Job Title  Executive Assistant to Chief Executive

Duration Permanent

Hours Part / Full time 3-5 days per week. We are open to hearing about flexible models or slightly different hours

Salary £27,000 per annum pro rata, pension matched up to 6.5% of salary after successful completion of probation

Annual leave 25 days per annum pro rata – plus the days between Christmas and New Year

Location A mix of home and office-based working, Central London, in line with government guidance at the time

National Voices is the leading coalition of health and social care charities in England. We have more than 160 members covering a diverse range of health conditions and communities, connecting us with the experiences of millions of people. We work together to strengthen the voice of patients, service users, carers, their families, and the voluntary organisations that work for them, with a particular focus on people affected by inequality and disadvantage.

Since starting 18 months ago, National Voices’ Chief Executive Charlotte Augst has revitalised the charity, overseeing the implementation of a new strategy, developing a new business model, and bringing in a new team. Under her leadership we have achieved considerable influencing success and are growing as an organisation. Charlotte was recently recognised by the Health Services Journal as one of the most influential people in health and care in the UK.

We are a small, friendly team of eight who work closely together to achieve our aims.  

The Role

Charlotte now needs a very personable and capable Executive Assistant to provide high-level support to ensure she has the space to focus on leading the charity into a sustainable future. This is a varied role which requires someone who can think on their feet at the same time as ensuring high-quality administrative and organisational support.

The postholder will have the opportunity to work with senior stakeholders from across our member charities, the NHS and government, at the same time as supporting a growing organisation to undertake vital work that makes a tangible difference to people using health and care services.

National Voices has a strong commitment to equality and diversity.

We particularly welcome applications from people from a BME background, as they are currently under-represented in our workforce.

We also encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of using health and care services.

Responsibilities

Supporting the Chief Executive

To provide administrative and organisational support to the Chief Executive:

• Manage the Chief Executive’s busy and complex diary
• Email management, ensuring queries and actions are followed up
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Support the Chief Executive with their line management responsibilities, for example by setting up 121s and providing follow-up
• Support the Chief Executives with financial oversight, for example checking expenses claims and payments prior to authorisation.

Team support

• Support team meetings and away days, including the documentation of agendas, decisions, and actions
• Act as health and safety officer, with the support of the senior management, to ensure compliance with H&S requirements
• Provide administrative support for the Board of Trustees and its sub committees, working with the Head of Office

• Be proactive in suggesting and implementing administrative improvements to support the team and organisation to work in a more efficient and collaborative way
• Keep track of the team’s development and training needs, providing advice to managers where required.

Other

• Any other duties as required by the line manager and commensurate with the role

Person specification

All candidates will be assessed against the following criteria, please use specific examples when applying:

Values, attitudes and behaviours

• Passionate about National Voices’ mission and work
• Proactive, flexible and responsive
• Comfortable working in a team, as well as under own initiative
• Able to think and act creatively to solve problems and challenges
• Committed to reducing inequalities and understanding diversity
• Excellent people skills, working with very senior stakeholders as well as the NV team
• Leadership, drive, and an ability to get things done

Skills and abilities

• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
• Highly organised and able to react quickly to a fast-paced workload in a busy environment
• Experience of diary management
• Excellent IT skills with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Able to build relationships at all levels with the team, external stakeholders, National Voices members, service users and volunteers
• Proactive and able to anticipate, plan and prepare in advance of requests
• Experience of using a CRM (customer relationship management) system would be an advantage.

Experience, knowledge and understanding

• At least 1 year’s experience supporting an in-demand chief executive, director, senior manager or similar in a challenging environment
• An understanding of health and social care, and/or the voluntary sector would be an advantage.

Application guidance

Please complete the National Voices application form explaining why you are suitable for the role, with particular reference to the values, skills and experience identified in the person specification.

For the email address to send application to please see guidance in JOb pack and person specification below.

Please specify any access or other requirements of which we need to be aware for the interview.

The deadline for applications is end of day on Sunday 01 November 2020.

Initial virtual interviews will take place w/c 09 November.

Job Title: Director of Audience Development and Fundraising

Company: Cruelty Free International

Location: London-based Hub in Islington with potential for remote working

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £70,000

Cruelty Free International is the leading organisation working to end animal testing globally and is seeking a Director of Audience Development and Fundraising to implement strategies to grow income and deliver key messages across the range of their audiences to deliver a step change for animals worldwide.

Cruelty Free International’s brand and ‘Leaping Bunny’ symbol have a high level of recognition globally and the organisation is one of the world’s longest standing and most respected animal protection organisations.

This new role will be responsible for the organisation’s marketing, communications, audience development and fundraising functions. The post-holder will work closely with the Chief Executive and other departmental leaders to develop and drive innovative and ambitious strategies to engage and increase the organisation’s audiences and at the same time build and maintain a sustainable income base. They will also be a leading advocate for the organisation’s cause and a strong communicator that can represent Cruelty Free International at all levels.

