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Are you passionate about improving the lives of those experiencing homelessness and social exclusion? Join homelessness charity Emmaus UK as our new Director of Partnerships and Federation Development.

About Emmaus

Emmaus is a secular organisation supporting homeless and socially excluded people by providing a home for as it is needed, meaningful work in a social enterprise and a sense of belonging and community. There are currently 30 Emmaus communities in the UK stretching from Glasgow to Dover and Norfolk to South Wales, collectively supporting more than 850 people. We understand that a home is more than just a roof over your head; it’s somewhere to belong, where you feel part of a community, and that’s what Emmaus offers.

About the Role

As a critical member of the strategic leadership team (SLT) for Emmaus UK, the Director of Partnerships and Federation Development will take lead responsibility for ensuring the provision of high-quality support, advice, capacity building and grant-making for federation members in the UK.

The postholder will play a key role in the development of national strategic partnerships and will collaborate with federation members to ensure that federation strategic priorities are delivered and that our colleagues across the federation are able to do their very best work supporting people to overcome homelessness and poverty.

The role will also ensure effective programme and project management of directorate projects and work to embed cross-directorate working and co-operation.

If you are interested in the role, please submit a completed Application Form and the Equality & Diversity Form using the Application Pack for guidance.

Emmaus UK is a secular organisation, committed to equality and inclusion and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 17th June 2024. Please email application to us. (email address is in the application pack) 

Those shortlisted will be invited to an interview conducted via Microsoft Teams, on Tuesday 2nd July and Wednesday 3rd July 2024.

If you would like to arrange an informal discussion about the role, please email us. 

An Emmaus UK organogram is available on request.

Are you an experienced philanthropy fundraiser with a proven track record of securing major gifts?

Position: Philanthropy Officer
Type: Full-time (35 hours a week), permanent
Location: Office-based in London, N4 with flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £36,309 - £38,786 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band F1

About us

We make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK. 

Our strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference. 

About this job

We’re delivering some of the most exciting major gift fundraising in the UK and we’re looking for a new Philanthropy Officer to join our creative and energetic team.

Working collaboratively, you’ll be securing significant gifts to help us deliver services to people living with MS, and work hand-in-hand with our Research team to raise funds for our pioneering research programme.

You’ll be identifying, engaging with and stewarding a mix of cold and warm major donors and prospects.

We have a highly committed Appeal Board, which brings together high profile, engaged and well-connected individuals passionate about the cause and our ambitious plans for the future

This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your philanthropy fundraising experience so far and make a difference for our MS community.

We recognise the significant and excellent contributions; experience; and skills our employees bring to the MS Society.

Working with external pay and reward consultants, we’re taking active steps this year to review our employees’ pay and benefits package. Ensuring we’re aligned with the most accurate and up-to-date benchmarks for the UK charity sector.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Tuesday 25 June 2024
Anticipated interview date: Monday 1 and Wednesday 3 July 2024

PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.

More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to): 

Encouraging work life balance

• 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
• More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
• Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us) 
• Flexible working options 

Caring for you and your family 

• Generous sick pay entitlement
• More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment 
• Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year 
• Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis 
• Enhanced leave for new parents 
• Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
• Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
• 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time 
• 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time 
• New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
• In the event of miscarriage or still birth 
• To support fertility treatments
• For antenatal appointments for both parents
• Cycle to work scheme 
• Death in service scheme

Thinking about your finances 

• Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
• Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
• New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing

Enriching your life at work

• Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
• Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
• New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely 
• Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups) 
• Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support 
• 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community) 
• 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal

Equal Opportunities 
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.

We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application. 

Disability Confident Employer 
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.

You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.

If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.

Safeguarding 
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.

This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.

We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.

We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.

Your right to work in the UK 
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.

You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.

No agencies please.

Job description

Are you passionate about patient and public engagement, effecting system change, and improving services? Are you confident to design and carry out research, and tell the story of the findings in briefings and reports?  Do you relish building relationships with external partners, and working together to bring about change? If so, we’d love to work with you to improve the experiences of people using health and social care services in Barnet.

As our Senior Research & Participation Officer, you will be working on an exciting new project to improve primary care access for residents. Your flair for planning and logistics will enable you to both gather evidence about the experiences of Barnet residents, and to collate existing data. You’ll also be comfortable producing accessible how-to guidance, to enable people experiencing health inequalities to access services.

