Employment officer jobs near Leicester

Join the GREAT Team and help to transform lives

Work Club Support Officers – 2 Posts, Leicester, LE1

• £25,503 pa, Full-time 35 hours, Hybrid/Flexible Working
• Fixed term to 31 March 2023

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire have exciting new opportunities for you to join the Getting Ready for Employment and Training (GREAT) project which has been operating since 2017, to support families move into training and employment across Leicester city and the wider county. As a project led by Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL), we work in collaboration with several organisations to deliver effective and tailored services to participants.

The project is funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund. 

Our current partnership includes;

• Business in The Community (BiTC)
• Optima UK
• Personal Development Point
• Scalliwags Mobile Crèche

We are looking for individuals to join our existing project team to enable us to support local families who are currently not in employment and who may be facing challenges to access work or training.  Working closely with our established team of GREAT Project Employment Support Officers across Leicester and Leicestershire. You will support family members who are furthest from the labour market and are most at risk of social exclusion to achieve progress towards and into training or employment.

Participants will be referred to you by your peers and you will work with them one to one and in groups to enhance their job work readiness through a range of focused support including job searching, registering for appropriate job search sites, creating and updating CV's, cover letters, applications and interview preparation skills. The support would be delivered online and in person.

You will be expected to feed into the work of our Business Engagement Development Officer and wider BiTC activities to support them to gain insight into the types of roles and sectors participants are looking for so that they can create world of work tours, work experience and straight to interview opportunities.

Applicants will need to demonstrate experience in supporting individuals to identify and achieve personal goals combined with an established understanding of barriers preventing families from engaging with support linked to employment, education and training. Proven skills in engaging and motivating individuals (both face to face and remotely) to achieve outcomes and an ability to develop high quality information and resources are also necessary. Experience of delivering work readiness workshops to groups and tailored individual interventions in support of employability would be a great advantage.   

The roles also require superb communicators with an established track record in providing impactful support and training, working in diverse communities. You will have a proactive and dynamic approach, excellent organisation skills, a keen eye for detail combined with the ability to process detailed information, manage complex processes, prioritise and multi-task. The project team works with structured processes and to tight timelines and targets, so flexibility and a “can do” attitude are a must.

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) is a sector leading diverse and ambitious organisation, with a vision for growth. You will benefit from a competitive salary, a flexible and supportive working environment, 25 days annual leave, rising with service, plus bank holidays and a 6% employer pension contribution. 

Closing date:  Tuesday 12 July 2022 12.00, midday

Interviews:  Tuesday 26 July 2022

Application form and detailed information about the GREAT Project and the roles can be found on our website 

Title: Volunteering Development Officer
Salary: Up to £19,632
Hours/Contract: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Based: Wales and South West (Home/flexible in the region (with the ability to travel to Penarth)
Closing date: 10th July 2022
Interview date: Week Commencing 18th July

Our Marie Curie team in Wales and South West is looking for a Volunteering Development Officer to join its volunteering department. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate and confident they can deliver a high quality service.
This role will support the Volunteering Business Partner and the Head of Volunteering in growing the programme and increasing the contribution of volunteers, taking Marie Curie to the forefront of volunteering in the UK. It will also support in the development of a high quality experience all those who choose to give their time to Marie Curie. We offer full training with this role.
The Volunteering Development Officer will also have ring-fenced time to support their local hospice with volunteer recruitment, induction and training.
This is an exciting development for Marie curie- these new roles will be hands-on posts directly supporting volunteers in their local communities.
Volunteers make the world of difference to Marie Curie every single day.

The successful candidate should be well organised, flexible and motivated.

Please view the full job description for a detailed overview of what is involved in this role.

What we are looking for:
- Creative and innovative - able to initiate and grow ideas for new volunteer services and activities and enthuse others
- Able to build and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to learn and use volunteer management systems effectively
- Team work-able to work effectively as part of the volunteering team, developing a programme of work that aligns with other plans
- Proven IT skills such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office suite of products.
- Regular travel over a wide regional area
- Experience of being a volunteer or volunteering programmes
What's in it for you:
- Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Continuous development
- Industry leading training programmes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Working

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory standard criminal record check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

About us:

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Carers NI has a fantastic new opportunity to lead and manage our new Advocacy and Voice Project. You’ll establish forums, organise events and provide support to empower carers from across NI, from a diversity of backgrounds, to have their voices heard, and their lived experiences brought, to the heart of government and the Assembly. You will also be a key member of the Carers NI policy team, contributing to analysis of policy and strategy, developing research, co-ordinating engagement with partners, supporting campaigns and representing Carers NI nationally and locally.

Home based / flexible / remote with the possibility of future hybrid working

Full-time (secondments will be considered) / fixed-term for one year with potential extension if funding becomes available

About you

This role requires a broad range of skills in engaging with others and communicating at all levels. You will have excellent written and verbal communication, presentation skills, self-motivation and attention to detail. You will have an understanding of the issues facing unpaid carers and their families and of the current Northern Ireland political system.

The role will particularly suit a proactive individual who enjoys working with people and creating successful networks, can multi task and who can represent the charity to partners across all sectors, civil servants and politicians. 

