We are recruiting for an experienced Policy Manager who will lead on developing the policy function and strategy for the RCOphth. 

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) is the only professional body for medically qualified eye doctors, who specialise in the prevention, treatment and management of eye disease, including surgery to optimise eye care for all patients. We are the voice of the profession and champion excellence in the practice of ophthalmology. We do this through our collaborative work across the eye health sector and with regulatory healthcare bodies.

About you

You will need to show substantial experience in all areas from development of policies and impact assessments to high level stakeholder engagement and consultation.  We are looking for someone with a positive, can do attitude and is committed to excellence and high standards in all they do.

You will need the following experience

• Extensive experience of leading on policy development, including the understanding of legislation and its impact
• Extensive high level stakeholder management that includes government, health bodies (eg NHS England), charity and research
• Experience of handling strategies and tactics for dealing with contentious or complex issues
• Experience of working across multiple departments and teams, particularly in a professional membership organisation
• Experience of line management

About the role

There are proposed legislative changes to the way healthcare will be delivered and the medical profession regulated.  We want to ensure that ophthalmology is engaged with policy decision makers and proactively putting the case for better patient care and the sustainability of the workforce; promoting the RCOphth as the ‘go to’ authority on eye care services. We are doing this through key areas of collaborative work across health regulatory and arms-length bodies, but it requires a strong policy framework.

The Policy Manager will sit in the Policy & Communications team and work directly with the Executive (College Officers and Senior Management) to identify policy gaps and opportunities both in the short and long term.  The post holder will work with key stakeholders to identify how the policy function will change the way we work and embed the new process throughout the organisation.

Working for RCOphth

Our overall staff numbers have grown in the past 18 months.  We are recruiting the right people with the right specialist skills in the Policy & Communications team to help us deliver on our strategic aims. In return, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. 

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter (explaining how you meet the person specification along with your salary expectations).  A covering letter is an important part of our application process so we encourage you to submit one, as your application may not be shortlisted if you do not.

We are currently running interviews remotely, in accordance with Government advice, so if you envisage any issues with accessing a computer, webcam or a sufficient internet connection for a video call, then please do highlight this in your covering letter. We will do all we can to ensure you have the best experience in applying to work with us during this time.

For more information on the role, please contact Liz Price on 0 2 0 3 7 7 0 5 3 2 7

(office hours are 09.00-17.00)

Closing date:  Friday 23rd April 2021 at 16:00hrs

1st round interviews:  Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th May 2021

2nd round interviews:  Thursday 20th May

Please note for 2nd round interviews candidates will be required to prepare a 20 minute presentation which should be sent in advance and by 17.00, Monday 17 May 2021. 

Applicants must already have the right to work within the UK without restriction.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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This is a really exciting time to join Girlguiding. We are on a mission to amplify the voices of girls and young women, so they can champion change in their own lives and the wider world; to build strong partnerships that can increase our reach and impact; and to increase the support we offer our amazing adult volunteers who deliver incredible experiences to young people across the UK every week. We have recently agreed our 2020+ strategy and begun a process of significant change: transforming the organisation so it can meet the challenges of the future by putting young people and volunteers at the heart of our organisation.

The Strategy & Transformation team is looking for a great individual to oversee, implement and manage a portfolio of externally funded development and outreach projects. You will play a key role in ensuring that outputs, successes and learnings are captured and inform future projects.

The directorate has projects already underway and others in the pipeline for 2021/22, and we need an experienced manager to manage a team of project delivery managers.

You will be someone who is able to build rapport with staff, work collaboratively with country and region teams, volunteers, partners and funders really quickly and manage complex relationships.

You will be experienced and confident in overseeing large budgets and supporting the preparation of future funding bids for strategic growth projects. Working collaboratively with the fundraising team, you will shape projects from the outset against our new Girlguiding strategy 2020.

Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and offer flexible working options wherever we reasonably can. Girlguiding is a COVID secure employer, providing support for all employees during the current pandemic. All staff are required to carry out our online health and safety training and complete a DSE risk assessment to ensure we can provide the support you require.

We ask that you submit your CV and supporting information as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close vacancies at any time, when we have received sufficient applications. 

It is important that you submit all of the above documents with your CV, including the declaration form, supporting statement and diversity questionnaire. We will consider only those applications that include these completed documents.

Interviews will be held remotely during the pandemic.

