Deputy Manager - Eating Disorders

Are you a Deputy Manager who understands the challenges young people face in day to day life? Do you have previous supervisory experience? Do you like the idea of working for a business who offer therapeutic and non-restraint support to young people?

Our client provide residential services for young people aged 16-30 years old who have been discharged from psychiatric inpatient stays or may have experienced previous admissions and/or placement breakdowns. The young people they care for often require a high level of support and dynamic approach to risk management in order to support problems they may have with self-harming, behaviour and emotional regulation. Their aim is to support the young people using a therapeutic, least restrictive approach to live in a non-secure community setting and to achieve their individual goals in preparation for transition to adult life.

They are excited to announce the opening of our new Residential Service based in Lostock, Bolton, where we are looking for a kind, caring and empathetic Deputy Manager to join our professional 5-bed service, assisting in the management of staff within the service.

Your role will involve supporting the Registered Manager in ensuring the smooth running of the residential home, providing support to Young People with complex and challenging eating disorders, where you will work towards keeping them safe and progressing with their recovery, whilst maintaining appropriate boundaries and at times supporting severely underweight patients. You will play a key part in developing this new service and will have the opportunity to utilise and develop your skills to make this an outstanding service.

You will be required to work Monday - Friday working 37.5 hour working week. Flexibility will be required to support occasionally with evening, sleep ins and weekends shifts.

Company Benefits:

- Competitive salary (£22,491 - £26,003, dependant on experience & qualifications)
- £100 bonus after completing 6-month probation
- 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (Rising to 27 days holiday plus bank holidays with service)
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities (NVQ Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care)
- Enhanced company pension
- Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Paid Induction (Running over 3 days)
- Free on-site parking
- Paid Enhanced DBS check
- Access to our 24-hour Wellbeing Support Portal/ Employee Assistance Programme
- Online shopping discounts, free eye tests and various other benefits
- The opportunity for internal promotions & progression
- Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
- Regular social events and recognition schemes (‘Employee of the year awards’, Summer & Christmas parties)

Your role as Deputy Manager

- To facilitate the young people in achieving and retaining as much independent control over their lives as appropriate working alongside the mental health recovery star.
- To develop therapeutic relationships with the young people experiencing eating disorders and work closely with their families and carers communicating effectively to provide ongoing engagement
- Follow the young person’s individual care plans, to administer medication to the young people as prescribed, accurately maintaining appropriate records. Responsible for ordering, checking in stock control of the young persons prescribed medication and maintaining systems to ensure effective stock management of all products.
- To complete observations of mealtime’s either on a 1:1 basis with young people or to observe and monitor the dietary intake at key times throughout the day when support staff are supporting directly.
- To co-operate with other team members to ensure the service meets any therapeutic needs of the young people, which are conducive to recovery.
- To be actively involved in the admission, assessment, implementation and discharge of young people and their care.
- Ensure the staff team adhere to high levels of hygiene and infection control systems are maintained
- To work with Registered Manager to ensure effective staff inductions and probationary reviews take place. To carry out supervisions, appraisals, assessments and team meetings when required, ensuring the home is a friendly, supportive and caring environment.
- Once trained to provide and carry out clinical duties necessary to meet the young people’s health needs on a daily basis, such as observations. Ensure that young people are receiving advice, care, and regular health checks to ensure their physical and mental wellbeing. Promote nutrition, relaxation, exercise, and healthy lifestyles.
- To work with People Services in relation to employee relations concerns and when conducting any fact finds, formal investigations ensuring reports are presented to a high standard.
- To support the Registered Manager in managing work leave requests, annual leave allowances and absence management ensuring review meetings are conducted when staff meet the prescribed triggers.
- To be an active and encouraging Manager, establish and maintain effective communication and good relationships with the young people, relatives, employees in the home and with other externally such as professionals in the caring environment, outside supplies, agencies.
- To support the Registered Manager with effective quality assurance accounts and delegate and act upon actions plans as required

Requirements of Deputy Manager

- Full UK Driving Licence & access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Experience of working within residential services
- Previous experience of working with service users who have eating disorders
- Minimum of 12 months supervisory management experience
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent
- Willingness to work towards Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management
- A good understanding of Nutrition
- Experience of working with Quality Care Commission (CQC) or Ofsted registered services
- Ability to lead and manage a staff team to achieve highest possible standards for the service, staff, and young people

If you are interested in joining an enthusiastic, motivated business who thrive in developing and rebuilding young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please submit your application by Monday 22nd March.

To support our commitment as a COVID-19 Secure employer, all of their interviews will be held over video platform.

Our client operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

They are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.

They reserve the right to close the advert early, should they appoint a suitable candidate.

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Income Generation Manager

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week

Salary: £35,134 to £39,804 pro rata

Locations: Flexible

Start Date: Immediate Start

Connection Support is excited to announce a new post being created to implement our charity’s latest strategy to generate and diversify its income. We are looking for someone to bring enthusiasm, professionalism, personable and persuasive communication both in person and writing to the process of establishing a distinct, charity focussed fundraising strategy to generate supplementary income through grants, individual givers, events and other means, during this very exciting time for us.

