Join Britain’s biggest walking charity to help more people enjoy the benefits of walking. 

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled new business developer to lead our Corporate Fundraising programme.  The Corporate Fundraiser is responsible for delivering our Corporate Fundraising strategy with a key focus on developing new business opportunities to secure both core and restricted funding for the Ramblers through strategic corporate partnerships, sponsorship arrangements, leading on reciprocal marketing activity, commission based deals and membership benefit partners (where of significant income potential to the Ramblers).

The post holder will manage the organisations funding and prospect pipelines, will identify corporate funding opportunities, conduct research, network and build relationships, deliver presentations, proposal and pitches and apply for and secure funding opportunities primarily with commercial partnerships and where appropriate non-commercial organisations that may provide income generating opportunities.

They will work closely with the Head of Fundraising to manage our corporate partners with a focus on longer term strategic fundraising relationships, continually reviewing progress and driving added value.

This position is part of the Memberships and Fundraising division reporting to the Head of Fundraising. The Membership and Fundraising division is responsible for attracting and retaining members and supporters and generating the vast majority of the Ramblers income – essential for the delivery of our mission and the health and sustainability of the charity. The division was formed in September 2017, to bring the membership and fundraising teams together as one united team, to more effectively grow our community of members and supporters – and associated income.  This is an exciting time to join the Ramblers team and a great opportunity to make a lasting and tangible impact on the future success of the charity.

Essential Requirements include:

• Proven and demonstrable account management / relationship management skills and experience
• Proven track record in delivering income targets between £100k - £5 million from partnerships
• Ability to research, compile and manage prospect pipelines
• Ability to communicate both verbally and written with a range of audiences
• Ability to develop high quality, coherent and thorough fundraising proposals and pitches
• Negotiation skills – the post-holder will be required to undertake negotiation with companies, often complex, on behalf of the Ramblers whether agreeing terms with corporate partners or negotiating with colleagues across the Ramblers to deliver on each partnership
• Good attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in the use of IT tools including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Copywriting for fundraising communications
• Significant knowledge of direct marketing and integrated campaign principles
• Understanding of key donor recruitment channels and approaches
• Proven Project Management experience
• Donor stewardship techniques
• New Business Development Processes
• Relationship/Account Management experience
• Able to work independently, applying own initiative
• Able to be flexible and adaptable

The Ramblers are an equal opportunities employer.  We warmly welcome applications from appropriately qualified people from all sections of the community and aim to promote diversity. 

Do you want to be part of an organisation that fights for children every single day? Then join us as HR Systems and Data Manager, taking responsibility for developing and delivering strategic People data and reporting to inform decision making.

In our Support Services department, we fight for children every single day. We provide leadership and direction in the business of running an efficient organisation. We ensure our resources are used to maximum effect. We go the extra mile - and we don’t rest until the work is done.

Here at Save the Children, the HR team is going through an exciting period of change. As HR Systems and Data Manager, you will develop a reporting suite that is clearly scoped for SCUK, at an organisational and divisional level including the all necessary KPIs and ensure that the data and narrative is tailored to meet audience requirements. You will also be responsible for promoting the use of reporting and analysis for action planning and decision-making across the organisation. In addition you will:

• Be the technical lead specialist for People Data, MI and reporting for SCUK as well as the lead for managing the delivery of systems administration and end user technical support for the Oracle HRIS functionality

• Maintain the integrity of the system through the management of access security, training and maintenance of good practice

• Manage the development and implementation of an E-HR Strategy to support short, medium and longer-term service improvement priorities

• Build and develop strong working partnerships with key stakeholders in order to understand requirements and priorities so that the requirements can be delivered. 

To be successful you will be a Chartered CIPD member (or equivalent) with multi-sector experience at senior management level.  As well as an expertise in a range of HR Systems and technology solutions, you will be comfortable preparing and presenting reports and proposals for senior management/board groups. You will be able to drive HR Service improvements with evidence of project and programme management skills. In addition you will have:

• Experience of leading the thinking in HR Data and Systems practices, taking account of wider impact on other approaches to people management and business practices 

• Evidence of operational management skills with the emphasis on delivering high quality, customer orientated, operational HR Systems and Data services through a team of HR Systems and Data specialists to meet required SLAs and KPIs

• Working with and influencing a range of people professionals and other stakeholders 

• Evidence of people management to include coaching, developing and performance management of others.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you. 