Healthwatch Brent

Healthwatch Brent is one of 152 local Healthwatch organisations established throughout England on 1 April 2013 under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It has a dual role to champion the rights of health and social care users and to hold the system to account for how well it engages with the public.

Healthwatch’s remit covers all publicly funded health and social care services for adults and children.

The Advocacy Project has been awarded the contract to be Healthwatch Brent’s provider from 1 April 2021. We will build on the important work that’s been done to date, while bringing new insights from the voices of seldom heard and hard to hear groups. You’ll have an opportunity to develop the service in line with our ambitious vision, making sure all views in Brent, including the most marginalised, are at the heart of health and care and shape the services they need.

About the role

This role is to deliver our vision for Healthwatch Brent over the next 3-5 years as set out in our contract with Brent Council. 

Key outcomes are:

• Engaging and working with local diverse voluntary and community groups

• Working with local health and social care services (adults and children)

• Engaging with BAME communities and hard to reach groups

We’ll do this through a robust governance model incorporating:

• a board of trustees, overseeing compliance of statutory functions;

• an advisory board, to set priorities and champion key Healthwatch functions;

• a grassroots steering group, to inform and influence Healthwatch priorities and connect with BAME and hard to reach communities;

• a network of independent experts, to provide specialist knowledge and intelligence to support understanding and develop insight

We aim to embed user engagement and community development at the heart of the Healthwatch service model, empowering user voices and improving access to health services, with a particular focus on the most disadvantaged and hardest to reach groups.

Key responsibilities

• Make sure Healthwatch Brent’s work conforms to all required principles, objectives and statutory obligations, and meets all contractual requirements between The Advocacy Project (as host organisation) and Brent Council.

• Provide operational management for an effective, inclusive and high quality local Healthwatch.

• Provide leadership to make sure the patient and public voice is heard across health, social care, children’s and other sectors in a continuously changing external environment.

• Make sure Healthwatch Brent involves the local community, particularly seldom heard groups and BAME groups, in influencing local and national policy and the service is responsive and sensitive to the needs of community groups with protected characteristics.

• Facilitate Healthwatch Brent’s ability to improve health and social care underpinned by robust intelligence gathering arrangements.

• Represent Healthwatch Brent at all strategic governance and external meetings with key stakeholders, liaising with nominated Board leads regularly.

• Develop the service to respond to emerging trends and needs, keeping abreast of Healthwatch England best practice to continually enhance the quality of the service.

• Monitor the service to make sure it delivers to time, budget and quality; provide reports evidencing this to key stakeholders, including Brent commissioners, Healthwatch Advisory Board, Brent Health and Wellbeing Board and Healthwatch England.

• Develop effective partnerships with key staff in health and social care services.

• Make sure all projects are informed and influenced by, and planned, resourced, and communicated to key stakeholders.

• Make sure quality systems are effective and used to demonstrate the service is achieving outcomes and impact, and meeting key performance indicators.

• Work with the communications and engagement lead to make sure all relevant internal and external stakeholders receive relevant, timely and up-to-date communication about all Healthwatch projects.

General responsibilities

Desirable

• Work with key staff to design and analyse data, and produce timely, accurate and high quality reports and presentations.

• Keep up to date with current trends in health policy, service provision, current practice and matters concerning people as citizens, by reading, attending courses and networking.

• Work with key staff to identify and secure new funding opportunities for Healthwatch Brent.

• Answer and respond appropriately to calls regarding the service.

• Participate in team meetings and training; manage your team to attend.

• Participate in personal, team and organisational development.

• Keep to all policies, including health & safety, and risk regulations.

• Promote equality and diversity in all aspects of work and challenge discrimination.

• Work to The Advocacy Project’s mission, vision, and values and also those of Healthwatch Brent.

• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, in line with the changing local and national landscape and carry out other projects and tasks as needed.

  Person specification

  Essential

• Excellent knowledge of and experience of working with the health and social care system and the voluntary and community sector.

• Thorough understanding of user engagement, community development, user involvement and co-production principles and practice.

• Experience of working with diverse communities and tackling discrimination and inequality.

• Understanding of the public health challenges in Brent.

• Management experience including managing, developing and motivating a staff team.

• Experience of contract management and compliance.

• Excellent communications (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. Effective in working with a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from trustees, commissioners, partners, colleagues and local residents.

• Able to interpret complex information and deal effectively with competing interests and challenging situations.

• Excellent organisational skills who can work on their own initiative and plan and prioritise your own workload.

• Experience of working with a budget.