The organisation is looking for an inspirational leader who is a strategic thinker, but with a hands-on, ‘can-do’ approach. They must have experience of working in a similar role leading an audience development team and of developing income generation strategies both in the UK and internationally. A strong track record in the field of philanthropy and corporate partnerships is also required. They will also have led and devised successful marketing and communication strategies for business and audience development and will have excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.

Finally, the successful candidate must share a commitment to animal protection and to the values and aims of Cruelty Free International, to work with them to help create the tipping point for change for animals used in research and testing worldwide.  

For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315.

The Charity

OMS is the world’s leading MS lifestyle charity. We are a young, unique and dynamic organisation bringing fresh hope to the MS community both in the UK and around the world. Established in 2012, we’ve been raising awareness of the OMS 7 Step Recovery Programme, a scientifically researched, evidence-based approach to MS management that has been shown to improve health outcomes through diet and lifestyle changes.

You will be joining us at exciting new chapter in the charity’s evolution with committed, passionate and experienced colleagues, as we gear up for launching a new strategy with primary focus on empowering people with MS to transform their lives. We want to become even more visible, energetic, vocal, collaborative and impactful. The new Head of Programmes will join us at a pivotal moment in our organisation’s journey, as we seek to embed our new digital programmes, begin to capitalise on opportunities to scale and expand our work.

The Role

We are looking for an ambitious, proactive and personable individual who is able to think strategically and out of the box, who can deliver operationally and set an example to others proactively championing the following principles that underpin our work:

• Organisational excellence (agile, efficient, proactive, credible)
• People-centric (active community engagement)
• Digital and accessible (dynamic web platform)
• Working towards sustainable and diverse funding sources.

Purpose

The new Head of Programmes will contribute to the successful implementation of our new business strategy through effective design and delivery of projects and programmes across our 4 key strategic areas of focus, to:

1. Inform and educate people with MS, their families and key stakeholders about the OMS recovery programme, raising awareness of its benefits and enabling access to it by diverse MS communities across the globe
2. Build our community engagement programme to inspire hope, ensuring it is supportive, accessible and responsive to the needs of people living with MS
3. Advocate for change by empowering people with MS to influence Healthcare Professionals and demonstrate how a holistic lifestyle approach can help prevent future health challenges
4. Grow collaborative partnerships that showcase how the OMS programme is underpinned by world-class research and enable holistic lifestyle approaches to become the norm in treatment.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee existing and help shape our new programmes of activity, undertaking necessary research and contextual analysis, setting up required implementation, monitoring and reporting infrastructure.
• You will help design and ensure successful delivery of specific projects that drive our community engagement and growth in our outreach internationally.
• You will lead the development of new projects and programmes that enhance our digital information platforms, build our profile, advocacy, campaigning, and awareness raising activities so that the voice of people with MS and their families is heard.
• You will lead on designing monitoring and evaluation systems for our projects and programmes, enabling us to capture robustly the evidence of our impact.
• You will lead a small team, including our volunteer resource, setting clear objectives and expectations, providing support and development opportunities.
• You will help build strategic and operational collaborative partnerships that add value to our work and enable lifestyle change interventions to become mainstream in healthcare settings.
• You will identify, assess, and manage potential or existing financial, operational, regulatory, reputational and health and safety risks across the organisation.
• You will support our fundraising activity by providing evidence of the effectiveness of our projects, programmes and partnerships.

We anticipate that as the person who is the perfect fit for this exciting role;

• A strong understanding of the not-for-profit sector and healthcare systems, in the UK, and ideally also – internationally.
• You will have significant experience of overseeing digital projects and implementation of digital tools designed to engage and support diverse audiences (e.g. website development, managing information systems, embedding CRM, setting up online events).
• You will bring strong experience of working with and supporting volunteers.
• You will have a good understanding of regulatory and best practice requirements in safeguarding – working with people with a medical condition.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent presenter of information with outstanding analytical skills.
• Energy, tenacious and are a self-motivating individual.
• Ability to work on own initiative and thrive as a team player.
• Ability to develop and coach others to fulfil their potential as an effective and experienced leader and line manager.
• You are motivated by making a positive impact on the lives of people living with a progressive illness.

Please review the role description for a full list of responsibilities, experience, skills and attributes entailed for this role.

As our new Head of Programmes, you will play a central role as part of the OMS team, working alongside the Chief Executive Officer and our Head of Fundraising, and will be instrumental in the successful delivery of our projects and programmes.

If this sounds like the dynamic you and you would like to apply for this role, please email your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 3 sides of A4), which should highlight your interest in the role, along with your relevant skills and experience, with specific examples, to be sent no later than 5 pm (BST) on 28th October 2020.

If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact Grazina on +4 4 (0) 1 8 4 4 3 1 8 7 7 8.