From a fundraising/charity background, you have experience and a proven track record of fundraising from individual and company donors and grant making organisations and can facilitate people to plan and work together so that income generation targets are achieved.

You will be part of our senior management team working together to help us to reach more vulnerable people and make a greater difference to peoples lives.

Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.

The full Job Description and Person specification is available on our website.

If you’re ambitious, crave freedom to try new things, are great with supporters and have a creative streak, then is the role for you.

You’ll be joining a successful team who have a plan to grow individual giving income significantly in the coming year. You’ll be able to build upon the success of our high-profile national appeals such as the Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal and play a major role in our exciting BBC Lifeline and Christmas appeals. 

This is a new role and our Individual Giving Officer will help us to give the best possible experience to the amazing individuals who support Changing Faces.

Ideally, you may have worked in individual giving at a large charity and want more responsibility, or you have had responsibility for individual donors in a smaller organisation and now want to specialise. We’re also open to fundraisers who may have been furloughed or made redundant and have transferable skills. All we ask is that you have thought through why you think individual giving is the right fit for you.

The job will reporting to the Director of Fundraising and Communications and we’re looking for people who are excited by:

• building and retaining our growing pool of individual donors.
• delivering great donor care 
• either have experience and understanding of direct marketing campaigns or show you’ve done your research and know what makes great direct marketing 
• using social media to fundraise and develop relationships with donors.
• bringing a warm and dedicated approach to ensure our amazing supporters always have the best experience possible! 

We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of people with visible differences. In line with our commitments to race equity, we are particularly seeking applications from People of Colour/ BAME people. We are also always open to conversations about flexible working. 

Please download the following documents for further information:

• Job Description – Individual Giving Officer
• Criminal Records Disclosure Security and Ex Offenders Policy
• Applicant privacy notice 2019

Contract: Full time (37 hours per work).

Location: London-based role / working from home initially

Salary range: £26,868.19 – £30,240.39 (Changing Faces’ policy is to offer all posts at the first point on this scale)

Closing date: Monday 8 March 2021, 9am

To apply: Send an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement that specifically addresses the person specification. 

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job Title:                   Head of Mass Participation

Salary:                           £54,046 per annum (London Office), £49,131 per annum (Home based)

Hours:                            35 hours per week

Type of Employment:    Permanent

Dept and Location:       Supporter Engagement & Development –dual location (home/office)

Line Manager:      Deputy Director of Supporter Experience & Engagement  

Direct line reports        3 x Mass Participation Project Managers, Mass Participation Assistant (1 direct and 1 indirect)

Cancer is different for young people. Our vision is a world where cancer doesn’t stop young people from living their lives – and our job in making that vision a reality is to improve the experience of every young person with cancer in the UK. 

Teenage Cancer Trust has been a hugely successful organisation for many years – leading the way in specialist support for young people with cancer in the UK and across the globe. We’re driven by what young people with cancer need and are the UK’s leading charity dedicated solely to the treatment, care and support of 13-24-year olds with cancer.

What’s clear is that we have significant opportunities to further expand and deepen our impact - but doing that in the face of the challenges to income posed by the current pandemic is going to be tough.

We have just gone through a change process to ensure we have the structure that enables us to stabilise our income now and grow it over the coming years. We have a talented team of fundraisers who are not daunted by the challenge ahead, far from it, they have achieved more than we ever thought was possible in the last year and we’re looking for a Head of Mass Participation who can rise to the challenge with them, seize opportunities and be the strategic lead for the Mass Participation team. 

Although Mass Participation income has been hit hard by the pandemic, we have adapted and developed a sector leading multi-million pound virtual events offering. We’re certain with the right leader in place we can create a sustainable long term mass participation programme that combines opportunities across both the virtual and challenge events space.You will lead your Team to deliver and grow this area of the fundraising mix, in line with our ambitious targets. The role will lead by example using expert knowledge and insights about virtual and challenge events opportunities and fundraising. 

This is not an organisation – or role - that’s about more of the same or one size fits all. We are looking for the right leader, with the right approach to make sure that every fundraiser in their team is excited about the future and enjoys what they are doing. 
 
This role has the potential to be life changing - not only for young people with cancer - but also for you and the talented, experienced teams you will be leading and empowering.

We need our  leaders to bring brilliant cross-organisational leadership experience with stacks of emotional intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills.  You will thrive when working in partnership and making alliances. Success and strength are not about us doing everything – it’s about getting everything done with others. At Teenage Cancer Trust we succeed, fail & learn together and are stronger than the sum of our parts.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

How to Apply
Please apply by clicking the ‘apply ’button below. Don't forget to complete a supporting statement to accompany your CV which sets out how you meet the requirements of the role. 

Closing date:              08th March 2021 

1st Interview Date:    Week commencing 15th March 2021 

2nd Interview Date:   Week commencing 23rd March 2021 

We are committed to working towards ensuring Teenage Cancer Trust is a diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

At Teenage Cancer Trust we're committed to delivering a service to teenagers and young adults with cancer that is embedded in safeguarding and safe working practice guidance.In line with our safeguarding approach this role is subject to a DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

Are you a service co-ordinator looking for a new and exciting challenge? Would you like to support people with a visible difference across Scotland.

