Victim Support is looking for an Initial Response Officer based in our Bedworth, Warwickshire offices.
Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity providing a range of specialist services to people who have been affected by crime across England and Wales. We work towards a world where there are fewer victims but who have stronger rights, better support and a real influence in the Criminal Justice System. Everyone at VS is driven by our Vision Ambitions and Values to play their part in making a difference for those who experience crime and traumatic events. Working for VS gives you the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing high quality services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.
We are looking for a full time, 37.5 hour, Initial Response Officers who will make contact with victims of crime who live in Warwickshire.
You will be based at Bedworth Police Station. Police Vetting is a mandatory requirement for this post. While waiting for vetting to be completed you will temporarily be based at Leamington Justice Centre, so the ability to travel to Leamington Spa will also be required. Train/ travel costs to Leamington will provided if the distance is much further than travel to Bedworth.
The Initial Response Officer will work alongside the Harm Hub identifying vulnerable victims of crime. The main duty of this role is to make contact with those affected by crime throughout Warwickshire to assess victim's needs and commission a range of services to support these needs. We are looking for applicants who have the skills and the motivation to be part of our team and would thrive in a busy and varied working environment.
The successful candidate will be proficient in IT, be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in written form, have good telephone skills and an understanding of the impact of crime on individuals. You will be able to deal sensitively with challenging and emotionally charged situations, demonstrating empathy and control over your own emotions and a strong focus on customer service.
DBS check and Police Vetting are a requirement of this role
Hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am until 5pm. You will occasionally be expected to work outside of these hours to meet the needs of clients or to attend events.
Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.
Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are outlined in the person specification under essential and tested area. In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.
If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.
If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.
Victim Support is committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.
Victim Support is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all communities and monitor the diversity of applicants to analyse if we are representative of the communities we serve in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, age and socio-economic status. As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.
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This is a fantastic opportunity for an accomplished data analyst to join The Prince’s Trust, working on our crucial Health & Social Care contract.
Making an impact on young people is at the heart of what we do so analysing and evaluating our services is key to informing the programmes we design and showcasing our success with partners and funders. We’re on an exciting journey to transform how The Trust users data and want you to be part of it!
Most importantly you must believe in The Trust’s work, live our company values and fit in with our team’s positive, supportive and collaborative culture.
What you will do:
- Lead the data strategy for our H&SC contract, driving our performance and showcasing our work with our supporters
- Work with a team of analysts to transform how we use data across the Trust to shape our services
- Create and maintain an infrastructure of systems and tools for undertaking analysis and supplying data and insights.
What we need from you:
- Strong analytics skills including use of data analysis tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Google studio, BI systems such as Oracle service cloud and software including R, Python and SQL
- Strong communications skills including both written and verbal outputs, including facilitating insight-based discussions
- Experience leading an analytics project or development of new functionality
- The ability to upskill and knowledge share with less experienced colleagues, this role will include line management of a less experienced analyst.
For more information and to apply, please go to our website.
To be considered, you will need to add your CV and a covering statement as to how your experience fits the role criteria. We are currently receiving high volumes of applications, so we urge you to complete a supporting statement, otherwise, your application could be unsuccessful.
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About Us
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery to communities across the UK.
At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities and community groups.
We support a wide range of projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes.
Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£588.2 million) of National Lottery funding to over 14,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. Over eight in ten (83%) of our grants were for less than £10k, going to grassroots groups and charities.
We are here to support people and communities through bad times as well as good – and that has never been so important as this year. Thanks to National Lottery players, we’ve been able to respond quickly and positively to communities working hard to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Their efforts have been humbling and inspiring and we’re delighted to have been able to help by distributing over £400 million pounds in National Lottery funding alone across the UK since the first lockdown began in March 2020.
About the Role
The overall purpose of the Portfolio Officer is to support the delivery of a range of funding programmes that aim to address long-term social issues and improve quality of life across the UK.
You will work across the whole lifecycle of grant-making (design and pre-application, assessment, decision making and grant management), placing the customer at the heart of what we do.
As a natural self-starter and organised person, you will be comfortable working at pace and able to use your initiative to complete given tasks. Bringing strong relationship building skills and experience to help identify communities, relationships and connections that will help us achieve the aims of our programmes.
