Manchester Mind believes in the power of listening and feeling heard and that a better understanding of mental health benefits everyone.

We do this by providing a range of services across Manchester to young people and adults. A valuable part of this work has been the provision of services to children and young people from our Children and Young People Services offices in Levenshulme. The holistic mix of services delivered includes advice, volunteering, mentoring and counselling. The services have been successfully evaluated and involve young people in design, development and delivery.

Our work is guided by our values of:

Openness | Belonging | Strength | Collaboration

The Service Manager will support staff and play a strategic role in developing the delivery of high quality young people-led services.

We would like to work with someone who is experienced, dynamic and passionate about being able to develop our services for children and young people.

Position: Service Manager, Children & Young People Services

Salary: £35,934

Hours: 35 hours per week

Funding guaranteed until the end of December 2021

(with potential to extend subject to funding).

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Being able to work in an open, supportive and collaborative way.
• Experience of managing and developing mental health services for young people.
• Experience of working strategically.

You can download the application documents from this listing, or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website.

All applications must be received by 12noon, Monday 1st February 2021.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services, or had experience of volunteering.

• Do you have a proven track record in fundraising, development, and communications, and would you like to join an innovative, place-based partnership?
• Do you thrive on rolling your sleeves up and personally getting stuck in, as well as working collaboratively with partners, teams, and boards?
• Are you passionate, as we are, about addressing issues around poverty and inequality?
• If so, then you might be just the person we are looking for to lead our ambitious development and communications strategies for Islington Giving and Cripplegate Foundation.

About you

The new Director of Development and Communications, in addition to having a strong track record in fundraising from a range of donors and sources, will need to be consultative, with strong listening skills and respect for the opinions of others. They will need the confidence and expertise to advise and guide their small team, board, and governors. They will need to be able to relate to the big picture and vision, whilst also being able to consider the detail. We would be delighted to hear from you, especially if you:

• Have a strong track record in fundraising and development.
• Enjoy rolling your sleeves up and leading and implementing fundraising and development plans yourself, as well as guiding others.
• Are flexible, collaborative, and work very well as part of a committed team within a small organisation.
• Have experience of leading and managing.
• Are a strong communicator and relationship builder.
• Have a commitment to ensuring that Islington Giving and Cripplegate Foundation continue to flourish.

We value diversity, equality, and inclusivity. Applications are especially welcomed from underrepresented backgrounds, including but not limited to gender, race, age, sexual orientation, disability, and religion. Please let us know if you would like any additional support with this application, or the role.

Find more information in application pack or on Islington Giving webpage

MumsAid has been growing steadily since 2012 and is at an exciting stage of its development where we are now looking to expand our leadership team, strengthen our operational structures and extend our services and impact.

The COO will have a significant influence in shaping this new post and a vital role in supporting the charity’s growth and sustainability. The COO shall have the primary responsibility of leading the day-to-day core operations of MumsAid, in accordance with our values, strategic plan and operating budgets. You will take responsibility for the management of the business planning process, and directly support the CEO in ensuring MumsAid delivers against operational and strategic objectives. 

You will need to have excellent financial management skills, be a strategic thinker who can see the big picture.

You will also need a solid working knowledge of business functions such as: IT, System Managements, HR, Delivery, Evaluation and Communications.

Overview of MumsAid:

MumsAid is a maternal mental health charity that was founded to address the lack of support for mothers during pregnancy and after birth. We believe passionately that pregnancy and new motherhood can be an exciting, but also challenging, time, and that the right support can make a difference, not just to mothers but to the healthy emotional development of their babies, and the broader well-being of their families and communities.

Since its inception, MumsAid has delivered a growing programme of support during the perinatal period (pregnancy, birth and the early infant years), which has included counselling and psychotherapy, therapeutic groups, befriending support by trained peer volunteers, training for frontline staff in postnatal depression awareness, clinical supervision, and an active social media presence aimed at providing support to mothers and raising awareness.

