Development Director Jobs

Colchester Foodbank is recruiting a new Director to lead it through an exciting period of challenge and opportunity. Demand for foodparcels is rising incessantly while donations (both financial and in-kind) are not keeping up. Successful fundraising will be critical for a viable future. A major challenge will be our likely need to move out of our current (rent-free) premises, find new suitable accommodation and adjust our operating model and finances accordingly. We are ramping up our community organisation and advocacy work to address the underlying causes of food poverty. Inspiring and collaborating with staff, volunteers, partner agencies and others to create the most effective team we can be will be a big part of the role.

So, we need someone with the skills, experience and commitment to:

• Provide strategic leadership for the food bank.
• Develop new sources of funding from grant, corporate and public donations.
• Maintain a high profile for the food bank with influential local figures and organisations and others, including on social media.
• Lead staff and volunteers to forge an effective, happy and collaborative team.
• Ensure smooth running of daily operations and tight financial management, in compliance with statutory, charitable and Trussell Trust requirements.
• Liaise effectively with partners, other stakeholders and in particular the Trussell Trust.
• Guide and support the volunteers.
• Report regularly to the Chair of Trustees, and more broadly to all trustees.

Profile

To deliver this demanding and exciting agenda we are looking for some or all of the following:

• Someone with previous experience, preferably in the charity sector, who can demonstrate a proven commitment to tackling poverty, deprivation and social exclusion, putting those in food-poverty at the heart of everything the food bank does.
• Someone with a proven track history of successful fundraising.
• A strategic thinker who can set the vision and translate it into deliverables on the ground.
• An experienced campaigner.
• A team leader who can create an effective, happy team which delivers for the people we serve.
• A skilled communicator and networker, able to develop and deliver an effective communications strategy, at ease with clients, staff, volunteers, partners, senior stakeholders and an effective advocate in the media.
• Someone with formal qualifications or proven experience in relevant areas such as financial management, human resources, safeguarding, health and safety, food hygiene and charitable legislation.

Benefits

The position is currently full-time (37 hours) but we are open to consideration of part-time, flexible or job-share configurations. Some flexibility (e.g. occasional weekend or evening working) may be required. Salary is £40k, negotiable.

Colchester Foodbank is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from those of all faiths and of none.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to join our organisation to oversee our in-prison and post-release rehabilitation programmes from development to delivery. Fine Cell Work (FCW) is looking for a Director of Programmes.  This is a critical role on our Senior Management Team, and we are especially keen to hear from those with experience in working in prison.

Our Purpose

Fine Cell Work is a rehabilitation charity and social enterprise that teaches prisoners and prison-leavers to make beautiful handmade products.  The making and selling of high quality needlework boosts their self-worth, instils self-discipline and fosters hope.  Our aim is for our stitchers to finish their sentences with work skills, money earned and saved, and the self-belief to not re-offend.  We also guide them towards training and support on release.  At the Fine Cell Works Hub in Battersea, we run our Open the Gate programme which provides work experience, formal training and employment to prison-leavers. 

The Role 

This is a critical role on Fine Cell Work’s Management Team.  You would be responsible for:

· The overall development and delivery of Fine Cell Work programmes in prisons, our Battersea workshop and the Open the Gate (OTG) post-release programme.

· Leading the Programmes Team (currently 4 FTE), providing strategic direction, management, and development to those responsible for prison programme, Open the Gate, and volunteer recruitment and engagement, as well as the Battersea workshop manager.

· Working with the Executive Director, support the delivery of our 5 year business plan.

· Embedding appropriate levels of evaluation, audit and process to support in-prison and post-release programme productivity, quality control, training, compliance and outcomes.

· In-prison programme

o Oversee the delivery of our prisoner training programmes

o Ensure we have effective SLAs in place with prisons and that the safety of volunteers, stitchers, staff and FCW is maintained.

o Identify and leverage best practices in delivering social enterprise in prison.

