Are you a senior Finance professional who has successfully contributed to strategy and influenced organisational decisions whilst ensuring an excellent delivery of financial management through enabling others? Have you got a track record of achieving financial objectives and developing financial systems including external statutory reporting and audit in a complex setting? If this is you, please read on.

We have an exceptional and rewarding opportunity for you to use your gifts and experience to influence one of the largest dioceses in England serving 2.4 million people (growing rapidly) with a proactive strategic agenda that has emerged from the needs and opportunities of our communities. The role includes everything that one would expect to go with overseeing the finances of charities with a turnover of about £27 million p.a., investments of about £130m and over 100 staff.  You will join a well-established senior management group with shared Christian ethos, vision and strategic aims who are committed to see growth and make a difference.  

The principal accountabilities of the role are to:

• advise the Diocesan Synod and its Boards and Councils on financial strategy and planning
• lead the development and delivery of diocesan financial policy and practice
• oversee the provision and development of IT and data analysis
• head up a department of 9 staff members

The successful candidate will be a qualified Accountant, with considerable experience in financial planning and delivery, preferably in a variety of organisations. Naturally you'll be self-motivated and think analytically when maintaining robust financial controls. As a collaborative Christian leader with excellent communication skills, high emotional intelligence, resilience and humour, you will make a difference to the communities we serve and contribute to the growth of the Church.

We offer a range of benefits including an on-site café, free parking, generous remuneration package and an opportunity to work with skilled colleagues in an attractive modern office environment.

The post is subject to the requirement that the holder be a practising Christian, under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 as this post has a senior representational role on behalf of the Church in the Diocese of Oxford.

Hours:FTE 37 hours per week
Location:       Church House Oxford, Langford Locks, Kidlington, OX5 1GF

For further details on the role, including a Candidate’s Brief and how to apply please visit our website.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 09:00 Monday 23 March 2020

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 1 April 2020

We are committed to equal opportunities for all

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These are uncertain times for some employers, but we need you more than ever

This is a great time to join our dedicated care and education teams at St Elizabeth’s Centre, supporting adults and children with epilepsy and severe neurological conditions. We have been doing this since we were founded in 1903 – and as a registered charity you will be making a positive difference to our service users who really need your help.

We have a range of roles available, primarily in care, but we are also looking for a variety of people to work with us. Take a look at our website for further information.

We have permanent positions available, to include senior care roles. We also offer the opportunity for new colleagues to join our bank scheme - so you can fit work around other commitments.

No experience is necessary - our amazing training team will teach you all you need to know.

We are based on a lovely 68 acre rural site just outside Much Hadham. For some roles, subsidised transport is available from Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Sawbridgeworth. We are about to extend this to Hertford and Ware.

To find out more about our available opportunities please visit our website and contact details if you would like to get in touch!

Support Worker (Adults / Children)

At St Elizabeth’s we don’t do jobs… We build careers. Join us as a carer.

Would you like to join a compassionate, aspirational organisation that aims to bring joy to the lives of the residents we care for?

St Elizabeth’s is situated in 68 acres of Hertfordshire parkland between Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford. We support people with Epilepsy and other complex needs from the age of 5 through to 78 in our Children’s Home, School, College, Residential Homes with nursing and Day Centre. Over 150 adults and children call St Elizabeth’s their home making us an inspirational place to do great work.

Position: Care & Support Worker (Adults / Children)
Location: St Elizabeth's Centre, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6EW
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: mixture of early and late shifts (7.15am – 2.45pm and 2.15pm – 9.45pm), night positions, and weekend work across our full- time, part-time, casual and weekend positions available
Salary: £17,227 - £21,691 per annum (£8.86- £11.12 per hour) plus weekend enhancements and overtime opportunities.
Benefits: Currently a 50% uplift on your salary for working overtime on a Saturday & Sunday for full time permanent employees, Fully paid for DBS, Opportunity to pursue recognised qualifications of your own, Fabulous staff development – fully funded for you by the Centre, Free on-site parking, Subsidised restaurant, High Street retail / leisure discounts, Generous holidays, Discounted gym membership, Free Life assurance.

