Policy and Programme Officer, Healthy Lives

​The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.

The Policy and Programme Officer will play a key role in delivering core programmes of work, including design, delivery and management of the Health as an Asset workstream and dissemination of findings from the Social and Economic Value of Health research programme. You will execute timely project management plans, lead the development of application and selection materials and processes for award and contract holders and manage and monitor awards for research and engagement activities.

This is a varied and exciting role, other aspects of which include conducting in house research projects and ensuring commissioning and project management processes are in place and up to date.

Our ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of social policy, particularly the wider determinants of health and young people. You will be an experienced programme or policy officer and have a track record of providing high quality support to successfully deliver complex projects. In addition, excellent attention to detail, the ability to prioritise and organise and fantastic communication skills will be crucial to your success in the role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a passion for improving health outcomes and a commitment to our core behaviours - Working Together, Discovering & Learning and Achieving Impact. If the role excites you, we would love to hear from you. 

Interview Date: 24 March 2020

To apply for this role please submit your CV and a supporting statement which addresses all the person specification criteria flagged as CV/SS (Essential). 

The Health Foundation values diversity and champions inclusion and strongly encourages applications from all sections of the community.

Are you organised, outgoing, and have a ‘can do’ attitude?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Social Prescribing team working with older people and adults with complex needs. The service offers short-term intensive support with the aim of reducing hospital readmissions and improving health and wellbeing. As a Volunteer Coordinator, you will recruit, train and manage local volunteers to work directly with clients in their homes or the community.

You will work alongside Social Prescribing colleagues to co-produce support plans, identify the role of the volunteer and match individual volunteers with appropriate attributes. Volunteers will support clients to retain their independence, re-engage in social activities, meet new friends or perhaps try something new.

You will have opportunities to plan, organise and deliver volunteer recruitment campaigns, attending events and using social and other media platforms to develop wider networks. You will ensure volunteers receive appropriate training and supervision, and stay in regular communication to make sure they feel supported and fulfilled in their role. 

In this role, you will ensure that volunteers understand how to respond to challenging and complex situations with a sensitive and measured response, ensuring that safeguarding and lone working measures are followed. You will maintain up-to-date records using our bespoke database.

The service is currently delivered across Kent and Medway. The post holder will be based in North Kent and must be able to travel to other areas, so a car driver is essential.

Help people reach their full potential.

Email Marketing Officer - £110 per day PAYE

Your new company
Royal College based in central London

Your new role

• Managing the marketing automation system (Dotmailer), including admin and training Faculty Administrators and colleagues
• Creating and curating content, copywriting and editing, for email
• Developing segmented messaging for different member grades and profiles
• Ensuring the reasons to be a member are embedded throughout communications
• Planning communication campaigns for activities such as events, webinars, industry trends/updates, hot topics, Membership renewals, elections, etc.
• Creating cross-channel communication journeys for campaigns and activities
• Supporting development and maintenance of member communication calendar
• Monitoring and reporting on engagement with communication channels
• Liaising with corporate communication / PR colleagues to ensure consistency
• Ensuring data protection standards are implemented and adhered to
• Being the subject matter expert and primary go-to person for all Dotmailer, and email comms related issues, queries and corporate guidelines
• Maintaining planning documentation and accompanying schedules covering
• Review, streamline and improve current email marketing strategies and workflow
• Manage trigger/automation email campaigns throughout the customer lifecycle to maximise engagement and generate income.
• Ensure all email campaigns comply with current email best practice in the industry.

What you'll need to succeed

• Digital copywriting, editing and proofreading, including submissions from others
• Creating segmented messages and variations for different audiences
• Using marketing automation systems (Dotmailer desired)
• Working to strict deadlines and managing production/publishing processes
• Working within brand guidelines and house style
• Monitoring and evaluating communication campaign impact
• Managing stakeholder expectations and outputs at all levels
• Understanding of CRM database integration with digital communication (desirable)
• Creating, sourcing, editing images accordingly for email campaigns,

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary and the opportunity to work with an iconic membership

What you need to do now
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Corporate and Events Assistant

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s leading dementia charity, offering specialist support services, community activities, information and advice at every stage of the dementia journey, from over 60 locations across Scotland, from Shetland to the Borders.

