Job Title: Business Development Manager

Start Date: October / November 2020
Duration of work: Full time 

Salary: £30,000-£32,000 per annum

Job Description: Temwa is looking for a Business Development Manager to provide leadership and growth to the fundraising department in our charity. The successful candidate will need to be experienced, confident and honest, with a passion for international development. 

The Business Development Manager’s specific role will include: managing expansion of corporate fundraising in particular through the Carbon Balance Programme; overseeing the team who manage the fundraising activities; day-to-day management of the UK fundraising office; creating an updated fundraising strategy; planning & forecasting fundraising activities; oversight of the team managing communications, marketing & promotion of fundraising activities, supporting them with information for PR & marketing; and growing & developing the current fundraising programme;

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to use their expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to expand the income for a dynamic and growing international development charity, as well as to grow the profile of an innovative organisation working in Northern Malawi. 

Key Duties:

Lead the fundraising strategy 

• Lead the development, implementation, monitoring and review of Temwa’s fundraising strategy, therefore ensuring targets are achieved.
• Report to the Board of Trustees on progress against the Fundraising Strategy.
• Ensure alignment of the fundraising strategy matches with the communications and marketing strategy. 
• Act as the organisational expert on all income generation, supporting the team to expand all relevant fundraising streams in the long term. 
• Ensure that all income generation is undertaken in an effective and efficient way, maximising the return on investment to the charity.
• Champion best practice, ensuring that all legal standards and best practice compliance standards are not only met but exceeded throughout all fundraising and marketing activities.
• Work closely with UK Programme Quality Advisor  and Programmes Manager in Malawi to ensure alignment of  income generation activities with community needs

Lead on donor relations:

• Play an active role with the charity’s most significant supporters, ensuring that excellent relationships are cultivated and maintained and effective asks are made, ultimately maximising income. 
• Keep oversight of current key donors and their specific requirements.
• Manage donor relations and communication together with the Managing Director, Programmes Quality Advisor and UK fundraising team.
• Contribute to donor reporting, circulate donor reports, and collaborate with Programmes Quality Advisor to ensure programmes yield donor-relevant impacts.
• Ensure that the team is effectively managing the donor journey for all contacts in Temwa. 

Providing leadership to and managing the fundraising team:

• Develop, coach, inspire and motivate the team to deliver their objectives and develop their own skills and expertise in their roles, providing ongoing guidance and support for the team. 
• Hold regular one-to-ones with direct line reports, ensuring effective performance management of the entire team, with a robust and timely system of appraisals and performance management. 
• Ensure every member of the team has clear work plans, understands their objectives and works in a focused way.
• Advertise for and recruit key fundraising team members when needed. 
• Support the fundraising team to ensure that they are designing and managing effective marketing and communications that support the fundraising efforts. 
• Communicate effectively, both internally and externally, ensuring a flow of communication across the organisation, sharing information, success and good practice. 
• Adhere to best practice within income generation and embed a culture of learning within the organisation.

Managing expansion of corporate sponsorship:

• Develop and implement a strategy for increasing corporate fundraising through the Temwa Carbon Balance scheme programme (See Temwa Carbon Balance page on our website)  (as part of wider fundraising strategy)
• Grow and& develop SME and corporate partners for Temwa, with support from the Managing Director.
• Act as a key external spokesperson, and play an active role in building the organisation’s profile locally and nationally.
• Make sure the strategy is followed, to ensure increased income in this area.

Managing expansion of individual giving:

• Develop and implement a strategy for increasing individual giving,  (as part of wider fundraising strategy)
• Manage individual giving campaigns and online activity with support for the fundraising team. 
• Devise a project schedule, researching relevant media, data and financial information. 
• Source individual stories and images, briefing internal and external teams and writing copy where necessary.

Growing income streams:

• Develop, manage and evaluate comprehensive budgets which provide performance information for the Senior Management Team and Trustees, ensuring there is shared ownership of budgets within fundraising team. 
• Research and develop business cases for new areas of income generation aimed to drive sustainability of income both within current fundraising streams and beyond. 
• Manage the implementation of new income generation projects and evaluate their effectiveness. 

