Directorate executive assistant jobs near Clerkenwell, Greater London

Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it motivates our Strategy, Policy and Evidence team to maintain our position as an influential, informed and forceful voice at every level. Join us as an Executive Assistant and lead progress that means more.

The Strategy and Knowledge Directorate is responsible for developing and monitoring the NSPCC strategy, influencing public policy, championing an evidenced-based approach in all our work, designing impactful services and developing and managing our knowledge and information services.

The Executive Assistant will work closely with the Director of S&K and support her and the SMT to manage the administrative work involved in running the directorate, such as diary management, organising and minuting meetings and booking travel. This would suit someone who is well organised and task focused. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and we’ll consider flexible working options.

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

This is a role for an enthusiastic and detail-focussed individual who wants to start a career in data within the voluntary sector. Working with supportive colleagues, carrying out well defined processes with clear, sometimes tight deadlines you will be joining a technical and experienced team who will support you and help you develop new skills.

The Data and Fundraising Operations Team manages our supporter database (Raisers Edge) and with it, all administration related to supporters and their financial support of the Charity. This database management includes: communications, events attended, pledges made, and most significantly financial transactions which could be online, by cheque, cash, direct debit, or via third party suppliers like Facebook and JustGiving. As a pivotal role in the team, the Database Assistant is split 50:50 between the Chelsea office and home, and will support all of these activites. 

Essential Criteria for the role:

• Interest in working with data/spreadsheets
• Able and enthusiastic to learn new technical skills quickly
• Good numeracy and logical problem solving
• Able to work with meticulous attention to detail whilst managing a large volume of work
• A positive can-do attitude
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Experience in an administrative role, ideally working with data (desirable)

Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it motivates our Strategy, Policy and Evidence team to maintain our position as an influential, informed and forceful voice at every level. Join us as a Business Support Assistant and lead progress that means more.

The Strategy and Knowledge Directorate is responsible for developing and monitoring the NSPCC strategy, influencing public policy, championing an evidenced-based approach in all our work, designing impactful services and developing and managing our knowledge and information services.

The Business Support Assistant will work closely with the Head of Strategy Delivery to oversee S&K operations and to ensure that our processes run smoothly, on time and to quality standards. These include health and safety, queries and complaints, risk management and reporting. This would suit someone with some experience in an administrative and business support functions such as invoicing, forward planning, action logs and dashboards, although training will be provided where needed. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and we’ll consider flexible working options.

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

Home based/London (roughly split 50/50)

Closing date: 10th July 2022 at 11.30 pm

Are you a logical thinker with a can-do approach, flexible outlook and proven experience of providing efficient administrative support to senior management teams? Then join Shelter as an Executive Support Assistant and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our Strategic Enablement directorate.

About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team
The Strategy Enablement directorate is responsible for giving Shelter colleagues all the tools and support they need to deliver Shelter’s purpose. We also partner with various other teams to achieve our strategy with expert focus. We do this by bringing together Finance, Human Resources, Tech & Data, Property, Planning and other corporate service functions.  A diverse group of people that fit together perfectly to carry out our function, we’re now looking to welcome another member who can support us as we go forward.

About the role
Working with, and reporting to, the EA to the Director, we’ll rely on you to provide excellent administrative and project support to our key project leads. You’ll also be responsible for supporting the effective communication and collaboration between the Director, Assistant Directors and the Directorate in order to help us achieve our strategic and operational objectives. On any given day you might be managing team members’ inboxes and calendars, organising travel, setting up meetings, taking minutes or helping to prepare reports/papers for board meetings. And when it comes to helping with the development and administration of our core systems, again, you’ll get to play your part. In short, you won’t be short of interest, challenge and variety.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you
Already with some relevant experience, you’re great at using your own initiative to prioritise your workload according to the demands of the day, anticipating changes and responding professionally, adeptly and positively. You’re also used to providing a high standard of support across a range of activities and projects and adept at building effective and positive working relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders alike. As well as having excellent communication, advocacy and Interpersonal skills, you’re well organised, great at planning and able to demonstrate discretion and commitment. What’s more, you enjoy working at pace and, while preferring to act autonomously, know how and when to ask for help - and are comfortable doing so. In terms of office IT skills, you’ll need good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications such as Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Skype.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
 
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
 
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
 
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

We are looking for an Executive Assistant, Finance & Corporate Services to provide comprehensive and proactive executive assistance to the Director of Finance & Corporate Services and departmental functions across the Directorate.

