About ReachOut
ReachOut is a mentoring charity that works with young people in disadvantaged communities in London, Manchester, Oldham and Liverpool to raise aspirations and help them grow in character and academic attainment. We improve Numeracy, Literacy and Communication Skills whilst reinforcing our core values of Fairness, Self-Control, Good Judgement and Staying Power.
Role Description
We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative and positive individuals to join our Leadership Programme and become Project Leaders. As a Project Leader you will run a weekly mentoring project for young people in primary or secondary school, facilitating the 2-hour sessions alongside other responsibilities. The Leadership Programme is an opportunity to gain and improve your leadership, management and communication skills whilst having a massive impact on the lives of young people. You will be supporting them to raise their aspirations, develop their character, and build their academic attainment and self-confidence. Are you up for the challenge?
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our projects will be starting online until it is safe for us to run sessions in schools again. Project Leaders will be trained on how to deliver sessions both online and in-person to prepare for this.
Role Details
As a Project Leader you will:
- Spend 2 hours planning and 2 hours delivering your mentoring session each week during term time for 10 - 16 young people and their mentors.
- Manage and support the young people.
- Manage and support the volunteer mentors
- Complete monitoring and evaluation activities to assess project success.
Please download the information pack for full details about the job role.
Personal Specification
Experience
- Has worked with groups of young people in the range 9 to 16 years old
- Has the potential to take on a leadership role
- Can demonstrate commitment to a cause / activity and has taken an active role in that (e.g. captain of a sports team, president of a society)
- Has professional work experience (e.g. internships, summer placements, etc.) This can include regular voluntary experience but should be positions where you have had responsibility for something, worked to deadlines, worked with others etc.
Skills
- Maths and English skills, (minimum grade C at GCSE or equivalent)
- Communication skills (face-to-face, email, text, phone)
- Good organisation skills (can manage tasks effectively, accurately and in timely fashion)
- Confident in use of MS Word and Excel
Personal attributes
- Passionate about ReachOut’s mission
- Demonstrates ReachOut’s Character Strengths: Fairness, Good Judgement, Self-Control and Staying Power
- Demonstrate good team work skills such as collaboration and delegation
- Open to feedback with a genuine desire to learn and develop personally
- Enthusiastic and energetic
- Excited by challenge
- Prepared to be adaptable and creative
- Positive and sociable
Application Instructions
To apply for the Leadership Programme, please visit our website where you can download our application form. We will ask you to send this to us along with your CV and shortlisted candidates will be invited to a Zoom assessment centre.
Applicants must ensure they are available to take part in our September Training. Full details of this are available in the information pack and Project Leaders will be paid a lump sum of £50 upon completion.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all spaces are filled so please apply as soon as possible. Please note, we are currently recruiting for our London and Liverpool locations as our Manchester projects are now full.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Based at the following Crisis Skylight Services (Newcastle, South Yorkshire, Merseyside, Birmingham, Coventry, Oxford, Brent, central London, or Croydon)
Recruitment during COVID-19 restrictions
During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be by video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place.
About Crisis
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. Through our pioneering research into the causes and consequences of homelessness and the solutions to it, we know what it will take to end it, together, in our lifetimes.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert advice on homelessness legislation and relevant housing legislation to contribute to Crisis’ mission of ending homelessness. These new roles will provide advice and assistance on an internal consultancy basis to Crisis Skylight staff to enable them to advocate for their clients. For complex cases, more direct involvement will be required including direct work (usually by phone/ digital means) with members and advocacy (through written, phone or digital means) to relevant agencies. The role will also involve training and developing staff and volunteer’s knowledge of the application of relevant homelessness and housing legislation in England.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have extensive experience working in the homelessness / housing sector together with excellent knowledge of homelessness and housing law and how, through consultancy and advocacy, you can prevent and end homelessness. You will enjoy working across Client Services providing good quality advice and support as well as developing and delivering training to Skylight staff.
Your knowledge and expertise will contribute to the development of policy, practice and campaigns work by providing examples of where housing policy and/or practice contributes to the perpetuating or creating homelessness.
Person Specification
Essential
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Demonstrable track record of successfully preventing and relieving people’s homelessness through advocacy and the application of relevant homelessness and housing law, including complex cases such as people with different immigration status.