About the role:

We currently have exciting Care & Support Worker vacancies in our Adult Home and Children’s Home supporting our residents to live their lives as independently as possible in our well-equipped on site bungalows. Our teams assist with leisure activities such as horse-riding and swimming, alongside general domestic duties and personal care.

About you:

You don’t need experience in care to join us – but you do need to be dedicated, caring and passionate about people. Our on-site training team will support you to achieve fully funded recognised qualifications in Adult Care & Child Care (NVQ 2 & NVQ 3). If you’re an excellent communicator with the desire, resilience, patience and motivation to support others we can offer you an incredibly rewarding role.

Offers are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check paid for by the centre. Please note we are not on a public transport route. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Care Worker, Care Assistant, Healthcare Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Community Support Worker, Disability, Disabilities, Care Staff, Charity, Charities, Not for Profit, NFP, Third Sector, etc.

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Job Profile

The EPO is a full-time position supporting the oversight of an existing humanitarian  portfolio as well as monitoring and developing new partnerships and projects for rapid on-set emergencies.

The position has a multi-regional remit to contribute to the delivery of effective and high-quality humanitarian assistance to new and ongoing humanitarian crises. As part of CAFOD’s Emergency Response Group- the EPO provides programme management and support capacity to humanitarian programmes.  Working with partners is central to CAFOD’s humanitarian response and the EPO will play an important role in identifying, and supporting partners to prepare for, mitigate the impact of, and respond to disasters and crises by providing support, knowledge and building long-term capacity.  All roles undertaken by the EPO will have the aim of achieving peace, security and recovery in accordance with CAFOD’s mission and values.

The post will seek to support regional and national CAFOD staff as necessary.  The building and maintenance of day to day relationships with partners is essential to the job. The role will be expected to work closely together with International Development Group (IDG) country teams when a disaster strikes and on other ongoing pieces of work.

Job Scope

A key component of this role is to be a part of CAFOD's Emergency Response Group (ERG) – providing immediate support to our humanitarian responses in Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Caribbean, as well as remote support for country teams. As a result of numerous rapid onset emergencies within these regions in recent years ERG has been working on a wide portfolio which has included several large programmes (Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Nepal earthquakes, Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Indonesia Tsunami and Earthquakes).

This role will be expected to be able to support a wide range of humanitarian responses with different thematic focus and in different areas of the world. The primary focus is expected to be on Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean rather than the Middle East. The post holder may be asked to support other regions on a needs basis.

The EPO in conjunction with regional teams supports ongoing humanitarian programmes and maintains, holds and supports key partnerships. The post holder will also function as the main contact person for partners and projects that do not fall under a country programme in the International Development Group but where CAFOD has emergency programmes/projects and/or a strategic engagement (For example: Nepal, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Haiti, Venezuela and Antilles).

A lot of work and effort has gone into building relationships with specific partners – this role requires a dedicated person to continue and maintain these relationships in a consistent and positive manner. 

CAFOD’s humanitarian response comes before during and after emergencies. Our three core approaches are: 

(a) Capacity building of partners, in areas such as emergency preparedness, safeguarding, programme management, protection, WASH, food security and financial management. 

(b) Facilitation, in which we work alongside partners to help ensure the delivery of a programme. This is our most common way of working.

(c) Implementation, where CAFOD takes on a more direct implementation role in the delivery of a programme when local partners lack the capacity to scale up rapidly. 

An important part of the EPO role is to provide support to CAFOD programmes, staff and national partners in the implementation of humanitarian programmes, including assessments, monitoring, reviews and evaluations.

Another element of the role includes the provision of support to the Head of Humanitarian Programmes (HHP) and to the Humanitarian Funding Team to enlarge humanitarian partners and donors’ portfolio for those regions.

The post holder will be expected to work closely together and in coordination with relevant IDG country teams, comms/media, and where relevant major donors.

The post holder will provide support in the development of regional humanitarian strategies as well as country level preparedness plans where relevant.

Accountability

The post holder is line managed by the Head of Humanitarian Programmes within the Emergency Response Group. The role does not have line management or budget responsibilities.

