Executive assistant to ceo jobs near Cardiff, Wales

Opora is a charity helping Ukrainians fleeing the war rebuild their lives in the UK sustainably and for the long term. Opora helps tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the UK with information, advice and practical support to rebuild their lives in the UK, addressing employability, mental health, accommodation and financial needs. Opora adopts technology-led and entrepreneurial approaches to solving charitable problems for our beneficiaries.

The Managing Director will be responsible for furthering the objects of Opora and ensuring the successful delivery of Opora’s charitable activities across all aspects of the Opora mission. The Managing Director will provide exceptional leadership to our staff, volunteers and represent Opora externally. The Managing Director will be overseeing all aspects of managing Opora’s day-to-day activities, strategic growth, fundraising and regulatory / statutory reporting and financial management. 

Opora is a very entrepreneurial and dynamic charity, focussed on technology-led solutions to achieve scale of our charitable activities and outcomes for our beneficiaries - the successful candidate will need to embody this approach and principles. We will consider all career backgrounds and candidates who can demonstrate the required skills, capacity and willingness to learn fast, problem-solve and discover innovative, technology-led solutions in support of our beneficiaries. This is a great opportunity for someone to step into a leadership role, act as an owner and help scale-up Opora’s effort and impact.

Main responsibilities 

• Overall leadership of Opora

  • Developing and implementing Opora strategies in conjunction with the Board of Trustees

  • Developing and implementing new and existing partnerships and funding initiatives

  • Pro-actively seeking and establishing opportunities to enhance and expand the impact of Opora’s charitable activities

  • Representing and promoting the organisation externally

  • Overseeing the day-to-day management of Opora, the Opora platform and online communities and supporting the team in delivery and development of charitable activities.

• Planning and development

  • In conjunction with the Board of Trustees, develop, implement and monitor the business and development plan, including the identification of new charitable projects and risks

  • Maintain an awareness of the context in which the charity is operating, including policy, legislation, commissioning, social trends and beneficiaries’ needs (especially by proactively analysing Opora’s online community engagement) and use these to develop and adapt the service and support local, national and cross government national policies

  • Translate organisational objectives into team and individual work plans with clear and realistic targets.

• Fundraising / income generation

  • Develop with the Board of Trustees, and implement, a diverse funding strategy and plan that underpins the sustainability of the organisation, and expands and diversifies the organisation's funding base

  • Ensure the funding plan is executed effectively through the development of appropriate services and projects that are attractive to funders

  • Develop and implement an efficient and effective bid identification and writing process that yields sustainable funding to support strategic service development

  • Present all funding opportunities to the Board for confirmation of fit with the organisation’s requirements 

• External affairs and public relations

  • Maintain and develop strong, effective networks and relationships in communities across the UK, with stakeholders, partners, funders and potential funders, local government, beneficiaries and within the wider community, voluntary and special enterprise sector

  • Promote and protect the aims, principles, policies, interests and reputation of the Opora, developing the profile through appropriate publicity, media and marketing activities, including public speaking, presentations and use of social media

  • Identify and develop partnership opportunities and work effectively with other organisations and consortia, where appropriate

  • Liaise with the Home Office and other Departments and contribute to their work at regional and national levels, where appropriate.

• Supporting the Board of Trustees

  • Arrange and attend meetings of the Board of Trustees, including sub committees, working groups, the annual general meeting and any special general meetings

  • Advise the Board of Trustees on financial, staffing and operational issues and on compliance with the Opora policies and Charity Commission guidance and relevant legislation, company and charity law, health and safety, employment, etc

  • Report to the Board of Trustees on progress against the business plan and agreed objectives

  • Prepare and draft Opora annual report.

• Financial management

  • Ensure day-to-day financial control of the charitable activities within budget agreed by the Board of Trustees

  • Ensure that all finances are properly administered and monitored, and that appropriate financial regulations and controls are in place and in use at all times

  • Prepare and review detailed budgets for approval by the Board of Trustees in conjunction with Trustees and / or appropriate sub-committee, accountants auditors

  • Ensure regular management reports are made to the Board of Trustees on income, expenditure and any variations from budgets

  • Oversee the correct preparation of accounts and financial statements in conjunction with Trustees, accountants and auditors

  • Ensure that all financial reporting obligations are met in relation to submissions for funding; grant aid, contracts and any other initiatives.

• Staff and volunteer management

• Ensure and promote a positive, flexible and inclusive workplace where everyone is passionate about supporting Opora’s beneficiaries 

• Ensure that the very best people management practices exist throughout the whole employee/volunteer lifecycle

• Ensure that a comprehensive trustee/staff/volunteer strategy and annual plan is developed and put in place, to include effective recruitment, training development, and performance management

• In accordance with the Opora organisational procedures, assist the Board of Trustees in implementing and monitoring employment policies and procedures 

Experience and skills

• Fluent English required; Ukrainian or Russian preferred 

• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision in a very entrepreneurial, fully-remote working environment required

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, to represent Opora to the community, its stakeholders and partners required

• Ability to manage competing priorities and dynamically prioritise workload, ensuring all ongoing and project tasks are completed on time required

• Demonstrable knowledge charity governance, general management best practice required

• An entrepreneurial mindset, with outstanding organisational, leadership and community-building skills required 

• Prior fundraising experience from donors, grants, trusts in a small charity preferred 

• Experience in working with vulnerable groups and beneficiaries, strong knowledge of safeguarding best practice both online and offline preferred 

A London based Educational Membership Charity are looking to appoint an experienced Executive Assistant to provide high quality assistance to the Chief Executive, and ensure efficient functioning of the Executive Team. The post holder will play a key role in enabling effective governance of the Board of Directors and Trustees.