Senior Management:

• Work with senior colleagues to ensure that the charity can reach all key audiences to successfully achieve its strategic goals.
• Ensure all parts of the organisation understand income generation and fundraising.
•  As a member of the Senior Management Team, play an active and integral role in updating the     organisation’s strategic plan and helping to shape the future direction of the charity.

Policies and& Procedures:

• Work on relevant policies for the organisation.
• Look at systems used and suggest improvements.
• Create procedures that will improve the efficiency of all our fundraising activities.

Experience, qualifications and requirements:

Essential 

• Experience of working in a senior fundraising role 
• Certificate or diploma from IoF essential
• Demonstrable track record of setting and achieving fundraising income targets
• Experience of leading a team to achieve an organisational goal 
• Experience of working within small and large NGOs or charities 
• Ability to write compelling bids/business cases and reports
• Excellent written and communication skills essential

Desirable

• Experience of leading the development and implementation of a fundraising strategy
• An understanding of trust and institutional fundraising 
• Experience of leading and managing fundraising departments 
• Experience of working within an international development charity 
• Experience of marketing and communications desirable
• Experience of working with websites desirable

Our goal at Temwa is to harness the power of bringing communities together. We partner with communities in Malawi, empowering local people to end poverty and transform their own futures. We inspire local communities in the UK to help bring about this change. When communities come together. Temwa means ‘love, within a community,’ in the language of Tumbuka. We are Bristol based charity committed to empowering remote African communities to end poverty and transform their own futures. 

We know that without the central involvement of the communities in a project we cannot do anything that lasts. Temwa draws on 17 years working with remote communities in Malawi to understand that many of the challenges faced by poor rural communities are linked and mutually reinforcing. To make a lasting change, we partner with the communities and work through local structures to tackle the various causes of poverty simultaneously, not just symptoms. 

We have a highly skilled team of 24 full time employees in Malawi implementing this work, based out of two offices in the Northern Region. Our UK office, based in Bristol, comprises a small fundraising and operations team of five staff (three are part time, two are full time), 1-3 volunteer interns and a wider family of volunteers and supporters, committed to achieving this goal. 

To apply, please send a CV (2 page maximum) and covering letter (2 page maximum) 

An exciting and new opportunity has arisen for a data and analytical expert to join Southmead Hospital Charity.

Why apply? As part of the NHS, and working as Southmead Hospital Charity’s Database Manager, you will:

• Make a difference: Working for the wonderful NHS, Southmead Hospital Charity raises funds for projects that are beyond the remit of the NHS but have a huge impact on the lives of our patients, visitors and staff.
• Shape the future: in this role, you will play a lead role in ensuring that the Charity’s growth continues by using first class data and analytical skills
• Be part of a dedicated and committed team: North Bristol NHS Trust is a centre of excellence for the South West and beyond. Our pioneering treatments and advances in care are internationally recognised.
• You will have access to NHS benefits, including 27 days annual leave to start & bank holidays and an excellent NHS pension.

If you are from outside the area, Bristol is consistently voted as one of the best places to live in the UK, with a rich history, thriving arts, music, gastronomic and independent retail scenes. It also offers excellent transport links and easy access to the spectacular countryside and coastlines of South Wales, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. Our offices are based in Southmead Hospital – a state of the art, amazing facility with an excellent reputation.

The role:

The post holder will lead the Charity’s Database and Regular Giving team with responsibility for delivery first class data management to support the development and growth of the Charity.

The Database manager will be responsible for data management best practice, including data quality standards, data security and protection, data hygiene, data import and export, data analysis including prospect and donor segmentation and providing highly detailed statistical models to the Charity team.

This is a brand new role and the postholder will be tasked to update, cleanse and segment all of the Charity’s data to enable critical activity to take place within the Charity, including donor centric communications, cultivation and stewardship of our supporters, fundraisers and volunteers.

Leading the Individual Giving Officer, the Database Manager will support them to grow and develop the Charity’s individual giving income through data driven analytics. The post holder will require comprehensive database management knowledge, communication skills with the ability to identify influential contacts both internally and externally.

