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We are seeking an experienced fundraising and communications manager to cover maternity leave in our award winning charity working to end homelessness one person at a time in East London.  

About the role

Based within the fundraising team, The Fundraising, Communications & Supporter Manager will provide direction and manage the team responsible for brand, communications, events and fundraising through individual giving, legacies, community and corporate partnerships. This role will also directly be responsible for Major Donor relations and income.

The role and its responsibilities are critical in the charity’s growth and delivery of strategic goals through brand development, stakeholder engagement and delivery of some key streams of fundraised income. This role will work closely with the new Head of Fundraising and Communications role which has recently been created, and with our established Trusts Fundraising Manager, to support diversification/growth of income streams.

Salary: £39,520 - £46,800 annual salary 
Contract: Maternity cover 
Hours: 37.5, Monday to Friday 
Location: Hybrid/Canning Town, East London Office 

Other responsibilities include

• Develop the brand on an ongoing basis, in collaboration with the Chief Executive and senior leaders, to ensure it is serving the charity as it grows and helps to achieve strategic goals
• Ensure the charity’s visual identity and organisational narrative are upheld through all communications and PR, ensuring messaging is story and outcomes based
• Support the Heads of Fundraising and Communications to devise a communications strategy aimed at engaging new and existing audiences, building the charity’s profile and increasing fundraising income
• Oversee web presence and marketing campaigns, ensuring the delivery of distinctive, engaging and integrated content, reflecting the charity’s mission and values
• Oversee the organisation and execution of corporate, stewardship and fundraising events
• Work with departments across Your Place to maximise opportunities to promote work and activities, and champion the voices of those accessing services, supporting residents to convey their stories
• Sourcing and working with agencies, consultants and suppliers

Public Relations:

• Identify stories and opportunities to increase brand awareness
• Identify and keep abreast of internal and external reputational and financial risks to the charity, developing crisis management plans and responses, working with the Chief Executive and Board where necessary
• Be main point of contact for our Patrons and President to encourage ongoing involvement, and identify and approach appropriate, prospective supporters to the charity including patrons/ambassadors and people of influence
• Oversee the development of corporate and public relations collateral, including impact reports
• Oversee applications to awarding bodies, working in close partnership with other departments
• Collaborate with partners on campaigns that align with our mission and values

Development:

• Input into organisational development plans, working closely with the Strategic Management Team
• Devise and oversee development and implementation of the fundraising and audience audit and strategy
• Review existing and future fundraising and marketing activities to ensure compliance with regulations and best practice, ensuring internal controls are adhered to in order to ensure supporter satisfaction and to mitigate against reputational and financial risk to the charity
• Keep up to date with best practice in fundraising, identifying and sharing trends, developments, regulations and legal requirements that impact Your Place - specifically, this includes the Fundraising Regulator’s requirements including the Fundraising Code, GDPR, PECR, and Charity Commission regulations
• Manage budgets, contracts and resources across the relevant parts of the department
• Prepare forecasts for income and report on the team’s performance against targets and KPIs
• Oversee accurate recording of income, sources and allocation to ensure proper organisational expenditure
• Contribute to the production of the organisational annual accounts and Directors Report
• Development of relevant departmental policies and procedures as required

Managing and Developing People:

• Manage the work of direct reports, agreeing and setting objectives, targets and deadlines
• Be responsible for monitoring workflow and managing performance, ensuring that work meets agreed objectives, targets and deadlines
• Discuss and agree personal development plans and objectives annually, and on an ongoing basis. Provide appropriate development and coaching opportunities to support the Fundraising and Communications department in working towards their objectives.

General:

• Directly take responsibility for supporting and communicating with our major donor / high net worth supporters, and work to deliver against agreed targets for this income stream.
• Produce reports for and attend meetings internally as and when necessary, for example, Directorate, Management and planning meetings
• Undertake other duties within the competence of the post holder which may be required from time to time
• Undertake any training or appropriate professional development considered necessary.

Comply in all areas of work in line with policies and procedures.

About you

Experience

• Experience of planning and delivering fundraised income growth
• Brand management experience
• Experience producing communications and/or fundraising plans in the charity sector
• Understanding of supporter management and journeys
• Experience of managing and developing high-performing team

Abilities

• Ability to develop and maintain professional relationships at all levels and with key stakeholders
• Agility to move across various functions and areas of responsibility
• Exceptional organisational skills including time management, a high level of accuracy/attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent IT skills, including the Microsoft Office package, databases and digital media platforms
• Problem analysis and solving, proactive and able to use initiative

Personal qualities

• A commitment to the charitable mission and values of Your Place.

About applying

When applying don't forget to answer the questions in our application process to tell us more about how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience to be successful in this role.

At Your Place, we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better resident outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK.

Together for Mental Wellbeing are delighted to be recruiting a Lived Experience Consultant and Trainer, a brand-new and exciting position for the organisation. 

This role is an incredibly important position as it will enable the organisation to work towards achieving our Service User Leadership ambitions.  Service User Leadership is the core ethos that underpins the culture and practice of all aspects of the organisation, and to us it means that we truly value and champion the voice of those experiencing mental distress, ensuring that individuals feel empowered through having choice and control.  Together proudly adopts this approach and has demonstrated a commitment to this throughout the history of delivering mental health support. 

This new role will form part of The Service User Leadership Team, one of our core Central Support Teams, and will report into the Head of Service User Leadership. 

The primary focus of this role is to provide bespoke consultancy and training packages to external partners, in both service user leadership and peer support, that will drive forward positive change across mental health and social care in these areas.

Through engaging in networking opportunities, alongside the Head of Service User Leadership, this role will lead on building relationships with key partners, increasing opportunities to collaborate, whilst strengthening our profile, reputation, and brand.  We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual, who has their own lived experience of mental distress, demonstrable experience in effective stakeholder engagement and working towards targets, in addition to designing, and delivering training packages.  The ideal candidate will also possess extensive expert knowledge in relation to peer support and service user leadership.   