To apply please visit our website. 

Closing date: 6th September 2020

Effective governance is vital for Age UK to ensure it achieves its strategic objectives and meets the requirements of its regulators. In the current environment, more than ever, governance plays a vital role within any charity - we are looking for someone who can truly deliver when it counts.

The Senior Governance Manager is a key role supporting, and deputising for, the Head of Governance in managing and providing all aspects of the governance and secretariat service relevant to the most senior Boards and Committees within the Age UK Group.

This is a very visible role working closely with Trustees and Directors as well as the most senior staff within the Charity, providing advice and support.

The post will suit someone who is pro-active, has excellent management, relationship and organisational skills, and enjoys applying those skills in an environment which is often fluid and can be complex.

About you

* Highly organised, with excellent time management and a good understanding of corporate and, ideally, charity governance
* Proven in supporting senior level Boards and Committees and working closely with Trustees and Directors
* A confident problem-solver, with sound judgement and a keen eye for detail
* Pro-active with excellent management and communication skills
* An efficient team member with strong presentation and negotiation skills
* Able to lead a number of projects and activities
* An experienced line manager

What we offer in return

* Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme.
* Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Simply Health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Discount on Gym Membership and Go Sweat Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

Please read job description for full list of duties.

If you would be a strong candidate as a high quality Governance Manager but may not yet be ready for this Senior Governance Manager role we would welcome a conversation with you and may be flexible in how we appoint.

For a full list of benefits please click here https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

The Head of Partnerships and Placements will lead a team to sustain and secure partnerships with local authorities (LAs) and children’s trusts, to develop and support 600+ Fellows (alumni) annually. This is directly linked to achieving Frontline’s organisational objective of having 4,000 impactful Fellows by 2025, who will create social change for children without a safe or stable home.

This is a new team as historically partnerships have been secured from within regional delivery teams. We have been refining our approach and offer to partners over the past 12 months and are now looking for a Head of Partnerships and Placements to lead the new team. The new Head will manage the Partnership and Placement Managers (PPMs) as they take sole responsibility for securing partnerships, while the Delivery Team focus on participant experience and programme quality. The Head of Partnerships and Placements will work closely with the Heads of Delivery in order to secure high-quality placements and ensure targets are met. They will be responsible for providing a great experience for partners and overseeing the team to ensure partner expectations are met. Additionally they will play an active role within Frontline’s Leadership Group.

Applicants need to have at least 5 years’ experience of working in sales and account management.

At Turning Point, it’s our job to help people find a new direction in life. Through our person-centred approach to support, we’re now one of the country’s leading social care providers, with a turnover of over £130m p/a.

We continue to grow, and we’ve big ambitions to stay on that upward curve. Join us as a Business Development Manager for our Public Health and Substance Misuse Services, and you’ll help us do just that by leading and managing one of our two regional business development teams.

In this business-critical role, it will be your job to make sure everything we say and do is relevant, engaging and original – ensuring that our excellent track record of service delivery is noticed by Local Authority Commissioners.

An experienced Business Development professional with a track record of leading winning bids, you will be responsible for both contract retention and winning new business in your region. You will work in partnership with operational colleagues and other senior stakeholders to co-produce service models, budgets and partnerships for tenders, as well as managing all aspects of the tender process, including quality assurance of written responses.

You will be responsible for written responses for tender submissions, bid planning/preparation and bid leadership and management all whist continuously improving business development processes. You will be responsible for the line management of 1 or more bid writers.

You will have effective communication skills (both oral and written), excellent critical thinking skills, great interpersonal skills, good attention to detail, previous experience of line management and an organised/methodical mind. You will have excellent business writing skills and effective project management. The ability to remain calm and deliver under pressure to tight deadlines is essential as well as good problem solving and critical thinking skills.

A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a business development role that has involved bid/tender writing is required as well as a demonstrable track record of significant contributions to winning bids, either in own right or as part of a wider team.

You will be based in one of our regional offices in Manchester or London, with home working from any location with good transport links also considered for the right candidate.

Why Turning Point?

