restore is compliant with all aspects of Health & Safety legislation, and that this is reviewed regularly
- To oversee the provision and maintenance of appropriate Fire Safety equipment and alarms, and oversee systematic testing and drills across all projects
- To work with Executive Team to ensure that all staff, volunteers and members are offered appropriate health and safety training
- To take the lead with the annual review of risk assessments relating to buildings, equipment and activities which relate to buildings and the use of equipment by staff, volunteers, members and contractors
- In conjunction with the Director of Finance and Administration, ensure that Restore holds the correct level of insurance relating to Employee and Public Liability
In relation to Premises
- Maintain good relationships with Restore’s landlords and tenants with routine liaison and prompt communication when issues arise
- Ensure that all leases are complied with and that break-clauses or termination dates are noted and any issues raised with the CEO
- To oversee the maintenance and upkeep of all Restore’s premises:
- Oversee routine inspections and fault-reporting system
- Work with volunteers and relevant staff to effect repairs and renewals where possible
- Source, engage and oversee contractors where relevant, ensuring competitive price and value for money and keeping within budget
- Establish relationships with local companies and individuals to undertake work on a pro-bono or reduced fee wherever possible
- Manage a small team of cleaners
Person Specification
You will have an understanding of what it takes to run an effective medium sized charity, and your empathy with people with mental health problems is vital. Restore needs people who have the ability to cope with limited resources, seize opportunities and think creatively. Awareness of the stigma and other issues surrounding mental illness is important, as is the ability to remain calm under pressure when dealing with sensitive staffing or client issues.
Essential Requirements
Knowledge
- An understanding of IT requirements for a medium sized charity and how to oversee smooth delivery of IT related services
- Knowledge of data capture tools and systems
- Health & Safety qualified (NEBOSH level or similar) or willing to work towards
- Knowledge of GDPR and understanding of how to maintain data compliance
Experience
- Experience of developing and implementing effective quality assurance strategies (or being part of wider team doing this)
- Experience of overseeing property maintenance and facilities management (or evidence of transferable skills)
- Experience of managing staff and overseeing the work of volunteers and contractors (or evidence of transferable skills)
- Experience of managing budgets and overseeing procurement (or be able to evidence ability to do so)
- Experience of developing and implementing high quality policies, procedures and systems
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to develop, manage and maintain excellent working relationships with service and supply companies while displaying sound financial awareness
- Ability to prioritise workload, multi-task and deal calmly with conflicting priorities
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Ability to use initiative and work creatively
- Thorough approach to detail
- Ability to communicate with a wide variety of people in an effective manner
- Ability to interpret relevant legislation and guidance into working practice
- Demonstrable IT literacy and confidence in using the Microsoft Office and Google Drive applications
Desirable Requirements
- Experience of analysing maintenance problems and sourcing cost effective and practical solutions
- Car driver/owner
Other work related criteria
- Willing and able to undertake occasional evening and weekend work
- Willing and able to undertake regular travel within the county and occasionally elsewhere in the UK
Any offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
There is a probation period of six months for new employees, during which time your employment will be monitored. Your employment will be subject to you completing your probationary period to the satisfaction of Restore.
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This is an exciting opportunity to join an inspirational and visionary children's charity as part of their growing fundraising team. Established in 2000, Caudwell Children works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge the barriers they face throughout childhood by providing practical and emotional support.
Caudwell Children is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University.
This transformational period brings the need to develop all income streams to enable this growth and so Caudwell Children are looking for an experienced Associate Director of Partnerships to join their team on a permanent basis.
Caudwell Children - Associate Director of Partnerships
Location: Keele, Staffordshire
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 plus bonus (dependent on skills and experience)
Contract: Permanent
The Associate Director of Partnerships will lead a high performing team to coordinate and implement Caudwell Children's strategy to deliver the partnerships that are needed to achieve the organisation's ambitious goals; with a focus on Corporate, SME, NHS and Government audiences.
You will inspire a team to secure and build partnerships and will be ultimately accountable for ensuring the team's successful acquisition, cultivation and growth of partnerships in line with the organisation's new strategy delivering to income, advocacy, public engagement and growing support objectives.