About us

Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a leading animal welfare charity and over the last 160 years we’ve grown from one home in London to three rescuing and rehoming centres across the South East. With c500 staff and 1000 volunteers, we have cared for over three million vulnerable animals We also campaign tirelessly to make things better for dogs and cats; sharing our expertise and educating the public and policymakers about responsible pet ownership. Join us and make a difference for every dog and cat.

Our Finance & Corporate Services Team

Battersea’s Finance and Corporate Services Department incorporates a range of functions that support the rest of the organisation. From IT helpdesk and systems support, to financial accounting, legacy administration, procurement and facilities management, these teams work strategically and collaboratively to ensure that Battersea can be here for every dog and cat.

What we can offer you

Our dedicated people mean that we can be here for every dog and cat. Whether you are sharing an office with our dogs or directly caring for our cats, our animals show their appreciation every day. There is no better reward than seeing the difference you make to the lives of our dogs and cats first-hand; although we also provide a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 28 days of annual leave (plus 8 days paid public holidays) per year
• Generous pension contributions – up to 10% employer contribution
• Free healthcare cash plan, where you can claim for a range of treatment including dental (£100), optical (£100), physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture (£325) every year
• Annual interest-free season ticket loans
• Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
• Life insurance

During the Coronavirus restrictions, our animal-facing staff continued to work on site and our office based staff worked from home. We are currently operating a hybrid working model with our office-based staff splitting their time between site based and home working. We believe this will support office-based staff to maintain the benefits of home working, while allowing for collaboration and interaction with our animal-facing staff and maintaining a connection to our cause.

As such, you’ll be expected to work in our Battersea office for at least 50% of your working week.

So, if you are passionate about dogs, cats and about our work, then we’d like to hear from you.

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all current and prospective staff, volunteers and Trustees. We aim to ensure that this commitment, reinforced by our values, is embedded in our day-to-day working practices and our work together. We would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic and disabled candidates, who are currently under-represented at Battersea.

Closing date: Sunday 17 July 2022

Interview date(s): Tuesday 26 July 2022

For full details, please download our recruitment pack. To apply, click the button below.  All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised; we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications is received.

Join the team at Haven House Children’s Hospice

Haven House Children’s Hospice supports hundreds of families, looking after children and young people who have life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Our mission is to provide the highest quality palliative and holistic care services to children and their families in our local communities. Since the hospice began it has gone from strength to strength both in terms of the care we provide to children and families as well as the close bonds we have developed and nurtured with individuals and organisations in our community who are inspired by our work.

This is a great time to join the team at Haven House as we are about to head into the exciting new phase of growth and development within the Income Generation and Marketing directorate and we are building our team to reflect this. Our CEO joined us during November, and we are looking forward to further developing our organisation wide strategy and the fundraising and marketing strategy which will underpin and support the achievement of our ambitious goals.

This new and exciting role is a fantastic introduction into the wonderful world of Community & Events Fundraising. It will give the successful candidate the opportunity to learn about different fundraising income lines, both within the team and also the wider directorate. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about fundraising, has good attention to detail, is organised and enjoys working in a busy and fast paced team. We’re committed to developing their career and helping them to gain experience in all aspects of fundraising.

At Haven House the focus within the Income Generation and Marketing Team is to put the supporter and donor at the centre of everything we do, ensuring they feel inspired by our work and the children and families we support; engaged and committed to our cause and ultimately make a commitment to do something amazing.

The person who gets this amazing job will need to have lots of energy and be full of ideas as we want someone who will bring fresh ideas into the mix and the personal drive to execute them. We want someone to join us who loves being part of a hardworking and collaborative team.

