Change Grow Live  

Director of Assurance

Competitive remuneration package

Location: Nationwide

Be open, be compassionate, be bold

Change Grow Live is a charity, with income of £250 million, over 4,000 staff and 1500 volunteers.

Every year they support more than 200,000 people affected by social and economic deprivation, trauma and abuse, homelessness, offending and alcohol and substance misuse. Because they're not a business, they're not looking to make a profit. This allows them to focus on making sure that everything they do is helping the people who use their services, and the wider public too.

Many of Change Grow Live’s staff have previously used their services. Others started as front-line workers, volunteers or peer mentors (including their Chief Executive).  This is a huge strength. Having that first-hand, frontline experience means Change Grow Live’s staff are in the perfect position to support their service users and their staff on the ground - they've been there, so they get it.

Change Grow Live look at the data and carry out research and analysis to make sure that everything they recommend is not just safe, but also the most effective treatment. They never stop learning and looking for new evidence, either.

Since starting as a small local charity in Sussex in the 1970s, Change Grow Live has grown to offer more than 200 services across the UK annually. Their size gives stability, because there’s a solid infrastructure, systems and processes. It also means they can learn a lot and make continuous improvements by sharing learnings and best practice between all of their services.

We believe in people  

Change Grow Live’s work is informed by a simple principle that experience tells them works: Believe in People. This means they believe in their staff's expertise and judgement and strive to create the conditions for them to do their best work. It means they believe that everyone has the right to pursue their goals and aspirations. And it means they believe that, with the right opportunities and support, anyone can change their life for the better.

The role

The newly created role of Director of Assurance will ensure that Change Grow Live’s services and frontline teams delivery meets the highest standards, The Director of Assurance will provide strategic and technical leadership on organisational assurance and governance across all aspects of service delivery.

As Director of Assurance, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team, working alongside colleagues and specialists throughout the organisation, to ensure they are delivering the highest quality care for all who use their services.

You will also have oversight of Change Grow Live’s governance and assurance frameworks. You will build on years of progress to ensure that the organisation is the best it can be for its people. 

The new Director of Assurance will:

• Work with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to build a strategic approach to assurance, governance, quality management systems and overall quality improvement
• Work closely with the Director of Research & Development and

the Director of Change Portfolio as well as colleagues in operational delivery to drive through quality improvements

• Ensure that governance and assurance frameworks are operating as per design and making continuous improvements where opportunities are identified.

You

The successful candidate will develop an understanding of changes and developments across Change Grow Live and identify interconnections and interdependencies with their own area of responsibility. They will stay abreast of cutting-edge developments and best practice within assurance, to contribute to the leadership and direction of the organisation.

As the new Director of Assurance, you will have:

• Significant senior management experience and led or have background in organisational assurance
• Considerable experience of leading and managing delivery in the health/social care and/or criminal justice field. 
• An understanding of operational delivery for a wide range of service users and an understanding of UK Drug Strategy, Criminal Justice and Social Policy Reforms. 

How to Apply

Application is by CV and covering letter.  Your letter, which should be no more than 2 pages in length, should explain both why you are interested in the post and why you think you would be an excellent candidate for us. Click on the Apply link to submit your application.

Further information

For an informal conversation about the post and to request a copy of the Candidate Brief, please contact Claire MacLeod or Justinas Dargis of Hays Executive.

All direct applications will be forwarded to Hays Executive.

Campaign dates:

Closing date: 15th August 2021

First Interview: 31st August and 1st September 2021

Second interview: 13th and 14th September 2021

The above dates are subject to change

Change Grow Live

Director of Integrated Practice

Competitive remuneration package

Location: Nationwide

Be open, be compassionate, be bold

Change Grow Live is a charity, with income of £250 million, over 4,000 staff and 1500 volunteers.

Every year they support more than 200,000 people affected by social and economic deprivation, trauma and abuse, homelessness, offending and alcohol and substance misuse. Because they're not a business, they're not looking to make a profit. This allows them to focus on making sure that everything they do is helping the people who use their services, and the wider public too.

Many of Change Grow Live’s staff have previously used their services. Others started as front-line workers, volunteers or peer mentors (including their Chief Executive).  This is a huge strength. Having that first-hand, frontline experience means Change Grow Live’s staff are in the perfect position to support their service users and their staff on the ground - they've been there, so they get it.