We are recruiting for a Skin Camouflage Co-ordinator that will take the lead in delivering the Skin Camouflage Service across Scotland working with colleagues across the organisation .

You will have experience of supporting volunteers accompanied with excellent organisational and communication skills. The service is in an exciting phase and about to embark on a transformational year and your experience of developing strong and productive relationships with partners including the NHS, local authorities and third sector organisations will be invaluable.

Key objectives of the role:

1. Day-to-day co-ordination of the Skin Camouflage Service (SCS) in Scotland, liaising closely with the Head of Skin Camouflage Service on service innovation and continual improvement.
2. Volunteer recruitment, training and co-ordination of Practitioners (SCPs),
3. Clinic administration of all SCS appointments in Scotland, from enquiry/referral, appointment to completion, ensuring that all quality and operational KPIs, data management and evaluation requirements are met.
4. To support the Head of Scotland in engaging and developing a range of stakeholders to ensure excellent referral relationships with healthcare professionals, third sector and local authorities.

We are looking for someone with:

• Demonstrable experience of engaging and developing relationships with healthcare professionals, local authorities and local providers.
• Previous volunteer management or co-ordination experience or equivalent.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills and a systematic approach to work with the ability to prioritise between competing demands.
• Strong commitment to Changing Faces values, vision and purpose and to keeping the voices of people with visible differences at the heart of all work.

If this sounds like you – we would love to hear from you.

We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of people with visible differences. In line with our commitments to race equity, we are particularly seeking applications from People of Colour/ BAME people. We are always open to conversations about flexible working. 

About Changing Faces:

Changing Faces is the UK’s leading charity for everyone who has a mark, scar or condition that makes them look different (a visible difference). Being different in a society where there is such pressure to look a certain way is extremely difficult.

People with visible differences are vulnerable to isolation, loneliness, social anxiety and low self-esteem. They face staring, unwanted attention and even bullying and hate crime. They experience lowered expectations in education, problems getting work and stereotyping in the media. This can have a devastating, and lasting, impact on their wellbeing. Adults often come to us, having never spoken to anyone about the psychological impact of their visible difference before.

Changing Faces provides unique practical, social and emotional support for people affected by visible difference; we challenge discrimination and campaign for a world that respects difference.

Our services build confidence and resilience – giving people the tools to manage their feelings, cope in different social settings, handle other people’s reactions or deal with life, education, work and relationships. We are going through an exciting period of change and development across the organisation.

Changing Faces wants a future where everyone with a visible difference on their face or body has the confidence, support and opportunity to lead the lives they want.

Contract: Full time (37 hours per work).

Location: Home-based with travel across Scotland as required

Starting Salary: £26,868

Closing date: 10am Monday 22ndMarch 2021

Interviews: w/c 29th March 2021

Application method: Please download the attached Job Description and provide a full CV and a comprehensive supporting statement, with clear demonstration of how you meet each point of the person specification and job requirements. Please do let us know where you saw the role advertised too.

For more information, please visit the Changing Faces Website

UnLtd is the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK and offers the largest such network in the world. Our mission is to find social entrepreneurs with bold solutions to today’s challenges. Through funding and support, we help them to realise their potential and creating lasting change.

UnLtd’s vision is a future where enterprising people are transforming our world for good.  To enable this, we are committed to developing an eco-system of support to make it easier for those who need help to find it.

UnLtd values diversity and is committed to inclusion and understanding intersectionality. These are more than just buzz words for us. They’re principles guiding how we build our teams, support leaders, empower social entrepreneurs and create an organisation that’s the right fit for every person.

To support an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their lived experiences and ideas, we have embedded an equity and inclusion group within UnLtd giving us a wide range of different perspectives in our work to help us see what is most needed in society.  We are particularly keen to hear from those who identify as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic, LGBTQIA, those with a disability, impairment, learning difference, those with caring responsibilities, from a less advantaged socioeconomic background as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. 

If there is any aspect of viewing this document that is not appropriate to your user needs, then please contact us and provide details to see what we can do.

As a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager, you will be responsible for delivering market-leading and inclusive support to social entrepreneurs in order to maximise their social impact in the healthy ageing space and improve the quality of life for older adults and reduce health inequalities in the UK.

Each year you will support up to 20 innovative entrepreneurs at different stages of their journey, from ideation to scale, and deliver a varied package of support to entrepreneurs that includes funding, peer support, consultancy, networking and coaching. 

You will also play a role in finding the most impactful social entrepreneurs from across the UK and developing a diverse pipeline of applicants, 50% of whom will be disabled or from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. 

You will have the opportunity to become a champion of the rights of older adults and lead the development of our support in the healthy ageing space. This will include building internal knowledge and awareness of the issues faced by older adults and the solutions that social entrepreneurs are providing, increasing our visibility and reputation across the sector as leaders in this space, and expanding our networks to increase our reach and embed our offer within the ecosystem.

