This high respected membership organisations are looking for an experienced External Relations and Public Affairs professional to join their team.

Within this exciting new role, you can look forward to join the Senior Management Team of the organisations to build influential relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders across the sector, and provide strategic insight to leverage opportunities across the English Regions.

Line managing a team of 7 at the moment, you will be responsible for drafting the organisations English Regions plan through their knowledge of regional political and economic drivers, and take a strong public affairs approach to enhance the organisations strategic goals.

Reporting into the Deputy Chief Executive, you will be working with senior colleagues across the UK and Ireland to ensure the English Regional Business plan is consistent with the organisations long term strategy.

The organisations HQ is in London, but they are flexible on location for this role. Salary is circa £70k

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an experienced External Relations and Public Affairs Professional
• Strong stakeholder engagement ability
• Have a strong track record in designing and delivering business plans
• Have strong line management experience
• Experience working in a matrix environment
• Have a strong knowledge of UK political processes

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH WORKER x 2 – MALE*

NORTH MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Full-Time, 40 hours per week, Fixed Term Contract to August 2021

Salary £26,388 p.a. (inc London Allowance)

Youth violence is a problem that significantly affects young people, their families and entire communities. At Oasis, we believe that violence can be prevented by taking a holistic public health approach. Oasis Community Hub Hadley encompasses a range of integrated and diverse community projects which together have a common aim to bring transformation to the whole person and the whole community. Through this holistic approach we have been instrumental in shaping the way young people are supported after experiencing trauma, violence or aggression.

Oasis Youth Support at North Middlesex Hospital is just one of our projects and provides an early intervention and trauma informed approach to tackle the drivers of violent behaviour. We are seeking two dedicated Youth Development Outreach Workers (Male*) to accompany young people who attend North Middlesex Hospital A&E department due to a violent or aggressive incident, on their journey to make positive choices with the aim of breaking the cycle of violence.

The primary purpose of the role is to participate in a youth outreach service, working with young people who come into the A&E department either as a victim or perpetrator of a violent crime.

You will be part of a large team based at the hospital and supported by the Youth Support Project Coordinator, as well as the wider Community Hub Team based in Ponders End, Enfield.

The key responsibilities within the role are:

• Support young people and develop a bespoke mentoring programme that meets their needs.
• Develop and evaluate a model of care that enables young people to benefit from community based interventions.
• Ensure new referrals are received and passed on in a timely manner.
• Assisting the team by facilitating high quality information gathering/sharing to track the support given and the success of the project.

You could be successful in this role if you: 

• Are passionate about making a difference to young people’s lives
• Are a people person with fantastic communication skills
• Have the ability to build positive relationships with young people as well as professionals
• Possess or training towards a relevant professional qualification (e.g. JNC, QTS, QSW), or can demonstrate relevant experience.
• Have experience of working in a youth/community setting affected by youth crime.
• Experience of mentoring / supporting young people
• Are self-motivated, with the ability to take initiative and organise your own time

This role is a challenging but very rewarding opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of some of the most vulnerable young members of society who are living in challenging circumstances. 

We actively encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups.

*Due to the work context of this role there is an Occupational Requirement to be male (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, Para 1).

Closing date for completed applications is 9am Monday 20th July 2020.

Interviews will be held week commencing 6th August at Enfield, North London.

Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos. 

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 checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Oasis supports Equal Opportunities.  Registered Charity No. 1026487

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it. The research and youth understanding team are responsible for commissioning and producing research to inform the YEF’s understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and to help us better understand the lives of young people vulnerable to youth violence, and what this means for the YEF’s work.

Task Description

We’re looking for passionate researchers who are committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to support the commissioning and delivery of a programme of qualitative and quantitative research. This research will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers. It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

We are appointing two research officers, one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s broad programme of research, and one who will be predominantly focused on the YEF’s work to better understand young people who are vulnerable to violent crime.

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of team, we want two people who can:

• Assist in commissioning and producing research to help us better understand what works to reduce violent youth crime.