Change Grow Live look at the data and carry out research and analysis to make sure that everything they recommend is not just safe, but also the most effective treatment. They never stop learning and looking for new evidence, either.

Since starting as a small local charity in Sussex in the 1970s, Change Grow Live has grown to offer more than 200 services across the UK annually. Their size gives stability, because there’s a solid infrastructure, systems and processes. It also means they can learn a lot and make continuous improvements by sharing learnings and best practice between all of their services.

We believe in people  

Change Grow Live’s work is informed by a simple principle that experience tells them works: Believe in People. This means they believe in their staff's expertise and judgement and strive to create the conditions for them to do their best work. It means they believe that everyone has the right to pursue their goals and aspirations. And it means they believe that, with the right opportunities and support, anyone can change their life for the better.

The role

Integration is the future of care. The appointee will be the voice of integrated practice for Change Grow Live, connecting with professionals and colleagues across health and social care to ensure frontline teams are always well equipped to support the people that use services.

Whilst this role reports to an Executive Director, the first Director of Integrated practice will develop the psychosocial interventions strategy, growing the psychology and social work offer, to support meeting the diverse needs of service users.

Working collaboratively, you will develop new ways of working and have the opportunity to innovate and turn exciting ideas into real life-changing practice.

The new Director of Integrated Practice will be expected to:

• develop highly effective relationships with other senior leaders in the organisation and with key internal stakeholders (i.e. trustees, the executive, staff, people who use Change Grow Live’s services)
• be a champion of positive change, working with partners and stakeholders to help design, deliver and share approaches that change society for the better
• maintain a high level of dialogue and public relations with stakeholders, partner agencies and commissioning bodies.

This role will be a key driver of a values-based culture which encompasses their philosophy of ‘Believe in People’ and embraces inclusivity, demonstrating the organisation’s values of being open, compassionate and bold. All Change Grow Live’s Directors embody these values and ensure that everything they do ensures the organisation is equipped to make a difference to people’s lives.

You

The successful candidate will develop an understanding of changes and developments across Change Grow Live and identify interconnections and interdependencies with their own area of responsibility. You will stay abreast of cutting-edge developments and best clinical practice, to contribute to the leadership and direction of the organisation.

As the new Director of Integrated Practice you will have:

• demonstrable experience of successful implementation of major operational initiatives and/or transformational change
• evidence of delivering best practice in clinical operational delivery and/or integrated care systems
• experience of charity, health or social care arenas.

How to Apply

Application is by CV and covering letter.  Your letter, which should be no more than 2 pages in length, should explain both why you are interested in the post and why you think you would be an excellent candidate for us. Click on the Apply link to submit your application.

Further information

For an informal conversation about the post or to request a copy of the Candidate Brief, please contact Laurence Wolahan or Justin Dargis of Hays Executive.

All direct applications will be forwarded to Hays Executive.

Campaign dates:

Closing date: 15th August 2021

First Interview: 8th and 9th September 2021

Second interview: 13th and 14th September 2021

The above dates are subject to change

Your leadership can show women the way to overcome abuse.

Domestic abuse has blighted women’s lives throughout history. We’ve been helping women in London recover from its effects since 1996. Our specialist counselling transforms the mental health and wellbeing of women who have suffered physical, emotional or sexual abuse, financial exploitation or coercive control, and we have assisted well over 15,000 people to date. Add your skills to our closely-knit all-female team and you can help thousands more on the road to recovery.

Taking clinical responsibility for our counselling, groupwork and other therapeutic services, you will ensure that we fully meet the needs of vulnerable women whilst complying with the BACP Ethical Framework and Person-Centred Approach. Notably, you will focus on clients with complex issues such as suicide ideation and child protection, effectively resolve any clinical complaints and represent the organisation at high-profile meetings, conferences and forums, whilst actively expanding our outreach.

At the same time, supported by the Project Manager, you will manage budgets and contracts, oversee resourcing and recruitment, and inspire and motivate your team, so we require an exceptional professional who shares our passion for transforming lives. BACP/UKCP accredited and qualified in person-centred, humanistic or integrative counselling, you will bring extensive experience of supporting clients with complex needs, including clinical supervision and project management. Needless to say, you will possess deep knowledge of domestic abuse and its effects on women and children, good relationships with appropriate statutory and voluntary agencies, and outstanding interpersonal skills – plus the determination to bring about lasting change for service users.