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

Across the varied regions, sectors and settings we operate within, our organisation is held together by a shared vision – and our people are connected by the same values. These include belief in potential, confidence in communication, embracing positive change and always treating each other as individuals.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

Our people bring our vision to life. So, if you are enthusiastic, motivated and committed to support others to fulfilling their potential, here at Turning Point, we don't just offer you a job – we offer you a career.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

Of course, we know it's not about the money. But that doesn't mean we don't reward our people for their invaluable work with a benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive opportunities to learn and develop, with silver accreditation from Investors in People
• 33 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 35 days. Plus the option to purchase additional holidays
• Flexible benefit options including cycle to work schemes and season ticket loans
• Competitive pension and life assurance schemes
• Employee assistance programme and access to online health and wellbeing support
• Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance
• Access to a wide range of discounts, including cinema tickets, grocery and high-street shopping and gym memberships

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive sufficient applicants before the advertised closed date.

We’re on the look-out for a data-driven account manager who has UK and International agency experience,  working on Charity fundraising appeals. At Consider, you'll be responsible for managing and nurturing our key client relationships, as well as producing year on year appeal plans and detailed ROI, response rate and conversion metrics for direct mail and digital campaigns. 

Consider exists to make a difference. We insist the world should be better – and so do our clients. We’re creatives, communicators, fundraisers and planners. Our clients bring us their challenges and we give them strategy and storytelling – and we get them results. Consider: it means thinking deeply, and differently. That’s what we do.

You’ll be responsible for helping us grow our existing clients and developing our expertise in the Charity, Membership and Education sectors. You are commercially aware, with an in-depth knowledge of how charities operate. We are looking for an Account Manager who has worked in a fundraising agency of 10-20 people, who excels in being a team player and pitching in when needed across all aspects of the business, gaining responsibility and valuable experience along the way. 

You're comfortable working on projects such as:

• British Heart Foundation - Legacy cross-organisation advocacy campaign
• London School of Economics - Brand identity for The Marshall Institute
• Save the Children - Legacy pledger stewardship experience
• ACCA - Welcome and stewardship journey to membership

So far so good? Splendid. Have a glance down the final tick-list below and get in touch.

• You have the ability to analyse and distil our client's objectives and make top-line recommendations for future campaigns
• You love data and are able to produce insights from client and campaign data - including market & audience segmentation, personalisation, ROI, response rates and conversion tracking
• You have experience working in international markets, and understand how to flex a campaign across multiple audiences, markets & territories
• You understand the differences between warm, cold, seasonal, legacy, in-mem, low, mid and high-value campaigns, and what the drivers are for each
• You excel at managing relationships and workloads, both externally with clients, partners, suppliers, and internally with a team
• You have strong organisational abilities and are able to wear many “hats”
• You can facilitate projects on time, to budget and in line with expectations
• You are a people person and enjoy working collaboratively in a team
• You are comfortable presenting and articulating your ideas to clients and your peers
• Your attention to detail is exceptional
• You have a head for numbers and enjoy the detail of budgets and quoting
• You know your way around a Gantt Chart and how to schedule multiple projects at the same time

Still sounding like this is meant for you? Great. Drop us a line with your CV, why you'd like to work at Consider.

Personality is important. If you want to know what it’s like working in our studio and get a sense of who you would be working with, head to our Facebook page for the latest goings-on.

LifeLine Projects are recruiting for a dynamic business development manager to expand our range of exciting work with young people in East London and with faith and community groups, nationally. We are looking for someone who can drive, develop, and oversee the organisation’s income generation, focussing on grant and trust-funding proposals, catalysing corporate funding partnerships, and advancing opportunities and tenders with existing and new commissioners. The successful candidate will be a good team-worker, who will support a close-knit senior management team to mature existing funding-streams, discover new opportunities and advance the organisation’s business and fundraising strategy.

LifeLine Projects has a strong values-based work ethic, which flourishes because of our faith-inspired roots. We are all about impacting individuals and influencing systems:  Our vision is to build thriving communities, where no-one is isolated or lonely and everyone can contribute. Our values pervade all areas of work and are the drivers behind the way our programmes support people to become agents of change within their communities.

The creative individual will be hungry to build on our heritage that has seen the charity grow from its seed-bed grant of £20,000 to one of the largest charities in east London, with a  multi-million pound annual turnover, bringing over £60m to the region in its 20 year lifespan.

