We have an opportunity for a Senior Parliamentary and Projects Officer to join the team based in Birmingham (currently working remotely). You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive starting salary of £26,000 - £30,000 per annum depending on experience.

National Governance Association is the only national membership organisation for school governors and trustees in England, and we work to improve the effectiveness of governing boards in both maintained schools and academies. As such it is the first port of call for many of the policy makers in the education sector who wish to understand the governor view. We pride ourselves on our expertise and the quality of our products and services. Alongside our memberships, NGA offers training, e-learning and consultancy.

Benefits of joining us:

- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Holiday entitlement increases after 3 years’ service
- 7% employer contribution pension

As our Senior Parliamentary and Projects Officer, you will shape and manage NGA’s parliamentary work and contribute to its projects in order to help achieve the strategic aim of the organisation to promote good governance in schools. You will work closely with the wider Policy, Information and Communication team to contribute to the organisation's projects and research agenda, helping to ensure the organisation is operating at the forefront of the government and political debate.

Key responsibilities of our Senior Parliamentary and Projects Officer will include:

- With the Director of Policy and Information, establishing a strategy for NGA’s parliamentary and political focus, driving forward NGA’s political engagement and related activities
- Monitoring parliamentary business on a weekly basis to identify issues arising and opportunities to engage parliamentarians in discussion and debate about education policy and school governance
- Assisting with responses to government consultations and public inquiries
- Line managing NGA’s Research Officer
- Shaping and supervising NGA’s research projects
- Managing project delivery, including identifying, exploring and scoping potential new pieces of work which contribute to NGA’s strategy
- Working with colleagues to help shape the NGA policy agenda
- Managing projects where relevant ensuring work is meeting NGA’s strategic priorities
- Promoting policy positions and research findings through meetings, conferences and events
- Representing NGA at internal and external events and meetings
- Participating in Policy, Research and Information team meetings with the aim of continuously improving standards of service

What we’re looking for in our ideal Senior Parliamentary and Projects Officer:

Essential:

- Prior exposure to a Public Affairs and Political environment, including experience of parliamentary work
- Sound understanding of England’s governmental structure as it affects education
- Experience of influencing policy-making through the use of research and campaigns
- Experience of writing in a variety of channels: policy reports; research; newsletter; magazine; guidance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to translate complex Policy articles into succinct and easy-to-read format
- Ability to quickly develop an understanding of current and emerging themes relevant to school governance, and to apply that knowledge to improve governance practice
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including relationship building
- Positive attitude and ‘can do’ approach, working calmly under pressure
- Energetic, engaging, confident, creative and enthusiastic
- A commitment to NGA’s charitable objectives, ethos and values

Desirable:

- Any press or social media experience is desirable
- Experience of conducting research using varying methodologies
- Knowledge of the state school sector

Closing Date: 9.00 am on Tuesday 5th January 2021
Interview Date: Friday 8th January 2021 

If you feel that you are the right candidate for the role as our Senior Parliamentary and Projects Officer or would like to find out more information about the role, then please click ‘apply’ now.  We’d love to hear from you.

Associate Director People Experience

We are in the process of developing a new culture change programme and are looking for someone to lead this work and our People Experience Team, for a 12-month maternity cover contract.

Position: Associate Director - People Experience

Location: Homebased

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £54,000 per annum (Inner London weighting £3,299 per annum or Outer London weighting £1,755 per annum, may be applied in accordance with where you live)

Contract: This is a fixed term maternity cover role for 12 months

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Cycle2Work scheme, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 31 January 2021

Interview Date: 5 February 2021

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

The Role

We’re transforming our charity to rebuild more lives after stroke through a new operating model. As part of this change, we’re working to embed a culture of trust and empowerment that’s more aligned with a Theory Y view of the working world. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with colleagues at all levels of the organisation to support transformational change and continue our focus on making the Stroke Association a great place to work, volunteer and grow.

About You

As Associate Director, you will have a qualification or experience in engagement, internal communication, change or organisational development.

You will have led a sizeable engagement, internal communication or organisational development function, ideally at senior management level and will have expertise in the application of organisational development and cultural change interventions including equality, diversity and inclusion.

Experience of working in the, voluntary, health and care sectors would be desirable.

You must have the right to work in the U.K to fulfil this role.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

You may also be interested in this role if you have worked in areas such as HR, Human Resources, HR Director, Head of HR, Human Resources Director, Head of HR, HR Manager, Human Resources Manager, Change, Change Management, Director of Change, Head of Change, People, Development, Organisation Development, Personnel, People Manager, People Director, TUPE, OD Manager, Engagement Manager, Head of Engagement.

About us
Since the coronavirus outbreak began, our society has pulled together to achieve extraordinary things. Thousands of people sleeping rough have been temporarily housed in a matter of weeks, and many more were prevented from becoming homeless due to emergency changes to legislation.

As we begin to emerge from the series of lockdowns, we now stand at a crossroads: we can build on the incredible progress that has been made by helping everyone move into a secure and permanent home; or we risk seeing thousands of people being forced into homelessness.

We are recruiting for a Volunteering Partner – Development to join our expanding Volunteering Team, to work alongside our inspirational volunteers and to bring an end to homelessness in Great Britain.

About the role

This role can be based at any of our 11 offices (Croydon, Central London, Brent, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Rotherham, Liverpool or Newcastle, South Wales and Edinburgh) but must be able to travel to our Head Office in London occasionally.