Our therapy is open to women of all backgrounds, but we have a particular focus on marginalised groups within our local community, including mothers from BME communities, those on low incomes and single mothers. We also run YoungMumsAid, a bespoke therapy programme for teenage and young mothers with complex needs. We work primarily in Greenwich but have plans to expand our reach to new audiences and areas.

Job Title: Chief Operating Officer

Salary: £45,000-£50,000 dependent on experience

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours p/week, we will also consider applications for 4 days

Holiday: 25 days per annum, bank holidays additional

Contract: 2 years fixed term, with potential for extension subject to funding.

Start Date: ASAP/Immediate subject to satisfactory references and checks.

Location: Blackheath, Greenwich (flexible working requests welcomed)

Reporting to: CEO and Board of Trustees

Responsible for: Financial Administrator, Office Manager, Office Administrator 

Closing Date: 12/02/21 at 10am

The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham is seeking to appoint a full time HR Manager to proactively lead a comprehensive human resources (HR) service to the Southwell & Nottingham Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) and the wider Diocese in respect of its ecclesiastical office holders.  The HR Manager will be supported by a HR Officer who is also the Executive PA to the CE and Archdeacons. 

Based in Southwell, the successful candidate will provide up to date advice to the senior team in support of our clergy and employees and, as required, to equip and enable parishes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance and leading practice.

This is an opportunity for a suitably experienced HR professional to use their skills to work alongside the Chief Executive in the delivery of strategic objectives and workforce planning in a complex environment.

The nature of the post will require a degree of mobility and flexibility, with work undertaken in locations around the Diocese and some meetings or training events taking place during evenings and weekends, for which time off in lieu would need to be taken.

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

About the role

The role is essential to manage the United National Peace Building Fund (UNPBF) project on strengthening the role of women and LGBT people in the most conflict-affected departments in Colombia, tackling barriers of discrimination and exclusion, and supporting the transition from justice, memory and collective emotional reparations to catalyse pathways toward sustainable peace and enhance the influence of LGBT people, Afro-Colombian and indigenous women in decision-making, at the territorial and national level, advocating for social change and peace in territorial planning.

The role works within the International Programme role family and it is positioned in the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme. The role will coordinate and monitor the project, including the budget, supporting its implementation by Christian Aid and by partners, and ensuring compliance with UNPBF requirements and Christian Aid programme quality standards. The role works in close coordination with the programmatic and financial staff of CA in LAC and CA Ireland by promoting communication and joint actions.

About you

You have experience in managing complex projects and contracts with institutional donors, including experience in administration and budget management. You have experience in application of monitoring and evaluation tools for donor reporting. Your expertise on project management includes inclusion, accountability, gender and power analysis, human rights. You are competent in the use of various planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning tools and methodologies, you are able to strengthen partner capacity. You have a sound knowledge of peacebuilding work, advocacy, and to build networks. You will have a degree in social sciences or related fields and good written and spoken English.

Further information

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

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

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid’s Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct.

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

Competency questions (if required)

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

1. Building Partinership

In the context of team work, please tell us about an occasion when you listened to and took on board fresh perspectives and views (could be in the form of negative feedback from colleagues, even if you initially disagreed with them.

2. Deliver results

Tell us about a previous work experience in which you planned, monitores and executed a project that delivered the expected results.

3. Steward resources

Please give us an example of a situation in whixh you felt you could not deliver what was expected of you and that you had to prioritize (for example, explaning how you made the decision on how to prioritize and what was the result).

MIF invites great artists from across the globe to create extraordinary new work for the Festival, which is staged every two years at venues and found spaces across Manchester. Our future home is The Factory, a world-class cultural space being built in the heart of the city, where we’ll present a year-round programme and artists will be able to develop work of huge ambition and scale that they might not be able to anywhere else.

An integral member of the management team who works independently to support the Exec to meet key business objectives through a strategic approach to people management, challenges and opportunities.

To be influential on projects that enhance our leadership and management capabilities, as well as design and deliver organisational development and learning projects that support cultural change with particular focus on diversity and inclusion. To lead on the development of policies, procedures and systems from a people perspective, all which support the core values of The Factory.

