Are you a senior Finance professional who has successfully contributed to strategy and influenced organisational decisions whilst ensuring an excellent delivery of financial management through enabling others? Have you got a track record of achieving financial objectives and developing financial systems including external statutory reporting and audit in a complex setting? If this is you, please read on.

We have an exceptional and rewarding opportunity for you to use your gifts and experience to influence one of the largest dioceses in England serving 2.4 million people (growing rapidly) with a proactive strategic agenda that has emerged from the needs and opportunities of our communities. The role includes everything that one would expect to go with overseeing the finances of charities with a turnover of about £27 million p.a., investments of about £130m and over 100 staff.  You will join a well-established senior management group with shared Christian ethos, vision and strategic aims who are committed to see growth and make a difference.  

The principal accountabilities of the role are to:

• advise the Diocesan Synod and its Boards and Councils on financial strategy and planning
• lead the development and delivery of diocesan financial policy and practice
• oversee the provision and development of IT and data analysis
• head up a department of 9 staff members

The successful candidate will be a qualified Accountant, with considerable experience in financial planning and delivery, preferably in a variety of organisations. Naturally you'll be self-motivated and think analytically when maintaining robust financial controls. As a collaborative Christian leader with excellent communication skills, high emotional intelligence, resilience and humour, you will make a difference to the communities we serve and contribute to the growth of the Church.

We offer a range of benefits including an on-site café, free parking, generous remuneration package and an opportunity to work with skilled colleagues in an attractive modern office environment.

The post is subject to the requirement that the holder be a practising Christian, under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 as this post has a senior representational role on behalf of the Church in the Diocese of Oxford.

Hours:FTE 37 hours per week
Location:       Church House Oxford, Langford Locks, Kidlington, OX5 1GF

For further details on the role, including a Candidate’s Brief and how to apply please visit our website.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 09:00 Monday 23 March 2020

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 1 April 2020

We are committed to equal opportunities for all

contemplative | compassionate | courageous

UK Active

Finance Manager – Revenue and Control

UK Active is a commercially minded and forward thinking non-profit that strives to get more people, more active, more often with the mission to improve the health of the nation through promoting active lifestyles. They facilitate wide-impact partnerships, undertake campaigns, and provide world class membership services.

This dynamic role of Finance Manager will manage a team of 3, ensuring that key revenue streams (including music licencing, membership, events and products) are monitored and billed consistently and to the highest standard.

Requirements:

• Experience managing others and being the point of contact for escalated issues
• Ability to prioritise and effectively delegate a workload
• A proactive, solutions focused mindset
• Good IT skills, particularly Excel
• Experience with the CRM Salesforce is desirable but not required
• A passion for the fitness and physical activity sector is desirable

For this role, you need not be fully qualified, far more important is your operational finance experience, people management skills, a proactive mindset and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

• Being the key point of contact for issue escalations from your team, determining if you can address them yourself, and if not escalating issues to the Head of Finance
• Ensuring robustness of financial controls
• Team management, review and development
• Completing and reviewing monthly journals and reconciliations
• Use of Salesforce CRM to maximise team productivity
• Working with the Head of Finance to create impactful process improvements
• Communicating if revenue targets are met to director level colleagues
• Day to day management of the Licencing function
• Being a point of contact for key external partners

UK Active is a commercial, modern and dynamic non-profit; chaired by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympian and 6 time London marathon winner who has held over 30 world records in her career. Other benefits include flexible working, subsidised Gym Membership, 5% matched pension, the Perkbox Discount Scheme and an annual salary of £40,000 per annum.

Interviews for this role are being held on a rolling basis, so apply early to be considered or contact Emma at Allen Lane to find out more.

About us

Age UK Bexley is a critical charity in the delivery of services and support to older people across the London borough of bexley. With people over 65 constituting nearly 20% of the local poplulation the charity occupies a central role in campagining for and investing in resources key to a positive later life for Bexely's residents.

The charity has undergone fundimental change in the last two years, and is about to embark on a new areas of development with a move to a new headquarters and growth of  services and community profile. 

About the role

The finance and operations managers role will be fundimental  supporting planned changes to the charity's form and functions. You will oversee the charity's financial systems, work with its senior staff and support the CEO in building the financial and operational resilience central to ensuring the charity's sustainability.