Job responsibilities:

• Acting as a point of contact for the CEO ensuring the office runs smoothly and efficiently, liaising and coordinating with other members of the Executive and wider Management Group, the Board and other stakeholders
• Handling a range of conflicting priorities and ensuring the CEO’s office maintains an open and outward-facing approach
• Acting on the CEO’s behalf to ensure excellent communications, liaising internally with colleagues and members of the Board as well as externally with clients and other stakeholders
• Leading on specific projects or initiatives, under the direction of the CEO
• Preparing briefing documents, carrying out research, preparing notes and presentations
• Managing the CEO’s diary, scheduling appointments and arranging travel itineraries; making bookings and purchases, arranging payments, maintaining simple budgetary records and liaising with the Finance team
• Handling calls, email and other correspondence
• Supporting the Board and Executive team, corporate stakeholder meetings and event
• Support the CEO in ensuring that governance arrangements are working in the most effective way; providing high-level governance and administrative support to the Board
• Drafting and checking agendas, collating and circulating papers, keeping minutes, pursuing agreed actions
• Planning events and booking internal rooms and external venues

Essential Experience and Qualifications:

• EA experience for a Chief Executive or Senior Director
• Experience working with non-Executive Board
• Experience dealing with Trustees

Duration: 4 months temporary – permanent

Agency Reference Number: J61123

Temporary Rate: £150 - £200 per day

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum

Remote working – Very Occasional Office Travel

Location: Old Street, London
 

Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant provides efficient administrative and general support to the CEO and Senior Management Team to assist them in fulfilling their roles effectively. They act as a PA to the CEO – managing diaries, coordinating meetings, handling correspondence and arranging travel and accommodation as required – and are a central point of contact for the Board of Trustees.

The Executive Assistant supports other members of the Senior Management Team to manage HR, finance and governance systems and processes of the organisation, maintaining strict confidentiality when handling sensitive material. The Executive Assistant also works alongside other staff across the organisation to help with coordinating meetings, away days and events and ensure the effective administration of the organisation’s activities.

• Part time, 15 - 22.5 hours per week; to be worked over a minimum of 3 days
• £26,250 per annum (pro rata), plus 3% pension contribution

Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 5 September 2022.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 12 September 2022.

At The Bike Project we provide an innovative solution to one of the most pressing problems facing asylum seekers and refugees on arrival to the UK: access to transport when living on a limited income, which for asylum seekers is as little as £5.66 per day.

Our mission is simple: each year we match refugees and asylum seekers with the many thousands of bikes that go abandoned or unloved around the country. We then go on to support these new bike owners to realise the emotional, practical and physical benefits of cycling.

10 years since that first bike donation, we are about to donate our 10, 000th bike and have expanded the project to include multiple programs, from refugee befriending services to women-only cycling classes.

We have supported tens of thousands of refugees to get access to bikes, learn to cycle and created a community of colleagues, refugees, volunteers and supporters. And we’ve grown rapidly in the last few years, from £720k turnover in 2018, to £2.2m turnover in 2021

Despite our successes, this is just the start. The demand from refugees for our work far outstrips our ability to meet it so we are looking to continue to grow until every refugee in the UK has the opportunity to start cycling.

If you want to be a part of that, read on!

About this role

This is where you’ll come in – if you choose to apply for the amazing role of Ecommerce Executive. Our ecommerce and retail arm has grown leaps and bounds since 2019, and we need someone brilliant to help take us to the next level.

Why you should apply:

If you care about refugees and asylum seekers, and want to work for a non-profit – then this is the job for you.

Working in the wider marketing and fundraising department, you’ll be part of a team of five and report into the Head of Marketing and Fundraising.

The role has real responsibility and autonomy. With plenty of support and a great on-boarding program, you’ll nevertheless be able to jump straight into managing and planning campaigns.

What you’ll work on:

• Work closely with the Digital Marketing Manager and the Retail Staff to define site updates in-line with the marketing calendar, planning to ensure timely execution.
• Set-up and upload new products, offers, text links and banners with accuracy across our websites and other digital properties including Ebay.
• Ensure the customer journey and site standards are optimised and achieved on the site. (Product, content and SEO links are commercialised)
• Responsible for growing our organic traffic profile via our Google Grants account.
• Suggest and implement recommendations using our SEO tools to improve our quality scores, reduce page errors, broken links and improve relevancy for important keywords.
• Continuously improve campaign performance through A/B testing of creative, placement and targeting combinations to improve customer conversion rates, exit pages, bounce rate.
• Be proactive to develop business growth with new and existing customers.
• Work closely with the operations and retail team to always ensure the inventory is covered.

Platforms you’ll work on:

You don’t need to be familiar with all of them, we will train you!

• Shopify
• Email Platform (Campaign Monitor)
• Salesforce
• WordPress
• Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

This job may include working with vulnerable people in challenging situations. As such, a DBS basic disclosure will be required. An openness and sensitivity to religious and cultural differences is essential when interaction with bike recipients.

