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Deputy Service Manager
This is an exciting opportunity to join Depaul UK to help us to set up and develop our new Supported Lodgings service.
Position: Deputy Supported Lodgings Services Manager
Location: Wigan
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours - Including participation in a rota of staff to provide on-call services per week.
Salary: £33,906
Closing Date: Tuesday 6th August 2024
About the Role
Working under the direction and support of a Regional Prevention Services Managers, the Deputy Service Manager will lead a team of client-facing workers to deliver effective and high-quality services that strive to prevent homelessness. You will be responsible for young people needing longer term placements, as well as sharing responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of all hosts and staff at the service.
The postholder will be accountable for the day-to-day aspects of service delivery in line with Depaul’s expectations and procedures. You will oversee all aspects of project delivery of our Supported Lodgings service, including the line management of client-facing workers, supporting the to deliver high-quality services.
Your work will be underpinned by the Depaul Endeavour model of assets based, psychologically informed delivery, the aim of which is to ensure that every client leaves a Depaul service with the skills and resilience to be confident and self determining in their lives.
Key responsibilities include:
• Ensure every client accessing Supported Lodgings service is welcomed, kept safe and has a suitable support plan for longer term accommodation and support
• You will lead on the assessment of needs and risk, predominantly focused on suitable risk management plans for engagement in Supported Lodgings Services
• Develop and deliver key partnerships with referral agencies and support related projects
• Work with the Regional Prevention Services Manager to continuously review and develop the services under your responsibility
• You will have responsibility for ensuring the health and safety of the environment for Supported Lodgings’ guests and volunteers through regular checks and reporting.
• Work with the Regional Prevention Services Manager to monitor project budgets and petty cash systems
• Participate in internal/external local and national meetings and supervision meetings as required, and attend training events, conferences and other functions as necessary
• Lead on the safeguarding of all clients accessing your services including clients who are not in receipt of support from other staff
About You
You will need to have the following skills and experience:
• Demonstrable experience of working to improve the lives of children, young people and families
• Understanding and knowledge of the challenges young people face who are at risk of homelessness
• Management and leadership experience
• Experience of working with and managing volunteers
• Experience of working with our client group
• Experience of effective internal stakeholder management
• Experience of developing productive relationships with partner organisations
• Knowledge of Safeguarding practice and the application to supporting vulnerable children, young people and adults
• Knowledge of Health and Safety and anti-discriminatory working practices, and the implications of both in the working environment
• An understanding of budget management and financial control
• Able to demonstrate clear understanding of safeguarding requirements and procedures
About the Organisation
Depaul UK delivers a wide range of support and housing services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We specialise in the provision of services that prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training and volunteering in the communities we work within. Our organisation reaches from Newcastle to London, Greater Manchester and Milton Keynes.
You may have experience in areas such as: Service Manager, Deputy Service Manager, Senior Service Manager, Services Manager, Deputy Services Manager, Programme Manager, Programmes Manager, Head of Service, Head of Services.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Services Manager
Would you like to be inspired every day in a highly rewarding role? Whether it’s the veterans and family members we support, your colleagues or the partners we collaborate with, you will be working with an exceptional group of people.
Position: Services Manager
Location: Home-based with significant travel across England and Wales, ideally based in London and/or South East England. However, we will consider applications from any area of England or Wales.
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Permanent - 37.5 hours per week (part-time or flexible working options available)
Salary: £42,000 per annum
Closing date: 11th August 2024
About the role:
The role of the Services Manager is pivotal to leading the delivery of our services; developing and improving our existing services; and creating new services to widen our impact on veterans and their families, ensuring our clients are supported into meaningful and sustainable employment, with an approach that is tailored to their individual needs.
You’ll be managing a delivery team of up to 8 people, supporting them to deliver our services to veterans and their families to a high standard, and working closely with other service managers to ensure consistency. You’ll also lead on engagement & outreach for your designated region, to raise awareness of our services, to ensure we reach all veterans and their families who need our support.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Working as part of the veterans and families leadership team, contributing to the strategic, cultural, & technical development and service delivery for the organisation and the veteran and families services team and deputise for colleagues where required.
- Working closely with other Service Managers lead on the delivery of our services, ensuring these are effectively and safely delivered, monitoring performance to meet agreed targets, identifying any concerns and taking appropriate action and escalation where required.