· Post-release programme (Open the Gate)

o Develop strong relationships and promote Open the Gate with probation, community rehabilitation and other 3rd sector organizations working with prisons leavers to build recruitment onto this post-release programme.

o Drive the move-on strategy for apprentices including mentoring and training workshops.

o Manage and sign off the risk assessments for OTG recruits

· Volunteers

o Oversee volunteer recruitment, training and engagement, ensuring that our volunteers are well managed and supported and that we comply with any legal responsibilities for working with volunteers.

o Review and oversee the development and delivery of policies, training and guidance materials for volunteers.

· Reviewing and upholding safeguarding, including delivery of safeguarding training, policies and procedures for staff, volunteers, and prison-leavers.

· Ensuring that the outcomes of the Open College Network accredited training meets both targets and funding requirements for cell groups and workshops, and that new modules are developed, registered and implemented.

· Such other duties as required by the charity from time to time.

The Person

We are a vibrant, energetic group of people who are passionate about our mission and care deeply about providing a working environment that is inclusive and supportive. 

We are looking for someone with the following experiences and qualities:

· Managing and delivering programmes ideally in prison, including on-going programme evaluation and improvement

· Influencing and negotiating with a wide variety of stakeholders

· In-service development, stakeholder analysis and business planning

· Managing and establishing controls for risk

· The confidence, dedication and charisma to lead, engage and motivate a team, and equally the ability to work as part of a team

· The flexibility to work in a charity with a national reach and a small team

Because of the nature of our work, any of the following would be desirable:

· Experience working with vulnerable adults, volunteers, and/or prisoners

· Previous role at a social enterprise

· Knowledge of the criminal justice and/or prison system

· Interest in needlework and textiles

· Experience with writing and implementing safeguarding procedures

This role is full time and based in our offices in Battersea, South London. Whilst we offer a supportive and flexible working environment, the successful candidate will need to be in the office full time (with occasional working from home).

Reports to: Executive Director

Direct Reports: 4

Holiday: 27 days annual leave p.a. plus bank holidays

Salary:  up to £55,000 dependant on experience

To apply please submit a covering letter and CV demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role. Please note, applications submitted without a covering letter will not be considered.

Vacancy Reference Number:

DOP/PR/UK-R1

Position title:

Director of Programmes

Reports to:

Deputy CEO

Location:

Muslim Hands, 148 – 164 Gregory Boulevard, Gregory House, Nottingham, NG7 5JE

Hours of Work:

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Salary guideline:

(Up to) £65,000.00 per annum (commensurate with experience)

Terms of Employment:

36-Months' Fixed Term Contract (subject to successfully completing a 9-Months' Probationary Period)

Muslim Hands is a UK-based international relief organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide. The Head Office based in Nottingham and a fundraising team based in Whitechapel, London; occasional travel between the two locations will be expected. Muslim Hands UK is seeking an enthusiastic and passionate individual to direct our Programme through an exciting period of growth and change as we have ambitious plans to grow our income in this area by 2025.

As the Director of Programme, you will primarily be responsible for: [Please see attached document for full details]

• Strategy, Planning and Financial Management:
• Support to Senior Management:
• Programme Management:
• Humanitarian Response:
• Programme Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL):
• Staff Management:

How to apply

Application Process & Closing Date:

Please send an introductory email telling us why you are suitable for the role along with your current CV by no later than 31st December 2023.

NB: the subject line of the email should include (1) the Vacancy Reference Number and (2) the Applicant’s Name.

Approx. Interview & Role Commencement Date(s):

Interviews: ASAP

Start: ASAP thereafter

Note: Strong Applicants may be contacted sooner, ahead of the closing date, to hold an Online Interview with Muslim Hands; therefore, please familiarise yourself with ZOOM, Team Link, MS Teams, and Skype post successful submission of your application.

We look forward to discussing with candidates the exact terms of appointment, if you are applying as a secondment, period of leave from your home employer or other situation.