To be considered for this position you will have a proven track record of supporting the leadership of an organisation at a senior level. You will have demonstrable experience in strategy development, corporate engagement and partnerships as well as a solid track record of achieving six-figure financial targets.
Closing date for applications: Harris Hill reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration.
If you would like to receive an Information Pack for this role, with details on how to apply, please contact Faye Marshall at Harris Hill.
We look forward to hearing from you.
The Atlantic Institute was established in 2016 with the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and in collaboration with the Rhodes Trust, Oxford (UK).
At the Atlantic Institute we are committed to building a lifelong community of courageous changemakers who together will accelerate the eradication of inequity and injustice resulting in fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Our Fellows and Staff are accomplished leaders working in diverse settings and contexts, who together think, learn, incubate and implement strategies for greater impact. The diversity of our fellows is unprecedented and we are committed to the radical inclusion of these leaders as agents of change in communities most impacted by social, economic, racial and health inequities. We provide them with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity.
In the current global environment of a pandemic, the courageous work to eradicate inequities is more urgently needed than ever. To support, deepen and sustain our community’s impact at this critical juncture, we have therefore created several new permanent roles, including:
- Associate Executive Director (Community, Programming and Impact)
- Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead
- Program and Impact Lead (Innovation and Special Projects)
- Learning and Evaluation Lead
- Data Insight Analyst.
Associate Executive Director - Community Engagement, Programming and Impact
We’re looking for an Associate Executive Director who will lead a strongly connected lifelong community of Senior Fellows and Program staff who together will amplify their impact in the world and ultimately accelerate the eradication of inequities. You will be responsible for Institute’s community engagement, programing and impact strategy and you will have lead responsibility for the design and implementation of programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff.
Core Competencies
Consistent with all roles at the Atlantic Institute, it is essential that you demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse root causes of inequities and show a commitment (in thinking and in action) to fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. In addition, you will have the following skills and experience:
- Effective leadership skills, ability to motivate, engage and develop a team and community of purpose in an agile and complex environment
- Significant experience, ideally at least five years, in an executive leadership role with demonstrated success in transformative community engagement, strategy and programming for impact
- Demonstrated exceptional performance in building high performing teams and guiding and managing staff
- Strong intellectual capability with the capacity to engage with senior academics, business leaders, government officials, other leaders in a range of settings
- An undergraduate degree is essential. The successful candidate will ideally have a post-graduate qualification in a thematic area relevant to the Atlantic Fellows mission, public sector or business management.
To find out more on the role and how to apply, please view the attached job description.
Please submit your application to us by 12:00 (BST) on Friday 24th July 2020.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Remote working or based at one of our Shelter Offices (to be discussed and confirmed)
Closing date: 19th July 2020 at 11.30pm. Interviews: Initial interviews : 29th and 30th July 2020. Final Interviews: 5th August 2020
Are you a highly skilled manager with proven experience of overseeing complex services, budgets and contract requirements in a large-scale operation across a wide geographical area, ideally in the voluntary/not for profit sector? Can you evidence where you have led change, driven efficiency and improved service effectiveness?
Then join Shelter as Head of Local Services - North and you could soon be responsible for the strategic and operational oversight of our Hubs in the North region, driving through a change programme that will revolutionise how our services are delivered.
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.
With more than 500 staff and an annual budget of over £20 million, our Local Community Services division provides expert advice and support over the phone and face-to-face from a national network of Shelter hubs. Our vision? For our hubs to be at the heart of their communities, bases for activism as well as for help and support. To deliver a personalised housing service developed with the local community, which brings together all of our resources and expertise to maximise our impact on local housing issues and needs. You’ll help make sure we do this in our North region.
About the Role
This high profile role is all about transforming, rather than simply managing, services. Indeed, we want you to deliver a change programme with your managers that will ensure hubs inspire and enable people to support us in delivering sustainable systemic change for individuals, the wider local homeless community and local homeless practice. This will involve a massive shift in mindset on how our services are delivered and we will look to you to make suggestions in how to bring about tangible improvements. This is not a static change programme, it will need to continuously improve in order to meet ever-changing demand and deliver high quality, integrated services that meet the holistic needs of those in housing need.
