Role: Regional Manager – Central England

Location: Central England including the Midlands, South Yorkshire, Merseyside &  

East Anglia. Travel will be required across these areas.

Pay Rate: £28,000 - £32,000

About FareShare UK

FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups. During 2020, we redistributed 113 million meals through our FareShare Regional Centres and our retail surplus model FareShare Go, reaching over 1 million people.

Hunger is a growing issue in the UK and while there is surplus food that is otherwise going to waste, we believe that this food should be used to feed people first.

The COVID19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the issue of food insecurity in the UK and with it, FareShare’s ability to get food to vulnerable communities nationwide. We are fortunate to benefit from the support of major retailers, the media, sports ambassadors and a groundswell of public engagement. As a result, there has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness.

About the Role

We are seeking an outstanding individual, with excellent communication skills and a positive attitude to deliver the FareShare Go (FSGo) service and manage a regional team across Central and Eastern England area. As a Regional Manager, you will manage a regional team of Community Coordinators, who oversee the day-to-day relationships with charities and the stores across their locations; you will also work closely with your peers from other regions to ensure there is consistency and quality in service delivery across the areas. You will have a sound understanding of the challenges and differences across your region, from charity density, store format, to local landscapes, working with the team to find solutions to enable them to deliver the FSGo service to an excellent standard. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be confident in managing difficult situations under pressure, whilst also building key internal and external relationships to deliver successful results.

Main Responsibilities

• Work closely alongside the other three Regional Managers to plan and deliver team workloads and outputs to a high standard, ensuring there is consistency and clarity in communicating important tasks and direction.
• Line manage a team of Community Coordinators (including a Senior CC) in your area, ensuring delivery against agreed programme KPIs. You will be responsible for managing the workload of your team, including the roll out of any new stores for your region, whilst maintaining the sustainability of all existing live stores.
• Recruit, train and induct new team members, as well as monitor and foster progress and development.
• Understand and analyse key data sets and reports, to then develop action and implementation plans for improvements.
• Ensure that your team is fully engaged, understands and implements practices and guidelines within FareShare Go’s ways of working, such as charity onboarding, using technology and systems and food safety guidelines. Where there are gaps in knowledge, ensure that training and support is identified appropriately.
• Leading on overall customer service in your area is an important part of this role; ensuring that charities receive an excellent standard of customer service and that you manage any important retailer relationships to support service delivery.
• Working closely with the Regional Centre(s) in your area, you will manage these important relationships and identify where there are opportunities to work better together, such as sharing of resources and/or joint funded roles. You will develop these strong relationships to ensure that networking and opportunities are maximised to increase food moved and charity engagement where possible.
• As part of the Regional Manager group, you will contribute your experience and insights into continuous improvement projects, and where appropriate you may take a lead in one of these areas.

Essential Criteria

• Extensive experience of managing teams and performance to deliver KPIs.
• Have exceptional relationship building skills and ability to communicate difficult messages in a clear and consistent way.
• Have experience of working under pressure, managing various demands and tight timescales; whilst also supporting a team to manage these situations.
• Have a proven ability in strong team working and collaboration skills, building links across teams to share best practices.
• Be confident in data analysis, understanding reports and turning insights into action.
• Be organised, with a proven track record of achieving quality results or supporting others to help them deliver theirs.
• Be a strong communicator who can engage with a variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• Have experience of managing budgets and team expenses.
• Have experience training and supporting others, whilst adjusting to different needs and styles of learning.
• Have a valid driver’s licence for the UK, access to your own car and undertake travel across your region*.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience in the Food Industry and/ or Voluntary sector in a similar role.
• Project management skills, planning and risk management
• Level 2/3 Food Safety training is desirable, but training will be provided.
• Experience working with customer relationship management (CRM) software, e.g. Salesforce.

Field based*

The Regional Manager role is a mix of home and field working. We currently alternate between home-based weeks and field weeks, On a field week, you can expect to be ‘on the road’ 2-3 days, this may be to visit direct reports, regional centres or charities. You will also be required to attend Regional

Join our amazing team and help tackle food waste and get great quality surplus food to charities and communities groups across the UK.

