Permanent

Full Time

Location: 175, St John Street, Farringdon, London EC1V 4LW

Salary: £58k + Benefits*

We are delighted to be recruiting a Regional Director to our operational region London and West!

As Regional Director you will provide strong strategic and professional leadership for all aspects of Place2Be service delivery; translate and deliver Place2Be’s mission, values and business priorities into operational plans, KPIs and local delivery.

You will have overall responsibility for leading and developing our mental health services in the region. In your position as Regional Director, you will lead, build and develop school-based service management teams, ensuring appropriate professional development, training and succession plans are in place and that resources are available to meet service commitments.

To be considered for this position you will have a demonstrable track record of delivering results with quality outcomes. You will need to be a collaborative team player, concerned with team success as well as individual performance. 

You must have experience of financial and budget management including planning, development, forecasting and business development. The successful candidate needs to have an astute understanding of the clinical work carried out by Place2Be. 

What will I be responsible for in my new role?

following geographical regions:

• London Central
• London North
• London North West
• London South West
• London Thames
• London West & Home Counties
• London South & Surrey

Travel across this region may be required

Main responsibilities:

You will:

• drive and deliver high quality standards in Place2Be schools; ensuring standards are met or exceeded
• ensure policies and procedures are effectively implemented and adhered to
• hold accountability for school retention and development of best-in-class partnerships with Place2Be schools
• identify opportunities for growth and development through partnership building with a range of stake holders such as Clinical Commission Groups, Academy Trusts etc.
• lead, build and develop effective relationships with the regional Business Development Managers and Regional Clinical Lead to ensure continued delivery and expansion of Place2Be services
• take lead responsibility for safeguarding management and work with the Head of Safeguarding to ensure best practice of all safeguarding issues and concerns in line with Place2Be’s policy
• be accountable for Place2Be service that delivers a whole-school approach to mental health; involving sourcing adequate numbers of trainee counsellors through local colleges, universities and other providers

About You

As the successful candidate, you will:

• possess degree level qualification or equivalent
• have experience leading multi-functional teams at senior management level and fostering a culture of learning, growth and professional development
• have a track record of delivering results with quality outcomes
• have demonstrable experience in leading and developing clinical services for children and young people
•  experience of previously building and nurturing strong relationships both internally and externally
• experience of financial and budget management including planning, development, forecasting and setting
• have a proven ability to think strategically, use initiative and to actively seek innovative approaches to problem solving and delivering results
• possess strong interpersonal skills including motivation, negotiating, influencing and networking to build strong internal and external relationships
• have good understanding of quality assurance and effective performance monitoring

1st Interview date: Wednesday 5th May 2021 

2nd Interview date:Monday 10th May 2021

If you wish to have an informal discussion, have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, or need additional information please contact our recruitment team via our website.

*In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.

Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.

About Us

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. Place2Be provides mental health support and training for over 600 primary and secondary schools, reaching a total school population of over 350,000 pupils.

Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life. Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the ‘comprehensive CAMHS system’.

Through our professional development programme, we are training c1200 Counsellors on Placement each year who build their mental health and counselling skills and experience through practice in our partner schools. We also provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, so we can help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish.

We continue to pilot, trial and explore new ways in which we can develop our practice as well as share learning, expertise and findings from the robust evidence and evaluation we gather. HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is our Royal Patron and Place2Be is one of the founding charity partners of Heads Together. We also work collaboratively with a range of charities and expert organisations to leverage best-in-class knowledge and expertise to inform, develop and improve outcomes for the children, families and schools we support.

We ask our staff team to share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity, and to have the skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and families.

Job Title: Partnerships Manager

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £28,528 – £29,796 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Holidays: 7 weeks including national and bank holidays (per annum)

Pension: Auto-enrolment scheme in place

Probationary Period: 6 Months

Accountable to: Chief Executive Officer

Place of Work: Based at our site in Westbury-Sub-Mendip. Current COVID-19 safe working practices will involve a combination of on-site and home working.  