In return, we can offer you a rewarding role where you can make a real difference to the lives of unpaid carers in Northern Ireland.

Diversity and inclusion

Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard. 

To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.

As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.

At Carers UK we want our application process to be as accessible as possible. If you need any adjustments to apply please email the recruitment team to discuss.

The closing date for applications is 12pm Wednesday 20 July 2022

Interview dates currently scheduled for w/c 25 July 2022

JOB DESCRIPTION - OPERATIONS DIRECTOR 

Responsible to:         CEO
Responsible for: Operations and Premises teams
Location: Baca office, Loughborough, England. The role will require regular travel to other locations where Baca’s services are delivered
Hours: Between 30 to 37.5 hours per week including some occasional evening and weekend hours. This is role is part of the oncall team delivering 24/7 oncall support on a rota
Salary: £33000 - £36000 per annum for full time
Contract:                     Permanent

Overall Purpose
To provide leadership through the. role, as part of the Leadership Team in serving Baca’s vision to enable unaccompanied young asylum-seeking people some of whom are victims of trafficking, to feel welcomed with dignity, be safe and have hope to rebuild their lives for a better future

Duties & Responsibilities

Leadership

• Strategically lead the operations and premises functions, providing support and supervision and ensuring services delivered are of the highest quality, in line with Baca’s vision, mission and values
• Working collaboratively with all teams to enable young people to achieve the 5 outcomes from our Theory of Change.
• Responsible for the financial management of the Operations and Premises functions at Baca, including the management of capital expenditure budgets for capital projects.
• Working with the CEO to support good governance and various Local Authority contract opportunities as necessary.
• Establish excellent stakeholder relationships, in line with our values, working alongside all relevant roles to meeting our strategic goals.
• Playing an active role in developing knowledge and understanding in all areas, including legislations, relevant to the role, to ensure the service is of the highest quality and meets young people’s needs.
• Lead a learning culture across the organisation.
• Support the expansion work of Baca ensuring that it reflects Baca’s vision, mission and values, developing key relationships and partners where necessary.
• Proactively seek and build quality relations with local businesses, agencies and professionals and creatively building external links
• Lead on the development of young people impact data, by working alongside the Service Director, to allow Baca to be able to measure, analyse and share the impact of our work with young people.
• Lead on the development of a People Development and Wellbeing Strategy, working alongside the CEO.

Service Delivery

Systems

• To lead in the development and writing of policies ensuring full legislative compliance.
• Lead and oversee all systems (including but not exclusive of those below), ensuring they are effective, efficient and economical, enabling the delivery of services in all locations by supporting all team members as necessary to achieve our vision and mission.  
  • Data protection systems meeting GDPR regulations whilst acting as the Information Governance Lead
  • ICT systems including cyber-security measures,
  • HR systems, ensuring compliance with all current legislation
  • Business Continuity Plan systems
  • Procurement systems and processes
• Working with the Finance Director to ensure robust financial management systems are in place.
• Responsible for ensuring Baca’s quality management system is effective and efficient, ensuring Baca successfully completes ISO 9001:2015 annual audits and meets Ofsted requirements in the future.
• Lead in the management and mitigation of organisation’s operational risks by working very closely with teams across various functions.
• Oversee Baca’s On Call function to ensure its effective delivery and to undertake on-call duty as part of a team rota. This responsibility comes with additional pay per night.

Premises

• Strategically lead and oversight of all young people accommodation, ensuring they are of the right quantity and of the best quality, to enable young people to have safe homes that are culturally appropriate.
• Oversight of all office and service delivery premises to ensure it is safe and suitable for the delivery of all our activities. This includes ensuring we have best utilisation of space in the office.
• Ensuring all properties comply with the health and safety and building standards regulations set out by all relevant regulatory authorities.
• Responsible for ensuring all external contractors used in the delivery of services follow Baca’s safeguarding processes and procedures.

General

• Be a role model, leading by example in practicing the Values of Baca to achieve our Vision and Mission.
• Provide practical support in the setting-up and closing down of properties, whenever necessary.
• Play an active and supportive role within the organisation 
• Take ownership of all administrative aspects of the role.
• Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to work undertaken according to Baca’s Confidentiality statement and Data Protection Policy. 
• Treat all staff and young people fairly and without prejudice, in line with Baca’s Equality and Diversity policy and adhere to all Baca’s policies and procedures
• Be adept in employing the correct procedures for dealing with any safeguarding incidences or concerns, in line with Baca’s Child, Vulnerable Adult Protection & Safeguarding Policy 
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, in line with the needs of the team.

Personal Specification

Baca is looking for someone who can take the lead with the delivery of all aspects of Baca’s operations to ensure young people who are unaccompanied asylum seekers aged 16 to 18 have the best chance to rebuild their lives for a better future. The successful applicant will have the best interests of the young people at the heart of their role and empathise with the young people in our care. They will be willing to learn from the young people consistently and will ensure that safe relationships will be at the core of Baca’s operations. They have the ability to ensure they can own the bigger picture and translate this to systems, processes and procedures that can facilitate the achievement of this vision. They will be able to subscribe Baca’s values and demonstrate them in their behaviours. They will be very organised, practical, proactive and able to get on with tasks that need doing on a day to day basis, managing a varied and busy workload. They will be able to develop robust frameworks and systems that will release staff. They will be methodical, follow processes and pay high attention to detail. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a team and supporting others. The role will require the successful candidate to complete an enhanced DBS check.

Interviews will happen w/c 1st August 2022. However if suitable applications are received earlier, they may also take place as these applications are made. 

New opportunities at Action Homeless

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation committed to ending the cycle of homelessness and ensuring everyone has a decent and safe place to call home. Our mission is to ensure that no one has to sleep rough on the street in our City. We are passionate about ending street homelessness, and empowering people to achieve higher living standards and quality of life.

We are looking for people to join our teams within our low, medium and high support services. Our teams work to engage and motivate people to manage and sustain their housing, working flexibly and creatively with our local partners.

If you are a resourceful, resilient and a personable individual who enjoys a dynamic and creative work environment then this is a great opportunity to develop your skills and your career. You may have experience of working with vulnerable adults, already be working in the homeless sector, or have experience working in challenging situations, and have the transferable skills we are looking for.

Many of our services operate over seven days per week and include some evening and weekend work and you will be required to participate on a rota; however, you will only work weekends for two weeks in a five-week rota, with a good home to work life balance built in. Your days will vary, challenging and rewarding and you will need to adapt to changing circumstances, as you work with people to reach their personalised goals.

In all these three roles, you will:

• Be responsible for delivering housing related support so our clients sustain their accommodation. This will include encouraging regular rent payments, budgeting and maintaining a home.
• Utilise a strength-based approach to help overcome complex issues and provide individually tailored support
• Support those who live in our properties to access and engage with specialist agencies; this can include mental health services and/or substance misuse agencies and looking at breaking the barriers to our clients using these services
• Encourage our clients to access community facilities; this may include accessing leisure activities, using the open air gym in summer or going for a coffee and a chat
• Support can cover a wide range of activities such as registering with a GP for the first time; support to build confidence in cooking; shopping for items for a new home; finding out about and supporting clients to access training and work opportunities.  
• Ensure our properties are safe and welcoming environments for those who live in them, having a clean room for when a client moves in to our service, including fresh bedding and welcome packs to help them settle in
• Ultimately, support those who live in our services to identify and access appropriate move on options to live independently

Senior Homeless Services Officer

37 Hours per week

Starting salary - £25,827(£13.42 per hour) salary includes £1000 enhancement for participation in on-call duties on a rota basis.

Our seniors are the first point of advice for our Homeless Service Officers and Assistants working within our services. You will be responsible for overseeing, supporting and delivering key outcomes within the team and will be a lead for your team, advising on any complex issues they are facing.

This role allows you to build strong working relationships with the clients living in our services as well as working closely with the agencies we work in partnership with.

You will support and be supported by the Service Team Manager, to implement the homeless services team’s aims and objectives.

The Senior Homeless Services Officer Job Description and Person Specification can be found on our website, please click apply and you will be directed to our recruitment page. To apply for the role please download and complete our application form and return to [email protected] actionhomeless .org .uk

Homeless Services Officer

37 Hours per week

Starting salary - £22,478 (£11.68 per hour) salary includes £1000 enhancement for participation in on-call duties on a rota basis.

This role will provide person centred housing support and management to our clients, many of whom have experienced multiple disadvantages in their lives, and require support to access Treatment, Health and Social Care services. You will provide support to enable clients to move forwards and towards breaking their cycle of homelessness. You will have the time to build positive working relationships with our clients and support them while in our service and to resettlement, from initial referral to moving on to accommodation that is more permanent.

The Homeless Service Officer Job Description and Person Specification can be found on our website, please click apply and you will be directed to our recruitment page. To apply for the role please download and complete our application form and return to [email protected] actionhomeless .org .uk

Assistant Homeless Services Officer

37 Hours per week

Starting salary - £19,892 (£10.34 per hour)

We are offering an exciting training and development opportunity within our homeless services for Assistants Homeless Services Officers.

This role will suit someone wanting a change in career and or looking to take the first step into homeless services. Ideally, you will need to be able to demonstrate an understanding of our client group and the barriers people with experience of homelessness face, a desire to work with vulnerable people who have experienced homelessness in their lives is essential.

We will support you to develop your skills across key areas, including intensive housing management activity such as rent collection and health and safety checks, ensuring accommodation is of a good quality, safe and welcoming while reporting maintenance required. Providing coaching & support to help people obtain their goals. The role allows a pathway to enabling individuals with the skills, values, passion and attitude we are seeking to progress to our Homeless Services Officer role, typically within 6-12 months.

The Assistant Homeless Services Officer Job Description and Person Specification can be found on our website, please click apply and you will be directed to our recruitment page. To apply for the role please download and complete our application form and return to [email protected] actionhomeless .org .uk

If you are interested in meeting our team or finding out more about our vacancies then we are holding a jobs fair on Thursday 28th July 2022 between 5pm and 7pm at 6 St James Terrace, Leicester, LE2 1NA.

Closing date for all roles Wednesday 3rd August 2022 at 5pm

We are recruiting! Are we looking for you?

Who you are: A respected and experienced professional, motivational leader with a talent for programme development, partnership building and the skills, knowledge and experience to implement MapAction’s strategy in concert with the MapAction team.  You share the MapAction ‘can-do’ attitude, rooted in our volunteer values, held very dearly. 

An excellent communicator with great interpersonal skills, you can motivate staff and volunteers alike, to exceed expectations whilst maintaining and developing agreed standards and practices. MapAction’s exceptional volunteer membership and programme staff team will benefit from your leadership to build on their tradition of outstanding humanitarian service. You are a thinker and a doer with deep knowledge and experience in humanitarian, development or peacebuilding contexts and know the value of information management to design effective programmes. 

What you will do: 

You will lead the development of our programme and partnerships to deliver on our ambitious strategy for the future. This will involve delivering on current commitments and developing new, innovative opportunities for us to build global, geospatial capacity for humanitarian response, reduce vulnerability and contribute to ever more effective humanitarian, anticipatory action, preparedness and response. You will develop the team/s to deliver this based on a revised organisational structure and will work closely with others in the organisation to ensure a fully integrated and joined up programme.

As a member of the organisation’s senior leadership team you will take a view across the organisation to enable MapAction to deliver on its strategic goals taking responsibility for managing risk with the Chief Executive and leadership team. 

Key Activities

• Leadership: provide strategic leadership to the organisation through the development of plans and strategies for MapAction’s programmes and partnerships and through participation in the Management Team.

• Programme development: foster an environment that encourages innovation and evolution of our service offer, including proposing and designing new programmes as part of our ambitious income strategy; and identifying and promoting partnerships and networks to achieve this.

• Learning: ensure service user needs are met and MapAction is accountable, working closely with the MEAL team (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team to achieve this and drawing lessons for future programme development and delivery.

• Technology: work closely with MapAction’s technical personnel to ensure MapAction makes optimum use of latest technologies where appropriate, including those outside the areas which MapAction currently focuses on that are designed to meet service users current and future needs.

• Operational readiness: ensure MapAction’s 24 hour 365 days a year capability to respond to an emergency anywhere, is maintained and delivered, including personnel and equipment readiness, and that standard procedures are kept up and developed as required.

• Duty of Care: lead on security, health and safety, and conduct management for all deploying personnel ensuring MapAction exercises its Duty of Care at all times. 

• Personnel: line manage a team to deliver the above, ensuring they receive the support, development, and freedom to excel in their role, and recruit and maintain the volunteer and transition team ensuring a competency-based training framework is implemented. 

• Finance and fundraising: be responsible for the programme and partnerships budget and proactively work with the Fundraising and Marketing team to provide ideas and develop and write successful fundraising bids in line with MapAction’s strategic goals.

• Communications: communicate regularly internally to inform and engage the membership on programme and partnership activities. Work with the Marketing and Learning teams to communicate externally for fundraising or programme policy purposes. 

Direct Reports

MapAction is progressing a change in its organisational structure in line with our new strategy, that means the current arrangements will change as funding is secured for more positions. Currently this role line manages 5 roles and has a very active role in emergency deployment management. We are working towards a team of c.16 positions in the Programme and Partnerships team with the Programme and Partnerships Director managing the team through four direct reports in the key areas of programme delivery. A key part of this role’s responsibility will be to implement this change process, subject to securing the necessary funds. 

Works closely with

• Technical Director 

• Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Fundraising and Marketing team

Key Competencies

We have made quite a list but if you have skills, experience and knowledge that you think is relevant and are not mentioned here, please tell us about them. 

Essential

1. Five years or more proven programme and partnership development experience with a practical “get it done” approach. (E)

2. Team leadership experience, strong motivational qualities in working with volunteers and staff. (E)

3. Technical expertise in at least one of the following:  humanitarian, development or peacebuilding contexts. (E)

4. Ability to deal with ambiguity, use judgement in challenging circumstances, think laterally and be propositional and creative. (E)

5. Project management, report writing, budget management and proven track record of writing successful fundraising bids including experience with restricted grants. (E)

6. Positive team player - goes the extra mile, experience of collaborative working with ability to initiate, develop and sustain positive and productive working relationships with a wide range of people. (E)

7. Strong commitment to MapAction’s mission and values. (E)

8. Good IT skills and experience of shared knowledge management platforms, confidence in using technologies. (E)

9. Ability and willingness to travel, including being deployed at short notice to humanitarian locations and ability to attend training events out of normal office hours. (E)

10. Ability to conduct business in one or more of the following: French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic. (D)

Additional Information

• This role is full-time (37.5 hours a week)

• Flexibility and willingness to work outside office hours including evenings and weekends, attending monthly weekend training events for which time off in lieu as agreed, 

• Must have the right to live and work in the UK (MapAction is unable to consider candidates who do not already hold appropriate permissions)

• Must have a full, clean driving licence and access to a car.

MapAction

MapAction is a small and dynamic volunteer-based charity using geospatial technologies to support international humanitarian response coordination and operational effectiveness for humanitarian responders. Our contribution to the humanitarian sector, lies in informing life-saving humanitarian action, and training local actors to do the same. We cultivate a diverse community of technical specialists, connecting our partners to a unique range of expertise, collaborating to create innovative solutions using data, GIS, remote sensing and Information Management to anticipate, communicate and respond to humanitarian needs. This mapped information helps responders target their response effectively, contributing to saving lives and minimising suffering. MapAction is in the process of revising its strategy for the next five years to ensure it can adapt to the needs of service users around the world. It has built a strong reputation in the humanitarian sector and is a technical partner of the United Nations, regional emergency management agencies, INGOs, Civil Society organisations and Academia. 

Equal Opportunities Policy

MapAction is an Equal Opportunities employer. All employees have a personal responsibility to promote and support measures designed to create a working environment which is free from harassment or discrimination on the grounds of gender, marital status, family status, age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, membership of the Travellers community or HIV&AIDS status.

This job description is not incorporated in the employment contract. It is intended as a guide and should not be viewed as an inflexible specification as it may be varied from time to time in the light of strategic developments and following discussion with the post holder. The post holder will be expected to work to agreed objectives, which should facilitate achievement of the responsibilities in accordance with the performance review process.

How to apply

Please send an expression of interest for this role via gohire. We are running this as an open recruitment so we reserve the right to close it as and when. We strongly advise you to apply early.  Please include the following to be considered for the role:

• a cv 

• covering letter identifying how you meet the essential and desirable competencies 

• a statement of up to 500 words, that demonstrates your experience in one or more of the following: the role of information management in developing effective programmes.

Monitoring and Reporting Lead

We are looking for an experienced Monitoring & Reporting Lead to join our newly established and quickly growing Evidence & Impact Team.

You will be working for a charity that represents 100% of the NHS charity sector in the UK as members. Helping the NHS tackle today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.

Position: Monitoring and Reporting Lead

Location: Warwick – Homeworking/ Flexible working with regular travel

Salary: £35,500 - £41,000 per annum

Hours:  Full time - 35 hours per week

Benefits: 10% pension contributions, 28 days annual leave, access to Reward Hub and weekly wellbeing time, training, and development opportunities.

Closing Date: 

The Role:

As Monitoring and Reporting Lead you will work collaboratively with colleagues from across the organisation to further develop and implement monitoring and reporting structures for grants programmes. You will need to be experienced, proactive, creative, and flexible in this, as this is a developing area of work for the organisation.

You will need to work closely with the Grants Team in the development of their grants database to ensure that capability to capture and record KPIs/monitoring data is included in this, and the system can deliver necessary reporting requirements. You will need to be able to analyse data, identify trends, and utilise data visualisation tools to build dashboards, as well as make evidence-based recommendations for software for data analysis and visualisation. You will also be expected to maintain oversight of reporting requirements to corporate partners and funders and provide data to the fundraising team in an appropriate and agreed format.

A key part of the role will be building relationships with the membership of 240 NHS charities to embed a culture of monitoring and reporting and empower NHS charities to see the value and engage with this.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation, with the chance to get involved in new projects that will help shape the future of the charity, and help to care for NHS staff, patients, and volunteers.

About you:

This is a developing area of work for the organisation so we are looking for someone proactive and creative, with good attention to detail, who can build relationships, recognises the importance of high-quality data and is experienced in all aspects of data management. We are looking for someone who is keen to learn, develop and be flexible to meet needs in a growing team and organisation.

Essential skills and experience include:

• Experience of utilising CRM systems to record and manage data
• Experience of designing Theories of Change and setting KPIs
• Experience of designing monitoring and reporting frameworks, aligned to Theories of Change, and implementing approaches to collect this data
• Experience of designing outcomes tools and embedding these in projects and programmes
• Experience of commissioning and managing relationships with external contractors
• Experience of utilising data analysis software
• Experience of utilising data visualisation software to produce dashboards (e.g. PowerBi)
• Experience of reporting to funders and supporters

If you are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our nation, we would love to hear from you.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Data Analyst, Impact Analyst, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Data Manager, Insight Analyst, Monitoring Lead, Reporting and Analysis Manager, Insight Manager

The Network Church Engagement Managers will support food banks to strengthen and shape their relationship with churches and Christian organisations as part of the Together for Change strategy. They will inspire and enthuse food banks about the role the Church can play in ending the need for food banks, and equip them to effectively mobilise church networks in their area.  

These roles will provide food banks with high-quality insight, guidance and sophisticated understanding bolster their engagement with Christian communities. They will act as an advocate for food banks amongst local and regional church networks and denominations in service of our collective vision to end the need for food banks in the UK. They will play a central role in championing, in the food bank network, our commitment to the inclusion of people of all faiths and none as vital partners in delivering our mission.

Role responsibilities

• Supporting food banks to develop and bring their church engagement strategy to life through designing and implementing activities that support food banks to engage, mobilise and partner with Christian communities around the Together for Change strategic areas of Changing Minds, Changing Policy and Changing Communities
• Support food banks to work with their local Christian community to engage with the Together for Change strategy and work to end the need for food banks in whatever way is most relevant in the local context.
• Work with the Network Leads and Area Managers to identify and build strong relationships with key partners within the church and Christian communities at  regional and local level amongst diverse church traditions and networks.
• Work with Church Engagement colleagues across Trussell Trust departments to develop, promote and adapt UK-wide communications, marketing and fundraising campaigns, extending reach within the assigned region.
• Lead training and offer support to Operational colleagues in the region on engaging church stakeholders, championing the Trussell Trust’s foundational Christian values of Compassion, Justice, Community and Dignity; and working with interfaith and non-religious partners.

The Network Church Engagement Managers will support food banks to strengthen and shape their relationship with churches and Christian organisations as part of the Together for Change strategy. They will inspire and enthuse food banks about the role the Church can play in ending the need for food banks, and equip them to effectively mobilise church networks in their area.  

These roles will provide food banks with high-quality insight, guidance and sophisticated understanding bolster their engagement with Christian communities. They will act as an advocate for food banks amongst local and regional church networks and denominations in service of our collective vision to end the need for food banks in the UK. They will play a central role in championing, in the food bank network, our commitment to the inclusion of people of all faiths and none as vital partners in delivering our mission.

Role responsibilities

• Supporting food banks to develop and bring their church engagement strategy to life through designing and implementing activities that support food banks to engage, mobilise and partner with Christian communities around the Together for Change strategic areas of Changing Minds, Changing Policy and Changing Communities
• Support food banks to work with their local Christian community to engage with the Together for Change strategy and work to end the need for food banks in whatever way is most relevant in the local context.
• Work with the Network Leads and Area Managers to identify and build strong relationships with key partners within the church and Christian communities at  regional and local level amongst diverse church traditions and networks.
• Work with Church Engagement colleagues across Trussell Trust departments to develop, promote and adapt UK-wide communications, marketing and fundraising campaigns, extending reach within the assigned region.
• Lead training and offer support to Operational colleagues in the region on engaging church stakeholders, championing the Trussell Trust’s foundational Christian values of Compassion, Justice, Community and Dignity; and working with interfaith and non-religious partners.

• Job Title:  Education Specialist - Ghana 
• Contract: Full Time, 3.5 years
• Salary: $50,000 - $60,000 per annum  - depending on experience (and benefits)
• Principal Location: Accra, with regular travel within Ghana

Street Child is seeking an outstanding and experienced education specialist to lead the essential education components of the flagship Ghana TransformED Partnership, an innovative payment-by-results programme and partnership with the Education Outcomes Fund and the Ministry of Education in Ghana. This programme has the ambitious aim of assuring access to education and accelerating learning levels for thousands of children, to transform the educational landscape in Ghana.

We are a rapidly developing international children’s charity with exceptional programming in 20 of the world’s lowest income and most crisis-affected countries.  Our high-impact projects chase gains in education and protection outcomes for the most marginalised children - through signature integrated education, child protection and livelihoods initiatives.

This role will be responsible for designing and delivering accelerated learning and school improvement programmes and for achieving outstanding outcomes across these programmes, in partnership with  schools and our national and international partners. This includes designing and delivering assessment, curriculum, instructional methods and materials, teacher training and teacher performance appraisal, and also includes close coordination with the Ghana Education Services [GES] throughout. The role will lead a team of Teaching Advisors and will report to the Street Child Country Representative for Ghana. Strong communication, collaboration and capacity strengthening skills are critical for success in this role.

We are particularly interested in qualified national candidates, interested in a long-term commitment to this role.  Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Please refer to the attachment to see the full role description and person specification. To apply for the role please send your CV and a brief covering letter outlining your suitability and motivations for applying to the email address listed on the attached job description no later than 9am on Monday 11th July (however applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis). Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy. Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Key duties include:

Collaboration and Coherence:

• Ensure accelerated learning and school improvement programmes are informed by expertise and experience from previous programmes and reflect recent research and evidence on teaching and learning including on age-appropriate and adaptive practices, and inclusive practices;
• Engage with stakeholders to coordinate and collaborate on accelerated learning and school improvement programmes and ensure coherence of Comprehensive Basic Education [CBE] in Ghana.
• Engage with stakeholders to prepare and present evidence on progress of programmes.

Instructional Approaches

• Provide significant support for achievement and attainment for out-of-school children in urban communities;
• Design and deliver a foundational learning intervention for children aged 8 to 12 and a functional learning intervention for children aged 13 to 16 including analysing core curricular standards, syllabus, and scope and sequences, adapting them for acceleration and arranging learning experiences to achieve agreed learning outcomes;
• Design and deliver learning and life skills circles for children who have transitioned to schools or Technical and Vocational Education and Training [TVET] institutions to achieve sustained success in the Basic Education Certificate of Education [BECE] and National Proficiency Certificates I and II.

Transformational Teaching

• Provide excellent, effective training, mentoring, and monitoring to a team of Teaching Advisors working with teachers to achieve transformational teaching in rural and urban communities
• Design and develop a teacher proficiencies framework to inform teacher training, mentoring and monitoring, and deliver a teacher appraisal programme aligned to the National Teacher Education Curriculum Framework [NTECF] and National Teachers’ Standards [NTS]; 
• Design a teacher training programme and plan with an appropriate scope and sequence to strengthen and support High Impact Teaching Strategies [HITS];
• Develop and deliver training modules with specific session plans for an intensive Training of Trainers [TOT]  that is engaging, stimulating and scaffolded;
• Collaborate with Teaching Advisors to conduct close tracking of teacher performance and progress.

Targeted Instruction

• Provide excellent, effective training, mentoring, and monitoring to a team of Teaching Advisors working with teachers to address learning loss and accelerate learning for children in rural and urban communities;
• Design and deliver learning assessment tools and trackers aligned to national standards, including diagnostic, formative and summative assessments and equivalence assessments 
• Design and deliver curriculum and instructional methods and materials [including textbooks and teacher guides] for Comprehensive Basic Education [CBE]
• Design and deliver individualisation techniques and tools to strengthen student-centred instruction in the Implementation of Comprehensive Basic Education [CBE]
• Coach and coordinate with Teaching Advisors to use a combination of evidence-informed, intensive group instruction, supplemental instruction, and surgical individualised interventions to allow advanced learners to accelerate acquisition of content and skills, and to allow additional support for less-advanced learners;
• Convene Teaching Advisors together to reflect on learning assessments, ascertain areas of improvement and plan for further individualised instruction and interventions.

Company Description

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our roles then we would welcome your application regardless of your background.

Position

Hope for Justice is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Marketing and Campaigns Specialist to join our dynamic global Digital and Communications team.

As Marketing and Campaigns specialist you will use your strong visionary and organisation skills to deliver powerful and engaging multi-channel campaigns which will raise awareness about modern day slavery supporting Hope for Justice's database and donor acquisition strategy. In this role, you will also have the opportunity to utilise your broad range of creative skills to develop and bring important campaigns to life working alongside the creative writers, graphic designers, and film producers who are part of our cross functional team.

To be successful in this role, you will need outstanding organisational and communication skills as you will work closely with multiple stakeholders. You will have the ability to present and pitch ideas and concepts while working under pressure to meet deadlines. Experience in a range of digital communication platforms is needed in addition to an understanding of the law and regulations relating to in-person and digital fundraising.

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing, global non-profit organisation with a well-respected reputation for changing lives and fighting for freedom for those affected by modern day slavery and human trafficking.

For more information, please download the Role profile at the bottom of the advert.

Requirements

• Create and develop dynamic marketing content for campaigns, marcomms and events
• Create and maintain a long-term calendar of campaign activity, adapted around key dates (and dates to avoid), capacity, and organizational requirements.
• Assist with the optimization of our marketing automation and donor journey processes
• Collaborate with designers, film makers and external influencers to produce marketing ideas and strategies for campaigns and events
• Convince key stakeholders of your creative ideas
• Keep wider department updated on latest marketing trends and technological platforms
• Present internally and externally to promote the story of a campaign or communication
• Collaborate and manage relationships with external partners, influencers and agencies
• Work at all times in line with organisational policies and procedures and the wider strategy, culture and ethos of Hope for Justice.
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme contributions, company sick pay, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to the Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family. As well as operating both Flexible and Hybrid working policies for our UK employees.

Salary: Up to £35,000, depending on experience.

Closing date: 7th July 2022, the vacancy may close early as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Location: Flexible, (Travel to the Manchester head office will be occasionally required)

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Shop Technology Technical Analyst & Support (1222)
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have the ability to prioritise and the drive to achieve results?

Do you enjoy working as part of an expert team to deliver fantastic support to our shops and our Shop Technology Team members?

Are you ready to jump in and learn more about supporting our Oxfam GB network of shops?

Oxfam GB (OGB) is looking for a Shop Technology Technical Analyst for a twelve-month contract to support us in a range of ways at this busy time while we roll out some exciting projects to the shops across the OGB network.

You will be working with the Shop Technology Team in Oxfam to provide specialist Shop Technology first and second line support to key stakeholders. You will be contributing to the smooth running of over 500 Oxfam GB shops across the UK.

What we are looking for:
Our next Shop Technology Analyst will bring an adaptable, flexible approach to work in demanding situations with excellent prioritization skills. You will have strong communication skills and be able to describe and convey complex ideas in a clear straightforward way. You will be detail orientated and enjoy proactively finding solutions to problems as well as being able to analyse information. You will be process-driven and enjoy identifying and writing standard operating procedures in relation to Shop Technology. Most of all, you’ll enjoy working as part of a team to offer a positive, proactive, supportive attitude to everything that you do.

We offer:
This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference to the way we deliver and support our business as usual to our 500+ Oxfam shops across the UK. The income from our shops helps to fund our global movement of millions of people working together across the world to end poverty. You will be a key contributor to provide operational support to shops and to work with a group of passionate, experienced specialists in the shop technology field. Training and development opportunities are available and Oxfam GB, offers a fair pay and competitive benefits package.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please click apply and follow the link to upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. 

About Us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 19 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.
In response to Covid-19 if you are offered a role where you are required to travel between countries please ensure you have been briefed by the Hiring Manager about any changes to working or precautions you should take as part of your role.

Job Title: Advice and Information Team Leader, Northern Ireland

Region: Northern Ireland – Home Based

Directorate: Operations

Contract: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £30,600 to £31,600 per annum

The Role

At the Royal British Legion, we believe in building on potential. As an Advice & Information Team Leader your ability to ensure that each office in your region delivers high quality person centred advice and support to beneficiaries, members and the public could have a real impact on people’s lives.

At its heart, RBL is a people organisation. People who want to do the very best for others, while at the same time making the most of the opportunities and experiences we offer them.

We are the country’s largest Armed Forces charity, with 210,000 members, 50,000 volunteers and a network of partners and charities; helping us give support wherever and whenever it’s needed.

As an Advice & Information Team Leader you will be responsible for holding regular complex case discussions with your team members to ensure that complex and vulnerable clients are well supported.

If successful, the main duties of your role will be to:

• Manage the services and support provided by team members and volunteers, ensuring this meets appropriate quality standards and delivers personalised, outcome focussed, flexible support in accordance with Legion policies and best practice.
• Ensure individual cases are allocated and supported in an integrated way that best meets the beneficiaries’ needs and where appropriate referrals made to specialist Legion advisors, Legion services (e.g. break centres, care homes etc.) or other statutory or non-statutory providers as necessary.
• Co-ordinate the allocation of resources and planning of support activities within the welfare team, planning regular or peripatetic beneficiary support sessions in secondary locations drawing on inputs from other charities and providers as appropriate.
• Oversee caseloads and monitoring volume, ensuring that trends are identified and fed back to inform area and national resource planning and, collecting appropriate casework data, to inform local lobbying/service improvement campaigning. Ensure effective case management is undertaken and standards are maintained through regular audit of casework.
• Ensure team members maintain a knowledge and understanding of services and support available from the Legion, statutory and other local providers. Identify and explore opportunities for joint-working or collaboration with the aim of extending and improving the support available to beneficiaries and ensuring this is provided in a co-ordinated way. Providing, where appropriate, information on local services to the knowledge management team to inform the knowledge database.

This role is home based but we have adopted a hybrid working model, where you will still travel regularly to meet with staff.  A full driving license and access to a vehicle is therefore essential and you will be required to live within the region.

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

the Royal British Legion – Careers in Advice and Welfare

Across the country, in every city and on every street, the RBL is there to support our Armed Forces community.

Every day, everyone in our Advice and Welfare teams dedicate themselves to bettering the lives of those in this community.

Be it a conversation about financial support, physical and mental wellbeing, employment, housing, independent living or social support – working in these teams means the time you’d spend with those who need our help, and the advice you’d offer, could have a profound effect on their lives.

It's this mission, this scale, this challenge and the values we all live by, that makes the RBL such a fulfilling place to thrive.

We also want those who need our support to be able to get it when they need it, and from those best placed to give it. Which is why we’ve invested in multi-channel support services.

So, if you want to give your days meaning. To put your passion into a role with real impact. To support people and be supported yourself. In an inclusive team that faces every challenge together. Whatever your interests and ambitions, we think you’ll find a role here that works for you, with career opportunities right across the UK.

Diversity Statement

We believe that the compassion, understanding, and service we show each and every individual should be reflected in the way we all support, respect, and include every individual who works with us. We want everyone involved in our work or receiving our services, to feel proud to contribute to or be part of a diverse and inclusive organisation.

We recognise that we still have a long way to go to ensure that we make the RBL a truly great and inclusive organisation to work for and be part of so we have set out our commitments to provide a clear path to deliver this ambition. We will keep listening, learning, and sharing our progress and impact

How to Apply

Please click 'Apply online’

Closing date for this role is: Thursday 14th July 2022

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Position

There are over 40 million people living in slavery in the world today.

You can help change that.

Last year we launched our 10x strategy with the aim of delivering ten times the impact in our fight against modern slavery and human trafficking around the world.

We believe our people are the key to achieving that and the newly-created Talent Development Manager role will be pivotal in empowering our talented and passionate employees around the world.

As Talent Development Manager you will be instrumental in identifying the learning and development needs of our global workforce at all levels. You will bring your skills and experience as an L&D professional to develop our employee talent strategy, ensuring that everyone at Hope for Justice is prepared for their role, from onboarding to leadership development.

To be successful, you’ll need experience of developing and delivering innovative internal learning and talent development strategy whilst being able to translate this into successful operational delivery. You will have experience of working across a global organisation, with a proven track record of leading Talent Development and/or Learning and Development initiatives or functions. With this being a new role, you will need to have innovation and creativity whilst being able to lead others through change to bring them along with the new vision and strategy.

We believe we can end modern slavery in our lifetime.

Will you join us?

Requirements

• Serve as an global thought leader to share best practices in organisational learning and talent development 
• Lead an organisational needs analysis to define the strengths and gaps in employee development 
• Identify an employee talent development strategy that aligns with and drives organisational goals around employee knowledge, skills and capabilities 
• Consult with multiple levels of internal stakeholders e.g. Executive team, Heads of departments, HR colleagues and functional managers to identify functional learning needs and recommend and drive forward appropriate learning and development solutions to meet those needs
• Design and implement a multi-level leadership development strategy that grows internal capability
• Contribute to key HR initiatives including onboarding, well-being, succession planning and D&I.
• Support in identifying external vendors to deliver the talent development strategy, ensuring quality as well as value for money 
• Manage external vendors to assess and report on the impact of employee development initiatives 
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme contributions, company sick pay, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to the Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family. As well as operating both Flexible and Hybrid working policies for our UK employees.

Salary: Up to £40,000 per year, dependent on experience

Closing date: 10th July 2022 - applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Location: Manchester, or open to remote working opportunities in the UK

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.