Senior Public Affairs and Campaign Manager

Flexible, with semi-regular travel to London

£44,365 to £46,973 per annum + benefits

12-month fixed term contract

Full time

This is a fantastic opportunity to join The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association as a Senior Public Affairs and Campaign Manager.

The role

The Senior Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by being a senior lead in political engagement and campaigns work.

The role will develop strong relationships with key political opinion formers, Ministers, Secretary of States, select committees and relevant decision-makers in Westminster and Whitehall to promote Guide Dogs policy and Campaigns. They will also lead the development and delivery of current and new campaigns.

Who we’re looking for

You will:

• Have proven experience in Political lobbying at a senior level; producing political briefings, setting up senior political meetings and party-political events management.
• Have detailed knowledge of the Political framework and institutions across the UK and knowledge of the EU Parliament and the interactions of both. 
• Have detailed knowledge of how legislation is formulated and the process of amending it. The impact of select committees and all party parliamentary working groups.
• Be able to apply political knowledge and insight to identify and develop strategic campaign interventions to further Guide Dogs agenda.

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to being successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below.

Benefits

This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

How to apply

Applications can be made using the online application form. You will need to evidence the criteria as set out in the attached job description. As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do not accept CVs for job applications.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome, and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invite to interview for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

We reserve the right to close adverts early.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. The new REAL Centre (Research and Economic Analysis for the Long Term) is starting a new research and funding programme to provide new evidence and analysis that will help health and social care policymakers consider the long-term implications of their funding, design and delivery decisions.

The Centre will become a hub of expertise for independent, objective and impartial evidence, analysis and methods relating to long term issues about the health and care system. It will comprise of an in-house team of economists and analysts at the Health Foundation, supported by commissioned work and academic research.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a data manager with a passion for engaging with top quality research and a desire for improving health and care. The Centre is looking for a data manager to support our in-house research and our partnership work outside the organisation. The successful applicant will work on the management and architecture of the secure, patient-level data sets used by the REAL Centre.

The successful applicant will be a proficient coder (preferably in R/SAS) and help to ensure that quality controlled, standardised, cleaned datasets are available for quantitative research by the REAL Centre analytical team. In addition, they will engage with other data mangers across the foundation, ensure the data is used securely and help investigate the potential and use of new data.

The successful candidate will be able to work both collaboratively to deliver joint projects and to provide technical mentorship to the growing team of analysts in the REAL Centre. If this role sounds interesting and you are look for an exciting, flexible role in data management, we would love to hear from you. 

To apply for this role please click on the Apply button above to be redirected to our website where you can download a full job description.

Closing date:  6 October 2020, 23:59

Interview Date:  Scheduled to take place remotely w/c 19 October 2020

The Health Foundation values diversity and champions inclusion and strongly encourages applications from all sections of the community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Philanthropy Manager to join our Partnerships & Philanthropy Team. You will play a critical role in helping to generate £1m total income next year, including funding from new and existing high value Trusts and Foundations as well as the implementation of our new Major Donor programme.

As we look to build a long term sustainable portfolio of high value relationships, you will work to secure the support of new Trusts and Foundations above £25,000, whilst also stewarding our existing funders at that level.  You will also be responsible for the line management of our Philanthropy Officer and their work on our mid-level Trusts and Foundations Programme and our new Major Donor programme.

With demonstrable success in securing and stewarding high value Trusts and Foundations and with experience of Major Donor programmes, you will be driven by achieving financial targets, adept at working with colleagues to develop and deliver winning cases for support, and skilled at managing multiple deadlines and stakeholders simultaneously.

Stuart Low Trust – Operations and Communications Manager (28 hours per week)

Stuart Low Trust (SLT) is a well-established, multi-award winning charity based in Islington, London. Through social activities we bring people together for better health and wellbeing. Many of our participants have a history of mental ill health, poverty and social isolation. Islington has an above average suicide rate, with the highest numbers of severe mental health and depression in London.

