We are an exciting, young and ambitious family support charity, and this is a key new role for us, reflecting a successful period of expansion and a future focused on sustainability and continued growth.

As well as delivering great services, we are passionate about bringing the voices of the families we support on longer term change that gives children the opportunities they need to thrive. This is an exciting new role that will play a key part in this through policy, advocacy and research. As Policy and Research Officer you will have a solid understanding of the policy context in Wales, you will have good political awareness and a proven track record of successfully influencing politicians and decision makers.

You will work closely with the CEO on national policy and influencing, and the regional managers on local and regional influencing. You will work closely with the head of Business Development and the communications team to ensure that our policy and advocacy work gets maximum exposure and aligns with our income generation activity. This is an exciting time in our organisations evolution and this role is a key part of our development.

Children need happy, healthy homes in order to thrive but with many parents finding the pressures are greater than ever, Home-Start Cymru is providing vital support through our volunteer-led, home-visiting model. We are there for parents when they need us most, because childhood cannot wait. 

This is an exciting new role for us as a relatively new organisation, reflecting a successful period of expansion and a future focused on sustainability and continued growth. As Head of Business Development you will lead on creating a strong income generation culture across the organisation, building a business development mindset into our central communications and policy work as well as our regional delivery plans.

Children need happy, healthy homes in order to thrive but families face more pressures than ever, with many parents finding the practical and emotional demands overwhelming. Home-Start Cymru provides vital emotional and practical support to families with young children through a volunteer-led, home-visiting (pre-covid) model of support. We combine the strengths of our network of community-based volunteers across Wales with our professional expertise in the early years. We are there for parents when they need us most, because childhood cannot wait. 

We offer an exciting opportunity to become part of a brand-new senior management team in Valleys Kids, led by our newly appointed Chief Executive. We are a community regeneration charity, committed to changing the lives of disadvantaged people in ex-mining communities of the South Wales Valleys.  We are looking for an exceptional manager able to inspire staff, volunteers and local people to engage in positive change. You must be dynamic, resourceful with a high level of people management skills and experience of managing key relationships with a range of stakeholders and manage our Community & Family Hubs in line with our ethos and values. 

It is being recruited in conjunction with a Director of Business and Finance There is a potential crossover of skills and abilities, so potential candidates may wish to be considered for either role.

A full job description for both roles can be found in the job pack below. 

Job title: Director Programmes

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

The Director of Programmes will be responsible for the strategic leadership, operational delivery and expansion of Valleys Kids Programs. You will manage the Core Program team, ensuring successful provision of services, staff development and wellbeing and collective innovation amongst the managers. 

You will facilitate delivery of the overall strategy and annual plans while helping to generate a strong evidence base to underpin further development. Working with the CEO, you will also help to ensure that Valleys Kids has a strong profile for its work at local and national levels. 

You will be responsible for ensuring that Programmes are sustainable,  working with the Business Development and fundraising team to put in place a strong funding pipeline and undertaking future development work as needed.  This role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team at Valleys Kids and contributes to overall strategic management of the organisation.

Strategy: Developing and implementing the overall programmes strategy. 

Programme Oversight: Ensuring locality facilitators and core team are working together to deliver successful projects which help Valleys Kids to fulfil its mission while also meeting outputs and outcomes agreed with partner stakeholders and funders and  capturing evidence of impact through appropriate evaluation.

Business Development: Ensuring that existing programmes are sustainable and developing purposefully and initiating new programmes and models of future funding. 

Innovation: Leading on work to examine the potential for adopting new service delivery models and helping communities to play a full role in decision-making and setting the agenda.

Organisational Development: Working with the CEO and other members of the senior team to ensure that Valleys Kids is a well-managed and successful organisation, with a focus on continuous improvement in strategy formulation, systems and processes.

Profile raising: Developing ways in which Valleys Kids communicates and engages with stakeholders, in order to create an enabling environment for our work both nationally and regionally.