This position is 3 days per week (22.5 hours) and is fixed term for 2 years from the commencement of employment.  The role is home based with the expectation of travel when required to attend engagement and networking events, deliver training to external partners or for attendance at meetings in Head Office.  The role will may also include occasional travel to our Together services when required.  All travel expenses will be paid.

Please see attached the job description and person specification.  If you are interested in applying for the position, please do ensure to thoroughly read the job description and person specification, as only candidates who are explicit in how they meet the criteria for the position will be shortlisted for interview. 

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an online interview.   

Interviews will take place on Thursday 11th July 2024.

To apply for the role please do so directly via the Together wesbite.

CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER

Programme Manager

· Fixed term contract (maternity cover, expected up to 12 months)

· Salary £ 47,336 per annum

· Full time 37.5 hours (4 days a week minimum considered)

· Flexible working options will be supported.

· Central London Office and Hybrid working

We offer a pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%, in addition you’ll receive 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, 24-hour access to a comprehensive employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan scheme and other benefits.

About the role

The Programme Manager will work in the Centre for Ageing Better’s Homes team.

Currently, millions of older people are living in homes that are unsafe – cold, damp, mouldy or with other types of hazards. The Homes team run a series of innovation, research, peer-support and influencing projects, that all seek to ensure that no one lives in a home that endangers their health, wellbeing or financial security. We work across local and national government and collaborate with a range of stakeholders.

The postholder would be responsible for collaborating with colleagues in the design, commissioning and delivery of a number of projects. The Programme Manager will use their creativity and experience to design work that has a clear route to impact, ensuring that everything we do has a traceable link back to the people we are trying to support.

The role will also require that effective programme management processes are followed to ensure effective, timely and impactful projects (e.g. milestone planning, budget management, risk, stakeholder engagement and delivery).

About you

You will be committed to trying to tackle the housing crisis, particularly for older people at risk of poverty, ill-health and facing discrimination. Knowledge of the current housing landscape and/or ageing issues would be an advantage but is not essential.

It is important that you can demonstrate excellent project management skills, designing and delivering projects that have a clear route to impact. Working collaboratively with others and experience writing and communicating complex ideas in an accessible way are essential.

You are likely to be overseeing projects that stimulate change at the local level through supporting service redesign processes, innovation practices and evaluation. Therefore, we are particularly interested in hearing from people who have experience working with organisations to adopt new practices or undertake service redesign, and/or who have commissioned or participated in evaluations.

If you do not have this direct experience but believe you have other, transferable experience, please do apply! 

About us

The Centre for Ageing Better is a charitable foundation funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and part of the government’s What Works Network

Everyone has the right to a good life as they get older and our whole society benefits when people are able to age well. But far too many people face huge barriers, and as a result are living in bad housing, dealing with poverty and poor health and made to feel invisible in their communities and society.

The Centre for Ageing Better is pioneering ways to make ageing better a reality for everyone. Its key areas of work include challenging ageism and building a nationwide Age-friendly Movement, creating Age-friendly Employment and Age-friendly Homes.

We are striving to create an organisation that reflects our society and the communities we serve. A workplace where everyone feels empowered and where diversity of background and thought is celebrated. We know there is more work to be done and are committed to continuing to improve our practice around Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

We very much welcome applications from minority groups and those underrepresented in our workforce. This especially includes people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ people, and Disabled people.

We are a Positive Action employer, therefore in recruitment where two candidates are ‘as qualified as’ each other, we will favour a candidate from any group identified as currently underrepresented in our team based on protected characteristics as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.

MyBnk is a UK wide charity that delivers expert-led financial education programmes to 5-25 year olds.

Part of our Programmes and Delivery Directorate, Lead Programme Trainers are slightly different to our Trainers in that Lead's also train others on our programmes. You will be expected to support new Trainers in the study of MyBnk's curriculum and in the passing of the MyBnk assessments before they are released to training on their own. Once they are training our programmes, you will then help support MyBnk's approach to quality control and the continuous development of our Trainers.

MyBnk is a growing organisation; in every sense of the word and the future for us is set to be very exciting and promising - we need your help to shape it.

Description

Job Title: Senior Regional Finance & Operations Manager - based in Central Africa – International Applications strongly encouraged!
Reporting to: Great Lakes and Central Africa Regional Representative and Head of Finance - Africa
Preferable: 6 years experience in the Humanitarian field
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Principal Location: Bukavu with regular travel to other parts of the Country and Region

Background:

Street Child believes every child deserves to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on education, child protection, and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues underpinning today’s education crisis. We partner with local organizations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programs. We use evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale-up of programs to create maximum impact for most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s most challenging places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses to afford the cost of educating their children.

Part 1: Role Purpose:

This role aims to offer financial and operations management support to Great Lakes and Central Africa Region programs, focusing majorly on Street Child Programmes in DRC. The role reports to both Great Lakes and Central Africa Regional Representative and Head of Finance in Africa.

The role holds a senior position within the Street Central Africa Region team and will oversee Street Child – financial and operational setup to support operationalizing all program/project implementation in full compliance with donors’ and SC operational standards. The role will also provide financial support to programs across Great Lakes and Central Africa and partner organizations to support the development and implementation of robust financial management and reporting systems and assess and strengthen the control environment, financial management, grant management, and reporting. It will be building the finance and grants management capacity of Street Child staff and partners. A vital part of this is facilitating communication between Programmes and Finance staff.

