We are an exciting, young and ambitious family support organisation, and this is a key new role for us, reflecting a successful period of expansion and a future focused on sustainability and continued growth.

As Marketing and Communications manager you will lead on implementing our communications strategy, creating content that tells the story of Home-Start Cymru and our work, in a way that reflects our values, personality and the voices of the families we support, and advances our mission. You will be a dynamic marketing specialist, able to raise Home-Start Cymru’s profile, plan and execute high quality digital campaigns, and reach varied stakeholders through different channels.

Engaging those we support, and working closely with the Head of Business Development, you will play a pivotal role in increasing our profile and positioning, and developing our supporter base.

Children need happy, healthy homes in order to thrive but with many parents finding the pressures are greater than ever, Home-Start Cymru is providing vital support through our volunteer-led, home-visiting model. We are there for parents when they need us most, because childhood cannot wait. 

We are looking for an Impact and Evaluation Officer to support our Services Team at Whizz-Kidz.  The role will focus on measuring our social impact, embedding our Theory of Change and completing robust evaluations of our various projects.  The post holder will collect evidence of what services work well and how we can improve quality and quantity of provision. 

You will be a key part of the team, supporting all aspects of Whizz-Kidz evaluations from design to dissemination.

The role requires creativity and understanding of working with young wheelchair users and the impact that our projects have. 

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

Closing Date Monday 21st May 2021  5pm

We welcome applications from across the South Wales and South England. There will be occasional travel to the London Headquarters.

We offer an exciting opportunity to become part of a brand-new senior management team in Valleys Kids, led by our newly appointed Chief Executive. We are a community regeneration charity, committed to changing the lives of disadvantaged people in ex-mining communities of the South Wales Valleys.  We are looking for an exceptional manager able to inspire staff, volunteers and local people to engage in positive change. You must be dynamic, resourceful with a high level of people management skills and experience of managing key relationships with a range of stakeholders and manage our Community & Family Hubs in line with our ethos and values. 

It is being recruited in conjunction with a Director of Business and Finance There is a potential crossover of skills and abilities, so potential candidates may wish to be considered for either role.

A full job description for both roles can be found in the job pack below. 

Job title: Director Programmes

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

The Director of Programmes will be responsible for the strategic leadership, operational delivery and expansion of Valleys Kids Programs. You will manage the Core Program team, ensuring successful provision of services, staff development and wellbeing and collective innovation amongst the managers. 

You will facilitate delivery of the overall strategy and annual plans while helping to generate a strong evidence base to underpin further development. Working with the CEO, you will also help to ensure that Valleys Kids has a strong profile for its work at local and national levels. 

You will be responsible for ensuring that Programmes are sustainable,  working with the Business Development and fundraising team to put in place a strong funding pipeline and undertaking future development work as needed.  This role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team at Valleys Kids and contributes to overall strategic management of the organisation.

Strategy: Developing and implementing the overall programmes strategy. 

Programme Oversight: Ensuring locality facilitators and core team are working together to deliver successful projects which help Valleys Kids to fulfil its mission while also meeting outputs and outcomes agreed with partner stakeholders and funders and  capturing evidence of impact through appropriate evaluation.

Business Development: Ensuring that existing programmes are sustainable and developing purposefully and initiating new programmes and models of future funding. 

Innovation: Leading on work to examine the potential for adopting new service delivery models and helping communities to play a full role in decision-making and setting the agenda.

Organisational Development: Working with the CEO and other members of the senior team to ensure that Valleys Kids is a well-managed and successful organisation, with a focus on continuous improvement in strategy formulation, systems and processes.

Profile raising: Developing ways in which Valleys Kids communicates and engages with stakeholders, in order to create an enabling environment for our work both nationally and regionally.

Person Specification:

Values:

• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

• At least 5 years experience of leading program co-design, implementation and evaluation 

• Evidence of leading the delivery of multiple programme that have significant social impact

• Evidence of successful staff engagement and development practice, linking organisational values with employee behaviour

• Experience of project budgeting and financial management

• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships 

Skills:

• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations

• Resourceful, resilient and innovative, with the ability to manage different priorities, understand a wide range of activities and effectively manage a diverse team of professional, technical and commercial staff

• Committed to leading from the front and demonstrating to staff and stakeholders that community development and service delivery are the foremost priorities for the organisation

• Ability to delegate effectively and to hold people to account

• Organised, with excellent time management skills and high levels of self-motivation

• An effective communicator orally and in writing, able to articulate our work to a broad range of stakeholders and to negotiate well

• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully

Other requirements

• Flexible with a willingness to work outside normal office hours.