How to apply!

We welcome applications via our website. 

* This role is mostly remote, but you must be able to attend some meetings in our HQ in Brixton, London, as well as occasional events and site visits

Base location – Negotiable, including hybrid working and some attendance at NIoT Head Office in Blackburn

This is a unique opportunity to join the National Institute of Teaching at the start of its journey as a newly formed organisation. The Institute will boost the quality of teacher and leader development nationally by generating and interpreting research, applying the insights to the design and delivery of high-quality teacher and school leader development programmes, and sharing it with the sector.

The Chief Operating Officer will be a pivotal member of the Institute’s Executive Team, leading the Finance, HR, IT, Contract Management, Registry and Quality Assurance teams. It will also work directly with the Board of Directors, CEO and Executive colleagues to design and develop the organisation’s principles and strategy as it grows.

The Institute is run by the School-Led Development Trust, a charity founded by four of the country’s leading school trusts: the Harris Federation, Outwood Grange Academies Trust, Oasis Community Learning and Star Academies, and supported by the Department for Education. We are building a school-led movement, strengthening relationships and collaboration across the system. 

Overall purpose of the post:

To provide strategic leadership and hold accountability for the operations functions of the National Institute of Teaching in order to:

· Provide exceptional support to the Trust Board, CEO and Senior Leadership Team, allowing them to deliver the programme, academic and research aspects of the Institute;

· Lead and develop the operations departments of finance, IT, HR , contract management and the registrar & QA function;

· Conduct strategic financial planning to support the decision making of the Board and Senior Leadership Team;

· Build leadership capacity at all levels.

Main duties and responsibilities:

⮚ Building and leading an effective and cohesive operations team;

⮚ Working with the Chief Executive and SLT to create appropriate short, medium and long term strategy;

⮚ Communicating and implementing these strategies across the operations functions and wider staff of the organisation;

⮚ Creating and co-ordinating annual financial and operational plans to include appropriate targets for heads of operations functions;

⮚ Reporting regularly to the Chief Executive and the Board on the progress of the organisation against financial, strategic and operational plans;

⮚ Managing the senior team who currently have responsibility for the following: finance, human resources, health and safety, site management, IT, registry & quality assurance and contract management;

⮚ Providing leadership to the Board on finance and accounting strategy to optimise the NIoT’s financial performance and strategic position;

⮚ Developing and overseeing the quality of management information, budgeting and forecasting processes;

⮚ Liaising with the Institute’s legal partners to ensure legal compliance to relevant company and charity legislation;

⮚ Ensuring the continued evolution of sound information systems to enable the Board, CEO and Executive team to make measured strategic and operational decisions;

⮚ Establish a high level of credibility and manage strong working relationships with external parties including the ESFA, HMRC, the DfE and external auditors;

⮚ Ensuring that the NIoT makes effective use of technical innovation in achieving its strategic and operating plans;

⮚ Ensuring the operations structures, systems and processes are appropriate to ensure long and short term plans will be achieved;

⮚ Liaising and negotiating with third parties over the maintenance and development of service level agreements and contracts for the delivery of some aspects of advice and support to the organisation and reporting these to the Chief Executive and Board accordingly;

⮚ Implementing best practice in recruiting, developing, managing and supervising staff;

⮚ Working with the Board to continue the development of outstanding governance policies and practices;

⮚ Acting in the capacity of Company Secretary to the Board and other companies and charities operated by the Board;

⮚ To represent the Board or Chief Executive Officer to regulatory authorities, the media, stakeholders and the public as required;

⮚ Having due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people and to follow the safeguarding procedures;

⮚ Demonstrating an active commitment to their own professional development.

Your team

There will be five main teams in the functions that this role will be accountable for

· Finance team

· HR team

· IT team

· Registrar & Quality Assurance team

· Contract Management

What we are looking for

Knowledge & Experience

Relevant managerial and professional experience in a related area at a senior level

A successful record of working within a changing environment and a commitment to the delivery of best value services

A sound knowledge or experience of relevant legislation and regulatory environment

An innovative leader with a vision for strategic financial leadership

Knowledge of experience of the charity sector would be advantageous

Qualifications

A degree and/or professional qualification relevant to the post and/or equivalent learning

through professional experience

Skills

Ability to demonstrate a business focus and commercially minded approach

Ability to win support for new ideas and concepts through effective advocacy skills

A strong understanding of ICT and its potential for the effectiveness of the organisation

A proven ability to successfully manage resources effectively

The ability to translate a visionary/innovative concept into a practical implementation

plan

Personal Qualities

A commitment to the aims of the National Institute of Teaching, with a focus on

improving schools and communities to raise standards for children;

A commercially astute, articulate, technically strong, dynamic, insightful and influential

leader with the ability to operate at a strategic level

A team player with excellent communication skills and robust and focused approach to

the delivery of key strategic imperatives

Highly motivated, with an inquiring mind and a passion for excellence and innovation in

pursuit of success

High integrity and openness combined with commitment to good governance

A mature and balanced approach to the assessment and management of risk

An ability to use the full range of leadership skills and qualities, including emotional

intelligence, as appropriate to the situation

Someone who is resilient and determined but can also provide support, demonstrate

empathy and deal with staff and situations in a sensitive and considerate manner

Personal Contacts

External: Department for Education at all levels, key decision makers across the sector including CEOs, contractors, ESFA, HMRC

Internal: Fellow Executive members, Campus Principals, Board of Directors

Working at the National Institute of Teaching

Location: Flexible

Contract: Permanent

Key benefits available to all Institute of Teaching staff:

· Flexible start and end working times (core hours between 10am and 4pm);

· Flexible working opportunities;

· 27 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 bank holidays).