Closing date 04 February 2021

Headway East London is currently looking for Community Support Workers to join our team, working one to one and collaboratively with survivors in their own homes and the local community.

All of the roles and skills at Headway East London contribute to our success. If you are interested in the role and you think you don’t have all the desirable experience but are passionate and care for our community and have skills you think will be beneficial to Headway East London we would still love to receive an application from you.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 3rd February at 5pm. Interviews will commence the week beginning 15th February 2021.

CAFOD has three vacancies on our Board of Trustees for committed individuals who want to contribute to our mission.

What does a trustee do?

As a trustee, you will be a custodian of our vision, mission and values. You will be actively overseeing how our strategic vision is put into action, ensuring that the resources entrusted to us are used with probity and good governance.

Your expertise will have a vital role in:

• providing an external viewpoint to help the organisation maximise its potential
• making a real difference to people’s lives
• ensuring that all decisions are taken in accordance with the Charity Commission Code of Governance.

Person specification

We are looking particularly for a background of, or experience, in one of the following:

• Law
• international development or emergency/humanitarian work
• monitoring and evaluation
• policy, influencing or campaigning.

We want to improve the diversity of our Board of Trustees and make it more reflective of the community that supports us. We specifically seek applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

The expected time commitment for our trustees is 12 days a year. Trustees are expected to attend the four board meetings each year, including a residential weekend meeting - some may be held electronically during UK working hours.

Trustees based outside the UK are required to attend the residential meeting in person every year, and other meetings remotely.

Find out more about our current trustees

How to apply

Please click on our company website to know more and apply.

About Global Witness

It has never been a deadlier time for land and environmental defenders to protect their community, way of life, or environment.  At Global Witness we’re campaigning alongside them, making sure their voices are heard and taking their fight to the corridors of power and the board rooms of corporations.

About the role

As an Investigator you’ll lead, deliver and publish high quality and ground-breaking investigations to highlight companies involved in abuses and violations of the rights of land and environmental defenders and their communities.

By working closely with other team members as well as across our advocacy, legal and communications teams throughout the process, you’ll help advocate targets to ensure that these investigations result in real world systemic change and support our vision to protect the world’s climate-critical tropical forests and the people defending them. 

About you

You’ll have a track record in delivering targeted investigations, and you’ll be able to use your ability to cultivate a range of sources as well as analyse finance, corporate structures and ownership data.  Your investigative techniques and meticulous fact-checking will be key in this role.

Naturally you’ll have the verbal communication and writing skills to run your investigations from concept to publishing the final report, collaborating all the time with internal teams and external contacts along the way.

Working for us

We aim to be a diverse and inclusive place to work.  We value new perspectives, original ideas and different ways of working. We believe that different views and experiences improve the way we do our work. We do our best to make our jobs accessible to all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or identity.

We offer an excellent benefits package including a competitive salary and 25 days holiday (exc. public holidays), private medical insurance and flexible working arrangements.

This role involves travel to remote locations, including (with appropriate training and risk mitigation) potentially hostile environments.

To apply

Please send in your CV and a covering letter which tells us why you’d be a great fit for this role, taking into account each of the person specification requirements with Investigator LED in the subject heading, and where you saw the role advertised, by 9am 15 February 2021. We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

Title: Fundraising Manager

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £35,000

Contract: 12 months

Location: Flexible with regular travel to Reading, Berkshire

BWA works to enable people living with the devastating impact of domestic abuse to see and make choices about their future and to rebuild safe and strong lives, free from abuse.  We are a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. 

To ensure we are able to continue to deliver the services that victims and survivors need, we are recruiting a fundraising manager to our team.  As the lead fundraiser for BWA your job will be to create and implement a strategic and operational fundraising solution for us that maximises income generation and adds to our financial sustainability. The role will involve crafting innovative and engaging copy suitable for a diverse range of audiences and writing successful bids. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills will enable the post holder to build constructive relationships with service users, colleagues, stakeholders, and donors to advance the organisations aims.