This role will be part of our Solutions for an Ageing Society team, will report into the Impact Lead who manages this area and following UnLtds strategy refresh of Ambition 2025 will be key in delivering the following 2 goals.

1. Work with the most impactful social entrepreneurs in communities across the UK who embody our values and principles.

2. Provide market leading support to social entrepreneurs to collectively build a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable society

Essential experience, skills and knowledge

• You have experience in providing funding and advisory support to individuals and ventures
• You have knowledge of early stage ventures and the challenges they face when growing (i.e. cash flow management, access to capital, team development, routes to market etc.) and experience in supporting them to overcome these 
• You have knowledge of the political, economic and legal context that social entrepreneurs work in
• You have extensive skills in and experience of engaging partners and building valued, trusted relationships
• You have financial awareness and experience of budget management with experience of early stage business cash flows
• You have good IT skills, especially MS Office, and can access and derive information
• You pay great attention to detail
• You have excellent communication and persuasion skills with the ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
• You have experience or knowledge of the healthy ageing space

Desirable experience, skills and knowledge

• You have experience and/or knowledge of  the health and social care system
• You have experience and/or knowledge of the challenges currently facing the healthy ageing space
• You have experience of starting and running a venture
• You have networks and positive relationships within the healthy ageing space and or the health and social care sector

Personal attributes and values

• You are mission driven and empathetic, with a powerful connection to our mission and values
• You are a strategic thinker and practitioner with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach
• You have real intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand based on rigorous evidence and collective wisdom
• You are results and impact-oriented with the highest standards in terms of delivery and performance, seeking to continuously improve and learn
• You are collaborative and a team player
• You demonstrate personal integrity at all times

Location: Due to Covid-19, this is initially an agile role so you can be based anywhere in the UK. Once we start to re-open our offices for staff, you are welcome to use one of the UnLtd office hubs in London, Bradford or Birmingham, or a satellite office in Scotland or Northern Ireland. We welcome applications from anywhere across the UK and are open to discuss flexible working, including working from home. Please note as this role covers the UK some travel will be required.

To apply, please click on the Apply button.

Application Closing Date:
Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 5pm

Interview Arrangements:
First round of interviews: Friday 19th March 2021 (online)
Final round interviews: Monday 29th March 2021 (online)

Due to Covid-19, at this time we will be conducting our interviews virtually via Microsoft Teams.

*UnLtd is committed to offering employment opportunities for people with criminal convictions. As a result, we will only ask you about any criminal convictions at initial offer stage. Your information will be treated fairly and confidentially and will not automatically exclude you from the role that you have applied for.

Find out more about our generous range of employment benefits on our website.

Head of Campaign

University of the Arts London

Location: Holborn, London

Salary: This post has been graded as a UAL grade 7: the standard salary range for this position is £53,011 – 64,032, with a discretionary contribution range up to £71,494, subject to skills and experience.

The University of the Arts London (UAL) is a global leader in arts, design, fashion and communications. 

The 2020 QS Rankings for Art and Design rank us as second in the world, as well as the world’s leading art and design university with undergraduate provision.  We have a clear strategic vision which focusses on providing transformative education, developing world-leading research and enterprise, becoming the centre of public debate for the future of arts, design, fashion and communication, and building an inspirational, physical environment that supports its students, staff and wider communities.

To support this ambition, we are in the final planning stages of our first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign.  The campaign is part of the university’s largest-ever investment in Development posts and activity, and support for our work across the university could not be stronger.  Our fundraising activity since 2014 demonstrates a steady, upward trajectory and we have achieved significant results already.  We are now seeking a talented Head of Campaign to join and help us fulfil UAL’s potential. 

The Head of Campaign is a key role in the planning, development and implementation of our campaign and delivery of a multi-million pound target.  You will design a campaign that will incorporate hugely ambitious capital plans (including entirely new campuses in London within the next five years) and support for students facing increasingly difficult living conditions in London. 

Critical to your success in this important role is your track record of working on successful multi-million pound fundraising campaigns.  You will bring excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills, and a strong ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve.  Your enthusiasm, pragmatism and resilience will help you win the support of those around you, and experience of securing major gifts is also highly desirable.

If you are interested in a unique chance to manage a substantial fundraising campaign which will change the landscape of London and make a significant impact on the future of this institution and Britain’s creative future, we’d like to hear from you.  To view the information pack for this unique opportunity or to arrange a confidential discussion with the consulting team please contact our recruitment partners at Richmond Associates on +44 (0)20 3617 9240.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 10AM FRIDAY, 5 MARCH 2021

We particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within UAL at this level.

11 women die every day from ovarian cancer and survival rates in the UK are among the worst in Europe.

Target Ovarian Cancer is the UK’s leading ovarian cancer charity. We work with women, family members, friends, health professionals and leading experts to ensure we target the areas that matter most for those living with ovarian cancer. 