Person Specification:

Values:

• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

• At least 5 years experience of leading program co-design, implementation and evaluation 

• Evidence of leading the delivery of multiple programme that have significant social impact

• Evidence of successful staff engagement and development practice, linking organisational values with employee behaviour

• Experience of project budgeting and financial management

• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships 

Skills:

• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations

• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities, understand a wide range of activities and effectively manage a diverse team of professional, technical and commercial staff

• Committed to leading from the front and demonstrating to staff and stakeholders that community development and service delivery are the foremost priorities for the organisation

• Ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account

• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation

• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well

• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully

Other requirements

• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

We offer an exciting opportunity to become part of a brand-new senior management team in Valleys Kids, led by our newly appointed Chief Executive. We are a community regeneration charity, committed to changing the lives of disadvantaged people in ex-mining communities of the South Wales Valleys.  We are looking for a charismatic, experienced, forward thinking individual with financial acumen, innovative ideas and the commitment to implement them as our Director of Business & Finance. 

This post will be responsible for income generation, driving social enterprise and financial management. It is being recruited in conjunction with a Director of Programmes. There is a potential crossover of skills and abilities, so potential candidates may wish to be considered for either role

Please see the job pack below for a full job description for both roles. 

Job title: Director of Business and Finance

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

The Director of Business Development will be responsible for ensuring that Valleys Kids has the resources, people, systems and processes  to continue to thrive and grow. 

You will be responsible for ensuring successful delivery of the organisational infrastructure, collective innovation, staff development and well-being . 

You will facilitate delivery of the business development strategy and annual income generation plan. Initially, you will have specific oversight of three areas: income generation, fundraising and marketing;  financial and administrative operations; and our rapidly developing social enterprises. 

This role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team at Valleys Kids and contributes to overall strategy development of the organisation. Working with the CEO, you will also support Valleys to develop a strong profile for its work at a local and national level.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy: Developing the organisation’s strategic approach to resources management (including financial planning processes, analysis of current and future spending needs, budget-setting, use of assets, implementing the business development strategy and annual income generation plan).

Organisational Development: Working with the CEO and other members of the senior team to ensure that Valleys Kids is a well-managed and successful organisation, with a focus on Quality assurance and continuous improvement in strategy formulation, systems and processes.

Finance and Administration: Managing the finances of the organisation (including oversight of the finance and administration team), linking resource decisions to strategic and service planning priorities, monitoring and reporting expenditure, managing external contracts (including systems for performance and impact evaluation), overseeing HR processes. 

Business Development: Leading income generation initiatives to ensure a strong blend of income stream and overseeing the fundraising team and the social enterprises team.

Social and Community Enterprises: Providing strategic management for the work of Valleys Creative and other initiatives that provide high quality management of community assets and social enterprises.

Innovation: Together with the Director of Programmes, leading on developing new approaches to meeting the needs of communities and working with partners in assessing need and making plans for working together in meeting those needs, 

Corporate Governance: Overseeing arrangements for making the work of the Board of Trustees effective across the whole range of strategic functions it performs.

Person Specification: 

Values:

• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

• At least 5 years experience of leading income generation for an organisation or enterprise, ideally a mixture of traditional fundraising, social enterprise and contracts

• Experience of budgeting and financial management, ideally with budgets over 1 million

• Evidence of successful staff engagement and development practice, linking organisational values with employee behaviour

• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships 

Skills:

• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.

• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundations, trading income, contracts and individual giving.

• Ability to manage multiple income streams ensuring full compliance to agreements and contracts

• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully

• Ability to understand and implement effective systems and processes 

• Committed to leading from the front and demonstrating to staff and stakeholders that community development and service delivery are the foremost priorities for the organisation

Safer Wales are Equal Opportunities employers, therefore we would be grateful if you went to our website to complete and return the application form.

16 hours per week. *Fixed term to 31 December 2021, maybe extended pending further funding. *Job share considered.  This vacancy is subject to Enhanced DBS

The Champions of Wales Programme is a Wales-wide programme working in collaboration with Plan UK to empower young people in their communities to change perceptions and attitudes towards girls’ so they can live free from gender inequality.