The Corporate Partnerships and Events team is responsible for developing and implementing Alzheimer Scotland’s Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising activities through our sporting and challenge events.

As a key member joining this dynamic department, the Corporate and Events assistant will support the wider teams and play an integral role to the successful delivery of our events programme and corporate partnerships. Dealing directly with supporters, the role requires an effective communicator and customer focused individual to drive supporter satisfaction through all fundraising activities.

The ideal candidate will be a natural collaborator and bring a proven track record of success in stewarding supporters, creating processes and managing our supporter database (Raiser’s Edge).

Whilst previous experience within the charity sector is desirable, we are willing to accept applicants with transferable skills from within other sectors.

For a full job description and person specification please see the attachments section of this advert.

The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland.

About us

The Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) is the leading charity dedicated to fighting primary bone cancer. Our mission is to save lives and improve outcomes through research, information, awareness and support. In July 2019 we were awarded 'National Healthcare & Medical Research Charity of the Year' at the national Charity Awards and earlier in the year the Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Fundraising awarded our Fundraising & Communications Team with 'Fundraising Team of the Year'. We are a small but incredibly passionate and driven organisation that is proud and supportive of our people - together we make the biggest impact for our community. 

The Role

The Challenge Events Fundraising Officer will contribute to the overall fundraising strategy by delivering a programme of activities that maximise income generation and recruitment and retention of supporters.

You will operate as a key member of the Challenge Events Team and will have the opportunity to explore new exciting opportunities for the charity. You will also lead on existing events which form part of our core income programme and help grow our expanding portfolio of Challenge Events.

To deliver on our strategy through to 2022 we need to deliver high quality, meaningful events that help meet our income and charitable objectives. This role will have a direct impact on the primary bone cancer community through Challenge Events by empowering and involving patients, carers, friends, relatives, healthcare professionals and researchers.

About You

The ideal candidate will bring experience of successfully building events fundraising streams through different challenges and bespoke events as well developing meaningful relationships with professional event organisers. They will be results-orientated with a passion for first-class supporter care. They will build excellent working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders as they pull together new ideas for events that will help to ultimately save lives.

As we are a small team, a team-player attitude is a must, as well as a positive and can-do approach.

If you have excellent communication and event management skills, a natural ability to liaise with stakeholders, and determination to succeed, we would like to hear from you.

Application Process

1. Application Form & CV submission closing date: 1st March

2. Shortlisting and telephone interviews: W/C 2nd March

3. Interviews: W/C 9th March

Future Care Capital undertakes research to advocate new policy ideas and inject fresh thinking into the health and care agenda. Our aim is to stimulate a national debate and nurture collective intelligence or insight, in keeping with our mission and commitment to operate as an organisation that learns, thinks and does.

Alongside our research, policy and advocacy work, we invite partners to work with us to pilot new solutions and support innovative ventures in the course of delivering our charitable mission. We also want to act as a specialist seed funder and invest our own resources through an Innovation Fund.

To support the development of a new vision for health and care in England as well as positive change in practical local settings, our Head of Policy and Research will support the Director of Policy and Strategy to commission, manage and undertake leading edge-research; translate research outputs into evidence for policy makers, commissioners and providers and advocate pertinent solutions; pursue related funding opportunities and deliver impact from income generation activities in the interests of our beneficiaries.