Overcoming MS will begin screening candidates shortly after the closing date, with shortlisted candidates round of interviews taking place w/c 2nd November 2020 and with final interviews scheduled for the following week on 19th and 20th November via Zoom.

This a varied and exciting post, supporting and working closely with the Pastoral team, and working as PA to the Deputy Head (Pastoral). The primary role is to provide administrative support to the Deputy Head (Pastoral), who is also the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead. The PA will also provide administrative support to the Deputy Head (Mental Health & Wellbeing).

The PA will act as a first point of contact for the Deputy Head (Pastoral), managing their diary and dealing with all correspondence and phone calls in a timely and professional manner. Excellent administration, organisation and communication skills are essential. The PA must also be highly discrete and have previous experience of working in PA work or office management.

Salary: £33,000 per annum

8.00am - 4.30pm, Monday to Friday (full time post)

Further details and an application form can be obtained from the School’s website, via the ‘Work with Us’ link.

The closing date for all applications is midday on Wednesday 4 November 2020.

Interviews will take place during the week commencing 9 November 2020.

St Paul’s School and St Paul’s Juniors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service. St Paul’s School and St Paul’s Juniors are an equal opportunities employer.

An exciting opportunity has become available for a qualified accountant to join a small, dynamic organisation as their new Finance Director. The role offers complete remote/ home working as they currently do not have a permanent office space. Occasional travel to London for board meetings will be required.

Working with a small team, the Finance Director will be expected to roll their sleeves up and carry out day-to-day finance activities like accounts preparation, as well as supporting the board with financial and wider business strategy. This role provides the opportunity to get access to very senior stakeholders and have real influence on the growth and success of a small and valuable organisation. The role also offers the opportunity to have responsibility for operations including HR and IT.

The Finance Director shall be responsible for providing relevant financial and accounting, planning and administrative information, insights and outputs to high professional standards. The Finance Director shall proactively embed processes that ensure this information is relevant and drives good decision-making at all levels. This is a strategic role, critical to enabling this small and growing organisation to achieve organisational effectiveness, resilience and control. The Finance Director will also support the Chief Executive in all board reporting.

You will be responsible for managing an accounts assistant, and will be expected to support them in their professional development.

The successful candidate will have:

• A full accountancy qualification
• Experience of working at senior level, Head of Finance or above, ideally within an international organisation, with an international remit
• Experience of supporting fundraising and/or bid proposals for funding with the ability to provide strategic advice on funding strategy
• A passion for working within an INGO
• The ability to work with multiple senior stakeholders and manage conflicting priorities
• Ideally experience managing HR and IT functions
• A proactive attitude who is able to turn their hand to activities outside of finance when needed

This is a great role for someone looking to make the move up to Finance Director level, or an experienced Finance Director who wants to add value to a small and growing organisation.

Please apply asap as there will be a quick turnaround, interviews will be conducted w's/c 19th/ 26th October.

This is an exciting time to join us. Recognised as the UK’s Best Charity to Work For by the prestigious Sunday Times Annual Awards in 2019, we have developed three high-impact programmes that more and more churches across the UK are running and funding. This has led us to double in income in the last four years. We expect to do so again by 2026.

With more than 100 staff and income of over £5m, we have been upgrading our finance system and growing the finance team to keep pace but there is much more to do. Your task will be to continue this good work so that we have the appropriate systems, reporting and team capabilities for our scale now and in the future. Overseeing a team of 5 staff across finance and compliance, you will bring coherence, order to complexity and organisational excellence. You will also serve as Director of our commercial subsidiary Hope Park Business Centres that generates £800k of unrestricted funds for the charity.

We’re looking for a commercially minded and relational leader capable of developing the finance team and bringing strategic financial leadership to the organisation at every level. You’ll enjoy working in a growth context and come with an entrepreneurial, problem-solving mindset and the high expectations that inspire excellence in all those around you. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team and playing a central role in developing the organisational strategy and culture you will have outstanding judgement and integrity.

If this sounds like you and you share our passion to see UK churches transforming the lives of struggling children, then we would love to hear from you.

To apply for this role, click apply and send your CV and covering letter explaining why you meet the criteria.

Initial Interviews will take place on Friday 6th November via Zoom and final interviews at National Support in West Yorkshire, Thursday 12th November.

TLG welcomes applications from many diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

Main role and responsibilities

The overall purpose of the role is to support the Chief Executive, the Executive Team and the Chair and Trustees to develop and to deliver ShelterBox’s mission, strategy, and plan.

ShelterBox will be undergoing a strategy review in 2021. The role of Strategy & Planning Officer will play a key role in helping the CEO and the organisation to reflect and refresh the organisational mission and goals. It will be the key liaison between functional departments who deliver and the CEO who coordinates and sets direction.

The role will work closely with the CEO to support ShelterBox in achieving both the goals of the Operating Plan 2021 as well as ensuring the new strategy is relevant and an effective tool for the organisation.

