Who are GMYN?

For many young people, the transition to adulthood isn’t easy. In the UK, one third of young people are lonely, half feel unready for work and half feel like they don’t belong to their community.

At GMYN, our vision is #YoungPeopleCan and we help young people in Greater Manchester overcome this. We deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive.

Founded in 2007 by our Chief Executive, Alex Fairweather, we have grown from a single volunteering project to a registered charity and have helped over 10,000 young people.

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join GMYN’s operations team, providing strategic and operational financial support and advice. The role holder will provide day to day management and reporting of the charity’s income and expenditure as well as responsibility for preparation of GMYN’s annual budget and accounts.

You will have experience of working within a financial environment ideally in a management/leading role within a charity. You will have the AAT or similar qualification, or substantial equivalent experience. You will also have strong numeracy and communication skills and the ability to provide accurate and timely information.

In addition, you will have the ability to work flexibly as part of a team and on your own initiative working independently when required.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will also work alongside GMYN’s Operations Lead and work closely with the Business and Finance Administrator.

Joining #TeamGMYN: Our Offer

At GMYN, we strive to be inclusive. Every member of #TeamGMYN is involved in all aspects of decision making, from strategic planning, setting the organisational values through to basic everyday practices to give everyone an active voice. We are responsive to the needs of the team and all support available is designed through consultation.

We are regularly reviewing our practices to create a safe, welcoming and supportive environment and encourage suggestions and feedback from staff to improve our offer.

Our offer currently includes access to

• The Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days annual leave, including 5 ‘no-questions-asked’ ad-hoc wellbeing days
• Flexible working hours, including working from home options
• Childcare vouchers for those already accessing the scheme
• Accessible, ethical and gender-neutral office space
• Living wage, with processes to request performance-based payrises
• An 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contribution

Whilst our staff team is diverse in many ways, people from BAME backgrounds and people with disabilities are currently under-represented, therefore applications from candidates who identify with these characteristics are welcomed and encouraged.

For full details on the role and the #TeamGMYN offer can be found in the job pack attached.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter (no more than two sides of A4) showing how you meet the attached personal specification via the link on this page by Monday 20th July. 

You will be passionate about sharing USPG’s vision with a variety of existing and potential supporters.

Your role

• to increase engagement and gifts from churches currently supporting USPG; to engage new churches and supporters; and to re-engage churches whose support has lapsed.
• to increase engagement from individuals and recruit new individuals to become USPG supporters.
• to deliver fundraising appeals and campaigns ensuring that supporters go on a meaningful journey with USPG and become lifelong supporters
• to work closely with the with the wider Mission Engagement Team to ensure there are a growing number of engaged individuals and churches with an awareness of both fundraising and Mission Engagement activity

USPG is looking for someone with

• experience of managing fundraising or marketing campaigns and appeals
• ability to write compelling fundraising copy
• experience of managing a supporter CRM
• experience of and understanding of fundraising within the church context

You will be

• highly organised and efficient
• able to work in collaboration with a small staff team
• excited about engaging with a variety of supporters in order to help USPG achieve it’s mission

This appointment is subject to safer recruitment procedures, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Applications must be recieved by 9am on Friday 24 July 2020,  using our application form, CVs will not be accepted.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July 2020.

Fixed term contract for 12 months

We're excited to be able to offer you a new opportunity to join our team in managing our Chester shop.

Do you like being empowered? And empowering others? Do you have experience of successfully leading a team? Are you passionate and creative? Are you flexible, adaptable and willing to learn?

We're looking for someone who loves working with people and has the ability to lead and inspire those around them. Our successful candidate will be someone who is energetic and positive in their approach and attitude, with the ability to instil this in others. They will be hard working and can lead by example, being hands on themselves when necessary but ultimately with the ability to drive productivity through empowering the volunteer team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who can work with a diverse group of volunteers to create a welcoming  space in our shop to attract more volunteers, donors and supporters.  We are looking for someone who is driven and motivated  to raise as much money as possible to help children build a better future, , the right person  needs  to be able to motivate teams  of volunteers to achieve goals and targets. They will need to be able to work collaboratively with peers and colleagues, actively engaging with others and building strong working relationships. Whilst charity retail experience is not essential, we do require someone with a business mind with the ability to make confident commercial decisions using information available to them.