The role will involve building effective relationships with stakeholders including GP Practice Managers, voluntary sector organisations and NHS Integrated Care Board partners. You will work with these stakeholders constructively and persuasively, to seed partnership initiatives and achieve positive change for Barnet residents.

In return for your commitment to the cause, you will become part of a friendly and supportive team, working within a focused but flexible culture, where diversity is valued and you can bring your whole self to work.   

Applicants must have lived experience of disability, which could include a mental health issue or other long term condition. 

Interviews with held online on the 2nd and 3rd of July.

About Healthwatch

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 required each local authority area to set up a Healthwatch organisation. Healthwatch gives people a powerful voice both locally and nationally. At a local level, Healthwatch Barnet works to help people get the best from their health and social care services, whether it's improving them today, or helping to shape them for tomorrow. Healthwatch Barnet is about local voices being able to influence the delivery and design of their services, not just for the people who use them, but anyone who might need to use them in future.

Healthwatch Barnet transferred to Inclusion Barnet on 1st April 2020. It is commissioned by the London Borough of Barnet to provide the following 6 key functions:

· Gather views and understand the experiences of patients and the public

· Make people’s views known

· Promote and support the involvement of people in the commissioning and provision of local care services and how they are scrutinised

· Recommend investigation or special review of services via Healthwatch England or directly to the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

· Provide advice and information (signposting) about access to services and support for making informed choices

· Making the views and experiences of local people known to Healthwatch England (and to other local Healthwatch organisations) and providing a steer to help it carry out its role as national champion

About Inclusion Barnet

Inclusion Barnet is a thriving peer-led charity based in North-West London. We believe in the power of experience, and this is demonstrated by all our services being led, developed, and delivered by people with lived experience of disability, including mental health issues and long-term conditions. We believe that learning to use our lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing the lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers, and people who use our services to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services. We believe that this benefits both disabled people and society more widely. We also work to support other organisations to do the same. Our work is very much influenced by the Social Model of Disability. 

Neighbourhood Watch is the largest volunteer led crime prevention and community development charity in the UK. We are expanding our small paid Central Support Team as we have increased our funding through grants and sponsorship. The Project Coordinator role offers an exciting opportunity to play a fundamental role in a range of impactful projects that drive positive change in communities. Collaborating with a dynamic and diverse team, you'll be at the heart of shaping and streamlining transformative projects, amplifying your skills in project management, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving. This role is perfect for someone looking to work towards building a just and community focused world.

The Project Coordinator role is responsible for the smooth running of our projects and programmes. Working closely with our Heads of Department, the Chief Executive and our Administrator, ensuring that our projects are delivered to a high standard, and that our partners have a positive experience working with us.

ABOUT GET FURTHER

One in three students leave school each year without a pass in GCSE English and maths - this rises to over one in two for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Without GCSEs in English and maths, these young people are significantly more likely to drop out of education and are locked out of key professions, apprenticeships, and university courses.

Get Further exists to change this. Our charity has an award-winning tuition programme that helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds in further education to pass GCSEs in English or maths. We place highly qualified, specialist English and maths tutors in further education, who deliver a bespoke curriculum that builds confidence and skills in these core subjects.

OUR TEAM, CULTURE AND BENEFITS 

Our central team comprises some 30 members, all motivated to reduce educational disadvantage and ensure young people get the gateway qualifications they need to succeed. We currently employ around 200 tutors. Our main office is in London, although we also have team members based across the country. We promote a supportive, collaborative, and positive working environment. 

 Benefits include:

• 36 days of holidays per year (including bank holidays)
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Flexible hybrid and remote working
• Quarterly ‘in-person’ team development days at our offices in London
• The opportunity to work in a progressive and socially conscious, growing organisation where we can have an outsized impact on its success and development.

THE ROLE

The Senior Data and Insights Officer will help us to demonstrate the importance of our tuition for young people and adults who are undertaking these foundational qualifications.

You will have strong attention-to-detail and will make sure our data is relevant, accurate and confidential. You will be skilled in data analysis and interpretation: able to draw out insights from data and be confident in writing – and communicating – impact for a variety of purposes and audiences. 

