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Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Area of work: Predominantly in the London area

Are you passionate about connecting people with nature and empowering communities to protect rivers? Do you have experience delivering engaging volunteering and citizen science programmes that inspire real environmental action? Join us and play a pivotal role in restoring London’s rare urban chalk streams.

About the Role

SERT’s ambition is to reach as many people as possible in the South East, to teach and show them the importance of rivers in the environment, and how everyone can play a part in restoring them. We also want to be more reflective of the diverse communities who live in the South East, and build partnerships within these communities to reach a broader audience.

This role will lead the development and delivery of volunteering and community outreach activities that connect people with their local rivers. Activities will include practical volunteering such as river clean-ups, planting days, and invasive species control, as well as citizen science, guided walks, and community workshops.

A key focus of the role is supporting the Chalk Streams in the City project - a major initiative to restore London’s rare urban chalk streams through community involvement. The postholder will help shape and deliver a programme of inclusive and engaging opportunities that inspire people to care for these unique and threatened habitats.

This project is made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

Working at the South East Rivers Trust is rewarding, fulfilling and fast-paced. We collaborate with energy and professionalism, guided by our values of delivering high-quality work, using expertise and science, building strong relationships, and bringing positivity and integrity to everything we do. If this sounds like the right environment for you - we’d love to hear from you.

Please see the full Volunteering and Engagement Officer job descriptions for more information.

How to apply:

Please send us the following documents, more information can befound on our website.

• Your CV
• a completed application form
• Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form (optional)

The deadline for application is 11:59pm on Sunday 20th July 2025.  We reserve the right to close the recruitment early.

Interviews will be potentially w.c. 28th July 2025.

HR Project Administrator

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented HR Project Administrator to support the smooth running of the charity’s flexible workforce model, ensuring efficient recruitment, onboarding, and staffing coordination across national services.

Position: HR Project Administrator (Flexible Workforce)
Location: London or Manchester (with hybrid working)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £30,057 incl. London Weighting / £29,557 incl. Manchester Weighting plus pension and benefits
Closing Date: Sunday 20th July 2025

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

About the Role
As HR Project Admin (Flexible Workforce), you will play a key role in supporting the national flexible staffing model. You’ll be responsible for coordinating temporary worker recruitment, managing workforce records, and helping ensure compliance across all casual staffing processes. Working closely with hiring managers, external agencies and the HR and Finance teams, your work will help ensure effective and cost-conscious staffing across services.

This is an exciting opportunity to support a major operational transformation project, gain exposure to senior leaders, and develop valuable HR and project coordination skills.

Key Responsibilities

· Support recruitment and onboarding of bank and agency staff, including compliance and document checks

· Coordinate and monitor the use of the workforce system (CentralAxis), ensuring managers and workers are fully trained

· Maintain accurate and confidential workforce records in line with GDPR and data protection standards

· Support budget monitoring and reporting on staffing ratios, costs, and agency usage

· Help prepare reports, dashboards and presentations on flexible workforce activity

· Resolve staffing issues including absence, rota conflicts and performance concerns, escalating as needed

· Provide general admin support to the HR and project teams, including scheduling meetings, organising files, and minuting key sessions

About You
We’re looking for someone who:

· Has experience supporting HR or recruitment processes

· Is confident using digital systems and managing accurate workforce data

· Has strong communication and customer service skills, with the ability to build good relationships across teams

· Is highly organised, detail-focused and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities

· Understands the importance of confidentiality and compliance when working with sensitive information

· Brings energy, initiative and a commitment to the charity’s values

Key Note: DBS check required. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

In return you will receive:

· 26 days annual leave, rising to 30 after five years’ service

· Family-friendly policies including enhanced parental leave

· Pension scheme with employer contributions up to 7%

· Flexible and hybrid working (where appropriate)

· Access to 24/7 GP appointments and Employee Assistance Programme

· Discount scheme across retail, leisure and wellbeing

· Cash plan for dental, optical and healthcare costs

· Death in service benefit (4x salary)

· Full induction, ongoing training and development

· Opportunity to lead on meaningful operational change and gain exposure to senior leadership

Other roles you may have experience of could include:
HR Administrator, Workforce Coordinator, Recruitment Assistant, People Operations Admin, Resourcing Officer, Project Support Officer, Staffing Coordinator, Talent Acquisition Administrator, Onboarding Coordinator.

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Impact and Insights Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to be an impact catalyst across two Youth Zone locations (Carlisle and London).

We are looking for someone who can generate support and build towards a ‘culture of impact’ in both Youth Zones, so that outcome measurement and impact reporting becomes routine and ‘every day’. 

This is a hybrid working role, with 8 onsite days per month at the Carlisle and London sites, with the remainder working from home.

Position: Impact and Insights Officer

Location: Hybrid (8 days per month across the 2 Youth Zones in Carlisle and Barnet)

Salary: £38,000 – 42,000 per annum (dependent upon experience) plus travel expenses

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours/week)

Contract: Fixed term contract – 2 years (due to project funding)

Benefits: Agile working organisation with flexibility in working hours; 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days with length of service) plus bank holidays, birthday leave and annual leave purchase scheme (from day one of employment); company matched pension; company sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay; voluntary benefits with discounts on health and wellbeing, retail and leisure.