As a Shop Manager, we can offer you a challenging but enjoyable and hugely rewarding role within  Save the Children.

We will provide you with the right training, support and coaching you need in order to successfully manage and lead a team of volunteers in running our community shop.

Does this excite you? Have you got what we're looking for?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Working in more than 120 countries, Save the Children does whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Together, we save children's lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

To apply please visit our website. 

Closing date: 27th July 2020
Interview date: 5th August 2020

Closing date: Sunday 12th July 2020 at 11.30 pm
*Previous applicants will be contacted shortly about the outcome of their application, there is no need to reapply*

Full time - 35 hours per week Monday - Sunday 

Who are we looking for? 
We are looking for someone who has experience of managing a team and can demonstrate how they have empowered and motivated that team beyond expectations. With the added experience of being able to recruit and develop a diverse team, in particular volunteers, you may be exactly what we are looking for.
Your role will be varied and will challenge you, but will provide you with stimulating and satisfying work. Our Community Shop Managers do not have a "typical day" and that's because they are continually seeking different opportunities to engage with the local community and increase their shops contribution to Shelter's cause. This could be through local community links, such as with other retailers, schools, churches or the local food bank.
You will develop and encourage your own and your team's interest and passion in merchandising the shop to attract those customers and donors through the door as well as continually developing your own and your team's knowledge of who Shelter are and what we do.

It goes without saying that your volunteers, under your leadership, will run an exceptional shop that will raise as much money as possible for Shelter's work.

How do I demonstrate I am who you are looking for? 
You will need to address and provide examples of the following in your application and at interview: 

Experience of managing a team of staff and/or volunteers, including recruitment and development of that team
Experience of providing excellent customer service, preferably in a face-to-face role
Experience of being enterprising and innovative

How do we describe our Community Shop Managers? 

If we were to describe our Community Shop Managers in 4 key words, they would be Confident, Inspiring, Enterprising and Influential. Our Community Shop Managers are happy to roll up their sleeves and lead by example and their aim is to develop and empower their team.

At Shelter we value our people and the skills and expertise they can bring to their role to help further Shelter's cause. As a Community Shop Manager, how you manage people is the most important skill we are looking for and it will be critical to your success in this role.

How is this all possible? 

It's simple, with a strong, motivated and committed volunteer shop team behind you, anything is possible!

What are the benefits? 

We offer a wide range of benefits including 30 days annual leave, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, childcare vouchers and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Who are we?

Recently named Third Sector Charity of the Year 2018, we are a rapidly growing charity, committed to moving further, faster to accelerate change for everyone affected by a brain tumour. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 in the UK than any other cancer. We know that a cure can’t wait. By recruiting a team that ‘can’, we can and will find one sooner.

Our exciting job role!

The Community Fundraiser for Wales and the Mid-Counties will be integral in building relationships with our community to generate and grow our income and raise awareness within the region.  You will support the recruit new supporters and nurture existing relationships within our community.  The following postcodes are included within this region: LL, CF, SY, HR, LD, WR, NP, SA, GL, SN, OX, RG.

This role is full-time, 37.5 hours, and will be home-based within the region, with some out of hours working and travel to our Fleet (Hampshire) office.

What we'd like from you:

It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. We need the inspired and the inspirational – the people who completely embrace our values, offer a great cultural fit and who are determined to make real and lasting change for our community. 

According to the job description you should also have a proven track record in community fundraising, be good at juggling a myriad of competing priorities and work well under pressure to meet deadlines. 

If this is for you, we’d love to hear from you!

What we'd like to give you:

- Salary c.£24,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – pro rata for part-time contracts (we also close at Christmas in return for you volunteering 3 charity days per year*)

- Generous pension contribution*

- Life assurance cover*

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Loads of other great benefits, plus an amazing culture to work in, a great team and lots of fun (and cake!)

How to apply to join our amazing team:

Please apply online attaching your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours.

The Brain Tumour Charity particularly encourages applications from minority ethnic groups and underrepresented communities.

Advert close date: Wednesday, 15th July 2020

First interview date and location: Wednesday, 22nd July 2020 via Zoom – tbc

Second interview date and location: tbc

Please note, early applications are encouraged and interviews will commence before the closing date if and when suitable candidates are identified.