Diversity and inclusion

The National Institute of Teaching is committed to creating a diverse environment and ensuring that all qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment. We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment practices and are open to job shares, secondments, part-time, and flexible working schedules.

Things to know

• All National Institute of Teaching staff are subject to a check by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The level of check which will apply shall be an “Enhanced” level check.

• We regret that we are currently unable to sponsor visas.

How to apply

Key Dates

· Closing date: 21 August 2022

· Shortlisting: w/c 22 August 2022

· First round interviews: w/c 29 August 2022

· Final interviews: w/c 5 and 11 September 2022

We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure that it is considered in the selection.

If you have a disability and can demonstrate that closing this post early would impact on your ability to submit an application in time, please contact our Human Resources team to request arrangement for an application to be submitted within the original time-frame.

Role description

Vibrant, diverse, and robust civil societies are essential to achieving peace, human rights, and environmental justice. But most of the world lives in countries with threatened civic spaces and global freedom continues to decline year on year.

Courageous people and communities around the world are fighting to make rights and justice universally possible within this context. But they face attacks, harassment, and censorship from powerful vested interests. Many pay the ultimate price.

This is where you come in.

You will be leading an international team of consultants providing security mentoring and capacity building to organisations and activists under threat in violent environments and closed civic spaces. You will be liaising with international foundations and high-profile nonprofits in the human rights, environmental, and humanitarian worlds. And you will be central to the organisational culture and strategic planning needed to grow our organisation in a sustainable manner. 

As our director of safety and security, your primary responsibilities will include:

Lead our safety and security workstream

1. Continuously develop and promote our safety and security consultancy services to foundation and nonprofit clients.

2. Respond to enquiries from clients and liaise with them and our consultant team through any subsequent contracts.

3. Manage our responses to referrals for fully-funded safety and security support for at-risk activists and low-resource civil society organisations and liaise with referral partners through any subsequent support.

4. Manage an international and multilingual team of 10 consultants and trainers providing safety and security support to clients and recipients, including.

   1. Quality assure and provide expert technical input into the work of your colleagues in the safety and security team.

   2. Review and approve consultant invoices and timesheets, update our project management system, and conduct annual reviews with team members.

   3. Maintain an effective team and recruit and onboard new consultants as required to fill gaps or meet demand.

5. Complete security risk management and duty of care audits and produce bespoke security risk management frameworks and other higher-level products for clients (approximately 20% of time).

Champion our own security risk management

1. Provide travel security support to our team members, ensure that our travel management procedure is understood and followed, and coordinate any check-ins and loss-of-contact procedures during travel.

2. Review and revise our crisis management procedure, constitute and coordinate the crisis management team, and capacity build where required.

3. Coordinate our response to any security incident or crises involving our team members.

4. Continuously improve and socialise our security risk management framework.

Shape our organisational strategy and culture

1. Play an active role in defining our organisational strategy and culture as part of our senior management team alongside our CEO, finance director, wellbeing and resilience lead, and digital security lead.

2. Participate in monthly senior management team meetings (strategy) and monthly programme meetings (operations).

3. Contribute safety and security expertise throughout our enterprise risk register annual cycle.

On joining, your early priorities will be getting to know our existing clients and team members, taking over the smooth management of current contracts and projects, and understanding our internal processes and workflows.

You will be supported in your role by a safety and security programme associate (four days a month) and an executive PA (20 hours a month) plus a CEO who believes in servant leadership. We also have an extensive internal knowledge base and an up-to-date project management system. To help you grow as a leader, we will co-design your annual objectives, and you will be offered a 360° review, an annual performance review, and executive coaching.

Person specification

Essential

• You will have at least five years’ professional experience in roles focussed on humanitarian security risk management or the protection of human rights defenders.

• You will have at least three years’ professional experience in international programme management roles or similar senior roles.

• You will have at least two years’ professional consultancy experience or similar experience delivering projects for internal clients.

• You will understand how security risk management interacts with enterprise risk management in the non-profit sector. 

• You will be sensitive to the progressive and rights-based agendas and diverse profiles of our clients and recipients.

• You will have excellent technical knowledge and experience, and be confident in conducting security risk assessments and security management audits and creating security risk management policy frameworks.

• You will be an excellent people manager with the ability to build, motivate, and mentor distributed consultant teams.

• You will have excellent project and budget management skills.

• You will have lived and worked in violent, austere, and remote environments or closed civic spaces.

• You will have excellent written and spoken English.

Desirable 

• You may have a strong understanding of the digital security and psychosocial aspects of holistic security and how they interact with physical security.

• You may have experience working in a senior management team or board.

• You may have excellent written and spoken French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic.