About you
To succeed, you’ll need significant experience of leading change, driving efficiency and improving service effectiveness, along with a track record of managing remote teams across a large geographical area in a matrix management framework. You’ll also need experience of engaging with communities, understanding how they operate and working with them to drive systemic change. The tenacity, persuasiveness and resilience it takes to build partnerships and deal with push backs is important too, as is the compassion and empathy it takes to work with service users and people with lived experience and volunteers.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, 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.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our North Region management team and be the change you want to see in society.
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.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them. In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
To apply please email your CV and a supporting statement that addresses the key criteria on the job description via the apply button.
Associate Organiser - Peterborough
Citizens UK is the country’s largest civil society alliance. We organise communities to act together for power, social justice and the common good. We are the home of community organising in the UK, with diverse civil society alliances in London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Birmingham, Wales, Manchester, Essex, Leicester, Brighton and Hove, Tyne & Wear and Leeds.
We develop the leadership capacity of our members so they can hold politicians and other decision-makers to account on the issues that matter to them. Community organising is democracy in action: winning victories that change lives and transform communities. Read our values and code of conduct.
We are looking for an Associate Organiser for Peterborough.
Contract: 2 - 3.5 days per week on a one year fixed term contract
Salary: £25,148 to £27,398 Pro Rata Per Annum (£10,059 - £19,179) depending on successful candidate
Location: Peterborough, Homebased
Working as an Associate Organiser in Peterborough for Citizens UK your main responsibilities will include:
Build relational power to further the goals of CUK
• Actively participate in the development of a comprehensive power analysis appropriate to the desired sphere of influence for each project/assignment
• Establish working relationships with identified leaders and demonstrate ability to move them into action, taking the initiative to establish new relationships as required
• Conduct one-to-ones in order to develop relationships with leaders and understand their concerns.
• Tell a wide range of Community Organising stories effectively in order to influence others and achieve CUK’s goals
Identify and develop relational leaders prepared to act with others for the common good
• Identify and discern actual and potential leaders with the passion and ability to drive change
• Proactively create opportunities for leaders to develop, in particular leaders that are new to broad-based organising; nominate for training on the core taster curriculum
• Successfully deliver training workshops in local institutions and on the core taster curriculum at a local level
Strengthen institutions and develop BBOs
• Ensure good understanding of the basic interests and traditions of typical member institutions
• Organise a small cluster of up to 5 standard member institutions or 1 strategic partner to work together for the achievement of common goals
• Support the Peterborough Citizens Sponsorship Team
Support leaders through the Cycle of Action in order to create change
• Support member institutions in running a listening campaign to find out what people care about and identify 1 local issue to take action on.
• Organise neighbourhood actions; demonstrating increasing independence in working without the need for close supervision
• Take the lead in supporting groups of leaders through the cycle of action on neighbourhood issues; aiming to achieve neighbourhood wins
• Evaluate the effectiveness of actions; demonstrating ability to incorporate lessons learned into future actions
Contribute to CUK’s financial viability through effective fundraising & financial management
• Find organisations willing to commit to becoming dues paying institutions in September 2021; work together with a more senior Organiser to establish annual membership fees and letters of understanding
• Contribute substantively to fundraising by securing £40k pa overall, at least half of which should be ‘hard money’ from recruitment of future member institutions.
• Liaise with the Finance & Operations team to update the membership database and ensure timely invoicing and fee collection
Contribute to effective teamwork
• Be proactive concerning personal professional development and wellbeing; i.e. by reading widely, developing a healthy work-life balance and demonstrating ability to reflect on own organising craft & improve on self-identified weaknesses
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively with colleagues and participate in a team
• Produce all required reports and follow CUK’s procedures on time and to the required standards
Participate in the development of the craft of Community Organising and play a role in the Guild of Community Organisers
• Schedule an average of at least three 1-2-1 relational meetings into your daily schedule as a core part of your professional practice
• Commit 10 working days pa (pro rata for part-time staff) to the preparation, delivery and evaluation of Citizens UK National Community Leadership Training or other local or regional trainings;
• Participate in a Guild Team and help it develop as a Community of Practice that enables Organisers across the UK to develop their skills and experience
For information on how to apply for the post please click on 'Apply on Website' for simple application process.