More about us:

Visit our website careers pages to find out more about our culture and what it’s like to be part of our amazing tea.

Don’t forget to check out our short videos (you can find the on our You Tube channel) to find out more about our culture and what it is like to work at The Brain Tumour Charity.

Did you know that in addition to being recently crowned Third Sector Charity of the Year, we have won a variety of other awards and have been ranked a top global organisation by renowned management consultants McKinsey? Whilst we’re not boasting, we are particularly proud that our HeadSmart campaign scooped the NHS Innovation Award, a Third Sector Excellence Award and a Charity Times Award (well, maybe we’re boasting a little bit!).

For more information please visit our website.

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of receiving a sufficient number of applications and may extend the advert if we don't find our perfect team mate!

We process your data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation. For full details, please read our privacy policy for job applicants.

*subject to qualifying criteria

I am delighted to be supporting a mental health charity based in Norwich, who support, care and campaign for positive change. As Community Fundraising Manager, you will maximise income from supporter fundraising activities by consistently delivering excellent supporter care and inspiring long-term supporter loyalty.

The Community Fundraising Manager reports to the Head of Supporter Development within a 17 strong Marketing & Income Generation Directorate. You will line manage three Community Fundraising Officers, supported by a team of office volunteers.

To be considered for this role, you will need to have at least three years' experience in Community Fundraising and have some line management experience.

You will initially be based from home. However, you will eventually need to be in the office at least twice a week.

Please get in touch by contacting [email protected] for more info or call 0207 820 7336.
Only suitable candidates will be contacted.

We are expanding our existing support services for families, children and young people living with deafness, across the Merseyside region. The I CAN initiative offers an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by providing a range of support services to families from the point of a diagnosis of deafness and throughout their continuing journey.

We require an experienced manager with the passion and drive to make things happen. The role involves the coordination of a range of established services and to lead on the development and delivery of the I CAN project.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the management of staff and proven success in project development and service delivery. Knowledge and understanding of D/deafness and associated issues is desirable, however the right candidate will have the ability to gain the relevant knowledge and experience on the job. We would expect the successful candidate to commit to acquiring a British Sign Language qualification. If you have the desire and commitment to making a positive contribution to the lives of people living with deafness and share our organisations values, then we want to hear from you. 

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST HAS BEEN RE ADVERTISED PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
 

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity that makes a difference?

We are recruiting a Part Time (26.5 hours per week) Community Team Manager to join our new Essex Alcohol Recovery Community service. You will support to deliver a service that works with individuals who require support with Alcohol issues. As the Community Team Manager you will cover the South and West of the County and will work very closely with your counterpart Team Manager (covering the other half of the County) and the Service manager. You will supervise staff in order to maintain a high standard for our service users, ensuring that any concerns relating to safeguarding and risk are appropriately managed as well as ensuring that adequate data is collected and reported on. You will represent the service across the County and will build excellent working relationships with our many partners.

Do you have?

• Experience of managing staff?

• An understanding of the complex issues presented by individuals within alcohol services.

• The ability to build relationships with other professionals (health providers, the police, youth services, mental health & substance misuse organisations) and to maintain the excellent reputation of Phoenix Futures.

• The ability to be innovative and flexible in order to meet the needs of the service.

• Extensive experience of the substance misuse sector or related field. 

If so join us and we will support you to

• Contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders.

• Achieve your potential with the support of an organisation rated as one of the Best 100 Not for Profit Companies to Work For.

• Access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.

• Help change the lives of individuals.

The Phoenix Futures Group has more than 45 years experience of developing and delivering pioneering substance misuse services. We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise.

Penrose Criminal Justice Service delivers custodial resettlement and community supervision services for service users across London as part of the wider Transforming Rehabilitation Programme. The service users being supported have a wide range of resettlement needs and have varying and sometimes complex needs.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Responsible Officer to join our services in delivering interventions and supporting to manage the supervision orders of service users released into the community that have received a prison sentence and have been assessed as low risk of serious harm. Support delivered is wide ranging and based on individual need. You will support the service user to adhere to and achieve the cohesive resettlement plan generated from the custodial resettlement team.