• Commitment to working within The Advocacy Project and Healthwatch Brent code of conduct, equality and safeguarding policies.

• Willingness to attend further training as appropriate and to adopt new procedures.

• Willingness to promote Healthwatch Brent and The Advocacy Project in line with our mission, vision and values.

• Evidence of ongoing personal development and training related to the role.

• Experience of working with senior managers in public sector bodies.

• Experience of developing a new service.

Benefits of working for us

We’re committed to providing an empowering, flexible and supportive working environment for all our staff.

Our employee benefits include 30 days annual leave (including up to 3 days between Christmas and New Year), participation in a pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, access to a free confidential counselling service, and an interest-free travel/bike loan.

All our staff are supported to learn and develop in a variety of ways, including a monthly lecture series where we invite sector experts to talk to our staff on topical issues.

We are a Disability Confident Committed and Mindful Employer.

The  World  Community  for  Christian  Meditation,  a  UK  based  charity,  is  looking  for  an
experienced, reliable and organised grant manager with solid previous grant management/fundraising experienceservice in a UK charity. We are looking for a highly motivated and resourceful individual with a 
genuine interest in Christian meditation and spirituality and the individual and societal benefitsit can bring.

Working  to  the  Head  of  Operations,  the  Grant  Manager  will  be  responsible  foroverseeing  current  grants and preparing timely and excellent quality financial and narrativereports for our grant donors. There will be potential also for exploring future grant applications for new and existing donors. The work will fall into the following main categories:

▪    Coordination of WCCM’s existing grants
▪    Checking expenditure on donor budgets in consultation with budget holders
▪    Preparing appropriate financial reports for donors in consultation with WCCM’s accountants.
▪    Collating monitoring and evaluation information using WCCM’s new M&E framework
▪    Project development for new bids in collaboration with other WCCM staff and volunteers

The  successful candidate  may work from  home, or,  when  COVID-19  restrictions   ease,workfrom WCCM’s London office in Islington by hot desking arrangement if they so wish. The responsibilities associated with the post may in the future require the occasional trip toFrance. In this eventuality, WCCM will cover all travel expenses.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of our growing Finance team, to help increase our capacity and capability to service and grow our high net-worth clients, alongside our award-winning Philanthropy Services team. We’re also looking for someone to help shape our own balance sheet for growth, and to achieve our financial goals and social mission simultaneously.

This is an exciting time to join Stewardship as our growth ambition, is to increase the flow of funds to churches and Christian charities to beyond £250 million a year by 2025, and to extend the joy of generosity to new generations.

As Investment Manager, your role will be critical, in achieving this mission – using your investment expertise to shape and develop our client investment offerings and broaden our capabilities to increasingly manage ethical, positive impact and social investment choices.

This will be a role that will help you grow as a finance professional, a Christian and a leader, and if you’d love to use your skills to help increase the flows of generosity to the Church and Christian causes, get in touch.

Main responsibilities include:

• Investment monitoring: Oversight of investments and monitoring – review return, risk, benchmark, fees, ethical performance and challenge where needed. Prepare reports for Philanthropy Services clients as necessary.
• Investment manager relationship: Manage the investment manager relationships and liaise regarding reports, queries, exploring new investments etc.
• Product development: Work to expand the suite of social and financial investment products available to our clients, conducting financial due diligence to identify potential opportunities.
• Client interaction: The ability to build a credible, donor-facing rapport, in order for existing and new clients to explain their preferences, risk appetite and needs. The ability to investigate new options, help prepare client information and prepare proposals for Trustee approval, where appropriate.
• Process Management: Overseeing all steps of the process from client decision to execution, acting as a key point of contact between Philanthropy and Finance teams.
• Asset Allocation: Work, together with the CFO, on the optimal asset allocation of Stewardship’s balance sheet, balancing our liquidity needs, our desire to invest in Kingdom causes and the investment needs of our DAF (donor advised funds) account holders.
• Responsible Stewardship: Promotion of our responsible investing ethos in networks beyond Stewardship (joining with other responsible investor groups) and holding asset managers to account.
• Finance & Investment Committee: Assist with the preparation of papers and other documentation relating to the Committee and attend quarterly meetings

Position: Bid and Tender Manager

Contract: Permanent

Salary:  Up to £59,000 per annum

Start date: ASAP

BMJ is seeking a Tender & Bids Manager to join the Partnership Development and Global Health Team. The primary goal of the Tenders and Bids Manager will be bringing in new, and retaining existing, business. The role will work cross-company supporting all product areas but with a specific focus on growing our global health business through tenders.

