About Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)

ENN is a well-established and highly respected UK-based charity working to reduce malnutrition globally. ENN strives to enhance the effectiveness of nutrition policy and programming by improving knowledge, stimulating learning and building evidence. We are passionate about being field driven and are globally recognised as thought leaders and conveners in nutrition.

Our vision is that every individual caught up in a nutritional emergency, or suffering from malnutrition anywhere in the world, gets the most effective help possible.

We undertake knowledge management, research and advocacy to support national governments, civil society, UN, donor and academic organisations. Through these collaborations we support agencies to implement evidence-based nutrition programming, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries.

ENN is governed by a Board of Trustees and has its head office in Kidlington, UK. ENN is financially supported by a range of institutional donors (including the Irish and US governments), charitable foundations (including the Eleanor Crook Foundation and the Waterloo Foundation), as well as UN agencies and INGOs. 

Why work for ENN?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the growing ENN team a Project Manager (PM). The role provides the opportunity to work across the spectrum of ENN’s projects, as part of a motivated and dynamic Operations team. You will also support the development of ENN’s next strategy. ENN’s portfolio includes projects specialising in Infant Feeding in Emergencies, Wasting and Stunting, Adolescent Nutrition and MAMI, as well as our highly regarded International Publications. We are also actively engaged in the global nutrition and development community in support of the COVID-19 response. You will be based in our headquarters and work with all of the ENN staff to enable our projects to deliver effectively. We’re proud that in our 2021 Employee Engagement Survey over 95 percent of our staff agreed that they are treated with fairness and respect at work and that they trust and respect their manager.

About You

You will be a highly motivated, adaptable and skilled project manager with relevant third sector experience. You will be comfortable supporting complex projects with dispersed technical teams whilst ensuring donor compliance and reporting requirements are met. A sound knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methods would be advantageous. Fundamentally, you will have a keen interest in what we do and be ready to contribute to making a positive change.

Terms and Conditions

Hours of work: Full time (37.5 hours per week) – part time may be considered Type of contract: 12 months fixed term (with the possibility to extend)

Location: ENN’s Head Office in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 (Note: In line with ENN’s current policy regarding the COVID-19 outbreak and the associated UK government advice, you may be asked to work from home up to two days per week until ENN’s Headquarters fully reopens.)

Holidays: 25 days plus UK bank holidays increasing by one day p.a. after two complete years of service to a maximum of 27 days p.a. (pro rata) Paid office closure days between Christmas and New Year

Pension: Auto-Enrolment to ENN scheme with a generous Employer contribution of 5% Salary: £36,000 to £42,000 per annum depending on experience (pro rata)

Purpose of the role

The Project Manager will be a key member of ENN’s Operations Team, working closely with the Projects Team (currently one other PM and two Project Officers), Finance Manager and Operations and Finance Director (OFD) as well as ENN’s Technical Directors and Project Technical Leads. The PM will oversee a portfolio of projects each of which are assigned a Project Technical Lead. The PM will work alongside project leads to develop and map key activity for the project, track milestones and deliverables, develop project and donor finance and narrative reports, and ensure compliance and adherence to governance requirements. In addition the PM will contribute to the development of new funding proposals.

Key Responsibilities

Project Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all donor grant agreements relevant to the PM’s portfolio of projects

• Develop and monitor project work plans and budgets in collaboration with project leads and Operations and Finance Team colleagues

• Manage project budgets: monitor spend against budget including approval within set thresholds, carry out forecasting and re forecasting exercises and regularly update project leads and the Senior Management team on spend

• Work closely with project leads to ensure project deliverables are clear, appropriately planned and delivered to deadline.

• Coordinate closely with relevant ENN colleagues and third parties to ensure delivery to deadline across a range of activities (e.g. international and UK meetings and conferences, technical publications - print and online, translations and design services, international field trips, technical webinars and briefings)

• Support project leads to develop and maintain project risk registers

• Convene regular meetings with the project team to keep a broad overview of project delivery in relation to the project grant, managing and enabling grant amendments/extensions etc

• Lead on both project narrative and financial reporting liaising with both internal and external stakeholders as required.

• Ensure effective communications with Donors during the project lifecycle

• Work with project leads to identify the need for additional capacity (staff/technical associates), aligning the project budget as required and ensuring due diligence requirements are met

Fundraising and business development

• Input into and support the development and delivery of ENN’s fundraising strategy

• Provide support to the development and maintenance of ENN’s funding pipeline and cash flow forecasting, and identification of potential shortfalls, linking with ENN’s Finance Manager and OFD

• Input into ENN database for major donors

• Coordinate the development and submission of proposals for new grants, carrying out due diligence, developing budgets and workplans.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Work with the Operations team to develop ENN wide quarterly and annual reporting

• Support the development of and measurement against KPIs and metrics

• Work with colleagues across the organisation in developing annual project plans including relevance performance indicators

• Work with the technical teams in identifying appropriate indicators and means of verification as part of project designs and proposals development.

• Maintain the ENN Results Framework and use data from the Framework and quarterly reports in preparing quarterly internal updates for the Management Team on project progress and results and in preparing reports to external donors.

