We are seeking an experienced and inspirational leader to join our Leadership Team; someone with a compassionate heart who is motivated by their evangelical Christian faith and has a proven track record and experience of strategic and operational financial management. In liaison with the charity’s Trustees and Leadership Team, you will be instrumental in developing and implementing the Ministry’s ambitious and exciting financial strategy.

You will have the vision, knowledge and skills to convey financial information in a practical and insightful way to different audiences. You will be someone who enjoys combining technical expertise with the ability to inspire and lead others.

You will be expected to demonstrate high levels of accounting knowledge and be comfortable using Sage 50. You will hold an appropriate financial qualification.

If you believe God may be calling you to fulfil this varied and pivotal role and you understand the importance of excellence in accounting for our precious resources, then please apply for this full-time position which is based at our office in Orpington, Kent, with some agreed flexibility to work from home.

Applicants must be committed to Release International’s evangelical Christian beliefs (occupational requirement).

We are looking for a Director of Membership and Digital to drive an ambitious strategy for rapid membership growth, and lead digital strategy, innovating to deliver cutting edge digital political communications, innovative digital campaigns infrastructure and platforms that drive highly efficient and effective supporter engagement.

We are looking for candidates with an impressive track record of supporter or member growth in a comparable political or campaigning organisation, who know how to act on audience insight, find new routes to market and optimise our digital supporter journeys to maximise supporters’ engagement with the European Movement. You will have experience of leading digital innovation and be an exceptional project manager and leader of people, with experience of leading through change.

The successful applicant will lead on two critical areas.

• An ambitious strategy to rapidly grow our membership and become a mass membership organisation within 5 years;
• A digital strategy that delivers on the European Movement’s strategic objectives to shift public opinion and grow our movement, including cutting edge digital political communications, innovative digital campaigns infrastructure and platforms that drive highly efficient and effective supporter engagement

For more information please see the application pack on our website.

LOCATION

Home based or office based (Central London)

FLEXIBILITY

This role is full time, with flexibility about how these hours are distributed

ABOUT US

The European Movement UK is a cross-party organisation working to benefit the UK through a stronger trade and cultural relationship with the EU. We are powered by more than 13,000 members, 160,000 supporters, 120+ local groups, and our strong networks in Westminster and communities throughout the UK.

Post-Brexit our organisation is growing fast, and building bridges with the rest of Europe is more important than ever. As the government negotiates new trade deals around the world, we will play a critical role in protecting the standards we currently enjoy – from environmental and food welfare standards, to workers’ rights.

DIRECT APPLICATIONS ONLY - NO AGENCIES

INTERIM TECH DIRECTOR (12 MONTH CONTRACT)

Salary range: £70 000 (Negotiable) and day rate also negotiable, would consider a 3 day working week

Location: Permanent Working arrangement within the UK, or regular or ad hoc (would consider 3 days a week for 12 months)

About us
38 Degrees is one of the UK's biggest campaigning communities, involving over 2 million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. We’re united by a set of shared values; to defend fairness, protect rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy.
 

In the space of a week, millions of members could be campaigning on anything from protecting our NHS and stopping cuts to Universal Credit, to saving local libraries and pushing for laws that welcome more refugees.
 

38 Degrees is fiercely independent. We don’t take donations from political parties, or big donors. We’re run on hundreds of thousands of small donations from the public. This independence means we never have to hold ourselves back from taking on those with power and can truly listen to our members.

The entire team is currently working remotely and we are open to applicants who would like to work remotely on a permanent basis. 

Why you’ll want to work here 

The 38 Degrees culture is honest, kind, supportive, courageous, and respectful. We move fast, and frequently change plans to respond to events. We work hard but we also have fun. We regularly enjoy team away days and social hours. Benefits include: 

27 days holiday per year (plus Bank Holidays), Employer pension contribution,

24 hour employee support line, Enhanced family leave policies, Cycle to work scheme,

Free annual flu vaccination, Rental deposit loan, Contribution to eye tests/glasses,

Learning and development budget
 

Special COVID provisions: 

• 9-day fortnight (every other Friday off)

• COVID flex leave
   

What's the role?