Reporting to the Director of Policy and Strategy, key responsibilities will include:

Expert

• To work closely with the Director and other colleagues to support the development of and contribute to Future Care Capital’s evidence-based policy work.
• To develop and maintain mechanisms to keep abreast of research and policy developments relevant to health and care - national and international– with a particular emphasis upon data, technology, innovation, scaling and investment.
• To draft parliamentary briefings and responses to government consultations and other public policy initiatives and work with colleagues to support monitoring of the outcome.
• To contribute to research project design and coordination activities and support the Director and other colleagues in the conduct of research, thought piece and policy paper development for Future Care Capital.
• To attend pertinent networking events, forge new relationships and present the findings from Future Care Capital’s evidence-based policy work to advocate pertinent solutions in the interests of our beneficiaries.
• To support business development activities, identify and pursue funding and income generation opportunities pertinent to Future Care Capital’s priorities.
• To support our public affairs and communications team by providing background information for press releases, material for our website and contributing to regular blogs and updates.
• To support external events, roundtables and other training and education activities.

General

• To work in line with the organisation’s strategy and vision – living and breathing FCC’s values.
• To promote and ensure compliance with the organisation’s policies, including Health and Safety, Environmental and Diversity Policies.
• To work in a collaborative and entrepreneurial manner to support income generation.
• To manage and undertake training / professional development as necessary.
• To promote the use of technology and be self-servicing.
• To work as part of a team, supporting colleagues and communicating effectively.
• To encourage and support innovation throughout the organisation.
• To work in the most resource efficient and effective manner.
• To act as an ambassador for the organisation.
• Any other duties as may be required by the Director.

Skills and Competencies:

Technical Competency (qualifications and training)

• A first or upper 2nd class degree or equivalent experience. (E)
• Evidence of continuous professional and personal development. (E)
• Prior publication record. (D)

Experience

• Experience in a policy role relevant to health and/or care and/or technology together with a demonstrable understanding of current key debates and priorities.
• Experience of drafting a variety of written materials (e.g. briefings, reports and/or responses to government consultations).
• Experience of managing contractors.
• Experience of facilitating meetings with a range of stakeholders to identify issues, trends and collect information for developing evidence-based policy.
• Demonstrable experience of research and policy project design and coordination activities.
• Able to establish priorities and manage a complex workload to meet tight deadlines.
• Experience of working independently but seeking advice and working collaboratively with colleagues and others as required.

Skills

• Ability to quickly develop an understanding of current and emerging themes and to ensure that these are taken into consideration in our work.
• You will have strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse complex information and summarise key conclusions or recommendations. 
• Good communication skills both oral and written, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Effective research and information gathering skills.
• Good project management skills; ability to co-ordinate complex and multiple projects.
• Creative skills for contributing new and innovative ideas.
• Good ICT skills including Microsoft Office, spreadsheet use and database management.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.

Person profile:

• Proven ability to multi-task, manage multiple deadlines and be flexible in working style.
• Flexible, adaptable and innovative.
• Entrepreneurial and a team player, always looking to improve ways of working.
• Able to act, speak and write at all times with neutral personal political views.
• Positive attitude to disability, health and employment issues.

To apply for this position, we would like to request the following:

• A covering letter telling us why you would like to work with us, why you think you’re the ideal candidate for the position and a challenge/opportunity in health and care you would most like to positively impact.
• Your CV.
• A link or prior sample of your written work (up to 1,000 words).

If you are applying via a job platform website, please include your sample of written work or link, in your CV. Closing date is 5.00pm on Monday, 16 March 2020. Due to the volume of applications if you have not heard from us by 20 March 2020, please consider your application unsuccessful. Interviews will be conducted 24 March 2020. Start date will be dependent on notice period.

Bromley Well Service

Location: Orpington, Bromley

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic team as a Contact Centre Supervisor for our Bromley Well Single Point of Access telephone Service.

As the Supervisor you will ensure the delivery of excellent customer service through the contact centre by monitoring workloads across the team using our database and platforms.

A role model to the team you will liaise with our other pathways to contribute to the health & well-being of the residents of Bromley and help to prevent them from reaching crisis point.

If you work well with others, have good leadership skills and the ability to prioritise and multitask and you are committed to quality and want a job which makes a difference in people’s lives then this could be the job for you.