The position holder will be involved in a wide range of roles from supporting the management of ShelterBox Board, Executive, & Senior Leadership Team meetings (in a company secretary capacity), to budget management/coordination and developing working briefs on a wide range of topics.

The role will also be expected to represent the CEO at key internal discussions and exercise superb judgment, interpersonal skills, and absorb information quickly.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the role will work very closely with the Executive team and the Board on a range of strategic initiatives that impact the wider organisation as well as be an effective partner to senior leaders. The role will also support the Chair of the ShelterBox Board in various duties.

Working with the CEO, the role will:

• Coordinate and integrate the work of the CEO’s office with the rest of the organisation, ensuring effective engagement with all departments.
• Use sound judgment to advise the CEO on complex and sensitive policy issues and questions.
• Assist the CEO and leadership to deliver on the ShelterBox strategy (post 2021).

Who are we looking for?

ShelterBox is seeking an accomplished and highly competent Strategic Planner/Executive Assistant to provide excellent support to the Chief Executive, the Executive Team, and the Board.

You must have proven EA experience at Director/CEO level or have held a role where a high degree of autonomy and highly developed planning and organisational skills are required.

We are looking for candidates with a relevant degree (or equivalent experience) in a field relevant to policy making, strategy, international development/humanitarian affairs, public administration. Ideally, you will also have knowledge or experience of working for the voluntary sector or a charity.

The position holder will need to flex between areas of work on humanitarian thought leadership and response, funding diversification and growth strategies, and partnership building between ShelterBox, its affiliates, strategic donors, and other key organizations.

This is a varied and busy role and to be successful you must have strong prioritisation and time management skills, excellent verbal, and written communication skills along with the ability to develop effective and positive working relationships internally and externally.

You will be a strong team player, who can also work autonomously to clear deadlines. You must also be politically astute with the ability to analyse and summarize large amounts of information quickly.

Strong interpersonal, relationship management and influencing skills are also important, as is the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders with different agendas

The role requires a rigorous and critical thinker, able to ask probing clear questions and drive toward solutions quickly. You must have the ability to anticipate and assess situations accurately and recommend/implement effective courses of action, with a predisposition toward simple and practical solutions, through consensus building.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

Policy and Influence:

• Coordinates and/or oversees the development of policies, procedures, speeches, and strategies relating to complex policy issues for the CEO’s office.
• Conducts research and analysis to support the strategic aims of ShelterBox.
• Drafts strategy documents, reports, speeches, briefing notes, and talking points at the request of the CEO.

Strategy and Planning:

• Lead on the review and consensus building around the process to develop the ShelterBox Strategy 2021.
• Through coordination with Exec team, keep an active overview of the work of departments to ensure effective and coordinated support to and response from the CEO.
• Works with the CEO to set short- and medium-term priorities for strategic engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifies challenges in the short and longer term, to successfully implementing the ShelterBox strategy and workplans and works with relevant stakeholders to develop proposed solutions.
• Manages strategic projects from inception to completion as assigned by the CEO.

Planning and Coordination

• Provides timely and effective communication of instructions and decisions of the CEO to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure Executive Team meeting agendas are developed, and key matters are tabled for discussion.
• Support the CEO and Finance Director in the ongoing strategic oversight of the organisational budget and financial management.
• Ensure minutes are taken at key meetings and for ShelterBox board meetings, including action items and follow up.
• Tracks and documents key strategic internal and external meetings, ensuring that key action points are communicated and follow up occurs.
• Works with internal and external stakeholders to commission and/or develop briefings.
• Works with internal stakeholders to commission and/or develop itineraries and agendas to ensure the CEO engagements are effective in promoting ShelterBox and its mission.
• Fosters teamwork and communications among the Exec Team, Senior Leadership Team, and other key staff.
• Represents the views of the CEO at key internal meetings such as with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Maintains sensitivity and diplomacy with senior colleagues.

Communications

• Represent ShelterBox and CEO at relevant senior meetings and conferences and present the work of the organisation where necessary.
• Be an effective communicator on behalf of and in support of the CEO to the global ShelterBox audience, with a particular emphasis on maintaining effective partnerships and collaboration between ShelterBox and its supporters, as well as the network of partners and affiliates.
• Ensure good working relationships and support the integration of activities across ShelterBx departments.

For the Board of Trustees:

• Distribute high quality papers, taking and producing minutes of board and subcommittee meetings and monitoring implementation of agreed actions.
• Organise, maintain and when necessary, re-organise the meeting schedule for the Board meetings and subcommittees, ensuring the timing of subcommittees leads into quarterly board meetings.
• Organise trustee board away days, organising the venue, papers, and any other resources, including booking travel and accommodation.
• Provide administrative support to the Chair and other trustees as required to enable them to fulfil their duties for ShelterBox
• Maintain a record of board level policies, updating as necessary

Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Fundraiser to generate new funding opportunities in collaboration with the CEO.