About SafeLives & This Role

Small organisations like ours don’t often have chance to recruit at senior level. This is a rare opportunity to make change across the UK, bringing us all closer to a day when domestic abuse is a thing of the past. Our long-serving Director of Quality and Innovation is taking a 12-month sabbatical, and we look forward to appointing a fantastic candidate to cover her role for a year. This could be done as a secondment or a fixed term appointment.

You will be an ambitious, curious, generous professional, comfortable questioning data, overseeing multi-million-pound budgets and inspiring teams, as well as having deep knowledge of VAWG and wider safeguarding practice. You will be able to draw on up to date insight into life at the frontline of domestic abuse response, whether that’s in the public or voluntary sector, and will be enthusiastic about working with a huge array of colleagues from all professions who have a role in ending domestic abuse.

You might have direct personal experience of domestic abuse – if so, we value and recognise that even if you don’t choose to use that openly in your work. Whether you have this experience or not, you will be able to bring empathy to interactions with victims and survivors, as well as sensitivity to all aspects of the role internally and externally. You will want to create and sustain practice and research which works for everyone in the UK, inclusively, no matter what their characteristics or what front door they live behind. You will read the EEDI pages of our website and our latest diversity data and feel confident we can continue to improve and meet our own and other people’s expectations.

You will be in a leadership position in the organisation at a pivotal time, as we continue to increase the extent to which our work addresses all family members in an abusive situation – non-abusive and abusive adults, adolescents, and children.

SafeLives’ has a valued track record around the UK of driving change. We are known for being practical not theoretical, and bringing pragmatism and openness to what we do. We combine practice, high quality data and the voice of those with lived (personal) experience to influence change at all levels. You will operate UK-wide and locally, with the statutory and voluntary sectors and with commercial partners who are increasingly supporting their workforce and customers.

Our Director of Quality and Innovation is an assertive human voice in the organisation, with the real world at their heart. You will advocate for the needs of those we work for, based on your direct work with vulnerable people and trauma. You will make others – including those who are unsure - feel passionate and driven, including in difficult times. We can’t wait to work with you!

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (will consider 30 hours per week minimum)

Location: Hybrid working, required frequent travel across the UK.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday per year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and Flexible Working.

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter and CV.

Closing date: 9:00 am on January 3rd 2024

First round interviews: 15th and 16th January 2024

Final round interviews: 29th and 30th January 2024

Ideal start date in role: 18th March 2024

SafeLives is a committed provider of equal opportunities for all, please see our job description for full details.

No agencies please.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Development Director to lead the development of the North-East London Voluntary and Community Sector Collaborative (NEL VCS Collaborative).

• Can you help to ensure that voluntary & community sector voices are embedded in the health system?
• Do you share our vision of reducing health inequalities?
• Are you a leader who can work with a range of stakeholders to develop our collaborative in North-East London?

What is the VCSE Collaborative?

The VCS Collaborative is a body of voluntary & community sector representatives and a representative from the ICB that collaborates to ensure that the design and delivery of health and care services works for residents. The position will be hosted by Tower Hamlets CVS although the post holder will be accountable to the NEL VCSE Collaborative Leadership Group and will be expected to work equitably across the North-East London sub-region.

The vision

The North-East London Voluntary and Community Sectors work in equitable partnership with statutory partners across North East London Integrated Care System, shaping the design and delivery of services for our diverse communities, to tackle health inequalities, and support residents to live longer in good health.

Terms & conditions

Contract: Fixed-term until 31 March 2026

Salary: £46,000pa
Hours: full time
Annual leave: 25 days pa plus 3 THCVS days 

For further details and to apply please see the Tower Hamlets CVS website.

Maternity Cover position from January to October 2024

Full-time

Homebased working in the UK

The Director of Development and Engagement is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and works in partnership with the CEO to lead the development, delivery and co-ordination of the organisation’s strategy.