Benefits

25 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employers pension contribution of 4% Life assurance -  group life scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme

Season ticket loan

Flexible working 

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to use your management and leadership skills to directly benefit people with breast cancer. You will take the lead on ensuring the successful delivery of our portfolio of online and face to face services for people living with secondary breast cancer and contribute to the development of new opportunities across the UK.

You will manage a newly created team of permanent and contract staff and work closely with the services team to maintain quality, and increase access, reach and influence.

You can be based in any of our offices located in Sheffield, London, Cardiff or Glasgow.

About you

Thriving on challenge, you will balance forward-thinking skills with the determination to deliver high quality services to the people who need them. With a willingness to adapt to change, you will have proven people and project management skills, and the confidence to lead a busy team and work collaboratively across different geographical sites. It goes without saying that you’ll need exceptional organisational and time management skills and be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication.

About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the charity that’s steered by world-class research and powered by life-changing care. We’re here for anyone affected by breast cancer, the whole way through, providing support for today and hope for the future.

We’re that trusted friend that people affected by breast cancer turn to for caring support when they need it most. The expert authority on breast cancer research who is making breakthroughs and driving forward progress. And a vehicle for change, acting now to make sure anyone affected by breast cancer gets the best possible treatment and care.

We believe that we can change the future of breast cancer and make sure that, by 2050, everyone diagnosed with the disease lives – and is supported to live well. But we need to act now.

Although the role can be based in any of our offices, we are following a blended approach between office and home working with a minimum or two days per week in the office for full-time staff members. Should you have any queries with regards to this please email us using the email address provided upon clicking on the apply button. 

Breast Cancer Now is an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce.

Closing date Monday 20 December 2021 at 09:00am

First stage interview date Wednesday 12 January 2022 (Virtual)

If it is necessary to hold second interviews, this will be held week commencing Monday 17 January 2022 (virtual).

We have an urgent and exciting opportunity for a highly organised, experienced office manager and P.A. to join our small effective professional team, initially for 3 months. We are hopeful that this work pattern will be sustainable long term, so candidates who are interested in more than a short term contract at the end of this period are encouraged to apply.

You must have excellent communications skills, be thorough and accurate, be able to multi task, remain calm under pressure and add to our team dynamics. You will possess a range of administrative and secretarial skills including good IT skills.

Good interpersonal and teamwork skills are essential for this post as is a sense of humour and the ability to exercise tact, diplomacy and sensitivity. 

For this challenging and varied role, ideally you will have some experience of the education sector and be sympathetic to the Christian ethos of the SDBE.

In return we can promise you a warm and friendly working environment with support and fellowship.

Our highly successful team supports Church of England schools across the Diocese which spans 12 local authorities in south London. Our offices are based in vibrant London Bridge close to the beautiful and iconic Southwark Cathedral.  Further information about us can be found on our website.

How to apply: please click on the apply button to access the full application details.

Closing date: Monday 6 December 2021 by 12 noon

Psychometric Tests: w/c 6 December 2021

Interviews: Tuesday 14 December 2021

Preferred start date: w/c 3 January 2022

You don't need to run faster than the win to work with us. But it would help if you like sport and see its power to end violence, discrimination and inequality for children and young people across the world. And if you do, you will be sharing the belief that our founding patron, Nelson Mandela, expressed at the launch of Laureus 21 years ago:

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.”

As a key member of Laureus' programmes team, you will be responsible for planning and implementing a portfolio of impactful programmes across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe using sport as a vehicle for social change.

You will be responsible for managing a diverse sport for development portfolio, providing high level programme support, financial oversight, monitoring and evaluation technical expertise and capacity building support to our global implementing partners. This role will involve working closely with the wider Programmes and Development teams, aiming always to ensure Sport for Good makes progress towards its Vision. 

