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The Victoria Hall CIO charity is looking for a committed and self starting person to grow use of a brand new community building. Your aim will be to enable the facilities to be vibrant and well used so that they serve community groups, businesses and organisations in the area.
The charity is keen to bring on board someone with the vision and personality to create a vital new welcoming and dynamic centre. Harrow is a changing and developing place and these facilities are located at the heart of this.
The role involves the practicalities of running a safe venue and the marketing skills to grow regular users and engage with those who want events and activities well run and accessible to a wide range of people.
You will be delivering the day to day running of the facilities, compliance with procedures, ensuring the safety of users and operating a booking system as well as marketing to a high standard and overseeing caretaking.
The Trustees are looking for a person with skills and experience of:
- Running, practically, a community centre or similar facilities.
- Working with stakeholders across all sectors and building positive relationships for mutual benefit (including fundraising) to communities.
- Growing income in voluntary settings.
- IT skills to keep up to date records including in managing money.
- Being a self starter with attention to detail and used to working under your own initiative.
- Marketing and social media skills to engage the target market.
- Developing a team of volunteers.
In return the right person will receive
Opportunities to take the initiative and launch and grow a wonderful new facility and make this a special place.
Salary range; £27,000 - £30,000 depending on experience
Pension contribution
Holiday allocation: 22 days plus bank holidays
The working hours
Working hours: 37 hours per week, to be worked in a flexible pattern to include some evening and weekend working
This is a full time contract for 3 years.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a hands on Finance Lead to join the team at Talkback, at an exciting time of growth.
Are you a person with a passion to help people? If so, would you like to use your skills and work alongside like-minded, committed colleagues to enable people with a learning disability to increase their self-esteem, have more say, and control over their lives. Talkback has worked for over 20 years in a person-centred way with over 1000 people with learning needs and/or autism.
Position: Finance Lead
Location: The role is office and home based with a requirement to work in the South Bucks office at least 2 days a week and travel across Buckinghamshire, as required, to visit our teams
Salary: £28,000 - £38,000 per annum pro rata depending on skill levels
Hours: Full and Part Time considered - a minimum of 3 days per week.
Benefits:
Holidays: 23 – 27 days per year, dependent upon length of service and days worked
Pension: A Workplace Pension scheme, where both the employer and employee contribute
Family Friendly Benefits: We are committed to supporting staff in achieving a sensible work-life balance.
Employee Assistance Programme: staff have access to the support line 24/7
Parking: Free parking available on site
As Finance Lead you will be responsible for managing the financial assets of the charity and supporting its long-term future through effective and responsive controls, reporting and planning.
You will support the CEO, advise the Board of Trustees and be part of the senior leadership team, providing timely and insightful forecasting, maintaining effective financial control and supporting the CEO in developing business plans and analysis. You will also be handling transactions when required, as it’s a hands on approach we need.
Having had experience of working in an SME or Charity environment you will use your experience and knowledge, outside Finance, for the benefit of the people that we support and will be willing to provide hands on support, when required.
About You:
To be successful in the role you will need the following skills/experience:
- Fully qualified – ACCA or equivalent
- All round experience of working in an SME with excellent operational knowledge
- Experience of working within the Charity sector essential
- Proven ability to support change management processes with financial data
- Strong IT knowledge including advanced knowledge of MS Excel
- An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
- The ability to work on a range of projects
- Collaborative and hands-on style of working
- Contract management experience preferred
Other roles you may have experience of could include Charity Finance Manager, Head of Finance, Finance Team Leader, Finance Analyst, Senior Finance Manager, Interim Finance Manager, Financial Accounting Manager, Finance Manger etc.
Talkback’s roots are in self advocacy, in building self confidence and self esteem to enable people with a learning disability to use the skills t... Read more
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