Are you passionate about how brands interact with their audiences? Do you want to engage with one of the largest student populations in the country? Would you like to work to position the University of Manchester Students' Union right at the centre of city life in Greater Manchester? We're looking for a new Marketing & Communications Manager to help us develop into one of the sector's leading Marketing & Communications functions.

You will be at the heart of one of the largest Students' Union's in the country, working with colleagues from our charitable services such as our Advice centre, to our Volunteering & Fundraising team right through to our commercial services such as 532 Bar & Kitchen and much much more.

You may already have experience leading a team or this might be your first 'Manager' role but the willingness to partner with and lead key stakeholders including internal Students' Union departments, University colleagues, research & insight, design & digital and student media teams is a must.

We want you to bring innovation and creativity to the role and to the rest of the organisation. 

We have a very exciting opportunity for a passionate individual who has a desire to further strengthen and develop the Church’s work within the Communities of Guildford Diocese. The successful candidate will focus on 3 areas of work: providing consultancy services to parishes in the area of social transformation, leading and facilitating vision days and supporting parishes in the formation of their Church Development Plans (CDPs), and finally representing Guildford Diocese within the most strategic of statutory, voluntary, community and faith sector bodies.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience of Community Development – building local partnerships (with statutory bodies and others) focussed around community need.

• Good understanding of the Church of England, and experience in church-based missional social action projects
• Representational experience leading to partnerships with local/regional government
• An organised individual who can build strong and long-lasting relationships both internally and externally, from a diverse range of backgrounds and traditions

Duties of the role include:

• To be accountable for developing and overseeing the provision of tools, consultancy services, social enterprise advice and signposting to resources that support parishes in developing their community engagement in line with needs identified through the PNP.
• To tender and manage grant-funded services and partnerships where these are currently offered and advise on the establishment of Social Enterprises.
• To facilitate and support the Parish Needs Process by ensuring that parish priorities are identified and reflected in a well-documented Church Development Plans (CDPs) that clearly articulate anticipated outcomes and the needs (resources and services) to support its implementation.
• To be a source of advice and best practice to churches who work with and help vulnerable adults.

We are seeking someone who can challenge, inspire and deliver in this area of specialism, but also a colleague who shares the passion and heart to make a difference in our communities.

Please note this role requires someone who can work 1 or 2 evenings a week, and one or 2 Saturdays a month. You would receive Time Off in Lieu in these instances.

For an informal discussion about this role, please do not hesitate to contact Lydia Rees, HR Consultant - full contact details are available in the application pack attached or by clicking through to our website.

To apply

Your application should consist of a completed Application Form and Supporting Statement (no more than two sides of A4) detailing your reasons for applying, what you can bring to the post and how you meet its requirements. This should be sent by email by 5th May 2021. Full etails are in the application pack and on our website.

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. Place2Be provides mental health support and training for over 600 primary and secondary schools, reaching a total school population of over 350,000 pupils.
 
Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life.  Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the ‘comprehensive CAMHS system’.

About The Role

1 Year FTC
Hours: 21hrs p/w
Days: Tuesday-Thursday
Location: London, EC1V 4LW

Overall purpose of role: 

As Digital Project Manager (Clinical Projects) you will be responsible for overseeing the development, delivery and evaluation of three key clinical innovation projects using digital solutions in our work with parents and young people. You will practise agile project, product and delivery management, ensuring these projects are delivered on time, on budget and focused on user needs.

The three projects are:

• A Parenting Website called Parenting Smart, (launching in April 2021)
• The development and delivery of an online parenting course (to launch October 2021)
• The development and delivery of a new secondary school intervention in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre, which will include and online training programme and handbook for practitioners (to launch January 2022)

What will I be responsible for in my new role?
 
Your key responsibilities will be to:

• During the initiation of the project: to work with selected agencies to pull together the key players, define scope, and clarify objectives 
• Develop project plans in coordination with colleagues and partners with all the component tasks and how they fit together 
• Allocate tasks to the necessary people, and communicate with them about what is coming and when so no one is taken by surprise 
• Organise user research sessions; arranging venue, participants, and other logistics for workshops and usability testing with advice from user researchers
• Monitor workloads and protect time for agreed on tasks
• Liaise between teams (both external and internal) to make sure handoffs go smoothly
• Keep stakeholders informed about the project
• Hold milestone meetings as the project progresses so everyone can check in with each other and stay on track
• Manage how the project is stacking up against the planned budget
• Ensure the project’s objectives are being met and that projects are user focused
• Evaluate what business as usual resources will be required post the project launch 

The successful candidate will have:
 

• agile or other industry standard Project Management qualification (Desirable)
• a track record of planning and managing projects in an agile environment, ensuring that projects keep within time and budget
• experienced in agile and sprint based delivery on a diverse range of projects 
• the ability to work in a team with diverse but complementary skill sets 
• ability to use project management tools; Gantt Charts, Critical Path Analysis and Sprints 
• excellent project management skills, knows when to challenge and when to listen, and be able to come up with and spot good ideas 
• experience and feel comfortable within a fluid and fast paced environment

Interview dates: Monday 17th May 2021 ZOOM Video Interview
 

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.
 