Citizens UK is committed to being an inclusive employer. We value a diverse workforce and encourage anyone with an interest in this role to apply, regardless of whether you meet all the desirable criteria. We invest in our staff and will support you to develop the skills and knowledge required to deliver the role. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates.
Please Note: Due to the expected high interest in the post, we may not be able to respond to unsuccessful applications.
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Hours: 4-5 days per week; permanent contract
Benefits: 7.5% employer matched pension after probation, flexible working, 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays and Christmas break) and a generous staff development budget
Application deadline: 2nd August, 11:59pm
First interviews: w/c 17th August
Second Interviews: w/c 24th August
About the role:
The Head of Messaging is a new role for the Comms Hub and will lead our strategic communications work across key topic areas, from climate to migration and housing. This is a practical and hands on role as part of an active team securing thousands of media hits on an annual basis working with many of the most exciting progressive groups in the UK and abroad.
Day-to-day this means selecting what topics we should be developing messaging on, selecting the organisers and organisations we should be working with (in collaboration with our wider team), planning our messaging workshops, researching existing framing work and commissioning polling and focus group work. After the workshops it means writing up short, practical messaging guides and working to apply this insight in multiple settings from media interviews to organisational communications strategies.
Some of this work will be long term - e.g. what should our overall framing of the economy look like - some of it will be issue specific and time bound - e.g. what should we say about the third runway at Heathrow - and some of it will be rapid response e.g. how do we respond to a particular court ruling. You’ll work closely with our spokespeople and Progressive Comms Network to ensure that the materials we develop are practically useful and actually used.
To apply and to find out more, download the application pack from our site.
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This is an exciting time in our diocese, with the launch of the vision of Transforming Church, Transforming Lives in 2016 leading to significant new missional energy in many of our churches, chaplaincies and schools. It’s been especially encouraging to witness the development of around 80 new worshipping communities since the launch, including four major projects in areas of new housing.
Over the past two years we have moved our diocesan teams into new, attractive, open-plan offices on the University of Surrey Research Park; and more recently we have embarked on a major review of the services we offer, seeking to ensure that our diocesan strategy gets well embedded, that our resources are efficiently managed, and that Church House Guildford is genuinely scratching where the parishes are itching. Note that due to the covid pandemic, our teams are currently working remotely from the safety of their homes.
We are looking for a proven practitioner and skilled technical and digital professional who can help us shape, plan and deliver the migration of our processes, systems and information to web-based services. In doing so you will help us to further streamline and improve our workflows at Church House whilst also making it easier for our parishes to access information.
We want someone with the right mix of experiences who can challenge, inspire and deliver in this area of specialism, but also a colleague who shares the passion and heart to reach and serve communities in this place.
The role is for 14 hours per week (work pattern negotiable) on a fixed term contract for 12 months. Our salaries are competitive within the charity sector with a generous non-contributory pension provision. Due to the Covid pandemic, we are currently able to work remotely from the safety of our own homes.
If you have the experience we are looking for and a passion to join us in our journey, we welcome an application from you. Your application should consist of a completed application form and supporting statement (no more than two sides of A4) detailing your reasons for applying, what you can bring to the post and how you meet its requirements. The closing date for receipt of applications has been extended and is now 12 noon on Wednesday 15 July 2020.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Operations Manager
Norwich
£40,718 - £45,240 per annum (dependent on skills) plus associated benefits (pay award pending)
Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)
Operations Manager – East Anglia
Location: Norwich, Norfolk (Please note, the role will require an element of travel to other locations across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire)
Our client delivers a wide range of outstanding services providing exceptional outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and their families, and is looking to develop and diversify those services to increase their support and geographical spread while always striving for continuous improvement.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an expanding and vibrant voluntary organisation with services located in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and make a positive impact on young lives as a member of their Senior Leadership Team.