We offer an exciting opportunity to become part of a brand-new senior management team in Valleys Kids, led by our newly appointed Chief Executive. We are a community regeneration charity, committed to changing the lives of disadvantaged people in ex-mining communities of the South Wales Valleys.  We are looking for a charismatic, experienced, forward thinking individual with financial acumen, innovative ideas and the commitment to implement them as our Director of Business & Finance. 

This post will be responsible for income generation, driving social enterprise and financial management. It is being recruited in conjunction with a Director of Programmes. There is a potential crossover of skills and abilities, so potential candidates may wish to be considered for either role

Please see the job pack below for a full job description for both roles. 

Job title: Director of Business and Finance

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Penygraig, South Wales with some home working 

Hours: Full-time 

As a family friendly organisation, we recognise that obligations outside work are important and that balancing work and family commitments can sometimes be a challenge.  We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Annual leave entitlement: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employer pension contributions of 3% 

The Director of Business Development will be responsible for ensuring that Valleys Kids has the resources, people, systems and processes  to continue to thrive and grow. 

You will be responsible for ensuring successful delivery of the organisational infrastructure, collective innovation, staff development and well-being . 

You will facilitate delivery of the business development strategy and annual income generation plan. Initially, you will have specific oversight of three areas: income generation, fundraising and marketing;  financial and administrative operations; and our rapidly developing social enterprises. 

This role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team at Valleys Kids and contributes to overall strategy development of the organisation. Working with the CEO, you will also support Valleys to develop a strong profile for its work at a local and national level.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy: Developing the organisation’s strategic approach to resources management (including financial planning processes, analysis of current and future spending needs, budget-setting, use of assets, implementing the business development strategy and annual income generation plan).

Organisational Development: Working with the CEO and other members of the senior team to ensure that Valleys Kids is a well-managed and successful organisation, with a focus on Quality assurance and continuous improvement in strategy formulation, systems and processes.

Finance and Administration: Managing the finances of the organisation (including oversight of the finance and administration team), linking resource decisions to strategic and service planning priorities, monitoring and reporting expenditure, managing external contracts (including systems for performance and impact evaluation), overseeing HR processes. 

Business Development: Leading income generation initiatives to ensure a strong blend of income stream and overseeing the fundraising team and the social enterprises team.

Social and Community Enterprises: Providing strategic management for the work of Valleys Creative and other initiatives that provide high quality management of community assets and social enterprises.

Innovation: Together with the Director of Programmes, leading on developing new approaches to meeting the needs of communities and working with partners in assessing need and making plans for working together in meeting those needs, 

Corporate Governance: Overseeing arrangements for making the work of the Board of Trustees effective across the whole range of strategic functions it performs.

Person Specification: 

Values:

• A commitment to community development, tackling structural inequality and other barriers to people achieving their potential.

Experience:

• At least 5 years experience of Senior Management 

• At least 5 years experience of leading income generation for an organisation or enterprise, ideally a mixture of traditional fundraising, social enterprise and contracts

• Experience of budgeting and financial management, ideally with budgets over 1 million

• Evidence of successful staff engagement and development practice, linking organisational values with employee behaviour

• A strong track record of networking, developing and maintaining external relationships 

Skills:

• Interpersonal skills and judgement, which inspire confidence and trust from staff, volunteers, stakeholders and other organisations.

• Ability to lead or oversee income generation from a wide range of sources including statutory funding, trusts and foundations, trading income, contracts and individual giving.

• Ability to manage multiple income streams ensuring full compliance to agreements and contracts

• An entrepreneurial approach - able to use resources effectively and develop new ideas and gain buy-in to implement successfully

• Ability to understand and implement effective systems and processes 

• Committed to leading from the front and demonstrating to staff and stakeholders that community development and service delivery are the foremost priorities for the organisation

This is an exciting new role for us as a relatively new organisation, reflecting a successful period of expansion and a future focused on sustainability and continued growth. As Head of Business Development you will lead on creating a strong income generation culture across the organisation, building a business development mindset into our central communications and policy work as well as our regional delivery plans.

Children need happy, healthy homes in order to thrive but families face more pressures than ever, with many parents finding the practical and emotional demands overwhelming. Home-Start Cymru provides vital emotional and practical support to families with young children through a volunteer-led, home-visiting (pre-covid) model of support. We combine the strengths of our network of community-based volunteers across Wales with our professional expertise in the early years. We are there for parents when they need us most, because childhood cannot wait. 

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser and help us to generate the evidence that will unlock our understanding of the ways in which can reduce the impact of poverty on children's lives and support their early learning outcomes.

Every child has the right to ensure that their basic needs are met, and to receive the encouragement and help which enables them to reach their full potential. The greatest barrier to this in the UK is poverty and inequality. Our mission is to secure a sustainable reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty and work to narrow the early learning gap between those children and their better off peers.