As our Volunteering Partner - Development you will join our innovative, dynamic and creative central Volunteering Team.  For the past few years, we’ve been working hard to transform the volunteer journey and experience at Crisis and have made significant progress.  New materials, new processes and a more digital approach are all being embedded and you will be part of ensuring that all of our volunteers have a brilliant experience with Crisis. 

This role has a focus on new and effective marketing approaches to ensure we reach those volunteers who have an ambition to end homelessness.  It’s also pivotal in the use of our Learning Management System for volunteers and ensuring that volunteers commit to an engaging and effective learning experience. However, you will not be alone, and you will need to work in a collaborative and positive way with our Volunteer Coordinators, Marketing and Data and Technology teams whose energy and expertise is vital to the delivery of effective volunteering support.  

About you
We are looking for someone who is able to work on multiple projects at once, has excellent organisation skills, and outstanding written and verbal communication. You will need the confidence and creativity to develop new ideas and approaches and the ability to build support for them and ensure their delivery.  
We want someone to make this role their own.  The remit is broad, the space for creativity and risk taking is generous and this team is ambitious about being sector leading in the way we work with our volunteers. 

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 click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.
Closing date: Sunday 31st January 2021 (at 23:59)
Interviews will be held on Friday 5th February 2021
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Work with us

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. If you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

Who we’re looking for

Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to our environment? Do you want to get people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great?

As individuals, we have a somewhat eclectic mix of skills, passions and idiosyncrasies…but it works. Probably because we all have one thing in common: we believe we’re onto something really special.

The Communications Team has grown in recent years and in order to meet our ambitious plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some new people to our team in our offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham.

The role

Our busy Communications Team needs a manager to supervise their workload, manage the retention and recruitment of members, plan our attendance at major consumer shows across the UK and together with the Head of Communications ensure effective external and internal communications.

The role will call for considerable involvement in day to day operational and management issues within the department, as well as involvement with media requests, engagement with external organisations and individuals to maximise The Vegan Society's brand awareness and event coordination.

This role is one of first-line management and will call for a close relationship with and support for the Senior Management Team's work.

As Communications and Supporter Services Manager you will:

• Line manage members of the Communications and Supporter Services teams: conducting 1-1s, signing off leave, appraisals etc.
• Lead on staff-run events at vegan and plant-based consumer shows, managing negotiations and the booking process
• Act as a spokesperson for The Vegan Society for broadcast media as required
• Support our media and PR strategies
• Liaise with the Campaigns Manager and the Business Development Marketing Manager to support their media and PR strategies. 
• Project manage the implementation of the society's new CRM with the selected supplier during 2021 and support the Senior Supporter Services Coordinator with the implementation and testing of the CRM ensuring that the society keeps to timescales and budgets.
• Maintain organisational engagement with partners, supporters and high-level (celebrity) supporters.

To be considered as our Communications and Supporter Services Manager you will need:

• Demonstrable team management skills
• A very high standard of literacy with good all-round writing skills and excellent proofreading skills.
• Good project planning experience
• Good understanding of the full spectrum of marketing communications with expertise in marketing and PR.
• Events management experience
• To be willing to adhere to a vegan lifestyle for the duration of your employment.

What we offer

• A fun and supportive team
• A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Animal companion compassionate leave
• Ethical pension scheme (5-7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)
• Central Birmingham office location

Salary and hours

This is full time (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £27,741 – £39,880 per annum.

The application deadline is 9am Monday 15 February 2021.

Interviews will be held w/c 22 February 2021.

Please note: The role is typically an office-based role, however remote working will be in place until social distancing measures are relaxed/removed. After these restrictions are eased a flexible work schedule could be considered but you would need to live within commuting distance of Birmingham.

CVs cannot be accepted. No agencies.

Work with us

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. If you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

In order to meet our ambitious growth plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some additional people to join our team in our new offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham. As such we are looking to recruit a Digital Communications Manager, this role is key in supporting our growth strategy.

The role

The Digital Communications Manager will provide support to the Head of Communications as well as team leadership and direction to the Digital Communications team.

The role will call for considerable involvement in day to day operational and management issues within the Communications Department, as well as engagement with external organisations and digital agencies to maximise The Vegan Society’s brand awareness.

This role is one of first-line management and will call for a close relationship with and support for the Senior Management Team’s work.

As Digital Communications Manager you will: 

• Line manage members of the Digital Communications Team: conducting 1-1s, signing off leave, appraisals and supporting staff with their training and development plans.
• Project manage larger digital and web-based projects for the Communications department.
• Generate awareness of the society and its campaigns, and drive traffic to digital activities through online marketing and communications.
• Develop strategies, tools and applications to increase supporter and business conversion, engagement and retention, using a thorough understanding of our audience.
• Collate data from various sources across Digital Communications, and supplement that data with relevant research, producing detailed reports.

To be considered as our Digital Communications Manager you must have:

• Demonstrable team management skills and experience
• A very high standard of literacy with good all-round writing and proofreading skills
• Good project planning experience
• Good understanding of the full spectrum of marketing communications with digital marketing expertise
• Experience of programmatic advertising would be an advantage.

What we offer

• A fun and supportive team
• A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Animal companion compassionate leave
• Ethical pension scheme (5 – 7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)
• Central Birmingham office location

Salary and hours

This is full time (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £27,741 – £39,880 per annum.

The application deadline is 9am Monday 15 February 2021.

Interviews will be held w/c 22 February 2021.

Please note: The role is typically an office-based role, however remote working will be in place until social distancing measures are relaxed/removed. After these restrictions are eased a flexible work schedule could be considered but you would need to live within commuting distance of Birmingham.