This role is a unique opportunity to be part of growing the charity to the next level by:

• Identifying relevant funders and funding opportunities to support continued growth and evolution of LifeLine’s core activities in public health, community programming and young people’s services
• Generating new business leads through relationships with a range of funders and partners, including corporate contacts
• Managing an active bid pipeline to ensure an efficient and effective work rate across the team, with a focus on quality, consistency and impact of submissions
• Producing high quality, competitive funding proposals and tender submissions (typical values range from approximately £25,000 to £2 million)
• Overseeing the bid production process, supervising the work of internal and external bid writers, and ensuring input from relevant operational and technical managers
• Supporting, through guidance and insight, the application of evidence and relevant project evaluation to the bid writing process and to organisational knowledge and expertise
• Managing relationships with funding partners, delivery partners, stakeholders and external consultants to ensure LifeLine’s business interests and objectives are achieved and that we continue to build on our strong reputation for approachability, positivity, and being practically minded
• Identifying and managing risk during the tender process to support successful project implementations and handover to operational leads
• Working with project managers and operational leads to develop implementation plans to ensure management and resourcing requirements are met and key milestones achieved
• Working closely with the SMT to develop LifeLine’s business and fundraising strategies
• Contributing to the vision and values of LifeLine as a community-focused organisation

Applicants must have a proven track record of effective bid-management and administration at a senior level, and management of multi-disciplinary teams. This must include a proven track-record of successfully securing significant funding. You will also need to have a thorough understanding and experience of the voluntary sector’s business development world, along with experience of community and trust or grant fundraising. You will also be:

• Highly articulate with excellent writing and communication skills
• Highly analytical with the ability to distil and summarise information clearly and engagingly.
• An excellent researcher, including into Government Policy with the ability to obtain and update varied demographic information
• Commercially astute and detail focused with negotiation skills
• Resilient with the ability to manage multiple initiatives
• Self-motivated, solutions-oriented and flexible
• Able to manage staff, associates and the business development process including finance and operations

For full details of salary, benefits, role requirements and features, please refer to the job description.

Please note that in the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, all employees are working remotely, and all interviews will be conducted virtually for the foreseeable future. This guidance is subject to change as government guidelines are updated.

• Closing date: 9am 7th September
• Shortlisting date: 7th & 8th September
• Interview dates: 14th & 15th September

£57,034 - £67,970 + £4,000 Accountancy Allowance

Two year fixed term contract

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is at the heart of the government’s economic and social agendas. A quarter of UK businesses are in our sectors and are among the most exciting and fastest growing of the whole economy. They provide 5.2 million jobs and deliver £38bn worth of exports. Our mission is to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain to the world. 

Working in conjunction with our over 40 Arm’s Length Bodies we strive to create the conditions for everyone to enjoy our national culture, play sport, make the most of new technologies and have access to effective communications. Our sectors are critical to ensuring we have a strong place in the world - creating a global UK whose cultural, technological, creative, community and sporting assets mark us out as an essential partner for trade and investment. And making places that people want to live in, work in, invest in and visit.

This role will lead a team that supports one of the three Director Generals (DGs) and their teams to effectively discharge their financial accountabilities. This includes supporting directors’ responsibilities for effective financial oversight of the arm’s-length bodies sponsored by each DG group.

You will work closely with the Deputy Finance Director and other A(U) Heads of Finance to lead and develop the finance business partnering team - fulfilling the team’s vision to support strategic decision making and policy development by being insightful, trusted and professional.

You will be responsible for the provision of a valued, efficient and effective finance business partnering function across your areas.

Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Lead and engender a culture of continuous improvement and personally demonstrate DCMS’s values. Lead, manage, develop and support a high-quality team of individuals to achieve these aims.
• Provide high-quality finance advice and guidance on all financial matters as necessary, from accounting to budgeting, auditing and the government’s Estimates processes.
• Act as a senior finance business partner to your areas of responsibility ensuring that senior stakeholders have the right support to make good policy decisions in line Managing Public Money and other government finance rules.
• Provide strategic and tactical advice on all finance matters to Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, Executive Board and Departmental Audit & Risk Committee.
• Lead the team in scrutinising, challenging and guiding budget holders ALBs in the provision of timely and accurate forecasts against budgets, re-forecasting exercises, end-of-year reporting exercises, main and supplementary estimates and other fiscal events.
• Lead the team on scrutiny, challenge and the provision of financial advice on business cases, policy announcements including attendance at Finance Committee, Investment Sub-Committee in the capacity of the expert finance business partner.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Be strong leader with a solid history of delivery; be able to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally; and be able to routinely communicate complex financial, accounting and budgetary issues
• Be a fully qualified accountant with excellent interpersonal skills, along with excellent literacy and numeracy and a collaborate, solutions-oriented approach.
• Working knowledge of Managing Public Money and central government accounting and budgeting rules (desirable)
• Intermediate or higher Excel skills (desirable).

For more information or an informal discussion, please apply via the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Stuart Thomson at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell. The closing date for applications is Sunday 16th August at 11:55pm.

London School of Mosaic is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to oversee the charities finances during a time in which we undertake major building expansion works. 

We teach the craft of mosaic, setting a gold standard for applied mosaic studies while maintaining an ethos of inclusive diversity. The charity opened as a School in August 2017, growing out of the work of Southbank Mosaics CIC. Based in Camden we run a range of courses for students from 14 years to adults. In 2021 we are opening over 100 artist studios and community spaces adjacent to the school as part of a GLA Good Growth Fund supported project.

Job Purpose

• Reporting to the Director and Trustees, the role is the first contact point for financial matters and oversees the budgets and accounts for the organisation
• Agrees and manages the budget, forecast needs and secures new funding.
• Manages our office and handles enquiries alongside other team members
• Makes a difference, uplifting a neighbourhood working alongside staff and residents

Financial Management

• Strategic financial planning and budgetary control, including the development and maintenance of a comprehensive budget model covering income and expenditure, balance sheet and cash forecasts
• Oversee the management and coordination of all financial reporting including to funding agencies, with development and monitoring of contract and grant budgets
• Ensure the annual accounts of the preceding year are prepared in time for the June/July Trustee meeting
• Oversee all purchasing and payroll activity for staff and participants
• Work with the Director on the strategic vision, concentrating on finance, including fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships on city, regional, national and international levels, as well as assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts
• Develop and maintain systems of internal controls to safeguard financial assets
• Ensure financial controls are installed with substantiating documentation to pass independent and governmental audits within current legislation
• Oversee the coordination and activities of independent auditors ensuring compliance issues are met, and the preparation of the annual financial statements is in accordance with regulations
• Attend Board and Subcommittee meetings; including being the lead staff on the Finance Committee
• Advise and report on LSoM’s Reserves and Pension Plan
• Create monthly management reports (or more frequently if requested), financial statements and cash flow projections for use by Executive management, as well as the Finance Committee and Board of Trustees.
• Create and oversee the maintenance of the inventory of all fixed assets, including assets purchased with investment funds (computers, etc.) assuring all are in accordance with regulations.
• Support the Director in project managing the development of the site: including the canteen and art studios.

Income generation: Fundraising and Sales 

• Assist the Director in updating the business plan including ways of maximising fundraising potential with an initial target of match funding investment support with grant support. This includes fostering and cultivating relationships at a local, national and international level
• Assist with the negotiation of contracts
• Oversee the quality completion of appropriate funding applications
• Be responsible for ensuring all reporting and accounting requirements are fulfilled with regard to grants and subsidies
• Develop sales of the company with our team, so that there is a variety of sources of income and adherence to trading regulations
• Optimise income by researching new student streams and extend the charity’s customer base
• Work with the artistic team to produce accurate and informative reports for funders

Ad hoc

• During the development phase of the Camden Garage Studios (2020-2021) you will work closely with Public Works Group architects, as well as contractors on site. You will be the main point of contact for making payments and ensuring the GLA OPS is regularly updated, grant claims are submitted on time and payments made for work completed. You will effectively project manage the finances for this development.
• Start an Endowment Fund to support student welfare and the future development of LSoM
• Investigate cost-effective benefit plans and other fringe benefits which the organization may offer employees and potential employees with the goal of attracting and retaining qualified individuals.
• Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and help execute staff succession and growth plans.
• Organise insurance for the business
• Advise on development of the Community Benefit Society