Closing Date: Monday 28th July 2025 at 9am. Please note, we may close the advert earlier depending on the volume of applications

Interviews:  Interviews (in person) will take place Tuesday 12th August in Barnet, London.  There will also be a short, values-based phone interview as part of the process.

About the Role

You will collaborate closely with a cross section of teams within the Youth Zones, working with the Youth Work delivery teams to feed data into decision making, and with the Communications and Fundraising teams to provide impact measurement and analysis content for use with stakeholders and in donor reporting. Furthermore, it will align impact and data work with national and local policy, and use national census, health, police and other statistical data to position the four Youth Zones for new income generation opportunities.

Main responsibilities include:

• Measuring and demonstrating the charities’ impact to stakeholders
• Authoring and providing the necessary data to the leadership and fundraising teams and Board (as required)
• Annual publications such as Trustees Reports and annual Impact Reports.
• Lead on data analysis and reporting on the data held in Salesforce CRM, improving both the quality and quantity of monitoring and evaluation processes
• Driving improvements in data capture through training and upskilling the Youth Work team
• Strengthening the ability of the two Youth Zones to demonstrate the measurable impact of youth work delivered.

Innovation is a key aspect of this role, involving the introduction and embedding of new methodologies to enhance the qualitative data capture process.

About You

This role is ideal for someone who has the ability to bring technical analysis to life in a youth work setting and can communicate insights in an accessible style to different audiences. The Impact and Insights Officer should be passionate about embracing the power of youth work and be keen to support Youth Zones in evidencing the impact created with young people. It will require someone who can bring impact expertise and creativity to create buy-in and drive improvements in data capture; and someone who is keen to work flexibly and closely with teams of passionate Youth Workers and who is unafraid of the challenge presented by Youth Zones in two very different geographic locations.

Previous experience in a data analysis or similar role, including handling large datasets, using data to derive insights and data-led decision making is required for this role, along with experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau), and previous experience working with young people or in a youth work setting.

Please note, this is hybrid working role, with 8 onsite days per month at the Carlisle and London sites. You must be able to travel to these locations as part of your role.

About the Organisation

A national charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose that fund and build state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound youth centres called Youth Zones in the country’s most economically disadvantaged areas. The organisation trains the amazing people that run them and offers continuing support to youth zones nationwide through a national network of independent youth charities,

As a growing and ambitious charity, you will be offered responsibility, variety and the chance to work with a team wholly invested in providing young people with the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from under-represented groups; in particular from Black, Asian, Mixed Race & other ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ communities.  Our dedicated Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group, with support from the Senior Leadership Team, is actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion, ensuring a culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive.

You may have experience in areas such as Impact, Insight, Impact and Insight, Impact Officer, Insight Officer, Impact and Insight Officer, Data Analysis, Evaluation, Impact and Evaluation, Evaluation, Impact and Evaluation Officer, Data, Data Analyst, Analyst, Data Analyst Lead, Data Officer. #INDNFP

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

Policy and Public Affairs Officer

We’re looking for a passionate and politically savvy Policy and Public Affairs Officer to help shape the future of foster care in Wales at a time of exciting political opportunity.

Position: Policy and Public Affairs Officer (Wales)
Location: Hybrid with weekly travel to the Cardiff office
Salary: £27,405 – £32,480 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full time – 35 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 27th July, 12am
Interview Date: Monday 4th August (Cardiff office)

What you’ll be doing:
This is a pivotal role within the UK-wide policy and campaigns team, influencing Welsh policy to improve the lives of children in foster care and the families who support them. With elections in the Senedd on the horizon, you’ll have a real opportunity to bring about change through political engagement, stakeholder influence and youth-led campaigning.

Key objectives include:

• Influencing parliamentary and policy-making processes in Wales
• Delivering high-impact campaigns and research projects
• Supporting the young people’s advisory board and amplifying lived experience
• Producing high-quality written materials for policy, campaigns and members
• Contributing to UK-wide projects and cross-team collaboration
   

Who we’re looking for:
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone with policy and campaigning experience who is passionate about improving outcomes for children in foster care. You’ll need to be confident building relationships with politicians, government figures and people with lived experience, and skilled at producing credible, evidence-based materials that influence decision-makers.

We’re especially keen to hear from people with:

• Knowledge of the Welsh policy landscape and children’s social care
• Experience supporting youth-led or lived experience campaigning
• A strong understanding of influencing and policy development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the role – even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

In return:

• 38 days leave (including bank holidays)
• Flexible and hybrid working
• A range of family friendly and fostering friendly leave options
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and sick pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline
• Pension and life assurance
• Contribution to eye tests and lenses
• Season ticket loans

Our commitment to diversity:
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly under-represented communities. If you are care experienced and meet the minimum criteria, you’ll be guaranteed an interview. Applicants with disabilities can request reasonable adjustments. We also consider job-share arrangements for all roles.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Policy Officer, Campaigns Officer, Public Affairs Adviser, Government Relations Officer, Children’s Social Care Policy Officer, Youth Engagement Lead, Advocacy Officer, External Affairs Officer.

