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Are you an experienced Finance Officer who loves what you do and has a passion for working in an organisation that’s truly making a difference?
If that sounds like you, we have an exciting new role of Finance Officer to join our team on a hybrid basis.
You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our charity finances run smoothly and efficiently. As a standout candidate, you’ll be great at paying attention to detail, especially in invoice and balance sheet reconciliation, and will have great Excel skills. You’ll also enjoy collaborating across the organisation, and your problem-solving sets you apart.
To be successful, you’ll bring prior experience in a similar role and familiarity with non-profit governance and operations.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
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Closing date: 13 November 2025 10am
Skills assessment: from the date you apply up to 17 November 2025
First stage interviews (Zoom): 18-19 November 2025
Second stage interviews (at our office in-person): 25 - 27 November 2025
Synchronicity Earth’s mission is clear: we blend passion and action to provide safe havens for endangered species, support communities living in harmony with nature, and turn conservation into a worldwide effort. By joining, you're not just taking part; you're weaving your own story into a future that's brighter and sustainable for all.
We understand that life sometimes takes unexpected turns, and we welcome candidates who may have taken a career break. Your unique experiences and fresh perspective will only enhance our team's diversity and strengthen our ability to tackle the complex challenges facing our planet. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds for this role, particularly non-graduates, and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Candidates from Black, Asian, and Minority-Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and people with disabilities who meet the criteria (in the section of the job description headed ‘What you will bring to the team’) and opt-in to our Guaranteed Interview Scheme will enter the first recruitment stage, see more information below.
Application and Recruitment Process
Inclusion is a priority throughout our workplace culture and is embedded in our recruitment process. To support this, the first stage of recruitment will be anonymised by Charity Job to mitigate against unconscious bias. Please let us know at any stage during the recruitment process if you have any accessibility requirements and we will do what we can to accommodate these for you. Please also let us know which pronouns you would like to be referred by, if you wish.
How to apply:
· Complete the application questions, upload your CV, and submit your application through Charity Job.
· Fill in our candidate survey. Whilst this survey is optional it is the way to opt in to the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (information below) if you would like.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
We recognise that people from Black, Asian, and Minority-Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and people with disabilities are under-represented in our sector, and that there are often additional barriers present for people from these groups when applying for roles in the charity sector and beyond.
As part of our commitment to attract and retain talented individuals from under-represented groups to the conservation and environment sector, if you belong to these groups, you can opt in to the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) in our candidate survey. If you meet the essential criteria for a role, you'll be guaranteed a first-stage assessment. The results of this assessment will be used to select candidates for the first-stage interview.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
- Job title: Research Assistant (Strategic Alliance for Community Wealth Building)
- Hub: Community Wealth Building
- Reporting to: Daniel Noruwa, Research and Policy Lead
- Type of Contract: One-year fixed term contract
- Pay £35,000 (Pro-rata)
- Annual Leave Entitlement 28 days’ annual leave, including UK bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Pension 3% employer pension contribution on eligible earnings
- Location: Hybrid (Wolves Lane Centre)
- Work pattern: 22.5 hours (3 days per week)
- Closing date 17th November 2025, 17:00 GMT
Overview
Social infrastructure refers to the physical spaces, facilities, and services that enable communities to thrive. This includes community centres, youth clubs, religious institutions, housing, parks, sports facilities, and larger institutions such as schools and medical centres.
Over the past few decades, this infrastructure, particularly those led by Black and racially minoritised people, has come under increased strain. This is due to a range of socio-economic developments, including austerity, privatisation of public services, and an increasingly complex grant-making sector.
The Strategic Alliance for Community Wealth Building was originally established in 2021. With a focus on supporting enterprise and asset development, the Alliance was created to bring together policy leaders, community groups, and infrastructure organisations to improve outcomes for Black and minoritised people and their respective communities. However, since 2021, the political landscape has changed significantly, and with it the challenges experienced by Black and racially minoritised organisations. This includes a growing climate crisis, Artificial
Intelligence, and the ongoing housing shortage across the country. Therefore, a new forum is required to ensure Black and racially minoritised communities are not left behind.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
• Facilitation of workshops including design and presentation of relevant materials, communicating complex ideas relating to community wealth building and engagement with all participants.
• During SA events the postholder will focus on collaboration with relevant stakeholders across the sector, including community leaders, thinkers, policy professionals, and other stakeholders committed to an equitable future.
• Support with the development of the Strategic Alliance’s strategy, purpose, and long-term framework. Make sure than any ideas are captured and written into the work strands of the alliance, liaising closely with the Research and Policy Lead.
• Producing short briefs to inform discussion and debate within the Strategic Alliance for Community Wealth building meetings
• Delivery of reports informed by the content of the Strategic Alliance meetings.
• Organising meetings, workshops, events, and related research materials. This includes logistics, booking meeting spaces, sending invites and tracking responses, sending materials to participants, catering and refreshments. Some notetaking tasks may also be required.
• Offer support as above with other workstreams within the research and policy arm of community wealth building, including housing, climate, community asset development (Agbero), and the IVAR young researcher programme.
General Responsibilities
• To attend and participate in internal and external meetings including staff meetings and meetings with key stakeholders.
• To attend relevant training to fulfil the requirements of the job.
• To undertake other duties which may from time to time be required and which are appropriate to the responsibilities of the post.
• Ensure that The Ubele initiative internal policies and procedures are followed through in all areas of work. They will also treat with confidentiality any information that could be deemed as personal, private, or sensitive and comply with the organisations GDPR and Safeguarding requirements.
Person Specification
Essential
• Public speaking, presentations, comfort speaking to individuals of all levels
• Strong passion for working in/or exploring a career in research, policy, community development, or similar.
• Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly to a variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated track record of working within teams to deliver projects or assignments.
• Good organisational skills, with confidence in managing own workloads and ability to prioritise effectively.
Desirable
• Knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, particularly in regards to Black and minoritised led organisations and influencers.
• Experience engaging in politics, particularly relating to community activism, economic development. This could be through your degree, internships, activism, or other forms of consistent engagement.
• Familiarity with working simultaneously on different types of productivity tools. This could include Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Trello, Asana, etc.
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Barnardo's is offering an exciting opportunity to join the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services (ECFWS) as a Finance and Quality Administrator. We're looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented individual to provide efficient support across financial and quality-related administrative processes.
This is a hybrid role, but candidates must be based in Essex, as regular on-site meetings within the Essex remit are required. A full UK driving licence, access to a car, and business-use insurance are essential.
Some of the Key Responsibilities:
- Record and process expenditure invoices and purchase order requests.
- Monitor income and expenditure against budget.
- Purchase items/services and ensure accurate logging of transactions and receipts.
- Support service leads with end-of-year budgets and financial reporting.
- Manage grant applications and community development funds.
- Maintaining, updating and compliancy tracking for quality-related documentation inc. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Smart Sheets
- Supporting health & safety processes and audits
- Processing and administration of DBS checks
What we are looking for:
- Experience working with financial systems and managing budgets, income, and expenditure.
- Proven background in finance, accounting, or business administration—ideally within the charity or healthcare sector.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and produce clear reports.
- Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills with a focus on accuracy.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Before applying, please refer to the Job Description and Additional Information Sheet to support your application.
If this sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you!
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