• Engage with and understand the experiences and needs of people affected by violent youth crime, including young people and their families, across England and Wales.

• Help manage the YEF’s comprehensive programme of research and youth understanding activity.

• Help track and maintain relationships with academics, government analysts, researchers and other experts producing work that is relevant to the YEF.

• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work, including its thematic and place-based grant-making, behaviour change and policy work.

• Help design the very best ways for us to do our research.

• Contribute to a range of published work, including research reports, briefings and regular blog posts, looking at new forms of communicating and visualisation of complex information for a wide range of audiences.

• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and in delivering our broader research programme.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with quantitative and/or qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods. You can provide examples of how you have practically used these skills.

• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.

• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self-motivated and can work independently.

• You are a highly effective project manager. You are effective at managing projects from beginning to end, whether they are delivered internally or externally.

• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people, including young people.
   

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values
   

You must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, and the ability to both deploy them and critically appraise their use.
• Excellent communicator: You can combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible way to non-experts.
• Stakeholder engagement: You are comfortable seeking the views of young people and other stakeholders to help gather experiential insights for our work. This could include facilitating sessions with them.
• Project management: You are comfortable seeing projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• Job requirements
• An enhanced DBS check will be required for both roles but a criminal record is not a block on performing this role

You might have these sorts of qualifications/knowledge/skills/experience:

A post-graduate qualification. In a relevant field such as criminology, social policy, youth work, international development or any other relevant field with a significant research methods component

• For the General Research Officer role: Conducting reviews: Experience conducting or contributing to rapid evidence reviews and/or systematic reviews.  
• For the Youth Understanding Research Officer role: Youth work: Experience working with young people, either as a youth worker or in similar child/young person-facing roles.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, by midnight, 19 July 2020

You will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27 July 2020.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3 August 2020.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

These challenging times have required Jewish Care to make an extraordinary response in order to ensure the most vulnerable in the community are protected, supported and kept safe. In line with this, Jewish Care has made a huge and committed effort to make sure every single one of our stakeholders and the wider community are communicated in a clear, open, transparent, honest and timely way during the COVID-19 emergency. Stakeholders have included staff, volunteers, clients, relatives, trustees, expert groups, communal leaders, MPs, and members of the wider community, all these groups are critical to the organisation, we have ensured everything they hear, they always hear from us first, we have carefully managed the press too in order to help achieve this. In order to maintain our usual high standards, the Communications area in particular needs to continue to communicate effectively with all stakeholders both during and after the Covid-19 crisis lasts. As we emerge from this crisis; this role will also provide strategic leadership and support to ensuring the organisation rebuilds and is sustainable as it looks towards the future.

The Interim Director of Marketing and Communications is a key member of the Directorate team and is responsible for developing and driving the marketing and communications strategy and plans across Jewish Care (Covid-19 related and not).

The role also provides strategic and operational leadership to the marketing and communications function, ensuring that the appropriate structures, systems, processes, competencies and brand values are in place and developed to meet and exceed the goals of the organisation's strategy and plans. The role coordinates at a strategic level with all functions of the organisation to ensure a joined-up approach between marketing and communications. The role will participate as a member of the Directorate Team in the development of the Jewish Care reset strategy to take the organisation through these challenging times and in major operational decisions.

Dimensions

In this role the Interim Director is a critical partner to all functions of the charity, making sure that organisation wide business targets are met. Jewish Care's marketing and communications team has an annual income target of £540,000 for 2020/21 with an expenditure budget £700,000 and a team of 9 staff.