What you will be achieving

As People Assistant, you will be supporting an established People and Culture (P&C) team to deliver an efficient and accurate P&C administration service across the Academy, ensuring that all P&C records are maintained properly. You will have some admin experience, which could be easily transferred to working in a P&C team. There will be opportunities to grow and develop in the role and get involved in wider cross-team working projects.

The People and Culture function forms part of the Directorate team. The team includes the Head of People and Culture, two People Business Partners and two People Assistants (including this role).

The wider Directorate team is responsible for supporting big annual Corporate Events. The team also supports and provides administrative support to the Chief Executive (CEO), President, Officers and Senior Leadership Team.

What you will be doing

• Supporting the People Business Partners in managing the recruitment activity. Recording diversity information after each recruitment round, ensuring it is available for annual analysis.
• Managing the new starter admin process, including conducting reference checks, induction meetings, and ensuring line managers follow the induction and probationary procedures.
• Undertaking P&C administration, including updating the HR employee database (Cezanne), P&C spreadsheets, preparing correspondence, and responding to external reference requests.
• Maintaining and updating information on the staff organogram and number of permanent/fixed-term posts on a monthly basis.
• Supporting the People Business Partner to prepare payroll administration and paperwork.
• Monitoring the sick leave and annual leave processes - escalating any potential issues to the People Business Partners and Head, as appropriate.
• Supporting the People Business Partners with any training administration, booking paperwork, and supporting training day coordination.
• Being the super user of the HR system.
• Updating any changes in the system, as and when needed.
• Supporting Academy away days.
• Supporting the People Business Partners in systems development work, as necessary.

What you’ll bring to the role

• The ambition to study towards CIPD level 3, or be studying towards.
• Experience of doing admin (within a P&C department would be an advantage).
• Some experience of dealing with people at all levels.
• Excellent IT skills, working with databases (experience with HR databases would be an advantage).
• Good literacy and numeracy skills

Benefits

• Salary progression framework.
• Hybrid and agile working.
• 29 days' annual leave, including Christmas closure dates, plus bank holidays.
• Regular organisation-wide Wellbeing Days.
• Pension (the Academy offers a flexible contribution structure with a minimum employer contribution of 8% up to a maximum of 13% of gross salary, with an employee contribution ranging from 3% to 8%).
• Life assurance.
• Vitality Private Medical Insurance, on completion of probation.
• SimplyHealth Cash Plans, on completion of probation.
• Season ticket travel loan (interest-free), on completion of probation.
• Cycle to work scheme, available on completion of probation.
• Family-friendly benefits - enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to qualifying period), coaching for parents returning to work.
• Subscription to Headspace and Class Pass.
• Staff training to support your development, including EDI training.

For more information and to apply, please visit our careers portal.

Closing date: 5.00pm on Thursday 17 July 2025.

Interview dates: Thursday 24 & Friday 25 July 2025 (likely held online).

Location: You can be based near one of the following office locations - Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, or Newcastle.

We operate a hybrid model of work i.e. a combination of in-person and remote, with flexible days in the office depending on business need and your preferences. We would typically expect in-office attendance an average of one day per week.

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: We are looking for the right candidate and while we envisage this being a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) we are very open to flexible working arrangements such as part-time, compressed hours, flexitime and job-shares. 

Occasional/frequent evening or weekend work may be required, for which time off in lieu (TOIL) will be given. 

Ideal start date: ASAP, as agreed with candidate 

We’ll also need:

•  Proof of your right to work in the UK - regretfully we’re currently unable to offer sponsorships at this time.
• References
• To conduct relevant DBS or PVGs checks for Safeguarding purposes if you are offered the role in line with our Safer Recruitment practices.

The Opportunity

The Finance and Operations Officer’s purpose is to work within the Operations Team to provide essential financial and operational support for the whole charity.  
 

Key responsibilities for finance range from providing advice and support for the whole staff team, important day to day and monthly financial processing for key stakeholders and assisting with the budgeting and forecasting process. 

1. Finance

• Support the Finance and Operations Manager (FM) to prepare and deliver accurate and regular management information including monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts, one-off finance reports, reporting for funders including grants and trusts, including end of project reporting. 
• Monitor the day-to-day financial management and cash flow of the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) working closely with the FM, Head of Finance & Operations (HFO), Operations and Fundraising teams. 
• Prepare payment runs for invoices and expenses, update weekly payments received reports and work closely with the Fundraising team to ensure expected income has been received. 
• Support the FM, alongside our appointed accountants, to prepare audited Year End Accounts, and work to ensure the Accounts are completed, approved, and filed on time. 
• Support the FM to manage and improve our financial systems and procedures, streamlining internal processes to ensure they are effective and safeguard the finances of the organisation.  
• Support the FM to devise and implement effective and efficient procedures, including the introduction of a purchase order system. From time to time, you may be requested to support the FM to maintain the payroll function of the organisation. 

 
2. Operations and Administration 

• Support the organisation, in ensuring that all staff and volunteers are aware of and trained in the relevant Data Protection policy and procedures and ensure that data protection laws are being adhered to in relation to the storage of data. Run the data deletion process where such requests are received in compliance with GDPR legislation. 
• Support the HFO and FM in overseeing operational matters such as SMF office administration, maintaining the asset register, insurance renewals, and Health & Safety compliance; act as point of contact for suppliers and service providers, including property managers, utility companies, couriers and cleaners; maintaining contracts and leases with office providers; purchasing office supplies & equipment and ensuring adequate stock levels are kept. 
• Support the wider organisation through appropriate administrative tasks, for example the programme delivery team to ensure a good experience for students, particularly during the residential programmes 
• Support the HR team with processes such as ordering laptops for new staff and communicating, updating and maintaining office policies contained in the Office handbook  
• Undertake research activities to support Operations Team projects, for example potential new suppliers, benchmarking exercises and contract renewals 

3. Strategic Responsibilities 

• Support with training staff on finance processes, fraud awareness, data protection, and other areas of operations.  
• Being a point of contact for all staff on finance and operations including office administration 
• Ensure appropriate adherence to our financial and operational policies and procedures supporting the organisation to enact the highest standards, balancing that whilst processes are appropriately followed, they are not followed to the point where they compromise the standards or outcomes desired. 

Need to know

• IT skills:  Experience of using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel functions. Experience of using or awareness of any accounting and/or CRM (Salesforce) software.
• Accounting knowledge: Some understanding of basic bookkeeping would be preferable, including the importance of accurate and timely information for the running of the charity and an ability to maintain confidentiality. 

Please see the full job description attached for a more detailed person specification. 

Benefits

Annual leave
33/34 days (England & Wales and Scotland respectively - includes bank and public holidays).

Other benefits
Cycle to Work Scheme; Employer pension contributions of 5% of qualifying earnings; Employee Assistance Programme available to staff and their family; Flexible work options such as hybrid working, flexitime, part-time; Regular staff team building and business planning “away days”.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply by submitting the following information to our application portal Pinpoint by 23:59PM, Sunday 13th July.
 

1.  Why would you like to work at the Social Mobility Foundation? (max. 500 words)
2.  What makes you a suitable candidate for the role? (max. 500 words)

Please note that generic applications and CV’s will not be considered. 
 

Interviews: First round interviews will take place between 14th July and 18th July with multiple slots available at different times throughout the working day.

Operations Manager/Projects Manager

Ffald y Brenin is a well-established and respected Christian ministry centred on the Retreat Centre and House of Prayer in West Wales. Thousands of residential and day visitors come every year to experience God’s presence, to rest and to be strengthened in their Christian lives. Thousands of others engage in Ffald y Brenin’s ministry of Local Houses of Prayer (LHOP) globally, as well as using online and printed resources, or attending Prayer Days and conferences.

Ffald y Brenin is celebrating forty years of ministry this year with an increasing sense of excitement about what the Lord has in store for the next forty! We want to build on our foundations, rooted in contemplative prayer and worship, with Ffald y Brenin as the trysting place between individuals and God, expanding our reach across the generations. There are developing plans to extend our reach, which could include an enlarged footprint in space and activity. The vision is unfolding under the banner of #Next40, and we will be fundraising, inviting friends and supporters to invest in Ffald y Brenin’s future.

We have a gap in our team that we need to fill. Whoever comes needs to sense a calling to join our close-knit community, with an eagerness to serve and a willingness to contribute to the daily rhythm of prayer.

The Operations Manager/Projects Manager supports the Director and Ministry Leads in enabling Ffald y Brenin to play its part in cultivating the presence of God, serving the Body of Christ and the nation of Wales and blessing the nations globally. They do so by ensuring effective resource management and operations and through high quality project management. Also, at this important point in the history of Ffald y Brenin, they will play a key role in supporting the visionary development of our ministry as we engage with all that #Next40 offers, including new development projects.