In return, you can expect exceptional career satisfaction plus an excellent package of benefits including:

• Flexible working – you will work remotely initially, with the role becoming blended remote/office based when our office reopens
• 25 days’ holiday rising to 30 after five years (pro rata for part-time working)
• 3% pension contribution
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme

To find out more and apply with your CV, please visit our website via the apply button.  

We will conduct interviews on a rolling basis. Please note, if an appointment is made before the deadline, the post will close early. 

This post is open to women only. The Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1 applies. 

Job Title: Director of Finance & Operations

Salary: Up to £72k

Hours: Permanent, full-time

Location: Surrey

We are working in partnership with a long-established charity, which enables families who have a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness to make the most of their time together, by providing expert, practical and emotional support. The organisation is seeking to appoint a Director of Finance & Operations to lead all financial management for the charity, ensuring sound strategies and effective services are provided. 

Reporting to the Chief Executive and working closely with the Board of Trustees, the postholder will play a vital part in the development and implementation of future strategies for the organisation. Identifying and leading business development opportunities and projects, as well as contributing to strategy, business planning and budgeting to agreed timescales is expected. The postholder will ensure compliance with standard financial/legal/governance practice, and be responsible for properties, including leases, insurance and health and safety matters. 

The successful individual will demonstrate the following:

• Significant experience in a commercial organisation and/or a charity at senior management level 
• Advisor at Board level on legislative, policy and regulatory change and/or have held a Company Secretary role with responsibility for Corporate Governance 
• Proven experience of budget setting, financial procedures, management accounting, risk and asset management 
• Experience of successfully developing and implementing financial policy and strategic plans 
• Proven experience of leading a dispersed work-force
• A fully qualified member of one of the six bodies of the CCAB

We are seeking a strategic, influential leader, who can effectively weigh risk against benefit to make calculated decisions. Someone who is comfortable with pressure and challenge, with the ability to present and explain complex financial and other management information to a varied audience. Having the skill to provide firm and positive strategic oversight and direction, as well as accomplished interpersonal and communication skills is essential. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this post.

Applications should be submitted via our website.

For more information, please contact Katherine Anderson-Scott, Charisma Charity Recruitment.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. 

Closing date for applications: 24 August 2021, however, we reserve the right to close the advert early, so please apply as soon as possible

Every year thousands of unaccompanied child refugees arrive in Europe in search of safety. They find themselves stuck in squalid camps or sleeping rough on city streets unaware of their legal right to travel safely through Europe.

Safe Passage was founded in late 2015 in response to what became known as Europe's modern 'refugee crisis'. In the past four years they have grown from a small UK project to an international organisation supporting refugees to access safe routes to asylum across Europe.

Director of Operations and Finance

Safe Passage International

London

£48,000 - £53,000 gross per annum, depending on experience

The Director of Operations and Finance will play an integral role within the senior management team at Safe Passage International. This is a unique opportunity to join a young and ground-breaking international organisation in a role that will require both a strategic and a hands-on approach.

Working closely with the Chief Executive and leading a committed and talented team, you will take strategic responsibility for all aspects of the finance and operations' functions of the Safe Passage International “Group” of charitable organisations registered in the UK, France, and Greece, whilst actively contributing to the development of the organisation's ambitious 3-year strategy.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a strategic thinker with finance, HR, and organisational management experience. Critically, you will be a confident self-starter with a flexible approach to achieve results in a fast-changing external environment.

Values-driven and people-focused you will have a passionate commitment to support the sustainable growth of the organisation and have a genuine interest in Safe Passage International's mission and strategic goals.

Safe Passage International values equality and diversity and strive to build a workforce reflective of the communities they work in. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability. People with refugee or asylum-seeking backgrounds are experts by experience and are particularly encouraged to apply.

To Apply

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.

The closing date for applications: 6 August

Preliminary interview with Prospectus: 17th August - 23rd August

Interviews with Safe Passage: W/C 30 August

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

Nightingale Hammerson is a leading specialist in residential care that has been serving the Jewish community for over 180 years.

We offer world-class holistic care in a safe, stimulating environment at Nightingale House in Clapham and Hammerson House in Hampstead Garden Suburb which is now open.