As the Senior Data and Insights Officer you will work with the Director of Impact, within our Quality and Impact Team to:

Database Usage and Reporting  

• Support our Salesforce Lead in creating reports and dashboards, ensuring all data is relevant, accurate and secure.
• Use our database management system to generate reports and data analysis for the Senior Leadership Team, and other internal colleagues, to support marketing campaigns, fundraising campaigns, statutory information requests and organisational insight.
• Prepare reports for college partners, funders, and the Board, which set out our data, findings and impact, clearly and accurately. 
• • Confidently write about insights and findings from our data, generating learnings and recommendations for the organisation and other stakeholders.

Internal and External Evaluations

• Support the Director of Impact in developing assessment frameworks to robustly measure our impact and designing dissemination plans, to best harness and communicate that impact. 
• Oversee and implement internal evaluation activity, for example, finalising student surveys, focus group and interview tools. 
• Review and enhance data collection tools, process, analysis, and reporting. 
• Undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis of our evaluation data; and use the data to make recommendations to improve programme quality. 
• Review and keep abreast of literature and research in the further education, wider education, tuition and research landscape. You will share and apply learnings to our evaluation processes and programme delivery. 
• Manage large research projects with external evaluators.

Policy, Compliance & Quality Assurance 

• Support our ongoing compliance with GDPR across the organisation, as well as upholding our safeguarding frameworks.
• Implement policies and procedures relating to GDPR and ensure those policies are adhered to across the organisation. 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL 

• Commitment to Get Further’s mission and values, including passionate about tackling educational inequality.
• Familiarity with database systems, like Salesforce (or able and interested in learning to use a database management system).
• Skilled in data analysis: able to use complex data to produce accurate, insightful and engaging findings and recommendations. 
• Research experience e.g. designing qualitative and quantitative instruments, survey design, knowledge of research designs (QED, RCT), ethical considerations, participatory research.
• IT skills e.g. MS Office (Word and Excel) and also data analytics software like Tableau and PowerBi.
• Project management experience: excellent at planning and managing projects, tracking key deliverables, overseeing budgets and financial controls. 
• Knowledge of GDPR requirements, policies, processes and organisational compliance. 
• Strong attention to detail, prioritises precision and accuracy. 
• Problem-solver: enjoys troubleshooting and demonstrates a ‘solution-oriented’ approach. 
• Excellent communication skills (including written and verbal skills).
• Excellent interpersonal skills: is proactive, enthusiastic, resilient and supportive team member. 
• Organised, excellent time management and can work well independently.
• Committed to safeguarding the young people we work with via compliance with safeguarding frameworks and keeping confidential / sensitive information secure. 

DESIRABLE

• Familiarity with the FE sector.
• Has experience of and/or overseen research trials (e.g. Randomised Control Trials or Quasi-Experimental Designs).

HOW TO APPLY 

Your application must include: 

• A CV of no more than 2 sides of A4; and 
• A supporting statement which includes your answers to the following three questions: 

1. Why do you want to work for Get Further? (250 words);
2. Please demonstrate your relevant skills and experience, as related to the three aspects of the role(600 words): 
   1. Database Usage and Reporting;
   2. Internal and External Evaluations;
   3. Policy, Compliance and Quality Assurance.
3. If your application is successful, what two aspects of the role would be the biggest challenge for you, and how would you resolve these challenges? (250 words) 

Please send your application by 10pm on 16th June. Incomplete applications will not be processed. First round online interviews will be held during the w/c 24th June, followed by a second in-person interview the w/c 1st July 2024.

This is a UK-based post and applicants must be living in and have the right to work the UK; if applicable please detail your visa status in your covering email. Get Further is an equal opportunities employer and will not discriminate against any candidate on the basis of any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made throughout the recruitment process. 