General Responsibilities

• Support the OFD in the project management of a number of Core projects

• Support the OFD and Finance Manager with ENN wide management information.

• Line manage the Project Officer(s) if required

• Actively promote adherence to ENN’s procurement policy particularly with regard to the contracting of technical associates

• Contribute to internal and external communications and website development in relation to the PM’s portfolio of projects

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of relevant processes and policies

• Producing regular management information reports working with FM

Person Specification

Essential

• Previous experience of project management in the third sector

• Experience working on donor / grant funded projects and ability to navigate and communicate compliance requirements

• Experience in line managing a team including performance management, staff engagement and development, and effective coordination of team workload

• Experience in developing funding opportunities with a variety of donors

• Experience in developing, monitoring, and reporting against budgets

• Excellent communication and written skills, including previous experience of writing and collating detailed donor reports

• Able to work with and influence colleagues, often remotely, to achieve a shared outcome

• Ability to manage a diverse and busy workload, prioritising effectively, and able to work both autonomously and as a member of a dispersed and diverse team

• Flexibility and willingness to take on new areas of work and responsibilities

• Strong interpersonal skills, able to work with a wide range and varying levels of stakeholders

• Motivated, takes initiative, innovates and delivers to deadlines

• Excellent attention to detail

• Able to diagnose situations and constraints, comfortable when to progress independently and when to escalate

• Proficient user of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Good cross-cultural awareness

• Ability to demonstrate discretion, diplomacy, and patience

• Fluent in English

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent), or able to demonstrate a relevant and equivalent level of experience

Desirable

• Project Management Qualification

• Specific experience in any of the following institutional donors would be an advantage: USAID, FCDO (DFID) and Irish Aid

• Experience of managing procurement activities

• Experience of evaluations: analysing, collating and reviewing data related to grant and programme effectiveness

• Previous experience of arranging international business travel, ideally to developing countries

• Experience working within a humanitarian, nutrition or international development context

• French speaking

• Experience of using Finance, HR and/or Project Management systems Reporting Lines The Project Manager will report to the Operations and Finance Director and will have line management responsibility for a small team.

Eligibility to work

Must be entitled to work in the UK at the time of application. No relocation package is offered for this role. ENN is committed to diversity and inclusion, and to building a culture where every staff member and volunteer is recognised and valued as an individual. We actively encourage applications from a broad range of experiences and backgrounds.

Application Process

Please submit a Cover Letter (no more than 1 page) and CV to no later than Sunday 7th November 2021. Early applications are advised as we reserve the right to conclude the process before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified. Please include your preferred working pattern details in your application, if not full time

Open Doors is an international, interdenominational organization that supports Christians who are persecuted for their faith. Open Doors International supports the worldwide organization with services such as IT, DME Program Management, Finance, Advocacy, and HR by working in a service-oriented way with teams and colleagues in countries with an Open Doors Development or Field office.

Our Global IT Team consists of 22 colleagues, allocated in different parts of the world, like the Netherlands, Philippines and Brazil and they support about 1500 users worldwide. The team consists of an IT Service Team, which is responsible for the development, maintenance & support of all systems and an IT Change team, which is responsible for Business Analysis, Application Management and Programming.

The IT Project Manager is working next to these teams and is responsible to lead IT projects, in close collaboration with your internal stakeholders and IT specialists. This position reports directly to the Global IT Manager.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop and lead multiple project plans simultaneously.
• Achieve objectives within the set conditions and timeframe, with a strong focus on delivering high quality results and people skills to lead project teams.
• Timely flag when and how planning or content needs to be adjusted, taking appropriate action and maintaining contact with the stakeholders.
• Oversee and monitor progress of all different projects running simultaneously.
• Work closely with the IT Business Analyst and IT Services Manager.

Your profile

• A committed Christian* with a passion for the Persecuted Church
• Bachelor degree or equivalent work and thinking level in a relevant area
• Significant breadth and depth of experience in a relevant position, including system development, process analysis and/or IT functional management 
• Knowledge of and experience with the latest project methods and their customer-friendly application, like Agile/Scrum/Kanban. 
• Proven ability in planning and organizing, advising and leading stakeholders and project team members, in a continuously changing environment.
• Result-oriented, pro-active, culturally sensitive and able to self-manage.
• Strong leadership, networking and communication skills (in English).

This is a salaried position. Working at Open Doors means that you are actively involved in the worldwide Persecuted Church. We offer you a versatile position in an international environment and a professional team with development opportunities. The position is allocated in the Netherlands (Harderwijk) or in the UK(Witney/home-based). 

*There is an occupational requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for this post to be held by an actively practising Christian who assents to our statement of faith.

Open Doors is an international, interdenominational organization that supports Christians who are persecuted for their faith. This vacancy sits within the international granting and reporting team, reports to the Global Granting Manager, and will be based within the UK.

The role can be home-based, office based (Witney) or a combination. The job holder will also be part of the ODI UK team and meet with this team (remotely daily, in-person occasionally) for social times, spiritual refreshment and business meetings. Some international travel will be required.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Christian* to oversee change/project management solutions for ODI.  This person will translate work into process and IT system improvements (this many include a knowledge of IT Workflow tools like Nintex).