You will be passionate about changing young lives and experienced in managing teams and staff to ensure they are able to provide the best support for their beneficiaries. The Operations Manager (Children and Families) will be leading, managing and supporting the management teams of their diverse services, which include children’s homes, fostering, short break services for children with disabilities, family assessment services and their therapeutic provision. You will work across the business working to ensure that their services work collaboratively whilst ensuring regulatory compliance.
They aspire to excellence and employ experienced, resilient, skilful and creative senior managers to inspire our service delivery and provide support to our teams.
You will have a background in delivering services to children and young people either with a social work qualification or a relevant professional qualification. They welcome those experienced in delivering excellent residential child care.
Closing Date: 23rd July 2020
Interview dates: 31st July for Safe Care/Warner Interviews / 3rd August for Formal Panel
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Grassroots is a UK leader in suicide prevention, and we have ambitious plans. As such we are seeking to appoint a Chief Executive with passion, drive, and experience in developing organisations and a commitment to reducing suicide.
We work locally and nationally with communities, organisations, and individuals, helping them to become ready, willing, and able to effectively support someone at risk of suicide, experiencing a mental health problem, or someone who self-harms.
Our training, signposting, and innovation helps save lives by enabling the kind of conversations that can really make a difference. We constantly work to fight stigma and encourage help-seeking through our thriving social media community and online presence.
We are funded through a mixture of training income, contracts, grants, and by the fundraising and donations of our wonderful supporters in the community. To date we have trained over 17,000 people in suicide prevention and our Stay Alive app has been downloaded over 150,000 times.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
- To set the strategic direction and objectives in collaboration with the Board and staff team, and achieve these through efficient and effective income generation, financial management, risk management and delivery of business plans.
- To enable the Board to fulfil its governance functions by providing good quality, appropriate and timely information and recommendations on all relevant matters.
- To provide effective leadership and management of the charity and staff team.
- To ensure that the charity is well administered and complies with Charities Commission requirements.
- To promote and develop the charity’s impact and profile locally, regionally and nationally, building relationships with key stakeholders and representing the charity in public forums.
DETAILS
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week, working pattern to be agreed
- Location: Central Brighton
- Benefits: 28 days plus Bank Holidays pro rata
- Pension: 3% Employer contribution
- Salary: £45,652 pro rata
- Applications close: Sunday, 26th July 2020
- The first round of interviews will be held virtually at a time to be arranged with candidates during the weeks of 27th July – August 3rd
HOW TO APPLY
The full job description and person specification is available on our website.
We are seeking applications by Personal Statement and CV, which should include up-to-date references which will be taken up if an offer is made. For an informal discussion about this opportunity with our Chair, Emma Mills-Sheffield, please get in touch via our website.
Ayrshire Hospice has served the people of Ayrshire and Arran for the past 30 years. It has provided exceptional care for anyone from the age of 16 and upwards who is suffering from a life-limiting illness. Their families are also not forgotten. There is a range of services that support their care and well being. The Hospice is much loved and valued within its community.
Having been without a CEO for the past year, the Board and senior management team have now set the vision for the future and are ready for a new CEO to be appointed to deliver all the organisational goals and drive the charity forward. A centrepiece of the strategy is a proposed £12m capital build programme to ensure the Hospice continues to provide the best possible patient experience in the best available facilities. After drawing on reserves that have been designated for this project, the CEO will require to ensure at least a further £6m is secured.
You will need to have extensive senior leadership experience, although not necessarily in a CEO role. Perhaps this is the next logical step up for you. You will, however, need to have experience of managing a complex and diverse, multi-million-pound organisation in a highly regulated environment. You should have deep knowledge of good governance and experience of reporting into a Board of Management. It goes without saying that your business and financial management acumen must be second to none. In addition, you will need to evidence strong stakeholder management skills and be a worthy ambassador for such a highly respected organisation that frequently has a public spotlight on it.
If this sounds like you and you feel you are strongly aligned with the vision, mission and values of Ayrshire Hospice, we’d like to hear from you.
