You will be part of a small team that works collaboratively towards making a huge impact on the lives of the children and families we work with. We look for people who want to be part of a service that is innovative, creative and constantly striving to do better.
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Adoption Service Coordinator and Panel Administrator to support the effective delivery of adoption services. This pivotal role ensures smooth coordination of assessments, panel meetings, and administrative tasks across the Permanency Service. You will act as a key point of contact between professionals, adoptive families, and external agencies, ensuring efficient communication and compliance with regulatory standards. The successful candidate will possess exceptional attention to detail, excellent time management skills, and the ability to work in a sensitive and dynamic environment
You will be involved in the development of the service and your views, and insights are encouraged.
· Coordinate diaries and communication across the Permanency Service team.
· Manage and log adoption enquiries; maintain records in Beacon CRM and CHARMS.
· Support adoption assessments, events, and i-adopt marketing updates.
· Organise Adoption Panel meetings, including scheduling and report preparation.
· Take and finalise panel meeting minutes; ensure timely decisions and notifications.
· Maintain panel member records, training logs, and meeting attendance.
· Update web content, brochures, and social media with adoption recruitment materials.
· Collect and share feedback for service improvement and performance reporting.
You will have regular informal guidance and formal supervision on a monthly basis. You will be part of the wider service of Family Futures and attend monthly Team Days to learn, share and develop the service and your practice.
We are looking for an individual who is:
- Motivated to work with families and derive satisfaction from seeing the development of adopters
- Not fazed by complex needs, challenges, and adversity
- Embraces a parent-positive and child friendly approach
- Able to work in a small team and be a team player
- Wants to develop their knowledge base and interest in multi-disciplinary working through a therapeutic lens.
- Thrives in a collaborative and integrated team environment.
What we offer
Benefits of joining Family Futures
· High-quality supervision and professional development training.
· We run regular Learning Forums to support and learn from each other
· An empowering and encouraging environment
· A nurturing environment for staff to work, including a weekly self-care session.
We believe that embracing different perspectives enriches our agency's culture and strengthens our ability to serve the children and families we work with. Therefore, we welcome applications from candidates from a wide range of lived experience and are actively recruiting people from the global majority. By ‘global majority’, we mean Black African, Black Caribbean, Asian and dual heritage communities.
We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Family Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The organisation follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and adults at risk of harm and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Family Futures is a menopause friendly employer.
Non Charity Employer 
21 - 50
Thank you!
Greenpeace are partnering exclusively with Robertson Bell in their search for a permanent Deputy Head of Finance to join their team on a permanent basis. Greenpeace is a movement of people who are passionate about defending the natural world from destruction. Our vision is a greener, healthier and more peaceful planet, one that can sustain life for generations to come.
The role will involve undertaking a broad range of important duties, including taking responsibility for a key part of our organisation. This will include reporting on monthly performance, managing grants (both income and expenditure grants), preparing the annual budget, preparing the annual statutory accounts and taking responsibility for the annual audit, reporting to and liaising with our international head office, and preparing the agenda and papers for and attending trustee meetings.
The organisation:
Greenpeace are independent. They don’t accept any funding from governments, corporations or political parties – their work is funded by ordinary people. That means they are free to confront governments and corporations responsible for the destruction of the natural world and push for real change.
They do this by investigating, documenting and exposing the causes of environmental destruction. They work to bring about change by lobbying, consumer pressure and mobilising members of the general public. And they take peaceful direct action to protect our Earth and promote solutions for a green and peaceful future.
The role:
- Responsibility for all aspects of the financial management of Greenpeace Environmental Trust (GET), a registered charity.
- Responsibility for the preparation of annual statutory accounts, annual report, and conducting the annual audit.
- Work with the Events team to ensure that the budgeting, financial control and management, and reporting of the Glastonbury Festival and all other festivals and events is conducted in an accurate and timely manner.
- Preparation of the annual budget and presentation to the board of trustees.
- Preparation of monthly management accounts and written finance report to trustees and other key stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate cash flow management and forecasting procedures to proactively manage all cash balances.
- Manage the grant-making process and account for all grant income received.
- Review restricted income, ensuring correct documentation is received and the restrictions are applied.
- Maintain policies and procedures ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation.
- Continually work to develop and improve the quality and usefulness of our reporting.
- Providing financial analysis, including trends and areas of opportunity or concern for budget holders and other stakeholders.
- Work with other Deputy Head of Finance and the programme co-ordinator to proactively improve all aspects of the financial management of the programme department’s activities in relation to activity funded by GET.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a qualified, or a finalist Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA or other chartered accountancy qualification) or will be qualified by experience.
- Proven experience of working in a finance function in a hands-on role.
- Extensive technical knowledge of accounting principles and best practice, with reference to specific UK charity accounting rules and regulations.
- Substantial experience of management accounting, budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
- Experience of involvement in financial year-end and annual statutory audit.
- Proven experience of delivering a business partnering-focused service and providing in-depth insight, analysis and guidance to budget-holders.
- Support and believe in the aims of Greenpeace.
- Have highly developed communication skills with credibility to operate outside the finance function up to senior management level.
The position will be based at Greenpeace’s head office a short walk away from Highbury and Islington station and requires two days attendance at the office. The closing date for applications is 10th August with interviews taking place the week commencing 18th August.
Applications will be under constant review before the closing date, so please submit your application to our exclusive search agent, Robertson Bell. Apply now to be considered!