About the charity

In the UK alone, there are approximately 1.13 million adults with a learning disability. Many of these people will need a lifetime of person-centred support and care in order to access opportunities and overcome barriers to living life to the full.  Orchard Vale Trust was set up to respond directly to the needs and aspirations of adults with learning disabilities and was registered as a charity to do so in September 1985. The following year saw the opening of its first registered Care Home, East Court and since then has developed and grown to support many more adults with learning disabilities in and around Somerset. 

Today, with 4 registered Care Homes, a Community and Day Service and its own social enterprise, Orchard Vale Trust offers a range of personalised opportunities for over 100 adults with learning disabilities and aims to support individuals to live life to the full in every way possible. 

About the role

The purpose of the job is to work with the CEO to develop and deliver the Trust’s fundraising strategy. This will be achieved by identifying and maximising opportunities which will provide funding for the delivery of key projects across the Trust.

You will proactively identify and secure new partnerships with external stakeholders as well as stewarding existing relationships. You will be the project manager of our Community and Day Service, as well as our Social Enterprise.

This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced fundraiser / project manager with excellent organisational and communication skills, who wishes to secure support and remove barriers to ensure adults with learning disabilities can live life to the full.

About you

Experience and Understanding

• Minimum of three years experience in trust and corporate fundraising roles.
• Demonstrable experience of successful fundraising in an organisation.
• An established understanding of supporter acquisition and growth.
• Experience of managing existing projects and developing new opportunities.
• Experience in working with communications and media teams as required.
• Experience of project management.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines.
• Maintaining GDPR compliance for all donors and communications.

Skills, Knowledge and Personal Attributes

• Ability to develop, set, manage and monitor budgets effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills with an ability to create, edit and develop engaging content.
• Well-developed skills in using main Microsoft Office package, Adobe packages, Canva and Word Press.
• Ability to work with and lead teams to inspire, engage and deliver agreed results.
• Commitment to the principles and practice of support for people with learning disabilities
• Open, inclusive style of interaction with people with learning disabilities
• Confident approach to dealing with management issues
• Supportive
• Self-motivated
• To have the ability to work autonomously and creatively
• A willingness to undertake training

Closing Date: 19th April 2021

Informal Interview Date: 27th April 2021

Formal Interview Date: 30th April 2021

Interview location: Held virtually via Microsoft Teams / Zoom

An exciting new role reporting to the Chief Executive that has been created to lead on partnerships and funding needed to deliver MRF’s work to support the world’s first global roadmap to defeat meningitis agreed by the World Health Assembly in November 2020.

The successful candidate will personally lead on generating new income from high value corporate partners, philanthropists, trusts and foundations whilst also overseeing teams that deliver events, community and mid value corporate income. The remit of the role covers all income generation and fundraising for the charity

Oasis Charitable Trust is a ground-breaking group of charities that have been pioneering models of sustainable and holistic education and community development over the last 35 years.  We are now seeking a dynamic and transformational leader as the Director of Learning and Enrichment for Oasis Restore – the UK’s first secure school. This is a career-defining opportunity to lead the development and delivery of our bespoke integrated care and education for young people in custody.

Oasis Restore will offer a reparative opportunity to children and young people, who have become criminally involved, often as a result of high levels of trauma, vulnerability and threat. Our vision for Oasis Restore is focused on restoration, rather than retribution, on creating a safe environment with a holistic approach to life where every child is given opportunities equal to those offered their peers; ones that enable young people to make different choices and lead positive, productive lives.

We are looking for an organisational leader with the ability to lead and develop an education offer that is highly differentiated and innovative to achieve our shared vision. You will be values-led and have sustained, relevant leadership experience of working with children who are neurodiverse and those with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties, challenging behaviour and experience barriers to learning.

For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit the Oasis UK charity website or download the documents from this page. We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups.