The Interim Tech director is responsible for leading the software development team at 38 Degrees, working closely with various Directors and Heads of departments to review our tech needs and deliver software projects which will drive 38 Degrees’ mission.

Having just settled on a new organisational strategy, your primary role over the year will be to audit our technical capability, and to devise a strategy and shape our tech team to build, buy and sustain the cutting edge tools we need to deliver that strategy. 

38 Degrees uses a mix of in house software products (our Call To Action tool and CRM), shared development within a network of peer organisations and off the shelf solutions. 

You’ll manage the competing priorities of the software development team, provide guidance and make decisions on technical direction, leading the software development team to build and support projects & products.

You’ll also build & maintain relationships with The OPEN Network - a network of organisations similar to 38 Degrees operating in countries around the world, many of whom use the same campaigning software as 38 Degrees. You’ll ensure 38 Degrees’ priorities and vision for the software within the collaboration are represented, while helping 38 Degrees learn from the processes, projects & innovations which other organisations are trying.

As a Director you’ll also be comfortable occasionally getting involved in organisation-wide projects on a wide range of topics, including helping to develop new policies & practices within the organisation, contributing to the organisational strategy, and looking across the organisation for ways we can optimise processes.

Responsibilities: include the following, (38 Degrees may add, change, or remove responsibilities based on changing priorities)

• Audit technical capability and design future strategy

  • Review of our technical stack, inhouse products and capabilities.

  • Work with the wider Senior Leadership team to set a future direction and strategy for technology at 38 Degrees to deliver our organisational strategy, and provide business continuity, specifically looking at risk/reward of building inhouse technology vs off the shelf.

  • Review of our software sharing agreements and collaboration agreements with peer organisations.

  • Continue to design, build and develop our technical team to reflect this strategy. Thinking through which future roles we may need, and recruiting for them, including potentially a permanent Tech Director replacement. 

• Lead the Software Development Team

  • Using a solid understanding of tech development, provide direction to the team - both technical direction and a long-term vision for 38 Degrees’ software stack. Identify and minimise risks to production, be communicative and open when dealing with stakeholders, and give & receive feedback honestly and graciously.

  • Ensure the processes and practices used within the software development team are fit for purpose, and iteratively work to improve these when necessary

  • Line manage the most senior member/members of our technical team, and support other line managers in setting strong growth and stretch objectives for the wider tech team. Help build a strong, healthy, collaborative and productive culture within the team. 

  • Manage the budget for 38 Degrees’ technology.

• Deliver technical projects and products

  • Work with stakeholders across the organisation, and at times outside it, to prioritise fixing and improving our current systems, including new features, and entire new products. For example our next generation public action tool “Flow” is currently in development and on track to replace our current tool in the next 6 months. 

  • This is a leadership rather than a hands on coding role. Let other members of the Software Development team take ownership of projects & products where appropriate, setting clear goals for the project to measure progress & gauge success.

  • Keep stakeholders informed of progress, and work with them to reach a good solution to the problem, often within short timeframes.

  • Plan for the long-term support of new projects & products - how will they be updated and maintained.

  • Work with and manage contractors when necessary to deliver projects to tight deadlines.

• Be accountable for security and compliance of 38 Degrees software

  • Review of the security of 38 Degrees’ in-house software, and incrementally improve this over time.

  • Work with our external Data Protection Officer and senior tech team members to ensure 38 Degrees is aware of and compliant with new & upcoming legislation - such as GDPR, Age Appropriate Design, etc.

  • Oversight of Tech Risk register - Work with Directors to identify key security & compliance risks, and put in place mitigations to reduce the risk.

• Contribute to organisation-wide projects and priorities

  • Feed in to discussions around organisational strategy and strategic priorities, and ensure the team - in particular the software development team - are clear on what the organisational strategy means for them.