Terms and remuneration

This is a full-time staff role for an initial 12 months, renewable long term by mutual agreement and dependent on funding and performance. This is a remote, working from home role and flexible working is encouraged. If based outside the United Kingdom, we ask that you are based in a time zone that is UTC +/- 4 hours in order to collaborate with team members and clients.

If you are based in the United Kingdom, you will be employed by Open Briefing on a salary of £65,000 per annum. We will offer you a range of benefits, including 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and up to two sustainable travel journey days. We will provide you with a package of psychosocial support, including private health insurance and an Employee Assistance Programme. And we will make an employer’s pension contribution of 5%. 

If you are based outside the United Kingdom, you will be offered comparable compensation through either a consultancy contract or an Employer of Record, depending on your location. 

Note, we always seek long-term working relationships over several years with our team members, so this position would not suit someone looking for a short-term contract.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Open Briefing values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore encourage applications from all who meet the person specification and particularly from candidates who are underrepresented in our senior management team. This currently includes those who are black, indigenous, or people of colour.

We will make reasonable adjustments for disabled and neurodivergent people during the recruitment process and any subsequent employment.

Recruitment timeline

• Closing date: 09:00 BST (UTC+1), Tuesday 30 August 2022.

• First round interviews: 12-14 September 2022.

• Second round interviews: 16 September 2022. 

• Desired start date: 1 October 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

Please let us know in your application if any of these dates are problematic and we will try to accomodate. The successful applicant will need to complete a reasonable vetting process before engagement.

Change Agents UK is a well-established, successful and growing sustainability education charity and non-profit organisation. We provide education programmes for students and staff to help embed sustainability into work, life and careers. Our subsidiary, Change Agents UK Trading Ltd, acts as an employment business for Green Careers and jobs in sustainability; we have helped to launch and provided support for thousands of careers in sustainability and enabled many organisations to resource the development and delivery of their sustainability and decarbonisation ambitions and strategies. Our work is needed now more than ever, and we are growing our team to enable us to expand our services, reach and impact in sustainability education and employment.

Our values:

• Communication, enthusiasm & teamwork
• Commitment to sustainability
• Integrity and respect
• Building ambitiously and positively for the future

We need:

We need a new Head of Education & Projects to join our senior team to develop and lead our activities in sustainability education and projects. Our education work currently includes our successful Sustainable Futures programme, our Change Agent Skills Development Programme and Sustainability, Green Skills and Careers training and support for students and staff. We also run programmes to support students and young people to undertake practical sustainability projects in their communities and we get involved in research projects, skills development work and community energy initiatives. We have plans to expand our work across all of these areas and we are seeking someone who can really drive forward growth.

Essential criteria:

• Passionate about our goals and values, with a strong personal commitment to sustainability
• Educated to Masters-level or with equivalent professional qualification or experience
• Significant experience working within sustainability – sustainability is a broad area and we are open to applications from people with experience and expertise in different fields  
• Excellent communicator, partnership builder and relationship manager – comfortable and experienced in an external-facing role
• Experienced in producing high quality, professional reports and proposals
• Commercial awareness and ability to identify and take the lead on income development opportunities, through funding bids for our education programmes, securing project funding, building strong networks and developing partner/client proposals
• Highly organised, strong in planning and project leadership
• Highly credible and capable of working at a senior, strategic-level as part of the Executive team
• Experienced in line management/leading a team

• Awareness of safeguarding and willingness to undergo an Enhanced DBS check (as some of our Education work takes place in schools and FE settings)

Desirable criteria:

• Member of a relevant professional body, e.g. the IES or an IEMA Associate/Practitioner
• PRINCE 2 qualified/other professional project qualification

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the Education & Projects team (currently 2 Education Officers with plans to expand)
• Lead the development, delivery and continuous improvement of our education programmes content across the spectrum of sustainability education, green careers and skills development, including developing new Carbon Literacy and sector-specific Sustainability for Professionals courses
• Contribute to Charity income development through funding bids that enable our outreach work, securing project funding and expanding paid-for services with our clients and partners
• Develop proposals for our partners and clients to support their sustainability education and training needs for students and staff
• Build and maintain effective and positive relationships with our partners
• Attend conferences, panel discussions and events as a senior representative of our Charity
• Achieve growth of our network, partnerships and profile
• Contribute to the definition and delivery of the Charity’s strategy as part of the Executive team

What’s in it for you?

We’re an established charity with a dedicated, brilliant team and a great network. This is a fantastic opportunity to join us at a really exciting time and use your skills and career to make a real difference.

We are a friendly and supportive team who work hard and have fun. We offer 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pension, flexible/remote-working and continuous professional development opportunities, along with the chance to be part of something exciting, rewarding, and forward-looking.

Key Details:

Hours/Week: Part-time 4-days/30 hours per week (may be negotiable for the right candidate)

Annual leave: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays per annum (pro rata for part time)

Probation period: 3 months

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Notice period (after probation): 3 months

Travel & Work outside normal hours:

The role can be remote/home-based with monthly visits to the Oakham head office for in-person team meetings. We travel within the UK to attend conferences, deliver learning workshops or work with our partners. As a sustainability charity, we try not to travel more than necessary and encourage the use of remote technologies when possible.

Please note that the successful applicant will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check as we work with youth groups.

We strongly value diversity in race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age and other protected characteristics. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from people in currently under-represented groups, including people of colour, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities and people identifying as LGBTQ+.