Our ideal candidate will have significant experience in leading projects and specific experience in process/waste mapping, but we are willing to develop, and train someone with the essential skills and the aptitute to progress quickly. You may have experience in a manufacturing/servicing environment and be looking to move into the NFP/charity sector. It’s your skills and approach to work that is key for us; we’ll invest in the right person.

ODI is a complex, multinational organisation and it is essential that you are able to work relationally and collaboratively with our Field,Development and Project Information teams and also our external partners. You’ll use your relationship skills, your persuasive and negotating skills, your insight into people and your ability to deliver to help the organisation embrace positive change. You’ll need cultural awareness as you’ll be working with people from many different countries and you must be fluent in written and spoken English. A proactive person will suit this role well.

We offer the opportunity to gain experience in an international Christian charity and to develop your professional skills within a highly competent team. In this role you will be pivotal in ensuring that the help we give to Christians ‘on the ground, facing persecution and threat’ is delivered effectively with maximum impact. We care about our people that work here (it’s one of our core values**) and in fact, we’ve always believed in trusting people to get the job done with flexibility in the way that we work.

It’s not a new concept for us!

*There is an occupational requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for this post to be held by a committed Christian who assents to our statement of faith

**To read our core values and statement of faith, see our website

Closing date: Friday 12th November 2021

1st interviews:    Monday 22nd November 2021

Who We Are

Open Doors is a Christian charity that is looking to recruit Christians to help meet the growing needs of the persecuted church worldwide. Hostility, violence, and abuse of Christians around the globe is on the increase. Open Doors works in over 60 countries to ensure that those facing such persecution are not forgotten but can stand strong to serve their communities and give life.

Job Summary

The post holder will work in the Finance Team delivering a timely, accurate, efficient and effective service to colleagues, suppliers, customers and donors.  The post holder will be responsible for a completing a range of bank and control account reconciliations, maintaining the fixed asset register, assisting with the interpretation of and production management accounts and assist with other ongoing day to day finance work providing cover for colleagues.  The post holder will be expected to use their initiative to resolve queries and provide advice and guidance to colleagues.

The postholder will be expected to work autonomously, be organized and accurate. They will also be required to work to ensure month end, year-end, statutory and regulatory deadlines are met.

This is an ideal role for someone with previous experience in a finance role, or a fully/partly qualified finance professional.

About the Team

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will work closely with the Finance Assistant, Director of Finance, Supporter Services team and all Open Doors UK & Ireland staff.

Hours

15 hours per week. Usually between 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities and Requirements

Bank Reconciliations

• Responsible to complete bank reconciliations for a number of different bank accounts including a Euro denominated account using the Sage accounting package. Our donation income is recorded through our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and then posted into Sage. You will be expected to investigate and resolve any issues and differences working with colleagues from the Supporter Services and other areas across the organisation. The post holder will need to be able to work transactions denominated in a number of different currencies.
• Complete bank reconciliations for sign off by the Finance Manager/Director at the end of each month. It will be your responsibility  to ensure any differences are corrected and that the transactions recorded through the bank accounts on Sage are accurate.
• You will be responsible to liaise with Supporter Services to identify the cause of any differences and work with them to minimize recurrence of errors or discrepancies going forward.

Fixed Asset Register

• The postholder will be responsible to maintain and update he fixed asset register.
• The postholder would be expected to work with colleagues from across the organization to identify and record additions, disposals and write offs.
• Responsible for the calculation and recording of depreciation on the fixed asset register and on sage and then reconciling the register to Sage each month.

Bank Statements

• Reviewing bank statements to identify income which meets certain criteria.
• Flagging and monitoring different types of receipts reflected on the bank statement and taking or flagging for action where necessary.
• Expenditure and procurement
• Advising on expenditure trends and procurement questions as required.

Accruals and Prepayments

• Responsible for identifying and posting accruals and prepayments each month and reconciling the balance to Sage each month and maintaining supporting paperwork.

Management Accounts

• Preparation and distribution of project and other management accounts reports for budget holders each month and reconciling to Sage.
• Reviewing reports and flagging issues to Finance Manager and/or budget holders where necessary.

Budget

• Assistance with budget preparation, monitoring and distribution
• Providing advice to budget holders as required.

Expenditure

• Check and approve payment runs as required, these will include payments to suppliers in the UK and overseas, grants and expense claims.

Month End

• Undertake a review of trial balance ensuring accuracy and resolving any differences/issues as required.
• Prepare and process month end journals in line with timetable.

Intercompany reconciliations

• The postholder will be required to complete the intercompany reconciliation on a monthly basis liaising with different ODI colleagues from different countries to resolve queries or issues as required. Transactions will be denominated in multiple currencies.

Control Account Reconciliations

• Responsible for reconciliation of a number of control accounts including payroll related control accounts and travel.
• Year end
• Contributing to the year-end process including compiling information for the financial statements. The postholder will be expected to assist the auditors with any queries they have related to control accounts completed by them.

