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

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

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

Job title: Director of Business and Finance

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

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

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

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

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

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

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

Key Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Person Specification: 

Values:

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

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

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

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

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

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

Skills:

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

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

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

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

• Ability to understand and implement effective systems and processes 

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

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

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

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

Job title: Director Programmes

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

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

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

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

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

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

Strategy: Developing and implementing the overall programmes strategy. 

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

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

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

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

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

Person Specification:

Values:

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

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

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

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

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

• Experience of project budgeting and financial management

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

Skills:

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

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

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

• Ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account

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

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

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

Other requirements

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

olunteer Project Coordinator

Home-based in the UK or Office based in London, Edinburgh or Cardiff

2.5 days per week

Fixed-term contract until December 2022

£29,760 - £32,000 dependent on location

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) champions the power of planning in creating prosperous places and vibrant communities. We represent over 25,000 members worldwide, supporting them throughout their careers. We shape planning policy, raise professional standards and are the only body in the UK to confer Chartered status to planners, the highest professional qualification.

Volunteering is part of the DNA of the Institute and is a vital ingredient of the RTPI’s membership offer. Our volunteers are professional, highly skilled, active, engaged members who share our vision for the planning profession and ambitions for the RTPI; and who help shape the success of the Institute by supporting the delivery of our activities for the benefit of the wider membership, our members’ communities, and the organisation in itself.

We have recently launched our first ever volunteering strategy, Investing in Volunteers: Collaboration for a Sustainable Future and we are looking for a talented, creative individual with a passion for volunteer management and engagement to join the team to help us implement its delivery.  Professional volunteering is a key foundation in delivering on our Corporate Strategy for 2020 -2030 and its ambitions to become the world’s leading professional planning body. 

About you - as volunteer project coordinator, you will play an important role in helping us realise these ambitions.  Providing our volunteers with a clear framework for their activities, it will be your role to develop and embed a framework of standards and practices that ensure that the RTPI appropriately develops, trains and supports the RTPI’s community of volunteers and staff.  You will possess strong leadership and communication skills to build relationships and trust with colleagues across the organisation. You will inspire and support colleagues to build volunteer capacity and help the Institute understand, monitor and measure the impact our volunteer community has on helping us reach our collective goals

RTPI has a positive, supportive and inclusive work environment which actively operates a policy of helping its employees at all levels to achieve professional growth. We seek to foster a collaborative and respectful work environment which promotes equality, diversity and inclusion.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 17th May 2021

Interviews: week commencing 24th May 2021

To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter that refers to the criteria in the person specification.

Carers UK has an exciting new opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who has experience in a customer relationship or business development role.  Do you want to make a difference to those who are balancing work and unpaid care and their employers?  Do you want to join a passionate and devoted team in Wales? Then we want to hear from you.

• Salary: £25,276 rising to £28,972
• Location: Cardiff, CF15 (currently remote working)
• Job type: Fixed (March 2023)
• Closing date: 17 May 2021, 12.00 pm
• Interview date: 24 May 2021

About the role 

This is a brand new role focused on growing and developing the business within the Wales Hub of Employers for Carers. You will be working alongside the EfC Wales Manager to secure new business and support existing customer relationships with EfC members. You will administer membership systems and support membership engagement including organising member events and raising awareness of our work through networking.

About you   

You will be an organised self-starter, who is confident managing customer relationships, delivering presentations and training to raise awareness of our work. You will be proactive at seeking out business opportunities and contacts to help us grow the Hub membership.

About us

Carers UK is the leading national charity, supporting, advocating for and connecting unpaid carers across the UK.

Unpaid Carers are those providing support for family, friends, relatives or loved ones.

With over 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK and 6,000 individuals becoming a carer every day the need to support them is growing and urgent. Unpaid carers save the country an estimated £530 million each day and are vital to the friends and family members they support, as well as to the wider community.

COVID-19 has dramatically affected carers across the country. Our recent polling suggests that the figure for unpaid carers could now be as high as 13.6 million, with 4.5 million people starting to care overnight due to the impact on coronavirus on services and individuals.