We are looking for an individual who is able to work in a fast-paced environment and is committed to building a strong funding base for our services.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for the successful candidate for this role.

BWA is an equal opportunities employer.

The Project Support Officer role is an exciting opportunity to work across the organisation with exposure to many aspects of our work.

You will provide administrative and support to Global Canopy’s Programme Directors and Managers, enabling them to work efficiently and helping to deliver on ambitious plans at a time of organisational growth. Driving everything forward, and keeping work moving, your actions will directly influence the efficiency and impact of our work.

The role requires someone able to juggle multiple priorities, across different teams, which will call for effective listening and communicating skills. A confident self-starter, you will have excellent IT and organisational skills. As part of your role, you will need to log, manage and analyse information, using Excel, Google Workspace applications, Salesforce, Asana and other bespoke databases. Training for Salesforce and Asana will be provided if you are not familiar.

We would happily consider applications from recent graduates or those starting their career, with the right organisational skills and who are literate with IT/office systems.

Download the recruitment pack to learn more about the role.

The Gender and Development Network is recruiting for a new Coordinator.  This post lies at the heart of the network, working as part of a small Secretariat alongside our members, working groups and Board across a range of international development issues.

We are looking for someone who has experience of administration and finance, who is organised with excellent communication skills, and who is highly motivated to work for gender equality and women’s rights to join our team.  We are a highly respected network with over 150 members and an excellent track record of influencing government and supporting our members in their work to achieve gender equality and women’s rights internationally.

Specifically the role is to:

• Coordinate the network’s support to our members
• Coordinate the work of the various branches of the network
• Manage administrative systems of the network
• Administer the finances of the network
• Contribute to the network’s external communications

Specific Tasks

1. Coordinate support to the network’s members

• Act as a friendly, supportive and approachable face of the network
• Provide support to the network’s Working Groups, liaising closely with their Chairs
• Co-ordinate regular members’ mailings, distribution lists and the weekly e-bulletin
• Organise four Members’ Meetings per year 
• Recruit and induct new members
• Facilitate informal networking among members 
• Respond to requests for information from member

2. Service and coordinate the different branches of the network

• Service the Board of Trustees including arranging meetings, preparing papers and taking minutes
• Organise and minute Advisory Group  and Chairs of Working Group meetings
• Ensure communications and updates are shared between different branches of the network including reporting to the Board on Working Group activities
• Administer annual planning processes

3. Manage the administration of the Secretariat

• Manage GADN volunteers
• Keep all HR and other files and records in order
• Maintain internal communications systems (email, calendars, document sharing, team meetings) 
• Manage the GADN data protection processes
• Provide administrative support to the Director
• Manage the monitoring and evaluation processes of the network
• Ensure all legal reporting requirements are met

4. Administer the network’s finances and funding

• Manage the finances and accounts, including monthly updates of the cashbook and quarterly budget updates
• Complete all required financial reports and file tax returns
• Administer annual membership subscriptions
• Administer all grants including sending invoices and reports and monitoring sub-grantees
• Support the Director in identifying and securing grant funding

5. Support the communications and policy work of the Secretariat

• Maintain and update the website and social media
• Produce the GADN’s Annual Report
• Coordinate the production and dissemination of GADN briefings and policy reports 
• Work with the Director and Policy Manger to liaise with external stakeholders including government officials and Women’s Rights Organisations
• Respond to enquiries from decision makers and the wider development sector 

6. Other

• Undertake any other reasonable task as needed

Please note, this role is home based during the Covid-19 pandemic. When it is safe to return, the role will be based at the ActionAid office in Farringdon, London. 

This is an FTC that is likely to go up to 2 years 

Want a job where you can have a huge impact on the lives of others?

Christian Aid has a vision – an end to poverty. Help us make that vision a reality by bringing your skills and experience to a job that really does make a difference.

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

About the role

We are committed to a vision of Race and Diversity where no one experiences racism or discrimination, where all our people are valued and able to grow, progress and bring their whole selves to their work and their career.