Working closely with other colleagues, the ideal candidate will have exceptional attention to detail, a passion for data led decision making, an enthusiasm for the NHS and be passionate about the difference a NHS charity can make.

Interviews will be held on Monday, 24 August 2020

For further information about this role, please see who to contact on the NHS Jobs listing by clicking apply.

Apply now as we are looking to close the advert when significant applications have been received.

FINANCE OFFICER

REDBRIDGE CARERS SUPPORT SERVICE (RCSS)

Redbridge Carers Support Service (RCSS) is a leading carers organisation offering a range of innovative, holistic services to carers. We are currently seeking to appoint an accomplished, experienced Finance Officer to join our small charity. You will be working closely with our senior management team and assist in providing proactive, efficient and effective financial management of our charitable resources.

You will play a key role in ensuring internal financial systems and procedures are working efficiently, providing accurate and timely reports, as required. Working closely with senior management, the Finance Officer will take day to day responsibility for the finance function and ensure all financial controls are in place and transactions are managed in accordance with internal policies, relevant financial regulations and funders specifications and requirements.

The role will include the management of financial systems, budget monitoring, updating of records and the preparation of accounts for senior management and the RCSS Board of Trustees. The role will include overseeing compliance with authorisation procedures. You will support the work of the organisation, the Trustees, the Executive Director, the Operational Director and staff, including accounts, payroll, invoices and budgets for core work and projects and for funding bids.

RCSS has a 25-year history of providing excellent services for carers. We are a dynamic and enterprising team with a wealth of experience, skills and talent. We are offering a fantastic opportunity for someone who has a talent for finance and experience of the charity sector. We offer training and self-development opportunities to all staff and a workplace pension scheme.

This is a part time post, 18 hours per week, based in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. Salary: £16,971 p.a. pro rata  (£33,000 FTE)

Please read the Job Description/Person Specification before completing the application.

CVs will not be accepted.

Failure to address the requirements of the Person Specification may result in applications not being shortlisted.

Firstsite is a contemporary visual arts organisation based in a stunning, award winning Gallery in Colchester, Essex.  Since opening in 2011, Firstsite has welcomed over a million visitors. Firstsite has established its reputation for being an art Gallery of regional and national importance especially through its work bringing internationally significant artworks to very diverse audiences.

This pivotal role, working closely with the Chief Operations Officer and the broader senior management team, you will support Firstsite’s business planning and lead on its financial strategy. You will lead on all financial and treasury arrangements and support the COO with key contractual arrangements and governance. You will be responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the finance team and the finances of Firstsite, ensuring a proactive financial support service across all aspects of the organisation.

In particular, the Finance Director will take a leading role in producing, maintaining and reviewing the four-year financial model to support the delivery of our strategic aims.  Producing annual budgets and regular forecasts – this will include a priority on ensuring the rapid improvements of our income generation performance across commercial activity.

To succeed in this role you will ideally be fully qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA, or working towards this, and will demonstrate extensive financial expertise and business acumen, with experience in leadership roles at senior manager level. You will have excellent analytical skills and be proficient in communicating financial data to a broad range of stakeholders.

Please note that Firstsite is an Equal Opportunities Employer and recognises the great benefit in having a diverse workforce with different backgrounds.

Intelligent Working   

Our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a balanced lifestyle and we offer flexible working arrangements which could include, annualised hours, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days, etc.  We are happy to discuss your own requirements in more detail, should that be of interest.

Firstsite’s commitment to inclusion   

We pride ourselves on being a place where your individuality is valued; you can be yourself and still achieve your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results to our objectives. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective, are important to us.

At Firstsite, we recognise that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand and appreciate that those with experience who have taken a career break still have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment.

Applying with a disability   

Firstsite is proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool.  We are committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss with your recruitment contact any reasonable adjustments to our Recruitment Process that you may require.

How to apply for this role

Please visit our website for a full copy of the job description and details on how to apply.

Deadline for applications is 5:00pm, 21st August 2020.