Deadlines:

Please apply through our website with your CV and a motivation letter of no more than 1000 words.

Closing Date: Applications will close when we have found the right candidate for the role. Early applications are encouraged.

Interview Date: TBC

If you would like to have an informal conversation about this opportunity before applying, please get in touch with our CEO, Lexie Jones – she will be happy to talk more about our work, this role and our 5-year plan.

The Loop is a volunteer-led non profit, non governmental organisation made up of a dedicated team of over 500 chemists, health professionals, researchers and more. Guided by international expertise and experience, we support the establishment of professional drug checking services across the UK.

The Loop offers event-based and community-based drug checking and associated harm reduction services. We also provide training courses in drugs awareness, risk communications, harm reduction, spiking, and managing problems in nightlife. Our training programmes have been booked by staff working across public health, substance misuse services, universities, events, security industries and more.

Following the appointment of our first Chief Executive Officer, The Loop would like to recruit an Administrator.  We are looking for a dynamic individual to provide professional, effective and efficient administrative support to the CEO and board, as well as supporting the team in the coordination and administration of fundraising, marketing and drug checking service delivery.

If you think you have the skills and experience to be an exceptional administrator for The Loop, please submit a CV and covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) addressing how you meet the personal specification.  

Interviews will take place online but we reserve the right to conduct a second round of in person interviews if neccesary.

We’re looking for a brilliant new Funding & Partnerships Administrator to help us build diverse, resilient and powerful communities, acting together for their common good.

This is a new role, combining administrative support for Ben Pollard, our CEO, with the opportunity to develop skills and strategic relationships in fundraising. Ben defines our vision, manages our team, leads on strategy, fundraising, and partnerships, and oversees the overall design of our service. 

You will support Ben with diary management, partnership building and drafting funding applications. Your practical, methodical administrative support will be an invaluable asset to Ben as he fulfils his responsibilities, as will your capacity to remain calm under pressure. Your trustworthy professionalism and unquestionable integrity in all areas will increase our capacity to deliver successful funding bids, and strategic partnerships, and will support the smooth running of the organisation. 

We value inclusivity

Inclusivity is really important and we are actively seeking to make our team both more diverse, and more reflective of the experiences and perspectives of people in the communities we work with. We are currently keen to receive applications from anyone with Ukrainian heritage, anyone with experience of forced migration, and anyone resident in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Our context

Local Welcome makes it fun and easy for people to cook and eat with refugees in their community.

We’re looking for a brilliant new Funding & Partnerships Administrator to help us build diverse, resilient and powerful communities, acting together for their common good. Local Welcome was started in 2015, by British and Syrian community leaders as a response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Our current focus is learning to scale our impact by building new partnerships, particularly with Ukrainian community leaders across the UK.

You’ll be joining a young charity determined to keep growing and increasing our impact. 

We have a committed, talented and creative staff team of 7 people, and we’re currently hiring 3 new roles, as well as new trustees. Our Funding & Partnerships Administrator is a part-time freelance role, and will provide fundraising and administrative support to our CEO.

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved over the last 7 years - bringing thousands of UK residents together with refugees, and people seeking sanctuary, in cities across the UK. 

The amazing stories of connection and solidarity we hear from the people who join our meals continue to inspire us, but the needs are far greater than anything we can achieve alone. We’re eager to keep building new partnerships, learn new ways of working, and we’d love your help to guide the next chapter of our story. 

Alongside the meals, we’ve been steadily developing an organisational culture that’s rooted in compassion. Our aim is to do good, or thrive trying, and we think it’s one of our greatest strengths. 

 If you:

• understand the value of bringing people together

• want to help us grow and scale our impact 

• believe in and demonstrate compassionate leadership

...we can’t wait to hear from you :-)

You’ll find the full role description, an information pack and advice on how to apply on our website.

Betknowmore UK is a small (but growing) charity trying to reduce the harms caused by gambling. We’re looking hard for someone who can come in and help us with day to day governance and administration -  we have reasonably good governance at a policy/strategic level, but the time this is taking day-to-day has increased substantially and we need someone who can help update policies and processes, ensure they’re followed, support our Trustees/Board members and SLT with necessary administration, and generally make sure everyone is able to do what they need to do when they need to do it.

There'll be an occasional need to come to an event/meeting, but otherwise we're happy for you to work from home. Similarly, there are times you'll need to be available for meetings and so on, but we're happy around these for you to work whatever hours work for you - we have staff who work early in the day or later in the evening as that happens to fit in with their lives.

This could be a job for someone with a few years admin experience and some knowledge of governance who wants to build a career in the governance and compliance sector, possibly building up to being a Company Secretary/Compliance Director/etc. We’d be happy to support them in their career, paying for training and/or professional body membership fees. Or it could be a job for someone with lots of professional or life experience that has given them great admin skills and knowledge of charity governance who now wants to use those while working to help an important cause. We're open to anyone with the right skills - get in touch with a CV and cover letter and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!

CoachBright is a social mobility movement. We are working towards a day where no young person’s background determines their future. Still now, in 2022, there is a postcode lottery. We are at a crisis point. If you are born poor, you are likely to stay poor. The chances of a young person succeeding in life are largely down to where they live.

