Do you want to be part of an organisation that fights for children every single day? Then join us as Business Architect and you will be responsible for shaping the architecture to address complex and diverse business challenges.

In our Support Services department, we fight for children every single day. We provide leadership and direction in the business of running an efficient organisation. We ensure our resources are used to maximum effect. We go the extra mile - and we don't rest until the work is done.

As a Business Analyst you will help shape the technology used at Save the Children UK to address complex and diverse business challenges. You will work with the rest of the Technology team to develop solutions for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement. In addition you will:

• Work closely with key business stakeholders to understand their business area and then work with them to analyse, specify, integrate and translate their needs into key business improvements

• Undertake feasibility studies, engaging with internal development teams and external suppliers, for achieving customer requirements through modifications to existing or development of new systems or processes.

• Prepare business cases which define potential benefits and associated business risks. Ensuring that the business and organisational implications of the solution are properly modelled and thought through. 

To be successful you will have a proven background in business analysis, with a BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis, or similar industry recognised standard and excellent communication skills including the ability to listen, adapt and respond quickly to the business. In addition you will have: 

• High levels of enthusiasm and self-motivation: a “can-do” attitude to deal with unexpected situations, take advantage of opportunities and overcome problems. 

• Proven proficiency in building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, both senior and junior, and working in a collaborative and participative in order to achieve and maintain customer satisfaction 

• Experience of Agile methods

• Demonstrable experience in one or more of the following: 

• Microsoft technology stack and how this can be used to deliver business solutions. 

• Development and implementation of organisational management systems, such as CRM or HRIS.

• Understanding of organisational development and experience of working on change and innovation projects.

Please note - we are looking for 3 Business Analysts to join us. We currently have two permanent and one 12 month contract available. Whilst these roles are based in our Farringdon office in London, we would be open to discussing flexible and remote working for these positions. 

To apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 24th September 2020

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Save the Children UK. 

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

Maternity Leave - 9 Months - Community Development Worker - 20 Hours P/W

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

You will be responsible in supporting the Activity Manager for Communities and Placemaking, for the operational planning and delivery of community based interventions that focus on community development, tactical urbanism and placemaking that ensure wellbeing outcomes for our target audience and places that support people and communities to be physically active, in an Active Environment working with communities.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work with communities, and system authorities and with positive disruption to gain support for and implement ways to help those who have the greatest barriers to community participation and to establish sustainable community models/structures for community level agency
• Understand and use asset-based community development approaches to community development and work with communities to understand priorities and co-design initiatives. This should also include working ‘with’ not ‘doing to’ communities and community organisations.
• Design and deliver a coherent delivery plan. This would include designing and delivering innovative ways to engage those with the greatest barriers to participation, including digital engagement
• Ensure plans and approach are linked to and influencing system change through system leadership at community level
• Proactive demonstration of innovation, leadership and delivery in field of work
• Work in partnership and collaboration with wider stakeholders, community group/organisation and activists and influence these.
• Project manage contracts including making recommendations for necessary decisions. This may include some direct or indirect budget management.
• Act to encourage develop and shape a community who engage in decision making, participate in activism toward locally co-designed plans to aid wellbeing
• Monitor and evaluation – To carry out effective performance monitoring of all activity working with the Knowledge and Insight team.
• Ensure the compliance with data capture systems and processes
• Teamwork -To work within the team and the wider organisation to support the values of the organisation and to ensure that citizens are central to the work that is been delivered.

Business Skills:

• Demonstrates an analytical and methodical approach to problem solving.
• Takes initiative in identifying and negotiating appropriate personal development opportunities.
• Absorbs and applies technical information.
• Has a thorough understanding of their role and how it relates to other roles and to the business of the employer

Complexity:

• Has defined areas of responsibility.
• Due to experience gained may provide guidance to more junior or less experienced staff.
• May produce non-standard letters or reports.
• May be responsible for a defined part of a project, small internal business project or a new process.
• Uses discretion in identifying and resolving complex problems.
• Performs a broad range of work, sometimes complex and non-routine, in a variety of environments.

Autonomy:

• Accountable for delivering assigned tasks within broader projects.
• Operate as a competent professional with minimum supervision.
• Has limited decision-making scope on how tasks are to be fulfilled.