If this role sounds right for you and you have the right skills and experience, please do download the job description and apply by returning the application form to Haven House.

Benefits
As an employee you will be entitled to the following range of benefits:

• Hybrid office/home arrangement
• 27 days' annual leave
• Pension scheme (company matches contribution up to 7%)
• Free onsite parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

If you are a potential candidate who would like to have an informal chat with someone about the role before applying, please contact Haven House and someone will come back to you.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.

Closing date:  7 July 2022

Interview: TBC

Please note, we reserve the right to interview on a rolling basis so this role may close before the above date if we find a successful candidate.

Salary - £37,300 - £40,248 + up to £5,000 accountancy allowance

The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.

Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices. The postholder can be based at any of the GPA locations with Finance presence outside London with offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newport, Norwich, Nottingham and Swindon.

The Assistant Finance Business Partner (Property) will be a pivotal point of contact as finance support for the Property Directorate in the GPA. They will monitor expenditure and income, investigate variances, contribute to business cases and play a key role in monthly reporting and annual budget setting. This post reports into the Finance Business Partner and will have a wide network of customers across the Directorate they support. The post holder will contribute to GPA developing a culture of strong financial management.

The responsibilities of the Assistant Finance Business Partner will include

• Working with GPA’s outsourced Property Partner to:
• Ensure that the financial accounting for the GPA property estate is accurate.
• Monitor income and expenditure and investigate variances.
• Support maintenance of the property general ledger.
• Support delivery timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Commercial Acumen -Awareness & understanding of commercial drivers, risks and financial expenditure and income, ability & knowledge to manage finances, contracts, commercial relationships to secure benefits for GPA, it’s clients and customer.
• Establish and maintain good relationships across the relevant Directorate and the wider GPA Finance function
• Maintain monthly financial forecasts and accruals, and support quarterly reviews
• Support the delivery of accurate financial data in a timely manner to enable effective decision making
• Provide advice on correct financial treatment of income and expenditure and PO’s.
• Ensure correct financial governance and stewardship of projects and programmes
• Play an active role as a member of the wider finance team, contributing expertise in the development of strategies, proposals and ways of working
• Assist in Budget profiling and monthly forecasting
• Analysing expenditure and providing commentary against budget and forecast and ensuring income recovered
• Management accounts preparation and provision of board slides
• Identifying and reporting on financial risk to GPA
• Liaising with auditors
• Ensuring robust financial reporting across projects
• Business Partnering with non-finance managers in order to develop processes and the understanding of financial requirements
• Contribute to and provide advice on business cases
• Developing financial systems alongside others to make processes more user friendly, efficient, effective and robust.

 Key Skills & Experience

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant
• Experience of property accounting preferred but not essential
• A good level of financial reporting experience
• Strong attention to detail and ability to analyse and interpret significant amounts of financial data
• Ability to communicate complex matters to a non-financial audience
• Ability to work well as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Strong focus on delivering an excellent service to customers
• Strong organisational skills to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Strong Microsoft Excel skill

For more information, please apply using the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Jack White at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.

Part home/Part office (London) based

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as the Corporate Partnerships Team Assistant.

It is an important role within this award-winning team that is responsible for securing and managing long term, multi-million-pound partnerships with major UK companies.

You will give essential administrative support to the partnership and new business development functions of the team. The role will give you the opportunity to do some project work (where available). You will also receive development and training in Salesforce database, to become an expert user, providing additional support to the team in this area.

We are looking for someone who is supporter driven and mission aligned, has excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively with others. Reliance and demonstrating patience and perseverance during setbacks and challenges is also essential.

Closing date: 5pm, 4 July 2022.

Interview date: 28 and 29 June 2022 via video conferencing (MS Teams).

We are gradually moving back to our offices on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London and we anticipate most colleagues will work one or two days a week in the office and the rest of the time from home.  We are happy to discuss other flexible options to suit your circumstances.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, from disabled candidates, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups across UNICEF UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to greater results for children.

UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.

We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.