In this role, you will have oversight across several areas including fundraising, membership engagement, finance and governance and will take the lead in generating income and ensuring the sustainability of the organisation.

The post also holds line management responsibility for three members of staff delivering across multiple areas of work including fundraising, finance, and communications. 

For more information, please download the job description below or visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.

To apply, please download and complete our application form below. CVs will not be accepted.

This is an ongoing recruitment and interviews will be held as applications are received. We reserve the right to close this advert at any time.

STOPAIDS is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive positive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sex characteristics, HIV status, national origin, genetics, disability, or age. We are open to considering applications for a part-time role that would require a job share.

This is an exciting opportunity to secure a role with maximum feel good factor and enviable ethics. You will be joining a small charity team as Fund Development Director. We are not just any charity but one that’s supports 100’s of other charities and wonderful community projects across all themes including mental health, homelessness, disability and food poverty in Nottinghamshire.

You will be responsible for finding those who want to give in support of local causes, these could be local families or companies so that we can help them do so in the most cost effective and satisfying way.

As local charity experts we are looking for a confident and self motivated professional with a heart of gold, who knows how to find and build relationships with potential donors. For more information, full job description and to apply visit our website. 

Sunderland People First is a Community Interest Company providing services locally and across the country,  promoting good practice nationally. 

Supporting disabled people and their families through information, guidance, self-help and self-advocacy.We do this through consultation, engagement, and partnership working.

Influencing local and national policy which affects the lives of people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families. 

The role will be to support our team of self- advocates. To design, lead and deliver projects to make inclusion a reality for all people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families. A DBS check is required for the post.

Sunderland People First is led by people with lived experience who are at the heart of all we do. 

Who are Ambition Institute?

A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time.

That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.

• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.

• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

What would we like…?

Are you an experienced product or programme leader with a demonstrable track record of successfully managing a large portfolio of products through the early stages of development?

We're looking for a Associate Director, Product Development to join us on a 6 month FTC basis.

We’re building a new Product Development team at Ambition Institute, tasked with designing, piloting, and testing the next generation of programmes that will serve the sector and help teachers and leaders to keep getting better and tackle areas of educational disadvantage. 

The successful postholder will lead a small core team of multi-disciplinary experts. 

You'll also build out the culture, governance and processes needed to get the most out of the team and contributions from the wider organisation. You’ll manage a pipeline of product ideas from ideation through to piloting and business case.

We would like you to:

• Oversee a multidisciplinary team with expertise ranging from project management to learning design, making best use of each of their skillsets

• Lead the formulation of product concepts and push the very best through to pilot and testing and business case stages

• Prepare and present impactful papers and decks to a wide range of senior stakeholders, including our Executive Committee, and facilitate decision-making

• Meet with sector partners such as Multi-Academy Trust leaders and like-minded organisations to work through the details of partnership agreements

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Director of Sales and New Product Development. In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days and this may be reviewed by Ambition.

To succeed in this role you'll have a successful track record of taking concepts from ideation through to pilot or mobilisation. With credibility and confidence, you'll challenge and hold to account senior stakeholders. A successful track record of starting up a new Product Development function would be advantageous but not essential.

What’s in it for you….?

• Competitive annual salary.

• Professional development for all staff.

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down’ between Christmas and New Year.

• Employer pension contribution of 11%.

• Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work.

• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.

• Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring.

• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.

• Shared parental leave package.

• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.

• Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London

• Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working.

• Interest free season ticket / bike loans.

ABOUT YOU

We don’t expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our team:

YOU SHOULD APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF:

• You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequality.

• You have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you do.

• You always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participants.

• You always have a great attitude so we “can do” for all our colleagues, partners and participants.

• You are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting better.

• You work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspective.

• You are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impact.

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT AMBITION IF…

• You want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.

• You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situation.

• You enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around you.

• You would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over time

• Want flexibility in how you work – splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.