Benefits:

• Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly.
• Health Shield – discounted health benefit against eye examinations/prescriptions.
• +Plus EAP (counseling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
• Death in Service – 4 times your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Nest Pension – 8% paid by TAWS 3 % paid by employee.
• Annual Leave – 25-29 days AL plus 5 wellbeing days
• Flexible working.

We are looking for someone talented at mobilising community led action to play a key role in our ambitious new five-year programme Just FACT: a Just Food and Climate Transition. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

This exciting, transformational piece of work aims to reduce the environmental impacts of our local food system in Tower Hamlets, enabling genuinely community led alternatives. This is an opportunity for you to work dynamically, engaging our incredible local community and supporting the inspiring partner organisations to mobilise high impact climate action.

Here at Wen we believe that food has a unique power to bring people together across difference to create positive change collectively. It creates a place where we can share knowledge, skills and gain confidence to take high impact action together as a community. Food is also at the heart of many of Tower Hamlets residents’ greatest problems. The Covid-19 crisis has starkly highlighted this as more people struggle to get the food they need, with many families unable to afford healthy enjoyable meals, and more people than ever reliant on food banks.

It is vital we do everything we can to take action to prevent a climate crisis. This project believes improving our food system will be a vital part of the solution by creating a more resilient food system that works better for the happiness, health and wellbeing of our communities. That is why we’re calling this project Just FACT – A Just Food and Climate Transition – because we believe that any action we take on climate change must have justice at its heart. 

As a Mobiliser you will be working across the programme forming relationships that ensure our fantastic community partners are well supported and resourced to achieve their community led goals. You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth delivery of the Just FACT programme and sharing learning and impact internally and with outside audiences. You will be finding opportunities, identifying gaps, and taking action to widen community engagement in the project. We are looking for someone highly organised and motivated, with a talent for working alongside people to make great things happen.

Responsibilities

Building community engagement

• Building the community network around the project, identifying individuals and groups that are not engaged and designing engagement strategies and activities.
• Communicating the project’s messages and strategy clearly to community partners and individuals who may or may not already be engaged in climate change.
• Identifying opportunities to raise awareness of climate change and the potential for action in our food system at a community and individual level.
• Hosting meetings with community groups and project partners.
• Playing an active role in promoting Just FACT both in person and using online channels (social media and newsletters). 
• Delivering trainings and workshops about the project. 

Strengthening community partnerships 

• Liaising with 3 Community Hubs & 10 Community Labs (our funded community partners) ensuring good communication, and supporting partners to make activities strategic and wide reaching.
• Identifying key partners not already engaged in the project and working with them to build involvement.
• Identifying community partner organisations’ capacity building needs and developing these through organising training, mentoring or skill shares.
• Assist and liaise with the Blueprint Architects group which will design community led solutions building on learning from the wider programme.

Influencing

• Identifying opportunities to raise community voices at a borough and national level and planning strategic and effective ways to do this. 

Organisation and administration

• Supported by other Just FACT staff, lead on programme administration.
• Gathering and processing a range of data, case studies and stories from project partners for monitoring and evaluation. 
• Ensure smooth delivery of the Just FACT programme through organising meetings, events, sharing information. 
• This is a substantial project with a very varied workload, you will assist the project manager with tasks relevant to the project, including project administration.

Other duties

• As a participatory organisation, staff are expected to be active in organisational decision-making processes and working groups.
• You may be required to undertake other tasks relevant to the role or the wider organization.
• Assisting with fundraising. 

Person specification

Essential Experience and Knowledge 

• At least 2 years’ experience of building networks at a community or grassroots level.
• Experience of successfully organising and facilitating meetings in a participatory way.
• Demonstrated ability to co-design, organise and deliver engaging, successful, public events. 
• Experience in thinking strategically, spotting opportunities, and developing work to improve outcomes over the course of a project.
• A proven ability to engage the general public in campaign issues, particularly around environmental issues. 
• Exceptional communication skills across diverse audiences, both written and verbal.
• Experience of working in a coalition or partnership, building and maintaining effective strong relationships. 
• Experience of planning a campaign or project which aimed to achieve change.
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to work to deadlines and manage own workload. 
• Experience in producing engaging online communications e.g. newsletters, website content, social media posts.
• Track record of gathering monitoring and evaluation data. 
• A high level of skill in Microsoft Office and online equivalents, especially Excel, Word and Powerpoint. 
• A thorough understanding of the concept of Just Transition, and a commitment to the aims of Just FACT.
• A passion for taking effective climate action, especially at a local level.