Office management and day-to day administrative tasks

• Being a point of contact for our students (e.g. about fees) and those enquiring about our courses and sessions by answering phone and [email protected] account (shared with other staff)
• Liaise with Camden Garage Studios Manager for accounts
• Monitoring our short course bookings 
• Staff open days
• Help with running social impact sessions
• Ordering stationary and sanitary products

Experience and professional standards required

• Experience of financial management and accounting at an appropriate level in an arts organisation, at a college or university, a local authority or charity
• An undergraduate degree in either finance, accounting, business and/or arts management, or related discipline
• Proven computer literacy, particularly in excel to produce accurate, clear and timely reports
• Highly numerate with excellent knowledge of budgeting, being able to understand and interpret financial information
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to prepare reports, proposals, minutes and email communication tailored for a wide variety of audiences
• Meets deadlines within the budget development cycle to the requirements of the director and trustees and thinks ahead of time
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, including the ability to speak comfortably with people at all levels
• Entrepreneurially-minded with a “can-do” attitude, strong organisational and administrative skills
• Sympathetic to the objectives and philosophies of inclusion, diversity, social enterprise and progressive education
• Support the ethos of re-cycling and reducing our carbon footprint
• Proven experience of managing a varied and heavy workload with changing priorities at times
• Ability to promote an environment where others feel inspired, engaged and motivated
• Ability to accurately interpret complex information and recommend sound, well-considered decisions and judgements
• Ability to identify and overcome challenges, offering workable and considered solutions

Desirable

• Experience with accounting in Quick Books
• Experience of working or volunteering in an organisation that delivers social impact and works with the most vulnerable in our society
• Experience of professional fundraising for a charity or business, with demonstrable achievement in Trust Fundraising and with experience in other areas - track record of delivery
• The ability to develop workable systems to monitor and account for measurable outcomes for each separate fund-raising activity, both in direct income/expenditure ratio terms and within the wider and longer term awareness, marketing and fund-raising development cycles

Our partner is women’s health and empowerment organisation. They are seeking an exceptional business partner to manage the portfolio of grant funding from institutional donors in the UK and Europe. The role is quite broad in its scope – providing financial management support through the full project cycle, and acting as a business partner to country office teams, implementing partners, and donors.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in developing budget for donor proposals (including payment by results), working with country offices and implementing partners, that these are developed on a full-cost recovery basis.
• Responsible for grants compliance – ensuring that new projects are set-up accurately, invoices are submitted on time & in the correct format – and reporting – ensuring that reports are submitted in a timely manner, any changes in financial guidelines are understood and adhered to, and projects are closed out in a timely manner.
• Provide analysis & information to ensure accurate cashflow forecasting, and on the life of a project.
• Act a business partner to the programmes team, country offices & implementing partners, providing advice and training on donor reporting & compliance issues.
• Responsible for programme accounting.
• Lead in the preparation for donor audits, and support the year-end audit process.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant, or finalist, with experience in project accounting & the financial management of complex institutional grants that cover multiple regions & partners.
• Experience of grants compliance, management and reporting of UK & European institutional donors including DfID, EU, Danish, German & the Dutch government. This includes experience of PBR grants.
• Exceptional business partner, able to work effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in working in an INGO across cultures.
• Fluency in French is desirable.  

This role is only open to candidates with the right to work in the UK. 

Working for a prestigious education institute and reporting directly in to the Deputy Director of Finance, you will be an experienced finance professional who has worked within the specialist area of AP / AR. Leading a small team of non-qualified and part-qualified individuals, you will take responsibility for the day to day running of the transactions team. 

• Leading a small team of transactions specialists across AP & AR
• Oversight of intercompany and bank reconciliations
• Management responsibility for the entire Accounts Payable Process
• Business partnering with both finance and non-finance to drive timely and accurate payments
• Review and improve existing processes, policies and procedures in relation to the AP & AR processes

This role will offer remote working options for the foreseeable future pending Covid-19 related government guidance, though it is expected to be partially office-based in the future. 

You will be QBE, Finalist or Qualified accountant, with  a background in AP & AR ideally within the Education or Not-for-Profit sector. 