If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact the Supporter Care line during office hours.

If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.

Registered Charity Nos. 1072612 (England and Wales) SC043677 (Scotland)

Are you an optimistic, solution-focused admin assistant with a ‘can do’ attitude who is looking to develop your career?

About the role

This role offers an exciting opportunity for you to play a key role in providing a range of efficient secretarial and administrative services to our Service Directors. As the Admin Assistant for the Leadership Team you will work as part of our Leadership Admin Team, reporting to the Leadership Admin Team Leader. You will be exposed to the workings of the organisation, with consistent opportunities to learn about what the Leadership Team at St Mungo’s does, and how they do it.

In this role you will:

• Provide administrative support to our Service Directors, establishing and maintaining effective administrative processes
• Build relationships with the Service Directors and the wider Leadership Team and Client Services Leadership Team, and work with the rest of the Leadership Admin Team to ensure that efficient and effective administrative support is consistently provided
• Provide support, including minute-taking, for a range of key organisational meetings
   

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, and well-organised person for this Admin Assistant role. You will enjoy dealing directly with the public or customers in a busy service environment. To succeed, you will have the ability to work as part of a team and to initiate and maintain highly positive and effective working relationships with others. You will also have very strong written and oral communication skills; excellent attention to detail; strong IT and typing skills; and a good practical knowledge of Microsoft Office. Other requirements are the ability to process confidential information with the utmost discretion; and to manage your time and multi-task to deliver against agreed deadlines.

We seek to develop fast, self-motivated learners with transferable competencies and skills rather than expecting you to have necessarily worked in the same kind of role or organisation before.

What we offer

Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

• We hold Investors in People Gold accreditation – one of just 3% of Housing Associations to achieve this. 82% of staff who took part in the survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.
• We are committed to developing all of our staff via routes such as secondments, transfers and promotion. In 2019 35% of our vacancies were filled by internal promotions.

A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

• Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work.
• We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves.

Flexible Working and Other Benefits

• We are committed to maintaining your work/life balance. We offer 25 days annual leave, and operate a very popular Flexi Time scheme, which allows you to supplement your annual leave entitlement. After 5 years, staff annual leave entitlement increases to 28 days.
• St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.
   

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 – 2020 we supported 32,800 people across all of our services. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 4th July 2022

Interview and assessments on: 14th – 15th July 2022

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

Want to use your skills in personal assistance, administration and operations to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Personal Assistant to the Global Director of Policy & Campaigns. You'll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The WaterAid Policy and Campaigns Department (PCD) works across WaterAid to influence policy change at national and international levels to ensure that the poorest communities gain access to water and sanitation services.

The role will be split 70/30 with a majority focus on executive support for the Global Director, ensuring they are well organised and supported to lead WaterAid effectively. The minority focus will be on diary management for the Directors of Policy, Campaigns, and International Affairs in the same Department.

The role plays a key role in running operations in the department, including supporting the organisation of key high profile advocacy events and line managing the senior administrative assistant.

The successful candidate will be based in the UK and be regularly available to attend the London Office in Canary Wharf.

To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format. Applications will close on 17 July 2022 at 23.59.

Job description

A) Provide professional, timely and proactive support to the Global Director of Policy and Campaigns, including:

1. Diary and meeting support
* Proactively manage their diary including effective forward planning, arranging meetings, mapping deadlines and ensuring precision across numerous time zones;
* Ensure Director is well prepared for meetings, including quick access to agendas, background papers;
* Attend and minute meetings, including disseminating and tracking decisions and actions;
* Prepare and coordinate virtual briefing packs, prepare high quality materials including reading packs, travel packs, PowerPoint presentations.

2. Support internal processes, communications and prioritisation Support internal
communications with the directorate and wider organisation so these are timely, strategic and engaging;
* Understand the Global Director's working style and priorities in order to facilitate this and represent her/him effectively
* Be familiar with key corporate decisions, strategies and policies;
* Provide a courteous, professional and knowledgeable point of contact, promoting a positive image of their departments and of WaterAid.

