This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join a forward-thinking charity and help achieve our exciting growth ambitions. This is a new role and we are looking for an energetic and inspiring Director of Marketing and Communications who will set the vison for the promotion of Brain Tumour Research fundraising activities and demonstrating our impact. You will be instrumental in helping us exceed the growth in income set out in our 2025 fundraising strategy and achieve our aim of establishing a further four dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence across the UK in the next five years.

Brain Tumour Research is an influential, game-changing, intelligent and focused charity embracing its fantastic supporter base across the UK. Despite the pandemic, Brain Tumour Research is determined to continue its growth trajectory. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through our Centre Strategy and increasing the national investment in brain tumour research.

Director of Marketing and Communications
Location: Head Office Milton Keynes MK5 6LB
Salary: c. £60,000 per annum
Full Time – Permanent

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will be responsible for:

• Growing the profile and reach of the Brain Tumour Research brand and delivering integrated marketing communication strategies which increase awareness and drive income growth through supporter recruitment and retention
• Maximising engagement with and inspiring our loyal followers, as well as reaching and delighting new audiences across all traditional offline marketing and digital channels. 
• Upholding the brand through guardianship and leading the team in creating a strong brand identity, showcasing the organisation’s mission and brand proposition, building brand awareness and driving conversions.
• Increasing opportunities to communicate our achievements and impacts, influencing target audiences to engage in new fundraising initiatives, make donations, create partnerships and join our campaigning in order help us find a cure for brain tumours
• Inspiring, developing, motivating and leading a dynamic and effective marketing and communications team that can deliver diverse, innovative and cost-effective activities that support exceeding the organisation’s fundraising targets
• Being an active member of the leadership team. contributing to the overall strategic direction of the charity and representing the marketing and communications function at board meetings

Closing date: Wednesday 30th June

Early applications are encouraged, interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified.

Please read the attached full job description and upload your CV with a covering letter, demonstrating why you are a suitable candidate, how you could add value to our organisation and detailing your current salary.

No agencies, please.

Northampton with some home working considered

We are seeking a highly organised Executive Assistant to provide administrative support to the Chief Officer and Board of Trustees of Central and East Northamptonshire Citizens Advice.  For this role, you must be highly organised and have a good attention to detail and be able to work flexibly to meet deadlines.

About the role​

To provide dedicated and confidential support to the Chief Officer, Trustee Board and Sub-Committees. This will include assisting the Chief Officer with all activities including diary and email management, planning and organisation, building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, communicating with all stakeholders on behalf of the Chief Officer.​

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates.

We make a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.​

How to apply

Please visit our website via the apply button to download the job pack and apply.

Closing date: 23 June 2021

We reserve the right to end the recruitment process early if suitably qualified candidates apply before the closing date.

Healthwatch Milton Keynes is here to help improve local health and social care services and make sure they work for the people of Milton Keynes. Our mission is to be an independent organisation, providing an effective local voice for people in Milton Keynes, influencing and shaping health and social care services to meet their needs.

An exciting new opportunity has opened for an Outreach and Engagement Officer on a fixed term basis from July 2021 to the end of March 2022.

The key to our success is a population that is empowered and enabled to have their voices heard, using evidence gathered from people to influence how health and care services are designed and delivered. We want to create a long-lasting positive impact on people’s experiences when they access local health and care services.

The Outreach and Engagement Officer will be responsible for developing and delivering face-to-face and online engagement events and activities. The aim of these activities is two-fold: relaunching our face-to-face outreach into the community following the Covid-19 pandemic; and supporting people from minority communities and people suffering disproportionate health inequalities speak out about what they need from health and care services. You will gather an evidence base of experiences and work with Healthwatch Milton Keynes colleagues to present that evidence to those that pay for and provide services.

We are looking for someone passionate about engagement, with the skills, confidence, and experience of reaching out to people of all backgrounds, particularly under-represented groups such as people within minority communities and those that face barriers to have their voices heard. You will have demonstrable experience of building trusting, collaborative relationships with the public and professionals.

We are happy to consider a single full-time role, or two part-time roles on a job share arrangement. Ideally, applicants will have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and will be expected to undergo regular testing prior to engagement activities.

If you are an AAT Qualified Finance Officer (or working towards qualification) looking for a role that also lets you get involved in the wider work of the charity, we might have the job for you.

Our Finance Officer supports all the day to day finance functions of our charity, looking after the company bank accounts, being responsible for the accounts payable and accounts receivable duties, dealing with payroll and gift aid processing etc. You would be the first point of contact for any routine finance queries. Alongside this, you will also support our Funding Team, carrying out due diligence checks on funding applications and attending grants panels to minute and record the decisions made, thereby getting a real insight into the core work of our charity.

You will need to be unflappable, used to working in a multi-functional role,  whilst maintaining a keen eye for detail. Experience of SAGE Line 50 and/or Salesforce would be a huge advantage in getting you started quickly in this role.

