The Rainbow Centre is a vibrant Christian Charity that supports individuals and families who are experiencing deprivation and hardship in the Folkestone and Hythe area.  

We operate a range of services including the Homeless Support Service, FoodStop - a mobile soup kitchen, a Winter Shelter for rough sleepers, run the Shepway Foodbank and Family Contact Centre.  Additional revenue is provided through our trading arm, the Rainbow Shop. We have a small staff team which is supported by over 300 volunteers.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to lead and inspire the team of staff and volunteers and move the charity forward as it seeks to develop its services further in the light of changing needs.  The Rainbow Centre is a charity at the heart of the community, so this is your chance to make a real difference at a local level. 

How to apply

If you are interested in applying, your application should comprise:  

• A covering letter outlining your motivation and relevant experience for the role.  Please ensure that you give details about your Christian faith as this is an Occupational Requirement for this position. 
• A full CV, including educational and professional qualifications, a full employment history showing the more significant positions, responsibilities held and relevant achievements. 

The closing date for applications is noon on Tuesday 7th January 2020.  Enquiries about the job role can be made to the email stated in the covering letter. 

Interviews will be held on Friday 17th January and Monday 3rd February 2020 
 
 

The Middle East and North Africa Casework Officer is responsible for death penalty casework and administration support to Reprieve clients and support to partner organisations and lawyers in the Middle East and North Africa region.

You will be an integral member of the Middle East and North Africa Team, and will work closely with the Media, Campaigns and Digital, and Policy teams and the Directors.

You will be someone whom clients, family members, colleagues and partner organisations feel confident to approach for professional casework support and much more. Even if you don’t always know the answer, you will be capable of proactively obtaining it from the Middle East and North Africa Project Lead or the Directors.

You are a positive person with a can do attitude, excellent drafting, administrative and organisation skills, a minimum of 3 years of casework experience, a great ability to multitask, a willingness to muck in on all tasks big and small, humility and a passion for Reprieve’s work.

This is an office-based role and your presence is important during core office hours. This is a role that requires significant travel and work outside of core office hours from time to time.

Please see job description for full details on the role and how to apply.

Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and St Johns Hospice in Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire have an exciting new opportunity for a Deputy Hospice Director to assist in ensuring a high level of service within well-established Palliative care and end of life services across Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire

The Deputy Director Role:

You will provide additional day to day senior management support for all services at Thorpe Hall Hospice and St Johns Hospice. The successful candidate will be the face of the Hospice to internal and external audiences and representing the Director at internal and external meetings.

Alongside the Director, the Deputy Hospice Director will support Head of Clinical Services and Head of Support Services on a day to day basis to ensure the smooth running of the Hospice and ensuring all clinical and support services meet governance and quality standards.

This role will analyse staffing requirements and work with key stakeholders within the organisation including Recruitment to attract and recruit a fluid and resilient workforce. As requested by the Director, you will deliver specific projects within guidelines to support the future sustainability of the services.

The successful candidate will have proven experience in the following skills:

•  Healthcare management at a senior level
•  Commercial awareness to respond to market trends
•  Project Management skills 
•  Good knowledge of budgeting and financial modelling
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•  Excellent presentation skills
•  Self-motivated to work independently as well as part of a team
•  Ability to work with a range of different stakeholders in multiple locations

This role is ideal for someone looking for the next step in their career who enjoys leading from the front, managing projects and has a clinical or hospice background.

Interviews will take place on the 10th of January 2020.

To register your interest please apply now.

Company Benefits

•         Company pension scheme
•         25 days holiday - rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
•         Option to buy and sell up to five days holiday
•         Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
•         Enhanced sick pay
•         Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
•         Relocation allowance
•         Staff discount of 15% on new goods online
•         Cash referral bonus scheme
•         Salary sacrifice car scheme
•         Online Wellbeing Centre
•         Free Will writing service
•         Staff finance loans
•         Free onsite parking 
•         Carers leave policy
•         Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities

A disability charity are looking for a Deputy Director of Advice and Support Services To lead on all issues related to support and advice provision pertaining to people with a disability across the UK.

You will implement the charity's strategic ambitions in relation to support and advice services across the UK and will be responsible for continuing to improve the organisation's information sharing, support and advice related services.

You will be responsible for providing strong leadership to the teams ensuring the delivery of services provided directly by the organisation and its partners are high quality.