3. General administrative support
* Support travel organisation including all relevant bookings;
* Support the Global Director with recruitment administration and logistics, and induction processes that are overseen by the Global Director
* Monitor and administer the Global Director's budget and process invoices, payments and expenses
* Monitor, read, draft and manage the Global Director's emails and correspondence, identifying priorities for attention.

B) Assistance for the senior management team
* Proactively manage Director's diaries including effective forward planning, arranging meetings, mapping deadlines and ensuring precision across numerous time zones
* Manage and co-ordinate senior management meetings, including managing and administering the logistics of both face to face and virtual meetings effectively
* Provide a courteous, professional and knowledgeable point of contact, promoting a positive image of their departments and of WaterAid.

C) Operations for the department
* Line manage the Senior Administrator for Policy & Campaigns
* Oversee departmental operations to ensure compliance with wider WaterAid processes as well as championing, innovating, or streamlining the department's process and procedure
* Maintain effective filing systems ensuring archive material is safe and can be retrieved in line with Data Protection Regulations
* Work as part of a wider team of PAs and Administrators across the organisation, ensuring mutual support and good communication between teams
* Maintain a high level of confidentiality, discretion and integrity at all times.

To be successful, you'll need:

• Proven successful track record of being a senior administrator or PA to a member of the Executive team in a global organisation, including exceptional diary management;
• Effective time-management, organisation and prioritisation skills, including ability to manage multiple projects and priorities and to keep track of high volumes of information within a busy environment;
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including ability to assimilate information quickly and produce accurate minutes, clear powerpoint presentations and written briefings;
• Digitally literate with excellent IT skills, particularly for setting up virtual meetings and effectively using Microsoft Office tools, with extensive experience of using PowerPoint and creating simple and compelling presentations;
• Numerical accuracy and experience of managing and processing invoices and expenses. Ability to co-ordinate / track project budget.
• Team player who is motivated by the desire to support others to be effective and efficient in their work, proactive, with confidence to take initiative and solve problems;
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and drive tasks through to completion, whilst maintaining a high standard.
• Integrity and the ability to act with discretion and respect confidentiality.
• Commitment to WaterAid's values and a working style that reflects these.
• Commitment to personal learning and development;
• Willingness to travel in the UK and internationally, if required, for the proper performance and delivery of the role;
• Working style that reflects WaterAid's values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation

Salary: £34,299 - £36,098 with excellent benefits:

• 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangements
• Season Ticket Loan
• Free annual eye tests
• Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

Additional Information:

WaterAid is currently located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. We support and enjoy a hybrid working environment, this includes regular attendance in the London office to connect with each other. In this role this is currently 1-2 days a week. We look forward to discussing with you how you can best deliver in your new role at interview stage.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.
 

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century?  As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to join the My Support Services (MSS) in providing the administrative support for a broad range of essential day-to-day transactional activities of St John, including Finance, People, Property, Fleet, etc. This role will be working closely with the SJA systems team and the wider MSS this role will ensure all key data for the directorate is centralised, managed, updated, stored correctly.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working & TOIL, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days. 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You:

• Experience of providing analytical services within an operational department or a shared services environment
• Knowledge of Finance systems such as SAP
• Significant experience managing large volumes of data with knowledge of Microsoft products, specifically Power Query, SQL and Power BI.
• Experience of developing, planning and delivering a complex operational model across multiples sites and multiple customer groups

About the Role:

• Working closely with the Controls & Risk Manager and MSS leadership team to ensure that all data is stored correctly following all regulatory requirements.
• Define, create and maintain a robust data set as the “single truth” evaluation of performance and forecasting, measuring status, service delivery, supporting resource planning and scheduling, KPI data sets and dashboards for all key service areas
• Produce, review, analyse and act on management data, highlighting exceptions and ensuring appropriate actions are developed and implemented to address adverse variances
• Support resolving issues relating to data through to resolution or error identification, and coordinate the actions of other technical and business teams as necessary to assist with analysis and resolution action. 

About Us:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the services of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only.