SLT is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Operations and Communications Manager to join its small team. This role is an exciting opportunity as SLT progresses on its ambitious 3 - 5 year Business Plan and is integral in setting up, implementing and managing new innovative services and partnership working which will increase our output and double our income. 

We seek a dynamic and motivated candidate with fantastic organisational, digital and creative thinking skills; who will thrive on this challenge. Successful and substantial management experience with the ability to turn plans into reality are key. If you have the skills and knowledge detailed below, with a proven track record within a charity or social care setting then this could be the role for you.

SLT is offering a salary of £30,000 per annum (pro rata), flexible working, excellent holiday entitlement and a contributory occupational pension scheme. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Deadline for applications: 5m on Friday 9th October 2020

Interview date: Saturday 17th October 2020

Start: December 2020/January 2021

Our charity is in an exciting period of growth as we embarking on a new contract with the local authority and our partners within the COPSINS consortium to deliver Ageing Well Southwark, support for elders and carers. This will see us offer a range of on-site service provision to older people in Southwark. Our work has been significantly impacted by the pandemic but we have moved swiftly to adapt our service provision and to maintain contact with our service users.

Prior to lockdown, we ran 25 groups for older people which included social, exercise and activity groups. All groups are held in local venues that are provided free of cost. Transport to groups is provided by our volunteer drivers or via a minibus service for those who are unable to travel independently. In response to the pandemic, we have adapted as many of our existing groups as possible to offer online sessions or telephone calls from our specialist tutors or volunteers. We have also just launched our first socially distanced group within one of the residential care settings where it ran previously. 

Our groups provide service users with peer and social contact and, prior to lockdown, offered the chance for service users to get out of the house and connect with other people. Adapting our groups to the current situation was a huge undertaking for the team. We are now looking at further adaptations as we adjust to social distancing and seek to further develop the digital connectivity of our service users. The Groups Coordinator has a key role to play in the next phase of our groups offer. We need a highly motivated, organised and technologically aware individual to help us navigate through this complicated period of maintaining and developing our groups offer.

The deadline for applications is 5:00pm on Monday 19th October

Interviews will take place on Thursday 29th October

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation focused on protecting the public through efficient regulation and a culture of continuous improvement. Working as part of the Fitness to Practise management team, you will lead on business improvement projects to enhance the efficiency and quality of our processes, procedures and decisions.

You will join us at an exciting time as we develop our work practice improvement programme, establish an agile change management model for the team, and cultivate a human centred approach to regulation, as we strive to fulfil our ambition to become a beacon of good practice.

Your role will be to:

• Lead improvement projects within the Fitness to Practice department, undertaking root cause analysis and impact analysis to deliver and embed sustained, evidence-based changes.
• Be proactive in identifying and making a case for appropriate improvements to meet challenges head on.
• Work collaboratively with other Operational Managers and colleagues across the organisation to deliver the department’s strategic objectives and priorities, actively engaging with others to develop and embed robust and effective change.
• Ensure the team have the skills and capabilities required to deliver high quality service outputs, fostering a learning and development culture.
• Utilise quality assurance strategies to identify, develop and share best practice, ensuring that recommendations and learning from audits, reviews and other feedback is taken forward and embedded in the department.
• Be a role model for the department’s commitment to embrace change and different ways of working.

You will have excellent communication skills, be Lean Six Sigma qualified and have experience of managing teams in delivering time and quality critical business processes. You will also have experience of working within healthcare, professional regulation or other regulatory environments.

The people we work with are central to helping us achieve effective and efficient regulation and in return we offer our employees generous benefits. As a member of the team you will have access to wide range of employee schemes and benefits including:  

• 30 days annual leave plus discretionary days at Christmas
• Interest free season ticket loan  
• Cycle to work scheme
• 7% employer contribution pension  
• Employee discounts on gym membership and a broad range of retail outlets
• Flexible working options
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• 24/7 Virtual GP

Alongside our excellent employee benefits, we are committed to your ongoing learning and development to build your skills, experience, and career. 

You can find out more about our benefits on our website

Closing Date: Monday 12 October (applications closed at 1pm)

Interview Date: w/c 26 October

Further information on this role is detailed in the job description and person specification.