You will be an exceptional bid-writer with very strong attention to detail and a proven record in researching, designing and writing funding applications to relevant grant-making bodies (predominately trusts, foundations and national funding bodies).

Key Responsibilities

Identify and research prospective trusts, foundations and other funding sources relevant to VIN’s funding needs.

Develop VIN’s Trust and Foundations fundraising strategy to maintain a strong and diverse income pipeline that meets VINS funding needs.

Develop a knowledge of VIN’s projects and stakeholders to ensure that funding approaches are fully reflective of our work and in line with funders’ priorities.

Review all bid feedback and ensure knowledge is shared, so that learning informs VIN’s future approach.

Write high quality, persuasive bids that meet funders’ interests and requirements.

Operations’ Manager: £34,00 – £35,000

Full time - 3 Months Contract with potential for extension

This is a key role in the Senior Management Team responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Charity, Admin staff and Volunteers

We also have a vacancy for a:

Thinking Space Facilitator:  £60 - £65 per hour depending on experience

Start in September 2020 - Bi-weekly Sessions - 1 Year Contract

The Claudia Jones Organisation and the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Facilitator for their therapeutic Thinking Space group for women of African and Caribbean heritage who have experienced trauma.

HOW TO APPLY

Please email a CV and cover letter with the Subject: Operations Manager. The cover letter should detail where you saw the role advertised, how you meet the person specification and why you are interested in the role in no more than 2 sides of A4.

If you wish to express an interest in the Facilitator’s Role, please send an email to address in this job advert  for job description and specification.

Please write the Name of the Post in the Subject Line of Your Email.

We will close the applications as soon as we have received sufficient applications.

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for all post and 2 references.

Black and ‘Minority Ethnic’ Women only need apply (Schedule 9, Part 1, 158 and 159 Equality Act 2010). All posts are subject to an enhanced vetting and barring check. No agencies please.

JOB DESCRIPTION

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Operations’ Manager: £34,00 – £35,000

Full time - 3 Months Contract – Potential for extension

This is a key role in the Senior Management Team responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Charity, Admin staff and Volunteers

OUR BACKGROUND Claudia Jones Organisation (CJO) is one of the few African Caribbean Women and Families organisations in London. Founded in 1982 at the request of Caribbean women, CJO delivers family centred services for women with children age 0-17, gender-based violence support, connections for older people, health and wellbeing activities, counselling and therapeutic interventions to inspire and empower African Caribbean heritage women and families. CJO is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, partnerships and most crucially, accountability to those we serve.

Our National Lottery Community Fund project builds on our earlier Hackney Women’s Haven partnership services that sought to foster women’s freedom from violence, discrimination, and exclusion, supporting women to stay safe and make positive changes to their lives. The focus of our work under this role will be to foster a therapeutic approach to providing a cohesive specialist support service for African Caribbean heritage women and families. This will include working within CJO’s Community-based Approach to Wellbeing through Specialist women and families service by us and for us.

PURPOSE This is a key role in the Senior Management Team, responsible for ensuring that the Central Services of the charity meets the strategic objectives and values of the Organisation.  This role deputises for the Executive Director.  In collaboration with the Director, the Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing an ambitious fundraising strategy, as well as managing the HR, payroll, and finance functions. You will ensure organisational effectiveness jointly with the Director by providing leadership for the organisation's operational planning, working closely with other Senior Managers, staff and volunteer team, contributing to the development and implementation of organisational strategies, policies and practices in accordance with CJO’s overall strategy. This position is key in supporting the Board of Trustees, clinical, administrative staff, volunteers and, centrally, in ensuring service users are welcomed and related to consistently in a warm and respectful manner.

Duties and responsibilities:

Operations:  Counselling/Therapeutic, Casework and Administrative Work:

• To ensure effective systems are in place to manage the processes of the referral, assessment, and on-going support for service users to ensure ongoing communication with and between referrers, service users, support staff and therapists.
• To ensure that the organisation is compliant with Data Protection Regulations, acting as the Data Protection Officer for CJO and supporting staff and volunteers in maintaining the security and confidentiality of service users, members, and volunteers.
• To support all staff and volunteers in carrying out the essential administrative tasks needed for the governance and smooth running of the CJO including supporting attendance for individual and group sessions, particularly bearing in mind that the majority of staff and volunteers are part-time, sessional or voluntary and have a variety of other commitments outside of CJO.
• To ensure that CJO staff and volunteers are informed of and put into practice the charity’s policies for the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, health and safety, risk management and equality and diversity.
• To co-ordinate the regular therapeutic group meetings for staff, volunteers and service users held regularly.
• To facilitate communications with service users, staff, trustees, and outside agencies in the network around existing and new partnerships including lawyers, clinical agencies, social services and education departments, community organisations, and funders.
• To liaise with staff and agencies with regards to specialist reports and letters for the different stages of support to ensure the timely submission of high-quality reports in line with deadlines provided by funders, lawyers, statutory agencies, and others.
• To manage the facilities of the organisation and its cleaning and hall/room hiring.