Applications should be received by noon on Friday 30th April 2021.

Leadership interviews will take place on the 6th and 7th May via Teams.

Assessment and final panel interviews will take place on the 12th and 14th May and are being held at South Quay College, East London.

Job title: Director of Learning and Enrichment

Job reference: OR-DLE

Closing date: Friday 30th April 2021

Contract:  Full-time, Permanent

Salary:  £67,364 - £74,295 (L20 - L24)

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate employment checks, including enhanced DBS checks. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and should have the ability to speak fluent English for this role.

• Are you excited by vanguard works of art, seminal publications and courses, beautiful gallery spaces and very good food? 
• Do you have the skills and experience to grow the commercial potential of an arts charity, as it emerges from the pandemic?
• Can you optimise resources to deliver good returns on established brands, and identify opportunities to build new ones?
• Can you inspire and motivate a team to reach ambitious targets?

The Whitechapel Gallery is seeking an experienced and proactive Director of Commercial Enterprises. They will oversee a team who deliver a renowned programme of artists’ editions; a world-class publishing house; well-established bookshop and restaurant partners; venue hire; and art courses. The role will maximize commercial income from the Whitechapel Gallery’s intellectual property and brand, physical assets and franchise partners. Crucially it will also develop e-commerce. You will apply your skills and experience to deliver a successful commercial operation within a not-for-profit organisation, and to respond positively to the unique challenges and opportunities currently faced by the arts sector.

The Director Commercial Enterprises is accountable to the Managing Director, and to the Board of Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited.

Conditions of work

• Permanent contract: full time
• Salary: up to £45,000 depending on experience
• Hours of work: 9.30am – 5.45pm, Monday to Friday. Work outside these hours will occasionally be necessary and will be compensated with time in lieu.
• Period of notice: 3 months

To apply

Please complete the application form and equality & diversity monitoring forms, available to download from the Gallery's website, and return to recruitment email by midnight on Sunday 18 April 2021.

The Whitechapel Gallery strives to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Charity number: 312162 Company number: 4093862

Families Need Fathers – because both parents matter (FNF), founded in 1974, is a registered charitable social care organisation in the United Kingdom. FNF works for the well-being of children in separated families to ensure they have meaningful relationships with both parents, wider family and friends. FNF provides information, guidance and support to parents whose children's relationship with them is under threat during or after divorce or separation, or who have become alienated or estranged from their children. These services are provided via our website and through a volunteers who provide Helpline and local branch support (currently online).

We plan to expand our services and resources. The charity currently relies on a small staff and many volunteers. There is a need for the Charity to become ‘match fit’ with better governance, updates to internal policies, a relaunch of our website and to be in a position to both secure and make good use of new funding sources by 2022. The Charity is reviewing its branding to ensure it is aligned to its new Purpose Statement and Charter that have recently been agreed.

The focus on this role, under this contract, will be:

• to develop and bring up-to-date procedures and policies (using trusted charity status as the ‘gold standard’.
• Facilitate branch (local volunteer run meeting) support and online strategy
• To coordinate the update and launch of a new website
• To co-ordinate the operational elements of a re-brand of the Charity

For more detailed information please see the attached role specification.

We value diversity, and warmly welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Slade Gardens Community Play Association CIO (SGCPA) is a small children’s charity based in Stockwell, Lambeth, open to all children, free to use, and offering safe, supervised play, activities and opportunities.

Situated in one of the most densely populated areas of the UK, the SGCPA is a much loved community run charity, which benefits from over an acre of outside space including an adventure playground, garden area and games pitch as well as indoor facilities. We have planning permission to rebuild our main building and have been supported with a £1million match funding grant from Lambeth Council.

This exciting new position comes at a pivotal time in the SGCPA’s development. You will be responsible for our fundraising strategy and implementation as the SGCPA pursues its redevelopment plans. You will have particular responsibility for project management and developing existing governance, including taking on responsibility for some core functions from the trustee board.