You will be supporting BMJ’s efforts to collaborate with international partners to put reliable information and tools in the hands of decision makers and health professionals. 

Responsibilities

• Proactively scan both domestic and international markets for opportunities to bid and tender which fit with BMJs portfolio and capabilities
• Maintain a strong pipeline of relevant opportunities and review with the relevant business teams to make an informed decision on which to pursue
• Lead on the production of high quality tender submissions to maximise success whilst fitting with BMJ’s position as a mission driven organisation
• Be the internal BMJ expert on all aspects of bid and tender processes 
• Own all aspects of bid and tender submissions (including post-submission clarifications) working with cross-company teams where required
• Share bid and tender knowledge to ensure the capability and experience is embedded within the wider business
• Develop appropriate templates that are compliant with the requirements of major funders / donors / procurement bodies
• Identify and address gaps in tender compliance requirements

Qualification & Experience

• Significant experience in bid management 
• Previous experience is working in the healthcare or global health tender or grant sector
• Experience owning entire bid process for large £5m+ contracts
• Proven ability to work under pressure whilst delivering high quality output
• Understanding of the domestic and international tenders and grants market

Essential skills

• Ability to work professionally with multiple levels across BMJ internally and also with external bid partners, technical partners, consultants and government representatives
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• High attention to detail
• Proactive and collaborative worker
• Strategic thinking
• Excellent written skills
• Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills 
• Financially/numerically strong
• Project management and operational delivery to demanding deadlines

Why should you apply?

BMJ is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. We share knowledge and expertise to improve healthcare outcomes. 

You may know us as the publisher of one of the world’s most cited general medical journals, The BMJ. We also publish over 70 specialty journals, many of which are the most influential titles in their field. 

We also offer digital professional development courses and clinical decision support tools to help medical institutions and clinicians tackle today’s most critical healthcare challenges.

Evidence underpins everything we do – it’s what makes us one of the world’s most trusted knowledge providers. And the figures speak for themselves. More than 50 million users from over 150 countries access our websites every year.

BMJ is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association (BMA), with nearly 500 employees worldwide. Our head office is located within the Grade II listed BMA House in Euston, London, with more offices in China, India, North America, and Wales. 

At BMJ we take equal opportunities very seriously, diversity and inclusion are more than just words, they are an organizational priority. We are building a culture where everyone feels able to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We encourage applications from under-represented groups and we are a Disability Confident Committed employer.

You will be able to join any of our employee-led networks focussing on: Gender, Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Parents and Carers and Age. 

We offer flexible work arrangements to all our employees.

Those who come to work with us are assured of a rewarding career in an increasingly global company. In return, we offer a great place to work with a wide range of benefits, including: 

• Twenty-five days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, a BMA Day the opportunity to gain more holiday entitlement through long service employment
• Additional days’ leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married 
• Onsite gym, fitness classes and subsidised canteen and cafeteria
• Double matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%
• Multiple discounts [from major stores] through MyReward employee benefits platform. 
• Season ticket loan, gym membership and cycle to work scheme 
• Seven x salary life assurance cover
• Regular social events, diversity and inclusion groups, and charity fundraising initiatives to get involved in

Dauphine London, specialising in Economics and Management, is recruiting a Quality Manager. Dauphine London is a UK Higher Education provider that offers programmes leading to the award of degrees from the prestigious French Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL. EQUIS accredited, Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL is a member of PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University), placed 36th in the Shanghai World Academic ranking 2020, with 28 Nobel Prizes.

Dauphine London currently runs undergraduate courses in Economics, Management and Law, summer programmes, a start-up incubator, Executive Education programmes, and a variety of seminars and conferences. Since 2019, we have been engaged in the process of registering with the Office for Students, which includes compliance with the QAA framework.

We are looking for a well organised, rigorous and proactive professional, wishing to help us strengthen and develop the Campus’s standards and its quality assurance framework.

Reporting: he/she reports to the Managing Director.

Cooperation: he/she works in close cooperation with the Heads of Programmes, the Academic Leads, the Modules Leaders and the Programmes Administration Team.