Financial Administration and Management:

• Working with the Finance Assistant and Management Accountant to ensure the timely delivery of regular, accurate financial reporting information and financial forecasts in the most effective form for the trustees, finance committee and staff.
• In conjunction with the Management Accountant and Consultant Fundraiser, to co-ordinate the annual budgeting, financial planning, and fundraising processes with the Director.
• To ensure the effective operation of the centre’s financial management and reporting systems, maintaining up-to-date and accurate financial administration records, including clear records of all cash expenditure.
• To oversee monthly and quarterly assessments and forecasts of the organisation’s financial performance against budget, financial and operational goals.
• To reconcile monthly financial activity, consistently monitoring organisational cashflow.
• To manage day-to-day processing of accounts receivable and payable, ensuring invoices for work carried out by staff are raised and purchase invoices are paid in a timely manner.
• To coordinate all withdrawals, deposits, and any communication with the bank, as required.
• To work with the Management Accountant in the preparation of information for the annual audit and its submission to Auditors.
• To fulfil all HMRC related requirements in conjunction with the Management Accountant.
• To keep records for the purpose of claiming Gift Aid.

Human Resources and Support:

• To work with the Director, staff, and volunteers to create an environment in which all service users, staff, volunteers, and visitors are appropriately welcomed and supported in a respectful, open, and warm manner.
• In consultation with the Director and Board of Trustees, to develop policies and procedures in volunteer and staff management, ensuring staff and volunteers are fully aware of and trained in these practices and in CJO’s organisational values.
• To manage and supervise the work of the Reception Admin Assistant, Finance Admin, Facilities worker, and admin volunteers.
• To manage the recruitment process for new staff and volunteers including assisting in the preparation of job descriptions, advertising roles, the organisation of and participation in interviews, follow up on references and carrying out DBS checks, organising contracts, assisting in the production of induction materials and ensuring that a proper induction takes place.
• To maintain personnel and employment records, as required by law.
• To co-ordinate training for staff and volunteers in consultation with the Director, other Managers, and staff/volunteer team.
• To develop and implement a mentoring scheme for CJO.
• To be attuned to the needs of the community, dropping into CJO, providing assistance and support as required or signposting to other members of staff, as necessary.
• To provide guidance to other staff in the short-term absence of other senior staff (sickness/annual leave/training).

Fundraising:

• To work with the Director and Consultant Fundraiser to ensure that the CJO has an ambitious and effective fundraising strategy, working to diversify the charity’s funding streams.
• To work in conjunction with the Consultant Fundraiser in the preparation of high-quality detailed bids for capital and revenue funds from relevant donors based on detailed information about.
• To schedule and coordinate the receipt of grant payments and to work with the team to prepare comprehensive grant reports to all trusts and foundations in line with the donors reporting requirements.

• To carry out administration required for receipt of all donations including standing orders and CAF cheques and overseeing the upkeep of the beneficiary, donor, and funder database in line with GDPR and Data Protection Procedures.
• To work with the Consultant Fundraiser, Admin finance in the development of a major individual donor programme.

• To communicate with relevant grant managers, keeping them up to date with organisational developments, events, and activities.
• To foster an open, involved, and authentic communication with donors, encouraging donors to visit CJO.

Organisational Effectiveness:

• To coordinate the annual monitoring and evaluation process in consultation with the Director and the external evaluation team.
• To work with the Director to ensure that CJO complies in all its roles and activities with all relevant legislation, including that applicable to Charities and Companies.  This task also encompasses taking the minutes of Trustees and Finance Committee Meetings, keeping company records up to date at both Companies House and the Charity Commission, ensuring all company records are clear and up-to-date to enable smooth filing of Annual Reports and Reviews each year.
• To liaise with the landlord and CJO’s Trustees in relation to premises management including renewing building usage and organising repairs, additional room hire, etc, as necessary.
• To increase the effectiveness and efficiency of CJO’s operations through reviewing and developing initiatives to improve each function - HR, IT, Finance, Fundraising, Administration, staff support as necessary

Risk Management:

• To work with the Director, Service Manager and Clinical Lead and Trustees in the development, implementation, review and maintenance of Baobab’s risk management matrix, particularly as it relates to risks for service users and young people of suicide, aggressive behaviour and deterioration in mental health.
• To ensure statutory compliance with Health and Safety and other relevant legislation, conducting risk assessments, monitoring performance, and reviewing procedures.
• To ensure the correct organisational insurance policies are in place.