Citizens Advice Bromley values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Membership and Fundraising Officer to join the European Movement UK team to help build its grassroots activist and membership base .

About the European Movement:

Founded by Winston Churchill in 1947, The European Movement is the UK’s largest pro-European membership organisation. In recent years we have been a founding supporter of the People’s Vote campaign.

The European Movement UK is a grassroots organisation with a network of over 126 groups, and it is also linked to a network of groups in the EU27 as part of European Movement International. 

Following the election we have reached an exciting turning point in our organisation. The European Movement UK’s role is more important than ever as we hold the government to account during the Brexit process. We will be campaigning for maintaining European rights, standards and values post-Brexit. 

In the next phase of the European Movement UK we need to put our members front and centre. We need to create a membership offer with community at its heart.

What we’re looking for:

The European Movement is hiring a Membership and Fundraising Officer to help build its grassroots activist and membership base . 

You will be involved in a number of areas within our organisation, including:

• Provide full administrative support for the membership function of European Movement UK

• Handle membership enquiries on a daily basis 

• Support the Head of Digital Campaigns with the creation and implementation of Membership Recruitment and Retention strategy.

• Support the Events and Organisation Manager with community outreach campaigns.

• Support the Head of Digital Campaigns with content creation for fundraising and membership recruitment on all channels 

• Be responsible for regularly updating records on our CRM database and extract reports as required, as well as ensuring our web pages on the CMS are up to date. 

• Liaise with finance to ensure accurate payment records for members

• Supporting the Head of Digital, Head of Communications and  the Administrative Officer with maintaining the membership system, including membership benefits (packs, newsletters) and similar initiatives such as the EM1000 club 

• Supporting the Head of Digital Campaigns with fundraising streams such as philanthropy and trust and foundations fundraising.

Skills and experience

Essential

• At least two years’ experience in a membership or fundraising role

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Experience working with a CRM (essential), experience using NationBuilder (desired)

• Great interpersonal skills (comfortable building relationships with members)

• Understanding of data protection laws, especially GDPR 

• Experience of using a CMS (essential), experience using NationBuilder (desirable)

• Highly organised and good administration skills

• Sound IT skills

• Basic design skills

Desirable

• Experience using Nationbuilder 

• Previous experience of working in a membership organisation or trade/professional body 

• Understanding of the European Union and the current Brexit debate

• Ability to write compelling copy

This is a great time to join this organisation as we grow our membership across Europe and beyond! 

Closing date:  26th February 2020

Interview date: 5th March 2020

TO APPLY PLEASE SEND YOUR CV AND COVER LETTER

Fundraising Assistant/Administrator (Trusts and Grants)

You will join our client as a Fundraising Assistant/Administrator. This role plays an important part in researching funding opportunities, supporting the writing and developing of trusts and grant applications and reports, as well as providing administrative support to the Trusts and Grants Officer.

Fundraising Assistant/Administrator (Trusts and Grants) Responsibilities:

- Increasing the prospect base and pipeline by identifying potential new funders.
- Implementing their Trust fundraising strategy for Trusts, developing and writing high quality funding application to key funders.
- Monitoring income from Trusts and reporting against key performance indicators.
- Identifying and cultivating relationships with potential new funders through a range of communications.
- Maintaining accurate funder records on their CRM database.

Fundraising Assistant/Administrator (Trusts and Grants) Requirements:

- Proven experience of effectively managing relationships with external supporters.
- Experience of writing charity funding proposals.
- A very high standard of written English and close attention to detail.
- Proven track record of effective and efficient administration, providing support and the use of ICT.

Along with strong research skills and the ability to plan, prioritise and meet multiple deadlines, you will be able to analyse, understand and evaluate financial information. You will be a first class communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with a wide range of people both internally and externally in person, by phone and email.

Our client offer a comprehensive benefits package including a generous annual leave allowance, access to an employee assistance programme, wellbeing portal and discounts on goods and retail vouchers and cash back on purchases from eating out, entertainment, supermarkets, clothing and travel.