The post holder will be expected to work closely with the Humanitarian Funding team; particularly with regard to the technical review of institutional proposals and reports prior to submission to donors.

Key Responsibilities

This role will be required to undertake travel, sometimes at very short notice and to insecure environments.

Emergency programme support (60%)

• Play a lead role in providing programme management of humanitarian responses through remote or field level operational support, and other support as needed such as needs assessment, project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Support the planning and implementation of humanitarian programmes providing technical support and guidance to CAFOD programme staff and partner organisations to deliver high quality assistance in relief, rehabilitation and recovery phases of humanitarian response and preparedness
• Work with the emergency programme team to monitor new and chronic humanitarian crises, support corporate decision making on responses to these crises through timely provision of assessment information and support the development and design of humanitarian responses
• Identify opportunities for scaling up CAFOD’s humanitarian work and support the Humanitarian Funding Officer in the development of proposals for institutional funding and reporting to donors
• Identify, select and support the capacity building of new humanitarian partners in designated regions

Programme quality, systems and standards (30%)

• Support the development and implementation of guidance and policies and maintenance of systems and procedures, in line with CAFOD’s Ways of Working, for ensuring good practice and meeting sectoral standards on accountability and programme quality.
• Engage with the Humanitarian Policy team to ensure CAFOD’s humanitarian policy and advocacy is coherent and effective, and informed by our experience and that of our partners.
• Engage with the External Communication team to ensure CAFOD’s communications for humanitarian programmes is coherent, effective and efficient.

Representation and communication (10%)

• As prioritised, represent CAFOD at interagency fora and build, strengthen relationships with Caritas Internationalis sister agencies, as well as with non-Caritas partners organisations, to promote and aid coordinated humanitarian response 
• Develop supporter communications and work with the media, writing and undertaking interviews both on radio and TV

This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect.  CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse.  CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount.  Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues.  If based in the UK, the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service).  If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process. 

Person Specification /Essential Criteria

Understanding our context

• Actively supports CAFOD’s vision, mission and values and what we aim to achieve
• Commitment to and demonstrated experience of working with humanitarian standards and best practice (Humanitarian Charter, SPHERE, Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, HAP)

Working together

• Proven successes in working with community-based organisations and local partners in the delivery of humanitarian programmes and capacity building, particularly in emergency preparedness and response
• Able to communicate clearly and in a concise manner
• Able to present complex issues simply and clearly in a multi-cultural working environment

 Making change happen

• Proven experience of successfully delivering an operational emergency programmes overseas or in different humanitarian contexts; will tackle conflicts or problems in a balanced way
• Able to contribute towards the Emergency Group strategy and able to determine team plans and objectives and deliver against them in challenging circumstances

Job-specific competencies

Technical skills and experience:

• Master’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in international relief and development
• Experience of designing and leading Emergency Responses
• Proven expertise and understanding of emergency preparedness and response
• Proven successes in working with community-based organisations and local partners in the delivery of humanitarian programmes and capacity building
• Experience of proposal development
• Multi donors experience
• Experience in national partners selection and capacity building

 Humanitarian Leadership and Coordination:

• High-level interpersonal and communications with the ability to effectively influence and liaise with key stakeholders on behalf of and in line with CAFOD’s principles.
• Ability to quickly establish and maintain effective relationships to achieve results in short timeframes
• The ability to work autonomously, take the initiative and proven ability to work creatively, innovatively and effectively to make decisions with limited direct supervision.
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.

 Operating safely in a pressured and changing environment:

• Proven experience in implementing security policy/protocols and ability to provide appropriate direction and support to team members in the event of a critical incident
• Demonstrated ability at being flexible and adaptable to changing situations.
• The ability to remain calm while dealing with conflicting priorities and working under pressure.

 Other:

• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Language skills in Spanish are highly desirable for this position
• Basic financial and budget management skills
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple tasks and implementing systems and procedures

 Desirable Criteria

• Language skills in Arabic and French
• Experience of forecast based financing
• Experience of Cash programming

Please click here for a full list of CAFOD’s Staff Benefits

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

To read more and apply, please visit CAFOD website to begin, completing the application process.