- Lead on and contribute to the improvement of existing services and development of new services, aligned with the charity’s strategic objectives, based on evidence and data to meet the identified needs of the UK armed forces community.
- Manage a team of up to 8 people, providing leadership, support, and direction as needed, including recruitment and onboarding of new employees, empowering them to achieve their potential and in a style that best suits them.
- Provide high-quality supervision and caseload management, to ensure good management of individual and overall caseloads, identify any opportunities to improve the service and manage any risks to service delivery.
- Work with the communications team to ensure an overarching outreach & engagement plan is developed to best represent and support our services, to ensure partners and veterans can easily refer to our service and are clear on what we offer.
- Lead on engagement & outreach for each area of responsibility, aligned with the overarching plan, to raise awareness of our services, to ensure we reach all veterans and their families who need our support.
About you:
We are looking for people who are committed to our cause, have a passion for supporting people to overcome barriers to gain employment, and are capable and confident working autonomously and creatively, as well as engaging with and contributing to the wider team culture.
Key skills required for this role:
- Experience in service development and evaluation in a similar or related industry.
- Experience in leading service delivery teams supporting adults with complex needs and barriers to employment.
- Experience in developing and delivering engagement and outreach plans to ensure services are widely known and attract appropriate client referrals.
- Experience in delivering high-quality supervision, an understanding of the different approaches and how to best apply these to individuals.
- Experience in monitoring performance to agreed targets, and how to best achieve this in an environment that supports empowerment and creative thinking.
- Experience in people management and working as part of a collaborative leadership team at both operational and strategic levels.
- Confident, articulate communicator both spoken and written, with strong interpersonal skills and capacity for empathy.
- Demonstrable networking and relationship management skills.
About the organisation:
The employer supports members of the armed forces community (veterans and adult family members) with health conditions on their journey into employment once they have left service, helping them overcome barriers to employment and transform their lives. We have a long and proud history and continually adapt the services we offer to ensure we remain relevant to the modern-day veteran and their families.
Our organisation values open and clear communication, engaging with our teams in all aspects of our organisational development and delivery. Committed to diversity and inclusion our services are open to everyone and we actively seek to make our services more accessible to those with specific needs or from diverse cultures.
How to apply:
To apply for this position please prepare your CV and a cover letter clearly outlining how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification as set out above and submit via the online application process.
You may also have experience in areas such as: Service Lead, Service Manager, Services Manager Deputy Service Manager, Brain Research Manager, Service and Volunteering Manager, Resolution Service, Resolution Service Manager, Social Welfare, Veterans.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Marie Curie is looking for 5 Community Fundraisers for the following areas of the UK:
Bradford/Leeds
North London (additional £3,500 pa LLW)
Devon
Cornwall
South Wales
To ensure they can continue supporting individuals and families in need of end-of-life care, the Fundraising team are incredibly important. Since the pandemic, fundraising at Marie Curie has been through a lot of change. However, the organisation recognises the importance of their activity within communities across the UK and community fundraising has been invested in. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join the team. Marie Curie’s fundraising team has a lot of ambition and just need the right people to join the charity who can help them realise that ambition.
Our Community Fundraisers are the face of Marie Curie in their local communities, building relationships and networks with a wide and varied range of supporters. From local businesses to local fundraising groups and everyone in between. Reporting to the Head or Deputy Head of Region and working closely with some of the most talented fundraising people in the charity sector, your role will be to provide support and guidance to people who fundraise and volunteer for Marie Curie across our regions, helping them achieve their ambitions and ultimately raise vital funds for Marie Curie.
The Community Fundraiser role is one where you just don’t know what happens one week to the next as you never know who will choose to support Marie Curie in your community!
The role would suit someone who can be flexible and react in a calm, measured manner to whatever the day brings, who is excited by potential and is ambitious, and who can deliver a high standard of customer service (supporter stewardship) to everyone they meet.
Community Fundraisers are remote/hybrid based, with some presence expected at your local office or Hospice. For this role, the post holder will need to be willing to travel to Embassy Gardens (Embankment, SW11 7BW) occasionally. Due to the requirement to be London based, this post holder will recieve an additional £3,500 LLW on top of the offered annual salary.