Work activities (indicative):

Quality Management

• Managing the review and development of the Campus’s academic policies and procedures by keeping abreast of HE initiatives and developments, including new initiatives arising from the UK Quality Code and guidance from the OfS.
• Responsible for maintaining policies and procedures and core programme documentation and uploading onto the Virtual Learning Environment and Campus website.
• Assisting the Managing Director to ensure compliance with external requirements e.g. OfS, EQUIS, QAA. 
• Oversee the Campus’s student surveys including the analysis of the survey results, proposing recommendations for improvements in the delivery of programmes and follow-up. 
• Ensure quality documentation is up-to-date and versioning correctly managed
• Monitor various quality indicators – this includes collect of data on candidates, current  and former students
• Contribute to the preparation of Academic Boards

Programmes Administration

• Maintaining version control of programme and course documentation, including coordinating the production of programme specifications, course descriptors and programme handbooks, coordinating current programme and course modifications.
• Contribute to the preparation of the Course Boards
• Coordinating External Examiner induction
• Coordinating collaborative partner approval events; and coordinating annual and programme review processes with the College’s collaborative partners.

General

• Developing and maintaining good relationships with staff to ensure consistent application of regulations and policies, advising/briefing/training staff as necessary.
• General administrative duties to include minute taking, diary management, coordinating internal and external meetings, assistance with presentation preparation

Qualification and experience

• A minimum of 4 years work experience in a quality role is required. 
• Bachelor’s degree as a minimum.
• A Quality certification is desirable.
• A previous experience in Higher Education is desirable.
• French (B1+ level) is desirable.

Skills and aptitude

• Very well organized
• Rigorous
• Excellent English (both written and speaking)
• IT savvy Microsoft suite
• Planning, priorities and time management skills
• Strong communication skills
• Positive minded
• Good adaptability skills
• Attentive to details
• Respectful of confidentiality

Other requirements

• Authorised to work in the UK.
• The successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check disclosure.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and safeguarding.

Location: Central London (Angel, N1). Homeworking one day a week can be accommodated.

Part-time position, 20 to 28 hours per week – 0.5 to 0.7 FTE.

Some flexibility would be appreciated during peak times. The post could eventually evolve to a full-time position.

Remuneration: £ K 35 – £ K 47 per annum pro rata

Key benefits:

• 42 days holidays including bank holidays (per annum pro rata)
• Funding for continuous professional development
• Attractive pension plan

Starting date: May 2021

Job Title: Engagement manager
Salary: £31,000 per annum, 35 hours per week
Length of Contract: 12 months, with the possibility of extension
Pension Payment: CommUNITY Barnet will make a pension contribution into a workplace pension scheme
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, excluding bank holidays 
Location: Initially homeworking.  Once covid related restrictions are removed, the postholder will be expected to work in Wormholt & White City (Hammersmith & Fulham) for at least 3 days a week.

We are seeking to appoint an Engagement Manager who will work independently and in partnership, to develop and support opportunities for all members of the W12Together community to engage with Big Local. 

As Engagement Manager, you will take leadership in helping to grow W12Together’s profile, strengthen community engagement and manage our reputation through both internal and external communications. This includes leading on social media and digital engagement. It is expected that you will be skilled at developing engagement strategies, building partnerships and managing community projects.

W12Together is one of 150 Big Local resident-led Partnerships around England that is providing an opportunity for local residents to use the £1m that has been allocated to make a massive and lasting positive difference to their communities. They are a Partnership of local residents, bringing together all the local talent, ambitions, skills and energy from individuals, groups and organisation who want to make their area an even better place to live.

Big Local is being managed nationally by Local Trust, which is working with £200m from the Big Lottery Fund and a range of partners providing expert advice and support for residents. Find out more about W12Together on our website.

Working under the umbrella of CommUNITY Barnet, the Locally Trusted Organisation, we can offer you training as appropriate to support your own career development.

The job requires the flexibility to meet the requirements of weekend or evening work.

Applications from residents of the W12Together area and Hammersmith & Fulham are strongly encouraged.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates

The closing date for applications is Monday 19th April 2021 at 9am.  To apply, please send your CV and covering letter clearly explaining how you meet the criteria set out in the Person Specification.

We are passionate about creating opportunities for care-experienced children/young people to access the great education and pastoral care available through bursary places at the UK's boarding and independent schools; and are looking for a Programme Manager with compassion and experience of working with children and young people who are either in, or on the edge, of children's social care, to organise all aspects of this programme.