The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust is UK youth sports charity which supports 11-25-year-olds who are harder to engage in both education and in the community. We use the power of world class athletes to train and mentor young people to achieve their potential through personal, social and emotional development programmes. In partnerships nationally and locally, our programmes increase young people’s self-esteem, confidence and resilience which enables them to move into employment, become leaders within their communities, achieve in education and to improve their wellbeing through sport and physical activity.

Over the last ten years we’ve helped more than 2,300 into employment as a result of our flagship Get on Track programme and in total our programmes have generated more than £23 million in social value since 2012 London Games.

Reporting to the Head of Programmes & Impact, you will be responsible for the end to end process of impact measurement at the Trust. This includes leading the Trust’s Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework, data collection, supported by the National Programmes Officers, analysis and reporting writing. The post holder will also have an opportunity to influence the strategic direction of the Trust through producing impact evidence.  The post would suit someone who is passionate about data; who enjoys taking the initiative and who has the skillset to help the Trust make evidence-based decisions to support the development of young people and athletes.

The post holder will be a key member of the Programmes & Impact team.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Enhance & maintain the Trust’s overarching M&E framework which encompasses data capture for all programmes
• Design programme data capture tools which are suitable for different audiences including young people
• Undertake programme quality assurance visits
• Process raw programme data, including transferring into spreadsheets and checking for accuracy in preparation for data analysis
• Produce programme data analysis reports and recommendations as required, including for Head of Programmes & Impact, CEO and Trustees
• Present impact and insight analysis at both committee and board meetings
• Provide supporting materials for bid writing and Trust communications
• Provide advice on impact measurements and approach to data collection for new programmes

• Travel to internal and external meetings as required (when permissible) 
• Other reasonable duties as may be required by Head of Programmes & Impact

The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust recognises the value that a diverse workforce can bring to our organisation and strives to reflect this among our employees, athletes, volunteers and other stakeholders. To help us measure how well we are doing against this, please could you complete our online Monitoring and Diversity form.

Business Development Officer

Location: Flexible

Job ID: 2020-2356 

Type of Contract: Permanent

Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 33 to 36 (£31150.00 - £33568.73)

Overview

Change Grow Live are looking for Business Development Officers to join our national Business Development Team

Responsibilities

We want excellent writers who share our passion for supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.

Change Grow Live is one of the UK’s largest charities. We provide a range of services including community and prison substance misuse, criminal justice, children and young people’s and housing/homelessness.

Joining us means being part of a well-established and successful team, and the chance to develop your skills, knowledge and experience whilst working with great people from across our organisation.

Last year we won tenders with an annual value of almost £50 million but what this really means to us is that we can provide more support to more people across the UK.

Working as part of Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team you will play a key role in the development and writing of tenders and proposals for a variety of health and social care services.

You will engage with people and teams across our organisation, from Consultant Psychiatrists and Nurses to Data Analysts and Web Developers, to produce high quality written tenders and proposals that clearly demonstrate the positive impact that our services have on people’s lives.

You will support our successful and growing Business Development Team to improve the quality of our work and develop our team culture, by thinking creatively, sharing your own knowledge and experiences, and challenging existing ways of working.

Ultimately you will contribute to the design, development and delivery of our services and help us to deliver on our organisational aims, strategy and values.

This role offers a great opportunity to learn and develop while using your established skills, and you’ll be encouraged to take on more responsibility as you progress.

Check out the job description for more information, and you can call to discuss this role further.

About you

You’ll be a confident and highly competent communicator with excellent writing skills and an exceptional eye for detail.

You’ll have proven experience of writing tenders, proposals or grant applications, or writing in other professional or academic environments, for instance journalism, research or marketing.

You’ll have good IT and research skills and be able to analyse data and interpret evidence.

You’ll be proactive and creative, and happy to give and receive challenging feedback.

You’ll share our passion for our values and mission, and you’ll be ready to work hard to achieve these.

Above all, you’ll want to use your skills and experience to develop and write winning tenders for services that help people to make positive changes in their lives.

Why work for Change Grow Live

We’ll support you to develop and grow. You’ll be joining a diverse team which welcomes new ideas and ways of working, and you’ll receive structured support, training and coaching to help you to progress in your career.