Travel

• Providing support to the travel team including intercompany transactions, invoices, and intercompany recharges.

VAT and other statutory returns

• The post holder will be responsible for drafting the VAT return including identifying transactions requiring to be subject to reverse charge.. The postholder will also be responsible for the submission of other regulatory / statutory returns as necessary.

Assistance with and cover for colleagues

Where colleagues are on leave or where support is needed you will be required to provide support across a number of areas:

Payroll and Pension

• Prepare the payroll for ODUK&I and ODI for approval by the Finance Manager/Finance Director. This will include processing starters and leavers, arranging for payment to staff, submission of pension information to pensions providers, submission of payroll to HMRC, dealing with queries and issuing pay slips.
• Administration of the company pension scheme.
• Processing of expense claims for staff, volunteers and board members.

Supplier invoices and expenses:

• Maintenance of purchase invoice register, processing of supplier invoices and expense claims from purchase order to payment including ensuring authorisation, entry onto Sage and arranging for payment.

Documentation

• The Postholder will be expected to develop, update and maintain procedure notes and other process documentation as required.

Banking

•  Arranging for inter account transfers, cash for travel trips, liaising with the bank on queries and providing support to the Finance Manager in administration of the bank accounts.

Other

• Providing administrative support as required
• Any other tasks as required by the Line Manager

The above job description is a guide to the work the job holder may be required to undertake but does not form part of the contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumstances. 

Applying your Christian Faith to this Role

Because of the essential Christian context in which the role will be performed, the role is subject to an occupational requirement under the Equality Act that the post holder be a practising Christian. Each working day will involve collective prayer and worship, together with shared reflections on the work of Jesus Christ. All members of staff at Open Doors are expected to actively participate in this shared time and members of staff take it in turns to lead the act of collective worship.

There will be many ways you will be able to apply your Christian faith and the outworking of your faith to the context of Open Doors. The list below gives some of the expectations of this role but is not exhaustive or intended to limit you:

• contributing to and leading daily devotions (this can be for the whole team or just smaller, departmental groups)
• participating in retreats, days of prayer and fasting, etc.
• committing to private prayer for the work associated with this role and your closest colleagues
• working in such a way so as to reflect biblical principles of leadership and service
• applying biblical principles of godly stewardship to operational responsibilities
• to be open and obedient to God’s voice and direction in relation to any strategic matter and to always seek His will above all else to apply principles of good Christian stewardship to all matters involving money.

Limits of Authority

To operate within the ethos and aims of Open Doors, adhering to budget parameters and the Open Doors’ confidentiality agreement.

Global Canopy is a data-driven non-profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide. 

Global Canopy’s Finance Business Partners play a crucial role in supporting the programme teams to steward the organisation’s financial resources to achieve maximum impact, ultimately supporting a global shift to a deforestation free economy. You will be an excellent communicator and relationship builder, able to work well with non-financial staff and empower them to manage their budgets to deliver outstanding projects within the resource constraints that exist. 

With funding from many different sources combining to fund a range of interrelated projects, there is complexity to the finances. Your job is to keep across the detail, at the same time as keeping track of the bigger picture.

We are a flexible organisation, with many part time staff, and a hybrid, home-office working arrangement. We will consider part-time as well as full-time applications for this role. There are two positions available.

To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter the most:

• Ability to build relationships and support programme colleagues on the financial aspects of their work

• Technically competent to prepare and interpret reliable financial reports

• Solutions focused, taking responsibility for your work within a small team

At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity statement on our website. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of skills, experiences and abilities. We are committed to reducing systemic barriers in our recruitment processes. We strongly encourage those from diverse backgrounds to apply and not self-reject based on the listed criteria in the job pack.

Global Canopy works on issues of tropical deforestation. We are particularly interested in strengthening our team to include those with a background from forest regions such as Latin America and South East Asia. We would welcome applications from people from these regions.

Global Canopy is an inclusive employer and accommodations will be made to allow anyone who requires additional support to apply for this role. Please get in touch with us if you require any additional support.

To find out more, download the recruitment pack or visit our website. 

Your New Organisation

We envision a world in which young people gain the tools they need to navigate life, with creativity, resilience and brilliant mental health.

Oxfordshire has a cutting edge youth sector full of grassroots leaders wanting to give young people the space and support needed to be the best and happiest they can be. Our organisation provides both direct delivery: through innovative youth leadership programmes, workshops and a young peoples supported accommodation service and sector support: by providing holistic support to the frontline organisations, so that they have everything they need to be delivering high impact work that is grounded in best practice safeguarding and youth work.

At OY, we listen to and harness the creative powers and relentless energy of young people to drive real change at a grass roots and strategic level.

Oxfordshire Youth is a boundary-breaking organisation, passionate about creating a future for and with young people that gives them the best possible opportunity to realise their potential.  2020 was a year like no other, and it was also the year that we saw Oxfordshire Youth enter an unprecedented transformation in our work.

Together, we will redefine the youth sector in Oxfordshire and young people will become the leaders we know they are capable of becoming. Oxfordshire Youth recruits outstanding talent to ensure we provide outstanding programmes and services to the young people of Oxfordshire and the organisations who serve them.