Our individually tailored service offers a ‘home from home’ – with kind, compassionate residential, nursing, dementia, respite and end-of-life care.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Senior Management Team. 

The Director of Operations and Hospitality will have a track record of embedding a culture of excellent customer service within an organisation, which supports its values and increases customer satisfaction.

This is a full-time role and the post holder will need to be flexible, working across both sites.

Purpose of the Job:

• As a member of the Nightingale Hammerson Senior Management Team, to contribute to strategic planning and implementation as appropriate.
• To be the lead on Customer Care throughout the organisation.
• To lead on creating a culture within Nightingale Hammerson which aims to ensure that residents have experiences that are as positive as possible.
• To be accountable for customer relationship management.
• To be responsible for the leadership and management of the Catering, Care Support and Laundry functions at both Nightingale House and Hammerson House.

Our mission at CTA is to champion, connect, support and grow a thriving community transport movement across all parts of the UK. Community transport operators have a great story to tell and it is CTA’s job as their national membership body to help them tell it and to support them to develop excellent services that can transform lives and communities.

Our work here in Scotland is integral to this. We have around 150 members across Scotland who all provide accessible and inclusive transport solutions in our cities, our rural areas and our islands. 

We are excited to be recruiting for our new Director for Scotland. The post holder will lead the development and delivery of CTA’s research, policy and public affairs work in Scotland. They will make sure our policy is designed to create value for our members and further their aims. The role will innovate and seek creative transport solutions and policy options that will be fit for the specific context in Scotland but must also be aligned to wider UK policy work and developments across all of the devolved countries. If you like the sound of this challenge and have the qualities and potential to rise to it, then we’d love to hear from you! 

Location is flexible with an expectation that a reasonable amount of time will be spent in Edinburgh with travel to our other offices and locations across the UK.

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities and community groups. 

We support a wide range of projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes.

About the Roles

We are looking for two new exciting roles to lead our funding in England.

We are looking for inspiring leaders who share our values and passion for funding great ideas that matter to communities and make a difference to people’s lives. They will embody and promote the culture of our organisation; placing people at the centre of our work, and inspiring and motivating our diverse teams to deliver our strategic aims.

As the England Director (Programmes, Operations & Regions) and England Director (Strategy, Partnerships & Engagement), you will have shared accountability for the England Directorate’s day to day operational delivery and longer-term strategic direction; positively leading the team into its next chapter of growth and development.

With dispersed teams across the UK, and significant operational and grant-funding budgets, you will be members of the Fund’s Senior Management Team and work alongside other Directors in delivery of our corporate goals and strategic vision.

England Director (Programmes, Operations & Regions),

You will lead our regional funding teams to deliver operational excellence; ensuring our ways of working respond and flex to the local context whilst remaining unified and consistent across our wider organisation. You will be comfortable with, and apply, a diverse range of approaches to different localities and regions of England, to maximise the impact of our funding in different communities.

Relationships are core to the way our regional teams work; stakeholders, applicants, grant holders, other funders, local decision-makers and of course, the local community. You will provide leadership on programme management requirements.

An innovative leader, you will have deep operational experience, a commercial conscience, and an ability to champion and deliver cultural and organisational change with continuous improvement. Working closely with senior stakeholders in the voluntary, public and private sectors, you will also lead on operational matters across the England portfolio. You will work with the England Committee Chair and the England Director (Strategy, Partnerships & Engagement) as well as leading, planning and managing the business delivery priorities. 

England Director (Strategy, Partnerships & Engagement)

You will lead our strategic and partnership teams to develop a strategy and implementation, and the development of key stakeholder relationships at national levels. 

You will lead our Performance teams to further develop and implement our approach to social and economic impact, and operational management & planning through data & insights. This strategy will empower and inform funding teams to incorporate learnings into strategic and day-to-day grant making decisions and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

An innovative leader, you will have demonstrable experience of motivating others to succeed, a commercial conscience, and an ability to champion and deliver cultural and organisational change with continuous improvement. You will lead on matters relating to England, and relationships with Government, working closely with senior stakeholders in the voluntary, public and private sectors. You will work with the England Committee Chair and the England Director (Programmes, Operations, and Regions), leading, planning and managing organisational delivery priorities. 

