The Scar Free Foundation is recruiting for a Senior Development Officer, salary FTE £30,000-£35,000 with great benefits. We’re based at the Royal College of Surgeons in Holborn, but homeworking for the time being.  

The Scar Free Foundation is a medical research charity with a 20-year track record of delivering transformative research into the causes of scarring, wound healing, and psychological support. You’ll build on our strong record in Trusts and Major Donor fundraising as part of a transformational fundraising campaign to achieve scar free healing within a generation and transform lives. We have an amazing group of volunteers – people with Lived Experience of scarring – with compelling stories to tell about their own scarring, and supportive, well-connected Trustees. Our work is rooted in research excellence and delivering clinically meaningful outcomes, with leading clinicians and researchers in world-class institutions across the UK.

We’re seeking an experienced fundraiser, with a solid and creative background in working with Trusts and Foundations to help bring these elements together. Someone who is a great communicator, enthusiastic and motivated to contribute to our success. Working as part of a small, supportive and experienced team, you will be implementing our T&F fundraising strategy, growing our social media fundraising, and working with the team to drive and support donor relationships – including prospect research, cultivation events and database management.  

For more information see Role Profile and Application Pack attached

The closing date is Sunday 4 April and we’re expecting to interview towards the end of that month.

Good luck, and best wishes

Amy - Senior Trusts and Foundations Manager

Wirral Ark is looking for an experienced, proactive innovator as its new Chief Executive to help us both consolidate and build upon our current provision. Your experience might come from the charity, homelessness or housing sectors – but it is your personality that will be important to us.

The overall purpose of the role is to work with the Chair, Board and staff to maintain a clear and compelling vision for the organisation whilst effectively delivering our mission to reduce the impact of homelessness on the Wirral.

The new CEO will also be responsible for growing our business by developing an asset base and services that can help the organisation achieve its strategic objective to become substantially independent from government income streams in the medium to long term.

History of the charity 

Wirral Churches’ Ark Project, known as Wirral Ark, is a registered charity that exists to provide accommodation for the homeless, under the MainStay framework, as well as providing support and guidance for individuals to secure long-term accommodation.  We offer services throughout the region. 

We started life in 1991 as a temporary shelter. The service was set up by the Wallasey Council of Christian Churches with the aim of offering emergency accommodation for those who found themselves homeless.

Wirral Ark has evolved enormously over the years and now offers a whole range of support provision for homeless people. These include isolated people with mental health or substance problems, current and ex-offenders, former rough sleepers and people who are begging or street drinking. 

Through our work, we have become experts at working with, and supportively housing, people with complex problems – for example, people with severe mental health problems, a lifelong alcohol addiction, very challenging behaviour, or a combination of these and other issues. Our support pathway is designed for people with particularly complex needs. Its function is to help them into securing a permanent and sustainable home which they will remain in.

New leadership

Wirral Ark has undergone a significant period of growth in the last 4 years, increasing turnover from around £875K in 2017 to £1.2M in 2020, with a budget for around £1.3M in 2021.

Wirral Ark has successfully diversified its income during this period. It has done so in a climate of continuous cost cutting of welfare and homelessness support - both at a local and national level. The income of the charity is derived largely from Wirral Borough Council and primarily from  its Supporting People Contracts and Housing Benefit. Wirral Ark has targets to grow its own independent income from fundraising activities and the creation of income streams derived from its subsidiary, the Wirral Ark Trading CIC.

We believe this strategy is putting Wirral Ark into a robust position and will gives us a strong platform to further improve and build rounds our services. There are several important aspects of the work for Wirral Ark are still under development. We are now looking for an excellent leader to take us to the next level.

The charity have a stakeholder pension open to all employees satisfying the auto-enrolment criteria with employees currently contributing 5% and the charity 3%. Other options could be negotiated within the package.

To apply, please download the attached application form and job pack - including application guidance notes, person specification, job description and other key information.

Regional Lead (Project Manager) - West of England

Interim Regional Lead – West of England
6 months fixed term contract with possibility of becoming permanent
22.5 hours pw

Clean Slate Training & Employment CIC aims to help people on low incomes become better off by re-organising how they manage their money, finding work or better work and getting online. Quids in! is our money skills initiative.