In this role, you will:

• Develop and manage a caseload of grants, mostly in East Africa
• Support the organisational development and strengthening of grant partners
• Participate in developing funding proposals for a range of different funders
• Help make sure that grantees comply with requirements and expectations
• Work closely with grantees to source good case stories about how they use the power of sport to change the lives of children and young people

We expect you to hit the ground running. If you feel you have the experience to deliver these different activities, write to us straight away. We will be hiring when we have the right candidate. Ideally we will take the decision before Christmas. Is it you?

Passionate about engaging with the research community?

The Royal Society, the UK’s premier scientific body, is looking for an exceptional individual to manage its career development and engagement activities for researchers across disciplines and career stages.

The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK dedicated to promoting excellence in science. Our Grants team manage a range of fellowship and grants programmes which provide research funding for talented scientists in the UK and overseas. In addition, the Society provides a range of activities to support the development of the next generation of research leaders including opportunities for training, mentoring, peer to peer networking and engagement with the Royal Society.

We are now looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated candidate with excellent organisational and communication skills to lead our engagement with Royal Society research fellows. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing our research fellow engagement strategy in partnership with the Grants Senior Leadership Team, engaging with key stakeholders and delivering against the objectives set out in the engagement strategy.

This is an exciting role to support the work of exceptional scientists funded through the Society’s grant portfolio. The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the challenges faced by early career researchers and how the Royal Society can best support them.  You will be a key point of contact for Royal Society Research fellows and be expected to develop a good working knowledge of our funded researchers.  

During COVID-19 our employees have been working mostly remotely, but we are now transitioning to a hybrid pattern of working in the office and remotely for some roles and will be happy to discuss working patterns with candidates. Candidates considering applying should note that working outside of the UK is not permitted as part of our flexible working approach and travel from home to the London office will be at their personal expense regardless of location. With a fantastic historic central London office near St James’ Park, we hope to find an inclusive working arrangement that suits candidates.

Reports to:  Head of UK Grants

Line manages: Engagement Manager

Location: Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG plus hybrid remote working

Pay Band: E, salary up to £45,000

Contract: Full time, Permanent 

Interview date: 10 December 2021

Closing date: 03 December 2021, 23:59pm

To view the full job description and to apply, please visit our jobs board.

**Under the UK Governments Points Based System, this role does not meet the criteria to be sponsored by The Royal Society for a Skilled Worker Route application.

Reports to: Partnerships Lead

Start Date: January 2022

Location: Home-based, with regular working days in London

Contract: Fixed-term January to July 2022

Salary: £28k-£32k per annum depending on experience and qualifications (+11% employer pension contribution)

About Now Teach

Our long-term vision is a world where children benefit because talented people, who’ve already had successful careers, become teachers, and bring their skills and experiences to the schools that need them most. We support Now Teachers, training providers, schools, and the wider education system to realise the full potential of career-changers in education.

Career-changers bring new experiences into the classroom. We offer Now Teachers one-to-one support, alongside a comprehensive structured programme helping them change career successfully. This support continues after they’ve completed their training, and the Now Teach Network is there to help make the most of their experience and skills as career-changers.

Our work helps Now Teachers stay in teaching: our retention rate is almost twice the national average for 40–65-year-olds. Over 90% of our cohort are satisfied or very satisfied with the support they get from Now Teach.

We have a strong brand, a robust, efficient selection process, and a programme of wrap around support that has been honed over five cohorts. Since 2016, over 11,000 people have expressed interest in joining the Now Teach network and we have recruited over 500 career changers with significant industry experience into teaching. In September 2021, we welcomed our largest cohort of trainees and have plans to grow this number year on year.

Having successfully been awarded DfE funding to expand our work across the whole of England we now require a fixed-term contract Partnerships Project Manager. They will help promote our brand, identify potential partners and develop relationships with schools, training providers and other organisations within the education sector in our new regions.

We are looking for a team orientated, driven and committed person to help us meet new goals, increase our Network and create more impact in schools.