  • Contribute to task management and objective setting for staff who are not software developers, but are performing some technical duties in their role - for example, data analysts.

Other - any other duties as a result of a change in priority or organisational strategy

Your experience should include:

• Experience of designing or redesigning teams to implement and deliver on strategic goals. 

• Experience leading a technical or software engineering team

• Experience line managing technical staff

• Hands-on experience of delivering technical projects through the full development lifecycle - from requirements gathering to deployment and support / maintenance

Desirable

•  Experience of compliance, such as GDPR, a bonus.

More about you

Essential skills:

• Strategic technical team leadership

• Designing teams and implementing strategy 

• Demonstrable skills in consulting with stakeholders, requirements gathering, architecting solutions, prioritising features, and supporting systems

• Accuracy, attention to detail, and with an eye to mitigating risk - particularly in relation to building and rolling out software & business continuity plans.

• High level understanding of the programming skills needed to deliver multiple professional-level projects. We primarily use Ruby/Rails and TypeScript, so experience with these is a bonus, but this is not a ‘hands on’ role. 

• Good high-level understanding of software security principles.

• Good interpersonal skills, collaborative style and approach to leadership & management, and able to communicate complex technical ideas to a range of people, including non-technical audiences

• Able to adjust personal and team priorities in a fast-moving organisation

• Commitment to the mission and values of 38 Degrees

There are no formal education requirements for this role. As long as you can show us you have the skills we don’t mind where you got them from! Also important to us is your potential to learn and grow in the role so even if you don’t have 100% of the skills listed we want to hear from you.

38 Degrees is striving to build a team that reflects the diversity of our membership and our locations, and is truly inclusive. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people, and disabled people.  For this role we would also like to strongly encourage applications from women, who are currently underrepresented on our tech team (although well represented in the rest of the organisation).

Your commitment - You will have a commitment to 38 Degrees’ mission and values and will work as part of our wider team to drive and support change initiatives to achieve a sustainable culture.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

38 Degrees wants to make democracy work for everyone. That means living up to that mission by having a team that represents our membership and our location, making 38 Degrees a genuinely inclusive space to work. We are currently under-represented by people of colour, trans and non-binary people, older people and disabled people. We welcome applicants from these groups.

38 Degrees is deeply committed to inclusive working practices, so during the application process we commit to:

• Paying for childcare whilst you’re at 38 Degrees interviews or tasks

• Paying for your travel costs to the office and back

• Paying you for any trial days

• Making any reasonable adjustments - for example ensuring we have BSL interpreters organised in advance if you’d like them

• If there anything else you’re concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know

The first step of our recruitment process is for you to answer a few questions alongside sending us your CV.
 

1. What attracted you to apply for this position at 38 Degrees?

2. Tell us about a time you’ve had to decide on a technology strategy for an organisation. What considerations did you take into account and what process did you go through to come to a solution?

3. Tell us about a project or achievement at work where your leadership made a major impact: what was the outcome, what was your role? 

4. Thinking about your leadership role in teams, tell us about a sensitive or difficult decision you have led or implemented which had an impact on others. How did you handle this? What was the outcome and what did you learn?

5. Describe how you’ve motivated teams to achieve their best performance.

 

Lee Abbey London is looking for a new Director to manage the business interests of a hall of residence for 160 students and to lead the Christian community who run the residence.

About us

The Lee Abbey London Christian Community seeks to serve students from around the world through hospitality, outreach and service. Students can be of any nationality or faith and they study at many different colleges in London. With over 60 years’ experience of serving students and “communicating Christ through relationships”, Lee Abbey London has a strong history of ministry and service but also faces new challenges as we look to refurbish our building and renew our ministry and effectiveness for years to come, and particularly in light of the ongoing impact of the global Covid19 pandemic.