To Apply or to view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification, please visit our website for further details.

Senior Portfolio Manager - UK Government Partnerships

£ 41,500 - £ 45,300

London and Currently Remote

The Senior Government Funded Portfolio Manager will oversee all government funded accounts under their direct and indirect responsibility, to ensure the effective management and delivery of co-funded initiatives with government funding partners and the grants within them. They will support those that they manage to ensure delivery of all commitments in line with partnership agreements. With the support of the Head of Government Partnerships, they will ensure that funding is progressive, impactful and communicable.

They will work with the Head of Government Partnerships to identify and leverage new partnership funding opportunities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee the delivery of government funded accounts (FCDO, DCMS or others) managed by you and by direct reports, ensuring impact, learning and delivery are in line with partner commitments and Comic Relief’s strategic goals.
• Support direct reports to lead on grant making and management, reporting, risk, partnership management and budget management for their respective government funded initiatives.
• Respond to risks or concerns escalated by direct reports as required, further escalating these as appropriate.
• Work with Assurance, Finance and Fund Design teams to ensure ongoing compliance across the portfolio with legal requirements, our grant conditions, partner reporting requirements and best practice in international development and social change.
• Personally manage and take responsibility for co-funded initiatives as required, and for the grants within these initiatives. Proactively manage these partnership accounts including taking the lead on grant making and management, reporting, risk, partnership management and budget management.
• Identify and internally champion stories of change and key learning points from your portfolio of grants, working with Evaluation & Learning colleagues and Communications teams to contribute to our internal and external communications.
• Working with Evaluation & Learning colleagues, ensure learning plans for partner-funded initiatives are designed and delivered, and support direct reports to share learning from the portfolio across Comic Relief’s wider grant and investment portfolio.
• Be an ambassador for collaborative cross-functional working both within the Impact and Investment department and across the wider organisation.
• Represent and positively promote Comic Relief in appropriate fora, networks and consortia.
• Support, lead and manage direct reports through regular one-to-one’s and clear performance objectives and KPI’s whilst ensuring consistency of approach across a disparate portfolio.
• Work with the Head of Government Partnerships to build a supportive team culture, ensuring learning and best practice is shared across accounts, filling in where necessary to lead team meetings.
• Communicate in an open, honest and transparent way with potential applicants, funded partners and funding partners.
• Ensure that people with lived or learnt experience are actively engaged within the way we design our funding calls and manage our funding portfolios
• Within the ways we design our funding calls and manage our funding portfolios, creatively find ways to unlock the inherent power of communities and organisations in determining their own development course
• Up to 10% of the role should be spent on identifying, developing and maintaining relationships with Trusts, Foundations and public sector funders in line with our Social Change Strategy and supporting. Travel (including international travel) may be required within this role.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Significant experience of making and/or managing large or complex grants.
• Excellent understanding of best practice and effective grant management.
• Track record of managing high performing teams and individuals.
• Excellent understanding of monitoring, evaluation and learning, with a commitment to applying what we learn to improve practice.
• Excellent financial awareness and budget management skills.
• Strategic thinker that can create, evaluate and develop ambitions into success.
• Effective relationship builder with strong emotional intelligence and political awareness to proactively challenge and persuade senior stakeholders and partners.
• Dynamic, confident and fun professional that can effectively lead and foster teams through collaborative and cross-functional working.
• Decisive problem solver with high resilience and a positive and solution orientated approach.
• Strong communicator with a flexible, engaging and inspirational style.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 30th Apr 2021 BST (Europe/London)

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Manager, Full-time (or fewer hours would be considered to a minimum of 30 hours per week)

Salary £32,154 pa (pro-rata if part time), pension scheme, 25 days annual leave

Are you an experienced manager, a good listener and excited about the idea of going out and talking with local people and communities across Somerset? Are you passionate about empowering people to have their voices heard?  Are you a confident spokesperson who could influence local health and social care decision makers? If you answered yes to these questions you could be part of our team.

Here at Healthwatch Somerset, we are passionate about having a health and care service which is shaped by the people who use it. We’re the county’s independent health and care champion and we exist to make sure people are at the heart of care.

We’re looking for someone to lead and coordinate a small team of staff and volunteers and to work in partnership with the Healthwatch Somerset Local Board to deliver our work plan.  You will be someone who shares our passion and commitment to ensuring local people are heard and able to influence the development of services.

You will have experience of leading a team and have an understanding of health and social care issues facing the NHS, local authorities and other service providers.  The role will include leading the day to day activities of Healthwatch Somerset such as developing and overseeing its work programme, managing staff and volunteers as well as developing engagement activities in the county.