Working at Now Teach

“The workplace culture is extremely friendly, collaborative and supportive. It is full of people that want to do their best work and enable colleagues to do their best work but to have a pleasant time while doing so. There is also a training budget, good line management and plenty of room for people to take responsibility.” (Team member, Apr 2021)

Our people join and stay because they value Now Teach’s flexibility, close-knit team culture and social purpose. 33% of employees at all levels of the organisation work part-time and everyone works flexibly, with time off in lieu part of our standard working practices.

We are a small, collaborative, and supportive charity of around 20 people. We are non-hierarchical, with 95% of our people believing their line managers listen and value their opinions and people of all levels getting stuck in. We set clear expectations and celebrate the successes of teams and individuals. 100% of our employees are proud to work at Now Teach, 100% think Now Teach is considerate of their wellbeing and 90% of them would actively recommend Now Teach as an employer.

Our culture is central to us encouraging and supporting people into teaching. Without our positive, honest, and flexible approach we wouldn’t be able to adapt to meet the needs of Now Teachers. We have been named as one of Working Mums’ Top Employers and Escape The City’s Top 100 Employers in 2020. We have won awards for our Culture, Flexible Working and Excellence in Public Service. As well as flexible working and a great culture, we offer 28 days annual leave per year, which includes 3 days for Christmas closure (25th Dec-1st January) and a generous 11% pension contribution.

Role Overview

We are looking for a positive, collaborative, and motivated Partnerships Project Manager who is committed to Now Teach’s vision. We work to attract, recruit, and help retain career changers in secondary school teaching.

Our new team member will work alongside the Partnerships Lead to raise awareness of Now Teach, target, and develop partnerships with schools and training providers in our new regions. They will enjoy the challenge of creating new relationships and being innovative in the education sector. It’s a fantastic – and important – time to join Now Teach as we step change to a nationwide charity.

Role Description

• Work closely with the Partnership Lead to project manage our growth into new regions in England
• Research and pro-actively seek out new partnerships with training providers and schools
• Work with our comms team to promote our brand through numerous channels e.g., social media, relevant publications, newsletters
• Seek out and attend possible events, networks, and initiatives we should be involved in, to grow the awareness of Now Teach amongst our target partner audience
• Lead our partnerships with tutoring organisations and support our school experience initiatives
• Act as an ambassador for the organisation, proactively identifying and building relationships with likeminded organisations to develop potential alliances in the future
• Increase the appeal of working with Now Teach whilst moving prospective partners through from general awareness to partnership
• Create compelling and clear communication to potential and existing partners at all stages
• Work closely with the Partnership team so we increase the likelihood of our Now Teachers having the best possible training environment
• Help maintain and develop existing partner relationships
• Become an expert in the teacher training market and stay up to speed in educational trends and developments more broadly
• Maintain dashboards & reports on our database (Salesforce), ensuring data is accurate and insightful
• Work collaboratively with other teams across Now Teach ensuring we are aligned in this moment of step change to recruit and retain England-wide.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will:

• Understand and be committed to children’s outcomes not being determined by their backgrounds and appreciate the impact teachers and Now Teach can make
• Have proven experience at building relationships with Training Providers and Schools and solid knowledge of the education landscape for ITT
• Be naturally motivated to deliver their projects with high quality so we recruit and retain even more career changers into teaching
• Get energy from working within a close-knit friendly team and comfortable working independently also
• Have excellent presentation skills, and aptitude for keeping accurate records and reports on a CRM system
• Essential competencies –
• Motivation to Now Teach and education with a sound grasp of the Initial Teacher Training landscape
• Drives projects, proactive and adaptable to achieve results
• A competent, confident decision maker with good judgment
• Exceptionally client focused and great at maintaining relationships with stakeholders
• Confident, resilient communicator with good influencing/selling skills
• Accurate and organised
• Collaborative

The Baobab Centre

The Baobab Centre provides rehabilitation support to young asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced human rights abuses. Baobab provides psychotherapy, casework and advocacy as well as a wider range of community activities. We are seeking a Finance Manager to support the running of the organisation and to help our team support young asylum seekers and refugees in London. 