Joining Change Grow Live’s Business Development Team means you’ll benefit from a positive, supportive and flexible working environment which includes:

• Regional offices across the UK, including London, Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds;
• The option to work from home;
• Flexible hours and working patterns including compressed hours and job share options.

We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and inclusive workplace and this is evidenced through our 2019 Stonewall Top 100 Employers Award and Investors in People Silver Award.

For further infomration, and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Closing Date: 23/8/2020

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through, please contact us.

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Scheme check at a basic level. 

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible

This senior role will drive our finance transformation programme forward and lead our transition to a finance business partnering model. Working alongside the Finance Director and the Head of Finance, this role will help shape the strategy and delivery of excellent forward facing financial planning, analysis, and decision support.

They will lead and develop a strong team of business partners to make sure we make the best financial decisions across the organisation. Excellent communication is a critical part of this role (and the team they manage) as they will bring a concise, clear understanding to complex issues and be able to translate data into an understandable narrative to Directors and senior leaders.

£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.

HR Business Partner
Location: 55 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BN (may involve some travelling around South West)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £40,000.00 per annum + benefits
Closing Date: Monday 10 August '20 (12 noon).

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of marginalised people?

Julian House is a Bath-based charity supporting people who are homeless and socially excluded to build sustainable independent lives. 

We have been through an exciting period of growth to deliver our strategy and are well placed to continue to develop, with ambitions to support more people across the South West, at a time when there is increasing demand for our services. 

We are looking for a dynamic, CIPD qualified, HR Business Partner with proven change management and employee relations experience who can successfully partner the business to improve organisation performance. 

You will provide excellent strategic HR advice and guidance on the full range of people issues including recruitment and on-boarding, learning and development, employee engagement, compensation and benefits, talent management, disciplinary, grievance and capability issues and HR information systems.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will work as part of the wider senior management team, leading on the development and implementation of our People Strategy, and projects within this including reward, retention, policies, diversity and staff well-being.

Confident and credible, you’ll need to be comfortable working at pace, often on multiple projects at the same time.  With excellent communication skills, acting as a coach to all levels of management, you will play a key role in embedding best practice in people management and shaping the culture of the organisation.  Excellent problem solving and influencing skills are also key requirements for this role.

You’ll be responsible for managing and developing a small team comprised of an HR Assistant, Volunteer Coordinator and Head Office Receptionist.

Above all, you will share our passion for making a difference to the lives of the most marginalised.

Upon the end of the pandemic restriction period, the successful candidate will be based at our Head Office in Bath and occasionally required to travel to other offices and services.

We are committed to equality of opportunity in service provision and employment. We are also committed to developing an organisation that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve and welcome applications from all sections of the community and candidates with lived experience.  We are proud to be a Disability Confident and Mindful employer.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week.  We are happy to consider reduced hours for the right candidate.

The salary for this role is £40,000 pa.

As an employee, you will receive an excellent benefits package which includes:

• Cash health care plan 
• Up to 27 days annual leave (depending on length of service) 
• Employer pension contribution (up to 6% of your gross salary) 
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff Award Scheme 
• 20% Discount at Julian House Shops and Bike Workshops 

Closing date:

The closing date for this post is Monday 10 August ’20 (12 noon).

Please note: interviews will be taking place on Monday 17 August '20.

To Apply: 

To apply for this role all you need is an up to date CV with a cover letter to include why are you a great fit for this role. Please reference the person specification and draw on your track record and transferable skills, giving clear examples. If possible please upload your CV and supporting statement as one document. Please upload your CV & Cover Letter via our Julian House jobs page on our website. 

We require a detail focused individual to work as part of a small team based in Stockport which arranges and actively manages the delivery of property related compliance. This team has the important responsibility of managing property related compliance in relation to gas, electric, legionella, asbestos, PAT, EPCs and other maintenance contracts. You will need to organise inspections and tests, collect and organise data, maintain up to date records, provide reports for senior colleagues and contribute to reports for the Board of Trustees.  