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week

Location: England based (location flexible)

Application deadline: 1st August

Interviews w/c: 9th and 16th August

Final stages w/c: 23rd and 30th August

Testing to be completed at selection stage

Essential Criteria

For both roles, we are looking for experienced Directors (or equivalent), with strong commercial awareness and understanding of what matters to communities. You will have an improvement focus and outstanding interpersonal and communication skills. You will need to demonstrate:

• Exceptional people leadership, with an ability to communicate purpose and direction, enabling and developing teams within the Directorate. Leading from the front, engaging with staff with candour and persuasive vision, to provide them with a vision for the future and motivating them to succeed.
• Strong team player, with track record of operating at a senior leadership level in a complex and multidisciplinary organisation; bringing deep commitment to collaboration and delivering results within England Directorate and across the UK-wide Fund
• Operational delivery experience, the ability to set a culture that emphasises impact while maintaining highest quality and consistent standards across teams, budget, financial controls, and external partnerships.
• Developing, influencing and enhancing key relationships with senior external stakeholders across voluntary, public and private sectors
• Values-driven and passionate about the Fund’s purpose, your energy and enthusiasm will inspire the teams you lead. Open and honest you’ll listen to feedback, taking charge of challenging situations and coaching and developing talent within the organisation to empower colleagues to succeed.

The England Director (Strategy, Partnerships & Engagement) will also  demonstrate an understanding of the big picture, confident with and able to anticipate economic, political, social, environmental, social and technological change with a track record of translating the big picture to create joined-up strategies and plans that have positive impact.

Should you have any questions, please note them in the email, Eloise will be in touch with the briefing pack.

Equal Opportunities

We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Operations Director – Performance and Quality

Age UK Leeds is a leading local voluntary sector organisation providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in Leeds.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our established Senior Management Team to lead the development of a number of new initiatives and delivery of our existing operational services ensuring they continue to deliver excellent client focussed services. 

Starting salary £35,745 to £38,890 + pension 

Working Hours: 37 Hours per week 

As the Operations Director – Performance and Quality you will be directly responsible for providing strategic leadership for our Hospital to Home, SWIFt and Help at Home services. In addition, you will have organisation wide responsibility for;

• The development and implementation of organisation-wide quality management processes, procedures 

• Service user engagement, to ensure that service user involvement is key in the development and delivery of all services, and is embedded in practice and development

• Oversight of volunteer recruitment, development and engagement

As a member of the SMT you will contribute to the strategic development of Age UK Leeds and help shape the culture and core values.

You must have the ability to work to tight deadlines, prioritise conflicting work loads and delegate effectively. You will have proven ability to build and manage effective and high performing teams Experience of effective partnership working in a health or social care environment is essential for this post. 

Further details and an application pack are available by download on our Age UK Leeds website.

Civitas Recruitment are partnering with a fantastic college based in Cambridge to help assist in securing their next Director of Operations. This is a great non-profit organisation offering leading accredited qualifications and degrees in traditional Islamic subjects and courses. The organisation has been established for over a decade and collaborates effectively with the older University of Cambridge. An opportunity exists for a talented and experienced Operations Director to join the team and help oversee broad functions including HR, Finance, Facilities, and IT. The Director of Operations also plays a key role in ensuring effective partnership working with the Development department to manage the delivery of a campus growth strategy. You will ensure that the organisation creates a culture of success and collaboration as its scales up its operations. This is a Senior level post for the College and will report to the principle of the college.

Who are we looking for?

Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in managing broad operational functions especially in people management and developmentand be able to demonstrate business acumen and leadership skills. You will possess excellent communication skills and be passionate about the education sector. You will also possess strong financial acumen as the post holder will be responsible for developing financial strategies and managing costs. Previous experience of estate management would be an advantage as will a background in Higher/Further Education although this is not essential. Please apply immediately or enquire with Syed at Civitas Recruitment for a full JD and detailed discussion. Please note that we are considering applications on a rolling basis therefore we encourage early submissions.

This is a full-time, permanent position – 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

Salary: £70,000 per year

Friends Therapeutic Community Trust, known more widely as Glebe House specialises in helping boys, aged 15- 18, who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours and may have other complex behavioural issues. It provides a year-round children’s home together with individualised treatment programmes of therapy and education, delivered on-site at our Independent Special School and carried out within a therapeutic community setting.