Job Purpose:

• Day to day finance management of the organisation 
• Prepare, develop and analyse management accounting information
• Finance planning, budgeting, forecasting and annual accounts
• Provide high quality support service to the Operations Team
• Work 14 hours across a month (i.e. available a few hours a week not in two complete days). On some months there is the possibility of a few extra hours if necessary.

Duties and responsibilities

• Production of monthly management accounts
• Analysing variances and exploring potential problems with Operations Manager and Finance Committee
• Making appropriate recommendations and advising of the impact of financial changes on the charity
• Preparation of annual budgets (including aspirational) and producing regular reforecasts against the budget
• Improving the systems surrounding all aspects of the charity's budgets, forecasts and business planning
• Shared responsibility with the Operations Manager for the annual audit/examination and referral to independent examiner. 
• Providing financial support to the fundraising team, including information for funding applications and reports.
• Support the Finance Administrator with any queries regarding payroll and the day to day finance postings in Quickbooks.
• Support the Operations Team in reviewing the financial policies and procedures.
• Preparing monthly accounts for the monthly Finance Committee Meetings (held in the evening).

Person specification

Accounting:

• A fully qualified accountant with a thorough practical understanding of Finance Management including management accounting principles and techniques as well as an understanding of charity accounting principles.
• Experience of producing annual accounts and working with Independent Examiners. 
• High degree of communication skills, particularly attuned to working well with non-finance professionals.
• First-hand experience of planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience working in fast moving environment providing accurate and timely information to a high standard.
• Experience and understanding of charity accounts.
• Experience with general finance management.

Charity Experience and Interest

• Demonstrable interest in one or several of: human rights work, mental health, refugees and asylum seekers, and young people separated from their families.
• Ideally with experience of working with unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers. 
• Demonstrable experience working with people from different culture and backgrounds.
• Ability to work flexibly with an understanding of the holistic functioning of the charity.

Please apply using our application form, select 'Apply with CharityJob'. We will not read CVs.

In this exciting role at Temwa, you will be an integral part of our small but dynamic fundraising team. Your work will be focused on helping manage the day to day administration for the  team as well as delivering strong stewardship to our supporters. You will also take a lead role in managing our challenge event portfolio and will support our individual fundraisers and donors. You will report directly to and work along side the Fundraising & Communications Manager, as well as provide some support to the Finance and Systems Manager and Communications Manager.

Key duties will include:

• Helping develop Temwa’s individual giving work including challenge and individual events
• Ensuring the smooth running of Temwa’s supporter care systems
• Supporting the Fundraising Team with day to day administration

Location: Coram’s Fields, Kings Cross

Salary: £36,000-£38,000

Hours: Full-time, 35hrs per week, some home working may be considered however, the majority of the role will be based on site.

Since its inception in 1936, Coram’s Fields has existed for one reason only, to provide a space dedicated to the children of London, where they can roam freely and safely in an environment that remains unique to this day.

85 years on, our work remains rooted in its founding principles however, over the eight decades since the organisation was established, the needs of the community for which we serve have changed considerably. As a result, our services have needed to evolve to tackle the many complex issues facing children and young people growing up, in what is a densely populated area of London, where 48% live in poverty and over 60% are on the children’s social care register.

Today, alongside the provision of a seven acre park, playground and sports facilities, we deliver a wealth of services that include; an under 5’s drop in, a thirty five place nursery, after school clubs, holiday schemes, a free – five day a week sports programme and youth programme delivered from our state of the art youth centre.

COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the charity’s finances and we are still in the process of recovering from the pandemic. Government grants, our most successful public fundraising campaign to date and generous support from trusts, foundations and grant giving bodies have provided a strong foundation for our recovery. More importantly, they have ensured that we have been able to continue to provide vital support to the hundreds of children that we work with every single week.