How To Apply
If you’d like to work for this inspirational charity, get in touch with the BTA Recruitment team today.
Please contact BTA to request an information pack, full job description and person specification.
You are advised to get in touch in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.
Closing Date: Midnight, Wednesday 15th July
First stage interviews: Monday 27th July
Possible second stage interviews: Wednesday 29th July
This search is being conducted exclusively for Ayrshire Hospice by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team has all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.
Reporting to: The Group CEO MPS Society
Hours: Full time - Flexible to suit the needs of the Organisation
Location: Amersham UK - with travel in the UK and overseas as needed
Closing Date 17/07/2020
Interview Dates 29 July 2020
About Us
The MPS Society provides support across the UK to families affected by rare, life-limiting genetic conditions. These genetic conditions cause a range of complex difficulties and we provide vital support to the whole family for as long as they need it. Further information on the work we undertake can be found on our website.
Job Description (Please see full job description for further details)
The Head of Group Operations (HGO) will be responsible for the day to day operational running of the MPS Society and, in collaboration with the CEO, its commercial trading subsidiary MPS Commercial. This is a hands-on role that offers diversity in a growing organisation, responding to opportunities for revenue growth and greater national and International reach.
The Head of Group Operations will be managed by the Group CEO. The primary duties and responsibilities are set out below. This is a diverse role and the candidate will be able to tackle a range of tasks as part of this small dynamic team.
Primary duties and responsibilities include:
Strategic direction
Working jointly with the CEO of MPS Commercial and Group CEO
- Develop the strategic direction and priorities for the Society and MPS Commercial
- Develop a detailed annual operational plan to achieve the strategic priorities of the organisation(s), for approval by the relevant Boards
Line management
- Line management for all core functions / staff within the Society, including HR and Finance
Operational management
- Working with the Senior Leadership Team and other members of the Organisation, Develop and implement the annual operating plan
Patient services
- Lead the operational direction of the patient services in line with the overall society’s priorities
- Working with Support and Advocacy lead, anticipate the future needs of the society’s members adapting existing projects and developing new activities as required to ensure we continue to meet them.
Clinical Centre support
- In collaboration with the group CEO drive the strategic relationships with key clinical centres in the UK and internationally, to further the collaborations between the Society and the clinical colleagues in the field
Pharmaceutical companies
- In collaboration with Group CEO and CEO of MPS Commercial, explore and identify opportunities for collaboration with current and potential pharmaceutical partners
Political lobbying and Public Affairs
- Design and implement, in collaboration with the Group CEO, the political lobbying and public affairs strategy and activities for the Society.
Financial management
- Assist the Head of Group Finance Officer with financial planning, management and reporting, and the implementation of the operational, business and strategic plans
Office management
- Oversee the maintenance of a positive, healthy and safe work environment in accordance with all appropriate legislation and regulations
- Oversee day-to-day operations including premises, equipment, IT systems, ordering supplies, procurement and workflow management.
Human resources
- Working with the HR Lead with recruitment, induction and ongoing development of the Charities personnel
Other Responsibilities
- Operational Risk and Charity Compliance Reporting
- Oversee timely governance and report to the Board of Trustees
- Oversee all aspects of the MPS Society’s income generation strategy and ensure production of reports for the Board of Trustees
- Oversee the content and design of all the MPS Society’s public facing materials both printed and electronic.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check prior to taking up position in the role
For further details, please contact Barbara Cotterell on 0 3 4 5 3 8 9 9 9 0 1
Applications may be made either through the Charity Jobs website or to Barbara Cotterell directly. All applications should include your CV and a cover letter outlining your skills, experience and how you meet the requirements of this role.
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Head of Development and Sustainability, West Kent Mind
NJC Pay Points 41-47 (£37,107-£42,806)*
37 hours a week
This post is based at Sevenoaks Wellbeing Centre, 34 St John’s Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3LW although we would consider flexible working options.
We are looking for a creative person to provide the strategic lead on driving business development, income generation and associated strategic engagement to enable West Kent Mind to continue to provide essential mental health support services within the community.