Principle responsibilities will include:

• To manage and oversee key financial and operational governance central to the sustainable delivery and development of the charity’s services
   
• To ensure that these services comply with any statutory, regulatory and/or contractual requirements against which the charity is governed
   
• To support the annual business planning process by implementing robust management reporting and assist the CEO in developing systems to enable progress to be monitored against corporate targets
   
• To champion collaborative and cross-organisational working within and between the charity’s support and operational functions ensuring delivery of organisational objectives and efficient use of resources

The post holder will have a Finance management qualification (ACCA, CIMA to level 4 or equivalent), an ability to work collegiately within a dynamic working environment and a preparedness to look critically at our systems and methods of operation to identify efficiencies that improve our performance and return on investment.

Please send a CV, Equalities form and covering statement (no more that two pages) outlining how your previous experience, knowledge and skills equip you to meet the requirements of the person specification

We would  particularly welcome applications from those with a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic background

Position: Head of Finance

Location: Epsom, Surrey 

Job Details: £55,000 to £60,000 per annum, permanent 

Company: Charity, Social Care

Scope of the Job

SeeAbility are looking for a dynamic Head of Finance to head up their Finance function to deliver extraordinary service to the charity. As a qualified accountant you will be able to lead and motivate a team of 10 including the Payroll function. As well as leading the production of key financial management information and transactional processing, you will be a key part of the organisation’s Leadership Group and have a passion for improving the lives of the people we support. In a busy and varied environment you will lead by example and support the Finance Director with corporate governance.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Team Management/Leadership
• Financial/Management
• Accounting and statutory reporting
• Budgeting/Forecasting
• Financial Policies & Procedures
• Business Processes
• Business Development
• Risk Management

This is a great opportunity to work and develop your skills in a fulfilling high impact and rewarding role.

A full Job Description is available upon application. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early is the right applicant is found. 

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Part Time Head of Finance & Operations for this Human Rights Charity based in London.

Position: Head of Finance & Operations
Days: 4 days a week
Salary: 60,000pa FTE - Pro Rata

The successful candidate will be joining at an exciting time. Leading the process of embedding and strengthening new systems and processes

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with both finance and operations expertise. They will be comfortable being hands-on to get things done, and flexible in their approach to achieve results in a fast-changing external environment as well as possessing a strong people-focus and being passionate about maintaining organisational wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities
Finance and Accounts

* Strategic oversight of financial systems and processes including but not limited to production of monthly management accounts and relevant financial reports and maintaining up to date policies and procedures.
* Responsible for the Group Budget and Finance Function overseeing and supporting the management of the annual budget including departmental budgets
* Work closely with Fundraising team and Head of Programmes and Safeguarding to develop budgets for Funding Bids and timely and accurate Fund reporting
* Effective day to day control of accounting function including payroll, cash-flow management, invoicing and debt management
* Manage, mentor and develop the Finance Manager in their role
* Manage the contracts with the two outsourced Finance Functions in France and Greece ensuring appropriate local Financial Reporting and the consolidation in the UK.

Operations

* Hold responsibility for contracts and licensing agreements
* Oversee the management of IT systems and equipment to ensure staff are effectively supported to carry out their work
* Oversee the management and licensing of our CRM - Salesforce, ensuring it effectively supports our operations and programmes
* Manage, mentor and develop the Operations Officer in their role

HR

* Ensure existing systems, processes and policies are reviewed regularly in conjunction with CEO and Board, engaging the whole organisation to facilitate implementation and compliance
* Manage staff recruitment and induction, ensuring we model best practice and are fully compliant in terms of equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion at all levels
* Oversee the implementation of a staff development and appraisal process across the organisation
* Work closely with CEO and Leadership Team to establish systems that encourage a culture of learning and development within the organisation.
* Oversee the development of a new but robust and growing volunteer programme.

Governance and strategy

* Contribute to development of SPI strategy working closely with fundraising and development team in preparation of budgets
* Work closely with the CEO to ensure accurate and timely reporting to the Board and Finance Sub Committee, including preparation of Board papers
* Undertake all Company Secretarial duties in terms of maintaining Companies House and Charity Commission submissions

My client is an international brand with one simple aim; to transform lives. By informing and empowering people in the choices they have and can make, they work across the globe to fundamentally change the conversations going on at the very top levels of government and grass roots of society. This role would work within the UK business.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the donor finance team in supporting all financial aspects of a project’s life-cycle.
• Act as key business partner to the SLT on donor compliance, new business and international operations.
• Oversee the cost proposal development process, ensuring competitive and sustainable cost proposals are submitted.
• Oversee all areas of donor compliance including procurement, legal, expenses and asset management.
• Provide training and support to a team of 9.