Together with the ovarian cancer community, we are transforming the futures of more than 41,000 women in the UK who are living with ovarian cancer and thousands more who are yet to be diagnosed. But there is so much more to do. We will not stop until we have achieved our goal of doubling survival from ovarian cancer by 2050.

We are looking for an Events and Digital Community Officer to assist with the running of our support programmes for women with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer and their families. This is an exciting time at Target Ovarian Cancer and you will make a real difference to those we support through assisting with the successful delivery of our growing range of both online and offline support. In return, we can offer you the opportunity to develop your skills in this exciting and dynamic role. You will be involved in all aspects of the Supportive Services team’s work, including the planning, promotion, delivery and evaluation of our digital and face to face events and moderating and helping to develop our brand new online community. You will be a motivated and organised individual who is comfortable with digital technologies. You will be empathetic and have excellent communication skills, as many of our supporters you engage with will have had direct experiences of ovarian cancer.

If you are interested in this role please apply with your CV and a covering letter (of no more than 2 pages) detailing why you are interested and how your skill set meets the requirements of the role to Kathryn Mullen, Information and Support Manager, with the job title as the subject via our website. Please also complete and return the equalities monitoring form [Word].

The closing date for applications is Sunday 28 February at 11.59pm. First round interviews will take place the week commencing Monday 8 March. 

In light of the current coronavirus situation, interviews will be conducted via video call until further notice.

The Jane Goodall Institute UK (JGI UK) seeks to inform and empower people of all ages to learn about the problems facing our planet and to become involved in supporting our core programmes to provide solutions. Building on 60 years of research at Gombe in western Tanzania, programmes for conservation, education, captive primate welfare and the legacy of an icon, you will be joining a global community where individual actions combine to create global impact.

The CEO will lead the transformation of the organisational culture of JGI UK as part of a global community of JGIs:

1. We are a global family with a common purpose

2. We act locally but think globally

3. We are responsive, active communicators

4. We are committed to collaboration

5. We are solutions-focused

Job Description: Chief Executive – The Jane Goodall Institute UK

• Location: Home based (but commutable to London)
• Competitive Salary (pro rata option available)
• Hours negotiable
• Accountable to the Board of Trustees of the Jane Goodall Institute UK

CEO Role:

The Jane Goodall Institute UK seeks a passionate and enthusiastic Chief Executive Officer to lead the charity. Animals, People, and the Environment. That is who and what we care deeply about. If your passions align with this, then we invite you apply to join our team. 

We’re looking for a transformational leader to help us fulfil our promise for a better world to communities in the UK and across the globe. As CEO, you will be an engaging and capable champion using your exceptional management and public speaking abilities to ensure we deliver on our strategic objectives and make a tangible impact in line with our charitable purposes. Working closely with an engaged Staff and Board of Trustees, you will make things happen by creating and executing strategic initiatives that expand programs and services in the UK and around the world.

With your visionary talent, you will lead us forward to achieve our fiduciary and financial commitments while embracing unshakeable ethics. You will be in charge of developing our fundraising strategy and focus on creating partnerships with both corporates and non-profit organisations that will contribute to fundraising goals. You will lead the communications with donors as well as our marketing and digital communication strategy.

The Person:

As a transformational leader, you understand how to affect positive societal change. In addition, you:

• Are recognized for building relationships in multi-stakeholder environments
• Have delivered results to other global organizations, combining the best of charitable, public and private sector approaches with insightful leadership experience
• Bring an immediate knowledge of charities, evidence of life-long learning, excellence in communication, political acuity, and a network of contacts
• Have a strong branding and digital marketing / communication experience for well-established brands 
• Are experienced in managing funding programs, business development and sponsorship strategies for large charities or organisations
• Have an in-depth appreciation of organization governance will ensure a trusting and meaningful partnership with the Board of Trustees

Chief Executive Officer, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust

Key responsibilities

Operations

• Assume executive management of all aspects of the Trust

• Lead, develop and manage the YDRT staff, ensuring high level performance, an outcomes-focused approach and a common understanding of YDRT strategic plan.

• Oversee the financial management of the Trust, working closely with the Finance Manager and Treasurer. Maximise the recovery of costs through projects.
• Develop proactive strategies that drive and support delivery of YDRTs objectives.
• Mentor, support and hold to account members of the team; ensure that the team’s ways of working and behaviours are in line with YDRT values, policies and legal compliance requirements.

• Ensure management policies and procedures are developed as necessary and are up-to-date.
• Collaborate with other partners and particularly other rivers trusts and The Rivers Trust to deliver strategic environmental improvements for rivers.
• Act as project executive on a diverse range of river projects including natural flood management, habitat improvement, and community engagement.

Developing and sustaining finance

• Set and manage the YDRT budget
• Develop/oversee funding applications and opportunities for YDRT alongside the Operations Director and DVRN lead
• Strengthen and build relationships with key partners, supporters, volunteers, donors, the media, MPs and funding providers.

