Crm Manager Jobs in City Of London, England
ABOUT GET FURTHER
One in three students leave school each year without a pass in GCSE English and maths - this rises to over one in two for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Without GCSEs in English and maths, these young people are significantly more likely to drop out of education and are locked out of key professions, apprenticeships, and university courses.
Get Further exists to change this. Our charity has an award-winning tuition programme that helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds in further education to pass GCSEs in English or maths. We place highly qualified, specialist English and maths tutors in further education, who deliver a bespoke curriculum that builds confidence and skills in these core subjects.
OUR TEAM, CULTURE AND BENEFITS
Our central team comprises some 30 members, all motivated to reduce educational disadvantage and ensure young people get the gateway qualifications they need to succeed. We currently employ around 200 tutors. Our main office is in London, although we also have team members based across the country. We promote a supportive, collaborative, and positive working environment.
Benefits include:
- 36 days of holidays per year (including bank holidays)
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Flexible hybrid and remote working
- Quarterly ‘in-person’ team development days at our offices in London
- The opportunity to work in a progressive and socially conscious, growing organisation where we can have an outsized impact on its success and development.
THE ROLE
The Senior Data and Insights Officer will help us to demonstrate the importance of our tuition for young people and adults who are undertaking these foundational qualifications.
You will have strong attention-to-detail and will make sure our data is relevant, accurate and confidential. You will be skilled in data analysis and interpretation: able to draw out insights from data and be confident in writing – and communicating – impact for a variety of purposes and audiences.
As the Senior Data and Insights Officer you will work with the Director of Impact, within our Quality and Impact Team to:
Database Usage and Reporting
- Support our Salesforce Lead in creating reports and dashboards, ensuring all data is relevant, accurate and secure.
- Use our database management system to generate reports and data analysis for the Senior Leadership Team, and other internal colleagues, to support marketing campaigns, fundraising campaigns, statutory information requests and organisational insight.
- Prepare reports for college partners, funders, and the Board, which set out our data, findings and impact, clearly and accurately.
- • Confidently write about insights and findings from our data, generating learnings and recommendations for the organisation and other stakeholders.
Internal and External Evaluations
- Support the Director of Impact in developing assessment frameworks to robustly measure our impact and designing dissemination plans, to best harness and communicate that impact.
- Oversee and implement internal evaluation activity, for example, finalising student surveys, focus group and interview tools.
- Review and enhance data collection tools, process, analysis, and reporting.
- Undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis of our evaluation data; and use the data to make recommendations to improve programme quality.
- Review and keep abreast of literature and research in the further education, wider education, tuition and research landscape. You will share and apply learnings to our evaluation processes and programme delivery.
- Manage large research projects with external evaluators.
Policy, Compliance & Quality Assurance
- Support our ongoing compliance with GDPR across the organisation, as well as upholding our safeguarding frameworks.
- Implement policies and procedures relating to GDPR and ensure those policies are adhered to across the organisation.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL
- Commitment to Get Further’s mission and values, including passionate about tackling educational inequality.
- Familiarity with database systems, like Salesforce (or able and interested in learning to use a database management system).
- Skilled in data analysis: able to use complex data to produce accurate, insightful and engaging findings and recommendations.
- Research experience e.g. designing qualitative and quantitative instruments, survey design, knowledge of research designs (QED, RCT), ethical considerations, participatory research.
- IT skills e.g. MS Office (Word and Excel) and also data analytics software like Tableau and PowerBi.
- Project management experience: excellent at planning and managing projects, tracking key deliverables, overseeing budgets and financial controls.
- Knowledge of GDPR requirements, policies, processes and organisational compliance.
- Strong attention to detail, prioritises precision and accuracy.
- Problem-solver: enjoys troubleshooting and demonstrates a ‘solution-oriented’ approach.
- Excellent communication skills (including written and verbal skills).
- Excellent interpersonal skills: is proactive, enthusiastic, resilient and supportive team member.
- Organised, excellent time management and can work well independently.
- Committed to safeguarding the young people we work with via compliance with safeguarding frameworks and keeping confidential / sensitive information secure.
DESIRABLE
- Familiarity with the FE sector.
- Has experience of and/or overseen research trials (e.g. Randomised Control Trials or Quasi-Experimental Designs).
HOW TO APPLY
Your application must include:
- A CV of no more than 2 sides of A4; and
- A supporting statement which includes your answers to the following three questions:
- Why do you want to work for Get Further? (250 words);
- Please demonstrate your relevant skills and experience, as related to the three aspects of the role(600 words):
- Database Usage and Reporting;
- Internal and External Evaluations;
- Policy, Compliance and Quality Assurance.
- If your application is successful, what two aspects of the role would be the biggest challenge for you, and how would you resolve these challenges? (250 words)
Please send your application by 10pm on 16th June. Incomplete applications will not be processed. First round online interviews will be held during the w/c 24th June, followed by a second in-person interview the w/c 1st July 2024.
This is a UK-based post and applicants must be living in and have the right to work the UK; if applicable please detail your visa status in your covering email. Get Further is an equal opportunities employer and will not discriminate against any candidate on the basis of any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made throughout the recruitment process.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the PVRI
We’re a small charity with a global reach and an important purpose: to reduce the burden of pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) - a serious condition that can lead to heart damage and trigger symptoms like breathlessness, chest pain, fatigue, poor growth, fainting, and light-headedness. PVD can reduce both quality of life and length of life, but it isn’t widely recognised or well-understood.
Our aim is to improve clinical care, education, and PVD research. To do this, we bring together an international network of thousands of clinicians, scientists, academics, and industry partners supported by our small team based in Bermondsey, London. Together, we deliver conferences, e-learning, and an academic journal, raise awareness of PVD, and encourage collaboration in research.