You will work with our small part-time team including the Playground Manager, Playworkers and other support staff and volunteers, to develop our work with local children, and ensure use of the site is maximised and our charitable objectives achieved.

The role is wide ranging and challenging, but has the opportunity to ensure that this small community charity makes a big difference to the lives of local children and the wider community. We are happy to consider job sharing applications.

You will be dynamic and efficient, with a passion for supporting children and young people. You will be a strategic thinker, experienced in fundraising and skilled in planning and delivering major projects, as well as being able to demonstrate a people-focussed and collaborative approach.

Closing Date: Friday 26 March by no later than 12:00.

Interviews: Will take place between 9 – 14 April 2021

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SVP’s senior management team as a Director of Youth Services which will incorporate Young Vincentians and Vinnie Camps. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working at a strategic level to motivate and inspire young people. This role will involve working with Catholic schools, colleges and parishes, as well as other organisations involved in Catholic youth ministry.  

Working Hours = You will be contracted to 37.5 hours per week

Location = London (however will consider remote working)

Contract = Permanent

Salary = £50,758.50 per annum (plus London Weighting Allowance of £2,632.50 if based within London)

Benefits Package = 33 days holiday (pro rata) per year inclusive of bank holidays increasing to 38 days with service, competitive pension scheme, birthday reward varying each year, enhanced maternity pay, buy/sell holiday schemes and lots more.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop the SVP strategy for all youth services with direct oversight of Young Vincentians (YV) and Vinnie Camps
• Manage the Young Vincentian Programme, ensuring all 4 apostolates (Mini Vinnies, Youth SVP, SVP B-Attitude and SVP 1833) deliver against agreed objectives, KPIs and budget
• Work closely with the wider SVP team to ensure the integration of the programme into the wider membership structure and develop an effective communications & digital strategy

• Develop engagement strategies, implement social justice initiatives, and promote regular fundraising for the SVP in schools, colleges, universities and parishes

• Build relationships with other youth ministry organisations within the Catholic Church, creating opportunities for collaborative working
• Undertake visits to YV groups and children's camps
• Manage the YV team in line with HR policies & procedures and ensure all volunteers are adequately supported

• Promote the work of the camps internally and externally and work with the fundraising team to generate funds for camps
• Working in partnership with the National Camp Committee (NCC) and Safeguarding Manager to continually review and enhance the training provided to all camp volunteers especially in the areas of Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Leadership
• Working in partnership with the NCC consider how the SVP might increase the number of SVP Vinnie Camps and to review the succession model / long term sustainability of each camp

• Serve on the YV Committee, the National Camps Committee, the Young Adult Council and the St Vincent's Talma Road Local Oversight Group

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Catechesis, Religious education, theology or youth ministry
• Extensive experience working with young people
• Experience of designing and developing high quality spiritual resources

• Great people management skills at all stages of the employee life cycle
• Proficient in Social Media and Digital Marketing
• Ability to build and maintain good relationships and promote ideas and influence decision makers

Experience of outreach, residential youth ministry and spiritual formation within a Christian context is desirable but not essential to the role.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience to fulfil this role successfully, please apply in the first instance with your CV. All suitable applicants will be sent a short application form to complete. If you have any further questions or would like to see a copy of the full job description, please contact us.

Closing Date = 19th April 2021

Interviews = W/C 26th April 2021

ABOUT THE SVP:

The St Vincent de Paul Society (or as it is often known - the SVP) is an international Christian voluntary organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage by providing practical assistance to those in need. We feed the hungry, we support the homeless, we visit the lonely and we befriend the stranger.

About us

The Access to Justice Foundation is a UK wide funder which supports the provision of free legal advice and representation to the people who need it the most. We are a fundraising foundation, reliant on the amounts we can raise for distribution for the greatest impact.