Part 2: Key Responsibilities:

Finance Management:

• Supervise the country's standard financial systems establishment and maintenance in line with STREET-CHILD Financial Policy and Procedures, donor and local legislation requirements to provide appropriate levels of security and controls over the organization's resources and operations across the country to ensure success, consistency, and compliance.
• Develop and update quarterly the country's Master Budget to ensure that all funding gaps are covered.
• Provide strong leadership to the Finance and Admin team in all offices, whether with direct line management or technical, ensuring competent and motivated staff are hired and retained.
• Provide financial advice to the budget holders and local partners, ensure adequate support is provided to the program, and ensure the alignment of resource allocations with organizational priorities at the budgeting and implementation stages.
• Ensure that monthly accounting closure is timely, accurate, and compliant with STREET-CHILD financial policies and procedures for all Street-Child field offices and perform the bank reconciliation as appropriate.
• Using the Street-Child accounting system, produce the Budget Vs.—actuals for internal use by the country team and budget holders on a monthly basis.
• Oversee all financial and logistical requests made by the technical team and ensure they are in line with the Street-Child guidelines (Advance request, travel request, leave request, Toil request).
• Lead on applying Street-Child anti-fraud and anti-corruption policy and ensure all DRC staff understand and adhere to it, including Zero tolerance.
• Ensure regular financial and operational checks are performed for each local partner involved in Street-Child project implementation.
• Elaborate, review, and update Finance Standard Operating Procedures for STREET-CHILD DRC and across the Central and Great Lakes region as required and relevant.
• Conduct spot checks on transactions be responsible for maintaining transparency and accountability within finance and administration.
• Build financial management capacity for local partners in the region.

Grant Management and Budget proposal:

• Collaborating with other managers during proposal development, lead on the costing in proposal writing.
• Produce grant financial reports for donors in their formats.
• With the Senior Programme Manager, co-lead monthly grants review meetings involving all active partners.
• Manage the budget review, cost extension, realignment, and alert on any potential risk.
• Ensure appropriate measures are taken to address audit findings and recommendations associated with all grants.
• Conduct grant management training for local partners and provide orientation on finance matters and tools to non-finance staff.

Operations Oversight:

• Lead all aspects of HR, administration, procurement and logistics in the region
• Adequately manage internal and external HR and admin risks, highlight & resolve relevant issues with national institutions with support from the country leadership team (Taxes, labour inspection).
• Maintain daily responsibility for local staff issues, i.e., contracts, payroll, job descriptions, salary scales, leave, and benefit in support of the HR and Admin Assistant.
• Facilitate frequent staff meetings, and update the staff on the new Street-Child guidelines, regulations, etc.
• Lead the outsourcing of some services such as staff medical insurance, legal issues and the adherence to national labour laws, taxation systems and rules, social security, and insurance rules, etc.
• Lead in running procurement, ensuring value for money and overseeing all contracts which are placed with suppliers
• Ensure that all necessary agreements, permits, and licenses for Street-Child operations in DRC are in place, and keep updated on national rules and regulations pertaining to Street-Child activities.
• Lead staff adherence to all processes and ensure strict and contextualized application across the DRC program.
• Ensure proper asset management by initiating tools and control systems, including tagging.

Part 3: Person Specification

Attributes Essential Desirable

Education / Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level or higher.
• Recognised Accountancy Qualification.
• Degree in International Business Administration, finance or related field; or attendance at specific relevant training courses.

Experience and Knowledge:

• 6 years post qualification experience.
• Experience of implementing internal controls and finance procedures.
• Experience of managing multi donor grants and good knowledge of donor compliance rules and requirements – in particular working with ECHO, BHA, EU, SIDA, NMFA, FCDO, USAID, UNICEF, ECW, WFP, etc.
• Knowledge of development issues and concepts.

Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of finance & logistics policy within non-governmental organizations.
• Knowledge of computer applications and accounting software’s.
• Excellent relationship building skills, with an ability to skilfully navigate both national and international stakeholders.
• Knowledge of French, Swahili or other relevant local languages.

Other:

• Strong interpersonal, management and team work skills.
• Ability to influence change in teams not directly managed.
• A self-starter, capable of working independently and flexibly to a high level.
• Fluent English –written and spoken.
• Good communication and staff training / capacity building skills.

How to apply:

• To apply for this fantastic opportunity, please follow the link below.
• Female applications are strongly encouraged.

About you

The successful candidate will have proven campaigning and influencing success with a track record of delivering change. You will be an experienced people manager and able to lead multiple projects with limited supervision, as well as have an expert understanding of the political environment in Northern Ireland.

The right person will have a strong network across Northern Ireland’s political parties, including elected representatives, and Government departments, as well as good media connections, which they are able to use to support the delivery of the charity’s public affairs strategy.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced public affairs manager looking to progress their career in a high-profile charity. You will manage the Policy and Public Affairs team in Northern Ireland and lead the delivery of evidence-based and carer-led public affairs, campaigning, media and research activity across Northern Ireland.

With your team you will lead on a wide range of activity including Carers NI’s policy, research and campaigning work; as well as being responsible for the delivery of awareness campaigns like Carers Week and Carers Rights Day; fronting media and social media activity and representing the charity at the highest level of decision-making in Northern Ireland.

Carers NI’s Policy and Public Affairs team also leads on the Carer Poverty Commission in NI, as well as the Advocacy and Voice Project for unpaid carers, which you will be responsible for delivering.

Remote and flexible with regular travel throughout Northern Ireland and some travel across the UK will be required

This is a role we are looking to expand and grow in the coming years, so there will be opportunities for the right candidate to progress in their career at Carers NI.

Diversity and inclusion

Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.

To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.

As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.

At Carers UK we want our application process to be as accessible as possible. If you need any adjustments to apply please email the recruitment team to discuss.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 28 June 2024.

First interviews will be held on the Monday 8 July. This will be a two-stage interview process.

Carers UK anonymises all applications prior to shortlisting.

Carers UK reserves the right to appoint at any stage, should an outstanding candidate emerge.

Carers UK may carry out online and social media checks as well as seek references before a formal offer is made.