Please note that due to the current situation with Covid-19 the post holder maybe required to work remotely at the beginning of their employment.

The HCPC welcomes applicants from all sections of the community and we promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion.

The Operations Manager is a pivotal role within the charity. Working closely with the Corporate Services Director the postholder will collaborate across the organisation to embed outstanding practice in the key disciplines of Property & Facilities Management, Procurement and Central Administration. The ethos of the Corporate Services directorate is very much to establish the best ways of working that enable other colleagues to achieve their objectives.

You will have a Facilities and Office management experience, with an awareness of health and safety requirements for workspaces, and the ability to oversee and co-ordinate our business continuity plans.

You must have experience of building, developing and managing supplier relationships (including managing outsourced services), ensuring development of clear briefs, value-for-money, achievement of results, compliance and commitment to our values and goals.

You should also have experience of leading, developing and managing a high-quality administrative support function with competing priorities, and of managing complex programmes of work and projects using structured project management techniques.

Project Manager – Fast Growing Charity with Great Leadership Development Opportunities

Come and work in a growing organisation which supports young people with life changing opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The Charity

Generating Genius connects students from BAME and disadvantaged backgrounds with top businesses in STEM and universities through our Uni Genius and Alumni Genius programmes.

We offer great leadership opportunities and flexible working arrangements for you to take the initiative and run a successful programme.

The Position

We’re looking for a highly motivated project manager with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills to run the Uni Genius programmes.

Current Uni Genius Programmes are:

1.Work experience programmes (350-400 students per year participate from Uni Genius at different times during the year)

2. University Preparation and Access Programmes

3. Corporate Mentoring Programmes

4. Corporates Insight Days

Annual Rate: £30,000-£33,000

Location: Can be based in London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds (travel to London 2 days per month from January 2021)

Job Type: Long term contract

Earliest Start Date: September 2020

Security Clearance: DBS Clearance and references will be required

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Managing the existing Uni Genius Programmes
• Creating new Uni Genius programmes
• Adjusting the existing Uni Genius programmes where necessary
• Organising work experience programmes
• Run a rolling student recruitment campaign
• Planning STEM activities to be delivered by 3rd parties for students
• Liaising with universities to deliver academic sessions and organise residential visits
• Organising and attending events with students
• Representing the organisation with companies, schools, colleges, universities, teachers and parents
• Ensure compliance with all necessary health and safety legislation for every event.

Essential skills and experience:

• Ability to manage multiple tasks
• Previous event planning and programme management experience
• Partnership building experience
• Proposal writing and fundraising experience
• Problem solving and critical thinking
• 2 years previous experience of project management
• Rapport building
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Glass Door Homeless Charity is London’s largest open-access winter night shelter. This award-winning, independent charity provides shelter and support for those with nowhere else to turn.

Due to COVID 19 we’re adapting our shelters to a dinner service for those experiencing homelessness. Our dinner service run from one or two different church venues over the course of a week in the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham Richmond and Wandsworth. If circumstances allow, the dinner service may be adapted to become a static overnight shelter.

You will work from 6:30pm until 10pm. Working as part of a two-person team, you will be responsible for ensuring the security and safety of all guests in who eat in at the dinner service and those who choose to take their meal away. Ensuring all project activities meeting health and safety requirements will be central to your role as well as responding appropriately to any situations or emergencies that may occur. 

We are looking for confident and empathetic people to join our project team.  Come and be part of something special and help us to relieve poverty amongst street homeless people of West London.

To apply

Are you an experienced events producer looking for your next challenge?

Are you interested in working for a progressive and constantly evolving organisation?

Are you excited by the opportunity to create innovative events and online content for an agenda-setting ideas platform with global reach and impact?

We are looking for an Events Producer to join our ambitious public events team.  
  
The RSA Events Programme is a powerful public resource, bringing important social, cultural, political and economic issues to a global audience, featuring world-class speakers and stimulating rich debate on the most urgent challenges facing society. We are the team behind the award-winning RSA Animates and RSA Shorts series, and our event videos, podcasts and animations are followed by over 700,000 YouTube subscribers.