About the role
We are seeking a Marketing Officer to help grow and service the charity's international membership, increase the value of our membership offer, increase our income, and deliver our e-learning programmes. You’ll help ensure our members are informed about the latest developments and learning opportunities, and they’re valued for their contributions to the PVRI. No two days are the same. One day, you might be writing content for our website and social media channels, and the next, you might be welcoming respected speakers and attendees from over 30 countries to our scientific webinar.
We are looking for someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. You’ll need to create successful marketing plans and grow our membership. You will also bring excellent organizational skills and the ability to coordinate high-quality webinars.
If this sounds like you, we can’t wait to hear from you!
What we can offer
We offer a 35-hour working week and flexible working, a positive learning culture, international travel, and opportunities for you to learn and grow in your role. And for those who prefer hybrid working, we’re based in a vibrant, sociable office space close to London Bridge and Borough Market. You will need to be able to travel to London for the occasional meeting.
The PVRI celebrates diversity and is committed to equality and inclusion in our recruitment practices and ways of working. If you’re excited about our mission and can bring talent and enthusiasm to our cause, we’d love to hear from you.
How to apply
To apply for the role, please send us your CV and a supporting statement (max 850 words) outlining what you could bring to the role and referencing the Person Specification. Please send these, together with the Equalities Monitoring Form to Katie Corris by 09:00 on Wednesday 19 June.
PVRI is a Registered Charity, number 1127115
Prospect Research Manager (Corporate Partnerships)
Contract: 12 Months, Fixed term contract, Fulltime, Maternity Cover
Salary: £39,358 - £41,325 with excellent benefits
Location: London, UK
Hybrid Working: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in the London office or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London, and this will be your location and contract base.
About WaterAid:
Want to use your skills in Corporate Partnerships to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?
We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference. Join WaterAid as Prospect Research Manager (Corporate Partnerships) to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.
About the Team:
The Corporate Partnerships team fosters relationships with companies with a view to driving and encouraging high-value donations, strategic action in supply chains, employee fundraising activities, fundraising products and commercial opportunities, including cause-related marketing and mass participation events. In developing new and existing partnerships the team also initiates dialogue and collaboration on policy and influencing, advocacy and technical service delivery.
About the Role:
You will lead on the development and delivery of a prospect research strategy to support the strategic development of our partnership portfolio. In collaboration with the Senior Partnership Development Manager you will develop and implement a prospect research strategy to grow partnerships and income. You will also oversee all aspects of the prospect pipeline process and present monthly KPI reports to the Partnership Development team, liaising with the Performance and Insights team as required to adapt reports to meet the team's needs.
You will maintain a strong role in understanding and promoting the role of research in enabling our fundraising teams to maximise donor engagement and income, through informed prospect identification, cultivation and stewardship.
More specifically, this includes:
- Proactively identifying prospects that have a strong fit with our strategy in terms of alignment and capacity to give
- Building and managing the prospect pipeline across the team, and leading on 'moves management' to ensure we are effectively managing and supporting potential and existing prospects to have a great experience
- Ensuring our prospect development strategy is understood consistently across the wider Strategic Partnerships team
- Providing recommendations on how to engage prospects, considering motivations and existing networks
- Producing research profiles, reports and biographical briefings
- Developing and utilising internal and external prospect research databases and network mapping systems to identify sources of warm prospects
- Identifying relevant events for Partnership Development Managers to attend for networking and/or insight-gathering purposes, and developing detailed briefs on events speakers and attendees
- Ensuring quality control of prospect research processes and documentation
- Recommending appropriate and cost-effective research tools and manage this part of the expenditure budget.
About you:
- Educated to degree-level/equivalent educational standard, or significant equivalent work experience
- Strong understanding of the role of research in good prospect management, cultivation and stewardship (in commercial or not-for-profit environment)
- Experience carrying out prospect research for corporate partnerships using relevant databases and research tools
- Very strong research and analytical skills, including ability to produce detailed and insightful profiles and network lists for prospective individual and organisation partners
- Ability to analyse complex information and communicate clearly and credibly for delivery to a variety of audiences in written reports, presentations and meetings
- Stakeholder management knowhow to build and maintain great working relationships at all levels, and influence, internally and externally
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with ability to work under own initiative to meet deadlines and prioritise conflicting deadlines successfully
- Proven ability to translate understanding of business requirements into relevant market research audience insights, with ability to spot, interpret and identify opportunities from market trends
- Experience of using a fundraising or customer relationship management database (at WaterAid we use Microsoft Dynamics).
- Commitment to WaterAid's values (Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, Courage, Innovation, Integrity) and a working style that reflects these.
Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 16th June 2024. Availability for the interview is required week commencing 24th June 2024.
How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter in one document in either Word Document or PDF format.
Pre-employment screening: To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. All our vacancies require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.
- 36 days' holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
- We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement
- Season Ticket Loan
- Free annual eye tests
- Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
- Sabbaticals
- Volunteer Day
Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose - where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.
Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.
Safeguarding:
We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.
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Carers Welfare Benefits Advisor
Salary: £28,600 per annum
Full-time: 5 days per week. Part time applicants will be considered.
Contract: 2 year contract
Location: London, United Kingdom
Organisation Overview:
Unpaid carers are the unsung heroes in our communities, supporting relatives, friends, and neighbours, often with limited or no support, to live the best lives they can.
The Carers Centre, Tower Hamlets is a small, committed organisation dedicated to supporting unpaid carers through a variety of specialist services, from social and therapeutic activities to emotional, mentoring, advocacy, and signposting support. We aim to enrich and empower unpaid carers’ lives, providing them with the support they so selflessly give to others. We are now recruiting to our team a new colleague to join our experienced Welfare Benefits Team.
Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of unpaid carers? Do you have a strong background in benefits advise work and a desire to support those who selflessly care for others? We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Carers Welfare Benefits Advisor to join our team in Tower Hamlets, London.
About Us:
We recognise the vital role that unpaid carers play in our community. Our mission is to provide unwavering support to these individuals who tirelessly care for someone living with a long-term health condition. We are committed to ensuring that unpaid carers receive the essential information and assistance they need to access the welfare benefits and services they deserve.
Position Overview:
As a Welfare Benefits Advisor for Unpaid Carers, you will be a pivotal advocate for individuals who provide care without financial compensation. Your role will involve providing personalised guidance on available benefits and entitlements, aiding in benefit applications, and offering emotional support to unpaid carers. By empowering them with crucial resources, you'll play a pivotal role in improving their well-being and quality of life.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct thorough assessments to determine unpaid carers' eligibility for benefits.
- Offer clear and empathetic explanations of available benefits and support services.
- Assist unpaid carers in navigating the application process with accuracy and efficiency.
- Maintain detailed and confidential records of client interactions.
- Co-deliver occassional workshops and information sessions to raise awareness about benefits and available assistance.
- With organisational support. stay updated on changes in benefits policies to provide accurate and up-to-date information.
Qualifications:
- Previous experience in benefits advisory, social work, or a related field is advantageous.
- Familiarity with benefits available to unpaid carers and their specific eligibility criteria.
- Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to convey information clearly and compassionately.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a patient, understanding attitude.
- Attentive to details and proficient in maintaining accurate records and documentation.
- Empathetic attitude and a dedicated commitment to supporting unpaid carers.
- Able to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Proficient in relevant computer applications and software.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunities for continuous professional development and training.
- Inclusive and supportive work environment.
- The gratification of making a significant difference in the lives of unpaid carers.
Application Process:
To apply, please submit your updated CV accompanied by a cover letter that outlines your pertinent experience and motivation for applying for this role. The application deadline is 19/06/2024, we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the advert early.
Join us in making a substantial difference in the lives of unpaid carers. Become part of our team and help us provide crucial support to those who give so much to others.
The Carers Centre, Tower Hamlets is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.
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We are seeking a motivated and organised Business Support Officer to join our dedicated team. This role is essential in ensuring the smooth running of our operations and supporting our mission to positively impact lives through water based activities.
Key Responsibilities:
· Administrative Support: Assist with day to day administrative tasks, including data entry, document management and correspondence.
· Financial Record Keeping: Maintain accurate financial records, process invoices, and assist with budget tracking.
· Event Coordination: Help organise and coordinate vents, workshops, and activities.
· Stakeholders Communication: Liaise with donors, volunteers, and participants to foster positive relationships.
· Office Management: Manage office supplies, equipment, and facilities to ensure a productive work environment.
· Report Preparation: Assist in the preparation of reports, and presentations.
· General Support: Provide support to various departments and team members as needed and carry out any other reasonable tasks as required by the Outreach and Relationship Manager.
Qualifications:
· Previous administrative or office support experience
· Strong organisational and multitasking skills
· Proficiency in Microsoft Office
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· A passion for our charity's mission and values.
A chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of disadvantaged individuals
The AHOY Centre's mission is to use watersports as a medium for transforming lives, providing opportunities for personal development, and education.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
BRAC’s office in Europe provides vital support for BRAC’s development work around the world through fundraising and communications, building impactful, long-term relationships with partners, whether they be foundations, companies, Governments or major donors. BRAC office in Europe also plays a key role in engaging with and influencing policymakers and practitioners to tackle extreme poverty across Europe.
To achieve its ambitious goal, BRAC is seeking partnerships with like-minded organisations and allies across Europe. It has an ambitious target to grow its funding from the European market to GBP 100 million over the next 24 months. To achieve its ambition BRAC is building a specialised team of partnerships specialist to be based across key European markets i.e. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, UK and Switzerland.
The Foundations Officer will work as part of the Partnerships team and focus on delivering income targets from trusts, foundations and corporates. The Foundations Officer plays a pivotal role in advancing BRAC’s mission by stewarding partnerships with philanthropic and corporate foundations and creating new business opportunities to deliver on BRAC’s mission.
Send your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 pages.
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of submitting your application then you have not been selected. Closing date: 3 June 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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At Bookmark Reading Charity, we exist to change children’s life stories through the joy of reading. Volunteers are vital to our ongoing success at Bookmark and our team are focused on providing them with a positive and rewarding volunteer experience. As a Volunteer Coordinator, you will play a key role in the communications with, support for and retention of volunteers. You will also help develop the volunteer experience across the organisation, ensuring continuity and quality in our volunteer involvement practices.