VERTIC is looking to appoint a Head of Finance. The role involves managing the full range of the organisation’s finances and administrative functions. This includes budgeting and forecasting at the project, programme and central level as well as running the day-to-day financial and other organisational operations. The role will also involve maintaining and developing robust and user-friendly, financial and operational systems to underpin our work.  This is a great opportunity to work with an established and growing NGO with activities reaching around the world and to help maintain and strengthen its finance, administrative and operational functions. 

The role requires having significant experience in charity and not for profit financial management, as well as in overseeing the life-cycle of grants and other contracts from governments, organisations and charitable foundations internationally. You should have substantial experience in accounting and resource management software, audit processes and HR matters. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills who can work with and present to colleagues across the organisation and understand the needs of their programmes and projects. The organisation is dynamic and has been growing in terms of the size and number of grants it has internationally. The organisation is relatively small in terms of staff numbers. The successful candidate should therefore be prepared to be adaptable and flexible and be able to move from strategic activities to sleeves up work with ease.

About us:

VERTIC (the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre) is an independent, non-profit making charitable organisation. Established in 1986, VERTIC supports the development, implementation and verification of international agreements to improve international peace, security, environment and development. Our activities cover international treaties and mechanisms preventing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, measures promoting stabilisation between conventional forces, challenges and opportunities from new technologies, International Health Regulations and sustainable development. To support progress in these areas, VERTIC provides innovative research, capacity-building, and engagement with governmental, regulatory, diplomatic, scientific and non-governmental communities around the world. Our outputs include technical advice and planning materials, publications, presentations, information tools, databases, as well as events, workshops, training and exercises. We run projects solely and in partnerships with other organisations.

We carry out our activities across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, and the Pacific. Our staff is comprised of international legal experts, scientists and policy analysts from a range of nationalities and disciplines. VERTIC has an office in London and staff and consultants based in other countries. The organisation’s funding comes from governments, regional and international organisations such as the EU and United Nations and charitable foundations. Our role ranges from lead implementer coordinating other partners, to sub-contractor. VERTIC is governed by a Board of Trustees and regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. 

Functions and responsibilities

Organisation level

· Prepare annual, quarterly and monthly budgets and projections at the organisational and programme level along with management accounts and cash flow reports.

· Analyse forward cash and fundraising projections and needs.

· Brief and work with Executive Director on financial, HR and administrative matters including financial needs, staffing, projections, scenarios and planning, and risk monitoring.

· Prepare and present financial reports to Board of Trustees meetings.

· Ensure the Charity meets its statutory obligations to HMRC and Charity Commission and other relevant bodies as necessary, as well as insurance obligations.

· Keep the organisation compliant and up to date on law and best practices related to charity finance, governance, risk monitoring, HR and operations in UK and internationally.

· Prepare and submit annual statutory financial statements, prepare and facilitate the audit process.

· Help maintain, update and communicate VERTIC financial policies, procedures and controls.

· Maintain, develop and, where necessary, overhaul the organisation’s financial, HR and operational IT and physical infrastructure and records to ensure they are standardized and consistent, user-friendly, up to date, appropriately accessible and resilient.

· Ensure financial and related systems facilitate organisational stability, hand-over, and efficient knowledge-transfer including for financial management processes, software tools and records.

· Review and implement methodologies for calculating organisational financial needs and internal allocation approaches for full cost recovery, day charge out rates, overheads and reserves.

· Monitor restricted and unrestricted fund allocation

· Manage day-to-day finances, scheduling, tracking and fulfilling invoices and payments to suppliers, service providers in the UK and abroad.

· Manage bookkeeping activities, including transaction recording in the organisation’s books and reconciliation.  

· Manage bank and financial service provider accounts in various currencies, oversee fund transfers, process credit cards and charge card accounts.

· Address foreign exchange rates currency implications for the organisation. 

· For UK and international/non-UK staff: monitor staff time and leave records; ensure payroll and related employment payments are fulfilled and records kept; manage HR matters related to employment contracts, visas, salaries, time, leave, social security, pensions, benefits and expenses; assist with onboarding, offboarding, handovers.

· Support organisational level cyber security practices related to finance and operations.

· Review project contracts from funders, address due diligence and compliance matters, and keep VERTIC’s template contracts for consultants and organisations in line with best practice.

· Ensure new grants are recorded across VERTIC’s system including identifying funder rules and internal responsibilities.

· Oversee office management

Programme and project level

· Support Programme Directors with financial monitoring and planning for time allocation needs across staff and consultants, project delivery capacity, billing, fundraising, and expenditure - over monthly, quarterly and annual timelines.

· Oversee financial management of grants and other types of contract from governments from multiple regions, international organisations and charitable foundations.

· Schedule, prepare, submit and track financial reports to funders and invoices to funders, including submitting invoices on government finance systems.

· Monitor payment of invoices.

· Prepare for and host project-level audits.

· Support staff with project and activity level finances and expenditure monitoring.

· Support Programmes in fundraising by assisting with project budgets (covering staffing, travel to meetings, workshop costs, research tools, sub-contractors in the UK and overseas).

· Ensure adherence to government and charitable foundation funder rules and requirements on finance-related matters (procurement, due diligence, exchange rate methodologies, transactions, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, sanctions, management quality assurance, ethics)

· Assist with the preparation and review of contracts for sub-contractors and consultants

· Oversee/support staff with travel, event and other expenditure.

Requirements

· Significant level of experience in finance, operations and administration including in a senior/leadership role with responsibility for a department or small to medium organisation.  

· Understanding of charity accounting requirements.

· Experience in managing charity / not for profit finances including management accounts, budgets, monitoring and planning, day-to-day operations on banking, income and payments.

· Experience in using common accounting and management software, including QuickBooks, knowledge of ERPs is desirable.

· Familiarity with HR and project management software and service provider web portals.

· Experience in contract management from government and charitable foundation funders in the UK and overseas.

· Experience with financial requirements in fundraising from governments and foundations.