We believe this future is possible. It requires more money to be put back into the pockets of parents and carers, decent jobs, more opportunities for young children to play and learn, and policies and services which centre children and families' needs, reduce discrimination, and that are designed to help children to flourish by preventing difficulties at the earliest possible stage: in pregnancy, at birth, in the crucial first 1,001 days of life and throughout childhood.

We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

The UK Evidence and Learning team generates evidence that enables us to secure changes to policy and practice, in every nation of the United Kingdom. Through our work, we demonstrate what is effective in improving lives for children and families; we collect evidence directly from children and families to help us understand how current practice affects their lives; we develop and test promising, sustainable interventions in communities; and we gather and synthesise evidence from local partners, organisations in our sector, and academia. We draw on all this learning to work with colleagues to influence decision-makers and advocate for policy and practice change, with and on behalf of families.

As a Senior Evidence and Learning Adviser, you will:

Develop strategies for generating evidence and learning, especially focussing on qualitative research, participatory practice and other open research and intelligence gathering approaches.

Undertake primary research and evaluation, analysis and evidence syntheses.

Support teams to implement evidence strategies, building their capacity and confidence to support evidence and learning practice and ensuring that the approaches put in place are rigorous and practical.

Support teams in developing and using theories of change and outcomes frameworks.

Capture and disseminate our data and learning.

To be successful you will:

Hold expertise in evaluation and evidence generation across a wide range of methods, although we are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with a strong technical background leading qualitative, ethnographic, innovation and participatory research practice.

Have experience of and be confident in undertaking evaluation and research with both children and families and with marginalised groups.

Hold expertise in learning and improvement methodologies and have experience of using data and evidence for improvement.

Hold strong analytical skills, be able to interpret complex data and make it meaningful to others.

Be adept at developing relationships and working with a wide range of individuals, teams and in different policy and practice contexts.

Be a confident and experienced user of data analysis software, such as Nvivo or Atlas.ti

Diversity & Inclusion 

To help us attract and encourage applications from a wide range of people, we are holding an open information session so that you can find out more about working at Save the Children, the UK Impact team and our vision and mission for children in the UK.  For details on how to sign up please visit our website.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity, and a commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 17th May 2021

Based in any UK Office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

Do you want to be part of an organisation which stands up for children? If so, join us as a Health Advocacy and Policy Adviser.

About Us
We are Save the Children. For a century, we've stood up for children's rights and made sure their voices are heard. We stand side by side with children in the toughest places to be a child and we do whatever it takes to make sure they survive, get protection when they're in danger, and have the chance to learn. We are constantly finding new ways to reach children who need us most, no matter where they're growing up.

As Health Advocacy and Policy Adviser).  you will have the opportunity to directly impact on Save the Children's Survive Breakthrough which aims to ensure that no child dies before their fifth birthday by 2030. You will work to influence key global and national policy makers to achieve policy and system change and will focus particularly on advocating towards the UK Government to maintain its commitments to global health priorities.

This is a fantastic opportunity to own professional relationships and grow your network, getting to know the development sector and architecture, including direct work with the UK and other governments, multilateral stakeholders, civil society organisations, and children and young people.

You will be responsible for high-level advocacy and policy to ensure  adequate resources and political commitment for key global health areas including childhood immunisation, access to the COVID-19 vaccine in low and middle income countries, women and children’s health, strong primary health care systems and universal health coverage.

Child survival is a  significant prioritiy for the organisation and therefore will position the successful candidate well for future career and personal development opportunities

Key Accountabilities
In addition to the above, you will:

• Design, lead and deliver policy, advocacy, research or MEAL strategies and products, to a high standard and often with minimal supervision
• Identify policy and research needs and influencing opportunities in your thematic area, at the country level and/or internationally
• Maintain and develop high-level knowledge and expertise in your specific area and advise colleagues across the global movement, including at a senior level, as well as external stakeholders
• Develop and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders and build strong working relationships with partners and advocacy targets
• Represent the organisation externally, including in high-level meetings and events.
• work closely with colleagues in public affairs, campaigning and media to deliver integrated health advocacy strategies.

Person Profile
To be successful you will be an enthusiastic and experienced policy advocate, motivated by a desire to make children's rights a reality for all and address inequality. You will be a team worker, thriving on collaborating with others to achieve shared objectives within dynamic and agile teams. In addition, you will have:

• Expertise in the field of global health advocacy
• Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, coupled with technical expertise in health financing and the ability to conduct policy research and write clearly and concisely for different audiences.
• A proven track record of carrying out first-class research, policy and/or advocacy
• Strong networking skills and experience of participating in coalitions and working with civil-society actors to achieve change
• Very strong written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of human rights, international relations, political analysis and the international humanitarian system.

An ability and willingness to travel up to six weeks a year is also essential for this role.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 24 May 2021