Accountable for

● Implementing and maintaining policies and ensuring legal compliance

● Managing land and buildings (decor, maintenance, equipment, etc)

● Stewarding the charity’s resources with integrity and clarity, applying Charity Commission guidance

● Collaborating closely with Trustees and the Finance Officer to oversee operational and project budgets—translating financial data into purposeful decisions aligned with timelines, funding conditions, and the organisation’s wider mission

● Providing line management to the Finance Officer, supporting shared accountability in financial stewardship

● Provide line management and day-to-day support to the Head Gardener and Groundsman, ensuring estate operations align with safety, care, and the wider goals of the organisation

● Setting and managing budgets

● Maintaining relationships with contractors and other external stakeholders

● Implementing projects and events (conferences, etc)

Person Specification

● It is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) that the person is a Christian and a committed follower of Christ, with a disciplined spiritual life

● Fully committed to the purpose and values of Ffald y Brenin

● Clear leadership abilities and able to work effectively with a wide range of people

● Able to challenge and encourage whilst maintaining relationship

● A minimum of five years management experience in a business/office environment

● Experience of planning and managing budgets

● Strategic thinker, capable of developing plans for different areas of the ministry

● Good written/verbal communication skills and highly computer literate

● Self-starter able to work on their own initiative and deal with challenges effectively

● Punctual, reliable, discreet and able to maintain confidentiality

● Committed to professional and personal development

● Passes a satisfactory DBS check

● Experience of project, estate or event management

Salary: c. £30,000

Closing Date for Applications: 12:00 on 31 July 2025

How to Apply: By email/letter and accompanying CV

Job Title: Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Location: Remote (UK-based preferred)
Travel: Travel to Calais and UK operational sites required
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Deadline to Apply: 16 July 2025
How to Apply: Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and motivation for working with Care4Calais.

About Care4Calais

Care4Calais is a volunteer-led humanitarian charity providing essential aid and support to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern France and across the UK. Founded on principles of dignity, compassion, and solidarity, we are committed to creating a fairer, more inclusive society for those seeking refuge.

From providing warm clothing, English classes to legal access, education, and social support, we work tirelessly—through a network of grassroots volunteers and a small, dedicated staff teams—to deliver life-changing help to displaced people. With operations in Calais, Dunkirk, and over 70 locations in the UK, our impact is wide-reaching and continually growing.

About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead and oversee the strategic delivery of Care4Calais’ operational (direct aid provision) work across all regions. This is quite a newly created role that will play a central part in shaping the charity’s growth, resilience, and day-to-day effectiveness—ensuring our humanitarian aid reaches those who need it most.

The COO will work closely with the CEO, Senior Leadership Team, and Trustees, to develop internal systems, guide operational teams, maintain consistency across all projects, and strengthen our digital communications, training, safeguarding, and volunteer engagement. You will also play a key leadership role in fostering innovation, implementing policy, and coordinating multi-regional delivery across the UK and Northern France.

This is a remote-based role, but regular travel to operational sites in Calais and around the UK is essential to ensure quality, cohesion, and morale across our field teams and volunteer network.

Key Responsibilities

➣ Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Oversee the delivery of all operational activities across the UK and French field sites, ensuring they align with Care4Calais’ mission, values, and strategic goals.

• Lead and support UK Field Operations Managers and France Operations Coordinators in planning and executing aid distributions, support services, and community engagement.

• Monitor performance across regions, using data and feedback to drive improvements in impact, efficiency, safety, and volunteer satisfaction.

➣ Volunteer Coordination & Digital Community Oversight

• Supervise volunteer communication channels, including Facebook groups, WhatsApp chats, and other platforms, ensuring all messaging is consistent, safe, and in line with our organisational tone and values.

• Support the recruitment, onboarding, training, and retention of a diverse and inclusive volunteer base.

• Work daily with Field Operations Managers to provide hands-on guidance, motivation, problem-solving and support for regional leads and volunteer teams.

➣ Training, Safeguarding & Compliance

• Develop, maintain, and implement comprehensive training programmes for volunteers to ensure service quality, safety, and dignity for people seeking asylum.

• Ensure that safeguarding policies are understood by all team members, staff and volunteers alike, and rigorously implemented, acting as a point of escalation for issues that arise.

• Oversee incident reporting processes, risk assessments, and other compliance-related procedures to safeguard both volunteers and people seeking asylum.

➣ Organisational Development & Governance

• Contribute to strategic planning and policy development with the CEO, and SLT.

• Identify opportunities for innovation in service delivery, volunteer management, and infrastructure.

➣ Field Engagement & External Representation

• Conduct regular visits to UK and French operational sites, meeting with local teams, assessing needs, and providing in-person leadership and support.

• Represent Care4Calais in meetings with partner organisations and local authorities, and at public events.

Person Specification

Essential

• Demonstrable experience managing multi-site teams.

• Strong leadership, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to delegate effectively and manage competing priorities.

• Deep understanding of issues affecting asylum seekers, displaced people, or those facing immigration challenges.

• Commitment to anti-racism, inclusivity, and the promotion of human rights.

• Ability and willingness to travel frequently to field operations across the UK and Calais.

Desirable

• Proven experience in a senior operational, COO, or equivalent leadership role within the charity, humanitarian or grassroots community sector.

• Experience working with refugee communities or within the UK asylum system.

• Understanding of safeguarding, compliance, and humanitarian best practices.

Equality & Safeguarding

Care4Calais is an equal opportunities employer. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled candidates, and those with lived experience of immigration system.

All appointments are subject to enhanced safeguarding checks.

Lived Experience Inclusion

We are an anti-racist organisation and a proud member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (EBE), which aims to create a charitable sector led by individuals with lived experience of the asylum system.