· Experience in HR in the UK and internationally.

· Experience with organisational practices such as strong cyber security and compliance.

· Excellent communication skills, including to non-finance staff and partners.

· Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, proactiveness, ability to work to tight deadlines.

· Ability to oversee and strengthen overall financial system as needed.

· Comfortable in hybrid and remote working environments.

· Familiarity with working with stakeholders from a variety of different cultures and regions.

· Ability to travel on occasion.

· Education and qualifications: at least a Bachelors level degree; Accountancy Qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

The organisation currently operates a hybrid working policy for staff based in and around London. At present, this role requires attendance in person on a number of days to be agreed and requires availability during office hours.  These factors can be further determined based on whether the agreement is for a full or part time position. You must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this post.

In return, we offer:

● A competitive salary commensurate with the candidate's qualifications and experience.

● 25 days annual leave allowance.

● Flexible working practices (including working from home).

● Relocation support.

● Pension scheme.

● Life insurance.

● Opportunities for education and training support.

Note: This Job Description reflects the current situation. It does not preclude change or development that might be required in the future.

VERTIC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Are you passionate about bringing your financial skills and experience to help BCFB fulfil its vision, mission and values.

The Finance Officer will be involved in all aspects of the charity’s financial operations, this is a very broad role. From handling small donations like a child’s pocket money right up to processing large grants.  You will be the first point of call for financial queries and questions arising from our team. You will process purchase and sales invoices, volunteer, and staff expenses.  You will support grant and other fundraising applications, process donations from a variety of different platforms, deal with gift aid and banking. You will need to be an analytical problem solver able to work on your own and as part of our team.

You will have a finance qualification and experience of working in the finance department of a charity.  You will have strong Excel skills and familiarity of dealing with fundraising platforms such as JustGiving.  You will need to form constructive and supportive working relationships with our volunteers and other stakeholders so you will need strong communications skills, excellent numeracy and literacy, the ability to work to deadlines and prioritise your own workload while maintaining a compassionate, professional, and efficient public image for the charity.

Details

Hours: 15 per week (3 x 5 hours on 3 working days)

Salary:  £34,125 pro rata

Holiday: 25 days per year plus bank holidays pro rata

Pension: Nest Pension

Location: Office based at Black Country Foodbank, Albion Street, Brierley Hill, DY5 3EE

Accountability: The Finance Officer is line managed by the CEO and Board of Trustees

The Purpose of the role

The Finance Officer is responsible for the smooth running of all aspects of the financial management of BCFB.

· Provide sound technical and professional advice to the CEO, Board of Trustees, and others.

· Provide a high quality and effective financial service to the charity.

· Prepare, develop and analyse management accounting information.

· Ensure compliance with all relevant financial statutory and regulatory matters.

Key tasks and responsibilities

 Financial Management

Accountancy and Bookkeeping Systems

Maintenance of all accounting records on an ongoing basis to include:

· Manage all income and expenditure processing.

· Maintain and improve bookkeeping and accountancy systems (both computerised and manual) including:

- Bank reconciliations

- Cash flow management

- Income and grant analysis (restricted and designated funds)

- Bank receipts and payments

- Purchase approval and recording processes

Accounts payable

· Process purchase invoices in an accurate and timely manner.

· Respond accurately and efficiently to queries from suppliers and colleagues regarding payments.

· Manage the Finance email inbox ensuring emails are dealt with in a timely manner.

· Ensure Petty cash is available and monitored.

· Process staff expenses, ensuring compliance with policy.

· Access and administer online banking.

· Pay salary and staff costs liaising with our accountants (who administer payroll) regarding any updates/changes.

Accounts Receivable

· Control and Monitoring of restricted funds including detailed records of spend allocation of funds and remaining balance.

· Accurately accounting for all income receipts monthly including donations from individuals and organisations and grants and claiming any appropriate Gift Aid.

Budgets

· Prepare and update annual income and expenditure budget in consultation with the CEO and other officers.

· Monitor the budget against actual and investigate any major variations in budget.

· Involvement in strategic and business planning projections with the CEO and other officers.

Reports

Produce regular management information so that key officers and trustees know how well the charity is performing against its budget. To include:

• Provide regular monthly management financial information (including financial highlights/list of assets/budget against actual/restricted and unrestricted funds/fund movement summary/fund balances/trial balance/balance sheet) for the CEO and Board of Trustees.
• Quarterly financial reports for the Board of Trustees including detailed analysis of income and expenditure.
• Reports on individual activities including Lottery and grants.

• Filing Annual Return to the Charity Commission.
• Assisting with funding reports.

Annual Financial Audit

• Work with BSN, our accountants/auditors to produce the statutory accounts and planning of the year-end audit.

Bank and Treasury Management

• Treasury management in connection with cash and investments held by the charity.
• Manage cash flow to ensure that the level of interest received is as high as possible and that bank charges are kept to a minimum.
• Ensuring Current Account balances are kept at a reasonable level.

Fundraising

· Ensure that the most tax-efficient solution is applied to fundraising income through gift aid and other schemes.

· Assisting with applications for funding ensuring that all grants, sponsorship and donations are paid on time and the financial conditions met.

· Keeping clear records of funding bids, successful bids and spending related to these bids.

Communication and Coordination

• Ensure the efficient circulation of financial information as needed including that required from external advisers e.g., auditors.
• Liaise with and advise the CEO and others as appropriate on all financial matters.
• Liaise with and maintain a good working relationship with bankers, accountants, auditors and donors.
• Liaise and maintain a good working relationship with volunteers, staff and Board of Trustees.
• Attend staff and Trustee meetings as required to provide information and analysis.
• Understand confidentiality in accordance with GDPR.