In order to fulfil this challenging and varied role you will need to be proactive, well organised and able to work quickly to achieve deadlines. You will be numerate and IT literate with expertise in using spreadsheets and database. The ability to accurately input, organise and interrogate data is essential. You be able to work with a high level of detail in order to understand and address problems, whilst maintaining a focus on business priorities. You must be assertive and personable in working with contractors. Good written and verbal communication skills are essential.

It is desirable but not essential that applicants have relevant experience of the housing or property sector.  It is essential that applicants demonstrate prior experience of carrying out complex and responsible administrative work. Applicant should hold a degree or other relevant qualifications or training. An interest in our activities is essential.

You will be expected to attend training and keep yourself informed in property related compliance for registered housing providers. We will also expect you to contribute to our out- of-hours duty rota. 

Job title: Senior IT Business Partner x 2

Region: Homebased – UK Mainland

Directorate: Information Management & Technology (IM&T)

Contract: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £46,000 per annum (plus London weighting £4452 if applicable)

About the Royal British Legion (RBL)

The Legion is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community through thick and thin – ensuring their unique contribution is never forgotten. We have been here since 1921 and we will be here as long as they need us.

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

- A desire to provide a great customer service and support

- Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others

- Passionate about supporting the Armed Forces community and honouring their contribution

- Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop

- An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so, then we would like you hear from you ….

The Role

The IM&T Directorate is going through an exciting period of change in our role as an enabling strategic service to help deliver the RBL's “One Legion Strategy”.

Reporting to the Head of IM&T Projects. We are seeking two Senior IT Business Partners to serve as the strategic interface within assigned business unit or functional area for the purpose of business technology strategy development, IT adoption, solution discovery, risk management, budget development and customer relationship management. Serve as a lead role in enabling the business to achieve their strategic objectives through the effective adoption of technology.

You will proactively share knowledge of technology risks and opportunities to build a competitive advantage and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business units and eliminate duplicity. Partner with business leadership and other key stakeholders to define opportunities, consistency of approach, identify and prioritise projects based on predefined criteria (e.g. return on investment, efficiency gain, productivity, compliance), in order to support the One Legion strategy.

You will provide a highly valued strategic consultancy service through key IT initiatives. Communicate decisions, priorities, and relevant project information to appropriate levels of staff regarding business unit requests, projects and initiatives. Establishing the IT Business Partner role as high performing, trusted and value-adding service, establishing excellent customer relationships with key business stakeholders and other parts of the organisation as required.

Whilst the role is based at home (UK Mainland) there will be some travel requirements to RBL offices.

How to Apply

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply Online’

Closing date for this role is Sunday 16th August 2020.

Shortlisted candidates will attend an initial MS Teams interview w/c 17/08, with successful candidates attending a final Teams interview w/c 24/08 where they will deliver a short presentation.

For a (financially) sustainable future

Job Title:  Head of Finance and Data Analysis

Department:  Finance

Reports to:  Executive Director

Status:  Full time (38.5 hours per week)

Location:  London

Salary:  Competitive salary 

Changing the world takes passion and dedication

Isn’t it time that your passion and dedication be channelled towards a career and community that genuinely changes lives?

If you...

• want to transform your own life by transforming the lives of others

• crave a career that creates opportunity for others

• desire to make dreams come true for those who never thought it possible

• know that education is the foundation from which we can change the world

• believe that today’s young people can transform tomorrow

• strive for world peace and global sustainability

• dare to dream

...then a career with UWC could be the change you need. 

UWC is a global family of schools with a powerful difference. With a shared goal of working towards global peace and sustainability, we bring together young people from around the world to study in one of our 18 schools on four continents. There they don’t just learn how to be great at passing exams. They learn how to communicate across cultural boundaries. They develop the skills to be a changemaker. They design and engage in initiatives that transform their lives and the lives of those around them for the better. And they stay a “UWC-er” for life, becoming part of a global community of over 60,000 changemakers transforming the lives of others. 

Working with us will inspire and challenge you

Driving a mission to make the UWC experience available to tomorrow’s changemakers, irrespective of their background, beliefs and economic means demands colleagues with passion and dedication, and a talent for transformation. If you studied at a UWC, you’ll know why we’re so passionate and perhaps you want to be part of this again. If you didn’t, prepare to be inspired.