The post holder will lead on income generation strategies and will also take a strategic lead on driving innovation and best practice, increasing audiences as both beneficiaries and as donors and building partnerships.
Are you a strategic thinker, a good income generator, a great collaborator and someone who is committed to excellence?
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: Monday 3rd August 2020, 9am
Interviews: Monday 10th August 2020
*2018 NJC pay Scales
Volunteer Cornwall is a charity dedicated to building social capital and developing the wellbeing of individuals and communities across Cornwall. We do this by working in collaboration with a wide range of organisations to promote and support active citizenship and voluntary action covering the emotional, social, environmental and economic needs and opportunities in Cornwall. From our Head Office in Truro and our outreach teams across Cornwall, we provide support to all aspects of volunteering across the county. Volunteer Cornwall lives by 4 underpinning values which are: To be Creative, Caring Collaborative and Challenging.
Volunteer Cornwall’s new Accounts and Administration Manager is a critical role within our Senior Management Team, for the organisation and for the voluntary sector across the County. The successful candidate will work closely with managers and trustees across the organisation ensuring that resources are used to maximum effect, and that planning is undertaken in a robust and methodological manner. One of our main aims, and of particular importance, is to recruit a person who has values and ethics that fit with our principles and the work that we undertake. Working within the voluntary or charitable sector can be varied especially as charity accounting is not always straightforward and tasks do not always fit neatly within the job description. This role therefore requires flexibility, adaptability and a range of skills not always associated with a finance role.
Job Purpose
To provide financial and administrative services to support Volunteer Cornwall’s strategic and operational activities. To be responsible for ensuring that the Board of Trustees and Directors follow legal requirements of a charity and a company limited by guarantee.
Key Responsibilities
- To provide financial and administrative services to support VC’s strategic and operational activities, allowing operational managers and staff to concentrate on their front-line work. Ensuring full compliance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), financial regulations including VAT partial exemption rules, PAYE and Pension Auto Enrolment and other statutory and Charity Commission or Companies House legislation or requirements
- To prepare the annual Directors’ Report and Financial Statements and all financial accounts for audit and present the report to the Board of Directors with the auditors
- To prepare the annual budget estimates and salary review in conjunction with the Chief Executive and Senior Managers
- To prepare monthly financial management reports for the Chair, Treasurer and Chief Executive
- Company Secretary; helping the Board of Directors in their decision-making processes and providing relevant support and advice where needed especially in ensuring that the requirements of the Charity Commission and Companies House are met and maintained
- Data Security and Protection Lead to ensure VC’s compliance with current data security, protection and implementation of the legislation
- Chairs the H&S Committee overseeing the health and safety of VC’s employees and volunteers
- With the IT Officer, ensure that all VC Information, Communication and Technology systems are maintained and up to date
- Supervise finance and administration team members and ensure that daily operations are performed in a seamless and efficient manner
At Volunteer Cornwall we pride ourselves on diversity and inclusion underpinning what we do and why we do it. These concepts encompass our attitudes as individuals and as an organisation.
Benefits:
- On-site parking
- Subsidised gym membership
Key dates
- Closing date for applications Tuesday 14th July 2020 (midday)
- Interviews (Truro) Monday 27th July 2020
- START DATE: This post will become vacant due to retirement and will start in autumn 2020
How to Apply:
The full brief is attached. For an informal discussion about the role or the process, please contact our retained partner Anna Jay at Public Leaders Appointments - details in the attached brief.
If you would like to submit an application, this should comprise a comprehensive CV, including details of two referees. Please also provide a supporting statement (no more than 3 sides) outlining the reasons behind your application and describing how you meet the requirements of the role as set out in this document by using examples for each key task point in the person specification. Please tell us in a few sentences or a paragraph how your skills and experience match the requirements detailed for each key task point in the person specification.
Role
We are seeking an experienced, passionate, proactive and committed Operations Manager to lead on the financial and day to day management of the Brazelton Centre UK, and to help us achieve our mission to ‘give newborn babies a voice by supporting parents in understanding their unique communication’.The post-holder will be an advocate and ambassador for the Brazelton Centre UK nationally and internationally.