OY culture revolves around our core values: Ambitious, Reflective, Innovative, Self-nurturing, Inclusive and Trustworthy.

Job Purpose

To lead the enabling services for Oxfordshire Youth – finance, HR, fundraising, premises, Health and Safety, GDPR and IT ensuring that we position ourselves to be financially sustainable, adaptable and responsive to external factors and an employer of choice.

To develop the operational infrastructure ensuring our policies, processes, procedures and systems are appropriate and efficient.  This includes, Finance, premises, IT, compliance, impact measurement, insurance, procurement, safeguarding, HR, fundraising, data analytics and reporting. 

To be the lead on financial planning and annual budget setting highlighting financial risk and monitoring the financial health of the charity.

To oversee the People function ensuring our structure, culture, behaviours and people processes support us in delivering impactful services with committed, motivated and valued employees. 

Through superb leadership, support OY to deliver on current commitments, whilst seeking new opportunities aligned to our strategic imperatives. The role is both strategic and operational in nature.

Key Responsibilities and Main Duties

Strategic Planning and Transformation

• In collaboration with the CEO shape the strategic direction of the charity, regularly reviewing and improving the strategy on an ongoing basis ensuring the operational infrastructure supports the achievement of the strategy. 
• Ensure that all programs in our portfolio are managed effectively in terms of prioritization, funding, resourcing, people, outcomes and reporting in order that they are delivered in line with the organisational strategy.

Financial Management

• To monitor the financial health of the charity. Create monthly management accounts; report bi-monthly to the Finance, Audit and Risk (FAR) Committee and ensure that we are constantly highlighting financial risks and opportunities
• To lead on financial planning and annual budget setting. Provide high quality monthly reports on budget progress, support staff members struggling with budget adherence.
• To champion the use of robust financial processes and procedures for book keeping, record keeping, month end, expense claims, procurement, payroll and income generation.
• To lead on annual statutory accounts, the annual audit, and filing obligations with the Charity Commission. 
• To expand and develop the organisation’s financial strategy. Increase assets and reserves, diversify income and support gradual sustainable growth.

Fundraising and Donor Management

• To line manage the Corporate Fundraising Manager and support them to implement our fundraising strategy.

• To gradually build our fundraising capacity and unrestricted turnover by increasing the size of the fundraising team in a sustainable manner.
• To create a can-do relationship-led fundraising culture; supporting the fundraising team to outperform their targets in every area. Produce monthly reports monitoring performance against targets.
• To promote a donor love ethos ensuring donors feel valued and engaged.
• Lead a project to formalise our volunteer base with clear recruitment, induction and management processes. 
• To drive forwards Oxfordshire Youth’s plans for continuous sustainable growth

People Management

• To inspire and motivate the team, building a collective ambition to deliver on the mission and strategic imperatives.
• To line manage the People and Development Manager and to support her to lead the people function ensuring that our processes, systems and procedures create a fair and cohesive approach to people management.
• Alongside the People and Development Manager, support managers to ensure that OY values are lived and the organizational culture supports our mission helping us to deliver our social purpose with pride.
• Support the People and Development Manager to build capability in performance management, modelling the way, ensuring the approach to talent, succession and learning, positions OY for success and as an attractive employer.

IT

• To be the lead on IT in terms of hardware, software, procurement and system implementations including Xero, MyConcern, Lamplight, website, and other systems.
• To ensure that technology enables our staff to deliver and supports us to effectively engage with all of our stakeholders.  To ensure our technological capability supports us to be at the forefront of youth engagement, marketing, communications and service delivery.

Compliance

• To lead on policies, processes and systems around compliance including GDPR, DBS, safeguarding and HR. 
• To work within the organisational GDPR policy and procedure to lead on and strengthen adherence to GDPR across the whole organization and to ensure a high level of staff understanding across all teams.
• To lead on Oxfordshire Youth’s Health and Safety across the whole organisation including for all premises and YPSA accommodations.

Facilities Management

• To be the key landlord contact for all of our premises, managing all contract negotiations.
• Oversee all maintenance for our premises ensuring repairs are booked and carried out in a timely fashion.
• To lead on the fundraising for and purchase of a new Oxford Youth Hub; chairing the joint staff and trustee working group.

Other Duties with Oxfordshire Youth:

• To lead on the coordination of other training contracts as and when they arise within the organisation
• To contribute to the content of Oxfordshire Youth’s communications including the newsletter, website and other internal and external communications
• To work towards annual KPIs agreed with the Line Manager
• To attend team meetings and regular supervision meetings with the Line Manager
• To liaise and work alongside other team members and to maintain good inter-agency links
• To ensure that all work is carried out in accordance with Oxfordshire Youth’s values, guidelines, policies and procedures
• To undergo training that will enable personal and workforce development
• To undertake any other relevant duty related to the further development, promotion and sustainability of the organisation as agreed with Line Manager
• Subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Safeguarding

• To recognise that promoting the welfare and safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyone’s business and access training and supervision as appropriate to the role.
• To support the organisation in ensuring young people are protected from abuse or the risk of abuse and their human rights are respected and upheld.
• To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the OY's Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures.
• To comply with recruitment and other checks as requested by the organisation including undertaking a DBS check.

This job description is subject to amendment following discussion with the post holder.

October 2021

EXPERIENCE, QUALITIES AND APTITUDE

Essential:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified, with significant post qualification experience (qualified by experience may be considered)
• Experience of leading a finance function in an organization
• An understanding of HR and employment law; integrity and discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Excellent leadership skills with proven experience in a leadership role.
• A strong line manager with demonstrable experience of delivering through a team
• Experience of managing complex projects
•  Experience of implementing and managing IT within organisations
• Experience of managing significant budgets of over £1m.
• Ability to carry out research and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data
• Strong presentation, reporting and communication skills
• In depth experience of using Xero, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and databases
• Committed to treating people equally, respecting differences and challenging prejudice and discrimination
• A positive, enthusiastic and ‘can do’ approach to work
• Committed to own learning and development
• A commitment to the social ethos of the charity and an ability to relate to Young People

Desirable:

• Prior experience of charity accounting and of leading on the audit process for a charity
• Understanding of learning and professional development
•  Understanding of the youth sector and current challenges that young people face
• Understanding of the challenges facing the third sector
• Experience across all sectors (corporate, public and third sector)
• Experience of contract management and the delivering of sizeable contracts in public or private sector

Supporter Care and Database Manager

Full Time- 37.5 hours per week

Set in beautiful, landscaped gardens, Katharine House Hospice couldn’t keep making such a difference in our local community without experienced and dedicated staff and volunteers.

All staff benefit from:

• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• a contributory pension scheme
• opportunities for training and development
• free on-site parking.

Working together with the fundraising, marketing and retail teams, you will have excellent interpersonal skills with experience in managing a supporter/customer care function. You will ensure excellent supporter administration processes and procedures are in place to ensure timely donation handling and thanking, and the accurate management of lottery, gift aid and direct debit administration and reporting.

This role is also responsible for the management and care of the fundraising database and data reporting requirements by charity colleagues and will lead on ensuring high quality supporter care is provided to our voluntary income supporter audiences.

If you are a strong team worker with an ability to motivate others, please apply today.

How to Apply

Please go to our website to download the job description and equality and diversity form and apply with CV and supporting statement of no more than one side A4 outlining your motivations and suitability for the role, and how your experience meets the role requirements.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Play a proactive role as part of the fundraising management team. Contribute to the overall income generation strategy, to develop and deliver a coherent and compelling supporter care and database strategy. Deliver operational plans and budgets to ensure outstanding supporter care to supporters.
• Manage and motivate the supporter care and database team, identifying and resolving operational issues and taking responsibility for staff performance, setting priorities, and managing performance through the development of work plans and 1:1’s.
• Build an internal culture focused on supporter experience to increase the lifetime value and retention, delivering effective stewardship to aid in the acquisition, retention and development of Katharine House supporters.
• Work with the Supporter Care and Database Manager to ensure efficient supporter engagement procedures and processes, making effective use of the CRM database.
• Ensure the Supporter Care team are the first point of contact for our community, dealing with donations and all types of query.
• Ensure accurate and timely donation and gift aid processing, ensuring delivery of SLA’s.
• To develop and improve our supporter communications via process improvements and training
• Lead on lottery administration, ensuring weekly draws and gaming board administration are accurately completed, and processes for new and lapsed players are well managed.
• Working together with the Supporter Engagement Manager, ensure legacy estates are administered with timely correspondence to executors to receive legacy income.
• Ensure excellent data management and reporting, keeping the fundraising managers and SLT updated on supporter analytics, data reporting, new trends, processes and technologies.
• Working with the Senior Database Officer provide timely data selections for fundraising and marketing purposes.
• Working together with the Finance Department, produce income reports and ensure figures balance between the CRM database and financial systems.
• Working together with the Supporter and Community Engagement Managers and Retail Manager to promote and develop the Gift Aid scheme to maximise claims and ensure the hospice adheres to HMRC requirements

Team Working

• Support the fundraising team as an effective team member, contributing to development through collaboration and proactively participating in progress reviews, team meetings and team building.
• Promote and contribute to a co-operative working ethos with other KHH teams to maximise effective working throughout the charity and across the hospice.
• Participate in promoting and developing the work of KHH through effective marketing of the vision and ideals of the organisation to external audiences.

Other Responsibilities

• Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an employee, you are expected to follow the hospice’s Safeguarding Policies and report any concerns in accordance with those policies.
• Keep up to date with sector trends and feed this into team planning.
• Maintain confidentiality and data protection regarding all personal information and hospice activity.
• Grow knowledge and maintain awareness of sector trends, ensure best practice and adherence to relevant fundraising and marketing codes of practice and legislation, including GDPR.
• Undertake other tasks reasonably requested by your line manager, as appropriate.

Location - Flexible (across Oxon, Bucks and Milton Keynes).

Connection Support is excited to announce a new post being created to implement our charity’s latest strategy to generate and diversify its income. We are looking for someone to bring enthusiasm, professionalism, personable and persuasive communication both in person and writing to the process of establishing a distinct, charity focused fundraising strategy to generate supplementary income through grants, individual givers, events and other means, during this very exciting time for us.