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of service users on their supervision orders during their time in custody and on their licence period after release from custody.
• To successfully reduce reoffending, rehabilitate and reintegrate service users back into the community.
• To ensure a cohesive risk assessment and sentence plan is generated for each service user, continuing on from the resettlement plan generated by the custodial resettlement team.
• To complete all necessary reports and administrative tasks to support the supervision of your service users both in custody and the community.
• To provide pathways, support and appropriate interventions to enable successful resettlement for all service users in both a group and on a 1-1 basis.
• To work with internal and external partners, agencies and commissioners including MH Prison Service, Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC’s), National Probation Service and other community based supporting agencies to achieve the desired outcomes and KPI’s for the service

Experience:

• Proven experience of successful reintegration of service users into the community
• Experience of working with vulnerable individuals who may have mental health issues/substance misuse/challenging chaotic behaviour
• Experience of providing resettlement support and practical assistance within a secure environment or outreach support role
• Excellent understanding of the resettlement and social needs of vulnerable individuals
• Demonstrable understanding and practical application of key legislation regarding criminal justice, social care, housing and mental health
• Able to influence and negotiate positive outcomes with the service users and supporting professional bodies

Why work with us?

• Growing and forward-thinking organisation
• Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
• Access to employee assistance programme
• Medi-cash which includes the following:
• Discount gym membership
• Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
• Dental treatment via NHS or Private
• Physiotherapy, Indian Head Massage and a range of other therapies
• 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years of service and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
• Life Assurance

To apply we require your CV along with Supporting Statement (no more than 2 sides of A4) detailing how your knowledge and experience meets the requirements of the job description (this can be found on the attached Job Description) or completion of an application form. Please then send this to our Recruitment Team by the advertised closing date.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the advert before the published closing date and therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible

ACORN is looking for two Community Organisers to build power in Birmingham (x1 position) and Leeds (x1 position).

ACORN is a mass membership organisation – is a vehicle for collective action. By taking action on issues, we build the hopes, expectations and experience of our members and the communities they come from. 

Our organising is premised on two simple truths: problems affecting working class communities – from unhealthy, unaffordable and insecure housing, to cuts to public services – stem from a lack of power; and the most effective means of building power is for people to get organised. 

About the job

As a Community Organiser with ACORN, you will be responsible for recruiting, supporting and working with members to take action on issues affecting them and the communities they come from. 

ACORN is a union in the community. Like any union our members pay membership dues so that they can have a sustainable independent organisation to fight for their interests.

You will be the organiser for ACORN in your respective city. Your daily work will involve: 

• Recruiting individual ACORN members through door knocking, social media and other means.
• Managing organising drives to build new and maintain existing ACORN branches, groups, teams.
• Identifying issues of common concern at the neighbourhood and wider level;
• Identifying and supporting potential leaders to enable them to take on leadership roles in the organisation.
• Supporting elected leaders to enable them to carry out their roles. 

QUALIFICATIONS

No formal qualifications are necessary. We’re primarily looking for someone with a strong work ethic with good listening skills and the ability to motivate others. 

*Applications from women and/or people from a BAME background are strongly encouraged to ensure our workforce reflects the communities we service as much as possible, and to help us meet our commitments to diversity and inclusion. 

Experience, skills and abilities

The successful applicant will have:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• The ability to recruit dues-paying members to ACORN
• The ability to support the development of groups and teams
• The ability to motivate people
• The ability to work independently and manage a team of volunteers
• The ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and be detail-oriented
• A willingness to work sometimes long and irregular hours, including evenings and weekends, usual working hours are between 12-8pm

In turn, ACORN is committed to investing in the continued professional development of our organising staff. Training and support will include:

• First week: ACORN Foundations of Community Organising training (5 days)
• First 3 months: Weekly 121 management supervision; daily recruitment practice with fellow organising staff; weekly group team call; on-call daily management support.
• After 3 months: bi-weekly 121 management supervision; daily recruitment practice with fellow organising staff; weekly group team call; on-call daily management support. 
• Additional ongoing training opportunities where identified.

Salary 

£16,926 – 19,000 pa dependent on experience and level of responsibility.

For a full job description, person specification and application form, please visit our website. 