The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge of donor regulations, including DFID, EU and private foundation grants. With a strong understanding of compliance, contracts and governance you will be a fully qualified accountant with an INGO background. A proven decision maker, you will be able to take the initiative on identifying problems and coming up with creative solutions. Excellent inter-personal skills are essential for this role.

Project Manager – Volunteer Management
Location: Rugby, UK, CV21 3HQ
Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 (depending on experience)
18 Month fixed term contract

IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) is the global professional membership organisation for chemical engineers and process engineers.

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is the professional membership organisation for chemical, biochemical and process engineers worldwide.

Founded in 1922, IChemE advances chemical engineering's contribution worldwide for the benefit of society. We support the development of chemical engineering professionals and provide connections to a powerful network of around 35,000 members in 100 countries.

We are a multi-national institution with primary offices in the UK and Australia. Our members are found in a range of industry sectors, and at different stages of their careers, from students and graduates in training through to senior Fellows at the highest levels of leadership in business and academia.

We support our members in applying their expertise and experience to make an influential contribution to solving major global challenges, and are the only organisation to award Chartered Chemical Engineer status and Professional Process Safety Engineer registration. We are working towards ISO 9001 accreditation with the goal of achieving certification in 2021.

We are looking for a Project Manager who will focus primarily on developing and implementing the volunteer management strategy, scoping out the requirements of the volunteer management project through engagement with key stakeholders across the organisation and creating an appropriate project plan.

You will be educated to degree level or relevant professional qualification with a project management qualification ideally Prince2.

Core responsibilities of the role include:

• Development of robust project plans
• Production and maintenance of required project documentation
• Co-ordination and completion of projects on time, within budget and within scope
• Preparation of overall business case including project spend and the benefits realisation plan
• Management of stakeholder and wider project communications
• Project reporting and governance
• Working within organisational project management methodology

Due to IChemE’s international nature, this position requires a willingness to work flexibly and to engage in business discussions outside of normal working hours. The position is based at our Rugby office although some occasional travel may be required within the UK. Only applicants eligible to work in the UK will be considered.

This is a full-time role based on 37.5 hours per week working Monday through to Friday.

Starting salary will be in the region of £30,000 - £34,000 per annum (depending on experience) plus benefits which includes an excellent pension scheme. Only candidates eligible to work in the UK will be considered.

To apply; please provide a CV and a cover letter highlighting your experience against the areas listed above and why you think you are the ideal candidate for the role. 

(Please note that applications sent without a cover letter will not be reviewed)

The closing date for all applications is close of business Friday 27 March 2020 however interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis as and when suitable applicants apply and IChemE reserves the right to make an offer of employment before the closing date should we wish. An immediate start date can be available for the right candidate.

The Director of Finance and Operations (DFO) ensures Alert has the sound financial management and robust operations needed to deliver its mission, leading on all Alert’s organisational budget planning and management, audit, compliance, human resources and infrastructure functions. They will serve as a member of Alert’s global Executive Team and be expected to play a key role in strategic and operational decision making.

The DFO will be responsible for developing and monitoring the organisation’s annual budget; undertaking forecasting and reforecasting as needed; ensuring that the organisation remains compliant in terms of both its finances and its operations; and practices inclusive, responsive human resources management. As Director, they will present the annual budget to the Board of Trustees and represent on budgetary, compliance and regulatory issues and will be expected to take part in appropriate networks and external events relevant to managing finances and compliance in the non-governmental and aid sectors.

International Alert is a highly respected global actor in peacebuilding, and this role offers great challenge and opportunity as we start to implement our ambitious plans for growth in the coming years. Please join us and play a key role in delivering greater impact, stronger influence, and growing resources.

These are some of the requirements of the job - please refer to the job description for more information.

To apply, please click the button below and submit a copy of your CV, and a short (1-2 pages) Expression of Interest outlining how you believe your skills, experience and knowledge meet the person specification.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. Apply early so you don't miss this opportunity.

While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.

International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

FINANCE AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER (DIGITAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES PROJECT)

Responsible to: Finance and Operations Director

Salary range: Up to £28,000

Key relationships: Finance and Operations Director, Finance and Administration Officer, Project Coordinator

Location:  MLDI, the Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR

Duration: Fixed term contract until September 2021, subject to project funding

Hours: 37.5 hours (flexible), occasional evening and weekend work

The Media Legal Defence Initiative is a charity that provides legal defence to journalists, citizen journalists and independent media worldwide who are under threat for their reporting. MLDI runs a training programme to defend, promote and strengthen freedom of expression online in East, West and Southern Africa, by supporting legal communities with technical legal expertise to litigate digital rights cases. MLDI is looking for a highly motivated and energetic individual with a commitment to excellence and professionalism to join the team as Finance and Compliance Officer (Digital Rights Advocates Project).

Role Summary

Under this project, MLDI:

1. conducts litigation surgeries for lawyers in sub-Saharan Africa on litigating digital rights cases and accessing regional and international human rights mechanisms;
2. fosters active and collaborative networks of lawyers, including through facilitating their engagement with sub-regional and international digital rights events and peer learning networks; and
3. provides grants to national media defence centres and lawyers to ensure that online media, bloggers and journalists have access to skilled lawyers and receive legal representation free of charge.

In this role, you will be a part of the Finance and Operations team with particular responsibility for the financial administration of MLDI’s Digital rights project and partnership grants, including ensuring compliance with funder requirements and supporting with budgeting for new funding opportunities for the project.

Main Responsibilities

1. Maintain day-to-day financial operations of the digital rights project, including accounts payable, accounts receivable/grants claims and general accounting functions (expense claims and staff advances); update MLDI’s financial systems in a timely and accurate fashion using Sage 50 Accounts and other software as required.
2. Work with the Project Coordinator on the grant awards process, including assessment of concept notes and financial evaluation of full grant applications, conducting due diligence checks and assessing the need for additional substantive support to the grantee.
3. Financial administration of grants (both sub-awards and fixed amount awards), including gathering and reviewing interim and final reports from grantees, ensuring documents and records are complete and acting as the first point of contact for compliance related queries from grantees.
4. Support the Project Coordinator with due diligence and compliance issues relating to logistics of litigation surgeries and conferences.
5. Assist MLDI’s Director of Finance & Operations with ensuring compliance with the financial, administrative and reporting requirements of the digital rights advocates project, including communicating requirements and deadlines to the relevant members of the team. 
6. Assist MLDI’s Director of Finance & Operations with project budget management, including amending of the budget as required, preparing budgets for new funding opportunities and preparing quarterly donor reports.
7. Carry out any other duties commensurate with the post.

Person Specification

Essential

• Educated to at least degree level and at least two years’ experience working in a similar role within the charity sector.
• Proven financial accounting (including foreign currency transactions) experience with the ability to demonstrate excellent numerical and financial awareness.
• Previous experience working on USSG (United State State Government) funded projects and complying with 2CFR200.
• Experience of working on projects with partner organisations outside of the UK.
• Well-developed analytical skills (financial and operational) that demonstrate a meticulous approach to the review of data.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, excellent written and spoken English.
• Experience working independently and flexibly as part of a small team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a pleasant, diplomatic manner in interacting with colleagues at all levels and MLDI stakeholders.
• Passion and commitment to the mission and vision of MLDI.
• Right to work in the UK.

Desirable

• Knowledge of data protection regulations and experience of handling personal data.
• Experience of, and an interest in, international human rights, law, journalism and/or digital rights.

MLDI is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

*(Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.)

As the national youth council of the UK, The British Youth Council brings young people together to find their voice and use it for social and political change.  Through our programmes such as the UK Youth Parliament, Youth Select Committee and the NHS Youth Forum, we create opportunities for young people to develop their leadership skills within a youth voice setting.

We are looking for an experienced youth development professional to join the team and help us to increase the reach and impact of our leadership development opportunities.  You will work with colleagues and young people to map our leadership journey, create a theory of change, and design tools and resources to support the consistent application of leadership development throughout our work. You will also support the development of our membership engagement and growth plan, using our enhanced leadership offer as a way to engage those not already involved in our work.

This post can be home working or based in our London HQ, although regular travel to the office will be required. As a part of the team the postholder will also support the design and delivery of a numbner of our key events, including residentials, throughout the year.

The British Youth Council  is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young poeple that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safe recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working across our services.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual with proven experience to join our small and successful, national charity as our Fundraising Manager. The purpose of the job is to research and identify trust and foundation funding opportunities for Unlock and maximise immediate and long-term income.

The successful candidate will work with the co-directors to develop current and future project plans and write compelling proposals/applications to secure significant income from trusts and foundations. They will co-ordinate input from across relevant team members and collate internal data to write and deliver timely and accurate funder reports. They will help build and maintain strategic relationships with funders and lead on donor communications across various channels.

Our ideal candidate will have experience as a professional fundraiser with a proven success in securing funds through an application process. They will have excellent written and spoken communication skills, a strong track record of grant income generation and a commitment to Unlock’s mission. They will need to be self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and committed to working as part of a small and friendly team based at our office in Maidstone.