We are now seeking a Managing Director to be responsible to the Trustee Board and to lead the Trust in delivering the strategic vision and sustain the values, ethos and service quality to which it is committed. This includes responsibility for financial planning and sustainability, providing inspirational leadership and management, and giving leadership to planning future developments and the shaping of services; income generation, fundraising and partnership working.

Your ability to work with Boards and Trustees is vital, as Governance and Accountability will be required as you will provide timely, coherent and relevant information to the Trustees on progress against objectives.

You need to have excellent people skills and proven management and business acumen, along with a dynamic and inspirational way of thinking and vision that will help lead the Trust through a new and exciting period. You should also be fully conversant with, committed to and enthusiastic about the values and objectives of the Trust.

Reference ID: MD

Application deadline: 3 Sep 2021

Shortlisting dates: 6 and 7 Sep 2021

Warner Interview (Zoom): 9 and 10 Sep 2021

Informal interviews with SMT and Residents (including Site Tour): 13 and 14 Sep 2021

Formal interviews and assessments (on Site): 21 and 22 Sep 2021

Contract begins: Jan 2022

Benefits:

• Sick pay
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Free parking, free food
• Working on a rural site in Cambridgeshire, set in 3.5 acres
• 5-weeks holiday, plus Bank Holidays

If you are interested in this post, please contact Georgie Wark to arrange a call to discuss this post further with the Clerk to Trustees and receive a Candidate Information Pack.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

As part of our safer recruitment practices all posts will be subject to checks including an enhanced DBS and Warner Interviews processes.

A full employment history will need to be provided with an explanation of any employment gaps.

We are looking for an experienced PA to play a pivotal role in the Director’s Office in providing frontline administrative support to the Director of RBG Kew and the Director of Resources.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.

We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history.

Join us on our journey as protectors of the world’s plants and fungi.

Kew has ambitious plans, and it is an exciting time to join the small friendly team that supports the Director. The job is located at our beautiful Kew Gardens site in South West London, although currently staff are working flexibly. 

Our successful candidate will thrive on working at pace to a varied set of tasks. With a proven background in supporting a CEO or director of a sizable organisation, the post-holder will be a motivated, highly organised team-player with excellent interpersonal skills who is calm under pressure and who operates with discretion. 

Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.

If you are interested in this position, please visit our website for more information and to apply.

Closing Date: 08/08/2021

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.

No agencies please.

Good Law Project is a not for profit that uses the law for a better world.

We are looking for someone who can imagine a future in which discrete communities cohere around what they have in common and who also has the skills to bring that world closer.

We want to extend our reach in civil society through forming, strengthening and diversifying partnerships and collaborations, all in service of our mission of using the law for a better world.

We envisage partnering with organisations who work with communities or on issues in which we have a shared interest, who have particular operational strengths Good Law Project lacks, or who deliver functions Good Law Project would like to promote, including in particular around how the law can be used to catalyse the desire for a better world.

The successful applicant will be an experienced and trusted senior manager, likely in the NGO sector, with a proven track record of managing and delivering ambitious projects. They will have the remit to recruit a small team to help with delivery. They would also be expected to help shape the on-going work of Good Law Project more generally.

The Claudia Jones Organisation (CJO) is seeking an Operation’s Manager immediately to lead its operations as it transitions out of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The role is new and brings added value and support to the organisation.

The Operations Manager will provide effective operational support across the CJO for a small multi-disciplinary team that delivers person-centred family, gender base violence services, therapeutic interventions, cultural events and activities and volunteering in a dynamic and changing environment. All staff are homebased until we return to working in our London office.

With your previous experience of working in a similar role, and with sound  business operational experience you will be able to communicate effectively at a number of levels as we work towards a new `normal’ along with good experience of working in the BAME Sector.

To be considered for this role please upload your CV to the Charity Job portal, along with a covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) highlighting why you are suitable for the post.

• Should you be successful, two References from previous employers are required
• This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS
• CJO is an Equal Opportunities Employer. See the Equality and Diversity form attached for your completion. In light of the nature of work and focus of CJO, the candidate’s gender is considered to be an occupational requirement in accordance with Paragraph 1, Schedule 9, of the Equality Act 2010.
• All candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK

Please Note: Do not apply unless you are able to meet these requirements.

We will close the application as soon as we have received sufficient applications, but no later than 6th August 2021 at 5pm BST.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.