37.5 hours per week
Location Flexible (home, Bristol office or London office) with regular travel across UK

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations, including police, children’s social care staff, and corporate HR and community teams, to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner. We offer a whole range of training products, including accredited professional training (e.g. Idva, Ypva), accreditation of specialist DA services (Leading Lights), and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations.

Our training programme across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aims to create:

• user value: with learners who attend our training feeling more confident and better equipped to fulfil their role
• social value: with measures showing professionals who attend our training provide more effective interventions for those who experience abuse
• financial value: responsible for generating around a third of SafeLives’ annual incom

As the Senior Training Lead for SafeLives, you will help shape the SafeLives Training and Development programme, with responsibility for developing, delivering and continuing a range of courses from within our suite of training products, in collaboration with our team of Lead Trainers, Training Coordinators and our Associates. You will work to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers.

You will combine teamwork with working independently on a day-to-day basis at home, in SafeLives’ Bristol or London office and at training locations.

You will be responsible for leading and driving forward SafeLives Responding Well cultural change programmes, in particular our delivery of the DA Matters programme for police, developed in partnership with the College of Policing.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse across the UK.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days' holiday a year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with up to 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, 365 days a year access to Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle2Work scheme, flexible working

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

Closing date: Monday 8th February 2021 at 9am.

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

St Werburghs Community Association is in the final year of its current four year Business Plan. We are now working on organisational development, which includes Digital Project (commissioning of a new booking and service monitoring software), Strategy and Board Development, Marketing and Digital Inclusion Plan, Finance and HR training, as well as Team Building activities.

With current challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, such as loss of trading income and continuous demands on services we are looking for an experienced Strategy, Evaluation and Fundraising Associate to work with the Centre Team and Board of Trustees to complete an evaluation of existing work and plan for the imminent future assuring the Centre’s sustainability. The work will also include writing and submitting funding bids to ensure continuation of SWCA’s core services and further development of the organisation going into the next Business Plan period 2021-2025.

Applicants should be available for a period of 30 days between February and July 2021 to support the organisation. The timeframe greatly depends on the grants proposals and deadlines. All preparation, strategy sessions with the Board and evaluation of services will need to happen before the end of March 2021, with fundraising focus from April to July 2021.

About St Werburghs Community Association

Established in 1971, St Werburghs Community Association aims to manage the Community Centre building, develop its services and ensure it meets the demands, and needs, of local people. In 1999 the Association took over the management of the Centre from the local authority and completed Asset Transfer and an over £1m Capital Project in 2010, which resulted in construction of a four-room eco-friendly annexe, doubling up on the lettable spaces and making the main Victorian building more energy efficient and fully accessible. The Centre is one of Bristol’s busiest, most loved and inclusive community buildings.

In the last 10 years the Centre has grown from strength to strength, developing the facilities, which now include six large multipurpose rooms available to hire on hourly basis, a catering kitchen, seven office spaces, an outdoor seating, growing and play area, an Open Access Computer lab, a café and a central Reception from which SWCA delivers a range of Signposting and Advice services. Services we offer to meet community needs includes weekly cooking and gardening courses, one to one computer support, employability support/advice, Tai Chi, stay and play and much more. Most recently due to Covid-19 we have a telephone befriending service, food bank and a community outreach programme. There are volunteering opportunities to build skills and promote inclusion, we support local people in taking actions on issues which matter to them and link people to the support they need enabling them to achieve their goals. The Centre is available for private, social and business hire.

As a membership organisation, we have 200 active member groups who use the Centre for faith and cultural activities, training and education, exercise, dance and hobbies, as well as personal development and voluntary and charitable sector members, who work with local people.

Role and responsibilities

The Strategy, Fundraising and Evaluation Associate will support SWCA in building a sustainable financial, business, engagement and development plan. Experience in organisational development, finance, fundraising, business evaluation and strategy are key to this role. Plus excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills; good knowledge of the community business and voluntary sectors and a sound understanding of the different protected groups, of social and community inclusion.

Specific responsibilities include:

• taking part in a half a day induction to familiarise yourself with the organisation

• facilitation and drawing on learning (Business Plan) from two to four sessions with the Board of

  Trustees, and Management Team to include:

  1. exploring our development trust status,

  2. forming meaningful alliances with other organisations,

  3. improving engagement with local residents,

  4. communications with groups,

  5. partnership working with other organisations and

  6. evaluation summary of community response/action.

• analysis of income streams and scenarios in liaison with Finance Manager(trading vs grants).

• looking at possible different membership structures: individual members, community member groups

  and associate members, also young members.

• evaluation of current service provision work in liaison with the Centre operational teams.

• creating a 3-page document / web content describing SWCA, its vision, aims and objectives based on the evaluation of services in liaison with the Digital Communications and Marketing Officer.

• fundraising in liaison with the Centre Director and Finance Manager to include writing and submitting bids, working to deadlines and in line with our fundraising strategy.

Person specification

Essential

Business and strategic planning. 

Ability to engage, communicate with and work with trustees, staff and partners at all levels.

Ability to evaluate and assess an organisation’s activities and performance and recommend detailed next steps.

Fundraising and bid writing to trusts and ufoundations.

The ability to read financial accounts and financial uprojections/ budgets.

Proficiency with IT and computer-based  information systems.

Ability to work independently. 

Excellent analytical, written and verbal ucommunication skills.

Commitment to equal opportunities and ability to exercise this in practice.

Sound understanding of the community business and voluntary based sectors.

Desirable

Understanding of membership organisations.

Knowledge of governance models, legal frameworks, and best practice in accountability and reporting. 

Deadline

Noon 22nd January 2021

Application process

For further information or informal conversation please contact the Centre Director, Goska Ong.

Applicants will be contacted by 26th January and contracts for successful applicants will be agreed by 29th January 2021. Successful applicant will attend a paid induction/meeting with staff and trustees week commencing 1st February 2021 TBA.

This post is supported by Power to Change Business Development Support Grant.

• 3-4 days per week
• 6 month contract with a view to being made permanent after this period

Why do we need this role?

Müllers exists today to “Strengthen the Church to meet the needs of the vulnerable.” In all we do, we work to help Christians use their skills and influence for the benefit of the most disadvantaged people of our world. We do this through training, resourcing, praying, teaching, networking, mentoring and inspiring. None of this is possible without clear, helpful, effective, robust, honouring and proactive administration happening behind the scenes. In fulfilling the role of bookkeeper and administrator, you will play a key role of ensuring the internal health of Müllers is strong, therefore enabling those in need to experience the hope, love and wholeness on offer in Jesus.

Overview of role

As part of the Operations Team, you will be responsible for managing the records of our financial activities, carrying out routine bookkeeping tasks and following our financial processes to ensure the smooth running of the charity. In addition to this, you will be responsible for other important administrative tasks such as organising meetings, minute taking, events and reception duties. 

Our work

Last year, Müllers resourced 228 global partners through prayer and donating £1.4 million as they met the practical, financial, spiritual and health needs of the most vulnerable of our world. We taught a free, year long theology course to 22 students to inspire their faith and strengthen their minsitry. We equipped 49 youthworkers to engage with young people in Bristol. We saw record numbers visit our museum, we hosted workshops on caring for the elderly and mentored church leaders, all so we can continue to pursue George Müller's vision, "that it may be seen that God is faithful still and hears prayers still." Would you consider joining us to make future years even better?

For more information, download the job description or contact us via email.

HorseWorld Trust is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of abandoned, neglected and mistreated horses, ponies and donkeys, and giving them a second chance to have a happy life.

We also run our ground-breaking Discovery programme which unites some of our abandoned and mistreated horses with disadvantaged young people.  Founded in 2007, Discovery is now a well-established alternative learning provider, providing vital support to over 200 students each year and is seen as one of the leading equine-assisted learning programmes.

Founded in 1952, HorseWorld Trust (formerly The Friends of Bristol Horses Society) is located between Bristol and Bath.  Our dedicated team of staff care for around 100 horses, ponies and donkeys on site at our farm and provide after-care and support for around 200 more that have been re-homed throughout the South-West.

We have a great opportunity to join the charity as our Human Resources Manager, providing maternity cover for the next 12 months.  You will need previous HR and administration experience, excellent interpersonal skills and a good eye for detail.

For more details and to apply for this role please download the Role Profile/Person Specification and Application Form.

Wiltshire Citizens Advice is part of the network which delivers the Help to  Claim Service which offers end-to-end support to help people make a new Universal Credit claim and be ready for when their first payment arrives.

As part of this, there is a national network  of Best Practice Leads, to gather and share learning about how Universal Credit and the Help to Claim service is performing, develop relationships with relevant local stakeholders and share ideas and best practice. 

The role will work across a Jobcentre Plus district in Dorset, Hampshire, WIltshire and the Isle of Wight area to improve people’s experience of Universal Credit and Universal Support as well as feed into the wider Best Practice Lead network and work of national Citizens Advice.

You can be based anywhere in the region but must have the ability to travel to Wiltshire approximately 1 day per week.