They are a disability confident committed employer and welcome diversity, promote equality and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

About Our Client:

Our client is an assistance dog charity which transforms the lives of disabled people through partnership with their specially trained assistance dogs.

Location: Heyshott, West Sussex

Job type: Part Time, Permanent, 22.5 hours per week

Salary: £18,321 to £20,611 depending on experience pro rata to £10,992.60 to £12,366.60 for part time (depending on experience)

Benefits: Pension Scheme, Annual Leave, wide range of discounts at high street shops

Closing date for applications: 01 March 2020
1st Interview: 17 March 2020
2nd Interview: 24 March 2020

You may have experience of the following: Trusts and Grants Assistant, Trusts and Grants Fundraiser, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraiser, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Executive, Assistant Trusts Fundraiser, Assistant Grants Fundraiser, Business Development Executive, etc.

Ref: 91672

An exciting career opportunity!

Good Life Cambourne Project Lead
Based in Cambridge
Part-time 10 hours per week - flexible
12 Months Fixed Contract
Starting Salary: £6,231.00 per annum (£23,369.00 pa FTE)
NJC Salary Scale Point 16

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind is a progressive and expanding mental health charity. Our vision is a society in which everyone has positive mental health and feels part of a connected community.

We are seeking an experienced wellbeing practitioner to lead on an innovative partnership project which will provide strengths-based wellbeing activities for the residents of Cambourne.

The successful post holder will adapt, co-ordinate and deliver additional CPSL Mind ‘Good Life Service’ activities in partnership with Monkfield Medical Centre, Cambourne and the local community. This project is funded by the Northern Alliance Innovation Fund and is an extension to the Good Life Service recently launched across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

This is a varied role, based within the community, delivering weekly sessions within both Monkfield Medical Centre, Cambourne and the local community. You should be passionate about promoting positive mental health, be able to demonstrate strengths-based facilitation skills within community settings and have excellent verbal communication and listening skills. To be successful in this role you will also need strong external stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong working relationships with partners.

Closing date: 09:00 Thursday 12th March 2020
Interviews: Thursday 19th March 2020

PLEASE PRESS THE 'APPLICATION DETAILS' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY

We will only accept complete applications, which should include: Application Form, Covering Letter and completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

No agencies please. 

Do you want to change the world for children? Join a small, dynamic team providing support to not-for-profit adoption agencies across the UK.

CVAA is a membership organisation made up of 29 voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs). VAAs work hard to improve the lives of adopted children and their families across the UK. We provide our members with policy, data, and practice support, represent and advocate for them in national forums, and bring them together to collaborate, network, and learn from one another.

This is a vital post at the heart of the adoption system. Our vision is for adopted children, young people, and adults to lead happy fulfilling lives in loving families supported by a strong voluntary adoption sector, and as Data Analyst your expertise will enable our members to improve the use of data in their service and business planning, thus strengthening the sustainability of the voluntary sector.

You will lead on quarterly analysis of existing data sets alongside managing our annual VAA data collection. You will support the Policy Manager to interpret the data and understand trends and predictions for the voluntary sector. You will provide critical analysis and horizon-scanning intelligence to drive the use of data across our sector.

About you:

You will be practical, proactive, and well organised, with an interest in learning about the adoption system and the voluntary sector in particular. You will have the confidence to work on your own initiative and deal with people at all levels of seniority. You will be friendly, with a ‘can-do’ attitude, and motivated by achieving the best possible outcomes for children and families.

You might have experience in data analysis in local government, charities, or the private sector. You might be a consultant or a freelancer. You might have a portfolio of data-driven management support work. If any or all of the above sound like you, we’d like to hear from you.

Closing date for applications – 12am Sunday 1 March 2020

Interviews – to be held the first two weeks of March, dates and times TBC

Application is by CV and covering letter to Sam Mercadante. Your covering letter should explain why you are interested in the post and how you meet the person specification. CVs without covering letters will not be considered.  No agencies please. Charity No 1108318.