As we emerge from the COVID crisis, our main fundraising focus will be on increasing support through our new corporate programme, Connecting Futures, our major donor programme and through the growth of individual and regular giving, whilst maintaining and extending support from trusts and foundations.This is a challenging but hugely rewarding role and one in which you will be able to see the immediate impact of your success.

Our Connecting Futures programme has, since being launched in May 2021, secured support from a host of companies, ranging from London law firms to global media, construction and brand/lifetyle businesses. Alongside this, the success of our public emergency fundraising campaign in 2020, demonstrated the importance of Coram’s Fields to the local community and saw over 1,000 donors collectively raise over £110,000 to protect the charity’s future.

The opportunity to grow and develop our corporate partnerships and harness the support of the local community, to deliver life changing support for young people, and a sustainable income base for the charity, should drive your interest in the role.

As the principle fundraising resource, you will be adept at working under your own initiative however, your role as part of the Charity’s SMT will see you work closely with a committed senior team.

You’ll be joining an organisation with a strong history of delivering outstanding services for its beneficiaries and a staff team committed to changing the lives of young people for the better. A commitment to training, development and organisational wide support will ensure that you will be working in an environment created to enable success in all areas of your work, and one that balances opportunities for autonomy with clear strategic direction.

Your passion and commitment to the cause will be critical to your success, as will your ability to articulate with great confidence, the immeasurable impact that Coram’s Fields has on those that it serves.

You will be an ambitious professional, for whom the opportunity to shape the future of this unique organisation and make your own mark on it will hold huge appeal.

To apply, visit our website through the link at the top of the listing.

The final deadline for the role is 9am on Monday 6th December 2021 however, applicants should note that applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and shortlisted applicants may be invited to interview before the application deadline.

Coram’s Fields is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Coram’s Fields is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all children and young people. All those applying for a role with the charity, are subject to robust safeguarding checks and will need to demonstrate clearly, their commitment to safeguarding. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and all post holders are required to register with the DBS update service.

This is an exciting and challenging role for a Finance professional interested in a career in the international development sector. CBM places an emphasis on professional development and training for its employees.

Key responsibilities

1. To assist in the on-going development of a financial management assurance framework within CBMUK’s risk management strategy. 

2. To lead in the preparation of periodic financial reports to donors and improve accountability and donor compliance.

3. To support final stages of the programme transition to CBM Global federation with focus on contractual compliance and the improvement and development of administrative and financial systems.

4. To contribute to financial planning and budgeting processes, deployment of funds to projects and preparation of new budgets and project applications.

5. To contribute to organisational wide strengthening of due diligence processes across CBMUK supported projects.

Please download a recruitment pack for full details.

The Eve Appeal is the UK's leading national charity funding research into, and raising awareness of, the five gynaecological cancers – womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal.

As our Public Fundraising Officer, you will focus on delivering an exceptional supporter experience – deepening relationships and maximising overall value – across a range of supporters. This role works across individual giving (including in memory and gifts in Wills), sporting events & challenges and community fundraising.

You will work across Facebook advertising, email campaigns and print newsletters and appeals. And you will benefit from a strong programme that has consistently over-performed for the past two years.

You will benefit from an experienced and supportive line manager, a culture open to change and new thoughts and experiences, and a team committed to delivering the best fundraising we can, which will greatly aid your development as a fundraiser.

This role could suit a proven officer from one or all of the public fundraising disciplines, someone with experience looking for their first step up into an officer-level role, or a person with transferrable skills looking to move into fundraising in the charity sector.

The Eve Appeal is striving to create a workplace that reflects the communities we seek to serve and in which everyone feels empowered to be themselves and work together to drive positive change.  We strongly encourage applicants from a diverse range of candidates. No formal qualifications are needed for this role, and we encourage everyone with the appropriate skills, experiences and potential to apply.

To apply for this role, please send an up-to-date CV along with a cover letter (of not more than two sides of A4) demonstrating your suitability for the role as outlined in the job description and person specification.

NB we may hold rolling interviews for this specific post, and reserve the right to close the role early should a suitable applicant be found.