Key Responsibilities:
-To take responsibility for safeguarding
provide leadership and be accountable for the planning and implementation of the strategy in relation to information-sharing, support and advice provision.
-To deliver quality services to beneficiaries and their families across the UK
-In conjunction with stakeholders continue to improve and develop our portfolio of support and advice service models (including digital) based on research, insight and evidence of need and gaps, ensuring reach and accessibility to vulnerable groups.
-To support our work in influencing and shaping national and local services by ensuring data from Support and Advice Services and experiences from families contribute to our Policy and Campaigning activity.
- o work with fundraising team to maximise opportunities for income generation and sustainability in support of both existing and new service models
-To drive a culture of continuous improvement to ensure good quality, safe services, efficient and cost effective delivery, good systems and processes.
-To ensure effective and meaningful information and data management and analysis maximising the use of the database and its reporting functionality.
-To be responsible for the departmental budget including the effective management of finances
-Drive the building and maintaining of partnerships to support the effective delivery of Support and Advice Services

Skills and Experience required:
-Degree level or equivalent education or experience, with knowledge of the education, welfare and/or advice sectors.
-Significant senior management experience of delivering a sizeable national support, information or advice services within the third or public sector.
-Proven strategic and business planning skills, with the ability to manage, guide and support a major function.
-Experience of developing, piloting funding and rolling out relevant service models.
-Experience of operational management at senior level including planning, process mapping, setting and monitoring KPI's, outcome and impact reporting and financial management.
-Extensive recruitment and line management experience of teams
-Experience of developing, managing and reporting against complex budgets.
-Confident in using customer relationship management databases and analysing data, commissioning and presenting complex information.

Following a period of growth and with further growth anticipated, Survivors' Network are delighted to be recruiting to a new Head of Operations role working 30 hours a week across our offices in Brighton and Eastbourne. The role is initially funded for 12 months, with an expectation of extension subject to funding. If you have a strong background working in the voluntary sector with a passion and enthusiasm for ensuring the quality of front line services, excellent staff management skills, strong safeguarding knowledge and are great at partnership working, we want to hear from you.

Robertson Bell are exclusively partnering with Look Ahead Care and Support to recruit a Senior Finance Business Partner for their fast-paced Finance team. Look Ahead is a unique organisation that provides specialist services across four key demographics: Learning Disabilities, Homelessness, Mental Health, and Care Leavers. Their turnover has grown steadily over the last 10 years and is now approaching £70m, with the majority of their income coming from providing care and support to some of the most vulnerable in society.

With head offices near Westminster and Pimlico station in Central London, the role of the Senior Finance Business Partner reports to the Director of Finance and acts as the "face" of finance, operating in a highly visible position by regularly visiting budget holders to be a true Partner, bridging the gap between Finance and the outside business. You will oversee a team responsible for the production of management accounts and providing financial information to aid senior management's decision making.

Additional key accountabilities include:

• Providing exceptional business partnering support to the Care directorate, including key contacts at Deputy Director, Heads of, and Contract Manager levels; building strong relationships and being face-to-face around the business to provide tailored support for non-financially minded budget holders
• Managing a team of four, consisting of one Finance Business Partner and three Assistant Management Accountants, mentoring each member of staff and providing them with tailored support to encourage their career development
• Support the business through high-level financial modelling of various contract scenarios, assessing financial viability and operating efficiency of schemes and appraising opportunities for new business, as well as existing contracts
• Developing efficiency within the budgeting and forecasting process, identifying ways to improve reporting capability to provide greater support to strategic and operational decision making
• Heading up the Management Accounting function, writing reports for Senior Leadership Team on the Housing, Support and Care directorates, overseeing the preparation of monthly management accounts for the Senior Management Team, including the provision of commentary and analysis.

Look Ahead is an organisation unlike any other - its range of services and focus on service users mean that while following Housing SORP, they operate in many respects like a commercial organisation. This role should therefore appeal to candidates who want to work in the not-for-profit sector whilst maintaining the pace, drive and commerciality of a large business.

In due course, this role has the potential to grow into a more senior role and take on more responsibility across finance as you develop underneath a supportive Director of Finance. On offer is an excellent benefits package including generous annual leave entitlement, as well as the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave. You will have a flexible working location, based from head offices that are clean, bright and welcoming.