About the role

The Director should be a committed Christian, secure in and enthused about their faith in Jesus Christ. Together with the other Lee Abbey Communities, Lee Abbey London is an “Acknowledged Community” by the Church of England. While Lee Abbey is Anglican in foundation, its culture and outlook is ecumenical and welcoming.

Supported by the Board of Trustees and working with a core leadership team, the Director has overall responsibility for:

• Commercial management of a successful international student residence
• Leadership of the international and ecumenical Christian Community
• Promoting a culture of hospitality and ministry to both students and Community members.

Lee Abbey London is part of a wider network under the umbrella of the Lee Abbey Movement, sharing Christ through relationships, nationally and globally.

This position requires full membership of the Christian community at Lee Abbey London on a non-residential basis. The post is:

• Full-time
• For an initial 5-year contract (fixed term)
• With pension & benefits
• With 30 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Based in Kensington, London.

Lee Abbey London is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and adults and expects all who join our team to share this commitment.  A DBS check is required for this appointment.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant with good technical skills and a ‘can-do’ attitude who is seeking to develop their management skills. The primary focus of this role is to manage the UK office (Kingston) finance operations team, responsible for supplier, volunteer and staff payments and ensuring compliance with accurate and timely external reporting, accounting regulations and UK tax requirements.

Harris Hill is recruiting for a Director of Finance and Operations for this Human Rights Charity based in London.

* Reporting to: Chief Executive
* Seniority: Part of the SMT
* Salary: £59,000pa
* Management: This is a hands-on role managing 2 staff, plus volunteers and interns
* Interviews: W/C 4th October, so apply immediately
* Flexible working is available

Essential:

* Relevant accountancy qualifications or appropriate experience
* At least three years' experience in charity accounts
* Experience in personnel management in a small/medium sized organisation

JOB DESCRIPTION

* Responsibility for ensuring effective cross organisational budgeting and planning process, to underpin robust strategic business plans.
* Monitoring complex budgets is key to maintaining a clear grasp of our expenditure and income related to restricted and unrestricted budgets. Ensuring systems for recording income and producing clear and accurate management information for budget holders.
* Maintain HR systems. You will be expected to draft HR policy and maintain up to date knowledge and best HR practice throughout the organisation.
* Maintain and provide Health and Safety, Standing Financial Instructions, Charity Commission returns, and Board administration.
* Support the charity in ensuring that it safeguards the wellbeing of its staff, IT infrastructure and the physical environment
* Maintain accurate and up to date financial, including preparing quarterly management accounts and annual statutory financial accounts.
* Prepare annual budgets and monitor cash flow projections based on the business and operational plans
* Produce regular (normally quarterly) management accounts, including budget variances and agreed performance indicators
* Prepare annual statutory accounts, liaising with the Treasurer as required

Senior Director – Programme Delivery/Operations

Full Time 37.5 hours per week 

Birmingham, London or Manchester

£75,000 per annum (plus £3,000 London Weighting if applicable) 

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a motivated and talented professional to join our Programmes team and play a leading role in the organisation as Senior Director - Programme Delivery/Operations on a permanent contract.

This is an exciting time to join Ambition Institute as we scale up our delivery to work with c. 25,000 teachers and school leaders this academic year.

This post is responsible for the operational functions (logistics, scheduling and events) that support both our central programme delivery and our national network of delivery partners. You will play a key role in ensuring high quality professional development for teachers and school leaders through holding responsibility for the continuous improvement of programme delivery and participant experience through oversight of programme data, reporting and governance.

In this role you will be responsible for a multi-million Pound delivery budget, as well as overall programme data, reporting, reviewing risk and the continuous improvement of programme delivery. The post-holder will manage a complex multi-disciplinary team of 4-6 Associate Directors and work in close partnership with Programme teams and support Directors through the curation of management information.

Reporting to the Executive Director - Programmes, the successful candidate can be based in any of our office locations.

Who are Ambition Institute? 

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. 