Applications will be considered for all locations

How to apply  

Applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 2 January 2024. First stage interviews are expected take place on 8 January followed by a second stage expected on 16 January.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

Our Commercial Team is a new and growing part of ILS; we are looking for a creative and strategically minded individual, with a passion for the humanitarian and international development sector, who is able to identify and develop bids for commercial opportunities that link to our business strategy.

The Business Development Advisor is an 80-100% FTE role that sits within the broader ILS Commercial Team, working closely with the Commercial Manager, the Digital Operations Advisor and the Managing Director on proposal and bid development, and other marketing activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing all aspects of the bidding process.

• Develop and manage the process of identifying appropriate bidding opportunities.

• Co-ordinating the preparation and submission of key proposals.

• Monitor and improve the bidding process.

• Ensure ILS’ quality assurance standards are consistently met on all proposals and bids. 

• Contribute to ILS’ marketing activities.

Specific Duties:

Proposal Development

• Develop and manage the process by which ILS identifies bidding opportunities. 

• Project management of all aspects of new business bidding processes including managing timelines and deadlines.

• Ensure that all proposal tenders comply fully with client requirements.  

• Research, prepare, and manage all necessary information required for the tender, supported by ILS Technical Leads and subject matter experts.

• Develop exciting and innovative proposal content, in collaboration with other teams.

• Take ownership of the bid response, style and format and steward the process through to completion.

• Monitor tender processes, collate and manage feedback from all tenders and ensure that learning is fed into future bids.

• Maintain the ILS library of bid records and archives.

• Maintain the ILS proposal performance database.

Marketing

 • Support implementation of ILS’ marketing strategy and workplan.

• Support ILS’ event and conference strategy

• Work with the Digital Operations Advisor to ensure the website is well managed and effective.

• Collaborate with internal teams to gather stories, testimonials and data to create compelling marketing materials.

 General

• Represent ILS and network at meetings, conferences, and events where funders/clients may be present.

• Any other aspect of business development work considered reasonable.

• You will undertake other work commensurate with the responsibilities and scope of your role.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in business development, preparing technical and financial tenders, ideally within the international development sector.

• Ability to translate service delivery impact into powerful and persuasive written documents.

• Excellent written English copywriting skills and the ability to adapt written materials to different audiences.

• Demonstrated experience in ensuring that quality standards and processes are applied.

• Proven project management skills including ability to manage and prioritise multiple workstreams and deadlines.

• Excellent administrative and organisation skills with strong attention to detail.

• Skilled in using digital technology and a passion for discovering and utilising new tools.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise a varying workload.  

• Strong commercial acumen.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work across multiple teams.

Desirable Skills and Experience

 • Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience within the aid sector.  

• Experience of working with donors or multi-lateral organisations and with an awareness of different donor compliance requirements.

• Demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and the ability to translate this into persuasive and impactful proposals.

• Experience of using and maintaining a fundraising database.

• Additional language skills.  

Benefits

• Starting salary £38,000 - £41,000 depending on experience, with clear salary progression scheme.

• Generous annual (discretionary) bonus scheme

• Employer pension contributions

• Free access to psychological support service

• Generous Time Off In-Lieu (TOIL) policy

• Personal development plans

• 36 days of annual leave (formulated as 25 days standard leave + 3 days additional Christmas leave + 8 days of bank holidays).

• Further leave allowance accrued with length of service. 

Working Locations: 

• The position is based in ILS office in the UK, very close to Haywards Heath railway station.

• We adopt a hybrid working policy, whereby staff are expected to attend the office 60% of their working hours.

We know there are great candidates who may not meet all the above criteria, or who have important skills that we have not mentioned. If this is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us why this opportunity excites you and how it fits with your skills and experience.