• Manage the working practice and support the development of team members within the Programmes team including direct line management of the x2 Senior Expedition Coordinators.
• Recruit and induct senior expedition leaders (Chief Leaders) with the support of the Programmes team.
• Act as the key contact for Chief Leaders during the planning phases of expedition programmes.
• Act as the first port of call for all queries relating to operational management.
• Support the Curriculum, Impact and Training Manager, in the management, planning and delivery of training events for both Leaders and Young Explorers.
• Support and guide Chief Leaders and wider expedition leader teams to develop robust and developmental operational plans.
• Contract efficiently and liaise effectively with third-party providers in-country to ensure logistical plans and support is in place to develop programme itineraries.
• Recruit and assess high quality and appropriately skilled volunteer leader teams for upcoming expeditions. 
• Support the Head of Programmes and Expeditions to develop expedition budgets and forecast expenditure to inform future planning.
• Manage processes and relationships with team members and external providers to ensure cost-effective practice.
• Support senior expedition leaders to deliver expeditions on budget.
• Manage the process of reconciliation following the return of our programmes.
• Review and develop organisational policies and operating procedures to ensure and maintain best practice, working with Technical Advisors as appropriate.
• Liaise with external auditors as appropriate to ensure compliance with BSI 8848, AALA and the Learning Outside the Classroom quality assurance criteria.
• Support expedition Chief Leaders and colleagues to develop risk and incident management protocols appropriate for the expedition location and client group.
• Participate in the Operations Sub-Committee and main board meetings with trustees as necessary.
• Represent the charity as an ambassador in a range of public fora.
• The Expedition Manager may be delegated responsibility for the oversight and development of specific process areas as appropriate.
• Liaise with external suppliers to arrange and review annual staff training for the Duty Operations team. 
• Be ‘on call’ during operational periods as part of a duty rota.
• Act as Senior Duty Officer to lead, manage and coordinate responses to field incidents or crises.

Westway Trust are seeking an energetic and enthusiastic individual who will support our vision of putting the community at the centre of everything we do, and will be committed to the value of participative community engagement.  You will also have a great understanding of the needs of diverse communities and commitment to equality of opportunity.

You will have strong influencing skills, and will have the right blend and balance of people skills with excellent communication and project management abilities. You’ll be comfortable in connecting with the wider community, able to listen, gather the views of local people, and feed these back into our wider programme of work. 

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Member Engagement

• Design and implement a community engagement strategy, this is to nurture positive relationships and information flow with different groups including Members, Tenants, Start-Ups, Community Groups and Community Organisations.
• In partnership with the Events Manager, activate an events programme, which creates opportunities for Member Organisations and other community groups and stakeholders to contribute to the Trust’s broader activities and development plans.

Key Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead on the instigation, scheduling and management of the Trust’s relationship with Community Forums and the relevant convenors.
• Be responsible for effective stakeholder management and mapping, to include local residents, local businesses and local voluntary sector groups to ensure maximum reach.
• Attend community meetings on behalf of Westway Trust to listen and engage in conversations about local issues and update them on the Trust’s activities. These meetings are primarily in the evening.

Institutional Racism Report

• Playing a key role with stakeholder groups on dissemination on the Tutu Foundation Report and the progress as the Trust moves towards eliminating ‘institutional racism’.

Grants & Community Investments

• Support the grants and impact manager in engagement with applicants of Westway Trust’s grants programmes, nurturing positive relationships with successful and unsuccessful applicants.

General Duties

• Support the development of new, refurbished, and existing spaces with innovative community development projects and events.
• In time you may be required to line manage at least one member of staff.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of designing and delivering high quality, proactive and impactful community engagement activities, with a track record of creating innovative solutions to engage with people, particularly seldom heard community groups.
• Clear evidence of sound judgement and of an ability to evaluate options to make appropriate recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ideally with experience of writing Board/Committee papers with the ability to present persuasive arguments to senior stakeholders in a formal setting.
• At least 1 year experience of line management.
• Understanding of the needs of diverse communities and commitment to equality of opportunity

The application deadline is Sunday 30 June when applications will be reviewed and shortlisted for interview.  However, we reserve the right to close the application early.  An early application is strongly recommended.

New Horizon Youth Centre has been commissioned by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) as part of an Alliance with Safer London, St Giles Trust and the Anna Freud Centre to deliver on their Children and Young People’s Violence and Exploitation and Reduction support service. The commission will run from June 2024 for three years. As part of this, we are recruiting a brand new Partnerships Manager role to lead on opening up bedspaces, pathways and partnerships to improve outcomes for this client group. This role presents an exciting opportunity to create real sustainable change. We are looking for someone with demonstrable experience in partnership and stakeholder engagement who knows how to get and keep people on board to meet mutual or differing needs. The ideal candidate will be a confident, natural networker. You need to be persuasive but able to understand the perspectives and challenges that exist in this space. Key to achieving our vision is the passion. You must be genuinely passionate about supporting young people who are impacted by violence, exploitation and the criminal justice system and ideally, have previous frontline experience within relevant services.