Terms
The Brazelton is committed to equal opportunities and can offer flexible working.
This is a part-time role (3 days per week / 7.5 hours per day or flexibly over 4 or 5 days), based on 60% pro-rata of an annual FTE salary of £33,000-£38,000 pa, depending on experience.
About us
The Brazelton Centre UK aims to support the transition and adjustment to parenthood, focusing on the development and mental health needs of both babies and parents. Holding the baby in mind, our charity, which is research and practice based, enables health professionals to facilitate relationship building between parents and their newborn babies at a time that is experienced as a major life event. The philosophy of the organisation is one of enabling effective service development, appropriate clinical intervention and sharing of expertise.
The Centre, established in Cambridge in 1997, is a training organisation for health professionals and researchers who work with babies and parents. We offer training courses in the Newborn Behavioural Observations System (NBO) and Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton Centre UK is one of four Centres in the world, teaching the NBO and NBAS, and the most active. Brazelton UK works in partnership with other organisations on training, surveys and research, including third sector organisations, universities, NHS trusts and organisations providing support for the under-fives. Almost 6,000 practitioners have undertaken the UK training courses in the NBO or NBAS.
The Centre currently has a staff of 6, from different professional groups, in a range of roles, with 18 Trainers (including 2 Master Trainers, 6 Senior Trainers) UK-wide, able to teach specific courses as required.
The charity has a Board of Trustees.The Operational Manager will report directly to the Director and be ultimately accountable to the Board of Trustees.
This post may entail some travelling in the UK and abroad for meetings.
Our charity’s work was inspired by the work of the outstanding paediatrician, Dr T Berry Brazelton.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Atlantic Institute was established in 2016 with the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and in collaboration with the Rhodes Trust, Oxford (UK).
At the Atlantic Institute we are committed to building a lifelong community of courageous changemakers who together will accelerate the eradication of inequity and injustice resulting in fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. Our Fellows and Staff are accomplished leaders working in diverse settings and contexts, who together think, learn, incubate and implement strategies for greater impact. The diversity of our fellows is unprecedented and we are committed to the radical inclusion of these leaders as agents of change in communities most impacted by social, economic, racial and health inequities. We provide them with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity.
In the current global environment of a pandemic, the courageous work to eradicate inequities is more urgently needed than ever. To support, deepen and sustain our community’s impact at this critical juncture, we have therefore created several new permanent roles, including:
- Associate Executive Director (Community, Programming and Impact)
- Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead
- Program and Impact Lead (Innovation and Special Projects)
- Learning and Evaluation Lead
- Data Insight Analyst.
Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead
The Atlantic Institute expects technological advances to shift the frontier between the work tasks performed by staff at the Institute and those performed by new and emerging technologies. New technologies will also impact on the way that we build a global community and facilitate global convenings and we want to ensure that our community does not just become a passive recipient of new technologies but becomes a leading critic and conscience of society.
We’re looking for an Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead who will research, evaluate, implement and test new and innovative ways of using emerging technologies for building the Atlantic global community. This will include co-ordinating a global think-tank of experts in the AR, VR and AI fields and accelerating our work in developing a world-class media lab for exploring virtual engagement and collaboration.
Core competencies
Consistent with all roles at the Atlantic Institute, it is essential that you demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse root causes of inequities and show a commitment (in thinking and in action) to fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies. In addition, you will have the following skills, experience, and qualifications:
- Experience with AR and VR technologies and development
- Moderate to advance proficiency in at last one XR platform such as Unity
- Strong background in design, conceptualisation, storyboarding and adobe creative suite
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent in computer science with strong research and writing skills
- Excellent project management skills.
Terms of appointment
Subject to a satisfactory probationary period of 6 months, this is a permanent role.
The Rhodes Trust participates in the USS pension scheme, enrols staff for private health insurance on successful completion of probation and offers 25 days’ leave plus public holidays each year.
To find out more on the role and how to apply, please view the attached job description.
Please submit your application to us by 12:00 (BST) on Friday 24th July 2020.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.