You will be highly organised, maintaining excellent communication, empathy and case management skills to ensure quality support to the children, schools, parents/carers and Local Authorities that we work with. Working within our Programmes Team, you will coordinate all aspects of the Looked-After & Vulnerable Children Programme, including:

• Managing the day-to-day operations: developing relationships with children’s social care professionals with regard to selecting, preparing and matching care-experienced children/young people to available bursary places at boarding and independent schools, providing advice and guidance to Local Authority Virtual Schools, social workers, families/ carers, developing all aspects of the application process, assisting in coordination and management of admissions’ procedures, undertaking home visits and accompanying pupils on visits to schools

• Developing and implementing approaches to measuring and monitoring pupils' progress, needs and views including through liaising with parents/carers and schools staff; maintaining oversight of school reports, PEP and child protection information, analysing data on pupil's social and emotional wellbeing, and reflecting on this information to continuously adapt and improve the ‘wrap-around’ care/support provided by the charity for its' looked-after and vulnerable pupils, in order to create the strongest conditions for successful bursary placements

• Working with the Head of Alumni Programme to develop support for how the charity ensures that looked-after- and vulnerable children continue to thrive after they leave their bursary placements

• Participating in the development, implementation and delivery of relevant training courses and information sessions, both for local authorities and staff in schools; and supporting the charity's research partners to build the evidence of positive outcomes and impact of the looked-after and vulnerable children programme to relate trends in outcomes of relevance to a broader audience and  disseminate that learning to key audiences

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to build a programme that is sponsored by the Department for Education and has the potential to have a significant impact on a key social problem. Our current team includes recent graduates and those with experience up to Director level - all of whom share a passion for improving social mobility through harnessting the commitment of the UK's boarding and independent school sector to widen access to their fully-funded bursary places. This opportunity would suit someone skilled in programme delivery and management and with prior experience of working in the children's social care or charities working with vulnerable children/young people. 

Person specification

The ideal candidate will be confident in providing day-to-day operations management/support with a strong emphasis on the quality of relationships with Local Authority personnel and vulnerable children's families/carers. Managing complex cases involving multiple parties, including social workers and supporting multi-agency collaboration you will need to be a clear and confident communicator and know when to draw on the expertise and advice of management.

You will be able to work with uncertainty and ambiguity, demonstrating a determination to find what needs to be done and having it completed, no matter how complex the multiple agencies and adults involved in the care for the child/young person. You will be highly organised, maintaining an overview of multiple case loads, prioritising effectively and overseeing the programme through from identification of potential beneficiaries, to preparation, support and as the young person transitions to become an alumni.

The willingness to build a strong relationship with people face to face, over the telephone and email. Being happy to spend time with people through a variety of interactions. Have a good understanding of team work and will work with the team to create an inclusive team culture. 

Essential skills/experience: 

• Ability to prioritise effectively in order to meet short term and long term deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple agencies and know when to escalate issues, particularly with regards to safeguarding.
• Strong communication skills, both in writing and verbally, transparent record keeping. 
• Caring and empathetic about the education outcomes of children in the care system.
• Advocacy skills to ensure timely delivery of services to the children we work with.
• Good understanding of business processes and strong attention to detail.
• Professional and polite telephone manner; have the ability to speak to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds; from social workers to senior local authority officers be empathetic with parents/carers in difficult situations.
• Proactive in responding to issues and a problem solving mindset.
• Knowledgeable of safeguarding and best practice in handling sensitive data and issues.
• Experience working within the local government/school/charity or social work sectors
• Understanding children’s services and delivery of local services.
• Knowledge of key issues relating to LAC/SEN, including trauma and attachment awareness. 

Desirable:

• An understanding and experience of the boarding school system and wider independent education landscape.
• Experience or knowledge of SEN provision and local offering.
• Experience of working in or with a small charity.

General

Salary of £30,000-£37,000 dependent on experience and location. We are currently working remotely due to the COVID restrictions with access to an office in Central London on a hot-desking basis. The job is subject to having the right to work in the UK and an enhanced DBS check. 

Football should be a game for everyone, whether they play it, work it in it or support it. Kick It Out’s mission is to campaign for change to end discrimination and build belonging, so that everyone feels they can be a part of a sport that should be for all. 

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Head of Brand, Communications and Marketing, the PR Manager will be responsible for leading all media activity and driving Kick It Out’s external communications.

The PR Manager will play a key role in increasing public awareness of Kick It Out and driving its presence as a campaigning organisation within football, both nationally and regionally.

The post-holder will also be responsible for promoting Kick It Out’s work, with a particular focus on campaigning and advocacy. Key duties will include collaborating with staff across the organisation to identify newsworthy media opportunities, writing media pitches, press releases, statements which generate maximum impact, and comment pieces. 

