About the role
The Impact and Learning team was created over the past year and aims to support Practical Action to both increase its impact as well as to gather evidence and learning about that impact. In particular the team will be supporting and building capacity of the field offices and projects to use the latest good practice to design new programmes, have clear process and impact monitoring, and have evaluations and reviews which help projects and countries listen, learn and adapt. Gender equity is key to see impact benefitting women as well as communities as a whole. Therefore, the role involves helping all Practical Action teams to understand gender transformation and apply our Gender Policy. It also involves ensuring that gender is strongly integrated into all aspects of programming.
The Impact and Gender Advisor will play two roles. As an Impact Advisor they will be responsible for engaging and building capacity of selected Regional and Country Offices, providing support through all aspects of the programming cycle. Although all the Impact Advisors in the team will include gender in their work, the second aspect of the role as global Gender Advisor, will involve taking the lead to run the Global Gender Group, run trainings on gender and promote cross-country learnings of how to embed gender transformation.
The Advisor will be part of the Impact and Learning team and report to the Head of that team. Critical to the success of the role will be the ability to be engage with a wide variety of staff across Practical Action at all levels as well as to provide practical capacity building to help staff apply good practice and learnings. Travel to Practical Action country programmes will be required in this role. The role offers an amazing opportunity for someone interested in impact and programme quality as well as gender and someone who likes to work as part of a small team but with wide-reaching connections and impact.
About you
You are confident, well organised, enthusiastic and like working as part of a team.
You enjoy building relationships and communicating with a wide range of people, whether that is in writing or verbally. You are confident working with a range of different people, including staff and partners from different Practical Action country offices.
You will have strong experience and understanding of programme quality as well as gender and be skilled in building capacity in adaptive and creative ways. At times, you may also be required to represent Practical Action externally.
Why join us?
The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.
This is a global role, and therefore for this role has the possibility of being based in any of the countries where Practical Action operates and has an employing entity. This role is however being advertised in the UK, Nepal and Kenya.
The potholder will be required to have the relevant Right to Work for the country which they are applying and the terms of conditions of employment will be in accordance with that country.
Remote working / home working is possible with this role.
About us
We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.
Additional information
Please note that should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.
We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.
• Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.
HOW TO APPLY
If you want to work for a charity with significant people ambitions, then we would like to hear from you. Click on 'Apply on Website' and follow the links to submit a copy of your CV and a supporting statement that describes your suitability for the role.
Closing date for applications: 17th November 2020
Interview dates: 23rd – 27th November 2020
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This is a wide and varied role, the main purpose of which is to handle money on behalf of missionaries serving in the Arab World. It would suit a committed Christian who would love to use their office and administrative skills in a team that seeks to help build the Kingdom by supporting those who work “full-time” in that challenging field.
- Working with the Finance Manager, to keep complete, correct and up-to-date accounting records for donations, members’ accounts and head office functions.
- Overview of members’ support accounts, and dealing sympathetically with matters arising.
- Payroll, pensions, office supplies, assisting the finance manager and other administrative functions as required.
- With the office team and members to take part in prayer and worship
Occupational Requirement to be a Christian for this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About FareShare Midlands
FareShare Midlands is a local charity fighting food poverty by tackling food waste. We source food that is surplus to requirements - from suppliers, retailers and manufacturers - and rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute this food to local charities and community groups who provide meals and food parcels to vulnerable people. Our food reaches many, including individuals who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated, school breakfast clubs, community centres and those recovering from addictions.
Right now our food is distributed to 450 frontline charities reaching more than 35,000 vulnerable people every week, but we want to do more!
FareShare Midlands’ Vision
Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.
Our Values:
Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead
Ambition – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen
Respect – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries
Collaboration – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger Fighting hunger, tackling food waste
Main purpose of this role
As a Community Coordinator, your role will focus on the growth and sustainability of our network of community food groups in the region. The successful candidate will be an exceptional communicator, with an approachable nature who will play a vital role in developing and maintaining our membership, income, and raising awareness of FareShare Midlands with partners and stakeholders and the wider public.