As part of our membership, we are dedicated to creating inclusive employment practices that recognise and accommodate the unique circumstances and strengths of people with lived experience. We actively move away from a one-size-fits-all approach, ensuring our recruitment processes are fair, supportive, and accessible.

We warmly encourage applicants with lived experience to make use of the guidance and resources available on the EBE website (ebeemployment).

In addition, applicants with lived experience are welcome to connect with the EBE support team for tailored assistance with completing the application form and, where available, one-to-one interview preparation. 

Importantly, we recognise the significant cultural, linguistic, and experiential insights that individuals with lived experience of the UK asylum system bring to this role. As such, all applicants from this background who meet the essential criteria will be automatically shortlisted and invited to interview.

About NZF

National Zakat Foundation (NZF) gives Muslims around the UK a way to bring their Zakat to life.

It is the only organisation with a nationwide reach that helps Muslims calculate and give Zakat or apply for Zakat.

This is an exciting time to join NZF. With over ten years’ experience in collecting and distributing Zakat in the UK, NZF seeks to help as many people in need as possible with an experience that makes them feel valued members of the Muslim community.

How this post supports NZF’s vision and mission

The post-holder will be responsible for offering support to the Director of Finance and Governance to ensure effective outputs within a high-performance environment, adhering to the highest standards of corporate governance.

The main responsibilities of this role include tracking, collating, and recording essential performance information; providing administrative support for the Board meetings, sub-committees, working groups, senior leadership meetings and team meetings; maintaining governance procedures and ensuring their adherence; and managing and maintaining risk registers.

To succeed in this role, you will have a passion for the non-profit sector. You will be highly organised and diligent, showing great attention to detail. You will be proactive and possess excellent oral and written communication skills. You will have excellent people management skills with the ability to build effective, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ranging from senior managers, directors and external stakeholders. You will be highly motivated, versatile, empathetic, and have a good eye for detail. You will ensure that policies and processes are being implemented effectively across the organisation.

 

Typical Accountabilities of position:

Board and Senior Leadership meetings:

· Maintain a forward-looking calendar of Board, Board Committees and Senior Leadership Team meetings and agenda items and set up the meetings.

· Support line manager to prepare agendas, co-ordinate timely pre-read papers, write minutes, and track agreed actions.

· Maintain consistent Terms of Reference across all Board Committees.

· Provide administrative support to the line manager and Board with recruitment, induction, performance management and succession planning for the Board and Board committees.

· Manage and maintain Trustee documentation to ensure that information is transparent, up to date and readily accessible.

· Provide administrative support to the line manager and Board Chair with a periodic review of the Board, its value and behaviours, practice and operations.

Compliance:

· Ensure compliance with requirements and guidelines of Charity Commission, Companies House and other regulatory bodies.

· Coordinate the narrative, design and approval of the Annual Report and Accounts.

· Ensure appropriate governance information reflected in external communications.

· Ensure full and accurate reporting provided to grant funders.

Governance and risk management

· Support governance within the functions, and ensuring appropriate guidance and advice provided from those functions to the wider team.

· Manage and maintain risk registers across the departments.

Approach

· Comply with relevant legislation and regulation ensuring that good practice is observed.

· Understand and support the vision, mission and aims of NZF.

· Adhere to and champion NZF’s policy and practices on safeguarding.

· Ensure the approach is coordinated with key stakeholders across the organisation.

· Undertake any other duties requested by the line manager commensurate with the role.

Relationships and Stakeholders

· Executive Team, Trustees, Advisors and other staff across the organisation

· External consultants, freelancers, and partners

Why work with NZF?

• Flexible working 

• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity pay 

• Ethical pension 

• Health cash plan (Medicash) 

• Days off for religious holidays 

+ How to apply

Please send a cover letter with a CV. 

The cover letter must show why you are a suitable candidate, demonstrating any relevant knowledge and skils, experience and behaviours that match the requirements for the post. The cover letter should not exceed 2 sides of A4.

 Applications close – Friday 27 June 2025.

Interviews expected – Week Beginning 30 June 2025.

For more information about the role or how to apply, you can click on the job pack Governance Officer Job  on the website ( NZF) under vacancies. 

Note: an application for a DBS certificate wil be submitted in the event of the individual being offered the position. A copy of the Charity’s ‘Hiring policy -ex offenders’ is available on request. 

Executive Assistant to CEO
Location: Due to the nature of this role, it is based full time at our Headquarters in Lincoln - HEMS Way, Lincoln, LN4 2GW
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £26,000 - £34,000 per annum, negotiable based on experience
Type: Permanent
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

About Us

The Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance (LNAA) provides lifesaving critical care to the communities of Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire, funded by public donations. If somebody is involved in a serious incident or suddenly taken ill, speed and time are of the essence. Giving a patient the best chance of survival, our Air Ambulance crew effectively take the A&E department to the scene of the emergency.