We want to see a world where everyone can provide for themselves and their family, where society addresses everyone’s needs and where it does not cost more to be poor. It should provide fair opportunity for all so anyone willing and able can access employment. Our job is to enable people to improve their financial wellbeing. Everyone needs to be able to manage their money well, find work and access every facility to help them do so, including online services. Clean Slate, in partnership with Quids in!, is re-writing the rulebook on helping low income households to become better off. We are proudly different by:

- Telling claimants, tenants and low-income earners what’s really going on, what to be cautious about and what opportunities exist
- Recognising and helping people to see their own abilities to help themselves and each other
- Focusing on the present and the future, not the past, and respecting people's need for something personalised and of practical benefit to them now and into the future
- Valuing people as integral to how we engage others from similar backgrounds and activating people as community activists by making them central within our enterprise
- Being motivated by social justice, tackling poverty and inequality and giving people a voice
- Making sustainability, independence, people’s trust and creating a real difference core to our work

Since lockdown, our teams in Bath, Glos and London have re-imagined service delivery as a remote, phone-based and online programme revolving around a money health-check and triage process, followed by help to follow up on recommended next steps. This has led to contracts with social landlords and the Dept of Work and Pensions, on top of core activities already underway.

We have further opportunities to expand in the West of England (Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Glos and North Somerset), and require an Interim Regional Lead to help assess and realise the potential for growth here. This is initially a 6-month fixed-term contract but with the possibility of becoming permanent.

Working closely with the Managing Director, Partnerships Manager and the B&NES Service Coordinator, the Project Manager will:

- Establish a sustainable presence in Bristol, networking and developing partnerships in the West of England that increase our reach and impact, and create opportunities for new contracts, commissions and funded programmes
- Explore and identify opportunities to meet the needs of local authorities (including the West of England Combined Authority), social landlords and DWP
- Identify and pursue funding opportunities, including corporate support from the significant finance and blue-chip sector in Bristol/ surrounding area, to support a permanent Regional Lead position and an increased team of Support and Peer Workers. (Help generate sales and sponsorship leads for Quids in!)
- Oversee the Service Coordinator and their team working with a minimum 200 people per year74
- Ensure our core contract with VirginCare is secure (or replaced with another long-term contract from April 2022)
- Increase the number of referrals accessing our existing service and increase Support Worker capacity to meet growing demand
- Support the development and implementation of a ‘Peer Worker to Support Worker’ learning and development programme
- Work with the Leadership Team to develop processes that improve recording, reporting, impact measurement and continuous improvement
- Post-lockdown, re-establish community-based services including drop-ins and a schedule of 7 Signs (employability) and 3 Bs (money skills) workshops
- Establish impact performance benchmarks and work with the team to build on these

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a skilled communicator, whether face to face or in writing. You must have an organised and structured approach to your work and have the ability to plan and manage your time to deliver to deadline. You must be an experienced manager with an approachable and supportive style, able to inspire, motivate and lead a team. You will need a flair for building strategic partnerships, drawing on your influencing and negotiation skills. You must be committed to delivering a high-quality service to service users, evaluating the impact of the work of the regional team and taking remedial action if necessary. The ideal candidate would also demonstrate an understanding of discrimination, equality and diversity issues, including those not set out in law such as the poverty premium. Knowledge of benefits and the welfare system would also be helpful, as would experience of delivering training or support to people from disadvantaged communities and diverse cultures. Above all, you must be committed to Clean Slate’s vision and mission, empowering service users and promoting independence.

Although all Clean Slate staff are currently working from home, as soon as coronavirus restrictions allow you must be able to travel around the region to liaise with our partner agencies, to find and develop new partnerships and to visit staff at our Quids In centres. You will work 22.5 hours per week and we would welcome a discussion with you on how you would like to organise these hours. The salary is £19,200 for the 22.5 hours (the full-time equivalent would be £32,000)

Benefits: Flexible working, access to mental and emotional health support, excellent in-house training, an open and supportive culture

To apply, upload your CV and a covering letter explaining why you believe you are the right person for this role.

Ref: 97403

Over four decades, Prospect Hospice has become the organisation that people in Swindon, Marlborough and north Wiltshire turn to when they, or the people they love, are diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. We have cared for and supported many thousands of local people, which is why so many people contribute in their own way to a charity that makes a positive difference in our community.