Location: Coram’s Fields, Kings Cross/Bloomsbury

Salary: £36,000 – £38,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

For 85 years, Coram’s Fields has provided pioneering services for young people from birth through to early adulthood. Today these services continue to provide invaluable support to the local community. Our Youth Programme supports young people aged 9 to 19, providing a safe space and offering a wide range of engaging activities that support personal, social and mental well-being, and ensure that young people’s personal circumstances, are not barriers to them achieving their life ambitions.

Over the last five years, our reputation within the local voluntary and statutory sector has grown considerably, most notably through our work with high-risk young people, including those affected by violent crime, as well as our work with young women. Alongside this, we are seen by many as a beacon of good practice in terms of our youth work, finding creative solutions to some of the most complex societal issues facing young people today.

Our youth programme engages over 350 young people per year, just under 40% of whom are young women. Our engagement of young people spans multiple disciplines, each playing a key role in supporting a range of needs.

Our generations programme provides essential support to those transitioning to youth centre age, whilst our employability programme supports those at the other end of the age spectrum, developing and nurturing young people as they seek to enter the working world. Our work in the creative arts including a dedicated music production programme, provides the platform for young people to express themselves, whilst our community outreach on local estates enables us to reach young people, not yet ready to access mainstream youth provision.

In addition to this, we are the lead voluntary sector partner within a multi-disciplinary team supporting young men at risk of violent crime. We are proud through this work, to be pioneering the use of clinical intervention alongside conventional youth work to support the underlying issue of poor mental health among both perpetrators and victims, an approach that has contributed to the delivery of often life changing outcomes for many of our young people.

This is a challenging but hugely rewarding role and one that will provide an opportunity for a talented youth work professional to develop even further, the impact of our work locally. Fundamental to your success in the role will be an unrivalled commitment to the lives of children and young people, supported by an in depth understanding of the multiple challenges that they face. Even more crucial, will be your ability to turn this commitment and understanding into high impact services that produce tangible outcomes for those that we support.

You’ll be an inspirational leader, bringing a creative flair to your work with young people, harnessing the skills of those around you to deliver a truly exceptional offer.

To apply, visit our website through the link at the top of the listing.

The final deadline for the role is 9am on Monday 6th December 2021 however, applicants should note that applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and shortlisted applicants may be invited to interview before the application deadline.

Coram’s Fields is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Coram’s Fields is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all children and young people. All those applying for a role with the charity, are subject to robust safeguarding checks and will need to demonstrate clearly, their commitment to safeguarding. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and all post holders are required to register with the DBS update service.

The role

Reporting into the Head of Learning and Skills, the Manager (Learning) will be responsible for leading work to improve equity of access to quality physics teaching and learning, in a way that supports a more diverse physics community.

Responsibilities include

The Manager (Learning) will be expected to lead IOP activity related to physics teaching in schools. This involves  managing a sizeable and expert team, and a broad portfolio of projects focussing on increasing influence around teacher recruitment, retention, inclusion and quality of teaching in physics.

Alongside, the successful candidate will need to collaborate widely: internally, including IOP sister teams responsible for e.g. the ‘Limit Less’ influencing campaign, our £10m Challenge Fund, and our National Heads and National Education Managers. And externally: building up a strong collaborative network in e.g. 3rd sector STEM organisations, and government departments to identify further strategic partnership opportunities to increase impact.

The Person

You will be a strong and collaborative leader and manager, able to support large and diverse teams in and work flexibly within and across the IOP’s structures to develop genuinely joined up plans for organisational impact.

You’ll be strategic and comfortable with pace: able to identify opportunity, while leading and evolving the existing portfolio of projects and activities relating to learning and managing a sizable budget.

You will be a natural communicator – able to build relationships widely and cultivate effective networks for tangible mutual benefit.

You’ll have a good understanding of the STEM education policy landscape especially relating to teacher CPD and inclusion, and proven ability of managing large complex projects.