Our mission is to instil young people with the independence and resilience to lead the lives they want. Now, more than ever, it is essential that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds get the support they need to achieve their goals. Covid-19 has further widened the gap between the pupils who have the income and resources to withstand educational disruption, during the past few months and those who don’t. That’s why we’re playing our part to narrow the gap and support a generation of pupils to be their best.

We are young, ambitious and optimistic, and are looking for someone as passionate as we are about creating a socially just world. If you get out of bed to transform the life chances of young people and want to shape and grow a values-driven social mobility organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Come join the team as our first ever fundraiser helping us secure contracts from trusts and foundations and more.

Fundraiser (trusts/foundations and major donors) will be responsible for:

Researching, identifying and applying for funding applications:

• Write and submit funding proposals to trusts and foundations

• Build relationships with major trusts/foundations and high net worth donors to secure 5 and 6 figure income from trusts and foundations and over time major donors.

• Meet fundraising targets of £90,000 to £150,000 annually in next 3 years

• Plan and deliver fundraising / outreach pitches and presentations

• Create engaging content for our website and social media that could lead to online fundraising, including writing press releases as required

Relationship Management:

• Organise and host online / in-person events leading to fundraising for the organisation

• Attend events and networking with relevant fundraising stakeholders

• Manage information and record your fundraising activity on our database

• Keeping funders up to date with projects and organisational growth

Internal Processes and Governance:

• Raise awareness of the organisation's work, through creation of supporting documents / marketing info.

• Prepare forecasts for fundraising quarterly, to present to the Board of Trustees

Interest and active involvement (where required) in CoachBright’s programmes, in order to really understand the nature of our work and therefore communicate this effectively and emotively to funders

Essential Experience

We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role and encourage applications from candidates who feel they have the necessary skills and attitudes:

• Proven experience of developing fundraising proposals to secure 5 and 6 figure income

• Demonstrable experience of developing bids / proposals and budgets to meet the needs of service delivery

• Experience of fundraising related to the charitable, international development and education sectors

Skills

• Superb writing skills: succinct and compelling approach to writing long applications or short cover notes

• Ability to exercise sound judgement

• Strong interpersonal skills, with experience of managing diverse stakeholders inc. senior leaders / funders

Person Specification:

• Innovative: genuine motivation to come up with new ideas, be creative; and have the confidence to suggest these to the CEO / Trustees and then implement them! 

• Responsibility: this will be the first time CoachBright has a fundraiser and we want someone who can bring leadership and own this strand of work.

• Vision: clear passion for why you want the role, what you bring as a fundraiser and your own career development

• Adaptable: willingness to be flexible and ‘get stuck in’ to a fast-paced, dynamic and fun start-up environment

Other desirable attributes

• Knowledge of the education and social mobility sectors; knowledge of barriers to social mobility

• Prior experience in marketing / sales is also helpful and will be considered

Benefits:

• An opportunity to create, lead and shape our fundraising mechanism

• Starting Salary: £30,500

• Annual Leave: 28 days

Key Information:

• Length: permanent

• Hours: Full-Time, will consider part-time for the right candidate

• Reporting to: CEO

• Location: Birmingham, London or Exeter

• Interviews First Round: 19th August

• Interviews Second Round: 22nd August

• Start Date: September/October

About the role

For the Good Business Charter to drive change in responsible business behaviour we need to gain a critical mass of accredited organisations, across all sectors, and raise awareness of the brand with the general public so they can choose to do business with GBC accredited organisations.

We would like to position the GBC as the most effective framework to measure a holistic approach to responsible business behaviour within the purpose-led, ESG space.  We need to engage primarily with businesses, but also with decision-makers within investing and procurement, and the general public.

We’d like you to start in October or November. By the middle of 2023 you should have made measurable progress in building our media profile and in rolling out plans for engaging with the public.

This is a part-time role (three days per week), but it might possibly become full-time in the future. You can work your hours when you like as long as at least half of them are in ‘normal’ office hours. You can work from home anywhere in the UK.

We’ll pay you £30,000 per year (equivalent to £50,000 full-time), plus pension, on a permanent employment contract with a three-month probation period.

About you

We’re not that interested in your formal qualifications. We’re more focused on your attitude, your skills and experience, your values and your potential to excel in this role.

We need someone who knows how the media operates (and ideally has a relevant network of contacts), and who preferably has an understanding of the challenges businesses are facing and how that impacts on their commitment to behaving responsibly.  They should be passionate about businesses treating people and planet well.

We are looking for a gifted, natural storyteller who communicates well in writing and in person with people from a range of backgrounds. You should thrive on the dynamic environment of a relatively new organisation which has a flat hierarchy and a fully remote team.

You need to be inventive, empathetic and open-minded, and to combine strategic vision with attention to detail.

You will need to be enthusiastic, flexible, reliable and resourceful.  You will need to be willing to do some of the more administrative jobs like social media posts alongside the strategic work and liaising with journalists.

If you would like an informal chat about the role, please see our website for details on how to do that.

Key responsibilities

Strategy and Management

• Devise and deliver the GBC’s communications strategy, enabling the GBC to achieve its strategic objectives by delivering measurable projects and campaigns to a consistently high quality.
• Develop and shape GBC’s brand and visual identity across all channels
• Project manage strategic communications projects: eg. website redevelopment,
• Manage the communications budget, allocating resources strategically.