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply 

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 25th October 2021. Interviews are expected to take place on 28th/29th October 2021.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matter 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. 

Operations Manager

The Operations Manager will be responsible for ensuring we use all the resources God has given us as effectively as possible as the staff team, volunteers, and congregation work together to implement our vision.

Vision

We are a community of Christians meeting regularly to worship God, to grow in God’s love and to share the good news of Jesus Christ with our neighbours.  We are an open, diverse and inclusive community.  In sharing his love, we try to meet some of the needs of the many different people living together in this place and to build community here.

Values

• to be faithful to our Christian heritage and calling and open to new thinking, ideas and other viewpoints
• to try to say ‘yes’
• to be respectful, welcoming and generous to each other and to our visitors
• to speak well of each other
• to be problem solving, collaborative and supportive of each other to get the best results for everyone
• to be empowering of one another to help all members of the congregation to participate as they are able and feel called

Our parish

Prior to lockdown, St George’s was a medium-sized congregation with a heart for mission and a programme of educational, cultural and social action activities.  As we recover from the pandemic we are seeking to re-build our life including now a substantial food programme which emerged during lockdown and which now runs as a food co-operative.   We are blessed with good resources especially of buildings and a willing congregation.

Employer

The Operations Manager will be employed by the Parochial Church Council (PCC).  The line manager is the Rector Canon Jonathan Sedgwick. 

Salary

£32,000 per annum.  A full-time post of 35 hours a week excluding lunch breaks with 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.  It is possible to offer the role at a pro rata .8 of this as with the previous postholder.  The working pattern can be flexible with scope to fit work around family and other commitments and include some home working. 

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to lead our Nursing and Health Information team. This is key strategic role in leading the clinical work across the whole of Breast Cancer Now and being our clinical voice representing our views in a wide range of situations, wherever our expert voice needs to be heard.

We are looking for someone who can provide leadership to the Nursing Team, but who can also develop the clinical aspects of our services and our health information. As part of this you will enable our clinical activities to play their part across the whole of Breast Cancer Now and to be one of the main drivers of our work to reach health care professionals across a range of disciplines, not just nursing.  

You must be prepared to travel throughout the UK and to occasionally work varying hours. There will be a combination of home and office-based working from our central London office.

About you

You will be an experienced nurse having worked at a senior level with significant breast cancer nursing knowledge and an expert communicator with the ability to covey complex information to a variety of audiences. A strategic thinker, you will have a track record in leading teams of nurses to deliver high-quality information and support services.

If this sounds like you and for further information on the role, please download a copy of the recruitment pack. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the role further, please contact us using the contact details provided within the recruitment pack or within the apply button.

About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the charity that’s steered by world-class research and powered by life-changing care. We’re here for anyone affected by breast cancer, the whole way through, providing support for today and hope for the future.

We’re that trusted friend that people affected by breast cancer turn to for caring support when they need it most. The expert authority on breast cancer research who is making breakthroughs and driving forward progress. And a vehicle for change, acting now to make sure anyone affected by breast cancer gets the best possible treatment and care.

We believe that we can change the future of breast cancer and make sure that, by 2050, everyone diagnosed with the disease lives – and is supported to live well. But we need to act now.

Although the role is based in our London office, we are following a blended approach between office and home working with a minimum or two days per week in the office for full-time staff members. 

Breast Cancer Now is an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce.

Closing date 5pm on Thursday, 7 October 2021.

Interview date First interviews will be held on Tuesday, 19 October 2021 between 9.00am and 1.00pm and Thursday, 21 October 2021 between 2.00pm and 5.00pm. 

Prisoners’ Penfriends is a seeking a diligent, resourceful and dependable new Director to manage the day-to-day operation of our penfriend scheme – and to support the charity as it grows its impact and reach.

About Prisoners’ Penfriends

Prisoners’ Penfriends (PP) is a small, London-based charity that supports the wellbeing of prisoners by extending the hand of non-judgemental friendship via letters and emails. The charity makes it possible for volunteers, in the community outside prison, to write to prisoners in England and Wales – and to do so in complete safety.