Job Title: Service Development and Evaluation Officer

Salary: £30,282FTE (£18,169.20 Pro Rata)

Working Hours:              Part Time - 21 hours per week - flexible to include Tuesdays

Location:  Home based remote working, UK based only

Benefits:   NCT membership with access to exclusive benefits, pension scheme, 30 days annual                                                   leave (24 days pro rata) plus 8 bank and public holidays

About us at the NCT

A lot of people know NCT for our antenatal classes, and we want to continue to support as many parents and families as we can to access evidence-based information. But we are also much more than this. We are a charity that campaigns on the issues that matter to parents. We run breastfeeding and infant feeding support, provided by specialist counsellors. We run thousands of free community activities and events across the UK, led by our fantastic volunteers. And we support women and families facing specific challenges, such as social isolation, feeding difficulties or poor mental health.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Service Development and Evaluation Officer to work in our busy Service Development Team.  This role supports the charity in its aim of providing an excellent service for every parent by gathering, monitoring and analysing parent feedback of our services.  The role can be varied and involve working across multiple teams providing insight and data to continually improve services for parents.

The successful candidate can be based anywhere within the UK with this remote opportunity. We are looking for someone with good analytical skills who can communicate their findings to a variety of audiences. You would work closely with the Service Development Manager and Head of Service Development.

Responsibilities:

Course evaluation: 

· Design and implement evaluation and reporting tools across a range of services to assess quality, outcomes and impact, of our paid for courses, working closely with service delivery teams.   

· Respond to queries about the course evaluation and parent feedback process from parents, NCT staff and NCT practitioners.  

Research Design: 

· Act as a source of expertise on data collection, analysis, and reporting for colleagues across the organisation.  

· Develop approaches to piloting and evaluating new or adapted models of service delivery as part of the service development team.  

Data Analysis: 

· Select the most appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods to collect analyse and report data 

· Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting to guide individual and service-level quality and development improvement work.

· Mine NCT’s internal data and evidence and develop new approaches to capturing parent insight in collaboration with teams across the organisation to ensure that parents’ experiences and views underpin the organisation’s work.

Reporting 

· Build and maintain reports and reporting processes to ensure timely availability of actionable insight to inform service delivery, quality assurance and improvement.   

· Communicate parent insight and contribute to monthly reports for directors. 

· Build and develop a clear evidence base to underpin NCT’s work, including practitioner development, service quality and innovation.

Data Collection 

· Collect parent feedback using NCT’s IT systems to extract client information, ensuring data is accurate and GDPR compliant. 

· Building rapid testing surveys using the most appropriate datasets and questions to inform market research across the organisation 

· Use qualitative and quantitative methods to gain insight about our services to inform development work.

IT 

· Adapt processes as NCT integrates with developing IT systems while maintaining data integrity and accuracy

What are we looking for?

You would be a great fit for this role if you have strong Microsoft Excel skills so that you can successfully navigate and analyse data. You need to be highly organised and efficient using your excellent IT skills to complete tasks in a timely manner.  As well as excel you will need to be proficient using collaborative working across the Teams/Sharepoint ecosystem.  You will be comfortable speaking with colleagues both 1:1 and contributing to Team discussions and be able to work on your own initiative to get tasks completed.

Please visit our website and refewre to the description and further information

What we offer

We can offer flexible working based on the requirements of the role. Talk to us during the interview process to discuss your individual circumstances.

We are taking positive action to increase diversity throughout our organisation, at all levels, and to nurture a culture of inclusion for all our people and the parents and families that we support. More details about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion action can be found here.

We are committed to zero discrimination both internally and externally regardless of visible or invisible difference such as sex, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, religion or belief, gender identity, economic class, marital/civil partnership, family status including single parents, socio-economic background and pregnancy and maternity. We provide reasonable adjustments and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from all candidates including those from under-represented groups within NCT such as individuals from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQI+ people and people with a disability.

The welfare and safety of individuals is at the heart of everything that we do. NCT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Please apply for the role via our careers page .You can Also find further details and information on our website at NCT.