Principal Accountabilities/Responsibilities

* Work closely with the CEO and members of the Directorate to provide support and guidance for strategic decision making and the day-to-day operations of Jewish Care so that both organisation wide and functional considerations are taken into account.
* Lead the marketing, and communications strategy as a primary driver of other organisation strategies (including providing leadership and oversight for all marketing and communications required to promote the opening of our Pears Court independent living scheme as the 2nd phase of our Sandringham development, supporting the organisation's brand new Community Services and Care Home strategy and all change management communications generated form our HR department.
* Lead on providing strategic oversight and communication/change management plans for all the organisations internal and external stakeholders ensuring communications are executed and delivered in accordance with these plans by the Head of Communications and PR.
* Deliver all high-profile communications when required for key stakeholders and business critical parts of the business.
* Provide communication leadership and support to members of Jewish Care's Senior Leadership team and the Registered Managers.
* Oversee the tender process and delivery of a new website that supports the needs of the entire organisation.
* Plan, develop and ensure excellent delivery of the organisation's marketing strategy and campaigns, and develop plans to achieve strong brand awareness, growth in income, engagement in our cause and recruitment of new donors and potential service users. Ensure the development of a media plan and key communications/materials both externally (including key fundraising events such as the organisation's annual dinner).
* Take the lead in developing and managing Jewish Care's brand, messaging, direct
* fundraising appeals, advertising campaigns, media campaigns, digital communications, legacy marketing material, and data capture opportunities and other media to engage the community in Jewish care's causes whilst repositioning us in the most appropriate way to reflect the current situation and sensitivities of different audiences
* Lead, motivate, support and develop the team through effective recruitment, performance management, training and development planning to ensure organisational and staff support standards are met.
* Ensure the organisation's brand guidelines are relevant, up to date, shared and communicated and upheld across all internal and external communications created and produced to ensure our b

Are you passionate about dogs and cats? Our people and animals make Battersea a great place to work. Your expertise will help increase our impact for dogs and cats everywhere.

We are seeking two skilled Veterinary Trustees with significant current senior veterinary leadership experience to join our Council of Trustees, to play a key part in Battersea’s future development and growth.

About us

Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a world 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 c550 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. Two years ago we launched the Battersea Academy working with animals and veterinary practitioners across the UK and Internationally to develop and enhance their services to animals. Join us and make a difference for every dog and cat.

About the roles

During the latter half of this year and the first half of 2021, our two long standing and highly esteemed, Veterinary Trustees, Professor Matthew Pead BVetMed PhD MRCVS FHEA CertSAO and Dr Bradley Viner BVetMed MSc (VetGP) DProf FRCVS, will conclude their terms of office, after many years of exceptional support and contribution to Battersea. We are seeking to replace them with two equally skilled and engaged Veterinary Trustees who will each play a key part in Battersea’s future development and growth. To support our strategy and to build diversity in the Board we are looking for two new Trustees both with significant, current senior veterinary leadership experience, either from a research, policy development or clinical background or with direct practice experience.

The two new Trustees will join our Board of eleven, known as Council, who meet seven times a year with the Chief Executive and Directors (six half-day meetings usually in London and a full-day annual strategy meeting with the Directors usually in Windsor). Meeting formats are currently under review and some may in future be held virtually.

Both roles are appointments for an initial term of three years and may be re-appointed for a further two terms of three years. We anticipate one of the new Trustees will join the Board in October 2020, with the second successful new Trustee joining us in the Spring of 2021.

These are volunteer unremunerated roles.

More information about Battersea, including our Strategic Plan, please visit our website.

How to apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a supporting statement of no more than 1,000 words that addresses how you meet the requirements of the person specification and outlines your personal motivation for becoming a Trustee of Battersea. Any applications received via our online application portal will not be considered. Please also state if you are available to start the role in October 2020, Spring 2021 or have no preference.

Battersea is committed to providing equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all current and prospective staff 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 for these roles from black and minority ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under represented on our Council of Trustees.

For full details, including our job applicant privacy notice, please download our recruitment pack.  All applications must be submitted before the closing date advertised.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it.

Task Description

We’re looking for passionate data analysts who are committed to ensuring that data and evidence drives everything that we do.  Your job will be to support the delivery of a programme of quantitative research into the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence to inform our work to support initiatives designed to prevent youth violence.

Key Responsibilities

Working as part of team, we want two people who can:

• Lead on the original quantitative analysis of administrative data and longitudinal datasets, bringing new insights into the lives of vulnerable young people affected by crime and violence.
   