Recently rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission across all five areas that were inspected – Safe, Caring, Effective, Responsive and Well led, we are a friendly, inclusive, and dynamic team focused on ensuring we deliver the best possible service. The tie that binds us here at LNAA is our set of values – Teamwork. Respect. Innovation. Compassion (TRIC). We display these attributes in the way we interact with the people we meet, from former patients and volunteers to our supporters and colleagues.

About the Role

This is a pivotal role at the heart of the Charity, offering a unique opportunity to work closely with the CEO of a dynamic and life-saving Charity. As Executive Assistant to the CEO, you will provide comprehensive, high-quality executive support that enables the CEO to focus on strategic priorities, external engagement, and organisational leadership. You’ll be a trusted advisor and gatekeeper, anticipating needs, streamlining communications, and ensuring the CEO’s time is used effectively.

In addition, you will act as the Company Secretary, supporting the Charity’s governance framework, maintaining statutory compliance, and ensuring effective administration of the Board of Trustees and its subcommittees. There will also be the opportunity for Project Management.

Success in this role will require someone who is highly organised, discreet, and proactive, with high levels of integrity and resilience. You’ll need to be comfortable working at pace, able to manage competing priorities, and confident communicating with a wide range of stakeholders including Trustees, crew, funders, MPs and members of the public. This is more than just an administrative role – it’s a trusted strategic support position for someone who is passionate about making a difference and who thrives in a values-driven, purpose-led environment.

Our Benefits

• Annual Leave of 25 days, which increases by 1 additional day per completed year of service up to a maximum of 30 days. in addition to bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional days leave for your birthday.
• Pension scheme includes 6% employer contributions, with 4% employee contribution.
• Access to a Health & Wellbeing Care Plan*
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme*
• Life insurance at 3 times your annual salary*

*On completion of probationary period.

Closing date: Monday 21st July 2025
Interviews: Week commencing 30th July 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance is an equal opportunities employer and aims to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and equitably regardless of gender, race, colour, ethnicity, age, disabilities, social economic background, religious or political beliefs, marital status, maternity or paternity, or sexual orientation.

Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor applicants for work visas in the UK. Therefore, you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position. Applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship will not be considered.

No agencies please.

London (Office-Based) 6-Month Contract - Public Sector / Not-for-Profit

Are you an experienced administrator with a flair for project coordination? We're recruiting on behalf of a respected not-for-profit organisation for a Business Project Officer to support the delivery of key internal projects and provide high-level administrative support to senior stakeholders.This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a structured environment, enjoys managing multiple priorities, and is confident working with data, documentation, and internal processes.
Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to project leads and senior managers
• Maintain and monitor project documentation, schedules, budgets, and action logs
• Organise and minute internal meetings, ensuring timely follow-up on decisions and actions
• Track project progress and support reporting on key milestones and deliverables
• Assist in identifying and mitigating project risks and issues
• Summarise and analyse project data, producing clear reports and recommendations
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to ensure smooth project delivery
• Support the implementation of change initiatives and process improvements

What We're Looking For

• Strong administrative background with experience supporting multiple projects
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Confident communicator with strong written and verbal skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy in documentation
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Able to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Comfortable handling sensitive information with discretion

Desirable

• Experience in the charity or not-for-profit sector
• Exposure to project management tools or methodologies
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience

This role offers the chance to work in a values-led organisation where your administrative and coordination skills will directly support meaningful work. If you're looking for a role where you can make a difference while developing your project support experience, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply or send your CV

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We’re an award-winning charity running local learning centres in the heart of the communities where the young people we support live. Our centres provide a high-impact education programme which includes practical learning support, pastoral care, and motivational and confidence-building activities for young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to enable students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to realise their ambitions and achieve their wonderful potential.

As the UK’s leading university access organisation,
our staff team is helping 56,000 young people each year at its 44 learning centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, and we plan to scale-up our provision to 50 centres over the coming years.

We are looking for a high-calibre candidate to take on the role of Regional Operations Manager for our centres in South London (Walworth, Kennington and Brixton) along with our centres in Southampton and Brighton.

As a Regional Operations Manager you will line manage the Centre Leaders in your region to ensure that centres are working effectively, that the high quality of programme delivery to young people is maintained across the cluster, and that targets are monitored and met. 

And of course, you will need to have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for working with young people and helping them achieve their ambitions.

The role at a glance

Conract:  

This is a permanent role. This role can be either full-time or part-time (0.8 FTE) - responsibilities will be adjusted proportionally for part-time candidates.

Start date:

September 2025 (or as otherwise agreed)

Working hours:

Mon and Thurs: 09:30-18:00
Tues, Weds, Fri: 09:00-17:30

We are a delivery organisation providing frontline educational services for young people. We are an organisation with team members at different stages of their career, including many in their first roles: We are committed to nurturing talent and providing a developmental culture for all. Our team works in-person 4 days per week (or 3 days for a 0.8 FTE staff member) with 1 day working from home.

Location

The role would be based at one of our centres in the South London and South Coast cluster:
South London: Walworth, Kennington, Brixton  
South coast: Southampton, Brighton 

Regular travel to all centres in the region will be required. 