To be considered, you'll need to meet the following minimum criteria:

• Be a fully qualified accountant who has exceptional communication skills
• Demonstrate experience of successfully providing business partnering support within a complex organisation and wide-ranging levels of budget holder interaction
• Have high-level financial modelling expertise and a proven ability to use the output to influence strategic decision making
• Previous management experience is not essential, however the desire and ability to lead a team is! You will have the confidence to be a strong people manager who can lead staff at a mix of levels and abilities.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 1st December 2019, with interviews for successful applicants being arranged shortly afterwards. Applications are now under continual review, so if you meet the minimum criteria, please apply now through the link below.

We’re recruiting: Chief Executive Officer

The Finance Innovation Lab works for a financial system that serves people and planet – one that’s democratic, responsible and fair. We incubate the ideas and people with the potential to transform the system, and we advocate for changes in the rules that shape the way finance works.

We’re a unique charity with a global reputation as a pioneer in systems change. Our work is driven by the belief that the dysfunctions of our financial system contribute to some of our most pressing social and environmental challenges, from fossil fuel extraction to unaffordable housing, but that it doesn’t have to be this way: people created the system and people can change it.

The Lab began as a collaboration between WWF-UK and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 2009, and became an independent charity in 2015. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved since independence, including:

• Lab Fellowship, our flagship programme for financial innovators focused on social and environmental impact
• Our groundbreaking report The Regulatory Compass, arguing that policymakers and regulators should put social purpose at the heart of their work
• Our pioneering work supporting finance professionals to transform their organisations from the inside
• Our growing community of changemakers in finance – innovators, intrapreneurs and influencers all working to build a better financial system.
• Our highly-regarded publication A Strategy for Systems Change, documenting the Lab’s journey from conception to independence.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a global pioneer in systems change. You’ll shape our vision and strategy for a financial system that serves people and planet, guiding our programmes and scaling our work to achieve maximum impact. Acting as a strategic partner to our COO, you’ll support the development and delivery of the Lab’s financial strategy and operational plans, and you’ll work with the COO, chair and vice-chairs to ensure we have a strong, engaged board.

You’ll lead our relationships with a wide range of influentials, harnessing our networks to develop powerful new initiatives and secure new sources of income for the Lab. You’ll build our reputation as a thought leader and maximise our brand profile with key audiences, and you’ll lead our relationships with key funders. As custodian of our methodologies and theory of change, you’ll ensure we’re responsive to change and we embed evaluation and learning throughout our work. You’ll lead and inspire our team to fulfil their potential, and support them to develop thought leadership around their work.

In all of your work and relationships, you’ll reflect the unique nature of the Lab’s approach to financial systems change and you’ll act in line with our values of collaboration, action learning and empowerment.

The role involves frequent travel, both in the UK and internationally, and you’ll need to attend events in the evening and at weekends (for which time off in lieu can be claimed). You’ll be based in our modern offices in Farringdon, with flexible working hours and scope for remote or home working some of the time. We also welcome applications from candidates wishing to job share, either individually or in a pair.

The person specification asks for a wide range of competencies and we recognise that we’re unlikely to find a candidate who fits every requirement. If you don’t meet all of the essential requirements but still believe you could thrive in the CEO role, please consider applying or get in touch to discuss your fit for the role.

Please note that from 20 December to 6 January we will have reduced capacity for responding to enquiries, so we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

Applications close at 9.00am on 7 January 2020. Please do not send a CV or letter of application – these will not be read.

Interviews will take place week commencing 27 January, with second interviews week commencing 3 February.

No recruitment agencies please – we will only consider direct applications for this role.

We are looking for our next CEO who will lead us through the next stage of our journey: building on our success, retaining our independence and agility, securing and retaining funding sources, and ensuring internal operations and governance arrangements are fit to deliver benefits for both our clients and the continued success of the organisation. You’ll be a credible figurehead and a passionate advocate for making a difference in the field of homelessness. You’ll have a genuine passion for our work, a track record of making a difference, with strong financial skills and commercial acumen. You’ll also be a great people person and an inspirational and collaborative leader with the ability to develop highly effective partnerships, drive performance, motivate and develop a strong internal team and work with and support a highly committed board. An understanding of development would be desirable and we are open to hear from people for whom this would be their first Chief Executive position. 

