Buckinghamshire with remote working

An exciting new opportunity in which you will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial information is produced for the CEO, department managers and board of trustees and providing a full financial management service to the CEO and board of trustees.

In this role you will:

• Prepare management accounts and other finance papers to be reported to the Trustee Board or Treasurer on a regular basis.
• Review actual spending against budgets, on a project-by-project basis, and highlight any material discrepancies for corrective action.
• Prepare the statutory financial statements (compliant with the Charity SORP), to draft state, and financial sections in the trustees’ annual report working closely with the Treasurer and external auditors.
• Advise the CEO and Trustees on reserves position and information needed for the reserves policy.
• Identify, implement and review internal financial controls (liaising with the Treasurer). Report to the Trustees effectiveness of financial controls.

About you

• Full qualification in accountancy or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Evidence of CPD ideally in charity finance
• Experience of costing bids and monitoring expenditure against projects
• Recent and ongoing experience of delivering financial management in a charity with experience of meeting deadlines and setting priorities

Please visit our website via the Apply button for more information and to apply.

Closing date: 14 November 2021

Head of Operations

We have a fantastic opportunity for a strong leader to join the team and deliver on all non-clinical services within St John's Hospice.

The hospice provides expert care for life-limiting conditions. They help patients and their loved ones, with everything from pain and symptom management to emotional and practical help.

Position: Head of Operations

Location: Moggerhanger, Bedford

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday

Salary: £45,000 Per annum

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: Company pension scheme, 25 days holiday (pro rata), rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, enhanced sick pay, corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services.

About the role:

This is a newly created role that forms part of the senior leadership team at the Hospice. This post reports in to the service director and will ensure not only the smooth running of all non-clinical services but also take responsibility for business management at the centre and drive a culture of effective finance control and high professional standards.

About you:

The ideal candidate will have experience in the delivery of facilities management services in a healthcare environment to include managing and motivating teams, experience with health and safety risk assessments and budget management.

Essential job requirements include:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and qualification in financial management short of a degree level. For example HNC/HND (NVQ4)
• Facilities and/or health and safety qualification (IOSH or NEBOSH). QBE is acceptable
• Advanced Microsoft office skills

Although not essential a recognised qualification in management would also be desirable for this role.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Facilities manager, Facilities operations Manager, Head of Facilities, Facilities Director, Head of Operations Management, IOSH, NEBOSH, Health and Safety Manager, Head of Facilities & HSE, Operations/Facilities Manager, Head of Facilities, Estates and Facilities Manager, Strategic Facilities Manager, Senior Facilities Coordinator, Facilities & Contract Manager, etc.

Operational Services Manager
Salary: £36,000 per annum
Hours: 37 hours a week
Working days: Monday to Friday
Location: Flitwick
Area Covered: Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
Job Type: Permanent

Mind BLMK works across our communities to support positive mental health and wellbeing. Working closely with a range of partners, we offer a number of activities from our wellbeing centres and local venues to make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of people in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, and our aim is to make sure that no-one has to face a mental health problem alone.

Mind BLMK are excited to announce a new and exciting management role as part of our growing operations team. The Operational Services Manager will work with the Head of Operations to ensure the effective delivery of our current services and look at ways to develop and design new services that will meet the needs of the communities we serve. If you feel you meet the essential criteria, we would love to hear from you.”

Closing Date: Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 5pm

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association is seeking a Head of Programmes & Transformation to join our Association on a two-year fixed term contract. (which may extend to perm)

This role will be based at our national office in Northampton with the option for agile working, (home/office).

About the role

This vital new role will play a key part in helping the MND Association in delivering promises to people with MND, that are at the heart of our new strategy. As an experienced Project Manager, you will work with the Directors and Senior Managers to plan and co-ordinate the delivery of a number of cross-Association projects and programmes.

Cross-team working and building capacity and capability right across the Association, are critical to the delivery of the strategy and you will lead the co-ordination of this work.

What are we looking for?

It is pivotal to this role that you have the experience and skill of a strategic thinker with the ability to support and influence managers, as they look to balance new and existing workstreams. You will be working closely with the Finance and HR teams, ensuring the resourcing of the strategy, on an ongoing basis.

Your functional background is less important than your ability to deliver large complex projects whilst working at a strategic level, to drive the delivery of our new strategic goals.

This role will be based at our national office in Northampton with the option for agile working, (home/office).

Please view the job description to view the full requirements of the role.

How to apply?

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, apply online now and submit a supporting statement and CV.

About Us

The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised and addressed by wider society.

We operate an agile working environment within a flexible office space using the latest technology and digital infrastructure. This, together with a high level of trust and performance driven culture, gives staff the freedom and flexibility to work in the best way for them, the Association and, most importantly, people with MND.

We are committed to equality and value diversity. We are working hard to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers and stakeholders.

Important Notices

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Our selection process will be multi-stage; this may include video call screening, psychometric assessments, and competency-based interview/s.

We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role. We work hard to fill our roles directly and if assistance is required, we operate a PSL, which currently closed for review. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies/ headhunters.