Primary Responsibilities
- Work with the Volunteer Services Manager to deliver the Volunteer Strategy and Bookmark’s vision
- Deliver mechanisms to maintain or improve volunteer activeness , satisfaction and retention
- Act as primary contact for volunteers, supporting with enquiries and concerns
- Deliver ongoing volunteer stewardship and recognition functions
- Coordinate and facilitate the delivery of events and drop-in sessions for prospective, onboarding and onboarded volunteers
- Deliver continuous development and coordination of other support services, including but not limited to our volunteer messaging platform, engagement resources and the Volunteer Helpline
- Facilitate peer-to-peer engagement opportunities for volunteers
- Conduct, report and advise on volunteer feedback and insights
- Support with delivery of Volunteer Advisory Board
- Support with creation and delivery of volunteer marketing and publicity opportunities
- Deliver prospective and current volunteer communications
- Deliver ongoing volunteer problem-solving and complaints functions
- Provide volunteer references upon request
- Operate recurring volunteer data and reporting functions
- Operate bespoke volunteer programming, including single session delivery
- Liaise with Schools Team to communicate and action feedback and requests
- Manage volunteer vetting and training update procedures
- Deliver ad hoc volunteer engagement functions
- Input and maintain accurate and up-to-date information on our systems, including Salesforce CRM and SharePoint
- Assist Application Support Team to deliver volunteer interviews and processing during periods of high volunteer application volume
- Any other reasonable duties, as required
Person specification
Essential
- Experience of supporting volunteers
- Understanding of the external volunteering environment and relevant implications for volunteering and service delivery
- Excellent organisation and project planning skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience with safeguarding procedures
- Enthusiastic, professional and positive approach with a strong customer service ethos
- Structured problem-solving approach with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and contribute as part of a team
- Ability to be persuasive, motivating and empathetic when liaising with volunteers and staff
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (particularly Outlook, Excel and Word)
- Passionate about our vision and mission
Desirable
- Salesforce and / or SharePoint experience
- Data-driven approach
- Customer service or client support experience
- Experience involving volunteers in youth or academic settings
- Understanding of the legislative and regulatory requirements relevant to volunteers
- Familiarity with the Investing in Volunteers (IIV) quality standard
- Experience as a volunteer
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Hybrid – Farringdon, London/Home based
Closing date: 9th June 2024
Ref 6726
We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer to join the Start Network within our Humanitarian Department to support the ongoing MEAL activities for the Start Funds to enhance its performance, learning, and accountability.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the Team
Start Network is an independent charity made up of more than 80 aid agency members across five continents, including international, national and local organisations.
Our aim is to deliver more effective emergency aid, harnessing the power and knowledge of the network to make faster and better decisions to help people affected by crises. We advocate for radical change in the global aid system so that the world can deal better with the humanitarian challenges of today, and of the future. Our work focuses on three areas to change the system:
- Localisation – shifting power to those closest to the front line to enable more effective and appropriate responses.
- New forms of financing – providing fast, early, and dependable funding, to help communities to become more resilient to crises.
- Collective innovation – testing new ways of working and sharing learning and expertise to build a more effective humanitarian system.
The Start Funds MEAL Officer will work with colleagues within both SCUK and Start Network. Previously (until May 2019) Start Network and Start Funds and Programmes were hosted by Save the Children UK (SCUK) since its creation in 2012. The position sits within Save the Children UK as a Grant Custodian on behalf of the Start Network supported by a Grant Custodian Agreement (GCA) which describes the roles and commitments of each entity.
For more information on the SCUK and Start Network arrangements please refer to the FAQ document here.
About the role
The Start Network funds have a robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) portfolio to strengthen evidence-based learning, performance and overall accountability towards the people affected by or at-risk of crises, donors, members, and partners.
Reporting to the Crisis Financing MEAL Lead, the Start Funds MEAL Officer will play an important role to support the ongoing MEAL activities for the Start Funds to enhance its performance, learning, and accountability.
The role will provide an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic rapid humanitarian financing mechanism and learn about various innovative and practical MEAL initiatives in the humanitarian sectorThis is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a dynamic rapid humanitarian financing mechanism and learn about various innovative and practical MEAL initiatives in the humanitarian sector.
In this role, you will:
Performance
- Support development, monitoring, and reporting of Start Funds' Key Performance Indicators and related metrics used in donor reporting, Start Fund Committee meetings and in other external fora as required.
- Strengthen management information systems and processes for data quality, storage and visualisation.
- Contribute towards the identification and implementation of diverse and innovative approaches to MEAL.
- Coordinate with the Communications and Membership Engagement teams to develop and widely disseminate learning outputs produced by the MEAL team.
Accountability
- Deliver and enhance Start Funds' quality, accountability and monitoring practices to members, partners and affected populations by conducting Learning Exchanges, reviewing project report forms and carrying out project assessments
- Manage Learning Grant processes and outputs in coordination with MEAL Advisor
Knowledge
- Contribute towards continuous improvement of technical quality, processes and outputs of Start Funds MEAL including, but not limited to, the development of methodological guidelines, MEAL tools and approaches.
- Produce and support various thematic research, reviews, studies and learning products according to the MEAL work plan.
- Support capacity building activities for the Start Funds Programme team and the wider and membership for relevant themes such as data quality, evidence-based programming etc.
- Support the MEAL Advisor in business development activities including the scaling-up of the Start Funds.
About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:
- Previous experience delivering MEAL for humanitarian or development programmes
- Excellent data analysis skills
- Proven experience of embracing new approaches, technology and ways of working
- Experience of using qualitative and quantitative analysis software
- Experience of using Salesforce or other customer relationship management (CRM) system
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present data and evidence in a user-friendly form and to stakeholders at different levels
- Demonstrable experience of strong teamwork capabilities and collaboration
- Undergraduate degree, ideally in social science, research methods, humanitarian response or related fields
- Language skills - working proficiency in Spanish
To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
This is an exciting time to join our International Society, and to take the next steps in your career within a small proactive team: we are at a critical stage of development of ISAPS Education, putting finishing touches to a new website, and working on a new Learning Management System and training curriculum, to build on our extensive resources for medical professionals globally.
Working closely with the Head of Digital and Education Projects to develop and manage ISAPS website and our portfolio of e-learning and education for our members and their patients across the globe you will play a key role in creating high quality digital resources, and in building our relationships with stakeholders internationally.
About you
Educated to degree level, with strong relevant experience in online digital systems and education, you will enjoy a broad and varied workload and be comfortable working at pace, and on your own initiative. You are self-motivated, proactive, adaptable, solutions focused with highly developed interpersonal skills.