Please note that the salary range for qualified candidates will be £37,922-£44,336, plus £4,000 accountancy allowance.
The salary range for part-qualified candidates will be £33,107-£38,618, plus £2,000 accountancy allowance.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is at the heart of the government’s economic and social agendas. A quarter of UK businesses are in our sectors and are among the most exciting and fastest growing of the whole economy. They provide 5.2 million jobs and deliver £38bn worth of exports. Our mission is to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain to the world. 

The Reporting & Management Accounting Manager is a new role which is being created as part of a transformation of the DCMS Finance team. This change involves bringing management accounting and reporting tasks out of the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) team and into a central hub. This will facilitate more consistent, efficient and dynamic reporting, as well as greater efficiency in routine management accounting tasks. It will enable the Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to focus on value-added activities supporting the department’s policy teams and over 40 arm’s-length bodies.

This role is an opportunity to help establish and shape the MA Hub function. Most of the reporting within the remit of this role currently resides within the FBP team and needs to be centralised and overhauled. The role-holder will also work with the FBPs to design and produce new reporting to address currently unmet needs. They will develop a broad understanding of DCMS’s core policy areas and systems and be challenged to make newly-centralised routine management accounting processes as efficient as possible.

Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Produce monthly core department budget holder reports and Director General reports, ensuring that these reports fully and accurately reflect actuals, forecasts and budgets; reconcile to department funding and agreed delegations; and enable sufficient insight for review by various stakeholders
• Coordinate and optimise the process flow for the monthly update of core budget forecasts, and upload forecasts to the finance system
• Work with the Finance Business Intelligence team to test, trial and design more dynamic, efficient reporting using data infrastructure improvements currently in the pipeline, such as a database and business intelligence tool.
• Improve reporting by providing insight into predicted future performance and the robustness of forecasts through analysis of run rates and prior year comparisons
• Prepare and post journals, including re-accruals, reallocations and payroll adjustments.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Be a fully- or part-qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant with excellent spreadsheet skills 
• Have a collaborative approach and the ability to work well with others, as well as working well under own initiative
• Knowledge of central government accounting and budgeting rules (desirable)
• Experience of creating reports in reporting tools like Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or Google Data Studio (desirable)
• Experience in an FP&A or other reporting-focused role, and/or in a management accounting role with a significant reporting element (desirable).

For more information or an informal discussion, please apply via the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Stuart Thomson at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

Crisis Hospitality operations are made up of two cafes in London and Oxford with the primary purpose of training members. We also currently have four coffee bars inside of our charity shops in London, one of which has two dedicated staff members. And we also work closely with the Crisis Employment Services team & Enterprise Training team to create employment opportunities for our members.

About the role

12 month FTC
This role is new to Crisis, like many businesses we’re looking to adjust and improve our offer given the external circumstances. We look to this role to lead this development over the next twelve months.
As Hospitality Manager you will be responsible to lead and develop our hospitality offer through the development of new partnerships and in ensuring a high-quality customer experience both commercially and socially. You will also line manage the hospitality team to achieve income, member training outcome and supporter engagement targets. We look to you to work with the Enterprise Training Manager to develop hospitality training services for Crisis members and external partners.

About you
To be successful in this role you will be committed to Crisis’ purpose and values. You will have relevant management and leadership experience in a similar setting. You will have experience of developing and managing new partnerships to generate income and have experience delivering social outcomes. Any formal professional qualifications and event management experience are desirable. Please see job description for full details.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team through our website.

Closing date: Sunday 16 August (11.59pm)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Harris Hill is looking for a brilliant business development fundraiser who loves to generate income through new business. You will be working closely with the Director of Fundraising at this brilliant social welfare charity, in bringing in around 200,000 of income through a variety of new strategic partnerships. The corporate team have already developed excellent partnerships with Barclays and Centrica.

Ideally you will have a background in business development in the third sector space, however out of sector candidates with a strong background in sales and new business are also welcome to apply. You will Identify and approach clients, matched to opportunities within the organisations portfolio, ensuring cross organisational working at all times. You will also generate predominantly unrestricted funding, develop relationships, resulting in sustainable funding.

If you would like to receive a full job specification for this role or have a confidential conversation, please send your cv to [email protected] or call Hannah at Harris Hill on 0207 820 7331.

Closing Date is Friday 14th August

Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We look forward to hearing from you.