Grants Programmes Manager

Harpur Trust

Up to £40,000 (depending on experience)

Full Time

Permanent

Bedford

Charity People is thrilled to be supporting The Harpur Trust to find a Grants Programmes Manager. The Harpur Trust is a charity that support people to improve their lives by: providing and promoting education, offering help and relief to those in need, sick, in hardship or distress. They also provide recreational facilities with a social welfare purpose for the people of Bedford. Due to the organisation's ongoing strategic development, they are seeking an experienced Grants Programmes Manager to join their dynamic team.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are seeking a self-starter, with excellent grants and project management skills to ensure that the Trust's grant making programmes run efficiently and broader community activities are supported effectively.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring appropriate advice and support is provided to individuals and organisations seeking funding
• Accountable for managing a caseload of grant applications from organisations and individuals; carrying out due diligence, visiting projects and liaising with internal Comms team to work on project and research promotion and dissemination
• Research and Contribute to the development of new and existing grants programmes in line with the Trust's developing strategy.
• Manage the Community Programmes Assistant
• Ensuring grantmaking systems and processes are accurate, up to date, and GDPR compliant.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of processes and systems as well as the development of impact measurement.
• Assist the Community Programmes Director to ensure accurate and timely preparation of agendas, papers and reports for grants related meetings
• Contract management for relevant partnership grant schemes
• Support the Community Programmes Director and the Communications Manager with projects involving the Harpur Trust schools and partners in the state education sector
• Assist the Communications Manager with community events and represent The Trust at external events as required, including networking to promote the Harpur Trust

Ideally, we are seeking an individual with substantial experience of grant making, including grant making processes and who has strong numerical skills with an ability to analyse and interpret financial statements. You will have strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, as well as well as effective research and analytical skills. You will also have experience with grants database and working on multiple simultaneous projects and workstreams. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills & team working skills with the ability to build productive appropriate relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Having the ability to comprehend complex situations quickly and to present information clearly and concisely to meet the needs of a range of different internal and external audiences is essential. Knowledge of charity law is desirable.

Closing Date: Friday 19^th November at 9am

First stage interviews will be held on w/c 22nd November.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Join Toybox as Programme Manager - Africa and/or Asia

We are looking for a proactive Programme Manager to join our innovative team to support the delivery of our international development work with street children. If you have a solid knowledge of programming within international development with a passion to add value and constantly improve impact, then this job is for you.

Our strategy, quite simply, is to make the world a better place for street children. Despite the many challenges of COVID-19, we are on track to grow this financial year, enabling us to continue to deliver this vital work.

This role is critical to our future success and will therefore be hands on, operating within a busy and collaborative team and has the potential for the right person to add real value and make a real difference to the lives of street-connected children.

The role will focus on:

• Working with partners to ensure quality designs, monitoring and evaluations of projects.
• Submission of proposals and reports to institutional donors.
• Ensuring the application of good practice approaches and promoting innovation and learning.
• Assessing the capacity of selected partners and supporting them to implement partner capacity building plans. You will be part of a small team and will be the main person responsible for selected partners, undertaking travel to those countries at least once a year.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• To have at least a degree level qualification in a relevant area, but also have significant experience of overseeing/managing projects, including projects addressing the needs of the most vulnerable.
• Experience of project theory of change, design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience of working in the UK charity environment.
• Excellent writing and financial literacy skills.
• Experience of using Microsoft (Word, Excel and E-mail).

How to apply:

Please send your CV and a covering letter detailing why you want to work for Toybox and your suitability for this role.

1st interviews will be held on Thursday 18th November and 2nd interviews on Thursday 25th November.

For a full information pack, please visit our website.

Toybox is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all employees, trustees, and volunteers to share this commitment.

At Toybox we strive to hire the best. If you are driven to change the world for street children, you will fit right in. We are courageous in what we do, always looking to innovate and improve. We learn from our mistakes and celebrate our wins. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their whole selves to work.

We will only use the information you provide to process your application. For more information about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. In submitting an application for this role, we will deem that you have read and understood this Policy.

To apply for this role, you must have the right to work in the UK.

Groundwork is the community charity with a green heart.  We believe that big global issues – the economy, the environment – have a big local impact. Groundwork operates throughout the UK helping communities find practical solutions to the challenges they face.

Senior Sustainable Business Consultant

Salary: £28,536 - £32,746 pro rata per annum depending on experience

Location: Working across the East of England – home and office based at any Groundwork East offices

Hours: Full time (37 hours per week) or Part time (minimum 22.5 hours per week)

Contract: 2-year fixed term contract (with potential for extension)

Groundwork East has over 30 years of experience in delivering bespoke projects that use the environment as a catalyst for building a more sustainable future.  Our business service offering is developing and growing and as a result we are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual able to evidence their history of working with businesses, local authorities and groups to identify their carbon footprint, energy and resource use to join our team.  Also, key will be experience of delivering high-level support to help organisations develop big picture sustainability strategies, action plans and support delivery.

The role will provide a range of project work from delivering on-site and distant environmental and energy efficiency support, working with emission calculator tools, understanding business costs (both environmental and financial) and identifying opportunities for improvement, to carbon foot-printing and the development of sustainability and carbon management strategies.

The successful candidate will show a commitment to sustainability which may be evidenced by formal education, qualifications, relevant experience or membership of a relevant professional body. We would also like to see a proven track record in undertaking carbon footprinting work. The role requires a valid driving licence, access to a vehicle with a willingness to travel, excellent communication, organisational and diplomacy skills. 

For further information about the role and to apply, please visit our website, link below.

Closing date: Monday 1 November, 9am

Interview date: Thursday 4 November via TEAMS