PP has grown as an organisation over the past year, extending its reach across the prison estate in England and Wales. Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, with prisoners regularly spending the vast majority of their time locked in their cells, the demand and need for the charity’s scheme has grown considerably.

We are now looking for a new Director to lead the charity on its next stage of growth, to develop the in-house resources needed to run the scheme sustainably, and to establish a clearer picture of the charity’s positive impact.

The Directors duties comprise the following key areas:

Operations

• To lead the charity's paid staff and volunteers in the day-to-day running of the organisation and scheme
• To oversee recruitment and training of staff and volunteers to support the organisation, maintaining high standards of safety and accuracy
• To maintain a good understanding of the external social, political and funding environment that could impact on the charity
• To build an effective working relationship with the chair of the trustee board, including regular reporting and attendance of board meetings
• To ensure backend database, systems and the charity’s website are fully functional and up to date, liaising with PP’s IT advisor as needed
• To carry out other practical and administrative tasks as and when required by the board of trustees.

Scheme management

• To read, record and forward letters and emails between volunteer and prisoner penfriends, overseeing staff and in-office volunteers as necessary
• To keep the organisation’s records of the correspondences up to date, carrying out a monthly review of all of them
• To process volunteer and prisoner applications to join the scheme, matching individuals sensitively
• To maintain the charity’s incident-free record, ensuring no information is passed which may jeopardise the safety and security of volunteers
• To be aware of any signs indicating risk to volunteers or to prisoners, particularly from suicide or self-harm.

Governance

• To ensure the charity’s procedure and policies are up-to-date, and are effectively applied
• To ensure the organisation fulfils its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities
• To process records of all communications with volunteers, prisoners and those working in prisons, following PP’s administrative and data-protection procedures
• To follow all PP’s procedures, e.g. for data protection, and equal opportunities.

Finances

• To help to ensure a sustainable income for the charity, identifying opportunities for growing income and supporting or leading fundraising activities as needed
• Working with the board’s treasurer, ensure the charity’s financial transactions  and accounts are recorded in an accurate and timely manner, including Gift Aid records.

Communications and relations

• To ensure effective communications with funders, volunteers, prisoners, and those working  in prisons regarding the scheme and organizational developments. This includes regular newsletters and funder reports
• To build relationships with prison staff and government officials in order to drive use of the service, discuss a prisoner’s safety, and to further the charity's work
• To secure insights from scheme beneficiaries regarding the charity’s work
• To serve as an ambassador and spokesperson for the organisation at events and to media.

Personal qualities

• Committed to the welfare of prisoners, maximizing the scheme’s impact in mitigating loneliness and depression, and supporting rehabilitation
• Conscious of the risks involved when putting volunteers in touch with offenders, carrying the responsibility for maintaining an incident-free record for the charity throughout their work
• Conscientious and meticulous in following the charity’s procedures, and accurate when making and keeping records
• Dedicated to the charity’s work, which may occasionally involve long days visiting prisons, weekend volunteer training, and work outside of normal hours.

The successful candidate must demonstrate:

• Strong analytical and financial management skills, to manage budgets efficiently and report in a timely fashion on financial performance
• The communication and interpersonal skills to motivate and support staff and volunteers; as well as to develop effective relationships with partners, funders and scheme users
• A strong understanding of governance, in particular with regards to ensuring safety and security
• The ability to work to high standards of accuracy personally, and to ensure the work of staff and volunteers is accurate too
• Awareness of the justice sector context in which the charity operates
• The ability to advocate on behalf of the charity to a range of audiences and stakeholders
• Experience of successful bid writing and fundraising applications an advantage.

The Charity is looking to appoint a Director to oversee the next stage in the charity’s development.  With the current interim Director now moving on, this is an opportunity for a dynamic, committed and experienced individual to join the charity and shape and deepen our work and impact in the Borough of Hackney.