• Starting salary: £37,024
• Deadline to apply: 9am Monday 24 June

For more details on how to apply and Job Specification, please refer to our Job Pack.

Candidates must have permission to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visa applications.

Location: Home-based within 90 minutes travel of Central London, with occasional national and international travel  

Contract: Full-time for ~six months (July-December 2024), with possibility of extension dependent on funding

Reporting to: Head of Communications and Engagement

Salary: £28,000 p/a 

Additional benefits: 30 days annual leave plus public holidays, generous pension contribution, life assurance and access to an employee assistance programme  

Summary of role 

Reporting to the Head of Communications and Engagement, this role will provide critical support during a busy period, until the end of 2024.

Broad communications and engagement tasks range from content creation, maintaining project plans and records, handling logistics and the creation of communications materials for events, to processing membership applications and assisting with a new youth campaign.

Additionally, the role involves providing occasional executive assistance to the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. 

A key focus for the organisation during this time will be on the successful delivery of the 2024 Global Summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 4-5 December. The 2024 Global Summit is a high-profile event involving numerous stakeholders, including senior officials from government, private sector, and civil society organizations worldwide. 

This remote position is based in the UK, with occasional travel to Central London and travel to the UAE in early December 2024.

The ideal candidate should be proactive, passionate about project management and communication, quick to learn, and have excellent attention to detail. This opportunity is also a great way to gain experience in communications while focusing on logistics and coordination.

About WeProtect Global Alliance 

The internet was not created with children in mind and can be unsafe for children to explore. Every phone and computer is a potential gateway for offenders seeking to sexually exploit children. Our Alliance generates political commitment and practical approaches to make the digital world safe and positive for children, preventing sexual abuse and long-term harm.   

Our Alliance’s geographical reach is unprecedented: 102 countries are members along with 73 private sector companies, 113 civil society and 10 intergovernmental organisations. This diverse membership is key to our ability to deliver real change. Together, we break down complex problems and develop policies and solutions to protect children from sexual abuse online. More information on who we are and what we do can be found on our website.

WeProtect Global Alliance is supported by a high-performing secretariat of eleven staff based in the UK and Belgium and is guided by an influential Global Policy Board. 

Job description 

Overall purpose of role 

Key responsibilities include: 

1. Broad support to the Communications and Engagement team, including: 

• Helping draft content for the Alliance newsletter, website and social media. 

• Supporting delivery of online webinars and roundtables, managing registrations and following up on enquiries. 

• Completing due diligence checks on new membership applications. 

• Supporting the update of key membership information and presentations. 

• Supporting delivery of a participation roundtable of our members.

• Supporting delivery of a youth campaign, providing project support and liaison with external stakeholders.

2. Event coordination tasks, including supporting the successful delivery of our 2024 Global Summit: 

• Maintaining events project plans and liaising across teams to ensure tasks, activities and deliverables are captured, up-to-date and accurate. 

• Collating content including delegate information packs, programme content and other collateral, liaising across the team and with Alliance members and external suppliers. 

• Tracking and monitoring enquiries about the Summit and coordinating responses. 

• Ensuring our CRM is kept up to date with accurate contact details and is GDPR compliant. 

• Supporting in setting up of and managing event registration including responding to registration queries, processing registrations, monitor registrations and escalate queries as necessary.

The role will also provide occasional administrative support to the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer (~10% of the role’s time). This will include supporting diary management, booking travel, taking meeting notes, collating papers and briefs, and assisting with general administrative support on tasks, as required.

If time allows, the role may also be required to support other team projects across the Alliance Secretariat. 

Wider organisational responsibilities  

• Commit to the mission and values of WeProtect Global Alliance, putting these at the forefront of all work and actions. 

• Ensure that a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is reflected in all work.  

• Comply with all organisational codes, policies and processes. 

• Attend and actively participate in regular line management check-ins and whole team meetings, preparing updates and discussion topics, as necessary. 

• Prepare and deliver reports for SMT members, as necessary. 

• Ensure that the CRM, project management documents, impact measurement tracking and other internal databases are kept fully up to date. 