This isn’t a role where you will be behind a desk every day, a good Community Fundraiser has a willingness to be out and about within your region meeting and supporting fundraisers.
For further information relating to this position, please check out the Candidate Pack.
If you would like to know more please email Jo to arrange a conversation about the role and next steps, contact info is in the Candidate pack.
Marie Curie is looking for 5 Community Fundraisers for the following areas of the UK:
Bradford/Leeds
North London
Devon
Cornwall
South Wales
To ensure they can continue supporting individuals and families in need of end-of-life care, the Fundraising team are incredibly important. Since the pandemic, fundraising at Marie Curie has been through a lot of change. However, the organisation recognises the importance of their activity within communities across the UK and community fundraising has been invested in. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join the team. Marie Curie’s fundraising team has a lot of ambition and just need the right people to join the charity who can help them realise that ambition.
Our Community Fundraisers are the face of Marie Curie in their local communities, building relationships and networks with a wide and varied range of supporters. From local businesses to local fundraising groups and everyone in between. Reporting to the Head or Deputy Head of Region and working closely with some of the most talented fundraising people in the charity sector, your role will be to provide support and guidance to people who fundraise and volunteer for Marie Curie across our regions, helping them achieve their ambitions and ultimately raise vital funds for Marie Curie.
The Community Fundraiser role is one where you just don’t know what happens one week to the next as you never know who will choose to support Marie Curie in your community!
The role would suit someone who can be flexible and react in a calm, measured manner to whatever the day brings, who is excited by potential and is ambitious, and who can deliver a high standard of customer service (supporter stewardship) to everyone they meet.
Community Fundraisers are remote/hybrid based, with some presence expected at your local office or Hospice. This isn’t a role where you will be behind a desk every day, a good Community Fundraiser has a willingness to be out and about within your region meeting and supporting fundraisers.
For further information relating to this position, please check out the Candidate Pack.
If you would like to know more please email Jo to arrange a conversation about the role and next steps, contact info is in the Candidate pack.
£44,000 per annum (pro rata)
Permanent
Remote (Regional contract)
UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.
This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as a Senior Professional Officer in the Baby Friendly Initiative team.
In this role you will be involved in supporting the effective facilitation of the Baby Friendly programme and helping to develop and support new and existing initiatives. We also expect the job holder to be able to take an active role in carrying out assessments of services seeking Baby Friendly accreditation and training. As needed, you will also support the National Infant Feeding Network.
You will be a practitioner with experience of leading on the implementation of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative standards in a relevant UK public service and of teaching infant feeding to health professionals. We especially welcome interest from applicants with current experience in supporting public health in the community and early years services, such as health visiting.
Act now and visit the website via the apply button to apply online.
Closing date: 8am, Monday 29 July 2024.
Interview date: Monday 19 August 2024 via video conferencing (MS Teams).
In return, we offer:
· excellent pay and benefits (including flexible working, generous annual leave and pension, big brand discounts and wellbeing tools)
· outstanding training and learning opportunities and the support to flourish in your role
· an open culture and workplace with colleagues who share our values, enjoy their work and are motivated to do their utmost for children.
· the opportunity to work in a leading children’s organisation making a difference to children around the world
Our application process: We use a system called "Applied" that anonymises your response and focuses on your actual skills that are relevant to this role. This benefits you because living you a greater chance of expressing your skills in this objective selection process.
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, and disabled candidates because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at UNICEF UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.
UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
We welcome a conversation about your flexible working requirements, personal growth, and promoting a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.
We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.
If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact the Supporter Care line during office hours.
If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.
Registered Charity Nos. 1072612 (England and Wales) SC043677 (Scotland)
Application Closing Date: August 12th, 2024 at 23:00 BST
Location: Remote or hybrid working within the UK; individuals will be required to attend occasional in-person office days in London as needed and prescribed by the organisation. This role requires applicants to be able to show that they have the right to work in the UK.
Term: Full-time - 35 hours a week, Fixed-Term Contract (18 months)
Organisation: Global Greengrants Fund UK
Salary: Salaries at Global Greengrants Fund UK (GGF UK) are dependent on applicable salary scales, and internal pay policies including equity considerations and budget. Due to how salary negotiations perpetuate existing structural inequities, GGF UK has moved away from salary negotiation processes for any candidate. Our best offer for this position is £44,000 per annum
Benefits: We have improved our benefits package and we now offer 10% employer’s pension contribution, remote and flexible remote working, generous family and sick leave, employee assistance programme, health and life insurance, 28 days annual leave plus all UK bank holidays.