The Business Emergency Resilience Group (BERG), was created by HRH The Prince of Wales to help businesses and communities across the UK to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies such as extreme weather events and cyber-attacks.

BERG is a network of UK business leaders, charities and UK government departments convened by Business in the Community.

We are looking for an experienced Campaign Manager with a good knowledge of business continuity, who will be responsible for the successful project management, implementation and evaluation of the BERG campaign.

The Campaign Manager will be an ambassador and advocate for this area, seizing opportunities to achieve the goals and strategy set out by the Leadership Team and the Campaign Director.

The Campaign manager is responsible for creating, organising and project managing business facing campaigns, tools and content. Being able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications skills is essential.

You will provide expertise for the campaign and ‘speak’ for the campaign on a variety of platforms while facilitating and managing working groups, action-learning groups, and steering groups.

Please see the full job description attached.

Closes: 25th March 2020 – midnight

Interviews: 6 and 7th April 2020

Please note that due to the ongoing situation regarding the COVID-19 virus , to ensure the wellbeing of our employees and candidates we may arrange initial interviews via Skype, or Microsoft Teams.

We are seeking a talented Funding Manager to join our grants and research team. This new role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience in research funding and grant management within a grant making organisation but who is ready to broaden their horizons beyond traditional research grant management. 

This is a highly collaborative and strategic focused role that will require the post-holder to work independently and confidently. You will manage a diverse and growing portfolio of research and non-research grants through the entire grants management life cycle, from pre- to post award, in line with AMRC principles. This role will also include responsibility for managing the grant making programmes, the monitoring of progress of projects, reporting on the outcomes and impact through various communication channels and developing important relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

About you

You will have a research background together with demonstrable research funding management experience within a grant making organisation, have a keen interest to build on this expertise and ambition to advance your career in this field. You will have high attention to detail and be effective in managing a diverse workload.

Specifically, you will have:

• An advanced degree in biomedical sciences or equivalent work experience in a relevant scientific discipline
• Research grants management experience in the grant making sector
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish good working relationships

About the team

This role is within the grants and research team who are responsible for ensuring the charity has robust grant making mechanisms to determine best use of charitable funding together with monitoring and evaluating projects and programmes funded by Moorfields Eye Charity.  Over the last four years charitable support, through our grant programmes, has supported over 250 projects and initiatives with £14 million in funding. 

About the charity

Moorfields Eye Charity is the main grant making and fundraising charity for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its academic partner, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

We are in the early stages of a major capital campaign. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Charity have a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a state-of-the-art integrated treatment, research and education centre. It will benefit Moorfields’ patients and those with sight problems worldwide.

It will push the boundaries of science, deliver breakthrough treatments to the front line of patient care and revolutionise eye healthcare around the world.

For further information on the role please see attached job description and person specification 

Please note only applications including a CV and covering letter will be considered. The covering letter and CV should clearly address your research and grants management experience and why this particular role appeals to you. They should, in total, be no more than three sides of A4.

Closing date for receipt of applications - Friday 1 May 2020

Please include, at the end of your coverletter, details of where you saw this job advertised. Thank you.  

Interview date -To be decided

Communications Manager

Anti-Slavery International is seeking an experienced, ambitious Communications Manager to join its team in London, UK.

The Communications Manager leads on all external communications within the broader Fundraising and Communications team, to help position the organisation with strategically relevant audiences to help us to influence real and lasting change for the 40 million people experiencing the horror of modern slavery.

Responsible for a brand that has been delivering change in the forefront of the campaign to end slavery for over 180 years, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that we remain focussed, creative and effective at reaching key people and encouraging them to join the movement to bring freedom to everyone everywhere.

Anti-Slavery has helped put modern slavery firmly on the agenda and now we need people who can help us finish what we started. For this we need a dynamic, experienced professional with impeccable PR, editing and policy communications skills. You’ll be at the forefront of a communications campaign that is helping to bring freedom to millions of people around the globe including here in the UK.

In return you’ll be part of a small but growing team of professionals that has already seen significant increases in communications outputs and fundraising income in the past three years and will be shortly developing its communications strategy 2020-2025. Alongside this you’ll advise the senior team on communications objectives that help Anti-Slavery to deliver its mission, and work closely with policy and communications colleagues to deliver change on the ground and across decision makers.

For more information and to apply, download the Recruitment Pack and fill out the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. Applications close midnight on 12th April 2020.