Desirable

• Experience of designing and leading workshops or delivering trainings, ideally on environmental issues.
• Experience using CRM systems 
• Background in community organizing
• Speaks Bengali or other relevant language for Tower Hamlets 
• Experience of campaigning or organizing around environmental issues
• Experience of fundraising (ideally through trusts and grants)

Wen are looking for a highly experienced project or campaigns manager, with a strength for realising the vision of a project in a way that brings people together and builds community power to achieve real change. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will lead on Just FACT - a Just Food and Climate Transition, an ambitious five-year programme enabling community-led climate action in our local borough of Tower Hamlets. This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to lead on a truly unique transformational piece of work with incredible local community involvement, inspiring partner organisations and key decision makers already engaged.

Here at Wen we believe that food has a unique power to bring people together across difference to create positive change collectively. It creates a place where we can share knowledge, skills and gain confidence to take high impact action together as a community. Food is also at the heart of many of Tower Hamlets residents’ greatest problems. The Covid-19 crisis has starkly highlighted this as more people struggle to get the food they need, many families unable to afford healthy enjoyable meals, and more people than ever reliant on food banks.

It is vital we do everything we can to take action to prevent a climate crisis. This project believes improving our food system will be a vital part of the solution by creating a more resilient food system that works better for the happiness, health and wellbeing of our communities. That is why we’re calling this project Just FACT – A Just Food and Climate Transition – because we believe that any action we take on climate change must have justice at its heart. 

As the Programme Manager you will strategically lead all elements of Just FACT: 

• BLUEPRINT ARCHITECTS - Community-led group of ‘Architects’ researching and creating the Just FACT Blueprint for Tower Hamlets. Lead by London LEAP 
• Just FACT FORUM - Sitting within Tower Hamlets Food Partnership this forum will bring together strategic partners to advise and resource the project, amplify learning. 
• COMMUNITY HUBS - 3 Estate based hubs engaging diverse communities to take action and supporting people change behaviours. 
• LEADERSHIP CIRCLE - Wen will coordinate an evolving participatory group bringing together partners 
• COMMUNITY LABS - 5 ‘Beacon’ projects building on existing best practice and 5 new ‘Ground Breaker’ projects supporting innovation and upscaling responding to Blueprint 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Planning and delivery 

• To take overall responsibility for the strategic planning, management and direction of the Just FACT programme, working to the agreed project plan.
• working closely with the project partners to review and develop how the programme is delivered to ensure impact. 
• To think creatively and ensure the Just FACT Programme is developed to meet its aims and ambitious vision.
• To ensure that the agreed project outcomes are delivered successfully and on time.

Influencing 

• Working with partners, you will lead on designing the campaign strategy for the project to change our food system locally, and to create a blueprint that can have a wider impact. 
• Understand, identify and seize opportunities for high impact change. 
• To build the profile of Just FACT, identifying local, national and international platforms where project learnings can be shared.
• Generate strategic relationships responding to the needs of the project 

Partnership management 

• Manage relationships with the project’s 10-15 funded partners adopting an approach of generous leadership, particularly convening the Leadership Circle. 
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders in the council, local politicians, community groups, businesses and the third sector.

Understanding impact and sharing learning 

• With the support of a consultant, design a monitoring and evaluation framework for the project that will help understand impact, shape the project and share learning. 
• Ensure that suitable monitoring and evaluation data is collected from across the programme and with partners to evidence impact, shape programme and fulfil reporting requirements.
• Actively participate in movement building nationally, sharing learning from Just FACT.

Administration and management 

• To line manage between 3 to 5 part-time staff at Wen.
• To undertake administration relating to the project.
• To manage the project budget, including ensuring that all partners are keeping suitable records of their expenditure and abiding by Wen’s financial policies and procedures. 

Other tasks 

• As a participatory organisation, staff are expected to be active in organisational decision making processes and working groups.
• You may be required to undertake other tasks relevant to the role or the wider organization.
• Additional fundraising support for the Just FACT programme team. 