Over the past year we have been taking active steps to realise a zero-tolerance approach to racism and all racist and discriminatory behaviour. This means challenging structural racism within our practices, policies, procedures and behaviour in order to embed equity and diversity and to truly live out our values in word and deed.

Purpose of the role

In June 2020, Christian Aid commissioned an independent review on race and diversity amongst our UK workforce. The aim of this work was to help us understand our data, the lived experience of our people, and provide us with a report with recommendations on how we go about tackling the findings robustly and sustainably. The recommendations from this report have been approved by our Board of Trustees and by our leadership. We have now created a new role to lead on delivering the recommendations from this report along with the improvements suggested by our staff and transforming our vision into a lived reality.

We are therefore looking for a passionate and transformative Race and Diversity professional and leader to help us bring our vision to life and to work with our people, managers and leaders to shape, refine, and implement the right actions from our work plan to realise our commitments and vision.

About you

• A successful track record in senior roles of a similar nature
•  A successful track record of developing race and diversity change programmes and successfully delivering through others.
• Experience of designing policy and developing and delivering strategies, to embed a race and diversity agenda into ways of working and organisational processes.
• The ability to listen, demonstrate empathy and gain people's trust at all levels.
• Diplomacy and the ability to influence lead and motivate others within a culturally diverse stakeholder community.
• A strong ability to communicate complex information to a diverse range and level of stakeholders. Ability to analyse, interpret and communicate data in a way that results in organisational change and effective decision making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven ability to produce accurate, clear and concise documents that meet the needs of the audience.
• Excellent judgement, responsiveness and ability to provide leadership and support for race and diversity. A credible advisor.

Further information

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

All successful candidates will require either an Enhanced or Basic Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. Information will be forwarded to you by the HR team with your offer.

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

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid’s Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct.

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

The Governance and Risk Manager plays a key role in ensuring that the Ri complies with its Byelaws and other regulatory requirements. The post-holder coordinates risk and governance (internal and external), administration activities, supports the Director of Finance to arrange and respond to Audit and Finance Sub Committees of the Board of Trustees, managing Ri Contract and Regulatory Compliance and oversees management of Ri projects. They are a central point of contact for risk and governance related matters for staff and external stakeholders. 

This is an exciting role that will suit someone who is organised, professional and with proven experience in a similar position and desire to develop and progress. As the successful candidate you will be able to plan and prioritise a varied work load and be used to working in a fast-paced environment with predictable workload peaks. You will be a proven communicator and able to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. Paramount is your passion for good management, governance and commitment to supporting the work of the Ri.

This role is advertised as 28 to 35 hours per week, with the working pattern agreed at appointment stage. These hours would conventionally be worked over 4 or 5 full days although we are open to flexible working arrangements to suit the successful candidate. Please specify your preferred working hours on your application. This role would ordinarily be based in our offices in Mayfair but is currently based from home due to the Covid pandemic. 

About the Ri

The Ri is an independent charity dedicated to creating opportunities for everyone to think more deeply about science and its place in our lives. Founded over 200 years ago, our wonderful building, has been home to some of the most eminent scientists in history.

We provide science education and heritage activities for people of all ages and backgrounds across the UK and around the world. These activities include the world-famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES; public talks from the world’s greatest thinkers in our historic lecture theatre (currently via Livestream) and animations and films from our YouTube Channel which has approaching 1 million subscribers. 

Our other activities which we hope to resume soon are; a national programme of Masterclasses for young people in mathematics, engineering and computer science; hands-on science workshops in our L'oreal Young Scientist Centre; and the preservation of our scientific legacy through the Faraday Museum and archival collections. 

Interested?

To apply, please download a full job description and person specification, and click apply to attach your CV and a cover letter (of no more than 500 words) explaining why you want the job and how you meet the requirements in the person specification, no later than 9am on Thursday 28 January 2021.

We reserve the right to close the application process early if we receive a strong field of applicants so we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 1 Feburary 2021 via video call although we may interview sooner.