As part of your role, you will work closely with customers to capture and understand their ideas, strategic approach, delivery plans and the potential of their ideas to deliver system change and benefit people and communities across the UK. You will spend time having in-depth conversations with applicants, their stakeholders, beneficiaries and the broader sector in your effort to understand their wider ecosystem, barriers and opportunities.
You will write thorough progress and assessment reports for the UK Funding Committee and Panel to update them on the progress of our work and seek strategic input or to provide them with evidence-based recommendations on how proposals fit with the Fund’s strategic objectives, enabling them to make fair and informed decisions.
You will develop relationships with funding teams and other colleagues across our four Directorates and proactively create opportunities for exchange of learning and best practice. You will also reach out to them to seek advice on their local context.
You’ll use a variety of communication channels and tools to share learning internally and externally promoting learning through networks and platforms. You will be curious and excited about innovation in funding, and you will participate and contribute in peer review meetings driving discussion, debate and challenge.
You will identify opportunities for developing our pipeline, linking up with what is happening and making connections between similar initiatives within the Fund and externally by actively participating in networks, events etc.
You may need to travel from time to time for this role (when travel is more possible), supporting colleagues and communities across the UK as we develop and deliver their programme.
About the Team
The UK Portfolio sits alongside the Fund’s four-country directorates; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as the fifth portfolio supporting projects and ideas of UK wide impact and significance that are focusing on transformational change. We are a small, energetic and agile team with a range of expertise that combined with our unique position in the Fund, working across all four countries, we put learning and insight sharing at the heart of what we do.
Contract Types: Fixed Term.
There are two roles, please indicate the one that you are interested in:
Role 1 is a 12 months Fixed Term contract full time.
Role 2 is a 12 months Fixed Term contract part time (0.8 FTE).
Hours:
Role 1 37 Hours per week
Role 2 30 Hours per week
Flexible working will be considered.
Interview Date: 18 and 19 August
Location: Flexible with ability to travel to our local office (when offices are open).
Essential Criteria:
We are looking for talented people from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences who share our values and are passionate about making a difference through our funding. Whether through lived or gained experience you will really understand the communities we work with.
In your application, you need to demonstrate how you address the following criteria:
- Advanced critical and analytical skills and ability to draw connections across knowledge, relationships and systems.
- Ability to nurture, develop and promote effective relationships and communication with colleagues, community organisations and other external agencies with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion.
- Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills: Proven ability to take in and synthesise a large amount of information and break down and communicate complex ideas engagingly and simply addressing audience needs.
- Experience of producing written pieces (e.g. reports, assessment papers, articles, case studies or research papers) to high standard and to a tight deadline.
Desirable Criteria:
- An understanding of systems changes work/ participatory grant making and/ or equitable funding and approaches.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the sector and the ability to spot trends and identify opportunities for our programmes.
For You
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.
We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:
- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
- Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Season ticket and cycle to work loans
- Paid volunteering leave
Equal Opportunities
We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.
Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive. We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.
Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer
We’re looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Policy & Influencing team as our Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer.
Position: Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer
Location: Homebased, England
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: circa £29,500 per annum
Contract: Contract: Permanent
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, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available
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
Closing Date: 15 August 2021
Interview Date: Week commencing 23 August 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
Reporting to the Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager, you will deliver our organisation’s integrated public affairs and campaigning activity. You will plan, develop and deliver effective and strategic influencing activity to help achieve our team objectives on key issues impacting people affected by stroke.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Delivering public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement to support the organisation’s influencing priorities
- tracking and logging stakeholder contact and take primary responsibility for the management of political stakeholders
- Providing political monitoring and horizon scanning
- Planning and implementing campaigns and advocacy activity – both online and offline - that help to secure long-term improvements for those affected by stroke
- Attending, and supporting others to attend, meetings and events representing the Stroke Association, including developing high-quality briefings
- Supporting the joined-up working approach with the public affairs and campaigns activity happening in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
About You
The Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer will have experience/background in:
- Some experience of national or local level influencing, campaigning and advocacy
- A solid understanding of the UK political and health context
- Experience of undertaking policy analysis and horizon-scanning
- And ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience of developing briefings for a range of audiences
To fulfil the role, you must have the right to work in the U.K.
Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter.