Professional/Technical

• Keep up to date with financial developments across the sector, changes in requirements for charity reporting and changes in legislation.
• Maintain and monitor the Internal Financial Procedures policy document and make recommendations on best practice, good governance, policies and procedures and implementing same.
• Experience with the software for donations, My Giving online and the accounting package, My Fund Accounting online.  The software is specifically for churches and charities.
• Experience with Just Giving and other online giving platforms in particular claiming Gift Aid.

Administration

· Undertake all finance related administrative tasks ensuring orderly filling of electronic (Sharepoint) and paper documents and preparing for financial audits.

· Prepare the banking.

· Paying in cash and cheques to the bank/post office.

· Posting letters.

Other

· Contribute to the financial risk assessment.

· Keep abreast of current legislation and practices also, best practices with peer organisations and preparing reports and recommending procedures for BCFB.

· Work closely with the CEO and other colleagues as part of a small, mutually supportive team.

· To carry out other duties appropriate to the post as requested by the CEO and Board of Trustees

· To comply and carry out duties with regard to all policies and procedures of the organisations.

Person Specification

Finance Officer

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Therefore, we encourage and support the recruitment, retention and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. The person specification is designed to help members of the interviewing panel judge the qualities of the interviewees in a systematic and consistent way, in accordance with BCFB’s equal opportunities policy.

Qualified, for example ACCA, ACMA, CIPFA, CIMA

Thorough practical up-to-date understanding of management accounting principles and techniques.

Experience and understanding of:

• Charity accounting and SORP
• Production of monthly reports and financial reports and analysis.

• Experience of monitoring cash management in a non-profit environment.
• Experience with the software for donations, My Giving online and the accounting package, My Fund Accounting online.  The software is specifically for churches and charities.
• Experience of Gift Aid and how it applies to charities.
• Experience of managing the audit process.
• Experience of liaising with accountants.
• Experience of compiling funding applications
• Experience of recording spending against funding bids ready in time for report writing.
• High degree of communication skills particularly attuned to conveying complex financial concepts to non-financially trained colleagues and volunteers
• Used to working in a demanding environment and providing accurate and timely information to a high standard.
• The post holder will be in sole charge of all transaction processing and accounting.
• Ability to work without close supervision and meet service standards and requirements.
• Strong organisational skills and able to deal with competing priorities.
• We have a Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths and none.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work solely and part of a team.
• Genuine interest and compassion for people in food poverty.
• Strategic and analytical skills.
• Keen to keep up with technical advancements.
• Adaptability.
• Honest with strong values
• Strong communication skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Industry-specific knowledge.
• Keen to improve knowledge.

N.B. This job description is not all encompassing. Over time the emphasis of the job may change without changing the general character of the job. Your duties may be reviewed from time to time and revised and updated in consultation with you to reflect appropriate changes.

Right to Close Vacancy Posting Early. BCFB reserves the right to close any advertised vacancies earlier than the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview. If you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process.

The Jacobs Futura Foundation is seeking a talented finance professional to join them as their Director of Finance and Operations at an extremely exciting time at the early stages of start-up.

The Jacobs Futura Foundation is a newly established philanthropic foundation, working to support two key causes: the preservation, and restoration of tropical rainforest for the benefit of nature and local communities, and the provision of education and support to athletes during and after their sporting careers. The Foundation is committed to long-term impact, seeking to learn from others and using evidence and experience to inform the charity’s programme and growth.

The Role

The Director of Finance and Operations is a key position within this nascent and highly exciting charity. Overseeing finance, IT and facilities, you will operate in both a hands on and strategic capacity for the Jacobs Futura Foundation, designing and rolling out appropriate controls and processes whilst managing outsourced partner functions.

Working closely with (and where appropriate, deputising for) the Chief Operating Officer, you will play a key role in shaping the establishment of finance systems and processes for the Jacobs Futura Foundation. You will work as a key business partner across the Foundation, working with programmatic leads to help inform on and improve financial understanding. You will lead on organisational budgeting, forecasting, international management reporting, as well as manage the relationships with the current outsourced finance partners. A summary of key duties is as follows:

• Lead on organisational budgeting and forecasting, including short and medium term financial planning
• Produce timely, relevant financial management information for the organisation, providing analysis and commentary for the SLT and Board
• Lead on the annual audit process with external auditors, ensuring all information is provided on time, to plan and to quality, maintaining unqualified audit reports
• Business partner with non-finance stakeholders to help assess the viability of projects, including focusing on financial aspects
• Develop and maintain financial reporting templates for project management and oversight
• Assist with the development and maintenance of organisational and project KPI processes and systems
• Manage JFF’s IT and facilities functions and relationships with other supplier contracts
• Assist in the collation of board reporting on relevant matters, working to the CEO and COO

About You

 A qualified finance professional, with significant post-qualified experience at senior finance level
Have a thorough understanding of best-in-class systems implementation and use (with a particular interest in automation and utilising technology for effectiveness)
Be an adept business partner to non-finance stakeholders at all levels including executive teams.
Have an interest in one or both of the key areas of grant giving for the charity.
Be confident working in a small team environment, being hands-on where required.

What’s in it for you?

• Salary: £90,000 - £105,000 DOE
• Hybrid working – average 3 days per week in the office (central London based)
• Matched pension of 5% (10% total contribution)
• Life Insurance (Death-in-service benefit) of three times salary
• 25 Days annual leave + Bank holidays
• Flexible working arrangements

For further information, please apply below or contact Holly Arrowsmith at Ivy Rock Partners for a discussion.

Are you passionate about supporting people with disabilities to live full lives and realise their ambitions? 

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead, manage and develop a supported living service?

Outward are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and committed Deputy Manager to join our Enfield learning disability services at Linwood Crescent to manage a service for 14 residents living in a supported living service which caters for older people with additional health needs. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our dedicated, caring and supportive staff team.  The aim of the service is to enable the people we support to enjoy a good quality of life maximising independence and skills progression where possible.