Closing date for applications: Noon, 18th December 2023

Interview dates: 3rd and 4th January 2024

Interview format: Virtual video call – flexible around your working day

Could you help to support bullied children and their families? Kidscape is an award-winning national charity looking to develop our work in Wales.

As a senior leader within the organisation, the Director Cymru will work closely with our CEO, Director of Operations and Head of Finance to ensure we continue to develop and deliver our high-quality services, build strategic networks and support the fundraising strategy.

Key responsibilities: 

• Lead on development and delivery in Wales

• Contribute to business growth in Wales

• Manage Volunteering in Wales

• Coordinate Delivery of Training and Workshops in Wales

• Direct evaluation and impact in Wales

What you'll get working at Kidscape: 

• We support flexible working 
• We work remotely
• We are a family-friendly employer
• We promote staff health, wellbeing and personal development
• We are very friendly and approachable
• You'll be contributing to an incredible cause

What we are looking for: 

• Ability to develop and deliver project plans, ensuring objectives and timescales are met.
• Ability to manage and motivate both staff and volunteers
• Strong understanding of the issues and challenges that arise when working with associates and volunteers
• Strong awareness of equality and diversity and ability to translate to effective action
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to network effectively
• Good planning and organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities to successful conclusions
• Ability to work on own initiative to find creative solutions to problems
• Experience of programme management; ideally within a child or youth setting
• Experience of developing and delivering systems and processes to support programme delivery
• Relevant, recent and substantial experience of coordinating support, advice and training to the children’s workforce
• Experience evaluating and improving services through impact measurement
• Management of Freelance associates and volunteers with a good working knowledge of HR Processes
• Developing partnerships and managing contracts with external providers
• Experience of promoting charity programmes and building networks either at a national or regional level
• Experience of people management and coaching
• Experience of setting up projects in a target driven environment
• Facilitation, training and public speaking

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! To apply, please go to our website.

Reports to: Chair of Trustees

Application Deadline: Friday 29 December 2023

Interview: TBC in early January

Start date:  Feb 2024

Hours of work: 2 days / 14 hours per week

Salary: £45,000 per year, pro rata

Contract: Permanent with 6-month probation.

Location: Hybrid. We have an office in London, currently the team often work from home with one day a week in the office, preferably together on the same day.

The Organisation:

Caspari Foundation is the UK’s only provider of Educational Psychotherapy in schools and is the UK’s leading trainer in this child psychotherapy modality. This approach was pioneered by Irene Caspari in the 1970s and bridges the gap between education and therapy.

It offers a safe way for children to explore and make sense of experiences that may be blocking their development and educational attainment. The aim is to help them to learn about themselves, improve their relationships with peers and staff, gain confidence and, ultimately, to experience the joy of learning.

The Caspari Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender identity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, age, class or culture.

Caspari Foundation is forward thinking, progressive and fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).  We expect all employees to be engaged with their own learning in this area.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious individual with strong financial and administrative skills who would like to work with an organisation that is dedicated to improving the lives of children through Educational Psychotherapy. 

The role is a wide-ranging senior management role and would suit someone with previous experience of operations and fundraising in the charitable/third sector.

Main Responsibilities

To lead the business management of the Foundation reporting to the Board of Trustees.

To be responsible for the financial and administrative management of Caspari Foundation in a manner that reflects the Foundation’s core purpose and secures its future.

To provide leadership in refining and implementing strategy in order to deliver the current objectives of Caspari Foundation.  We currently have a 3-year business development plan in place.

To bring vision in devising future plans and setting future objectives for the further strategic development of Caspari Foundation.

To build the reputation and profile of Caspari Foundation and to represent the Foundation publicly.

To support and leverage efforts to enhance the reputation, build awareness and communicate the benefits and value of Caspari Foundation’s work amongst the community of professionals in psychotherapy, education and relevant political spheres important to the future of the foundation.

To identify funding streams from trusts, foundations and government bodies.