• Commit to ongoing personal development and learning. 

• Travel locally, nationally and internationally for work events. 

• Fulfil any other reasonable requests to support the best interests of WeProtect Global Alliance. 

Person Specification 

Essential skills, experience and knowledge

• A minimum of two years’ experience working in a similar role. 

• Project administration experience. 

• Strong communications skills, with native English language proficiency. 

• Experience working with detailed project management plans. 

• Excellent drafting and editing skills for a range of formats, including for articles, briefings, and reports, with a keen eye for attention to detail. 

• Strong organisational skills, including ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise workloads. 

• Strong interpersonal skills, with a friendly and professional demeanour. 

• High attention to detail and accuracy in data entry. 

• Able to work independently and as part of a small team. 

• The right to work in the UK. 

Desirable skills, experience and knowledge

• Prior event organisation experience. 

• Prior experience of working with newsletter programmes, content management systems such as WordPress as well as design programmes such as Canva or Adobe Express/InDesign. 

• Fluency in another language. 

Diversity, inclusion and equity 

We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. We particularly welcome applicants from ethnic minorities and other under-represented groups.  

Safeguarding and values 

As a child-focused organisation, we have a strong commitment to child safeguarding and rigorous procedures. The successful candidate will be required to provide two referees and to undergo a criminal record check.  

All staff are expected to act at all times in a manner consistent with our values and in compliance with our policies and procedures, including our Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Our values are:  

• Empowerment – collaboration, innovation, challenge 

• Accountability – responsibility, delivery, safeguarding 

• Respect – honesty, feedback, inclusion 

The role will represent operations as part of the Senior Management Team of the People, Operations & Assurance Directorate, working closely with colleagues to lead the organisation in delivering Start Network’s strategic objectives and priorities.

This role will contribute to Start Network being a strong, compliant, decentralised and resilient organisation by ensuring that wherever staff are based, they have the tools to do their job, are working with relevant and up to date systems and are supported by clearly articulated policies and processes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

• As operations business partner, understand Start Network’s strategy to develop and maintain high quality operations functions to achieve the charity’s priorities

• Lead on the delivery of the Operation Team’s annual business plan and budget, including managing centrally allocated interpreting and consultancy pots

• Co-lead the organisational annual business planning, budget process and associated statutory and board reports to ensure consistency and alignment with legal requirements and organisational strategy

• Role model cross-team collaboration and leadership as a member of Senior Management Team

For more information and to apply, click on 'Apply Via Website'

We have a new and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, efficient and organised Administrator to join us as a Professional Standards Administrator at The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) - a medical charity focussing on supporting doctors to deliver medical imaging and cancer services.

The Professional Standards Administrator role sits in our high performing Professional Practice & Quality Improvement team who works to produce a comprehensive program of standards and guidance promoting the RCR’s expertise as leaders in these areas. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the Professional Standards Manager and team in the delivery of key workstreams by providing administrative support across a range of projects. You will need to have good attention to detail and be an efficient multi-tasker as you will also provide secretariat support to allocated committees and working parties.

If you are a proficient and proactive Administrator who is seeking to develop in their administrative career in an impactful role for an organisation with a meaningful mission, then this may be the role for you.

What you’ll do:

· Provide day-to-day support to the Professional Standards Manager to facilitate the programme of professional standards.

· Provide general administrative support to the team.

· Collate and circulate information to committees or relevant groups.

· Support the organisation and delivery of webinars and online events.

· Provide secretariat support (committee servicing) to allocated committees or working parties as directed.

What you’ll need:

• Experience of successful working within a team and the provision of a professional, friendly and reactive service to colleagues and/or customers.
• Experience of undertaking general administrative tasks and responsibilities.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritise work with competing demands.

Why join us?

• Make a difference to the lives of Doctors and the specialities they work in every day!
• Hybrid working (40% working week can be done remotely)
• Modern working environment
• Equipment provided to work from home
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Excellent pension scheme
• Interest free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

The role is 14 hours/2 days a week. The requirement is to work from the office every Thursday and there may be the occasional need to come in on some Fridays for which advanced notice will be given. The number of hours worked in the office and flexible working arrangements can be discussed during interview.

If the Professional Standards Administrator role sounds like the next exciting opportunity for you then please find out more about the role, the RCR and instructions on how to apply through the candidate pack.