Founded 25 years ago, Hackney Night Shelter provides routes out of homelessness for people in need in Hackney by working with the community to provide warmth and shelter to homeless guests and to support them in rebuilding their lives. 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the charity has successfully moved away from a roving night shelter model to a static building-based model in the Borough (one female only shelter and one mixed gender shelter). Formerly known as Hackney Winter Night Shelter, the charity is now a year round service supported by a small dedicated staff team and over 250 volunteers.

Specifically, you will:

• Work with the Board of Trustees to realise HNS strategic objectives, demonstrate impact and deliver real value to the sector
• Spearhead the search and secure a new long term shelter venue by June 2022
• Be responsible for ensuring effective operational delivery through management of a small team of staff and volunteer resources
• Oversee organisational fundraising (trusts, foundations and statutory funding focus) and donation management
• Sustain and build strong strategic and working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders (council members and officers, funders, supporters, faith and community leaders, and the local business community)

In order to be considered for this role you will have previous senior management experience in the Charity sector and experience of working with vulnerable adults (ideally, but not necessarily within the homeless sector). You will have a strong knowledge of charity governance, excellent interpersonal skills, and experience of trusts/foundations fundraising.

The shelters are operational, and this is a client facing role, so while there is some flexibility for the successful candidate to work from home occasionally (up to 2 days per week), this role is predominantly hands on.

How to apply:

Hackney Doorways is committed to equality and diversity, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds but particularly from those who have lived experience of homelessness.

Interested applicants are encouraged to visit our webiste. Please submit a CV and a maximum two-page covering letter explaining:

- Your interest in applying for the role, and

- Your relevant experience as per person specification outlined above

Closing date 4th October 2021, first round interviews w/c 11th October 2021.

Hackney Doorways is a Registered Charity No.1139183

A company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No. 07064774

Beacon Collaborative

Director

£60-£70,000, 4 or 5 days pw

Based - London/Flex

Prospectus are delighted to be partnering with The Beacon Collaborative to recruit their first Director. This is a unique and exciting role which will have a genuine and wide-reaching impact for philanthropy, the charitable sector and the wider civic society.

The Beacon Collaborative promotes and grows philanthropy across the UK. It works on a collaborative partnership based model, working with individual philanthropists, charities, trusts and foundations and advisors within a 'collective impact' model.

Beacon's aim is to celebrate and promote the many and varied voices of philanthropists, encouraging the investment of skills, networks and time of wealth holders into civil society and to contribute to a thriving philanthropy ecosystem.

They ambitiously want to increase the amount of funding invested in the charitable sector by wealthy individuals by £2 billion per year over the coming decade and be the place where philanthropists can come together, share ideas and learn from each other. They also encourage organisations to collaborate and support philanthropists on their donor journeys.

Having established strong foundations since its inception and with a clear vision for the future, Beacon is now looking for their first Director to lead, drive and develop the organisation for a sustainable and impactful future, through strategic leadership and operational delivery.

If you are looking for a challenging and stimulating role and feel aligned to Beacon's aims and philosophy this role will offer you an incredible opportunity.

It involves strategic vision and engagement with leading philanthropists, major funders, partners, government, wealth advisors and journalists, while also keeping an eye on the detail of projects, operations and fundraising.

Beacon are committed to diversity, and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

Closing date: 16th October

Initial interviews with Prospectus: 18th - 21st October

Panel interviews with Client: w/c 25th October (tbc)

These dates may be subject to change and applicants will be advised in advance should this happen.

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

Director
Salary: Circa £46,000
Hours: 35 hours per week (job-share proposals will also be considered)

Location: Tottenham (Tube: Tottenham Hale, Seven Sisters & South Tottenham Network Rail) with a nature reserve, cycle routes & river walks nearby. Free on-site car parking.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be the new Director of Markfield, a successful and valued local charity supporting disabled people, based in the diverse, multi-cultural community of Tottenham is looking for a new Director.