Regional Centre Volunteer Manager – Part Time
Liverpool, Merseyside 

About Us

We are FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. We are a charitable distribution network that takes excess, in-date and good to eat food and redistributes it to other charities that turn it into meals.

We operate 21 regional centres around the UK – the majority of these are run by local charitable organisations (we call them delivery partners). This enables us to be a UK-wide organisation while keeping local concerns at the heart of our actions.

Currently, there is an increasing demand for our services and it’s more important than ever that we get quality donated and surplus food to those in need.

We are now looking for a Regional Centre Volunteer Manager to join us on a part-time basis, working 14 hours per week. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £22,000 - £25,000 pro rata  
- Pension
- Travelcard loans (if required)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme

This exciting opportunity is perfect for a volunteering management professional to expand their horizons and career potential with our national charity.

Now is the perfect time to get involved with Fareshare as our services are in more demand than ever and we now have a national platform from which to reach more people and do more great work. However, without our tireless and dedicated volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to achieve our potential and support people the length and breadth of the UK.

Your role will be key to delivering our services and supporting our volunteering practices right across our network. So, if you are eager to be challenged, ready to do more good and understand that this is a pivotal point in the UK charitable sector, we are waiting for hear from you.

The Role

As the Regional Centre Volunteer Manager, you’ll be tasked with ensuring a consistent, positive volunteer experience across the FareShare network.

Working from our Liverpool regional centre, you will get involved in all aspects of volunteering at FareShare, including volunteer recruitment, engagement and communications, policies and procedures and making FareShare a desired destination for volunteering.

This will involve developing and implementing a range of strategies, working hand-in-hand with the UK Volunteering Team and utilising the internal volunteering management systems.

Your role will also involve:

- Developing strategies that deliver an extensive and diverse range of volunteers
- Recruiting an array of regional volunteer partner organisations
- Creating a regional engagement programme
- Developing and delivering volunteering training
- Implementing volunteering management policies and procedures
- Supporting the development of new procedures

About You

To be considered as the Regional Centre Volunteer Manager, you will need:

- Previous experience of developing and delivering successful volunteer recruitment
- Experience of building relationships with external organisations and associations to create and promote volunteering programmes
- A track record of managing projects and associated budgets
- Experience of monitoring and evaluating volunteer programmes
- Previous experience of reporting on volunteer programme metrics
- Experience of employability programmes
- Knowledge of the needs and experiences of volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds

Experience of delivering training would be beneficial to your application. Experience of working with volunteers and/or adults with additional support needs would also be an advantage, as would experience of delivering effective marketing and communications campaigns.

Other organisations may call this role Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Manager, Volunteer Recruitment Manager, Volunteer Engagement Manager, Volunteer Lead, Volunteering Lead, or Area Volunteer Manager.

The closing date for applications is the 17th July 2020. 

Webrecruit and Fareshare are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Regional Centre Volunteer Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

We are looking for a Manager to join our award-winning Healthwatch Brent team.

Salary: £30,000 per annum

Hours: 5 days per week (35 hours). 

Contract:All Healthwatch contracts run for fixed periods. This post is offered until March 2021.

Pension Payment: CommUNITY Barnet will make a pension contribution into a workplace pension scheme

Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, excluding bank holidays

Based at:Wembley office with travel across NW London as required.

An excellent opportunity for a Manager with the ability to lead a team, to work operationally and strategically, to involve a range of local residents to help improve health and social care services, as part of a national programme.

Background

Healthwatch Brent is a successful and innovative organisation forming part of the national Healthwatch England Network. We were awarded the 2019 Outstanding Individuals have recently won an award by Healthwatch England Awards for the team’s contribution to improving services. Our role is to be the independent voice of residents using health and social care services and to present that voice to statutory partners and commissioners.  We aim to influence and improve how local health and social care services are delivered.

Local Healthwatch organisations are a statutory function defined by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Healthwatch Brent Manager will be responsible for operational delivery of the Healthwatch services.  The successful candidate will be part of a small, focused and friendly team who work together to listen to and engage residents, to carry out community research and work with health and social care to improve services. 

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

The closing date for applications is Monday 13th July 2020 at 9am.

Interviews will be held via Zoom

Please send your CV, with a covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the person specification (page 4 of the Job Specification).