£61,000 per annum

Permanent  

Part home/Part office (London) based

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as the Head of Strategic Communications.

As the Head of Strategic Communications, you have a multifaceted role. You are a lead force in ensuring the organistion’s external voice is not only is coherent, but integrated, optimised and unified. Alongside that, your leadership ensures our newly formed Public Engagement directorate focuses on the right activities in the right way to meet our objectives.

We are looking for an experienced strategic communications planner, who loves to collaborate with high performing teams, to deliver an extraordinary provision in strategic communications to both the organisation and within the Public Engagement directorate

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 4 July 2022.

Interview date: Thursday, 21 July 2022 via video conferencing (MS Teams).

We are gradually moving back to our offices on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London and we anticipate most colleagues will work one or two days a week in the office and the rest of the time from home.  We are happy to discuss other flexible options to suit your circumstances.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, disabled candidates, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at UNICEF UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.

UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.

We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.

If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact the Supporter Care line during office hours.

If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.

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About The Role

Permanent
Hours: 35hrs p/w
Days: Monday- Friday
Location: Flexible working - 50/50 split between home-working, and 175 St John Street, Farringdon

Place2Be is looking to recruit an exceptional, enthusiastic, and compassionate person to join us as a Business Performance Officer. This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work in the CEO’s office, where you will work with a unique overview of an innovative and dynamic charity focused on improving children’s mental health; providing the vital support children need to build life-long coping skills to thrive. Training and apprenticeship opportunities will be provided in order to support this person to develop skills in analysing data, performance metrics and data visualisation.

What will I be responsible for in my new role?

You will:

• act as the heart of the CEO Office, helping to ensure that the organisation is on track to deliver change to children and young people’s lives
• liaise and work with Directors to ensure processes are in place to monitor organisation goals for performance and growth set out in the Place2Be’s business plan 
• monitor outputs and prepare reports to communicate outcomes, highlighting any identified risks in delivery of performance outcomes to the Executive Team
• maintain framework of key partnerships, liaise with stakeholder leads to ensure partnerships and relationships on track
• project manage ad hoc projects in line with organisation priorities as required by the Chief Executive
• support the CEO’s office to run efficiently and smoothly.

The successful candidate:

You will: 

• hold excellent analytical skills informed by an evidence-based approach
• have the ability to work under pressure on multiple projects within your project timeframe
• have experience supporting a busy Executive or business/political figure
• have experience of project planning and delivery, including monitoring and evaluation, and working to targets

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.

We are looking for a talented Membership Events Coordinator with organisational, people and coordination skills to thrive in a medical charity focusing on supporting doctors to deliver medical imaging and cancer services!

As a membership organisation, the Membership Operations team is central to all our event activities, and that’s where the role of Membership Events Coordinator sits, nestled within the wider Communications Directorate. The Membership Operations team covers two main areas of work; the delivery of engagement events for members, namely our Admission Ceremonies, Regional Visits and Senior Fellows Forum; and the servicing of our membership including the management of the renewal process, the upkeep of records within our CRM and responding to general queries. The Membership Events Coordinator is responsible for the former area of work.

As the Membership Events Coordinator you will be responsible for leading and delivering our reputable membership engagement events for our members and stakeholders. Using their strong communication skills, enthusiasm, experience, and passion for delivering an exceptional customer service they will be able to plan and create outstanding and memorable high impact events for doctors at various stages of their careers. 

The Membership Events Coordinator will need to be a quick thinker with a problem-solving mindset and strong team player. They will be approachable, able to deliver effective and reliable advice to members of the team, wider College colleagues and Senior Management.  They must also have competent ICT skills, particularly comfortable using Excel.

If you are looking for an exciting and impactful career in a role that supports a great cause please consider finding out more about the Membership Events Coordinator role, the RCR and more in the Membership Events Coordinator candidate pack.

Why join us?

Make a difference to the lives of Doctors and the specialities they work in every day!
Hybrid working (60% working week can be done remotely)
Modern working environment
Equipment provided to work from home
Generous annual leave allowance
Excellent pension scheme
Interest free season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme