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 looking for a Brand Manager to manage the development of the Battersea brand to achieve Brand and Marketing objectives.

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 150 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 Marketing & Communications Team

Battersea’s Marketing & Communications department is responsible for communicating the breadth of the organisation’s work in an engaging and memorable way. Though our award-winning campaigns, we use our influence to affect change for dogs and cats within and beyond our gates; building Battersea’s reputation on a national and international scale. Our work involves everything from innovative integrated advertising campaigns to rehome our animals, to supporting other departments with their strategic objectives. We also manage Battersea’s online communities, offer brand guidance, deliver innovative digital activity, and manage internal communications, ensuring that staff and volunteers stay informed and engaged. The department’s ultimate goal is to raise awareness of Battersea’s work, so we can be here for more dogs and cats.

Brand team

Within the Marketing & Commercial department sits the Brand team. Guardians of the Battersea brand, we bring our purpose – to be here for every dog and cat – to life creatively. We also offer guidance as to how to use the brand effectively so we can raise awareness and encourage more people to support our cause. We are responsible for product licensing and affiliates, with the goal to generate as much commercial income as possible to go straight into the vital care of Battersea’s animals.

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 (£120), optical (£120), physiotherapy, chiropody and acupuncture (£300) every year
• Annual interest-free season ticket loans
• Discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes
• Life insurance

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.

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

Debates around Black Lives Matter, mass remote working, inequality in our education system exposed by Covid-19 restrictions and debates about privilege – our society and our world of work is very clearly at a turning point.

As a social mobility charity, The Brokerage is in the fortunate position to influence that change in a positive, practical and meaningful way, working with underprivileged young people from state schools. We partner with corporates in the City (financial and professional services) that want our help with building and accessing a different talent pool and change organisational practices to create a post-inclusion culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive and be themselves.

The Brokerage is at a critical and dynamic point having recently launched a strategic re-direction, innovative new services and a relevant new brand, all supporting our vision of a world where a young person’s ability and aspiration alone determine their career path. At the heart of this exciting new direction is implementing our new partnership model to ensure that The Brokerage is both re-positioned as a Changemaker with corporates and ensures sustainable funding of its activities.  

To achieve this The Brokerage is currently recruiting for a Corporate Changemaker Manager to lead on the design and delivery of The Brokerage’s employer products and the engagement of our corporate partners. This is a new strand of work for us and this role will be instrumental in developing, testing and delivering our new employer products including our corporate leaders forum, employer culture change workshop and partnership assessment tool. In addition, this role will also lead on the development of our alumni proposition and ensure our alumni are leveraged to enhance our insights, profile and reach.

Main duties

• Manage the development and delivery of our employer products, especially our culture change workshop and develop related products e.g. support sessions for line mangers
• Play a liaison role between our partnerships and delivery teams, ensuring that agreements with our corporate partners are fulfilled and relationships are built
• Work with the Senior Insights and Communications Manager to generate collateral to support our corporate partners in their internal engagement activities around our work e.g. case studies/personal stores, business case around D&I
• Keep abreast about partners needs and develop a deep understanding of how the Brokerage can use our insights to add value and create change in organisational practices and behaviours, working closely with the Senior Insights, Impact and System Manager
• Work with the Partnership Team to deliver our partnerships assessments using insights and knowledge from the wider delivery team
• Manage corporate volunteers and ensure we make the most of their position in the organisation, working closely with the Senior Delivery Administrator
• Manage the development of manager support session and develop and implement a manager support network for our corporate partners for all of our activities
• Support the CEO and wider team with the delivery of the corporate employer forum 
• Research and manage the establishment of our alumni proposition and network and how they can be utilised to deliver on our strategic objectives
• Manage corporate and alumni engagement via social media and other channels
• To proactively support the Marketing and Communications Manager with case studies and other materials
• To play an active role in the planning and delivery of The Brokerage’s strategic objectives and participate in The Brokerage events and activities as required.

Person specification

Essential

• Dynamic, outgoing and engaging personality
• Experience of working in a corporate environment
• Experience of HR policies and procedures and wider organisational practices
• Knowledge of corporate D&I agendas and strategies
• Employee volunteer management experience
• Highly organised, with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment and still produce quality outputs.
• Demonstrable knowledge of and interest in issues surrounding social mobility, education, as well as corporate diversity and inclusion programmes.
• Excellent IT skills, including demonstrable usage of Microsoft Office suite, CRM databases (eg. Salesforce or equivalent) and social media.

7% pension contribution

25 days’ paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays

2 days’ paid volunteering leave

Season ticket loan and a range of other staff benefits

Please apply by submitting a Cover Letter and CV by 0900 on Tuesday 3 November

Interview - dates tbc

We are recruiting a Service Manager, who is able to model skills in safely engaging women based on mutual collaboration, trust and empowerment.

As well as providing support to individual women and girls, we run training for professionals and campaigns for better laws and policies to protect women’s rights.

The above post is open to women only and are exempt under the Sex Discrimination Act 7(2) (d) and (e) and the Race Relations Act 5(2) (d) 1976.

About the Role

The main purpose of our Regional Managers is to grow, develop and deliver all aspects of the day-to-day account management of:

• Schools and colleges running a Career Ready programme within the region
• Employer supporters, corporate supporters, stakeholders and partners
• Corporate supporters, stakeholders and partners

The Regional Manager will join our North team and will work with colleagues to ensure Career Ready is embedded across their region. There will be opportunities to collaborate and be creative, as well as being autonomous in how you run and develop programmes with your schools/colleges and employer accounts.

The Tees Valley Regional Manager will cover the area comprising of the five local authorities Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Regional Manager – Tees Valley Area

Home Based  

£32,000 to £35,000 doe plus 25 days holiday, pension & working at home allowance

Monday – Friday 35 hours per week (although this is a full time role we may consider alternative working patterns)

Career Ready is a national charity that links schools and colleges with employers to prepare young people for the world of work through a programme of regular contact with working people and workplaces.

We are a partner of the government-funded Careers & Enterprise Company extending employer engagement across England and are cited in statutory careers guidance.

We work with over 400 schools and colleges across the UK, providing the following programmes;

Career Starter and Career Builder programmes for Years 7 through to 13, which are mapped against seven of the eight Gatsby Benchmarks. These programmes include bite sized assemblies, tutorial and classroom resources and employer and employee led activities.

Career Ready Post 16 programme, based on our Skills for Career Success learning outcomes, delivered by employer volunteers. The core pillars of our Post 16 programme are a series of structured masterclasses, mentoring, workplace visits and work placements. Last year 98% of students leaving our Post 16 programme went on to positive destinations. The main purpose of our Regional Managers is to grow, develop and deliver all aspects of the day-to-day account management of:

• Schools and colleges running a Career Ready programme within the region
• Employer supporters, corporate supporters, stakeholders and partners
• Corporate supporters, stakeholders and partners

Main duties and responsibilities

Regional management

• Account manage on a regular basis schools and colleges running our programme. This will require support visits, managing events for students and corporate supporters, conducting Quality Assurance visits
• Provide regular communication and reporting to the Lead Manager North
• Work in close co-operation with head office staff to provide a co-ordinated approach to the wider region, which could include joint regional events and covering for each other
• Promote the contribution of Career Ready and awareness of Career Ready to potential supporters, and assist in engaging their commitment to give both practical and financial support
• Account manage relationships with regional and local corporate supporters and regional or local operations of national corporate supporters 
• Attend Local Advisory Boards, where appropriate, at a city or affiliated school or college level
• Help support mentor volunteers
• Recruit new schools and colleges to the network from the region in accordance with priority target areas. Manage their induction, training, activities prior to launch and implementation of the Career Ready programme
• Ensure that all regional management information is submitted to the national Salesforce database in a timely and accurate way
• Support schools and colleges in delivery of work placements
• From time to time there will be a need to deliver sessions to skills and careers leads and to groups of young people within the school and college setting

National and strategic management

• Contribute to the corporate work of Career Ready
• With the Chief Executive Officer, Director of Programmes and Lead Manager North monitor the state of Career Ready in the region and seek ways to promote its achievements and improve the service given by the central staff team.
• With the Programme Director, and other Regional Managers, develop the role of the regional teams. This will require attendance at meetings and training days

Profile raising

• In conjunction with senior staff and the communications team, work to raise the profile of Career Ready in the RM’s area, and its key stakeholders in the regional and local media, business and education communities
• Undertake public speaking and media engagements as required to promote the work of Career Ready in the RM’s area.

Events

• Assist schools and colleges on our programmes to plan, manage and run events to promote Career Ready to potential corporate supporters, students, parents / carers and the local community, and be prepared to present at such events

• Attend national Career Ready events such as A Capital Experience and arrange and manage regional events including inductions, ice-breakers and graduations 

General

Promote a commitment to high standards of service, and to equality of opportunity through leadership, policy development and good practice. You will be able to build local partnerships with Schools, Colleges and employers with a view to growth with the Career Ready strategic plan. An entrepreneurial spirit allied with a can do attitude will go a long way.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Target driven, but able to balance financial and non-financial objectives
• Entrepreneurial with the ability to follow through and achieve results
• Forward planner with excellent time management skills
• Able to deliver targets and objectives, often alone, but also to rise above the detail and take a strategic perspective
• Able to communicate effectively in a wide variety of situations, including formal speaking engagements to large audiences
• Able to reach, network with and communicate to a wide range of stakeholders and potential stakeholders including senior business people,  principals of schools and colleges and students
• Able to operate corporately as part of the Career Ready team
• Consultative and supportive management style
• Skilled negotiator, internally and externally
• Ability to use databases, Word, excel, PowerPoint and other ‘Office’ packages

A flexible approach to working hours is essential as ‘out of hours’ meetings are common within the requirements of this role

Experience

• Preferably three years in an education role.  Experience could have been gained in schools, FE colleges or not-for-profit organisations, but the successful applicant must be able to gain credibility with senior managers in a variety of educational institutions; or
• Three years experience in a not-for-profit organisation involved with young people; or
• Three years experience in a community development or Corporate Social Responsibility role in a company; and
• Evidence of commercial awareness and proven experience of account management.

Appointment will be subject to a 3-month probation period during which time the contract may be terminated with one week’s notice. An enhanced criminal record (DBS) check will be required for the role.

Salary & Benefits

£32,000-35,000 per annum, depending on experience

Plus 6% contribution to personal pension plan, subject to 3% employee contribution

Working From Home Allowance of £300 per annum

Annual leave: 25 days per annum plus bank/public holidays. The Charity is also closed between Christmas and New Year and there are an additional 2 days of leave available in August.

Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans.

Access to both our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme

Application

Closing date for applications is Friday 6th November 2020 at 5 p.m.                 

To Apply

If you are interested in the role, please apply online by submitting your CV and a covering letter (of no more than 2 pages) that demonstrates clearly, through examples, how your experience meets the requirements of the role and what attracts you to Career Ready. Please provide details of your current salary. 

Please note that if your application is not accompanied by a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Registered Charity Number 1092891

Debates around Black Lives Matter, mass remote working, inequality in our education system exposed by Covid-19 restrictions and debates about privilege – our society and our world of work is very clearly at a turning point.

As a social mobility charity, The Brokerage is in the fortunate position to influence that change in a positive, practical and meaningful way, working with underprivileged young people from state schools. We partner with corporates in the City (financial and professional services) that want our help with building and accessing a different talent pool and change organisational practices to create a post-inclusion culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive and be themselves.

The Brokerage is at a critical and dynamic point having recently launched a strategic re-direction, innovative new services and a relevant new brand, all supporting our vision of a world where a young person’s ability and aspiration alone determine their career path. At the heart of this exciting new direction is implementing our new partnership model to ensure that The Brokerage is both re-positioned as a Changemaker with corporates and ensures sustainable funding of its activities.  

To achieve this The Brokerage is currently recruiting for a Placement & Recruitment Manager to lead the ‘Placement’ strand of our delivery, working closely with the Partnerships Team and wider programme delivery team to manage all entry-level recruitment with our corporate partners. This role will primarily focus on the management and delivery of our Year 12 and Year 13, and undergraduate placements. The postholder will be responsible for selection and preparing suitable candidates for our corporate partners from the Brokerage’s candidate cohort. It will also act as an expert advisor to our corporate partners on what works in terms of recruiting young people from diverse backgrounds.

Main duties

• To manage The Brokerage's Summer Placement Programme ensuring there is a match between supply and demand, working closely with the partnerships team
• To develop and implement a virtual internship programme as an integrated option and alternative to our face to face placement programmes 
• To work closely with the Outreach and Academy Manager to ensure that there is a pool of suitable candidates for placements and recruitment and manage all our support workshops and one to one sessions for candidates (e.g. CV, interview and assement centre prep)
• Work with the Outreach manager to develop, test and pilot new ways to assess talent that go beyond looking at grades and advise/work with our corporate partners to implement these
• Produce cutting edge guidance for our corporate partners working with the Corporate Changemaker Manager, e.g. employer guides and produce external thought pieces and research
• Manage, develop and run “Into-work” type of conferences (recruitment fairs with corporate partners) in collaboration with colleagues in the delivery and partnerships team
• Provide support and coaching to our candidates during recruitment processes and vice versa support partners with designing recruitment systems that work for our candidates working closely with the corporate consultancy manager
• To deliver a high quality placement service to employers which will meet their recruitment needs.
• Manage the development of our new apprenticeships offering, working with the selected training provider and the partnerships team
• To proactively support the Marketing and Communications Manager with case study and other materials
• To play an active role in the planning and delivery of The Brokerage’s strategic objectives and participate in The Brokerage events and activities as required.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of placing young people into paid job opportunities, including school-leaver, apprenticeships and undergraduate vacancies.
• Experience and understanding of the whole recruitment cycle
• Experience of working directly with young people.
• Experience of working in partnership with corporate partners.
• Highly organised with an ability to track multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent IT skills, including demonstrable usage of the Microsoft Office suite, CRM database (e.g. Salesforce or equivalent).

7% pension contribution

25 days’ paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays

2 days’ paid volunteering leave

Season ticket loan and a range of other staff benefits

Please apply by submitting a Cover Letter and CV by 0900 on Monday 2 November

Interview - dates tbc

The Role

DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Supported Housing Team at DHI in Bath. This is an exciting, varied and rewarding role which involves supporting clients to achieve and maintain abstinence from problematic drug/alcohol use and supporting them to move onto live fulfilling and independent lives. As well as supporting individuals the role also includes aspects of housing management.

You will be joining an experienced and enthusiastic team that work hard to support each other, deliver an exceptional service to clients and meet our contract requirements.

If you’ve got experience of working in housing and share DHI’s values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life, we’d love to hear from you. DHI also welcomes applications from those with lived experience.

How To Apply

Please visit the DHI website to view the Job Description and Person Specification and complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday Tuesday 3rd November 2020

Wandsworth Foodbank is looking for an experienced and engaging Volunteers Manager to organise, support and develop our amazing team of food bank volunteers.

Working in a friendly and supportive team, you’ll take the lead in managing volunteers at the Foodbank’s five church-based centres across Wandsworth Borough, and at our Foodbank warehouse. With your help, we want to equip and inspire our volunteers to provide the best possible support to local people referred to us in severe hardship.

We're looking for someone who is committed to the Christian values, priorities and culture of Junction Community Trust and St Mark’s Church, Battersea Rise. 

We're committed to ensuring we respond to the needs of black and minority ethnic communities locally, and we want to ensure our team is as representative as possible. We'd therefore particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, to help us broaden our team.

The working hours are 5 days a week, but we’d be happy to consider 4 days a week for the right candidate. 

To find out more about the job, please see the role profile attached. You can also contact us if you’d like to have an informal conversation about this role.

The role

This is a new and exciting role which comes as a result of our charity growing and increasing the amount of services we offer. The Volunteer and Community Services Manager is responsible for developing and managing our community based projects, which are hugely popular with our clients, adults with learning disabilities and/or autism.

As well as leading on these, you’ll co-ordinate and manage the volunteers which are the backbone of these projects, ensuring they have a really great experience with us. You’ll take a pro-active approach to managing a team of staff, and provide regular and on-going support to volunteers. You’ll be fundamental in shaping how these projects and future projects, will make the biggest impact possible to the lives of disabled adults. 

Who we are looking for

Our ideal candidate would have project and people management experience within the third sector. They'll have good knowledge of how to run successful volunteer led projects and a good understanding of the support needs of our clients as well as best practice in volunteering. They'll be exceptionally organised, be a great team worker and pay close attention to detail. They'll enjoy juggling a busy but rewarding workload, and have excellent written and face to face communication and facilitation skills.

They'll be approachable and enjoy building meaningful relationships with stakeholders. They’ll enjoy solving problems and be driven to deliver the best possible service to our service users. They'll be happy to work flexibly as regular out of hours’ work is an essential part of this role.  

About us

At Share, we’re passionate about supporting disabled people to set their own goals for learning and life, and then helping them to achieve their aspirations.  The majority of our service users are people with learning disabilities and/or autism. We offer a range of training, employment, personal development, leisure and community based opportunities. We're working for a world where disabled people are fully included and have access to all the amenities and opportunities in their communities.

We won the prestigious award of Employer of the Year at Wandsworth Business Awards 2019. We also hold the Investors in People accreditation and we are accredited by the National Autistic Society. 

To apply

Please download the full job description and person specification and then complete our application form and equal opportunities form - downloadable via our vacancies page on our website and from Charity Job. 

We particularly welcome applications from male and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, who are currently under represented at this level within our organisation. 

Hours: 35 hours per week, evening and weekend work is essential   
Annual leave: 25 days annual leave per year (increasing by one day per year until you reach a maximum of 30)
Closing date: Wednesday 11th November 2020 at 10am 
Interview date: Tuesday 17th November 2020

Role:

An exciting new office management role, working with both for Bridge 5 Mill and the Kindling Trust. Help us to create a welcoming space for building users, rebuild the events business and help us run a tight and efficient office to be as effective as possible in our work for social change.

Background

The Fairfield Group is a pioneering family of organisations based in Greater Manchester and promotes ecological and social justice through a number of practical activities and projects. Fairfield Environment Trust is the registered charity that owns three delivery bodies: the Kindling Trust, Bridge 5 Mill and Fairfield Environmental Services (Fairfield Recycling). Each subsidiary focuses on a different aspect of FET’s objectives. This post would be supported by the group as a whole, but will be specifically focused on Bridge 5 Mill and The Kindling Trust.

Bridge 5 Mill is Manchester's original centre for social change. We provide offices for a range of amazing tenants who share our vision and before lockdown we were a thriving centre and venue for many events and activities. Six months ago our events had to stop and understandably, in such uncertain financial circumstances, we lost some of our staff to other adventures. We are looking for someone to help us open back up again, to create a welcoming and smoothly run space for existing tenants and building users, as well as build back up the event hosting element of our work.

The Kindling Trust works to create a fairer, more sustainable society, starting with the food system. Over the last 13 years, The Kindling Trust have established and run a series of practical projects to engage people in sustainable food and farming. The next exciting stage of our development is to establish a pioneering agroforestry farm on 100 acres close to Manchester. We are looking for someone to help us organise and manage our office (systems, administration, volunteers etc.) in a friendly but efficient manner.

With combined resources we have created a new role that we are very excited about, to work across the two organisations. Someone who offers a welcoming presence in the Mill for tenants and other building users; as well as managing email and phone enquiries for both organisations. This role aims to rebuild the events business at the Mill and run a tight and efficient office to be as effective as possible in our work for social change.

Job Description:

Main Duties:

A. Create and maintain a welcoming space for all users of the building

• To be based in Bridge 5 Mill, 5 days a week including on reception at specific times of the day (for example, between 9am - 10am each day).
• To provide great customer service to all building users.
• Liaise with tenants and deal with any problems or queries promptly
• Oversee the overall appearance of building, responsibilities include reporting repairs needed, organising maintenance work, liaising with external suppliers and contractors including the cleaning staff.

B. Administration and office management for Bridge 5 Mill and The Kindling Trust

• Respond to emails, phone calls, Facebook messages etc. and answer enquiries for both the Kindling Trust and Bridge 5 Mill.
• Update procedures and systems as we transition out of lockdown
• Review and improve office and organising systems including holiday booking systems etc.
• Take responsibility for the ordering of equipment and consumables with our Bookkeeper.
• Assist with the timely upkeep of records and other administrative tasks including; general office duties, filing, handling mail, etc.
• Understand the importance of data protection and maintain standards of best practice.
• Work with the Communications Worker to keep Kindling’s database of Volunteers, Supporters and Potential Volunteers up to date.
• Provide regular reports on our database, make recommendations for improving the collection of relevant data and help us use this data to improve our communications.
• Help Project Co-ordinators and our Communications Officer to complete an annual impact report

C. Volunteer recruitment and support

• Develop our volunteer strategy, including support measures and assist with their implementation.
• Recruit volunteers for the Kindling office and the lead up to the Kindling Farm Community Shares Campaign
• Update, maintain and oversee the Kindling volunteer database.

D. Events Management at Bridge 5 Mill

• Respond to enquires regarding venue hire (web, email, telephone and walk-ins), including drawing up tailored quotes for event requirements.
• Liaise with event organisers on their requirements prior to their event.
• Supervise the running of events on the day and ensure a smooth, efficient and successful event for organisers and attendees.

E. Publicity/Marketing of Bridge 5 Mill as an office space and venue

• Work with the Communications Officer to market Bridge 5 Mill office space to groups who want to be based at the heart of sustainable and social justice work in Manchester.
• Work with the Communications worker to market Bridge 5 Mill as the best events and meetings venue in Manchester.

F. Health and Safety

• Liaise with the Bridge 5 Mill board to maintain the security of the site and the safety of all those who use it.
• Ensure all building users are provided with Health and Safety information.
• Carry out risk assessments for activities taking place in the building.
• Oversee the placement of additional measures in light of the current and changing Covid situation.

G. Finances

• Work with the Fairfield Group Finance Worker to oversee budgets and report findings to the board.

H.  General responsibilities of this post

• Report progress to the Fairfield Environment Trust’s Board of Trustees.
• Reflect the Fairfield Group’s vision and principles, strategy and policies at all times.
• Be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures.

• Fulfil such other duties and assignments as may be required from time to time.

Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their potential? Do you want to work nights in a challenging, team focused and rewarding environment? Have you got the drive to support a young person on their journey to independence?

This role is perfect for individuals who are new to Supported Housing or have some experience to build on. We welcome people who have the right transferable skills for the role as well as more experienced practitioners.

Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people. We provide a range of accommodation based and floating support services to vulnerable young people across London, Yorkshire and the North East. Our vision is to end youth homelessness but until then we will continue to provide young people with a place to call home, tailored support and the opportunity to build the skills needed to sustain independent living.

We are looking for a Night Supported Housing Assistants to join our excellent Housing and Support team in our London Services, specifically our Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing Services.

In this role you will:

• Work face to face with young people and support them to achieve their goals
• Provide a welcoming and safe environment to young people, stakeholders and visitors by ensuring that house rules and safeguarding procedures are followed
• Help young people overcome difficult circumstances and achieve independence
• Liaise with multiple agencies to ensure effective communication across the service and externally including social work teams, YOS, health and other statutory services and voluntary agencies
• Support young people to manage their rent accounts and develop personal budgeting skills

Staff Benefits (following successful completion of probationary period):

• Annual Leave of 25 days per annum, rising by 1 day per year to a maximum of 27 days.
• Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career.
• Employer pension contributions of 4%
• Access to the Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
• Interest free Travelcard loan
• Access to the PERKZ scheme, offering discounts at a range of retail and leisure facilities

Please note that these roles require working to a rota pattern that involves weekend and evening work and includes undertaking waking night shifts.

Benefits vary and are non-contractual

Closing Date: Sunday 25 October, 12 Midnight

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Wellbeing Manager to join this forward thinking charity, which exists to support the health and wellbeing of the banking community, numbering almost two million people in the UK.

It’s a great time to join BWC. We already support thousands of people every year and our expanding service offer is enabling us to reach and help more clients than ever.

About the Role
Your key purpose in this new role will be to develop BWC’s reputation for expertise in the field of workplace wellbeing in order to increase levels of engagement with UK banks. You will do this by contributing content to support the Charity’s thought leadership activity, particularly in the development of the Wellbeing Pulse blog, delivering workplace wellbeing interventions in UK banks to support their wellbeing strategies and supporting the development and delivery of BWC’s consultancy service to banks.

About You
You will have a background in HR, Occupational Psychology or other wellbeing-relevant field, with expert and current knowledge of workplace wellbeing issues.  You will have expert research, writing and editing skills, with the ability to create content with a clear and strong narrative; and an ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders. 

In order to succeed you will be able to express opinions, information and points of argument clearly.  You will be professional and well-presented, an engaging, perceptive and excellent communicator and have social media skills.  You will also be motivated to achieve, have a commitment to excellence and be able to consider reputational risks.

What we Offer
In return you will receive a competitive salary and the opportunity to participate in a discretionary performance related bonus up to a maximum of 15% of salary along with a range of benefits, which include:

• 30 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
• Up to 13% employer contribution to BWC’s pension scheme
• Group Life Cover (three times annual salary)
• Season Ticket Loan (upon successful completion of probation)
• Employee Assistance Programme

To apply please read through the application pack and complete the attached application form - which includes a Supporting Statement.  Your Supporting Statement should clearly set out how your experience meets the criteria in the Person Specification. 

Closing Date: 30th October 2020

Fixed Term Contract
Volunteer Manager – Grandmentors Bradford
Ref: V288
Start date: As soon as possible
End date: 30 September 2021
Hours/Days per week: 35/5
Salary: 6/26 - £22,668
Location: Flexible working- Primarily at home with some working from our local partner offices as required.  
Closing date: 30 October 2020 – 5pm
Interview date and Location: TBC

Overview

At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.

We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues.  From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great.  And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.

People-led and impact driven, we’re a national charity that is deeply embedded in local areas across the UK.  We operate in five regions: London and the South East; Wales and the West of England; East of England; the Midlands and North West England; and Scotland and North East England.  We also have an Employee Volunteering Team with over 25 years’ experience, acting as a broker to provide tailor-made solutions to employers. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.

Volunteering Matters is looking for an experienced and dynamic Volunteer Manager to join our Central England and South Yorkshire Delivery Team. We are looking for someone who can work flexibility and demonstrate an understanding and commitment to our organisational values.

To apply please visit our website. 

Your supporting statement is of equal importance to us as your CV and is a key part of our shortlisting process. It is an opportunity for you to outline your experience and credentials directly to the details of the post.

Volunteering Matters is committed to the provision of equal opportunities in employment and accordingly wishes to ensure that no job applicant is treated less favourably on unjustifiable grounds. To assist in the monitoring of our performance in relation to equal opportunities you are requested to complete the enclosed monitoring form. The questionnaire is for statistical purposes only. Upon receipt it will be separated from your CV and cover letter and will not form part of the selection process.

Please note: Due to the volume of applications we receive if we have not contacted you by the interview date it means that on this occasion, we are unable to take your application further.

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Our mission is simple, to get refugees cycling! We are a community of refugees, mechanics, staff and volunteers. We collect donations of second-hand bikes, fix them together at our workshop, and then donate them to asylum seeking refugees. A proportion of the bikes that we receive are sold through our online shop to generate funds, the proceeds of which support The Bike Project, and ensure our long-term sustainability.

There are approximately 13,500 asylum seekers that flee to London each year and almost 27,500 bikes are abandoned in the same period. Our mission is to match the two.

The Bike Project is going through a significant period of growth, turning over £1.5 million in 2020. We are expanding the delivery of bike donations, Pedal Power and Bike Buddies whilst developing our retail arm, The Bike Shop. We are looking for a London Operations Manager on a thirteen month contract, starting January 2021 at the latest, to cover maternity leave. 

The purpose of this role is to manage service delivery for The Bike Project in London, working towards our charitable aim of getting refugees cycling. You will work closely with other business functions to achieve targets around bike collections and donations as well as supporting the operations and logistics of shop sites. You will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of service delivery as well as the management of one line report. You will be expected to maintain a good working knowledge of The Bike Project’s programmes, products and policies and maintain good relationships with a variety of external stakeholders.

Please download the attached job pack for more information about the role and the benefits we offer.

37.5 per week (Mon – Fri 9-5)

Brent

Fixed Term Contract until August 2021

Closing Date:  Midnight 04/11/2020

Interview Date: w/c 09/11/20

Do you want to end homelessness and make a positive difference to people’s lives? Are you highly motivated and looking for a challenge? Do you want to use your excellent people skills to support people to move away from homelessness? Then join us as a Support Worker.

Thames Reach are committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in delivery of our services.

Our Brent Reach floating support service is supporting people to sustain their accommodation and achieve their aspirations. Brent Reach are recruiting to fill a variety of posts within this team, we are looking for applications from people new to the homelessness sector and experienced case workers.

The Support Worker (BSL) role would suit:

• People interested in working with Deaf people or people with hearing loss who require housing related support

• People who have a British Sign Language level 1 or above qualification or who people who have personal experience of conversing using British Sign Language

• People interested in working with people with rough sleeping histories or at risk of homelessness sustaining their tenancies.

• An understanding of how to support people with learning disabilities

• People with experience of face to face or customer service work.

• An understanding of how to support people to manage and sustain tenancies and engage positively with their local community.

• People with experience of supporting and motivating people to engage with health services, employment, training and education.

• People who are able to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationship with other agencies such as referral agencies, health services, benefit services and registered social landlords.

• People who have a good understanding of how to work as team, and share their knowledge and good practice with their colleagues, students and volunteers

• Those with strong administration experience who would like to work to support a key front line homelessness service.

You will play a key role in the development of our services and your work will contribute to influencing the future of service provision across the UK.

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

• The ability to provide a flexible and responsive service to people with rough sleeper histories.

• Excellent communication, organisation and creative problem solving skills.

• Commitment to working within the homelessness sector to support people to lead fulfilling lives.

• Creating and working through action plans and be strongly outcome focuses.

• The ability to follow instructions, manage and mitigate risk.

• The ability to use IT systems to communicate and record your work.

• Strong time management skills.

• Be confident in working autonomously as well as within a team, the role with involve office work and in the community.

As well as a great working environment we can also offer:

• We offer communication support for your interview (if required)

• Thames Reach is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme:

• Thames Reach can you support you to make a Access to Work application (if required)

• Support and training to develop your skills.

• Learning & Development opportunities including (Tuition Aid & Management Training)

• 5% employer contribution to pension

• Flexible working

• 29 days annual leave

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.