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Expert knowledge of relevant homelessness and housing legislation, including Housing Act 1996 Parts VI and VII, Homelessness Act 2002 Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, Protection for Eviction Act 1977, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
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Knowledge of the issues affecting homeless people and the impact and interaction of welfare and immigration policies on homelessness
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Familiarity with local authority housing options services and their processes
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Excellent communication skills, with the ability to listen, analyse, advise, and put across complex information accessibly through different media (one to one consultancy in person or by phone/ digitally, written materials, training materials)
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Excellent at networking with strong advocacy skills to improve access to entitlements for our members wherever necessary
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Organised and able to deal with conflicting priorities
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Strong team player who is driven to work within a team, whilst also able to work on own initiative
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Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages and experience of data entry using a case management system
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Knowledge of and ability to comply with Health and Safety (including adherence to lone working and social distancing protocols) and safeguarding procedures
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Commitment to Crisis’ purpose and values
Desirable
12 Experience of supporting / defending people in possession cases
We encourage applications from all sections of the community and particularly from people who have lived experience of homelessness.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team
Closing date: Sunday 16th August 2020 (11.59pm)
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessnes
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Our partner is a recognised organisation working to offer greater safety to people in conflict- affected communities, and the opportunity to rebuild their lives, livelihoods and futures in the aftermath of war. They are seeking a Regional Finance Officer to support in the provision of financial leadership to the programmes they are undertaking in the Middle East and North Africa. This is a newly created role, and is an excellent role for a charity finance professional looking to move to a field-based position.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Regional Finance Manager in the financial monitoring the portfolio of grants and contracts across the region, supporting in the development of appropriate controls, processes and tools to ensure effective management of these.
- Support in the production of timely donor reports, and in monitoring project costs to completion.
- Provide support in developing donor budgets, and country budgets.
- Support in the day-to-day programmes finance – entering monthly journals, reviewing and reconciling country cashbooks, and reviewing and reconciling payment requests and reports from implementing partners.
- Assist in monitoring of compliance against donor regulations, the organisational requirements, and overseas statutory regulations.
- Assist in preparing for grant and external audits.
Requirements
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant with strong accounting, financial management, and risk management skills.
- Strong finance business partner, able to coordinate and review information from country offices and implementing partners.
- Grants compliance, management and reporting experience, specifically experience of managing DfID, ECHO and UN funds.
- Astute & succinct, with excellent communication skills, and demonstrable experience of working with finance and non-finance staff.
- Resilient and culturally sensitive, willing to work in a challenging environment.
- Previous experience of working in a finance role in a humanitarian context is highly desirable.
This role is based in Amman, Jordan with travel to other countries in the region. Competitive salary, based on experience, & generous benefits.
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Job Title: Operations Director Managing Service Delivery- Relief
No of Posts: 1
Salary: £33,000, Pension and Health Benefits
Status: Full Time, Substantive
Hours: 37.5 per week
Holidays: 24 days plus Bank Holidays per annum
Based at: Wigan and Leigh
Responsible to: CEO
Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees
SUMMARY
The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual to join the charity in vital and exciting role. Your role will be to enhance, integrate and develop all aspects of relief services within the Charity. You will need to be as committed as we are to equip people from diverse backgrounds for self-sustaining and independent living. You will have an understanding about the need to ensure people have a safe, nurturing environment to thrive in, which is the first step into transition.
To be successful, you will be a person who has
• high integrity,
• commitment to organisational development, and good governance,
• excellent communication skills
• the ability to work at pace in a complex context,
• the ability to work in a team in a practical, flexible and cooperative way
• passionate about people having a right to choice
• passionate about an asset based approach to all service delivery
To Apply: Please complete an application form along with a brief overview of why you feel you are perfect for this role in no more than 500 words. Please attach all documents when applying for this vacancy.
Please apply early as we reserve the right to bring forward or extend the deadline for applications, so please get your applications in as soon as possible.
Closing Date: 12 Noon Friday 28th August 2020
Possible Interview days: Early September TBC
*** We are a Christian Charity with Christian Values supporting the Wigan Community *****
****The Brick is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of our workforce.
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and support or staff from different backgrounds****
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Operations Director Service Delivery- Restoration
No of Posts: 1
Salary: £33,000, Pension and Health Benefits
Status: Full Time, Substantive
Hours: 37.5 per week
Holidays: 24 days plus Bank Holidays per annum
Based at: Wigan and Leigh
Responsible to: CEO
Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees
SUMMARY
The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual to join the charity in a new and exciting role. Your role will be to enhance integrate and develop all aspects of restoration within the Charity. You will need to be as committed as we are to equip people from diverse backgrounds for self-sustaining and independent living.
To be successful, you will be a person who has
• high integrity,
• commitment to organisational development, and good governance,
• excellent communication skills
• the ability to work at pace in a complex context,
• the ability to work in a team in a practical, flexible and cooperative way
• passionate about supporting people to transition
To Apply: Please complete an application form along with a brief overview of why you feel you are perfect for this role in no more than 500 words. Please attach all documents when applying for this vacancy
Please apply early as we reserve the right to bring forward or extend the deadline for applications, so please get your applications in as soon as possible.