Public Events:

• In consultation with the Director to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a broad range of public events (such as regular ‘The AGM, Black History Quiz, International Women’s Day, CJO  Talks’ Seminar series) and training activities related to the needs of our service users.  
• Assist in preparation of materials for teaching and training sessions for professionals in the networks around our service provision.

Other duties

• To undertake other duties which may be regarded within the nature of the post, in discussion with the Director.
• To engage in regular managerial supervision with the Director.
• To participate in training and CPD

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Specification

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications,

Education & Training

Education to degree level or equivalent professional experience

Knowledge of a range of computer packages (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and accounting software).

Knowledge of data protection legislation.

Management accounting

Experience

At least 5 years office and/or operations management experience in a small organisation.

Experience of managing a team

Experience of financial administration such as petty cash handling, issuing, and paying invoices, book-keeping using accounting software, financial management information, Website

Experience of GBV services and women only services in the BAME voluntary sector.

Experience of setting up and maintaining office systems

Facilities management experience

Project management experience

Experience of setting and working to targets, budgets, and deadlines

Experience of developing funding bids

Experience of producing reports of organisational outcomes, outputs, and financial activity.

Experience of identifying opportunities, planning new activities, and managing change.

Experience of working in a BAME organisation/ service which promotes the rights of vulnerable women and families with multiple disadvantages.

Experience of asylum seeking or refugee issues

Experience of working within a women and families services children, adolescents, and young adults with mental health problems

Event management experience

Experience of editing documents and preparing publications

Skills, Attributes & Competencies

A very high level of self-management with ability to manage own workload, time and prioritise effectively with competing deadlines

Excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask

Achievement orientation

Analytical thinking with the ability to examine what lies under the surface, anticipate what is needed together

High level of accuracy and attention to detail

High level of numeracy

Ability to multitask in the face of multiple demands

Ability to use initiative and be creative in the face of problems

Excellent interpersonal skills with adults, children, young people, staff, and visitors and a warm, interested and involved manner while maintaining professional boundaries

High levels of sensitivity, emotional intelligence, and resilience

Ability to work as a member of a team, seeking support from colleagues as appropriate

Commitment, Values & Motivation

To work in ways that promote a multicultural, multi faith environment with a genuine commitment to equal opportunities

To inform oneself about the external political environment towards African heritage communities and the different contexts that, young people, women girls, and families life situations which they find themselves in the UK.

To work in ways that promote human rights

To understand and work towards meeting the diverse needs of the African Heritage community who have experienced violence and who consequently function in unstable and chaotic ways.

To work in a therapeutic community

To want to make a difference in the lives of those who access our services.

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Wellbeing Manager to join this forward thinking charity, which exists to support the health and wellbeing of the banking community, numbering almost two million people in the UK.

It’s a great time to join BWC. We already support thousands of people every year and our expanding service offer is enabling us to reach and help more clients than ever.

About the Role
Your key purpose in this new role will be to develop BWC’s reputation for expertise in the field of workplace wellbeing in order to increase levels of engagement with UK banks. You will do this by contributing content to support the Charity’s thought leadership activity, particularly in the development of the Wellbeing Pulse blog, delivering workplace wellbeing interventions in UK banks to support their wellbeing strategies and supporting the development and delivery of BWC’s consultancy service to banks.

About You
You will have a background in HR, Occupational Psychology or other wellbeing-relevant field, with expert and current knowledge of workplace wellbeing issues.  You will have expert research, writing and editing skills, with the ability to create content with a clear and strong narrative; and an ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders. 

In order to succeed you will be able to express opinions, information and points of argument clearly.  You will be professional and well-presented, an engaging, perceptive and excellent communicator and have social media skills.  You will also be motivated to achieve, have a commitment to excellence and be able to consider reputational risks.

What we Offer
In return you will receive a competitive salary and the opportunity to participate in a discretionary performance related bonus up to a maximum of 15% of salary along with a range of benefits, which include:

• 30 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
• Up to 13% employer contribution to BWC’s pension scheme
• Group Life Cover (three times annual salary)
• Season Ticket Loan (upon successful completion of probation)
• Employee Assistance Programme

To apply please read through the application pack and complete the attached application form - which includes a Supporting Statement.  Your Supporting Statement should clearly set out how your experience meets the criteria in the Person Specification. 

Closing Date: 30th October 2020

Research Manager – Asia

The post holder will be responsible for the on-going technical credibility and development of Compassion’s programme and resources for Thailand. This includes support of the Thailand Food Business Manager with preparation for and in meetings, knowledge transfer to food companies, and wider stakeholder groups in Thailand.

Working under the direction of the Head of Food Business China, you will play a central role in further implementing and developing our influence on animal welfare in Thailand as well as strengthening and enhancing our technical service offer.