Future of work

The Institute of Physics is an equal opportunities employer, and our people are at the heart of our approach to delivery. Following the impact of COVID-19, we have developed a new, innovative, and exciting trust-based model of flexible working. This empowers our staff to choose both individually and as a team how, when and where they work to deliver the goals of the organisation, acknowledging that there will be occasions where in-person meetings, collaborations and events will help generate greater impact. This means we are open to all forms of flexible working, and open to discussions around secondments where there may be an organisational fit.

The Future of Work initiative is based on the principles of collaboration, trust, flexibility, and agility. You will be allocated a ‘base’ office which can also be a chosen place of work.

Application 

Alongside your CV, please ensure you include a cover letter stating how you meet the role specification.

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Are you ready to join a Government department undergoing an exciting and significant Digital Transformation? Cabinet Office are seeking the appointment of a permanent Senior Delivery Manager to help support the ambition to make UK Government digital services the best in the world.

This role sits within the Change and Deliver team in the CDIO. They are responsible for leading and supporting the delivery of excellent digital services and digital transformation changes with business units across the Cabinet Office. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects from high profile public-facing sites to internal digital transformation projects.

Job description

As a senior delivery manager you will be accountable for the effective delivery of one or more complex digital services, managing end-to-end delivery through to live service. You will lead multidisciplinary teams made up of internal digital specialists and external suppliers, working with stakeholders up to the highest level.

You will:

• be accountable for effective delivery of complex, high-risk digital products and services
• deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning and iterating frequently
• coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques
• build and Matrix-manage multidisciplinary teams made up of business analysts, service designers, user researchers, technical architects and software engineers, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
• lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process, prioritising work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team, and ensuring the team remains focused on those priorities
• identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them
• work with service owners and product owners from business units to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into an achievable backlog
• be responsible for resource planning, budgeting and forecasting at each stage of the produce life cycle
• ensure all products are built to meet digital and security standards, acting as a champion for user needs and quality standards
• prepare service owners and teams for Alpha, beta and live service assessments where appropriate
• act as the main point of escalation for stakeholders and external suppliers
• create and maintain an active risk register
• actively participate in the delivery manager community, sharing skills and knowledge and ensuring in best practice

Essential skills and experience:

• A track record of delivering digital services at pace in complex environments across multiple phases.
• Strong background in agile delivery management methodologies, processes and techniques, with an ability to coach within and outside of their team.
• Building successful motivated delivery teams with an understanding of team styles and how people work together.
• Maintaining delivery momentum and unblocking issues to optimise the delivery flow of teams.
• Working with senior leaders, stakeholders and third parties to drive agile transformations at an organisational level.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to mediate and mend relationships, engaging and managing the expectations of stakeholders at all levels.
• Programme and project risk management, effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks, including those where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
• Practical experience of resource planning, budgeting and forecasting with particular skills in managing and setting project budgets in complex environments.
• Dealing well with uncertainty and that you can bring sophisticated influencing skills (challenging when appropriate) to achieve clarity of requirements and direction.
• Managing contracted suppliers ensuring that performance, quality and value for money are achieved.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience of working to the Digital Service Standard and leading teams through service assessments
• Writing or inputting into business cases and with the ability to communicate business-value propositions.
• Procuring suppliers using the appropriate contractual frameworks and adhering to government commercial standards.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

You will be asked a selection of technical questions related to:

• Agile processes
• Maintaining delivery momentum
• life cycle perspective

This is a rolling campaign. Sifting of CV's and interviews will be held weekly. Please submit your CV immediately.

Applicants will be required to provide an up to date CV and supporting statement (up to 1,250 words) detailing how you meet the requirements and behaviours listed above. You will also provide a completed diversity form.

To apply, send your CV and we will respond with the full job description to help with supporting statement and the diversity monitoring form.

Cabinet Office are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our organisation. You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion and read our equal opportunities statement on our Diversity and Inclusion page.

Security Clearance

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally require 5 years' UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement but supplementary checks may be required where individuals have not lived in the UK for the required period. This may mean that your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.