We have so much to do, so isn’t it time you got started?

Are you our new Head of Finance and Data Analysis?

Right now, we are searching for a new Head of Finance and Data Analysis to join UWC International in our London Office.

UWC International works with all our schools and stakeholders around the world, serving the movement through:

• Global fundraising

• Global communications, promotion and marketing

• Supporting over 155 UWC national committees in their daily work and growth

• Global strategy development and implementation

• Assisting UWC schools and colleges 

The position is a challenging one. Our mission is global peace and sustainability, and our success depends on our own sustainability as a movement. That’s where you come in. Your purpose is to drive the financial sustainability of a movement that:

• Offers financial assistance to over 80% of the young people who are offered a place at one of our schools - and supports our aim to offer even more financial assistance in future

• Is supported by a network of mostly volunteer-led national committees in over 155 countries and territories around the world 

• Is a UK registered charity, with a subsidiary in Berlin, Germany. 

As our Head of Finance and Data Analysis, you’ll be responsible for:

• Financial planning and budgeting, financial control, reporting and financial analysis of UWC International and across both the London and the Berlin office

• Providing the UWC International Board, Executive Director and other colleagues with relevant, accurate and clear financial management information

• Managing financial data collection and analysis across 18 UWC schools and colleges to support financial sustainability and transparency.

• Overseeing our financial systems and procedures are effectively implemented and run in order to meet auditing requirements working with the Senior Financial Accountant

You’ll be working closely with UWC International’s Finance and Audit Committee. And while you won’t be responsible for financial oversight of individual schools (who are all separate legal entities), you will be working closely with them and our 155 national committees in the collection and analysis of data to improve our global financial sustainability. 

As you’d expect in a streamlined team working for a charitable organisation, our colleagues all perform a broad range of duties requiring a flexible approach to your work.

This means that we’re searching for someone who:

• Knows how to manage a broad finance function, including financial data collection and modelling, financial forecasting, budgeting, and overseeing the annual audit process

• Has an excellent grasp of technology and how it can serve us

• Has led and loves leading and managing team members and projects

• Knows how to work with and in support of stakeholders and colleagues, including directors, board treasurers and trustees

• Understands the world of grantmaking and reporting to donors 

If this is you, read on for further details…

Key responsibilities

• To manage the full financial cycle with support from the senior financial accountant. This includes annual budgeting and budget approval with the finance and audit committee as well as the board, financial reporting and management accounting, annual audit and submission to Companies House and Charity Commission.

• To oversee the processing of payments, income, disbursements and international transfers and to monitor cash flow and recommend and implement action when necessary.

• To support teams and senior managers with financial management and planning, including contingency planning for unforeseen events, donor reporting and management, financial reporting to the executive director and the board.

• To act as secretary and provide support to the Finance and Audit Committee of the board, in close collaboration with the board treasurer. This includes drafting agendas for regular meetings, producing papers and coordinating minute taking and follow up to meetings, including escalation to the board for decision making. 

• To support the Executive Director and senior management team with preparation of papers for board meetings and taking the lead on papers relating to finances, compliance and data reporting.

• To act as the key liaison with fund managers, auditors and banks to ensure the smooth functioning of the finance function at UWC.

• To oversee internal control processes. 

• To maintain contact with and support the group of college finance directors, act as lead for data gathering, management and reporting on the finances of the 18 UWC schools and colleges as well as the national committee system. This includes refining and launching annual reporting tools, managing data collection and data cleaning as well as working independently and with the help of external consultants to produce interactive data dashboards for internal office use, as well as presentations for external and internal stakeholders.

• To line manage the senior financial accountant. 

Person Specification

Essential

• Excellent financial skills and proven ability to drive budgeting and financial management at an organisation level and in a multi-currency environment. 

• Strong financial planning, modelling and analysis skills.

• Excellent communication, writing and reporting skills, including presenting financial information to the board, senior audiences and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

• Proven experience of acting as business partner support to senior management and their teams on issues related to finances and technology in a dotted management environment. 