Duties include:

Day to day financial processes

• Processing of all accounts payable/receivable transactions including donations, invoices, grant payments, expenses, credit cards, standing orders, direct debit etc. through SAGE and the banking system.
• Dealing with supplier queries regarding payments and some chasing of debtors
• Monthly bank reconciliations and back up of banking system.
• Maintenance of the Fixed Asset Ledger, Prepayments and Accruals records.
• Banking and control of cheques and cash receipts.
• Management and reconciliation of petty cash.
• Administration and reconciliation of payments/ repayments of Social Investment Loans.
• Processing receipts from JustGiving and other third party sites.
• Processing Gift Aid applications.
• Processing and reconciling donations and grants payments through the Salesforce database.

Governance Support

• Financial due diligence on organisations making applications for grants, crisis funds and loans to ensure that they are financially stable and that financial eligibility criteria are met.
• Governance due diligence on organisations making applications for grants, crisis funds and loans to ensure that they are properly constituted and eligible to apply for Heart of Bucks funding.
• Preparation, in conjunction with the Grants Team, of information required by Grants Panel members in advance of each meeting
• Attendance and minute taking at Grants Panel meetings

Payroll

• Monthly payroll reports and processing of payslips (8-12 employees) in Sage
• Monthly HMRC payments

Funds and reporting

As required, supporting the Head of Finance with:

• reconciliation of funds
• preparation of reports
• liaising with Auditors to produce annual accounts
• preparation for and minuting of meetings

Team member

• Contribute to team building and development
• Work collaboratively to support the effectiveness of the whole team
• Participate and contribute to team/ organisational events

Heart of Bucks is a Living Wage Employer, registered as a MINDFUL EMPLOYER and a Disability Confident Employer. 

We will be interviewing as applications are received, so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement when the post is filled.

Head of Enterprise
Reporting to: CEO and the Board of SIA Enterprises
Contract Term: Permanent
Location: Based at SIA House, Milton Keynes (flexible arrangements considered)
Salary: £40,000 p.a.

The Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) is the leading national charity supporting individuals who sustain damage to the spinal cord resulting in paralysis. SIA is committed to a singular vision: a fulfilled life for everyone affected by spinal cord injury. Everyone has a right to live a fulfilled life and that means the life they choose, a life that has the same opportunities as everyone else. Our work in campaigning, education and support is based on the personal experiences of our members.

Being a user-led organisation is important to us; as well as our 12,000 members and growing, just under half of our staff and 90% of our trustees live with spinal cord injury. To help us achieve our vision, we are recruiting to the critical, newly created role of Head of Enterprise who will sit on the senior leadership team reporting directly to our chief executive and the SIA Enterprise Board.

You will be joining the charity at a pivotal time in our development journey. Our passionate team are driving forward ambitious plans to be a true association for all, to build on our success and achieve greater impact, and this new post will play a critical role in achieving our ambitions. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, enterprising, business focussed leader; someone who shares our passion for SIA’s vision and mission, who will bring a proven track record in growing a business and increasing revenue streams for charities and/or social businesses, to help us achieve our ambitions.

The core purposes of this role are to increase revenue into the charity, and to enable us to diversify and increase the breath of the services delivered on behalf of our community. We are determined to ensure that spinal cord injured people and their families can easily access vital services and support of the highest quality.

Key Requirements

• Experience of leading the growth of projects and businesses, from concept to launch and delivery.
• A commercial and results-driven mindset evidenced by proven success of developing and managing significant income generating partnerships and achieving substantial income growth.
• Strong evidence of knowledge of commercial business modelling and business case development.
• Evidence of ability to understand customer needs and use them to innovate and generate new business ideas.
• A natural talent for building relationships with a variety of stakeholders to produce excellent results.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills – both written and verbal
• Ability to produce accurate and detailed reporting, including analytical.
• Experience of working directly with non-executive boards and contributing as part of a senior level management team.

Timetable
Closing date for applications: 17 June 2021 (midday)
Initial Interviews: 24/25 June 2021 (ZOOM)
Assessments: w/c 5 July 2021 (online)
Final Interviews: w/c 12 July 2021 (SIA House, Milton Keynes)

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website to download the application pack.

No CVs and no agencies please.

Paid Media Officer

Salary: £25,650 per annum (pro-rata) + good range of benefits

Contract: Fixed Term (6 months) – 15 hours per week

Based: Milton Keynes and homeworking

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Looking to take your career in Digital Marketing to another level and utilise your skills where they really matter?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Paid Media Officer to work as part of a dynamic marketing structure to build and iterate our digital campaigns to our current supporters through online paid media advertising.

Joining the organisation at a key moment in our digital transformation programme, and being part of an innovative, growth mindset, and fun Digital Products team – you’ll be leading on the technical delivery of our paid advertising component to go alongside the c.80 campaigns we deliver each year, helping to inspire our supporters, increase conversion and raise additional funds.

Working with campaign leads, marketing automation teams and internal paid media stakeholders, you’ll bring your expertise to our campaigns - leveraging industry best practice knowledge, progressing internal data and system opportunities, technical knowledge of campaign setup, and a test and learn approach to drive forward our paid media advertising. The role will be responsible for managing, optimising and growing the paid media activities in the department.