We are currently looking for a PBS Specialist to join our team at TreeHouse School.

Our Integrated Services comprises of dynamic teams of Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) Specialists, working in our education settings. Enhancing the quality of life of autistic children and young people is central to all we do.

As a PBS Specialist you will be passionate about improving the quality of life of children and young people with autism and learning disabilities. You will provide specialist behavioural assessments and interventions to the children and young people in the setting in which you are primarily based. This will involve undertaking direct assessment and intervention, and indirect assessment and monitoring with class teams with a fluid caseload determined and prioritised by the needs of the cohort.

We are looking for someone that is:

• Experienced in the use of complex methods of functional assessment and intervention.
• A Board Certified Behavioural Analyst or has master's level training in Positive Behaviour Support or equivalent experience/qualification.
• Experienced in the implementation of a range of impactful specialist behavioural assessment and interventions with children and young people with autism, learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge.
• Knowledgeable in the latest research evidence and PBS practice in the UK.

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible working, home working out of term time and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment and information packs on the link below.

If you would like more information about the role or would like an informal, confidential discussion please contact Stephen Vickers.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

We are currently looking for a PBS Specialist to join our team at Ambitious College.

Our Integrated Services comprises of dynamic teams of Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) Specialists, working in our education settings. Enhancing the quality of life of autistic children and young people is central to all we do.

As a PBS Specialist you will be passionate about improving the quality of life of children and young people with autism and learning disabilities. You will provide specialist behavioural assessments and interventions to the children and young people in the setting in which you are primarily based. This will involve undertaking direct assessment and intervention, and indirect assessment and monitoring with class teams with a fluid caseload determined and prioritised by the needs of the cohort.

We are looking for someone that is:

• Experienced in the use of complex methods of functional assessment and intervention.
• A Board Certified Behavioural Analyst or has master's level training in Positive Behaviour Support or equivalent experience/qualification.
• Experienced in the implementation of a range of impactful specialist behavioural assessment and interventions with children and young people with autism, learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge.
• Knowledgeable in the latest research evidence and PBS practice in the UK.

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible working, home working out of term time and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment and information packs on the link below.

If you would like more information about the role or would like an informal, confidential discussion please contact Stephen Vickers.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

Finance Manager

Location: Hybrid - Southwest London, SW17 9SH
Job Type: Full time or Part-time suit individual – minimum 3 days a week
Contract Type: Interim
Salary: £42,000 - £45,000 pa dependent on experience

Would you like to be part of our clients current success to grow and build a stronger presence in the HIV sector?

They are looking for a Finance Manager with responsibility for all areas of financial management and control and for ensuring the charity remains sustainable and resilient.

Since its foundation in 1989, our client has provided support to - and challenged stigma towards - those living with HIV. Using revenue generated by their nine charity shops located in south London, as well as fundraiser events, they have given over £1 million in grants to HIV-related projects and organisations during the last ten years alone.

As an important member of the Senior Management Team, you will work closely with the Board and the Chief Executive, to support the running and growth of the organisation. You will provide advice and report on organisational finance and ensure that the financial records of the charity are effectively maintained.

• They are looking for someone with a solid understanding of financial management and accounting.
• You may or may not be a qualified accountant.
• They are looking for someone proactive who can think about finance strategically and is keen to get involved in our mission as a whole.

What they can offer you

This is a great opportunity for a finance professional to add value beyond the traditional remit of a Finance Manager and to bring their skills to bear to professionalise them and their working environment.

Working to the remit of the Board, and as part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will assist in implementing the charity’s longer-term strategy over a sustained period to safeguard their future.

How to apply

Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter which should indicate why you are interested in applying for this role, your availability and how you meet the selection criteria.

If you would like a call to discuss the role in more detail, Having a call of this kind will not influence the success or otherwise of your application.

They want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact them if you require any assistance or adjustment so that they can help with making the application process work for you.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 19th June. Interviews will take place w/c 24 June.

As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity they actively and warmly encourage applications from a broad range of backgrounds.

You may also have experience in the following: Financial Controller, Finance Manager, Group Controller, Management Accountant, Chief Accountant, Finance Director, Finance Controller, Company Accountant, Group Accountant, Finance Accountant, Financial Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Legal Finance etc.

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