The role

We are looking for an exceptional individual with a legal background to join us as our Development Director. This is a crucial role within the Access to Justice Foundation with responsibility for overseeing our core funds income generation work.

In this highly varied role, you will provide leadership to the development team and oversight to the Foundation’s regional events and various fundraising activities. A visionary, you will be responsible for implementing and executing an annual development plan to meet our income generation goals, with particular focus on solicitors unclaimed accounts and pro bono costs.

In addition, you will develop and maintain excellent relationships across the legal community, including existing and potential supporters and represent the Access to Justice Foundation at networking events, external meetings and conferences.

About you

You will have a legal background and/or significant legal experience of the access to justice sector, with outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. A confident networker, you will be able to collaborate with networks to identify and build relationships with new donors, keeping abreast and maintaining a good understanding of the issues facing the access to justice sector.

An experienced People Manager, you will have experience of managing a small team with a strong commitment to working respectfully and sensitively with colleagues, promoting and demonstrating diversity, equity and inclusion in your work.

An excellent understanding of best practices and the ability to secure significant financial support is also essential. An applied understanding of basic fundraising principles and regulatory requirements is desirable.

We offer:

• Family friendly and flexible working options
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Membership of a pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Prgramme and
• Training opportunities.

We are a friendly, diverse, and inclusive team, with a professional and engaging work culture. We are committed to building an organisation that represents the communities we work with and welcome applications from people from all identities and backgrounds.

There is flexibility in where you choose to work, although there would be a requirement for occasional days to be worked from our office in London, once COVID restrictions are lifted. Precise days and work pattern will be agreed with the postholder.

To apply

For full information on the details of the role, please download the recruitment pack below or visit our website.

To apply, please email your CV and a short statement (no more than 2 sides of A4), outlining your experience and interest in this post.

Closing date for applications: 20th  April 2021.

Interviews are scheduled for the w/c 26th April 2021, online, via Zoom.

We will be shortlisting applications as received and may close this post early if we receive sufficient applications. You are encouraged to apply early for consideration.

Access to Justice Foundation can only consider applications from applicants with the right to work in the UK.

We are proud of our pioneering bullying prevention work whether through our ZAP and RISE workshops, Parent Advice Line or our training in schools. We know our work is effective and has significant impact on the lives of children and young people.

Over the next three years we have an ambitious plan to expand our reach to children and families throughout England and Wales, to represent diverse communities, and to respond to the needs of children and families.  

Financial sustainability is a key enabler, and the Head of Income Generation and Partnerships will lead on diversifying our income channels through identifying new partners, supporting and growing existing partnership arrangements and exploring innovative ways to boost traded income.

Head of Partnerships

Do you have a proven track record in sales and networking? Are you passionate about seeing children released from poverty in Jesus’ name? Does the opportunity to combine both, sound like the dream job for you?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Partnerships in the South to establish, build, maintain and grow key relationships with existing and potential Church Partners and create innovative strategy to effectively deliver against agreed targets.

Position: Head of Partnerships

Location: Home-based covering South Region

Salary: £38,760 - £46,250 pa

Hours: 35 hours per week over a flexible working pattern with some Sunday working

Closing Date: 14th April 2021 at 10am

Interview Date: Via ZOOM w/c 26th April 2021

About the Role

As Head of Partnerships for our South Region you will lead the frontline Partnerships team, to establish, build, maintain and grow relationships with existing and potential partners. You will be especially effective in networking with and building engagement with the evangelical Anglican church community. You will develop, mentor, and manage the team through Senior Partnerships Managers (SPMs) to achieve the agreed Regional goals and acquisition objectives. This may include the relationship management of defined denominations/streams/partners. You will oversee recruitment, training, and operation of a team of volunteer speakers to assist in the acquisition of new sponsorships/fundraising and collaborate across the organisation to maximise all opportunities effectively.