Main accountabilities

The PR Manager will focus on:

• Developing, writing and producing content aimed at our target audience, as well as influencing key stakeholders
• Collaborating with and influencing teams across the organisation, to achieve media outcomes for issues in football in England
• Responding quickly to news stories in the UK, to provide our organisational perspective in high profile media
• Building media relationships to keep our work and issues in the news
• Help to bring on board influential figures, to create debate around and champion our issues
• Mapping, building and maintaining relationships with key journalists, editors, commentators, bloggers and documentary makers
• Protect Kick It Out’s reputation, by developing and implementing crisis management communications strategies when required
• Working out of hours when required

Application

Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd April 2021.

Interviews will take place via Zoom, the weeks commencing Monday 26th April and Monday 3rd May 2021.

Kick It Out is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Kick It Out selects all candidates for an interview based on skills, qualifications and experience.

Beyond the Streets is a small charity with a big determination to see routes out for women in prostitution in the UK.  Your role is to lead on the maintenance and development of a strong pipeline of grant funding to sustain our work​.

You will be passionate about supporting women facing multiple disadvantages, as well as being able to support and motivate staff. You will have great communication skills and be able to champion the cause.

Your role will include:

 - leading on the ongoing development of the Beyond the Streets trust fundraising strategy;

 - overseeing the delivery of the Beyond the Streets trust fundraising strategy, ensuring that our relationships with large grant making trusts are well managed;

 - ensuring that all trust fundraising activities are coordinated and delivered to deadline with the Development Officer;

 - leading on the development of corporate fundraising activities

Beyond the Streets is a charity inspired by Christian values. This belief inspires us to work with acceptance, value and mutual respect for all. We promote a healthy work life balance and regularly reflect on our boundaries and our strategy for the year. We genuinely seek to work as a team and ensure that no one is ‘rescuing’ or working outside their allocated hours.

This is a really exciting time to join Girlguiding. We are on a mission to amplify the voices of girls and young women, so they can champion change in their own lives and the wider world; to build strong partnerships that can increase our reach and impact; and to increase the support we offer our amazing adult volunteers who deliver incredible experiences to young people across the UK every week. We have recently agreed our 2020+ strategy and begun a process of significant change: transforming the organisation so it can meet the challenges of the future by putting young people and volunteers at the heart of our organisation.

Girlguiding is a UK-wide network of groups and organisations who together provide great experiences for girls and young women.  At the highest level the UK is split into nine countries and regions, plus British Girlguiding Overseas.

Over the past year countries and regions and Girlguiding UK have reviewed and clarified our roles and responsibilities, and principles for partnership working.  We call this our ‘Ways of Working Together’.  This fixed term role will play a key role in making the Ways of Working Together come to life during the first year of implementation. 

The role-holder will do this by facilitating increased networking and collaboration between Girlguiding UK and countries and regions; developing and embedding new tools and processes to enable this; and supporting all teams to build their skills and confidence to work in this way on an ongoing basis

This is a fixed term position initially to the end of December 2021. The post is part of our delivery partnerships team who are based in our London office but we are open to the role holder being based elsewhere with regular travel to London and around the UK, subject to Covid restrictions lifting.

Girlguiding values the differences that a diverse workforce brings and is committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve a good work-life balance and offer flexible working options wherever we reasonably can. Girlguiding is a COVID secure employer, providing support for all employees during the current pandemic. All staff are required to carry out our online health and safety training and complete a DSE risk assessment to ensure we can provide the support you require.

We ask that you submit your CV and supporting information as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close vacancies at any time, when we have received sufficient applications. 

It is important that you submit all of the above documents with your CV, including the declaration form, supporting statement and diversity questionnaire. We will consider only those applications that include these completed documents.

Interviews will be held remotely during the pandemic.

Nest is the National Employment Savings Trust. It was set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save for retirement. We’ve since grown to become one of the UK’s largest schemes.

Your new team

Nest Insight is a collaborative research and innovation think tank. We’re working to understand the challenges people face in saving for their later lives, and to develop and test solutions to those challenges. Although we sit within Nest and draw learnings from the rich set of data Nest is building, we also work across the industry with other providers, from pensions, banking, fintech and beyond. We share all our work widely to influence industry and policy makers in the UK and internationally.