Applications are welcomed from candidates from diverse backgrounds who have passion, compassion, drive, commitment, tenacity, resilience and integrity and

• direct experience of working with disability, personally or professionally to champion the needs of disabled people and their families, particularly from disadvantaged areas
• senior leadership experience and a track record of achievement in the voluntary sector, perhaps from leading a charitable organisation or key department, such as services, fundraising or communications
• a proven track record of writing successful funding applications, bids and tenders
• sound financial, governance and risk management experience
• ability to work with a proactive and dynamic Board in supporting good governance & oversight of operational matters.

The Director will lead on developing a new strategic plan that builds on Markfield’s solid foundations and experiences to develop the organisation’s services, use of assets and partnerships. Working with service managers the Director will steer Markfield towards shared goals with partners, strengthen community connections, ensuring quality assurance & compliance and sound financial management.

The Director will strategically pursue the charity’s sustainability, proactively source and secure funding, raise awareness of Markfield, develop and promote our training programme and service offers, whilst managing stakeholder relationships and ensuring all funding contract obligations are met. The Director will work closely with key stakeholders, Trustees and staff to devise future plans, compile the annual budget and monitor progress and evaluate impact against.

Since it was set up by parents of disabled children some 40 years ago, Markfield has grown to offer a holistic range of services for learning disabled children, adults, and their families: after school and holiday play provision, social clubs, plus a variety of advice, training and support services. The charity operates from a unique community hub - a Grade II listed building with an adventure playground inside Markfield Park. During the pandemic the charity has successfully adapted its service model to continue providing support to disabled people and families.

Benefits: Grade II listed building located within a Green Flag park. The centre has full disability access.

Pension, 25 to 30 days leave.

Visits to the Markfield Centre by prospective candidates are welcome by appointment on Monday 4th October 2021.

Closing date for applications: 10th October 2021
Interviews are expected to be held on: Tuesday 19th and Thursday 21st October 2021

For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.

No agencies please.

The Royal Drawing School provides heavily subsidised drawing tuition at the highest level to over 2,500 people each year, bringing arts education to all.  We are recruiting for our next Director of Education. This is a senior role at the Royal Drawing School, leading the Education Department and serving as Deputy to the School’s Principal.

Working closely with the Principal and Founding Artistic Director, you will serve as a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team to oversee the School’s full and part time education programmes. You will have oversight of and manage five separate programmes: the Drawing Year; Public Programme; Young Artist Programme; Online Courses; and Alumni programme. You will work creatively and programmatically to feed in ideas, experience, and expertise to help shape School vision, strategy, and ethos on both a macro level as well as departmental strategy.

The Director of Education oversees student pastoral support and safeguarding for faculty and students, formalises and implements policy,  deputises for the School’s Principal, collegiately feeds into School messaging and communication strategies, and regularly attends and reports to committees and boards. This role also plays a key part in delivering the School’s approved 5 year plan, and helps identify educational funding opportunities, working with integrity to maintain the School’s reputation for artistic excellence and quality teaching in observational drawing.

To be successful in the role, you will be an experienced Senior Leader in arts education or a related visual arts field be an excellent team motivator and manager; build relationships with stakeholders at all levels with great communication and diplomatic skills, and have demonstrated excellence in driving projects. You will be a patient, supportive and motivational leader, with emotional intelligence, as well as demonstrating the ability to uphold the highest standards and School policy. Please note this is not a teaching post, but would suit someone coming from a Head of department or Senior Leadership Team in an art education setting or equivalent.

We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds and are open to flexible working arrangements.

Download the full job description from our website.

To apply:  Complete the online application form on the Royal Drawing School's jobs page.

Deadline:  6 October 2021 (Midnight)

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you havent heard from us within 1-2 weeks of the closing date, please assume on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.  Thank you for your interest in the Royal Drawing School.