Responsibilities include:

• Actively maintain and promote the organisations Christian ethos and values.
• Contribute to the development of the Partnerships Team strategy.
• Develop a South Region Partnerships Team, structured and motivated to meet desired outcomes for acquisition and income generation within the region.
• Maximise the number of child sponsorships from within your designated region from churches and local events.
• Cultivate relationships with leaders and networks in the evangelical Anglican church and be the in-house lead with this part of the UK Church.
• Maximise “beyond sponsorship” income potential within your region.

About You

To flourish as Head of Partnerships, you’ll need:

• Sales and marketing experience with a proven track record of managing a sales process from beginning to end, generating opportunities, managing a portfolio of relationships, closing sales skills, and achieving sales targets.
• Excellent networking skills.
• Effective public speaking skills, with experience of preaching within Churches.
• Team leadership experience.
• Educated to a degree standard and/or be able to show relevant work-based experience in a results driven organisation.
• Experience of managing and working with a budget.
• Demonstrable ability to build relationships with evangelical Anglican Church leaders
• A full driving licence with car (mileage expenses paid)

It would help (but isn’t essential) to have:

• Church leadership experience
• To have used a CRM or similar system

We need you to be…

Personally, committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practising Christian, in order to promote the charity’s ethos and help others to experience, explore and express the faith-based motivation of our work. (You can read more about this in our Policy on Posts to be Held by Christians.)

You may have experience in areas such as Partnerships, Head of, Director of Partnerships, Relationships, Church, Sponsorship, Sales, Sales and Marketing, Marketing, Account Manager, Marketing Coordinator, Marketing Executive, Head of Development, Development Director, Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Director, Head of Fundraising, Head of Partnerships, Community Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Business Development, Income Generation, Income Generation Manager, Supporter Engagement, Volunteer Manager.

Assistant Director of Music

The newly created post of Assistant Director of Music will be established from 1st August or as soon after that as possible. The Assistant Director of Music will support the work of the Director of Music in his statutory duty to supervise all music in the Cathedral. The duties may be found outlined in the Job Specification.

Executive Director
Bromley by Bow Centre
Salary: £70,000, plus benefits
Location: East London, E3 3BT

The Bromley by Bow Centre is a pioneering and vibrant community charity in East London which is renowned for its radical approach to health and wellbeing. It was founded 36 years ago and sits in a beautiful three-acre community park. At its heart is a partnership between a diverse community, a locally-rooted charitable organisation, a research team and one of the most progressive primary care health teams in the UK.
The charity supports families, young people and adults of all ages to learn new skills, improve their health and wellbeing, find employment and develop the confidence needed to achieve positive outcomes they may not have dreamt of. We work with the most vulnerable people in our community, those who are isolated, facing physical or mental ill health or who are lacking confidence, skills or qualifications.
The Centre delivers a diverse range of projects based on a unique model that combines social entrepreneurship, the arts, learning, social support, horticulture and holistic and integrated health programmes. We work alongside people to support transformative change in their lives and their neighbourhoods and we provide a wide variety of integrated services. This link gives an overview of services running currently under pandemic conditions.

The Executive Director is a newly created position leading a broad range of inter-connected service functions, including programmes, projects, research and knowledge share, fundraising and partnerships. The role has 9 direct reports and a wider team of 85. It combines significant service delivery responsibilities across all of the organisation’s programmes, allied with overall day-to-day operational leadership. The role requires an ability to engage with multiple stakeholders and partners and requires an exceptional relationship-builder and communicator, who can drive efficient and effective systems, and continue to build the charity’s strong creative and innovative programmes. The Executive Director reports to the charity’s Chief Executive, is a member of the Executive Leadership Group and Chairs the Management Group.

The key to the Executive Director role is the combining of a mission-driven energy, with strong abilities that ensure effective delivery across the full range of service areas. This requires extensive and developed leadership and organisational management skills; an eye for detail and a natural focus on quality. It needs a supportive and sensitive approach to getting the best out of the team; and the ability to design and implement tools that measure effectiveness and create growth. The role is about driving efficient and effective systems; but it also requires a constant eye to building on the charity’s strong creative and innovative energy.