In this role, you'll take responsibility for end-to-end production of a wide range of events, as well as for researching and developing new content for the current online programme and new formats for public engagement.

 
We are looking for someone who is engaged in and excited by contemporary culture, current affairs and ideas. You’ll have excellent writing, research and editorial skills as well as an eye for fresh developments in social media and the fast-moving online ideas landscape. You’ll be a natural communicator with strong administrative, logistical and people skills and have an affinity for the RSA’s mission and values. You’ll have a keen interest in the RSA’s key research programmes, and an awareness of the relevant current public and policy debates in these areas.

This is an exciting time for events as new online formats create new opportunities to bring learning, inspiration and vibrant public debate to more people than ever before.  

To find out more about this role, please visit our website.

About Us

We are the RSA.  The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce.  We’re committed to a future that works for everyone, a future where we all can participate in its creation.

With over 250 years of heritage in making significant social impact, we bring together our rigorous research, proven change process, influential ideas platforms and our global community of over 30,000 problem solvers - united in a desire to deliver solutions for lasting change.

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am on 12 October 2020. Screening calls are expected to take place on 16 October and interviews will be on 21 October. A second interview will follow in the week commencing 26 October if you are successful in these initial stages, to be arranged on a 1:1 basis.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Venue Manager - Webber Street & The Corner House Waterloo 

Do you have a passion for London?

Are you passionate about facilitating outreach to the least-reached of London with the good news of Jesus?

Are you experienced in keeping venues safe and functioning smoothly?

London City Mission is recruiting a Venue Manager to support our outreach work to the homeless and marginalised and to enable Gospel ministry to grow through working with church volunteer groups in various locations across London. We are convinced more than ever that LONDON NEEDS JESUS! We are seeking a Gospel-hearted individual with experience in venue activity coordination, administration, and legal and health & safety processes to keep our venue functioning well and safely.

The successful candidate will have a love for marginalised, overlooked and ignored people groups. They will have experience in evangelism in an urban setting and have interpersonal skills able to show Jesus’ love to all, whether it be someone coming in off the street or liaising with senior church leaders. They will be a great team player, servant-hearted, with excellent administration skills alongside a sound knowledge of necessary statutory regulations such as health and safety processes, risk assessments, and food hygiene standards, working with central LCM staff to meet required standards. They will also participate fully in the spiritual life of their team and wider LCM and participate in outreach activities in the centre when possible.

If you possess this passion, gifting and skills mix, follow this link for further information about the specific roles available and locations, and to download an application pack:

There is a general occupational requirement that the person appointed be evangelical Christians.

Roles available are permanent appointments, hours may vary according to venue. Starting salary of £28,655 per annum (pro-rata where applicable) plus a travel benefit in kind up to Zone 5 (if applicable).

Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 7th October 2020.

We are looking for an Office Manager to be the key person of the organisation's central operations, providing an effective administrative support function at our offices. You will need to be proactive, systematic and solutions focused, have two years administrative experience, be literate, numerate and have good IT skills and the ability to provide a high quality,professional service to our clients and the beneficiaries we support. Excellent communication and negotiation skills, a willingness to explore new ideas and approaches, learn new skills and take on new challenges is essential. Experience of working in a growing charity or income-generating organisation in the sector, and direct exposure to and knowledge of the needs of the Latin American communities and the charity sector will be distinct advantages.

The post is part-time, 28 hours per week over four days. Flexible working arrangements may be available and you will occasionally be available on evenings or weekends.

How to apply

If you are interested in joining our team, please visit the Job vacancies section on our website and submit your completed application and monitoring forms by the 6th of October 2020.

Interviews will be held on Thursday 15th of October 2020

We may receive a large number of applications and unfortunately we may not be able to reply to everyone. If you do not hear from us five days after the deadline, please assume you have not been shortlisted. We wish you good luck.

We welcome applicants for all age groups, backgrounds and genders. We are a London Living Wage Employer.