Specific Aims:

To work in partnership with the Course Director focusing on both the strategic development and the day to day running of the Caspari Foundation.

To lead in planning operational activities and the strategic development of the Caspari Foundation within agreed short, medium and long-term time frames.

To oversee the development and periodic review of Caspari Foundation’s policies, procedures and practices.

To ensure the efficient financial, administrative, IT, personnel management and development of the Caspari Foundation.

To manage the bookkeeper and other self-employed contractors engaged from time to time, including the accountant.

To review general progress towards strategic objectives taking into consideration the development of policy and practice.

Prepare and lead together with the Trustees, the UKCP 5 yearly inspection – the UKCP’s Organizational Membership Review in 2025.

To devise, implement and regularly review the fundraising and income generation strategies necessary to deliver the Caspari Foundation’s objectives.

To ensure that all services are delivered within budget and that all personnel comply with financial control procedures.

To devise a marketing programme for the Caspari Foundation which will improve revenue from existing training opportunities, and which will facilitate the geographic spread of the Caspari Foundation’s work and influence.

To identify relevant professional bodies on which Caspari should seek or improve its representation in order to grow the Foundation’s influence in professional and political circles

To represent Caspari on committees, in conferences and to public bodies and the media in a manner consistent with its core purpose.

To oversee queries, contact and contracts with freelance Educational Psychotherapists for the Adoption Support Fund.

To lead on GDPR compliance.

To liaise with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Charity Commission as necessary.

To prepare for and organise with the Board of Trustees the AGM.

To liaise with the Assessment Board and Course Director to maintain standards of training and education.

To prepare the bi-weekly newsletter for members sent out using Mailchimp.

To continue and develop a social media strategy for promoting the Caspari Foundation’s courses.

To receive and respond to enquiries from members, schools and other organisations and members of the public.

To liaise with the Landlord regarding accommodation and facilities.

To work with the Course Director on the expansion of the current Adv Dip programme re premises, timetabling, recruitment of staff, managing Thursday evenings.

To liaise with the Trustee responsible for our member reaccreditations each year.

Enhanced Clearance

The post is subject to an enhanced criminal records check by the Disclosure and Barring Service

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Training and Qualifications:

Desirable

· Educated to degree standard or equivalent in a related field or demonstrable experience and knowledge as listed below.

Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

· Experience of business administration.

· Experience of project management and working with funders/stakeholders and multi-disciplinary professionals.

· Commitment to and understanding of DEI.

· Ability to work alone or in a small team.

· Knowledge & experience of social media, website development and management of content.

Desirable

· Experience in the charitable/third sector.

· Experience and knowledge of co-ordinating one-off training, CPD, workshops and evaluating effectiveness.

· Experience of management in an educational environment.

· Experience of receiving and providing supervision / work reflection / appraisal.

· Experience in setting and managing budgets, for example: projects, resources, training.

· Experience of supporting training & delivery of training programmes for use in schools & other settings with children & young people.

Skills:

Essential:

• Be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, accurate spelling and attention to detail.

• Be able to demonstrate numerical competency.

• Ability to demonstrate creativity and enthusiasm for the work.

• Ability to work on-line communication platforms such as Zoom, Google Share documents, Microsoft Office, Teams;

• Be able to demonstrate advanced IT Skills (Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point, Google Share, Outlook).

• Able to convey a warm, empathic and calm professional approach working within Caspari's small staff team and communicate well at all levels.

• Ability to work autonomously, but also collaboratively.

• Have a proactive approach to problem solving.

• Ability to work confidentially and non-judgementally.

• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise conflicting deadlines.

• Ability to self-care when working under pressure.

How to apply

Please send the following by 10.00 am Friday 29 December:

· CV, max two sides of A4

· Application letter, one side of A4 outlining your relevant skills and experience and what you feel you can bring to the work of the Foundation

· We will invite shortlisted candidates to an evening Zoom interview in early January (dates TBC)

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