From a fundraising/charity background, you have experience and a proven track record of fundraising from individual and company donors and grant making organisations and can facilitate people to plan and work together so that income generation targets are achieved.

You will be part of our senior management team working together to help us to reach more vulnerable people and make a greater difference to peoples lives.

Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.

New Partnership Manager (0853)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have experience in developing high-impact fundraising partnerships and managing high value relationships? 

Do you have brokering, partnering and facilitation skills to enable co-creation and collaboration, and the ability to influence and negotiate with senior level stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes?

Are you a confident communicator with the ability to inspire supporters, colleagues and peers?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

The Role

Oxfam GB is looking for a New Partnerships Manager (Trusts and Foundations) to join the Philanthropy, Partnerships and Ambassadors team. This is an exciting position in a high-performing, supportive and ambitious team.

You will be responsible for developing new impact-focused partnerships with Trusts and Foundations in the UK and overseas, resulting in funding for Oxfam’s life-saving and life-changing work.

Working closely with technical experts, in-country programme staff and Oxfam’s leadership team, you will connect with and create mutually-rewarding relationships with key contacts at Trusts & Foundations.

What we are looking for

Our next New Partnerships Manager will have experience of fundraising with trusts and foundations, companies or institutional donors and a successful track record in relationship management. We’re looking for someone with the tenacity, confidence and interpersonal skills to create and influence new relationships that deliver income and impact for Oxfam.  

We offer

This role will give you an opportunity to develop your professional skills and experience and make a genuine difference to people’s lives around the world. You’d be joining Oxfam’s successful Philanthropy, Partnerships and Ambassadors team, responsible for forging new partnerships which deliver significant funding and impact to help realise Oxfam’s vision of a just world without poverty. 

You would join the team at an exciting time as we sharpen our focus on building partnerships which tackle fundamental inequalities that keep people in poverty and truly shift power as we create more space for southern affiliates and local partners.

Flexfam

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as a job share, fully or partially home based.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply  

As part of your online application, please click on the apply button, upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. 

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

In response to Covid-19 if you are offered a role where you are required to travel between countries please ensure you have been briefed by the Hiring Manager about any changes to working or precautions you should take as part of your role.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Partnership Co-ordinator to join our team base in Oxford. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £33,000 – £34,000 per annum.

In addition to a competitive salary, RABI also offers 28 days of annual leave, 10% pension contribution on successful completion of probation, access to learning & development and an employee assistance scheme

Please note that there is flexibility to work from home up to a couple of days per week, but this is an office-based role.

RABI has been supporting farming people throughout England and Wales for many generations. Providing practical guidance and proactive support to everyone within the agricultural community, RABI has a network of locally based teams who understand the challenges farming people face. The charity’s range of services cover four areas:

- Help at a critical time
- Mental wellbeing
- Support for living independently
- Training and upskilling

It is an exciting time to join the charity as it implements a 5-year strategy which aims to quadruple support to farming people by 2024. At the heart of this ambitious objective, is an aspiration to deliver a holistic, flexible approach to services that promotes early intervention and farmer wellbeing.

The Partnership Co-ordinator role:

You will work with the Corporate Partnership Manager to establish and develop the Partnership Programme for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI). Working to identify and strategically develop valuable sector and wider industry collaborations, the Partnership Co-ordinator role is fundamental to the continuing development of RABI’s strategic objectives.

What you will be doing as our Partnership Co-ordinator:

- Identify and develop opportunities to engage with prospective strategic corporate partners
- Work with existing and prospective partners to maximise benefits for both parties, identifying new ways to gain access to expertise and high-quality support
- To support the Corporate Partnership Manager in developing and maintaining a partnership model to focus on maximising the impact and retention of strategic partners
- Provide subject matter expertise and advice to support the Senior Management Team in developing strategic priorities and projections. To attend, contribute and chair where appropriate, meetings, briefings and reviews with existing and potential partner organisations
- Working with RABI colleagues to collect and track data on the effectiveness of partnerships

Key skills and experience we are looking for in our Partnership Co-ordinator:

- Experience of developing excellent relationships with high level corporate organisations
- Ability to represent RABI and lead meetings with large audiences and partner-based events
- Significant knowledge and experience of working collaboratively with organisations and stakeholders at all levels
- Advanced research skills and proven record of environment scanning success
- Excellent communication skills and ability to understand and translate complex information to a variety of audiences
- Negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to work with people at all levels with tact and diplomacy
- Experience of developing and delivering presentations and pitches
Excellent organisation skills and the ability to manage own workload and priorities
- High computer literacy skills including the use of Microsoft Office programmes
- Ability to travel throughout England and Wales and work unsocial hours on occasion
- Affinity with the goals and objectives of RABI
- Project Management experience, including monitoring & evaluation
- A full UK driving licence

Desirable:

- Farming background or knowledge and understanding of the farming community
- A network of contacts in the agricultural sector
- Development of partnership modelling
- Experience of working in the not-for-profit sector

If you feel you have what it takes to become out Partnership Co-ordinator click ‘Apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applications are reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint early. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your CV.