The successful post holder needs to have a genuine commitment to involving local people in our important work, the ability to inspire and motivate staff and volunteers, as well as good planning and listening skills and be a confident spokesperson for Healthwatch Somerset.

If you want to know more, visit our website and download our job pack.

In return we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous contributory pension scheme, comfortable office accommodation in Bridgwater and flexible working practices.

Do you want to work for an organisation whose aim is to enrich lives and strengthen communities? If so, Enable Leisure and Culture is recruiting for: a Duty Manager to support our Leisure Team

Location: Various across Wandsworth
Contract Type: Full Time – 40 Hours per week
Salary: £22,987
Closing date: 09 May 2021

Ref: LE004

An exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, motivated and driven individuals to join the Leisure Team as a Duty Manager. The role will support the day to day operations of running our sports facilities within Wandsworth. This varied role will include open/close of the buildings, shift management, health and safety, delivering excellent customer service and assisting in supporting and motivating a team to meet targets and deadlines. 

Why should you join Enable Leisure and Culture?

• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Flexible Working
• Pension Scheme
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Free Gym membership
• On-site shower facilities* certain places
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Weekly fruit basket
• Staff Treats
• Weekly Wellbeing Hour

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post.  In order to apply for this post, you must demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.  Applications will close one minute before midnight on 09 May. Interview(s) are planned for the week commencing 10 May.

Diversity is valued at Enable Leisure and Culture and is important in the work that we do. Applications from all sections of the community are welcome and will be considered on merit. 

Due to Covid-19 and until further notice, we are currently operating digital recruitment and on-boarding processes. The role is full time and based primarily at sites across Wandsworth.

Job title: Fundraising Manager

Responsible to: Director of Business Development

Salary: £30,000 - 33,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales / 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 and we would be open to those interested in applying as a jobshare. 

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

Introduction

Over the last 40 years we’ve built up an impressive track record of improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society through working closely with the local community. This is an exciting time to join us as we are undergoing a period of transition building a new senior management team.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced, Fundraising Manager to build a diverse funding base and lead a new fundraising team securing our services into the future, for people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with the Business Development Director you will lead the small fundraising team. You will lead on statutory fundraising and large bids and you will line manage a team member who will focus on individual giving and digital fundraising and a consultant who will lead on trust and foundation fundraising. 

Management & Leadership

•  To lead, inspire and motivate fundraising staff and volunteers, providing them with clear direction and sound decision-making and enabling them to raise funds and contribute significantly to organisational development.

•  Work with Business Development Director to review and implement fundraising strategy.

•   Manage Digital & Marketing Officer post contributing to development of Communications Action Plan ensuring key targets are met

•  Assist with developing and scrutinising project plans in collaboration with Project Teams, to ensure they are accurate, deliverable and will achieve their objectives.

•  Lead and directly manage a portfolio of key relationships.

Income generation

•  Research potential grant making organisations and analyse their suitability to feed into the grant prospect pipeline to achieve identified targets

•   Research and develop diverse income generation initiatives including a local Lottery, digital fundraising, individual giving, legacy & in memoriam gifts, major donors.

•  Prepare and submit high quality funding applications and reports to grant making organisations.

• Scrutinise project budgets and financial information for applications and for grant reports.

•  Support the account management of successful applications, liaising with the programme project manager and finance team and ensuring that funding and reporting criteria are fully met and specific challenges in relation to programme objectives transparently communicated.

•   Develop and initiate innovative fundraising ideas

Monitoring & Evaluation

•  Maintain and develop the database of contacts: individual donors, corporates, grant making bodies ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all income generation activities and that all data collection is in accordance with these regulations.

•  Review grant agreements

•  Ensure all incoming grants are processed in line with internal procedures and best practice guidelines.

•  Ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all grant income, ensuring all information relating to each grant is accurate, up to date and well organised.

•  Maintain a timetable of deadlines to ensure grant making organisations receive reports and other correspondence as required.

•  Ensure that all donor communications are handled appropriately, promptly and courteously and that complaints and criticisms are logged, investigated and resolved

• Ensure collection of key data and evidence to enhance Valleys Kids case for support. 

Compliance

• To ensure that Valleys Kids fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities adhering to Fundraising Code of Practise and GDPR legislation.

Person Specification

• At least 5 years experience of fundraising in the Charity/Social enterprise sector 
• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundation, trading income and individual giving.
• Experience of managing an effective team, with ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account.
• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.
• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities
• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.
• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships with a wide variety of funders
• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well. 
• Experience of budget and financial management
• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully.
• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation.
• Awareness of Welsh language, culture and the public services context in Wales or a willingness to learn.
• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

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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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

The Young People at The Limes are looking for an inspirational leader for the Youth projects.  These including preparing for adulthood and a burgeoning Enterpise called Creative Journeys.You will be creative and ready to adapt quickly to changing need.  You will be responsible for ensuring the evaluation of Youth services is both robust and user-led allowing for monitoring and reporting to Limes’ funders and donors.

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.

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

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.