Quality and Compliance Manager - known internally as "Senior Skills Quality and Compliance Manager"

Full-Time, Permanent post

Location - flexible / can be based at any Centrepoint site (home and remote working currently)

Centrepoint is a national charity established in 1969 that supports homeless young people to get their lives back on track.  Our services for young people include housing, health, personal and social development and employability, with the overall aim of enabling them to secure a home, a skill and a sustainable future. The charity operates across eight regions and is honoured to have Prince William, HRH The Duke of Cambridge as its patron.  As part of its strategy to support every young person with a home and a job Centrepoint has grown its Skills and Employability offer to support our aim of diversifying our income.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a a Senior Skills Quality and Compliance Manager to join our Quality and Compliance team.

What you’ll be doing…

• To write, lead and deliver Centrepoint’s skills quality strategy.
• To take lead responsibility for implementing quality systems across Centrepoint’s skills provision, working with operational teams to develop a consistent approach to delivery, monitoring and reporting that meets with contractual compliance requirements.
• To have an oversight of all skills compliance across the organisation including leading on learning policies and procedures.
• To manage and support the skills compliance team and a team of internal quality assurers ensuring they have all the necessary resources and knowledge to provide a high quality provision to the organisation.
• To be the lead contact for all statutory and regulatory skills provision audits and to undertake the role of Nominated Person for all skills related external inspections including Ofsted and Matrix ensuring SET, Managers and staff are fully conversant with inspection requirements, outcomes and recommendations. 
• To be responsible for the relationship with external bodies including awarding organisations and funders, and being accountable for external quality assurance visits.

What we offer in return...

• In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
• 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
• Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career
• Employer pension contributions of 4%
• Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale
• Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
• An interest-free travel loan

We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint. We welcome applications from anyone with direct experience of being homeless or using young people's services.

Closing Date: Monday 5 October

To apply for this role, please complete the online application form and a supporting statement - setting out how you meet the essential criteria for the role as listed in the job description.

West London

The role is home based working across London geographical areas including Barnet, Brent Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing, Hounslow, Harrow and Hillingdon, with potential face-to-face activity post COVID-19.

The Shaw Trust, in tandem with government and the broader employment support community across the UK is working hard to make sure we support as many individuals as possible to get and keep a job. We believe that everyone who needs help and support to attain their employment goals should be able to access it as soon as possible and that support should reflect their individual needs.

To help us in this mission we are looking to expand our employability services and looking for Regional Delivery Managers WLA WHP.

The Regional Delivery Manager WLA WHP is responsible for the management and delivery of a DWP funded programme Work and Health Programme within a defined geographical area.

Reporting to Regional Operations Manager you will be responsible for managing and supporting the Operational Team Leaders.

The Regional Delivery Manager WLA WHP is responsible for the management and delivery of a West London Alliance Work and Health Programme

We need a person with a background in management, budgeting and analysis. Working with key stakeholders, the successful individual would have a proven track record of achieving objectives through strong relationship management.

A solution focussed approach, which enables risks and issues to be minimised is ideal, as is the ability to make decisions based on analytical assumptions.

This is a complex and challenging operations role, which requires strong management and contract delivery skills. The post holder has responsibility for the efficient, effective and evidence based delivery of excellent performance in all services measured against contractual requirements.

Shaw Trust operates on a national level with over 2,000 staff and 1,000 volunteers. We work with the government, local authorities, combined authorities, health service providers, employers, and other stakeholders – including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Department for Work and Pensions, clinical commissioning groups and NHS Trusts.

The ideal candidate must have an understanding of the local and regional labour market and employment issues within the geographical areas and able to maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of the benefit system and entitlements.

The ideal candidate will need to be inclusive and embrace our culture and values, putting those we support at the heart of everything we do. You will consistently deliver high quality services to support our communities and beneficiaries.

Benefits

• Enhanced Pension Scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance x 3 of your salary
• Enhanced annual leave

Shaw Trust is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format,contact HRServices to make alternative arrangements.