CVAA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults; our recruitment procedure may include DBS checks and overseas checks (where applicable). 

Please note prospective employees will need to evidence they have the relevant permission to work in the UK.  We are unable to provide sponsorship.

About The Advocacy Project

We help the most marginalised and vulnerable people make effective choices about what happens in their lives. We support them to speak up and help improve important services we all need. We want to make sure people across all age and care groups – including learning disability and mental health – can:

• voice their concerns

• understand their rights

• make effective choices about what happens in their lives

We do this through advocacy services which support people individually, and user involvement projects that help organisations improve the services they offer.

 About the role

Over the last three years we have grown our advocacy and user involvement service across London, taking on more public sector contracts in new London boroughs and offering a wider and more diverse range of services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

We now offer services across low, medium and high secure forensic units including Broadmoor Hospital; we have London-wide NHS England services and are part of an exciting personal health budgets pilot project. We have built a solid reputation for delivering high quality services and have a strong track record of winning public sector bids.

Our new three year income plan builds on this success, with a focus on diversifying our funding streams. Our target includes growing our income from trusts and foundations by 17% over the next three years to £550,000. We are now looking for an exceptional and experienced trust and foundation fundraiser with a solid track record of winning new business from these funding sources.

You will work with our Head of Business Development to raise funds, generate income, making sure our fundraising activities meet annual targets, raise our profile and enhance our reputation in line with our values.

Key responsibilities

• Identify, qualify and develop income opportunities from trusts and foundations, in line with our income plan, strategy and values.

• Research, develop and maintain new relationships to secure funding.

• Write tailored, inspirational high quality applications and project reports addressing grant-making priorities or requirements,as specified.

• Identify gaps and niches in the market that are in line with our core strengths and competencies.

• Liaise closely with senior managers and staff to plan and develop the strongest possible proposals and build relationships.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of each application and make sure we embed a continuous improvement cycle into all fundraising activities.

• Evaluate, monitor and report back to donors in a timely fashion on projects which have been funded.

• Record details of applications made, funding pledged and forecast income.

• Input and update information on our CRM database.

General responsibilities

• Participate in team meetings and training.

• Participate in personal, team and organisational development.

• Make sure corporate identity is adhered to, all legal requirements and fundraising regulations are met.

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

• Uphold our mission, vision, and values.

• Carry out other projects and tasks as needed.

Person specification

Essential:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Good at working with a wide variety of people including commissioners, service users and colleagues.

• Proven record of securing six-figure donations from trusts and foundations.

• Ability to combine seeing the big picture with an eye for detail.

• Solutions focused self-starter with an ability to thrive in a busy environment – focusing resources and prioritizing areas with the greatest impact.

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

• Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative, to plan and prioritise your own workload.

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

• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

  Desirable:

• Relevant professional qualification and affiliation.

• Evidence or commitment to ongoing professional development.

• Understanding of the issues faced by vulnerable and disadvantaged care groups, such as mental health, learning disability, dementia.

Benefits of working for us

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

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

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

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.

How to apply

Send your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you think you’re the person we’re looking for and how your experience meets the person specification.

Upload your application via our website on.

• Are you a Finance and Operations professional with an excellent track record?
• Do you want to join a ground-breaking, determined and compassionate charity that is leading the fight for child refugees caught in limbo in Europe and elsewhere?

Safe Passage International is looking for a superb finance and Operations professional to join the Senior Leadership of a new and ground-breaking international organisation.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with both finance and operations expertise. They will be comfortable being hands-on to get things done, and flexible in their approach to achieve results in a fast-changing external environment. They too will possess a strong people-focus and a passion for maintaining organisational wellbeing.

The successful candidate will join at an exciting time. In 2019 Safe Passage International became an independent charity, registering in the UK, France and Greece. The post-holder will report directly to the CEO based in London, supporting them to provide effective and appropriate accountability to the Board and will lead the process of embedding and strengthening new systems and processes to support the development of Safe Passage and facilitate our unique cross-border approach.