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 have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Case, Stroke Recovery, Charity, Carer Support, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Social Care and Support Officer, Rehabilitation Coordinator, Volunteering Manager, Care and Support Officer, Social Care Worker, Carer, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke Recovery, Case Worker, Support, Support and Advice, Health, Health Care, Advice and Support.
Operations Assistant
We are recruiting an Operations Assistant to work closely with members of the Systems Engagement team, with a particular focus on administrative duties to assist with the efficient running of research awards activities.
Position: Operations Assistant
Location: Homebased, U.K nationwide
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: Salary circa £22,500 per annum (inner London weighting £3,299 per annum or outer London weighting £1,755 per annum may also be applied in accordance to where you live)
Contract: Permanent
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, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 22 August 2021
Interview Date: 31 August 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
The Operations Assistant will assist with administration of research award applications, peer review process and deliver the logistics associated with funding panel meetings. You will work with the Research Manager to ensure the appropriate day to day administration of on-going funded awards. You will also assist with the efficient running of the wider Systems Engagement team, helping with meeting arrangements and note-taking, and keeping the relevant pages on the Stroke Association website up to date.
You will also provide support across Policy and Influencing team activity, including our campaigns, policy development and political engagement. This includes managing our databases, undertaking and sharing research on key stakeholders, and providing administrative for our influencing events and campaign launches.
About You
As Operations Assistant you will have experience of:
- Creating a variety of electronic documents, including letters, reports and presentation materials
- Developing, implementing and maintaining effective administrative systems
- Databases and online management systems
- Gathering data from a wide range of sources
- Drafting letters and proof reading
- Research awards adjudication process and management
- Working in a research or healthcare environment
To fulfil the requirements of the role you must abode and have the right to work in the U.K
Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of you skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible working options in your covering letter.
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.
When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.
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.
We’re working to improve the diversity of our team. Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.
Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
In 2019, we developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!
You may also have experience in areas such as Operations, Operations Assistant, Operations Admin, Operations Administrator, Operations Administration, Admin, Administrator, Administration, Research Administrator, Policy, Influencing, Data Administrator.
Are you a recent graduate ready to spend a year working for an organisation that shares your values and commitment to social justice? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of students and equip them to put their faith into action?
SCM is looking for two recent graduates to spend a year working with us to help us to continue to build on the work of our Faith in Action project.
Run in partnership with Project Bonhoeffer, a small charitable trust, the project began in 2012 with a vision that Christian students in Britain would have a greater awareness and understanding of Bonhoeffer’s radical approach to faith and discipleship, and its implications for Christian living in the modern world.
The project has helped to run over a dozen campaigns from Food Poverty to Peace, and had an immeasurable impact on thousands of students through blogs, resources, and relationships. All of this is bringing to light many ‘Bonhoeffers’ of today negotiating the implications on Christian living in the world.
In 2021 we are now looking to develop Faith in Action as a graduate scheme by employing two graduates per year to work on the project; one to lead on theology bringing a depth of learning and theological refection, and the other to be a campaigns lead, taking us always back out into the world to make a difference. These two project workers will empower our members and students beyond SCM to become theologians and campaigners, putting their faith into action to change the world.
Theology and Resources Project Worker
A theologian to make other theologians, you will work to provide the framework for students to be able to reflect theologically on their life and modern Christian Living. You will be responsible for curating SCM’s Faith in Action resources and discovering new ways of connecting with the current membership.
Social Justice Project Worker
An activist to make other activists, you will coordinate social action for SCM and engage the membership in social justice projects. You will equip students with the skills they need to become faith-filled agents of social and political change and create opportunities for students to put their faith into action.
We would love to hear from you if you're excited by our vision and the project, and look forward to receiving your application. You will need to show, in addition to the skills and experience listed in the person specification, a certain something that shows us that your values align with our values, and that you share our commitment to safeguarding. As a student-led organisation, we are looking for someone who is invested in and excited for the role SCM can play in supporting Christian students in Further and Higher Education, as well as recent graduates.
While each role on offer has a distinct focus, the two post holders will work closely together to equip students to put their faith into action, as well as contributing to the work of the wider staff team.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and LGBTQ+ individuals who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. Due to the nature of this role and the responsibilities of the successful post-holder, a genuine occupational requirement to be a committed Christian is in place for this role in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010.
If you wish to apply please use the form provided; do not send a CV as these will not be accepted.
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