Closing date for formal applications: 9am, Monday 26th April 2021

Job Title: Director

Salary: £36,000 - £42,000 pro rata (dependent on experience)

Responsible to: Trustees

Working Hours: 2.5 - 3 days per week 

Start date: As soon as possible

Location: Currently working remotely due to COVID-19. Some European travel may be required when safe to do so. 

About RLS

Refugee Legal Support (RLS) works in solidarity with people who migrate. We advance safe migration through legal support, casework, strategic litigation, outreach, training and partnerships. We advocate for the promotion and protection of people’s rights throughout the migration process.

Founded in 2017, we run a free legal clinic for refugees in Athens who seek asylum or family reunification in other European countries. Brexit has brought new, significant restrictions to legal routes for refugee family reunion and heightened hostility towards people on the move. To tackle these enormous challenges we have mobilised and launched an islands project based on Lesvos and casework capacity in the UK, to coordinate applications for family reunion from Greece to the UK. 

Our values

• We recognise that immigration systems are weighted against those forced to migrate and we challenge hostile policy in an effort to level the playing field

• We stand opposed to all forms of violence against people compelled to migrate, including those who are undocumented.

• We support the global movement that fights entrenched inequalities, racism and other forms of discrimination that force people to migrate.

• We strive to develop inclusive, sustainable and regenerative ways of working and facilitate  the inclusion of  those with lived migration experience.

The role

This is a new position with funding in place for two years. You will work alongside RLS teams, Advisory Panels and Trustees, and have oversight of projects, HR, fundraising, financial compliance and operational governance.

Key responsibilities: 

• Coordinate and oversee RLS’ operations, including the legal clinic in Athens and casework services on Lesvos and in the UK. 

• Contribute to establishing, initiating and maintaining new relationships.

• Collaborate with RLS teams, Advisory Panels and Trustees to develop the governance of the organisation, advance RLS’ mission and respond to changes in the external environment to ensure that RLS continues to meet the needs of people on the move. 

• Taking an innovative and imaginative approach, develop and implement an effective fundraising strategy and generate income.

• Ensure compliance with charity law and guidelines, and other relevant regulatory requirements. 

• Contribute to and direct campaign strategies in line with RLS’ strategic goals.

• Oversee HR functions and provide effective and inclusive leadership to ensure staff well-being and flourishing. 

Person specification

This is an exciting opportunity for a transformative thinker and dynamic individual with a deep commitment to and understanding of migrant and racial justice, exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to manage competing priorities. Please note that the list below is not exhaustive. Rather, we want to know about you, what you stand for, and how you will help drive forward the work of RLS. 

Experience / Knowledge:

• Experience in managing projects, resources and budgets.

• Experience of fundraising and communications. 

• Experience of working alongside marginalised communities and advocating for the rights of refugees and migrants.

• Understanding of charity governance. 

• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory context and the functioning of the procedures within which RLS delivers its core services.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Inclusive leadership skills and an ability to pull people together to work collaboratively and collectively.

• Savvy around communications with an ability to lead on RLS’ key messaging across platforms (electronic and print). A flair for writing and creative thinking in this area will be a distinct advantage.

• Good IT, administrative and organizational  skills. 

General:

• A determination to lead RLS in the wider struggle against systemic immobilisation and disempowerment of refugees and migrants. 

• Experience of promoting racial justice, equality and transformation. 

• Imaginative, critical thinking and creative problem solving skills. 

• A desire to learn and an openness to listen, question and collaborate. 

How to apply

If you would like to demonstrate your range of skills, abilities and qualities as outlined above, please send us your CV and a covering letter by midnight on Friday 23rd April. For more information, please see the attached Job Description. 

Please also freel free to contact us with any questions about the role and application process. 

We look forward to hearing from you!