We would like to hear from candidates who understand the design and production of digital content, and have excellent organisation and communication skills to enable them to work on multiple projects concurrently. You will enjoy and embrace the opportunities of working remotely and collaboratively with our team and our community of international medical professionals alike.
Key attributes of the successful applicant will include:
- Experience in the design and production of digital education content using relevant tools
- Passion for delivering high quality and well-designed digital content for educational purposes
- Comfortable at managing multiple (and learning new) digital systems (CMS / LMS / CRM etc)
- Strong motivation, time-management and communication skills, able to work effectively remotely and see tasks through to completion
- Exceptional organisation and prioritisation to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Strong motivation and customer orientation: equally skilled at developing relationships and managing systems
- Solutions focused: able to analyse and evaluate needs quickly
- Accurate worker with high attention to detail
Whilst English is the official language of ISAPS, other European languages may also be an advantage.
For further information on the role and access to a detailed job description please click the apply button.
Tenure: Full Time (5 days per week), Permanent
Salary: £30,000 - £33,000, depending on experience
Location: Home working, ability to travel to London for team meetings 1-4 times per month
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays, plus a 3 day allowance available after one year, for office closure (usually over New Year).
- Matched Pension Plan: we will match up to 6% of your chosen contribution
- The opportunity for growth, responsibility and ownership
- A friendly small team environment where your opinion is valued
- An annual appraisal including a personal development review, and the opportunity for training
- Hybrid working: primarily home based with option to use our London desk space
Process:
Apply online with CV and personal statement / cover letter, explaining your suitability for the role, giving your current remuneration and notice period and confirming your availability for interview.
Deadline: 9am Wednesday 5th June
Interviews:Initial: 6&7 June via Zoom.Final TBC: 19/20 June in person.
Since the position is available immediately, we may request informal conversations with high calibre candidates as applications are received. We will also request some assessment tasks to be completed as part of our shortlisting process. If you do not hear from us within 28 days of our closing date you may assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
You may have experience of the following: Digital & Education Project Officer, Digital Education Projects Officer, Education Projects Officer, Education & Digital Projects Officer, Digital Learning & Education Coordinator, E-Learning & Education Projects Coordinator, Digital Education Programme Coordinator, Education Technology Project Coordinator, Digital Learning and Development Coordinator, etc.
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Are you a talented communicator with multi-channel digital skills keen to join a growing organisation that makes a big impact on the lives of people in need of advice? Charity People is delighted to be partnering with AdviceUK at a time of investment in their team, and is recruiting for a Marketing and Communications Officer on their behalf.
In this brand-new role as Marketing and Communications Officer you will work closely with the Marketing and Communications Manager to deliver the charity's marketing and communications activities using a multi-channel approach to reach diverse audiences. You will work collaboratively across the organisation to ensure that all activities support the organisation's brand and reflect its vision and mission.
Salary: £27,365 to 28,750 plus Regional Weighting (up to £4,454 in London). All staff also receive £600 per year work from home allowance.
Contract: Two year fixed-term contract, 35 hours per week
Location: Remote home based role with a small amount of travel four days per year to staff days. This is a national role and we encourage applicants from across the UK to apply.
Key responsibilities within this role will be as follows:
* Develop resources and digital content to support AdviceUK's marketing and communications programme, including emails, case studies, images, infographics, media toolkits, vlogs, blogs, articles and web content
* Work with the Marketing and Communications Manager to develop and take lead responsibility for a comprehensive social media strategy that supports AdviceUK to increase awareness of its work and grow engagement with members and stakeholders
* Support consistent application of AdviceUK's brand by developing resources for staff to use and providing guidance to staff, members and partners
* Support the regular promotion of member benefits to AdviceUK's diverse membership communities, ensuring members are aware of benefits and how to access them
* Deliver agreed projects that promote the organisation's products and services, and propose improvements
* Support the development of AdviceUK's websites and member portal
* Support AdviceUK's programme of events attendance
* Deliver any required analysis of data and reporting to support decision making
We'd love to hear from you if you feel you have the following skills and experience:
* Prior experience of delivering marketing and communications activities in a similar role, ideally within a charity or membership setting
* Experience of delivering effective digital marketing campaigns including utilising social media, website, content channels and video
* Experience of producing email marketing including newsletters, as well as of developing a range of digital content including video and infographics
* Experience of monitoring the impact of marketing activity
* Ability to work with a range of digital tools including Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot), Wordpress, Google Analytics, Salesforce (or other CRM), as well as Canva, Loom and the Adobe Creative Suite ideally
* Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and creativity
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage own workload
If you're as excited by this opportunity as we are, then we'd love to hear from you. Please send a copy of your profile or CV to Alice Wood at Charity People as the first step.
Closing date: 6th June
Interviews, to be held in person in London (travel costs will be reimbursed): 13th and 14th June
Please get in touch as soon as possible if you are interested, we would love to begin conversations with interested candidates early.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
About the role:
Kinship is in our third year of delivering the first national peer support service for kinship carers in England. We are looking for a new Associate Director of Peer Support and Community to build and develop our model and to take the team to the next phase of growth and impact.
Your first priority will be to oversee delivery of the Department for Education national Peer Support Service contract in England. You will lead the development of our hub and spoke model, with an enhanced offer of national resources and support together with a continued focus on on-the-ground support for kinship carers to set up and sustain a network of peer support groups. You will ensure all members of the team have clarity and are empowered to meet new targets and ways of working.
The role will also lead on the strategic development of peer support approaches in Wales (for which we are seeking funding), ensuring innovation and good practice is shared across the nations.
Kinship peer support groups are powerful levers for change in local, regional and national ecosystems. Your team will ensure that every kinship carer in England and Wales has access to a peer support group, or support to set up and create their own. The team will be purposeful about offering developmental support to all kinship peer support groups, including independent groups, ensuring they remain or become sustainable. And that they have resources, training and peer networks to support this.