As a Safer Wales Youth Worker - Champion of Wales, you will engage with young people in Cardiff, including vulnerable girls at risk of gender-based discrimination and violence.

Working collaboratively, you will:

· Engage young people in Cardiff, including vulnerable girls at risk of gender-based discrimination and violence

·Engage young people in workshops to build skills, confidence and understanding around gender equality

·Explore how and where they can champion girls’ rights locally using Plan UK’s digital mapping tools

Amplify girls’ ability to create change and influence local decision making via small grants to pilot projects that champion gender equality in their communities

Working for Safer Wales

Safer Wales is committed to providing a supportive and pleasant working environment through policies which acknowledge work/life balance, including:-

Payments and benefits

Our Employees benefit from:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working and part-time working hours (family-friendly) where possible
• Generous personal pension scheme – Safer Wales pays or 10%, the employee pays 5% of salary.
• Life Assurance Scheme – death in service benefit of four times salary
• An annual leave entitlement of 22 days annual leave, which increases for by 1 day up to a maximum of 27 days annual leave, plus 11 privilege/public and bank holidays
• Westfield Health Foresight Care Cash Plan
• Extended paid maternity and paternity leave
• Parental/Dependant’s leave
• Free refreshments for all staff

A commitment to continuing professional development and lifelong learning which includes:-

• Corporate induction programme
• Comprehensive in-house core skills training programme
• Mandatory training programme
• Regular supervision
• Annual Appraisal
• Payment of professional fees – where appropriate
• Paid study and exam leave – where appropriate
• Funding for external training courses relevant to role
• Funding for additional vocational and professional qualifications relevant to role
• Conference/training attendance relevant to role.

Teacher Fellow – Wales

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. The UK’s professional body for chemical scientists with over 45,000 members worldwide, we are a £65m-turnover not-for-profit organisation with over 600 staff operating around the world and an award-winning global knowledge business. We work to shape the future of the chemical sciences – for the benefit of science and humanity.

Position: Teacher Fellow – Wales
Location: Home-Based
Salary: £34,335 - £38,150 FTE per annum plus benefits
Position Type: Temporary Full-Time or Part-Time
Benefits: Benefits: Benefits: Excellent contributory pension scheme, generous paid holidays, 35-hour (for full-time staff) working week, learning and career development, staff sports and social club, free private healthcare plan, income protection scheme, critical illness insurance, life assurance, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme, wellness initiatives, flexible work environment, employee recognition, long service awards, membership subscription to professional body and RSC, Litmus reward gateway benefits and more.

Closing Date: 24/05/2021

About the role:

The Royal Society of Chemistry is looking for a Teacher Fellow to work with us to help provide chemistry guidance for teachers on the implementation of Curriculum for Wales 2022.

This Fellowship opportunity is available on a temporary part-time or full-time (21-35 hours per week) basis to cover maternity leave, to start by 1 September 2021 at the latest.

The role may require travel throughout Wales to visit schools, meet and work with stakeholders and attend events, as necessary. This may involve weekends and non-core working hours.

Essential knowledge and skills:

- A degree in science, preferably in the chemical sciences, or an equivalent qualification, with a solid understanding of school level, further, and higher education and Wales education systems.
- A teaching qualification and either current or recent experience in schools and an understanding of best practice in curriculum development in relation to chemistry.
- Ability to conduct research work, compile and analyse information, with close attention to detail and high standards of excellence.
- Good communication, team working, organisational, presentation skills and project management skills.
- The ability to work independently and adapt to new circumstances.

Desirable knowledge and skills:

- Awareness of applications, and contexts involving, chemical sciences in Wales and beyond.
- Computer and IT systems literate.
- Welsh speaker.

If interested, please apply before the end of our closing date. If you would like to apply on a secondment basis, please confirm that this is suitable with your employer. Please include your availability to start and days that you are available on a regular weekly basis in your application.

You may have experience of the following: Teacher Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Fellowship, Chemistry Graduate, Teacher, NQT, Subject Teacher, Lecturer, Tutor, Teaching, Higher Education, Course Leader, Course Management, Science, etc.

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