• Maintain, build and expand our understanding of the latest data and trends in youth violence and its drivers.

• Combine a range of data sources on youth crime, violence and wider socio-economic risk factors, to develop our methodology for identifying local geographic areas for targeted support and implementing public health approaches to reducing youth crime.

• Help to design the methodology for evaluating the impact of our local area work as well as working with our selected local partners in using their data to improve outcomes.

• Contribute to a range of published outputs, including research reports, briefings and regular blog posts, looking at novel forms of communicating and visualisation of complex information for nontechnical audiences.

• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of data and trends and in delivering our research programme.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You are a very curious person that is confident with quantitative research. You have expertise in applied data research and are comfortable with a range of quantitative methodologies. You can provide examples of how you have used these approaches to provide insight into important questions.

• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.

• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self-motivated and can work independently.

• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people.
   

• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values.
   

You must have this sort of qualification/knowledge/experience:

• A post-graduate qualification. This is in a relevant field such as statistics, data science, economics, social policy or any other relevant field with a significant quantitative component.
• Competence with data: You are comfortable using complex datasets and advanced analytical techniques as well as getting your hands dirty pulling together messy stats from a range of sources.
• Strong IT skills: You will have experience of at least one programming language (e.g. R, STATA etc) and are confident in using Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communicator: You will combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible ways to non-experts.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.

You might have this sort of knowledge/skills/experience:

• Experience of using administrative data: You might have worked previously on research projects that have used administrative datasets, such as the National Pupil Database or Police National Computer.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

To apply, please send a CV and cover letter to the email address attached by midnight, 19th July 2020

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27 July 2020.

Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 10 August 2020.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
 

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

The Universities & Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) is the representative body for UK higher education employers and is known for its high-quality research, information and guidance on pay and reward and other employment-related matters. We are seeking a Research Analyst to support the provision and development of our employment and pay research and our benchmarking services.

Working within the research team you will lead on the delivery of major sector-wide surveys, analyse HESA and ONS statistics to build dashboards and infographics and make a significant contribution to UCEA’s research output providing valuable and practical insights to our member organisations and sector stakeholders.

In this role you will have opportunities to work on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research projects, from undertaking statistical analysis to designing bespoke surveys and writing case studies.

Applicants should be educated to degree level, ideally with post-graduate or professional research-related qualifications and have recent relevant research experience in economic and labour market data, employment/HR practice or similar areas. Intermediate R and advanced Excel skills are essential, along with knowledge of online survey software (UCEA uses SurveyGizmo). Python or SQL would be an advantage. Applicants must have a right to work in the UK.

This is a permanent, full-time position and the current salary band for this role is £33,879 to £36,537 per annum (dependent on experience). In addition, UCEA offers an excellent benefits package, including membership of a defined benefit hybrid pension scheme, a health and fitness scheme and generous annual leave. UCEA provides a strong development package for its research staff including a dedicated training allowance and a Datacamp subscription. Applications to work part-time, including in a job-share, will be considered.

If you think this role could be for you, please download the Applicant Pack, which includes the job description and person specification, and visit our website. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Muriel Bankhead, Head of Research.

Applications should include your current CV and a covering letter setting out what you will bring to this role.

The closing date for receipt of applications is midnight on Wednesday 15 July 2020.

The selection process for this role will be carried out virtually and consist of an initial interview with a test in R software during week commencing 27 July, and a second panel interview during week commencing 2 August 2020.

To support delivery of the Later Life Planning service effectively from the office and in the community as well as supporting the development of the service including through training and supervising volunteers.

The service aims to enable older people living in the London Borough of Barnet, and their carers, to manage and plan for the challenges of aging whilst retaining independence, choice and control in their lives. To support delivery of the Later Life Planning service effectively from the office and in the community as well as supporting the development of the service including through training and supervising volunteers.

The service aims to enable older people living in the London Borough of Barnet, and their carers, to manage and plan for the challenges of aging whilst retaining independence, choice and control in their lives.

Hours: 21 per week

No CVs.  Only applications on our application form will be accepted.