Closing Date: 12 Noon Friday 28th August 2020
Possible Interview days: Early September TBC
*** We are a Christian Charity with Christian Values supporting the Wigan Community *****
****The Brick is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of our workforce.
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and support or staff from different backgrounds****
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This post can based at any of our Skylights which are at the following locations London, Brent, Croydon, Oxford, Merseyside, South Wales, South Yorkshire, Coventry, Birmingham, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
Recruitment during COVID-19 restrictions
During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be by video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place.
About Crisis
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. Through our pioneering research into the causes and consequences of homelessness and the solutions to it, we know what it will take to end it, together, in our lifetimes.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert advice on welfare rights and entitlements for people facing homelessness, including those who may appear to have no recourse to public funds, to contribute to Crisis’ mission of ending homelessness. Advice and assistance will be offered on an internal consultancy basis to Crisis Skylight staff to enable them to advocate for their clients. For complex cases, more direct involvement will be required including direct work with members and advocacy to relevant agencies.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have extensive experience of working in the welfare benefits sector. You will enjoy working across Client Services providing good quality advice and support as well as developing and delivering training to Skylight staff.
Your knowledge and expertise will contribute to the development of policy, practice and campaigns work by providing examples of where welfare policy and/or practice contributes to the perpetuating or creating homelessness.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR team through the Crisis website.
Closing date: Wednesday 13 August 2020 (11.59pm)
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an adventurous, early career auditor, interested in a leadership role in the national audit office of a British Overseas Territory?
Our partner is the national auditor of a small British Overseas Territory, responsible for auditing state owned entities, subsidiaries and enterprise funds. They are seeking 2 Principal Auditors to lead small teams in planning & executing financial & value-for-money audits, and undertaking some assurance assignments as required. The role will offer an early career professional an opportunity to take on leadership role, understand DfID audit & reporting requirements, and an immersive experience in a friendly island community.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant, with experience in undertaking external audits.
- Strong technical knowledge, specifically knowledge of international reporting standards
- Excellent communication (written and spoken) & negotiation skills
- Resilient, flexible, and adaptable.
This is a fixed-term contract role; they are open to considering applicants able to make a 12 or 24 month commitment, with the latter preferred. In addition to the salary, our partner will cover the cost of one return flight and accommodation in-country. This role is based in a British Overseas Territory.
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WHAG
WHAG is a leading charity delivering quality support services to women, men and their families who are affected by domestic abuse and homeless vulnerable women across North West England. Improving the safety and life opportunities of our service users and supporting them in their recovery
Our people impact on the lives of others and our business everyday so we’re committed to developing talent and growing ambition. We’re looking for people who want to be the best they can in their role and who want to make a difference day in, day out.
We currently have opportunities for:
Cheshire West and Chester (CWaC) Service Manager
We are looking for a Service Manager to manage an accommodation based homeless vulnerable women’s service. Providing a high quality and individual service to women who are vulnerable and homeless and Men, Women and Children who have or are experiencing domestic abuse.
- Salary: NJC scale 26-28 (£28835 - £30523)
- Actual Salary: £25951 - £27470
- Hours:
(Week 1: 36 Hours, Week 2: 28.8 hours)
- Closing Date: 10.00am, Thursday, 27th August 2020
- Interview date: Monday, 7th September 2020
As this post is at women only project schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 applies
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Street League work with young people, progressing them into employment, education and training by engaging them through football, fitness, dance fitness and multisports. We specialise in helping our participants (16-24 years’ olds from disadvantaged areas) progress from our unique sport/fitness and education programmes into sustainable employment, education and training.
We currently operate across the UK in 14 regions, including Greater London, the North West of England, West Midlands, Yorkshire and extensively across Scotland.
The Progressions Coordinator will be required to deliver group employability and personal development workshops and accredited qualifications at the Street League Academy. They will carry out 1-2-1 progression meetings with Street League participants and liaise with employers and colleges to broker opportunities and support young people into Education, Employment or Training.
Responsible for positive participant outcomes into Employment, Education and Training, the progressions team are an integral part of Street League operational delivery. Targeted on delivery and outcomes you will report to the Operations Manager.
A teaching qualification (e.g. PTLLS or equivalent), plus experience in delivering employability services, accredited qualifications and job brokering is highly desirable. Considerations will be made for candidates with experience in delivering training or in careers guidance plus an appropriate assessor qualification would be desirable.
All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure Check.
Street League is an equal opportunities employer.
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