Strategic Direction and Governance

• Influence, guide and support the chairman and board of YDRT in the overall leadership of the organisation, shaping and determining its direction and strategy. In the first instance the CEO will be responsible for refining and finalising the organisations strategic plan.
• Influence, guide and support the board to add value and to ensure effective governance, including in the fulfilment of YDRT’s legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities. In the first instance working closely with the board on implementing the outcome of the 2019/20 Governance review and associated resilience work.
• Foster effective on-going communication between the board and the team, and develop and encourage board participation/understanding of the work of YDRT
• With trustees and senior staff, identify and manage risks and changes in the external environment

Developing and sustaining profile

• Work influentially with peers across the sector to share knowledge, skills, resources and networks
• Represent the organisation at external events and publicity opportunities
• Promote the YDRT brand locally, regionally and nationally

CEO Job-Holder Competency Profile (Person Specification)

Leadership: A prime role of the CEO is to articulate the vision and strategy to motivate staff and volunteers; they must have the drive and energy to achieve this

Advocacy: The CEO is the public and private face of the Trust and they must be able to effectively promote its aims

Interpersonal: The CEO needs to build relationships with a variety of people, from senior corporate executives and landowners to staff, volunteers and supporters

Financial: The CEO must be able to set and manage the organisational budget and raise funds

Listening and learning: The CEO will need to quickly get up to speed with stakeholder relationships and projects. They will need to be self-motivated, adaptable and flexible to meet the organisation’s aims and objectives

Computing: It is essential to be able to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

The role of CEO is the most senior salaried position within YDRT.  It is likely that the job holder would be educated at least to first degree level with appropriate professional status and a minimum of five years’ experience relevant to the role. It is likely that prior to application they will have undertaken a senior manager or CEO role in the environmental sector.

Organisational and Leadership Experience

• Strong exposure to the not-for-profit sector
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary organisation.
• Experience of working at board level with a good understanding of governance.
• Experience of working effectively as part of a senior leadership team
• Extensive experience in formulating, implementing and controlling strategic direction.
• Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking in own area as well as contributing to wider organisation (The Rivers Trust) and externally as required.
• Well-honed influencing skills.

Technical Experience (Desirable but not Essential)

• A holistic knowledge of the environment and understanding of current issues in the catchment environment including fisheries, land management and river restoration.

Financial Management and Fundraising

• Substantial experience of financial management of significant resource, both income and expenditure.

• Proven track record of unrestricted and restricted fundraising; writing, submitting and winning bids for funding.

People Management & Influencing

• Extensive people management experience.
• Proven Leadership skills; developing, coaching and managing multi-disciplinary teams.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to empathise with and influence a wide range of people internally and externally - including government agencies, potential external funders, local businesses, farmers, land managers and owners, river users including anglers, other environmental organisations, water companies, local residents and MPs.
• Acumen and sensitivity regarding “small p” politics.
• Experience of working with trustees/ volunteers.

Communication & Profile Raising

• Consistent demonstration of the ability to convey complicated issues in a straight-forward manner to diverse audiences.

• Proven track record of delivery in profile-raising activities in areas such as fundraising, policy and conservation management.

Personal qualities

• Ability to manage a diverse and demanding workload
• Personal resilience/ self-management

Desirable

A post graduate degree

Experience of working in a charity environment and familiarity with the statutory obligations and responsibilities of charities.

The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust

The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust is a registered charity covering the Rivers Swale, Ure, Nidd, Ouse and Wharfe catchment areas with a mission to:

• Protect and conserve river environments and inspire others to contribute to this;
• Provide opportunities for people to learn about and enjoy rivers;
• Encourage partnership and collaborative working at a catchment scale.

The Trust undertakes a wide range of practical projects to improve the water quality and habitat of rivers and streams and to inspire other people to care about these environments. This includes working with farmers, landowners and communities to reduce water pollution, improve river habitat, address barriers to fish migration and improve fish habitats, and reduce the risk of damage from flooding. Volunteers have always been an essential component of the Trust, assisting with practical conservation work, monitoring and events.

The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust hosts two catchment partnerships as part of Defra’s ‘Catchment based approach’ initiative: this involves building collaboration, engaging with communities, pooling evidence and finding funding to drive multi-partner projects that maximise benefits for people across the catchments.

The Trust evolved from a group of committed volunteers and is now overseen by a board of seven volunteer trustees. The Trust currently employs nine members of staff who split their time between the office, site visits, external meetings and working from home. The working culture of the Trust encourages a professional, committed and independent approach.

In the last three years the Trust has increased in size from two full time employees and three contractors (two part time and one full time) to a team of nine FTEs. We have also been significantly increased our following on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to over 1000 followers.

The Trust secured funding from HLF Resilience to carry out a resilience project – YDRT’s Roaring 20s. This project includes a thorough review of how the charity operates with recommendations from charity experts and other rivers trusts on how to improve governance, efficiency and resilience. In parallel, the catchment partnership was one of four chosen to be part of the Charities Aid Foundation resilient catchment partnership project. Both projects have resulted in key recommendations on future direction, funding and operation to ensure the charity and wider catchment partnership continue to grow and to thrive in the 2020s and beyond. A key part of the CEO’s role will be to build on the work done to date and to implement the findings of these two projects along with any other recommendations based on experience.