Application deadline: 9am Monday 4th August 2025

Do you want to help improve the lives of people with disabilities through the power of assistance dogs? To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people.
 
Canine Partners’ mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional and social wellbeing. Our amazing dogs bring a greater independence and quality of life to their partners, offering security, companionship, and practical help with everyday household tasks.
 
We are looking for a passionate and innovative individual to join our dedicated Fundraising Team as an Individual Giving Officer. This is an exciting opportunity at a prominent assistance dog charity for someone who has already worked in an individual giving role and is ready to take on more responsibility or an enthusiastic individual with strong transferable skills.
 
Position: Individual Giving Officer
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (compressed or part-time hours considered - minimum of 30 hours per week).
Location: On-site at our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. Please note due to our rural location, it is essential that you to have the ability to travel reliably to the training centre.
Direct Reports: Individual Giving Administrator
 
You will be part of the ambitious team raising vital income to enable us to continue our work training assistance dogs for disabled people and be responsible for securing donations from individuals via appeals and our puppy sponsorship scheme; My Amazing Puppy (MAP). A proactive approach is key to ensure that we are maximising all opportunities to increase income and to ensure that our data remains compliant and accurate. You will focus on marketing our individual giving campaigns digitally and physically, stewarding existing relationships and creating new ones, ensuring exceptional donor journeys throughout. You will have the opportunity to lead the creative development of propositions for direct marketing appeals collaborating with wider fundraising colleagues and the communications team, delivering compelling appeals and campaigns to generate income, to work with our beneficiaries and hear about their stories.
 
About you:
 
• Demonstrable experience in appeal or project management to strict deadlines.
• Excellent written communication with the ability to engage and inspire a wide range of audiences.
• A successful track record of securing and maintaining income from individuals.
• Proven experience of effectively managing relationships with volunteers, supporters, and/or external stakeholders/audiences.
• Demonstrable experience of managing campaigns and appeals on all digital platforms.
• The ability to write reports and evaluations using data.
• Line management experience (desirable).
 
Experience working within individual giving fundraising and appeal management may be advantageous, but not essential. Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.
 
Interested?
 
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.
 
Please note we may interview candidates prior to the closing date. If we find a suitable candidate or receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advertisement prior to the closing date so apply now to ensure you don't miss out! Please be assured that we contact all candidates regarding the outcome of their application, this may take longer if we receive high volumes of applications.
 
Closing date: 4th August 2025
 
First interviews are scheduled to take place online (via MS Teams) in the week commencing 4th August 2025.
 
Second interviews are scheduled to place in person at our National Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire in the week commencing 11th August 2025.
 
*Subject to changes.
 
We recognise the benefit of diverse experience and welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.
 
You may also have experience in the following roles: Fundraising Officer, Individual Giving Coordinator, Appeals Manager, Donor Development Officer, Community Fundraising Officer, Direct Marketing Executive, Fundraising Executive, Campaign Manager, Donor Relations Officer, Development Officer, etc.
 
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ReachOut is a national youth development charity and a strategic partner for schools. Through collective mentoring and engaging activities, we build socio-emotional skills that transform outcomes for young people constrained by circumstance.

Our Youth Development Leads are the heart of our programme delivery and facilitate high quality & impactful sessions for our young people. Reporting to the Programmes & Impact Manager, you’ll work with autonomy to manage your school partners, develop your team of volunteer mentors and collaborate across our ambitious delivery team with a focus on evidence based continuous improvement.

It’s an exciting time to join ReachOut as we launch our new strategy! This role brings together the best of our previous Project Officer & Project Leader roles shifting responsibility for delivery into our full-time staff team. This is an investment in building the quality and impact of our programmes and we’re hiring for multiple positions to complete our team of Youth Development Leads.  

We’re looking to fill four positions in total – two full time roles in London and as well as one part time role in London and one part time role in Manchester.

Contract: Permanent – (probationary period of 6 months)

Location: London or Manchester. Hybrid working with project delivery in and around region

Salary: £25,000 – £27,500 pro rata

Hours and Annual Leave: 

1. Full time:

   • 2 positions in London

   • 37.5 hours a week with a mixed working pattern: School term time: approximately 3 days 9:00-17:30 and 2 days 11:00-19:30, and School holidays: 9:00-17:30​

   • 29 days per year annual leave - maximum of 5 days to be taken in school term time

2. Part-time (0.8)

   • 2 positions available: 1 position in London and 1 position in Manchester (potential for Manchester position to be full time)

   • 30 hours a week Tuesday - Friday with a mixed working pattern: School term time: approximately 2 days 9:00-17:30 and 2 days 11:00-19:30, and School holidays: 9:00-17:30

   • 23 days per year annual leave - maximum of 4 days to be taken in school term time

Application deadline:

• London Applicants: 9am Thursday 10th July
• Manchester Applicants: 9am Thursday 17th July

For the full job description, person specification and background information, please download our information pack.