We do this through an ambitious programme of research, trials, events and publications, delivered in partnership with academics, think tanks, government and the industry. Nest Insight has quickly become a leading and respected voice in the sector.  

Nest insight is a business unit of Nest Corporation, but we are responsible for raising our own operating budget through grants and sponsorship. We have a team of 11 working across research, communications and partnerships. This is an exciting time to join Nest Insight – we’re growing quickly with lots of exciting projects in the pipeline and plans to expand our reach significantly over the next three years.

Your new role

We are now looking for a dedicated Contracts Manager to join our small, dynamic team, to manage all our contracts from initiation through negotiation, agreement and ongoing review. Given the growth in the range and scale of our collaborative projects, we are currently reviewing and standardising our approach to contracts with funders, collaborators and suppliers.

Reporting to the Director of Analysis and Governance, the Manager will take the lead on all Nest Insight’s contractual negotiations, taking responsibility for a swift and effective resolution of contractual issues and working to ensure that Nest’s interests are protected, and our risks managed.

The Manager will help shape new, robust and consistent contract processes. They will be accountable for ensuring contracts are drawn up in a timely and professional manner, with all key risks identified and managed. In addition, they will take responsibility for tracking and reporting on budgets for some contracts, as required by the project teams.

You

You will be comfortable working on complex contracts as well as having an ability to communicate effectively, liaising with stakeholders on contract management processes and issues.

Ideally, you have experience within higher education, charities or think tanks, and a strong understanding of UK Public Contracts Regulations.

You will have a commitment to team working, diversity and inclusion, exceptional written and verbal communication skills and be passionate about improving financial wellbeing and longer-term financial security for people on low to mid incomes.

What you’ll need to succeed

This is a rewarding role for someone seeking to develop a career in commercial management within the research sector. The Contracts Manager will deal directly with the commercial teams at universities in the UK and abroad, public bodies, commercial sponsors and charitable foundations. They will be able to build their knowledge and understanding of best practices and key risks in funded research and big data analysis.

Nest Insight is a relatively small team given the scope and scale of its research and publications programmes. Working as a key member of the team will offer a dynamic, supportive and rewarding experience for a candidate who’s prepared to act with autonomy and confidence while tackling a range of new challenges.

By helping Nest Insight fund and deliver its research programme, the Contracts Manager will be helping make a difference to millions of low- and moderate-income savers and contributing to a programme with a strong reputation and high profile across the public policy community and the pensions industry.

What you’ll get in return

This is a permanent role with a salary up to £48,000 plus Benefits which could be offered for anything between 3.5 and 5 working days a week depending on experience.

This role can be offered on a flexible basis and we will consider job share, part time or full-time basis. We are open to different level of applicants in terms of knowledge and skillset. We will consider offering up to the full salary budget on a part-time basis to more experienced candidates where appropriate.

Please state your preference on the application if you wish to be considered for part time or condensed working hours

This role can be offered on a flexible basis and we will consider job share, part time or full-time basis. We are open to different level of applicants in terms of knowledge and skillset.

Please state your preference on the application if you wish to be considered for part time or condensed working hours.

Everyone wants a good work life balance and you will be working with a truly flexible employer, fully embracing a working from home culture and flexible working hours.

You will have your birthday and Christmas Eve as an additional bonus to the already fantastic holiday allowance and of course…a generous pension contribution.

What you need to do now

Please complete your application on our website.  Please note that you must attach a Cover Letter explaining why you would be a good match for this role.

Please note that due to a high volume of applicants we will only be able to contact successful applicants.

Application closing date is Thursday 25th March

Nest is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all the nine protected characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

To best serve our diverse customer base, it’s important that Nest has an equally diverse workforce and promotes an inclusive culture. This is in line with the organisation’s values and ensures that Nest is a corporation fit for the future.

Please note that we can onboard and work remotely successfully during this period at Nest.

Please note that this is a London based role.

Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Finance Manager - Systems to join our team in London, UK.

To provide an efficient, relevant and timely financial and management accounting service to all countries where Malaria Consortium operate, with a strong focus on providing budgeting, forecasting and analytical reporting support to HQ and in country management, both finance and project staff.

The successful candidate will have:

• Qualified Accountant
• Significant experience of Year-end accounting and knowledge of UK statutory reporting.
• Experience of payroll accounting and dealing with pension providers.
• Experience of producing management accounts, DFID donor reporting, admin support to accounting software.
• Solid experience in co-ordinating and consolidating budgets and forecasts across regions.