About Global Greengrants Fund:
Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) supports grassroots activists and civil society organisations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. GGF applies a participatory and decentralised model in making grants to grassroots groups through regional and thematic boards of advisors, global partner networks and independent funds, to support grassroots environmental and social justice action. Global Greengrants Fund comprises two organisations located in the USA, Global Greengrants Fund Inc (established in 1993), and Global Greengrants Fund UK
(established in 2012). The two organisations work closely together with a shared grantmaking programme and strategic collaboration at the senior leadership level. GGF UK consists of thirteen staff members working on fundraising and influencing philanthropy; finance; communications; and operations, with all of these functions operating autonomously but in close collaboration with their US counterpart functions.
In 2024, Global Greengrants Fund is amid a strategic journey in which we collectively centre our values, including diversity, equity and inclusion, and organisational care in our work, and to rediscover our identity and potential after 30 years of work. We have experienced tremendous growth over the past two years and we are thoughtfully, yet rapidly, growing our annual grantmaking, our philanthropic advocacy, and our global partnerships and collaborations to new levels. This includes creating a globally networked learning organisation and transforming our organisational culture to be more collaborative and self-steering – we call this our transformative journey. The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer needs to understand the challenges and opportunities that come with these transformations and can remain flexible, steady, and adaptable.
The role
Global Greengrants Fund UK is looking to hire an energetic and passionate individual who will play a key role in establishing and developing Global Greengrants Fund UK’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) work. The new role of MEAL Officer will undertake high-quality data management and analysis to produce key learnings on the outcomes of GGF’s grantmaking and other programmatic activity, as well as leading system improvements to our evolving monitoring, evaluation and learning framework in collaboration with global colleagues. They will be providing support to the emerging global learning function, and the role will support the delivery of learning activities across our network to develop clear briefs, learnings and findings that can be used by other functions, including the Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships teams, to strengthen the organisation’s external and internal engagement and knowledge sharing activities. This will include developing appropriate methodologies and tools to collate, validate, summarise, analyse and report on key trends within our grantmaking using and improving on a range of data sources including grantee application forms and reports. Working as part of the UK Programme Support function and reporting to the Deputy Executive Director, the post holder will also collaborate closely with colleagues across the global organisation Global Greengrants Fund, particularly within the Programmes, Communications, and Learning teams towards realising organisational aims.
The candidate profile
The successful applicant will have significant relevant experience in a similar role in a charitable, environmental, development, and/or grant-making organisation. They will be an experienced, senior-level specialist with a strong track record in data collection, monitoring and analysis, with good working knowledge of a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, tools and systems, and in using this information to evaluate and recommend adaptations, and in reporting. Higher-level qualifications/certification in a relevant field, post-graduate qualification would be a distinct advantage, particularly in the social sciences and/or use of mixed method approaches. They will have demonstrated experience authoring MEAL related reports, either organisational reports or academic publications; demonstrated ability to coordinate and improve the process of data collection, analysis and reporting and demonstrated experience in managing datasets, databases, programming, and other analysis software. They will have excellent written and verbal communication skills; and be confident in engaging a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including at senior levels. They have exceptional organisational and research abilities, with strong attention to detail and accuracy, including analysing large amounts of information from disparate sources. They should have excellent interpersonal understanding, relationship building, and interpersonal skills to build strong alliances with diverse constituencies. They also thrive in a virtual environment and are motivated to take on challenges and collaboratively find innovative and creative solutions.
The right candidate will understand GGF’s core values and be committed to the guiding principles and mission of GGF and ensure they uphold them in the way they take up the responsibilities of the role.
How to apply:
Applications need to be submitted through GGF UK’s job platform by August 12th, 2024 at 23:00 BST. To apply via the job platform and to see the detailed Job Description please click here. You will be required to upload a current CV, along with a cover letter explaining why you want to work for Global Greengrants Fund and how you meet the requirements of the role as part of your application. You will need to submit these in English. If you’re intrigued by this position but feel like you don’t fit the profile precisely, please still apply.
Global Greengrants Fund UK is an equal opportunities employer. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our team is critical to our success. We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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