Reflecting our strategic focus on developing our Kinship Community of more than 10,000 kinship carers across England and Wales, you will lead a new community strategy, co-ordinating the development of opportunities for community connection and community power. This will include taking leadership for developing the Kinship model of community engagement and integrating across all our ‘in person’ and digital services and activities.
You will ensure a collaborative approach with services, alignment with national and local campaigning activity, and work closely with marketing and communications colleagues to support kinship carer reach and engagement with our community offer.
We’re taking an integrated approach to our services, so you’ll collaborate well across teams to ensure that support groups and their leaders have easy access to high quality advice, information and training. The team will need to work closely with colleagues delivering our new training and support contract, funded by the Department for Education.
Key responsibilities include:
- Innovation of the Peer Support Service.
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Develop and rollout peer support and community strategy and operational plan.
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Implement monitoring and evaluation and impact tools for timely and accurate reporting of activity and engagement.
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Work with the Development team to develop proposals for the community and peer support which are ready for fundraising and business development.
Essential requirements include:
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Substantial experience in scaling a national service or programme with high quality outputs. This includes overseeing delivery, strategic planning, budgeting, managing delivery, meeting KPIs, stakeholder engagement and reporting to funders.
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Experience of governance and managing risk on high profile service delivery.
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Experience of effective budget management.
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Significant experience of leading the development and delivery of peer support services.
Key dates:
- Deadline - 9am on Monday 10 June 2024
- 1st interview - Friday 14 June 2024 (online) - TBC
- 2nd interview - Tuesday 18 June 2024 (in-person) - TBC
How to apply:
We will ask you for your CV and to respond to the following five questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together until the end and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question. You will have max 250 words per answer.
Questions for application (along with CV):
1. Outline why you want to work at Kinship in this role, and how your values align to the Kinship ones? Please include a bit about your experience in this section.
2. Please give one example of when you have had to develop from scratch OR innovate a national service. Please include what the service budget was, what you did and what the outcome was.
3. This service is a high-profile contract, funded by the Department for Education. Targets and SLAs need to be met while providing impact for kinship carers. Please give a previous example of how you’ve delivered and met targets with high quality outputs.
4. You’ll be leading a team who has been through a restructure, with new staff starting and a new model to develop and embed. You will need to work at pace, while providing strong leadership and clarity to the team. How would you approach the first three months, what will you prioritise and what will you need?
5. Given the strategic ambition of Kinship, the context in which we work and this role as Associate Director of Peer Support and Community, where do you see the opportunities and risks for the service in the next 1-2 years? How would you prepare or mitigate them?
We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Job description – Team and Office Assistant
Job title: Team and Office Assistant
Reports to: Senior Manager
Salary: £21,000 to £24,000 depending on experience
Location: High Holborn, London
The term: Permanent
Hours: Full time
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) is a charity and membership society that has been dedicated to improving tropical medicine and global health since 1907.
Our ambition is to save lives and improve health around the world through increased access to greater equity in global health care. Through our activities we help further our members’ careers. We also bring together their collective knowledge and use our own expertise to achieve change within the sector.
We are looking for a motivated individual to join us as Team and Office Assistant, effectively supporting the small but busy RSTMH Team by providing proactive and comprehensive support across our key areas of work.
The role will require someone who preferably has some experience of providing support to a busy team (preferably within the charity/not-for-profit sector), who is flexible, has excellent time management skills and is able work on own initiative. The successful candidate will be working across various RSTMH activities, including membership, journals, events, Early Career Grants, and communications; therefore, they will need to be efficient and organised, with strong computer skills and a professional outlook.
The Role:
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships across RSTMH.
- To ensure that all general, email, telephone and written enquiries are dealt with efficiently and promptly.
- To support with the management of the RSTMH office and offices processes
- To undertake electronic and paper filing and maintaining filing systems appropriately
- To support with team planning, scheduling and social events and activities
- To assist with the management and promotion of the RSTMH meeting room.
- To support with financial administration
- To support the planning of RSTMH events, including handling delegate registration enquiries via telephone and email, collating event packs and materials, and conducting desk research on the cost and availability of venues and caterers.
- To attend RSTMH events, assisting with Zoom support on online events, and assisting as necessary at in person events.
- To assist with the administration associated with the RSTMH Early Career Grants programme, which includes analysing key data and helping produce reports for the team, our Committees and donors.
- Taking a role in the processes to select grant awardees including helping perform due diligence on the potential awardees
- To support the Communications Manager in scheduling and sourcing content for social media
- To support on the website by uploading and editing content through the CMS
- To help create and send the fortnightly member newsletter and the monthly non-member newsletter
- To support the Communications Manager in creating content to be shared across RSTMH communications channels
- To assist with communications planning
- To be responsible for the general administration and upkeep of RSTMH’s online opportunities platform, grow
- To support with strategies to increase members of RSTMH,
- To assist with enquiries from current and prospective members in a professional, timely manner, to agreed service targets.
- To support ensuring membership data is up to date using Civi CRM
- To prepare social media copy to promote newly accepted articles in the RSTMH journals
- To assist with enquiries from authors, reviewers and editorial board members in a professional, timely manner, to agreed service targets.
- To support the Managing Editor in ensuring manuscripts submitted to the journals are processed in a timely manner.
- To ensure that all assigned tasks are completed to a high standard.
- To participate in team meetings, planning and initiatives
- To undertake any other reasonable tasks as could be expected of a Team and Office Assistant
Essential Technical Skills:
- Ability to manage a diverse set of priorities and meet deadlines to a consistently high standard
- Capacity to set up and maintain administrative processes and office systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong understanding of delivering great customer service
- Good analytical skills with the ability to identify key points from complex material or information
- Experience of being responsible for initiating, planning, and developing own areas of work
- High computer literacy and confidence with Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel
- Exceptional use of written and spoken English
- Experience providing administration support, preferably in an office environment.