The Role

The deputy manager would support the manager with recruiting and managing the large staff team, creating a culture of positive behaviour support within a personalised environment, embedding quality standards, achieving and progressing good outcomes with the people we support. As well as managing the service safely within the regulations and standard required by CQC.

You will act as a role model in the delivery of active support you will promote and maintain person centred approaches and inclusive community links to achieve positive outcomes with the people we support from the frontline staff team.

Skills and Expertise

· To share our values of enabling, empowering and engaging and implement these

· A minimum of 1 years’ experience of providing support to people with learning disabilities/ autism and or complex needs and or behaviours of concern

· Have excellent communication skills and be able to build positive relationships with internal and external partners – staff, professionals, people we support, families

· Be confident in using your own initiative able to deputise for the Service Manager

· Have strong IT skills and able to manage own time and work under pressure

· Creativity, motivation and enthusiasm to bring new ideas into the service and to implement these to shape the service as part of continuous improvement

· QCF Level 5 in Leadership for Health and Social Care, or equivalent or willingness to gain a qualification

· Experience of staff management and the ability to lead and develop a large team ensuring staff are appropriately trained

· Experience of carrying out needs assessments and creating support and risk management plans for people with complex needs

· The ability to deliver the service in accordance with an individual support plans, the service specification and CQC requirements

· A commitment to providing high quality, personalised active support

· Knowledge of managing a budget is desirable

Benefits

We value everything our staff do for the people we support, so we provide a great benefits package:

· 25 days Annual Leave excluding Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time)

· Computing Scheme

· Credit Union Scheme

· Cycle-to-Work Scheme

· Death in Service Benefit

· Health Assured – Employee Assistance Programme

· Eye care Vouchers

· Flu Jab Reimbursement

· Long Service Awards

· Pension Scheme

· Purchase Additional Annual Leave

· Refer-a-Friend Scheme

· Retirements

· Loans (including season tickets and parking permit loans)

· Blue Light Card

How to Apply

If you think you are who we are looking for, please submit a statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the role by referring to the Job Description and the Person Specification.

You can do this by following the link below:

The closing date for all applications is on 20th June 2024

Interviews will be held w/c 4th July 2024

About Outward

Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people for over 40 years. Set up by parents of children with a disability looking for alternatives to institutional care, our aim is to support people to have genuine control over their lives, play an active role in the community, accept responsibilities and develop as individuals. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expect all staff to share this commitment.  This post involves working with or having access to adults at risk and/or their records so we will require an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services. This will be fully subsidised by Outward.

Outward is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Who are we? We’re The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice. We’re a well-established charity located at 20 Dumbreck Road, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow G41 5BW. The hospice provides specialist palliative care for people with a life-limiting, progressive illness, and support for their families and carers. 

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to join our team as Head of Fundraising. This pivotal role is responsible for spearheading our fundraising efforts, nurturing key relationships and driving and growing income generation to support our strategic and operational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead and grow our diverse fundraising team, covering areas such as Community, Key Events, Key Relationships, Business Development, In Memory, Legacy, Individual Giving, and Trusts.

· Collaborate with the Director of Income Generation and Digital to develop and implement a robust fundraising strategy.

· Foster a culture of excellence, cooperation, and innovation within the team to exceed financial targets and KPIs.

· Engage with high-profile individuals and businesses, expanding our donor base and securing support for fundraising initiates. 

· Represent the hospice at networking events, delivering presentations to enhance our public image and brand awareness.

· Transition the team away from traditional fundraising methods through event delivery, pivoting into stewardship and relationship based fundraising methods. 

 Ideal Candidate:

· Proven experience in fundraising and team management.

· Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.

· Strategic thinker with a track record of meeting and exceeding targets.

· Passionate about palliative care and the hospice mission.

Please note, we do not hold a Sponsorship Licence and are therefore unable to accept applications from candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.

Join us in our mission to provide exceptional care for our patient and families whilst making a lasting difference. Apply now to become the Head of Fundraising at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

About the role

Aspire is a dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking organisation, at the forefront of tackling some of the most complex social issues that our community is facing, including the cost-of-living crisis.

We are seeking to appoint a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to take over from Paul Roberts, who, after for seven years leading Aspire Oxfordshire is moving to a national role in another organisation. 
To achieve our social mission in these challenging times, we are looking for a leader who will work closely and collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Board of Trustees (Board). An excellent communicator and relationship builder, your leadership will shape our strategic direction, ensuring our services remain person-centred and responsive to the evolving needs of our community. You will also be a strong people leader who can navigate organisational change, nurture and develop relationships with our many stakeholders and partners, and inspire and empower our team to deliver excellence, every day.

To thrive in this role, you'll need a demonstrable track record of senior leadership in an employment development, supported housing & homelessness or directly comparable field.

Main Purpose of the Job

The CEO is responsible for providing leadership for Aspire’s continuing success and to improve its organisational resilience, working closely and collaboratively with the Board and the SLT. You will lead the strategic planning and delivery, general management and performance of Aspire, with a team of c. 60 employees and an estimated annual turnover of £2.8m, ensuring the organisation can provide effective, holistic person-centred support to people facing significant barriers or disadvantage to securing employment and independent living, including through strong partnerships with like-minded organisations.

Key tasks

Key tasks are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the job holder.  This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks and the post holder will be expected to carry out such other reasonable duties which may be required from time to time.

Strategic leadership & development

• Work with the Board and Senior Leadership Team to develop then lead on the delivery of the Aspire multi-year strategy, including the ongoing co-production during 2024 of a new multi-year strategy to 2027. Horizon scan for external environmental challenges and forward plan for responsive delivery scenarios.

• Deliver the Aspire strategy effectively with a two-fold approach: empower a capable, resilient senior leadership team (C-suite) and further develop and empower senior and middle managers at Aspire; and oversee investment to enhance systems so that the team is better able to support clients and staff and responsibility can be delegated as appropriate within fit-for-purpose infrastructure.