• Part-time, 30 hours per week, £45,000 - £48,000 gross
• Flexible working considered
• London office
• Reporting to CEO
• Line management responsibilities: Finance Manager and Operations Officer; oversight over two outsourced accountancy functions in Greece and France

Please view the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

Who we are:

Safe Passage was founded in late 2015 in response to the refugee ‘crisis’. In the past four years we have grown from a small UK project, to an international organisation with 23 members of staff supporting refugees to access safe and legal routes to asylum across Europe. We are a cross border organisation with offices in the UK, Greece, and France.

• Our vision is for every person seeking asylum to be able to access a safe and legal route to a place where they can lead a full and dignified life.
• We do things differently - championing refugees’ rights through strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building and community organising.
• We are focused on achieving systemic change in refugee and asylum policy at both nation-state and international level.

To date over 2,000 individuals have travelled to safety through routes we have opened. Our work is recognised with awards from Liberty, Sheila McKechnie, the European Parliament and EU Commission and chosen as Guardian ‘Charity of the Year’.

To apply: Please visit our website to view the Job Description and Person Specification. Send your CV and a cover letter addressing each point of the Person Specifiction and why you would love to work for Safe Passage. 

Closing date: applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Job description 

City in the Community (CITC) currently have an exciting opening for an Insights Analyst to join our team on an initial 12 month fixed-term basis. Established in 1986, CITC is the registered charity of Manchester City FC and uses the brand of the parent Club to deliver award-winning programmes centred around Health, Education and Inclusion. The projects engage and impact over 30,000 lives in Manchester annually. 

The purpose of this role is to provide support to the Insights Manager and wider team by maintaining and monitoring all CITC’s project delivery by supporting and overseeing key processes that contribute towards the charity’s MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) framework. 

Accountabilities include: 

• Conducting, overseeing and guiding data collection efforts, including baseline, mid-intervention and post-intervention studies for each CITC programme to ensure MEL processes allow for maximum delivery programme efficacy. 

• Conducting regular statistical analysis of data sets to indicate correlations and treatment effects within output, outcome and participant characteristic information for both accountability related reporting and internal learning functions 

• Scaling up, refining and systematising CITC monitoring systems to allow more efficient tracking of program results to inform reflection processes 

• Supporting with quantitative and qualitative evaluation design to evidence the impact of CITC activities by providing guidance, reviewing existing research literature, developing data collection tools and gathering data in the field 

• Preparing regular monitoring reports and synthesising data at venue or programme level on demand for quality assurance processes, documentation of results and advising of necessary adjustments 

• Contributing to the development of the Theory of Change, MEL framework, data storage infrastructure and data collection plans in order to finalise processes that are efficient and appropriate for CITC 

• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that MEL practise both satisfies funder needs and generates meaningful learning for CITC programmes

Scope of Job 

The Insights Analyst role is an integral one for CITC, providing support to the Insights Manager and wider team. It's crucial that applicants have a relevant higher-level degree, statistical skills and preferably, experience of using analysis packages.

Communication is key in this role, so a friendly, open manner is essential due to the varied stakeholders that the role is in contact with. Experience of report writing is essential and some practical experience of employing qualitative research methods of data gathering would be beneficial. 

Self-managing deadlines will be very important as there are often conflicting high-priority pieces of work all happening at the same time.

We’d be especially keen to hear from you if you have experience or knowledge of the charitable/voluntary sector along with proven ability of analysing quantitative and qualitative data.

Closing Date: 28th February 2019   

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. 

The City Football Group is fully committed to safeguarding children and other vulnerable people across our business. Appointment to this post will be subject to Safer Recruitment processes including a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service, prior to taking up the role. 

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. 

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview. Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK. 

The City Football Group is fully committed to safeguarding children and other vulnerable people across our business. Appointment to this post will be subject to Safer Recruitment processes including a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service, prior to taking up the role.