Research Manager Requirements:

The right candidate will bring both scientific rigour and excellent practical knowledge of farm animal welfare in food production to the role, along with passion and belief in improving animal welfare in Thailand. You will have a strong commercial awareness and develop a solid understanding of the Thai food industry whilst maintaining a sympathetic understanding of the wider organisational aims. The role will require developing and delivering multiple workflows to deadline and within budget, and a strong problem solving ‘can do’ attitude.

This is a vital role within Compassion’s Food Business Programme, helping to ensure farm animal welfare is adopted within the sustainable supply chain and corporate policies of the world’s leading food businesses as well as Thailand’s national companies. The role offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact for farm animal welfare within a dynamic team and influential global organisation.

About CiWFI - Compassion in World Farming International:

Compassion in World Farming International is the leading international farm animal welfare organisation. Factory farming affects billions of animals – and every human on the planet. There are humane alternatives to this global crisis. Will you help us tell this story?
In an age where the debate about food provenance, sustainability and safety has never been more urgent, the challenge for Compassion in World Farming is to combat the spread of factory farming and ensure that animal welfare becomes a fundamental consideration within the global food system.

Due to the current Covid-19 situation, interviews may take place via video link and the successful candidate may be required to be home based initially before moving to be based primarily at the Compassion in World Farming international headquarters in Godalming, Surrey. Whilst there is some flexibility for home working the role will be mainly office based.

Location: Godalming, Surrey GU7 1EZ and will require significant travel to Thailand, with potentially additional travel to other countries in Asia Pacific

Job type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract for 21 Months

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 (dependent upon experience)

Closing Date: 21st October 2020

No Agencies please.

You may have experience of the following: Research Officer, Research Assistant, Research Executive, Fish Welfare, Research Manager, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, Information Manager, Information Officer, Animal Welfare, Fish Farming, Farmed Fish, Food Production Standards, Food Standards, Quality Assurance, etc.

Ref: 94420

The Trent Rivers Trust is looking for a

Finance Manager

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced financial manager to join a growing charity and oversee its budgetary management and financial controls. Based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire with some home working. Applicants will have proven financial management skills, be used to working with accountancy and budget management software and have strong partnership development and team working skills.

The Role

The Trent Rivers Trust (TRT) is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to oversee and manage the charity’s finances and help ensure the charity’s financial sustainability. The charity has grown in recent years and now requires its first internal finance manager to lead and oversee with the CEO, all financial, accounting and budgetary management. The role is also required to ensure a smooth transition from our existing system of financial management to the use of a cloud-based finance management and accountancy software system.

The Trent Rivers Trust delivers projects that make a difference to rivers, the wildlife which inhabits the river corridor and the people that enjoy the river environment.  Our vision is for the River Trent and its tributaries to be rich in wildlife habitats, landscape and historic features for the benefit of all, both now and in the future. At the Trust we have a highly motivated and skilled team all with a passion for rivers and the wider environment, managing a wide variety of projects across the Trent catchment.

Purpose of the Post

• Reporting to the CEO and Trustees, the role is the first contact point for financial matters and oversees the budgets and accounts for the charity
• Agrees and manages the budget, income and expenditure and supports forecasting and the provision of financial information.
• Supports project officers and managers with budget development and the financial management of their work
• Ensures processes around payroll, invoicing and payments to suppliers work smoothly
• Manages the finance assistant and provides support to fundraising and income generation work

Applicants wishing to apply for the post must complete the application form on the Trent Rivers Trust website 

The Maternal Mental Health Alliance is looking for an outstanding individual to be our new Senior Team Assistant. The role will provide administrative support to our small, remote team, with a particular focus on finance, member administration and support relating to the Devolved Nations. They will be line managed by the HR and Governance Advisor and will also work closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team. 

The role is home-based and part-time - the successful candidate will work 2.5 days a week, with the flexibility to increase to 3 days should funding allow. 

We envision that this role will have a start date at the beginning of January, with a handover day to take place with the current postholder sometime in December (to be arranged). Interviews will take place virtually on 11 November.

Please see the application pack for full details and how to apply. 

Develop the next generation of young black leaders through innovative youth education. Eastside Young Leaders’ Academy has created a unique space on the  youth leadership landscape, for nearly 20 years, shaping the lives of thousands of young people from black and minority backgrounds. We partner with state and independent schools, parents, and the corporate sector to bring about transformations for individuals and communities. We are entering an exciting phase in our growth and development, leading to the creation of this appointment.

In this important full-time role, you will oversee the leadership programmes and support the education programmes which take place on Saturdays, during school holidays and after school.

You will need a demonstrable understanding of a youth work and/or teaching environment. The capacity and flexibility to manage a varied workload and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholders are also essential attributes.

EYLA has a distinctive mission and purpose, and our success relies on people who show a strong understanding of the underlying need for our work and the values which sustain it. This is a necessary requirement for the role, to be explored during the selection process.

Completed applications via CV and covering letter (one page max) addressing the key requirements of the role should be submitted. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Monday 26th October. Interviews will be held the first week in November.