The job offers a fantastic opportunity for someone who is always looking to improve ways of working, is a creative thinker and enjoys seeing their ideas through to implementation. You’ll have the biggest impact by creating fantastic social and display ad creatives that have a positive ROI for existing supporters as well as reaching targets for acquiring new supporters.

 About you:

· You have an eye for detail as well as being able to see the bigger picture and are able to demonstrate the impact and improvement of approaches over time.

· You’re passionate about digital technology, seeking new trends, ideas and ways to do things better.

· You have a ‘can do’ attitude, helping to create an environment that fosters collaboration, through building good stakeholder relationships.

· You’re customer focused, and have had experience in analysing behavioural data and leveraging insights in order to increase customer satisfaction, engagement and conversions.

· You’re an excellent communicator, able to work with a variety of stakeholders both face-to-face and remotely.

All applicants must be willing to work within a Christian framework and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension and a generous holiday entitlement.

Please click the link provided here to view the full job description

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: Friday 25th June 2021

Interview Dates: W/C 5th July 2021

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice available on our website.

Please note - No agencies please.

Aylesbury Youth Action (AYA) is a local charity (1165882) that aims to improve life chances for young people aged 14-24 years through Youth Volunteering opportunities, enabling them to make a positive contribution to their community.

We are looking to appoint an organised and motivated individual with a passion for supporting the community, to manage the day to day administrative and financial tasks essential for a charity to thrive.

You will be responsible for managing the charity’s memberships, data and impact monitoring, property management and accounts, as necessary to ensure a smooth administrative process.

The role would particularly suit a proactive and adaptable individual with good communication skills and an understanding of data management and accounts. The role requires at least 5 years experience of working in an office setting. Specific knowledge using Sage and Salesforce is desirable, however not essential as training will be available.

AYA are based in Aylesbury and parking is available.

Please be advised that all applicants need to complete an AYA Application Form, which is available by request at the AYA office or to download from our website.

AYA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. We regret that the office is currently not wheelchair accessible, but interviews will be held in accessible rooms.

Please note that as AYA deal with vulnerable children and adults, a DBS check will be requested of any successful candidate. This post is exempt by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemption) Order 1975.  You are therefore requested to disclose any convictions or information regarding criminal activity including convictions that would otherwise be considered spent.

Application Deadline: Fri 18th June 2021

Registered Child Specialist

Salary: £21,326 per annum + good range of benefits

Contract: Permanent – 36.5 hours per week

Based: Milton Keynes

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Use your skills where they really matter

Are you looking to use your relationship building and administration skills in an environment where you can make a difference? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Sponsorship Operations team, where you can make an impact on the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable children.

In this role, you’ll use your relational skills to build cross-team relationships, both across World Vision UK and with our colleagues across the world, communicating effectively to ensure that tasks are completed. You will use these relationships when managing the number of children available for Child Sponsorship and supporting other teams in World Vision UK to run their campaigns effectively.

You will also be responsible for the data that we import and export to our global partnership, running weekly reports to check the accuracy and consistency of this data, and continually looking for ways to improve the current processes and find efficiencies.

This role is in a small team and carries out many independent tasks, so it’s key that you can be self-motivated, confident in your decisions and willing to support on the wider team tasks as they arise.

If you’re looking to develop your career in the charity sector, then this is the role you’ve been waiting for.

As an active Christian*, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking.

Please click the link provided to view the full job description.

Please upload your CV of full employment history. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: 16 June 2021

Interview Dates: w/c 21 June 2021

*Permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family.  As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice is available on our website.

Please note: No agencies please.

SUPPORT MANAGER VACANCY FOR BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

AREAS TO INCLUDE AYLESBURY, FLACKWELL HEATH & HIGH WYCOMBE

BASIC FULL TIME SALARY £25,626 FTE

40 hours per week

*To work with people with Autism & Asperger Syndrome*

‘We recruit for potential not for perfection’

Kingwood has an excellent reputation as a specialist support provider of services for people with autism, learning disabilities and Asperger Syndrome.

We really care about our staff as much as we care about the people we support.

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a committed individual who is looking to progress their career and take on a new challenge.

You will be responsible for the smooth running of our services. Your duties will include managing a staff team to include a range administrative tasks plus providing direct support to service users.

You will need to have management experience and also have worked with autistic adults with both learning disabilities and mental health.

NVQ level 4 is desirable but not essential as long as you have a willingness to undertake relevant training.

Benefits of working for Autism at Kingwood include

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Kingwood funded DBS check
• Generous benefits including holiday, sick pay
• Competitive pension scheme
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Full in house training programme
• *Travel time and mileage paid where applicable*
• Great refer a friend incentive scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

FULL DRIVING LICENCE AND USE OF A CAR ESSENTIAL

Some of our roles require drivers and male or female employees only, where this is indicated this is a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with the Equality Act 2010

Closing Date Wednesday 30th June 2021

If this job sounds like the right fit for you, you can apply on the Autism at Kingwood website to complete our straightforward application form.

For more information or to apply online please visit our website or upload your CV and I will contact with you.