Cost recovery project manager jobs in Manchester
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The Big Chalk Partnership is made up of more than 150 organisations with a common vision of creating nature-rich chalk and limestone landscapes that benefit all of us.
This relies on an expansion in the scale, pace and impact of nature recovery activities across southern England, benefiting globally important habitats and species and delivering ecosystem services including natural beauty, clean water, healthy soils and our own wellbeing.
The Protected Landscapes Partnership and Defra are supporting our Partnership to catalyse progress towards the UK’s nature commitments across these special landscapes. The Nature Recovery Fund Manager will co-manage a significant grants fund on behalf of Big Chalk’s Partnership Board.
The Big Chalk programme is hosted by the National Landscapes Association. The National Landscapes Association represents and supports the UK’s National Landscapes (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The Association is a charity and non-profit membership organisation. The team advocates, communicates and fosters collaborative action which supports the UK’s network of National Landscapes to be as effective as possible. We champion the interests of National Landscapes with governments and coordinate the delivery of national projects.
We welcome applicants from a broad range of backgrounds – the most important thing is that you are motivated to work collaboratively and effectively with Big Chalk’s partners to help ensure our grant-making benefits nature to the greatest extent possible.
With significant experience of grant making and donor reporting in the environmental or social sectors, you’ll bring a collaborative mindset and be skilled at quickly building positive working relationships with new colleagues, our partners, our funders and other stakeholders.
You’ll have applied experience of working across the grant-making lifecycle, and possess excellent analytical skills, able to identify, summarise and communicate key issues and risks.
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, then we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply by submitting a short CV (no more than three pages) and a covering letter (no more than two pages) which addresses the person specification criteria in the attached role description.
First interviews will be held online for short-listed candidates, these are likely to be held the week commencing 27th April. A second interview round may follow if needed.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Lead and champion activity, working with National Landscapes, to protect and restore the UK's most outstanding landscapes.
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Part-Time Finance Manager (22.5 hours per week) – £25,062.60 pa (FTE £41,771) - Salford – Hybrid
Our client is a dedicated charity based in Salford and are looking to expand their finance team by recruiting to the new post of Finance Manager. The postholder will lead the finance function, ensuring that robust financial systems, processes and controls are in place to safeguard the organisation and enable informed decision-making.
They will provide high-quality financial insight, maintain the integrity of financial information, and oversee the delivery of accurate and compliant financial operations—including payroll, management reporting and audit preparation.
The Role :
- Produce accurate and timely quarterly management accounts, including all supporting schedules and reconciliations.
- Support the annual budgeting process, including entering budgets into the finance system and updating records as programmes evolve.
- Monitor organisational and project budgets throughout the year, highlighting risks, variances and opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare costings for funding bids, tenders and proposals to ensure full cost recovery and sustainable delivery.
- Ensure strong internal financial controls are operating effectively across all finance processes.
- Oversee the full monthly payroll cycle
- Manage the end-to-end monthly invoicing process, maintaining all payment schedules and supporting robust income tracking.
- Prepare supporting documentation, reconciliations and adjustment schedules for the annual statutory audit.
- Produce draft year-end financial statements for review by the Director of Finance & Resources.
- Line manage a Finance Officer
The role is offered on a part-time basis (22.5hours per week) and days and hours can be flexible but must include a full day on a Monday.
Benefits :
- 28 days’ holiday - rising to 30 days (after five years), plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part-time)
- Enhanced company sick and maternity pay, subject to terms and conditions of service
- Pension scheme - with 7% employer contribution (and 1% mandatory employee contribution)
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Membership of the Hospital Saturday Fund via an employer subsidised scheme (optional and non-contractual)
- RHS family membership (optional and non-contractual)
- Development opportunities
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About Young Roots
At Young Roots, we want to see a compassionate and welcoming society for young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. We work alongside young people seeking safety in the UK, building trusted relationships, providing practical and emotional support and promoting young people’s rights and power.
Our youth clubs and casework are transformative for young refugees, allowing young people who have fled danger, had traumatic journeys and who are often here alone, to find community and connection, have a space to be a young person and access support in addressing a whole range of practical challenges they face. We also draw on our evidence from working every day with young refugees and asylum seekers to call for change to the laws and policies which are harming young people.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced and collaborative Head of Finance to lead our financial management, planning, and governance.
This is a senior and influential role, sitting on our Leadership Group and working closely with the CEO, Trustees, and Finance Committee. You’ll provide clear financial insight to support decision-making, ensure strong financial stewardship, and help us plan sustainably for the future.
You’ll take ownership of the full finance function, supported by an Internal Operations Officer who manages day-to-day transactional processing.
What you’ll do
- Lead financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, and cashflow management
- Produce clear, high-quality management accounts and financial analysis
- Support strategic decision-making through strong financial insight and modelling
- Ensure robust financial controls, systems, and compliance (including audit, SORP, and statutory reporting)
- Partner with colleagues across the organisation to support budgeting, funding bids, and full cost recovery
- Oversee payroll and financial operations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency
- Contribute to organisational strategy as part of the Leadership Group
About you
You’ll be a confident and values-driven finance professional who enjoys working collaboratively and making complex information accessible.
You’ll bring:
- Significant experience in a senior finance role within a charity or not-for-profit
- Strong knowledge of charity finance, including SORP, restricted funding, and compliance
- Experience producing management accounts, budgets, and forecasts for non-finance audiences
- The ability to influence and support senior leaders with financial insight
- A proactive, hands-on approach with strong attention to detail
A professional accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent experience is desirable.
This role is designed as a part-time position (28 hours/week) with flexibility around how hours are worked. We are a hybrid organisation, with the option to work remotely or from our London offices (Croydon or Brent). We ask that ideally you attend at least one in-person team day per month in London.
We offer a supportive, inclusive working environment and the opportunity to play a key role in a mission-driven organisation making a real difference.
To Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV alongside a personal statement by the closing date outlining how you would be a great fit for the role.
Your personal statement should be no more than 800 words, answering the following questions:
- What is your motivation for working with Young Roots? (100 words)
- What is your motivation for applying for this role specifically? (200 words)
- What skills and experience would you bring that will enable you to be successful in this role? Please ensure you refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and provide examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. (500 words)
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Closing date: 14th April
Interview date: 20th April
Young Roots recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equity and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those who can face disadvantage in employment, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ individuals and people with disabilities. As an organisation that supports refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, we particularly welcome applications from people within these communities. We offer a guaranteed interview for those with lived experience of the asylum system and those with disabilities, where they meet the essential elements of the person specification. If aspects of the application process create barriers to you applying and you’d like any adjustment to the process or you’d like an informal discussion or advice on your application, please get in touch. We would also like to alert you to the existence of organisations which support people from under-represented groups to access employment, who can advise you on applying for this role. For example, Scope, Young Women’s Trust and Experts by Experience.
Young Roots is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We take this duty very seriously.
Our work is underpinned by policies and procedures which promote safe working practices. We have a framework of training and supervision which everyone is expected to comply with and systems for monitoring, quality assurance and gaining service user feedback. On joining you will be expected to be part of this approach to safeguard our service users.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Working alongside young people seeking safety - building trust, providing practical and emotional support, and promoting their rights and power.
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