Key contact

For an informal discussion and further information about this role, please contact Yvonne Frayling at Campbell Tickell. For details on how to apply please download the recruitment pack from the Campbell Tickell website

Post: Chief Executive Officer

Salary: £31,000 to £35,000 DOE

Contract: Circa 30 hours (negotiable)

About Survive

Established in York in 1990 as a self-help organisation for women survivors of child sexual abuse, we were registered as a charity and a company limited by guarantee in 1998.  We have grown in size and scope, particularly over the last 3 years, and now offer a specialist counselling service, telephone helpline and information service, support/self-help groups and 1:1 support meetings to female and male adult survivors of rape, sexual assault and child sexual abuse.  Our team currently consists of 17 part-time staff and 8 volunteers and we see around 400 clients a year.

Job Description

The Board of Trustees is seeking to appoint a new CEO who will be responsible for agreeing the strategic direction of the charity with them and then implementing the management and administration of the organisation within that framework.
 

You will need to demonstrate strong experience and ability in:

• leading and managing an organisation
• building strong networks and developing opportunities
• operating budgets and management accounts
• successful fundraising
• developing and implementing new successful initiatives

Ideally you will also have:

• a sound understanding of the charitable and voluntary sector including legal requirements and governance
• familiarity of charity policies and procedures to ensure good practice 
• working closely with a Board and delivering reports

You will have excellent communication skills and the confidence and ability to lead, inspire and motivate. Above all, you will embrace the ethos of the charity and the people that it supports.

How to apply:

Please complete the application form and submit it to the email provided by the closing date of 15 December 2019. Enquiries may be made to the same email address.

A DBS Disclosure will be required for this role.

Additional Documents:
Chief Executive Officer Job Description & Person Specification
Application form
Equal Opportunities Monitoring form
Disclosure of Criminal Convictions form

British Gas Energy Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that contributes to the relief of poverty in England, Wales and Scotland; with a particular focus on fuel poverty by helping those who are struggling to pay for their consumption of gas and electricity get back on their feet and remain debt free going forward.

The Trust provides relief and support for around 20,000 people a year through its dual approach of direct debt relief from energy bills and support for vulnerable lower income families and individuals and through funding projects delivered by 17 organisations located across England, Wales and Scotland to provide money and fuel debt advice services.

The Trust is now undergoing a period of change with a new grants administration contract coming into force next April and we will be taking the opportunity to bring certain activities in house. We are therefore looking for an experienced, enthusiastic individual with strong leadership skills who will relish the challenge of this exciting and rewarding role and work collaboratively with a small but highly committed team to lead the Trust towards the next phase of its existence.

To apply please click on the link to the comprehensive Application Pack. Applications are by C.V. and supporting statement.

About the Role

Camphill Village Trust is looking for a General Manager for our Gloucestershire Communities that has vision and leadership and the ability to get things done.

You will responsible for the delivery of the care and support to around 90 people with learning and other disabilities across the region, supported by two Care and Support Managers, one holding the Registered Managers status, and the wider estate including liaising with the relevant colleagues around property, land, farm and gardens.

As a member of the leadership team you will engage in new and upcoming projects to drive up quality standards and contribute to Camphill Village Trust’s bold strategy and vision that reaches out to more people, builds new connections while remaining sustainable within the sector’s financial context.

To be successful in this role you will need experience of managing care and support services, but this is just the starting point. You will be a confident leader that can motivate your team to deliver high quality services and have the creativity to see beyond the norm. The people we support will be at the heart of what you believe and do - ensuring a life of opportunity. Communicating and managing change will be part of your strengths to deliver the change agenda in line with the strategic direction of the Trust.

For more information or an informal conversation about the role, please find details in the application pack attached or visit our website.

Closing Date:Monday 16 December 2019, by 12.00 noon

Interview Date: Monday 6 January or Tuesday 7 January 2020

This is a new and exciting management role which sits between the Reprieve casework team and the development and outreach and finance teams. You will be responsible for managing the delivery and administration of a European Commission funded, 1.35 million euro, multi-country and multi-partner project focused on restricting the use of the death penalty in the Middle East and North Africa. You will also help coordinate the delivery of other complex projects relating to the Middle East and North Africa death penalty work. Depending on your skills and experience, you may also lead coordination of our casework engagement with the UN.

This is a three year, full time post. For full details please see the job description or visit our website.