Since 1991, The Big Issue has fought poverty by creating opportunities and supporting people to take control of their lives.

As part of the development of The Big Issue Group’s (TBIG’s) joint Social Impact Framework (SIF) we are now looking to recruit an Impact Manager. The Impact Manager will be based in the Big Issue Invest Impact Team with the exciting role in the developing the SIF in line with the Group’s new strategy.

The Role

Working across TBIG the Impact Manager will develop buy in for the SIF and support colleagues to establish clear and effective impact management approaches to understand our social, economic and environmental impact. This includes ensuring quality data collection, analysis and reporting systems.

The IM will work closely with the Big Issue Invests’ Head of Impact to build the SIF based on the experience to date of Big Issue Invest. Critically, the SIF must work both to support the internal impact information needs of the business and provide reporting for external funders and stakeholders of the Big Issue. 

For a full job description including the summary of skills, qualities and experience required for the role please download from the link below.

Salary and Benefits

• We offer a salary commensurate with the third sector, which can be confirmed on request
• Incremental holiday entitlement starting at 25 days per year plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff) plus paid leave to care for a sick child or grandchild and a sick or elderly relation
• Incremental sick pay starting at 5 days per rolling year
• Enhanced contribution to our workplace pension
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Training and development opportunities including an open learning library and management training schemes
• Health benefits include life cover, a health Cashplan scheme which provides access to counselling and a range of therapies

Please note that we reserve the right to review and amend our staff benefits and they do not form part of any  contract of employment.

Workplace details

This role will preferably be based at one of our main Big Issue offices in London (Finsbury Park office), Glasgow, Cardiff or Birmingham. Home working arrangements will be considering. Following covid-19, you will need to travel within the UK on occasion.

Due to the current situation with Covid-19 our main offices are currently closed but we are fully equipped for flexible home working until the offices re-open fully and beyond.

Closing date: 10th July 2020

The Big Issue Group is striving towards Equal Opportunities

We particularly welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in our sector, such as women in senior roles, and people with disabilities and from Black and Minority Ethnic communities.

Since Engineers Without Borders UK was established over 15 years ago, people and community have been at the heart of what we do and how we do it. We would not be where we are today without the hard work of many hundreds of people who have volunteered their time to build our movement and benefit people through our training and project work, to date this extends to over 67,000 people. We’re now significantly increasing that number annually, so we’re looking for a Community & Activities Officer to join our team and increase our capacity to support our members and wider community to listen, learn and take collective action in support of ensuring engineering serves all people and our planet .

AS OUR COMMUNITY & ACTIVITIES OFFICER YOU WILL:

• Liaise with our community, building and maintaining relationships with and between individuals in our community, including our members, student members and academics.
• Support the key administrative processes associated with our community activities and programmes.
• Maintain and update records of community activities for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
• Coordinate our presence in universities.
• Facilitate engagement of our youth outreach initiative.
• Support in the delivery of the Engineering for People Design challenge.
• Support with the logistics, participant registrations and preparing the resources for events.
• Support the running of analytics and evaluation of results.
• Support with building a database based on relevant criteria and then take over management of this database to respond to and manage speaker requests throughout the year.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

We value a positive working environment for everyone on our team. We therefore expect all staff to demonstrate the following characteristics: passionate about our purpose, creative, team player, respectful, inquisitive, professional, open and dependable. We expect this of new hires and you can expect this from your team mates. You can expect support throughout your time with us, including an induction, regular feedback, weekly team meetings and peer nominated recognitions.

TO APPLY

Please read the full job description and person specification for furhter details egarding the role and our organisation, then send a CV (two pages maximum) and a covering letter (up to two pages) with the job title in the subject line. Please outline clearly in your covering letter:

• Your reasons for wanting to join the team at Engineers Without Borders UK
• How you meet the role description and person specification
• Your availability to be interviewed during the week of 3 August (virtually and/or in London)
• Your eligibility to work in the UK
• Where you saw the role advertised

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for details of why and how we collect and store your data.

Engineers Without Borders UK is committed to selecting candidates for employment based on aptitude and ability, irrespective of gender, race, ethnic origin, disability, nationality, sexuality, religion or belief, marital status or social class.