PERSON SPECIFICATION 

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• At least three years professional experience in a project or campaign management role in the third sector, particularly in the environmental or community sectors.
• A proven strategic thinker who can work innovatively, identify and seize opportunities to achieve change.
• Demonstrated success delivering on a multi-year project, developing projects as they grow. 
• Leading a coalition or partnership. 
• Ability to build effective collaborative relationships with a diverse range of groups and individuals. 
• Working with a variety of community organisations, particularly small grassroots groups. 
• Track record of raising the public profile of projects you have worked on.
• Track record of successfully managing large project budgets. 
• Experience and understanding of working across sectors (statutory, third sector, business and community). 
• At least one year’s experience in direct line management of staff.
• Experience of designing and undertaking complex monitoring and evaluation processes, reporting to funders and demonstrating impact at a high level.
• A thorough understanding of the concept of Just Transition, and a commitment to the aims of Just FACT. 
• A passion for taking effective climate action, especially facilitating community led solutions. 

Desirable 

• Expertise in climate policy or campaigns, community organizing or food policy. 
• Experience of working across sectors (statutory, third sector, business and community).
• Knowledge of the borough of Tower Hamlets. 
• Grant fundraising experience. 

About Wen 

Wen works both in East London and nationally to support women and their communities to take environmental action. We work across a wide range of environmental issues, including building resilient and sustainable local food systems, food growing, nature based wellbeing sessions in women’s refuges, our Environmenstrual campaign and our work on the Feminist Green New Deal.

Wen has been supporting women and communities to grow their own food, and become advocates for environmental action in Tower Hamlets, for over ten years. Wen leads on the Tower Hamlets Food Partnership, bringing organisations and individuals together to build a better food system for everyone in Tower Hamlets. Members include housing providers, food charities, small businesses, schools, social enterprises, community gardeners and the council. 

Wen strives to take an inclusive, feminists and intersectional approach to everything we do. This can be seen within our organisation through our participatory leadership model, the types of projects and campaigns we choose to work on and importantly we advocate movement building

Infrastructure Specialist - Ops - Experienced (7028)

Barnardo's is running an ambitious transformation programme covering infrastructure , security and new system deployments. As a result we need an experienced Infrastructure Specialist to lead the infrastructure and server team.
This is a lead technical position where leadership, mentoring and support of the infrastructure and servers team are equally as important as highly developed technical capabilities . In addition, political astuteness , a customer-centric service ethic, commitment to quality delivery and an open, engaging, "can do" style are also essential.

Working hands-on, at all levels from concept through design to full service and post implementations support & configuration , the individual will architect, manage, and deliver new technology solutions into service in addition to care and maintenance activities for existing systems in collaboration with other technical and operational teams.

Barnardo's is a 150-year-old charity on a journey to transform children's social care . As part of our 10-year corporate strategy, Barnardo's has committed to becoming a digital organisation .

The Digital and Technology team, also known as #futurebarnardos , is part of the Strategy & Performance group. We are responsible for leading a transformation of the whole charity: inspiring it to take a user-centred , data-driven approach to all our operations , products and services, and iterating from small beginnings to big ideas.

Our vision is simple: achieve better outcomes for more children . Along the way we will we equip and empower our staff to provide even better support . We will turn data into insight that leads to improvements in people's lives. We will lead change across health and social care by taking a user-first, evidence-driven approach to problems. And through all this, we will inspire our charitable donors to be even more generous in supporting us.

We are looking for a small group of ambitious , humble visionaries to lead our team, and inspire others across the charity and beyond to help Barnardo's meet its vision. We've written a blog post about our vision, the values we uphold as a team, and the sorts of people we are looking for.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers . We welcome applications from women, BAME and LGBTQA+ candidates, candidates with both visible and non-visible disabilities , and neurodivergent candidates, as people under-represented in our sector. We believe it is really important to gather the widest range of views so that we can design and deliver the next generation of products and services for children, families, supporters and staff.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements .

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Our basis and values

Documents

* Recruitment of Ex-offenders Policy (Oct 2018).pdf (0.56 MB)
* Infrastructure Specialist - JE2019-091 - D52A.pdf (44.37 KB)