YDRT’s funding comes almost entirely as funding for projects, so its existence and ability to retain staff depends on continuity of funding. With EU funding no longer available and government funding likely to reduce, it will be vital to continue to increase the range of funding from other sources. A key requirement of the CEO is the responsibility for developing and managing the ‘pipeline’ of funding for projects over the next 12 months and for the following years ahead in line with the Trusts strategy.

You will be an experienced grantmaker willing and able to be very hands on, as is necessary in a small organisation, alongside operating strategically working with the talented leadership team. You will be used to balancing the big picture and collegiate leadership with operational involvement and detail, and be committed to ensuring the grants and impact team works collaboratively across the charity.

Responsible to 

Chief Executive

Direct Reports

Immediately responsible for the interim Grants Manager (and Grants and Partnerships Officer when she returns from maternity leave in autumn 2021). In due course the department and responsibilities may grow in line with organisational growth and priorities.

Working Hours and Contract

This is a permanent role. Depending on experience, we will consider flexible arrangements including part time, flexible hours, and some home working beyond the current pandemic arrangements.

Salary

c. £55,000 pa (depending on experience)

Location

Central London, home working currently (February 2021)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Grants and Impact

• Oversee all of the Foundation’s grant-making programmes and policies.
• Develop and refine our new grants assessment and decision processes.
• Design and deliver new funding and organisation support programmes, responding to research and insight and the changing context.
• Commission, monitor and share relevant research to support our grants and impact activities, in consultation with colleagues.
• Develop a suite of non-funding offerings for grantees and the sight loss sector, ensuring that the Vision Foundation becomes an exemplar “Funder Plus” Foundation – offering capacity building, shared learning, convening, and a shared platform for the voices of grantees and their beneficiaries.
• Ensure grants and impact data is properly recorded and analysed to grow our organisational knowledge and expertise and ensure we continually improve our own impact.
• Design, develop and deliver appropriate impact monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Ensure that our learnings through grants evaluation are captured, distilled, and shared to drive our own activities and promote best practice across the sector.
• Continuously analyse risks, potential, changes in environment and voluntary sector politics; and use to inform plans.
• Lead on shaping our policy and influencing, advocacy and campaigns contribution based on research and insight, working closely with the CEO and Head of Communications.
• Explore strategic partnerships and co-funding and regranting opportunities with other funders/sight loss organisations.

Leadership and management

• Work closely and collegiately as a member of the Executive Leadership Team leading and setting the strategic direction for the charity.
• Work in partnership with other members of the Executive Leadership Team to embed a high performing, motivated, collaborative, creative and dynamic culture within Vision Foundation – and seek opportunities to celebrate success.
• Provide management, leadership and support to the Grants Manager (and Grants and Partnerships Officer when she returns from maternity leave), and 5 develop and manage new roles as appropriate, including internships and voluntary placements as the organisation grows.
• Establish, with senior colleagues across the Foundation, appropriate and proportionate performance targets demonstrating commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
• Provide comprehensive monthly performance reports to the Chief Executive and Executive Leadership Team.

Cross-team working

• Work with the Director of Development to develop income generating products and propositions to take out to fundraising audiences.
• Support income generation at the Foundation by helping to cultivate new donors and steward existing donors; including attending and presenting at funder meetings, sourcing case studies, delivering and translating impact data into everyday language fit for a fundraising audience.
• Work in collaboration with the Director of Development and the Head of Communications to design and deliver impact reporting for our funders and the wider sector.
• Work closely with senior fundraising and communications leads to support activities in both these departments in service of growth and greater impact.
• With the Head of Communications, manage and empower our network of blind and partially sighted advisors.
• Work with the Director of Finance and Resources to ensure grants and impact financial commitments and deployments are tracked, reported and reconciled.

Relationship management

• Ensure positive and productive relationship management with grantees and former member charities and sector colleagues.
• Create strong links and networks with other funders and voluntary, community and public sector bodies, seeking opportunities for partnerships to realise broader benefits through collaboration.
• Represent the Foundation at external events and forums, building the Foundation’s profile.
• Work with the Association of Charitable Foundations and London Funders and others to ensure that we are visible and adhering to and leading best practice.

Governance

• Attend Board and Committee meetings as required and contribute comprehensive quarterly performance reports to the Trustee Board.
• Ensure that the Trustee Board and any other senior volunteers and advisors are effectively served by the Executive Team, and that their expertise is used to support our development and delivery.
• Develop and support the Grants and Impact Advisory Committee to ensure it is efficient and effective and adds value to the grants and impact operation, including preparation of Committee meeting papers.
• Ensure positive and productive relationship management with Grants and Impact Advisory Committee members.
• Oversee programme expenditure to ensure compliance and accordance with budgets.
• Ensure our grants processes incorporate appropriate due diligence and scrutiny to ensure we are a responsible grantmaker.
• Support the wider ambitions of the Vision Foundation to become an inclusive and empowering employer, including the development of voluntary and paid employment placements across the business including our retail arm.