• Experience in designing and implementing agile operational policies and procedures fit to the management of a charity operating in a distributed setting.

• Experience in managing direct reports effectively and collaboratively.

• Ability to influence external stakeholders in areas related to financial planning. 

• Knowledge of financial software (Sage preferred) and data visualisation software (MS PowerBi preferred) 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written), in particular the ability to communicate in a confident and engaging manner at all levels, in culturally very different contexts and in challenging contexts or situations.

• Self-motivation, flexibility and adaptability. A proactive attitude and ability to work independently as well as a member of a team.

• Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills and cross-cultural sensitivity with a high level of comfort operating in an international and multicultural environment.

• Excellent spoken and written English (ideally equivalent to native speaker)

• Comfort operating in an international and multicultural environment and ability and desire to travel internationally.

• A deep interest in UWC’s mission and values, and a willingness to engage with issues of relevance to the UWC movement.

It is expected that the job holder will travel to UWC schools and colleges. For that reason a basic DBS check (Disclosure barring statement) or international equivalent will be required before any job offer is made.

Desirable

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA), MBA or equivalent 

• Experience with financial management of consolidated accounts

• Experience working across offices and legal entities in different jurisdictions

• A mix of charity and commercial experience 

• Ideally strong command of additional world languages beyond English

• Knowledge of data protection regimes in the UK and EU.

Are you excited about this? Then apply!

Please send your CV with a covering letter (each no more than two pages) that relates your experience to the requirements of the role to the email address stated. Please state your current salary and salary expectation for this role. Also please include in the covering letter what it is that attracts you to the role and why we should recruit you. Please also indicate how you have heard about this role. 

In your application, please also provide the name, roles and contact details of two referees. We will not contact them without letting you know. Please note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 

Deadline for application:  9am 31st August (UK time)

The first stage interviews will take place the week beginning 7th September

This is clearly an extraordinary time and a difficult point at which to change jobs - but we are committed to making this as easy as possible for candidates. We will arrange interviews by video-conference and ensure inductions can be done in a way which makes the successful candidate feel like a valued part of the organisation.

You will be a people person, who is passionate about social justice and ensuring our residents receive the best quality support whilst they live in our housing. You will have demonstratable skills in advocacy ensuring our residents are able to access all the services they need and are entitled to. This sometimes will mean pushing people to help, sometimes when they don’t want to, but should. Fighting for the rights of our residents is a key part of who we are and you will be supported through your journey with us.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our Fundraising Team and take responsibility for the Fundraising Database across the department as well as other areas within the organisation that use the Raiser’s Edge system.

Fundraising and Database Officer
Location: Bosham
Salary: £ 21,900 up to £ 22,667
Hours: Full time

This role provides the ideal candidate with a practical working environment to display their excellent numeracy and computer literacy skills, processing dynamic database functions across the hospice while helping to promote strong analysis and data security.

The successful candidate will be educated to a minimum A-level or equivalent, or have at least 3 years work experience, of which 2 years within a fundraising, finance or customer services environment. The ideal candidate will be positive, responsive and helpful with a conscientious and flexible approach to work

Applicants must be able to demonstrate their -

• Ability to develop imports and exports from the database to support segmentation
• Identify supporters who have the potential to engage further with the organisation.
• Ability to provide training and support to Raiser’s Edge users with emphasis on database and supporter management, data analysis, statistical and reporting across the organisation 
• Knowledge of providing an excellent customer services experience or fundraising supporter journey
• Knowledge of CRM database system and processing of transactions.

In addition to day to day management of the database, the postholder will support the Individual Fundraising Manager to develop and deliver the Individual Fundraising Strategy to reach, inspire and support a network of supporters. 

The working atmosphere is friendly, inspiring and supportive through commitment to our Values and inclusive environment.  We offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes; holiday entitlement starting at 27 days per year plus bank holidays (pro rata), a contributory pension scheme, or a continuation of NHS holiday entitlements and NHS Superannuation Scheme if applicable.  Life assurance, discounted gym membership plus a contributory cash reimbursement plan for you and family members.

Closing date – 24 August 2020 (4pm)

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can see the full job description and download the application form.

No agencies please.