Conflict & Peace Building Senior Advisor (0845)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have technical experience in working on conflict and fragility?

Do you have experience in providing on-site and remote advisory support to colleagues and partners?

Are you committed to gender equality, anti-racism, and decolonisation?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!

The Role

Oxfam Great Britain is looking for Conflict and Peacebuilding Senior Adviser. The role will support the delivery of Oxfam’s Rights, Resilience, and Response (RRR) strategy in contexts where conflict and/or systemic root causes of fragility prevent sustained and inclusive peace.

The role will work collaboratively with Oxfam country teams and partners to design and implement interventions using a triple nexus approach.

What we are looking for

Our Conflict and Peacebuilding Senior Adviser will support the definition of Oxfam GB’s specific contribution to the confederation’s work on Rights, Resilience, and Response.

The job holder will contribute to the development of a coherent set of programme approaches, especially conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding tools and frameworks that cut across context specificities and will enable to work of colleagues based in countries and regions for the development and implementation of RRR interventions.

We offer

This role will give you an opportunity to support Oxfam’s work on rights, resilience, and response, and to act as key contributor and enabler to regional and country teams. You will work with a group of passionate people that are seeking to address the systemic root causes of conflict and fragility.

Oxfam GB also offers training and development, a fair pay and competitive benefits package.

Flexfam

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

 All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply

For further information and to apply, please click on the apply button.

Please note that all interviews are scheduled to be conducted on Microsoft Teams on the following dates:

• First interview: 3, 4, and 5 November
• Second interview: 10, 11, and 12 November

Should you have any issue with using Microsoft Teams or with the above dates, please do include this and alternatives that would work for you in your application.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

In response to Covid-19 if you are offered a role where you are required to travel between countries please ensure you have been briefed by the Hiring Manager about any changes to working or precautions you should take as part of your role.

Senior / Principal Consultant positions with Oxford MeasurEd, a boutique global education consultancy formed to shift how learning and progress in education are measured in low- and middle-income countries.

We are dedicated to working with international partners to collect and analyse data and improve learning. Our work focuses on designing and evaluating learning assessment systems, evaluating education programmes, and providing strategic and capacity strengthening services to a range of education actors.

We are looking for ambitious and committed individuals to join our growing team and help drive our programme of high-quality and policy-relevant work. Applicants will need a solid grounding in research and evaluation methodologies and knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing schools and education systems in lower- and middle-income contexts. The Senior Consultant will add capacity across the range of our projects and have the opportunity to develop expertise in specific methodological areas. The Principal Consultant will bring leading expertise in assessment, education research, evaluation methods and/or education policy and will be responsible for working with Oxford MeasurEd’s Directors to develop our work and influence the sector.

More detail including responsibilities, recruitment criteria and how to apply can be found in our application packs.

About CAG

It’s an exciting time for CAG Oxfordshire as the network celebrates its 20th birthday, reaches almost 100 member groups, and is working to take community-led climate action to the next level in Oxfordshire.

As we plan more ambitious work to support community-led change in Oxfordshire, we’re looking for someone to lead the next stage of our development. We have doubled in size in under two years of operation as an independent co-operative, owned and steered by our member groups.

Find out More

We’ll be holding an Open Zoom session, where you can come along and chat with us about the Director role and find out if you think we’d be a good fit for you.

Join us at 12.30pm on Thursday 21st October here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84686815841

The session will be co-hosted by the current Lead Coordinator (Director equivalent) and another member of our team. If you can’t join the session don’t worry, we’ll write up the questions and any answers we give and share them as a blog post on our website as well.

About the Director Role

The new Director will lead and coordinate our work. This includes managing our staff team in a way that keeps us developing more effective self-management practices over time. A key part of the role is ensuring we improve and deliver on our strategy and plans, drawing on the strengths and input of people across the organisation and our wider network. The Director will also develop new partnerships and income streams to grow our work; meeting the needs we can already see around us, and taking opportunities as they arise.

We are looking for someone who can work between three and five days a week.The role will be scaled appropriately according to the hours agreed with the new Director - there are more details on this in the recruitment pack. Some of the many benefits of the role include: flexible working hours, ability to mix home and office working, great colleagues and partners, pro rata share of 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays, and the opportunity to make the role your own in many ways.

We work in partnership with farms and other rural locations to run a day service which provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities (our “co-farmers”) to recognize their own abilities, develop their skills and give life more purpose.

We have established partnerships with a number of different rural enterprises and locations where our co-farmers engage in all sorts of different activities including gardening, animal husbandry and woodwork. We are looking to establish a base at one of these locations. An early objective of your role would be to help us to do this. To work closely with our team and develop a partnership with our hosts that would be of mutual benefit.

As Chief Executive you would be responsible for all operational aspects of our organisation with overall responsibility for the management of the programme; our staff (currently 5) and volunteers; helping us to fund and create innovative programmes to enable our co-farmers to progress; and working with the trustees on strategic direction and development whilst preserving our ethos and focus on the individual.