PR

• Identify PR opportunities and lead on major media campaigns to raise awareness of the GBC.
• Work productively with internal stakeholders, clients and partners to present our work with compelling content and develop multimedia assets where necessary.
• Nurture fruitful relationships with prominent and relevant contacts across the media: news media, specialist media, TV documentaries and features.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the responsible business/purpose-driven agenda and alerts CEO to any potential challenges to the GBC including organisations defaulting on their commitments.

Marketing Communications

• Oversee the planning, creation and dissemination of the GBC’s marketing communications across a range of platforms: advertising, print, event and digital.
• Oversee the GBC’s content marketing.
• Take overall responsibility for strategic leadership and management of the GBC’s digital channels, including websites, social media channels and email marketing, identifying opportunities to increase and improve our digital presence and make an impact with these channels.

Civitas Recruitment are proud to be working with a growing, innovative charity working with refugees and asylum seekers. Spearheaded by a dynamic and passionate CEO, the charity looks to assist with the cost of transport which often is a barrier to integration and mobility for those on very low income and means. The charity looks to alleviate this issue by matching refugees and asylum seekers with reconditioned, abandoned or donated, old bikes around the country. The charity is in its 10th year and is in the process of donating their 10,000th bike. An opportunity exists for a Temporary Finance Officer to join the team. It is a temporary approx 6 month contract (that can be made permanent), working full time and will be home based in the UK. 

Who are we looking for?

Ideal candidates will be minimum AAT qualified and have experience of working with QuickBooks or similar accounting applications. Candidates will have at least 3 years experience in a similar role, of which one year must be working within a charity. You will possess detailed knowledge and experience of bookkeeping and UK payroll requirements. You will have excellent attention to detail and a strong working knowledge of Excel for both reporting and basic data analysis as well as other Office applications.  A good understanding of charity SORP and FRS102 would be a bonus, however it is not essential for the role. We are looking for candidates that can start immediately.

If the above role description sounds of interest and you feel like you meet the criteria; please apply immediately or for further information, please contact Syed at Civitas Recruitment for a full JD and informal discussion. Early applications are encouraged as we will be reviewing on a rolling basis.

The UK Cyber Security Council works to bring together stakeholders to build and drive engagement in the cyber security profession, through developing standards and ethical practice, demystifying career routes into the profession and promoting the profession.

In collaboration with multiple UK Government departments and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), our approach is to co-ordinate existing programmes and shape new initiatives, in support of the ambition to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.

We are also Royal Incorporated Organisation with corporate and organisation members who share our interest and passion in promoting, supporting, and developing the cyber security profession.

The role:

If you’re successful, you will have a unique opportunity to join a relatively new organisation at an important phase of its development. The role will be to oversee the effective administration and running of the Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) and to provide administrative support to the Leadership Team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

CRM Data validation and maintenance

• To input key information and data into the Customer Relationship Management System (CRM)
• To review the CRM System to ensure that all staff are recording key information and data in a timely manner and to the required standard.
• To develop a data maintenance strategy in collaboration with key staff
• To carry out data cleansing exercises and exception reporting to ensure the integrity of the data
• To make suggestions and recommendations on the improvements to the CRM System or documentation
• To develop, review and maintain live dashboard reporting

Outcomes Framework

• To support in the development and maintenance of the outcomes framework, ensuring staff are continuously updated on any new monitoring requirements
• To support in the development of the organisations key data performance dashboard
• To work closely with staff to develop output, outcomes and impact measurements that can be added to the CRM system.
• To prepare project status and progress reports using management information and dashboards. (Qualitative & Quantitative)

Other

• To develop positive relationships with team members, volunteers, suppliers and partners, using influence to generate support for projects.
• To comply with data protection legislation and act responsibly on matters of data disclosure both internally and to third parties.
• To be familiar with the Health and Safety policies for the organisation and to attend mandatory updates where required
• To represent the Council in a professional manner and to act at all times in a manner which will not damage its reputation.
• To provide occasional administrative support for corporate events and conferences as agreed with the line manager.
• To undertake any other duties and projects at the request of the Director or CEO

Person Specification:

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of using a Customer Relationship Management System
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Fully IT literate, particularly to be competent with Office365, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Experience of writing reports based on analysis of information or data
• The ability to work under pressure to cope with multiple demands and deadlines, to work fast and to a consistently high standard.

• Educated to a minimum of GCSE C/Level 5 and above in English and Maths
• A ‘can-do’ attitude. Willing to get stuck in and help your colleagues when required.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level standard or equivalent
• An interest and passion for Technology and/or the Cyber Security industry.
• Knowledge and experience of using Civi CRM
• Experience of administrative support in a similar organisation

Equal Opportunities statement

We actively encourage applications from a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our positions as we are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, perspectives and abilities. We actively support diversity and inclusion and ensure that al2100l our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect as we want to encourage everyone in our business to reach their potential.

Next Steps

· Deadline for application: 09.00 Monday 22nd August

· Shortlisting: Monday 22nd August

· Interview week beginning: 22nd August

· Start date: ASAP

How to apply

Please send an up-to-date CV along with a covering letter showing how you meet the essential criteria and any of the desirable criteria

Important note: We may close the adverts early if we have a number of strong candidates