Personal Skills:
- Ability to work with a wide range of people whilst presenting a professional image on behalf of RSTMH
- Ability to be calm under pressure and help build a collaborative team culture
- Flexibility and willingness to work under own initiative
- Discretion when dealing with confidential information
- Willingness to undertake other responsibilities and an eagerness to learn
- A demonstrated commitment to and interest in the aims and objectives of RSTMH
Desirable Skills:
- Filing experience
- Experience of working with databases
- Professional, polite, and confident telephone manner
- Experience of working in events
Please submit your application form by the 5th of July 4pm BST. We encourage you to apply as early as possible as we will be reviewing and interviewing candidates as they submit, and so may close recruitment before the deadline.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
No agencies please.
Location: Remote (based in England & Wales with occasional travel required)
Salary: £33,065 - £36,380 pro rata
Hours of work: Full-time (open to 4 days part-time)
Contract type: Permanent
Why work for Kids Matter?
- Generous annual leave – 25 days (plus bank holidays) per year pro rata, with time off between Christmas and New Year's additional to this allowance.
- Remote working contribution – receive £40/month pro rata towards the costs of working from home and/or using a co-working space.
- Access to coaching sessions, training opportunities and our Employee Assistance Programme (a confidential support service for staff).
- Flexible working across weekdays to suit your schedule.
About us
Kids Matter is one of the UK’s fastest growing children’s charities.
Our vision is to see every child in need raised in a strong family. Our mission is to reduce the impact of poverty on children through community-based parenting programmes.
Research shows that group-based early intervention parenting groups are the most effective way to support children in need. We train peer facilitators in local churches - the largest voluntary body in the country - to run our affordable, accessible and highly effective parenting programmes, written by Clinical Psychologists. They come alongside parents and carers, building long-lasting community in addition to encouraging confidence and learning positive parenting skills.
We value difference and diversity, and we want our workplace to be built on shared values of equality and mutual trust, with team members representing the wide range of backgrounds and experiences that exist within the UK. We therefore actively encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds and varied experiences, particularly those who are African, Afro-Caribbean, Asian or part of other minority ethnic communities, who have lived experience of the impact of low-income/low-support circumstances, and who are living with a disability or identify as being neurodivergent.
About the role
The Partnership Development Lead role involves:
- Shaping and delivering Kids Matter’s national partnerships strategy
- Pioneering, networking and building relationships with church networks & denominations across the UK
- Engaging churches & charities on the journey to partnership
About you
Do you love sharing vision and motivating others for a cause? Are you a strategic thinker and confident delivering outcomes? Can you build relationships and network effectively with church networks and charities across the country? Are you a Christian with an active faith in Jesus? Do you have a passion for Kids Matter’s vision of seeing every child in need raised in a strong family?
Then we would love to hear from you!
How to apply
You can apply for the Partnership Development Lead position by clicking ‘Apply via Website’ and completing a copy of our online application form.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 10th June 2024. All successful and unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email.
We also ask for all applicants to submit an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, which will be sent to you to complete following the submission of your application. This form will be used for anonymous analysis to ensure our overall recruitment procedures are fair and transparent. It will never be viewed or used as part of the selection process. It is optional to submit this form.
If you have any questions, please refer to our recruitment FAQs document. If you would like any application and interview support or you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please contact Katie Washington (Operations Assistant).
Please see the job pack for more details on the role and application process.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Data Operations Officer
Contract: Permanent, Fulltime, 35 hours per week
Salary: £39,358 - £41,325 with excellent benefits
Location: London, UK
Hybrid Working: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
About WaterAid:
Want to use your skills in data to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?
We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.
Join WaterAid as a Data Operations Officer to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.
About the Team:
The WaterAid Data Operations Team works in close collaboration with colleagues in the wider Community and Fundraising directorate as well as Finance, and the team plays a vital role ensuring that WaterAid UK adopts an insight-led and data-driven approach to maximising return on investment in fundraising and campaigning activity.
The Data Operations Team is responsible for the day-to-day running of WaterAid's CRM and Integration Hub. This responsibility requires that the team manage the input of data from external sources (import files from multiple agencies) via the Integration Hub and for the output of key financial processes such as the Gift Aid and Direct Debit claims, while ensuring that the systems are always available to end-users and that security and access are managed in accordance with best practice.
The team also hosts the Data Support function, providing resolution to most Data Operations related cases and allocating cases to other members of the wider department where appropriate.
About the Role:
As our positive and proactive Data Operations Officer you will play a crucial role in ensuring that key processes are efficiently executed and help to coordinate incoming support requests to the team. You will play a key role in ensuring the integrity and accuracy of WaterAid's fundraising data, carrying out data quality checks and financial reconciliation.
You'll also be responsible for carrying out key financial processes from the database, such as Direct Debit and Gift Aid claims. We're looking for someone who is motivated and enthusiastic, with a high attention to detail and the ability to use their initiative to solve problems.
About You:
- Experience of working with data in a relational database
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent IT skills, with advanced experience of using Microsoft Excel and Word
- A solid understanding of the Direct Debit Scheme and Gift Aid
- Good understanding of fundraising products.
Although not essential, we also prefer you to have:
- Experience of using Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Experience of using a helpdesk application, with an ability to use initiative to prioritise effectively and provide support to colleagues.
- Experience of submitting Direct Debits to Bacs.
- Knowledge of HMRC Gift Aid regulations.
- Knowledge of SQL, SSMS and their application.
Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 30th June 2024. Shortlisting and interviews may take place on a rolling basis and the application process will close if a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date.
How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.
Pre-employment screening: To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. All our vacancies require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.
Our Benefits:
- 36 days' holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
- We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement
- Season Ticket Loan
- Free annual eye tests
- Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
- Sabbaticals
- Volunteer Day
Our Commitment
Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose - where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.
Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.
Safeguarding:
We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.
Who we are
Chefs in Schools is a young, ambitious charity that’s rapidly growing. Our mission is to improve kids' health, through improving school food & food education. Working in areas of high deprivation, we support and train schools and their kitchen teams to serve the best, freshest and tastiest food possible, alongside meaningful food education. We share our learning and resources freely, aiming to inspire and enable others to follow our lead.
We’re backed by some of the biggest names in food and have ambitious targets to ensure every child has access to incredible school food and food education, setting them up for life with the skills and knowledge to feed themselves well.
About you and the role
The purpose of this role is to lead on our finance strategy, and ensure all of our systems, reporting and processes are helping to drive forward the charity and deliver on our objectives at scale. You will work closely with the Chief Executive and Directors to ensure that financial planning is effective and supported by accurate data analysis. You will report directly to Trustees as required and ensure that the highest standards of transparency and probity are maintained.
You will be joining the team during a period of growth in the size and complexity of our delivery. We currently have 20 employees and anticipate doubling in size within three years. You will have a crucial role in shaping our systems and processes to ensure we can scale effectively, both our existing programmes and a new membership-based programme that is in development. We’re looking for an experienced finance professional with an interest in effectively using technology and systems to drive efficiency, without compromising on accuracy or compliance.
You will support and mentor the Finance and Office Manager, ensuring that financial administration is carried out proficiently and in line with all legal and regulatory requirements, including ultimate responsibility for ensuring that all statutory filings are made accurately and on time. Your role will also encompass ensuring that we operate within legal & regulatory frameworks and stay up to date with changes in relevant legislation.
The responsibilities, skills and experience listed below are intended to give you an idea of what we need for this role. If you don’t meet every single requirement, but feel as though you would be able to work with us to deliver the majority of them, we would urge you to apply anyway. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and for us, the most important ‘experience’ is passion for our mission. You may be just the right candidate for this, or other roles.
We want to get to know you at the interview and understand we can do this best if you’re at ease. We’re an inclusive employer and work hard to create a welcoming working environment for everyone, including appointing a neurodiversity champion to help us identify how we can make our work environment work for everyone. If you need adjustments to the interview process please let us know.
Key responsibilities:
- Developing a comprehensive financial strategy that supports the delivery of the charity’s objectives and activities
- Reviewing suitability of our current systems: Quickbooks for accountancy, Beacon CRM, PLEO for expenses management, Survey Monkey for data collection etc.
- Where necessary, identifying and implementing new software to ensure all systems and processes are robust, user friendly, deliver useful data analysis, integrate and/or improve automation
- Working closely with the Director of Transformations to translate the annual activity plan into an accurate organisational-level budget
- Advising the Chief Executive, team and Trustees, ensuring that benefits and risks of decisions are fully considered and fit with the overall financial strategy
- Oversee sound financial management and governance across the organisation
- Provide leadership and guidance to all things finance related, providing mentoring and support to the team
- Accountability for monitoring that the organisation’s services are, and will, run to budget, supporting budget holders and reporting promptly on risks
- Have ultimate oversight of the external audit and production of the statutory accounts, supported in delivery of this by the Finance & Office Manager
- Oversee production of management accounts and bespoke financial reports, including accurate forecasting, incisive analysis and accessible narrative commentary
- Support the Development team with financial submissions and other compliance areas (eg advising on and supporting with due diligence processes)
- Constantly seeking to develop and improve the organisation’s financial systems, policies and procedures to promote dynamic, best practice and up-to-date application of tools, systems and approaches
- Oversight of finance, governance and basic HR administration, supporting the Finance & Office Manager with high profile or complex queries, seeking specialist advice on financial or compliance matters as required
- Ensure the organisation’s compliance with charity law, in accordance with the Charity Commission in England & Wales
Skills & experience:
- You have interest and belief in our mission, to improve kids’ health through improving food and food education in schools
- You have full or partial qualification through an accredited accountancy body
- You have some experience in a senior finance role (eg Director, Head of, Management Accountant) in any sector, and some experience within a finance function in the 3rd sector (in particular familiarity with the Charity SORP and experience of administering restricted funds)
- You have experience of audit
- You enjoy a mix of leadership and rolling up sleeves to get hands on when the need arises
- You take a pragmatic and dynamic approach to robust financial management
- You can turn complex and dry data, into clear and engaging narrative
- You have project managed the implementation of new systems (accountancy / CRM / data)
- You are organised, methodical, strong on detail, and able to map out deadlines and plan ahead
- You are skilled in building rapport with people and strike a balance between being supportive and challenging
Benefits
You would be joining a friendly, supportive team who works hard but believe in a healthy work/life balance. We seek a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge. Joining a small, collaborative team means you’ll be able to contribute to and draw on various projects and strategic insights.
We offer 33 days of holiday per year, including bank holidays, a Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working, free access to the CODE app for discounted restaurants & hospitality venues, enhanced parental leave. We are committed to developing our team and will support you with relevant training opportunities including £250 towards elective training and development of your choice.
As we work with children & young people, an offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and DBS clearance, in line with our safeguarding policy.
Please note that shortlisted candidates will be invited to a 30-mins online interview to take place on Weds 19th June. Successful candidates will then be invited to a second interview that will be in person at our offices in Brixton, London, on Weds 26th June.
We’re on a mission to transform kids’ health through food – plate by plate, class by class, school by school.