Flexibility

The role description is a general outline of duties and responsibilities and may be amended as the Vision Foundation develops. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience

• Extensive experience of grant-making or a comparable environment at a senior level, with a strong understanding of wider funding mechanisms in the charity sector (essential)
• Understanding and (ideally) experience of shaping and delivering capacitybuilding support to charities (essential)
• Experience of commissioning and overseeing research, and using the results to inform decision-making (essential)
• Experience of policy, advocacy or campaign work (desirable)
• Experience and understanding of the financial and capacity challenges facing London’s voluntary and community sector, and of large and small organisations and community groups working for social change (essential)
• Knowledge of the sight loss sector in London (desirable)
• Experience of negotiating and securing funding towards major projects and/or contracts or funding agreements (desirable)
• Ability to manage high volumes of varied work and operate to tight deadlines (essential)
• Experience of leadership within an organisation which is seeking to build transformational growth; including responsibilities as part of a Senior Leadership Team and reporting at Board level (essential)
• Experience of leading and line managing others to develop and grow, and building and maintaining a high performing team culture (essential)
• Experience of building relationships, and influence, with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders (essential)

Personal Qualities

• Intelligence, enthusiasm and resilience
• Ambitious for the organisation, able to balance creativity with practicality
• An understanding of and commitment to London’s sight loss community. An excellent communicator, able to present complex information clearly in oral and written form, and to inspire and enthuse others
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Ability to understand and interpret numerical information at pace, including budgets, financial reports, monitoring and evaluation data, and impact reports
• Ability to assess and balance risk and opportunity
• Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity
• Highly developed skills of diplomacy and engagement, and with a practical and accessible manner
• Emotional intelligence and excellent listening skills
• A team player, committed to working collegiately and supportively with others
• Highly committed to equal opportunities and inclusion

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a supporting statement.

• 1st interviews: week beginning 15 March
• 2nd interviews & informal meetings with colleagues: week beginning 22 March 2021. There is also likely to be an exercise at second stage.

”we sort out problems together, for good”

Citizens Advice Southwark has a track record of delivering high-quality services from its offices in Peckham, Walworth and Bermondsey and outreach locations across Southwark and South East London. We sort out problems together, for good, by providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice across all areas of social welfare law, and through using the experience of our clients to bring about positive change through research and campaigns. 

Post funded jointly by Dimbleby Cancer Care & Macmillan Cancer Support - insert funder logos

Citizens Advice Southwark provides an outreach advice service in hospitals across South East London for people affected by cancer. We are seeking to recruit a part-time welfare benefits caseworker, 4 days per week, who will undertake casework, assisting clients to access their entitlements to welfare benefits and other sources of financial help.

You must have:

• Substantial experience of managing your own case load of complex welfare benefits cases and an in-depth knowledge of welfare benefits including those related to disability and sickness
• An understanding of the issues facing people affected by long-term illness and disability, including cancer
• Understand, empathise and be committed to the Citizens Advice aims, principles and equal opportunities policies

Closing date: 9.00am Monday 22nd March 2021

Interviews: Friday 26th March 2021

We offer a range of employee benefits, including generous annual leave, an employer matched pension contribution up to 10% salary, and training and development opportunities to continue your professional development.

Citizens Advice Southwark is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all applicants who meet the person specification irrespective of sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, age, or disability.

ABOUT US

Synergy Network is a growing coalition of churches, para-church groups, Christian agencies and organisations in Britain and Ireland working to address serious youth violence and encourage greater church participation and action on serious youth violence.

Synergy Network vision is to provide a platform and space for youth work practitioners, young people, families and others wishing to engage in activities to combat serious youth violence, share experience or wanting to learn from those carrying out those activities and/or collaborate in addition to entering into partnerships.

ABOUT THE POST

The Synergy Network Co-Ordinator will be the day-day face and contact point of the Network, bringing dynamic leadership, imagination and inspiration to the position. Synergy Network is committed to ensuring that young people’s voice are at the centre of shaping our work, informed by insightful methods of networking and engagement, building, enhancing and sustaining the vision to enable evidence based demonstrable change. The vision of the Network should lead to the creation of opportunities linked to the SYNERGY acronym-

Sharing – wisdom, experience, practice; Young people – their challenges, opportunities, aspiration; Networking – partnerships, linking people together, working together; Events – workshops, meetings, conferences, prayer breakfasts; Relationships – research and reaching out; God at the centre of everything.; You….? How can you link up and be part of this?

Should you decide to apply for this post, please return your completed Application Form to Julaine Hedman by email no later than 3rd March 2021.

The Claudia Jones Organisation (CJO) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced person to lead the Charity.

CJO is an African Caribbean Women and Families charity with over 38 years’ experience of providing services in the London Borough of Hackney and surrounding boroughs. We work primarily to eliminate the worst aspects of poverty and deprivation within our community. We use a multifaceted approach, with a strong focus on improving life chances, addressing gender-based violence and providing therapeutic interventions. Our work has never been more important.

Please download and review the Executive Director - Job Description (available under 'Additional documents') to determine your interest in and suitability for the position.