Location and hours
Initally we're looking for someone to commit 22.5 hours each week, with the intention that this becomes a full time role from March 2021.
The successful candidate can be based anywhere in the Midlands, but with the knowledge that this role will focus on developing the eastern side of the region and frequent travel will be required (when appropriate and taking account of Covid-19 restrictions). Everyone at FareShare Midlands is assigned a warehouse base in either Nottingham, Leicester or Birmingham, but it is expected that this role will have a mix of home working and working from a warehouse base.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Retain, develop and grow Community Food Membership for FareShare Midlands across the east of the region.
- Recruit new Community Food Members ensuring high standards of customer care and establishing sustainable member networks.
- Ensure income and growth targets for Community Food Membership are met.
- Work closely with FareShare Go to promote a “One FareShare” offer for our members that enhances shared learning and offers the best possible customer service
- Support the Development Managers and fundraising team with funding bids in the geographic areas you cover.
- Support the implementation of high quality customer care protocols and processes towards our Community Food Members.
- Ensure record keeping and database systems are up to date.
- Work cross functionally with internal teams, particularly the operations team and the finance team, to ensure all elements of membership link together for excellent customer service.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
- Monitor standards of customer service to existing members.
- Support communications, PR and Marketing in line with the function needs.
- Ensure impact data on development activity is captured, reviewed and reported.
- Carry out any other duties as may be required in order to maintain service for FareShare Midlands.
Person Specification
Essential Experience, Skills & Qualities
- Experience of developing sustainable membership and/or partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills, particularly in writing proposals, presentations and reports.
- Established numeracy skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Proven ability to form good working relations, both internally and externally
- Ability to work on own initiative and to meet objectives and tight deadlines under pressure
- Strong organisation skills
- Good research skills with experience of identifying quality new leads.
- Computer literate – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to work in collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Computer literate – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Can drive and have access to a vehicle – willing to travel (there will a fair amount of travel required)
- Ability to work flexible hours in accordance to charity needs
- A moral commitment to FareShare core values as an organisation
Desired Experience
- Degree or higher in environmental, sustainability or development fields
- Established experience in securing new business and income generation and/or business development.
Closing Date is midnight, 1 November 2020
Interviews will be held virtually on Thursday 12 November 2020
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Principal Practice Tutor (PPT) is an exciting role for someone who wishes to combine management and leadership responsibilities whilst keeping a close connection to the work of their team by working directly with participants on the Frontline Programme. You will join a team of Principal Practice Tutors who provide programme leadership and team management that is central to effective delivery of the Frontline programme. You will ensure a high quality teaching experience, resolve escalated participant issues and support Consultant Social Workers to provide an excellent practice learning experience to participants.
There are 2 roles available: 1 based in West Midlands and 1 in East Midlands with regular travel across your geographical area. We are offering an £8,000 relocation bonus for those living outside of the Midlands who wish to relocate for this position.
The role comprises of 6 core areas of responsibility;
- Programme leadership and team management
- Resolve escalated participant issues
- Practice learning of participants
- Consultant Social Workers
- Teaching
- Supporting wider organisational objectives
There will also be opportunities for further professional development after 12 months of employment.
We are actively seeking applicants from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
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Hospice Hope, a North West Leicestershire based Charity has an exciting, new opportunity for an ambitious, experienced manager to lead our Charity through its next stage of development.
Heading up a team of seven part time staff and a large team of 70+ volunteers, you will be responsible for the introduction of new services to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on our “guest” group, a rebranding and name change to “Bright Hope in North West Leicestershire” and a planned move in 2022 to a new building purpose built for the Charity.
The post holder will be a self-motivated individual who is able to be flexible and decisive in response to the changing service environment. This role is key to the continued growth of the Charity and will be essential to the continued and increased support to our guests/clients in the future. The role is pivotal in increasing referrals into the service, developing existing and new relationships within the community and raising the profile of our organisation.
For further information, including the job description, person specification and how to apply, please go to our website, where details can be found in the 'latest news' section on our homepage.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.