We have exciting opportunities for two new trustees and a chair of the board to help lead, support and guide us as we continue to drive for excellence in end of life care. 

As someone with experience in medical, nursing or governance, you’ll be able to draw on your knowledge and experience to help us deliver the best possible care in our communities. You will have a proven, professional track record of leadership at the highest level and share our vision, and ambition to take a leading role in our journey to be recognised as an outstanding organisation.

If you have relevant experience and are interested in making a difference to this unique charity, please press the apply button now - you will be directed to our website where you can find out more information and complete your application or contact Siobhan Acott on 01793 816119.

Closing date: Friday, 26th March 2021

Interview date to be confirmed

Equality & Diversity

Prospect Hospice values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce, board and volunteer group that reflect this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

We are committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are provided with equality of opportunity in employment and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, offending background, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Safeguarding

Prospect Hospice is committed to promoting the wellbeing of all adults and children who use our services, ensuring that they live a life that is free from harm, abuse and neglect. We work in an open and transparent way and encourage staff, volunteers, patients and families to raise any safeguarding concerns.

Thames Chase Community Forest Director

• Employer:  Thames Chase Trust
• Location: Thames Chase Forest Centre
• Contract: Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)
• Salary: £50,000 to £55,000

Thames Chase Community Forest, one of a group of community forests established across England in 1990, connects 40 square miles of urban and rural landscape through east London and south-west Essex. The Community Forest is in the forefront of landscape regeneration and Thames Chase Trust is looking for an exceptional Director who is a passionate landscape manager to lead the most ambitious programmes into the next phase of Forest development.

After 30years of successful landscape development, Thames Chase Trust has a unique and exciting, but challenging, opportunity to accelerate the creation of Thames Chase Community Forest into the next decade. If you are looking for a new challenge that will make a difference to local communities as well as supporting a national vision for a better environment, this rewarding post could be for you.

The Director will lead an enthusiastic team of staff and volunteers committed to working in partnership with diverse stakeholders. Bringing inspiration, innovation and practical management knowledge, the successful candidate will help deliver the Thames Chase Plan in its ambition to create a collective vision of this historic and unique landscape and a coherent plan for now and future generations. The Forest vision in the current Thames Chase 10 year plan is:

‘By 2030, Thames Chase Community Forest will be recognised as an inspirational example of landscape regeneration where enhanced, connected woodland and green space has made a clear difference to wildlife and peoples’ lives.’

The successful candidate will work independently and in co-operation with the National Community Forest network to progress government initiatives as well as initiating regional and local landscape projects with partner organisations and landowners.

Salary: £50,000-£55,000

For the full role outline, please visit our website.

Applications should indicate experience against the detailed criteria outlined in the role.

For more information or to make an application please submit a covering letter and CV.

Closing date: 23:59, 21st March 2021

Community Arts North West (CAN), is a long established Manchester-based arts organisation, Manchester City Council Cultural Partner and Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. CAN is at the cutting edge of contemporary, inter-cultural arts practice and has been a leader in the field of participatory arts since 1978.We have a particular expertise and interest in arts & migration.  We build deep, long-lasting connections with communities across Greater Manchester, developing unique, creative projects with people whose voices are not normally heard in the mainstream. 

We’re now looking to recruit a Senior Administrator.

This post will work closely with CAN’s Executive Director to ensure the smooth running of many aspects of the company’s business.

This post involves responsibility for:

• Company Reporting: You will lead on company reporting to CAN’s core funders.
• Governance: You will support the administration of CAN’s Governance responsibilities.
• Office management: You will manage the CAN Office.
• Company administration: You will manage and implement CAN’s administration systems and responsibilities.
• CAN databases: You will manage CAN’s monitoring database and email marketing database, and implement their use.
• Executive Support: You will support the executive function of the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly-organised individual with excellent attention to detail. Based in our Manchester city-centre office, you will play an important role supporting our organisation, and get to see first-hand how we put our commitment to community arts into practice, whilst running a professional and forward-thinking company.

This is a two-year contract. In the longer term, the company hopes to make this post permanent, depending on funding.