• Lead Aspire to respond effectively to the environmental sustainability and inclusive economy agendas and to continue embedding equity, equality, diversity and inclusion approaches into its workplace.

• Develop further Aspire’s delivery role to help realise ‘system change’ upstream, of a more inclusive and sustainable economy, including through encouraging community wealth building and a more regenerative and distributive local economy model.

• Maintain regular contact with the Chair and the wider Board of Trustees to facilitate full engagement of the Board and derive maximum benefit from individual and collective Trustees’ experience and connections.

Effective people leadership

• Support leadership team and senior fundraiser colleagues to set and meet their professional development & personal objectives, aligned with Aspire’s organisational strategy, contractual requirements and commitment to flexible working and maintaining a healthy work/life balance while delivering against business need. 

Effective delivery of charitable programmes

• Forge strong, positive relationships – including through alliances and partnerships and alongside our Senior Fundraiser and Chief Programmes Officer (CPO) – with representatives from our service commissioners, statutory partners, key donors/trusts and senior stakeholders for the effective delivery of our charitable programmes, including meeting stipulated funding commitments and performance targets.

• Work with the CPO and Senior Managers to build the capacity, range and quality of Aspire’s charitable programmes provision in our strategic priority areas to help ensure we retain contracts in coming years and make the most of emerging opportunities, whilst ensuring our activities focus around our core mission. Support the CPO to strengthen our charitable project data insight, opportunity assessment, lived experience participation and management framework.

Embedding new funding streams and priority project development areas

• Identify and develop income-generating activities to strengthen the charity’s financial resilience and carry forward the business development for Aspire’s expanded housing activity, including evaluating and, if appropriate, securing Registered Provider status for Aspire. 

• Work with the Senior Fundraiser proactively to seek out continuity and expansion funding for our strategic priority charitable programmes.

Compliance

• With the Board and SLT, particularly the Chief Operating Officer (COO), ensure Aspire meets all its organisational compliance requirements with respect to existing, and new programmes.

External relationships and brand

• Leverage external relationships and brand to support our fundraising strategy, notably any matched fundraising campaign, keeping abreast of stakeholder perceptions and ensure it links to our strategic objectives.

• Protect and grow Aspire’s brand and reputation including as an innovative, enterprising, problem-solving organisation including through articulating and implementing a strategic communications plan, representing Aspire at high profile events and initiatives.

Please email your CV and covering letter to William Powlett Smith, Chair of Trustees, to the email address provided by Fridat 28th June 2024.

We are seeking a motivated business manager who is committed to improving health outcomes for children and young people and reducing health inequalities. The successful candidate will provide exceptional organisational, financial, & business support to continue to grow the organisation. 

SAPHNA is a professional organisation and charity established in 2006. We are the voice of school and public health nurses across the UK, and the Crown Dependencies. Our mission is to achieve equality and excellence in school nursing practice leading to improved health outcomes and reduce health inequalities for all school aged children, young people and their families and communities.

We strive to take forward the Public Health agenda by working in partnerships to influence health, care policy, and support the workforce, for the benefit of children and young people and the communities where they live and learn.

The initial contract is 12 months fixed term with a view to extension. There will be a 3 month probational period.

24 hours per week, £33,000-35,000 pa, pro rata and depending on experience. Pension included.

The role is home based with ability and willingness to travel across UK when required. Flexible working hours to be agreed and to meet the needs of the organisation. Holiday allowance is 25 days per annum pro rata plus bank holidays.

Main Responsiblities: 

• Supporting the Professional Officer in managing finance, human resources, risk management, quality, operational change, board activities and business planning for the organisation.
• Providing programme management support for SAPHNA bidding, budget, invoicing, and contract management processes.
• To support the development and delivery of SAPHNA business planning and prioritisation, including horizon scanning and creating business cases and new opportunities for income generation. 
• To support the Professional Officer in ensuring all the organisations charitable obligations are met.
• To support the Professional Officer and SAPHNA team as required in any other related work- streams.
• Line manage the administrator assistant and have organisation oversight and governance responsibilities of the office based processes.

The SAPHNA is an expanding and evolving organisation, as such the job description and person specification will be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the evolving needs of the wider team.

We are extremely proud to be partnering with the Swedish School in London in recruiting a permanent Finance and Operations Manager to join their outstanding finance team.

This is a part time role located in Hammersmith.

About The Swedish School

The Swedish School is a private, not-for-profit school that provides education from pre-school all the way through to sixth form, following the Swedish curriculum whilst using London to add an international dimension to their teaching. Carrying their fourth consecutive ‘Outstanding’ award from Ofsted, they encourage a positive learning environment.

Role responsibilities

Finance:

• Develop and oversee the day-to-day accounting and manage monthly and annual closing and annual accounts
• Prepare annual budget and regular forecast updates and provide updates to budget holders
• Prepare monthly management accounts
• Manage contracts with clients (partner schools, parents and Swedish municipalities)
• Oversee school fee billing each school term and ensure all fees and extras are collected in liaison with the Finance Assistant
• Manage the collection of fees and credit control procedures
• Maintaining cash flow projections for the current and future years
• Prepare annual salary review

Operations Management

• Contract management, including overseeing purchase procedures
• Oversee and plan future investment needs of premises and other fixed assets.
• Manage the Finance Assistant and Site-Manager/Caretaker
• Work successfully with Swedish and English authorities, and other relevant stakeholders

General

• Ensure the school effectively and efficiently operates within the required regulatory frameworks and meets all statutory duties
• Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people

About you

• Be fully CCAB qualified
• Have extensive experience in financial management and control
• Have extensive use of accounting software (Sage and Zero are desirable)
• Has good organisational skills and is able to work accurately with attention to detail.
• Has excellent communication skills
• It would be advantageous if you can speak Swedish  
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For a confidential conversation about this role please get in contact with Megan Hunter.