Laurence’s Larder provides a meal, essential groceries, washing facilities and company for those struggling to make ends meet. We need a project development manager to run the daily operation who can also help us achieve our potential to understand the needs of our current and future guests so we can help them even more.

This new, 18-month contract role, supported by Brent Council, will build on our work to date to develop Laurence’s Larder into a community hub working with our partners to address our guests’ needs.

We’re looking for someone who will run the Larder and work with the trustees and our volunteers to:

• establish the exact needs in our community which the Larder can address
• devise a plan to meet those needs
• raise our profile so even more people can benefit from our services.

Closing date: 10th March 2021

Interview and test date: 22nd March 2021 (provisional)

A leading environmental international charity based in Central London are looking for a Grant Manager Compliance and Reporting Officer. The successful candidate will develop and implement systems and processes that enable us to effectively manage the multiple UK government grants. Working closely with the charity's colleagues from a range of teams, your experience of grant management and compliance will shine as you assist in understanding, communicating, and meeting funder requirements. This new role will help build capacities across the charity's global offices that is critical to the charity's continued growth and success. Please note this role is a 12-month FTC.
Key responsibilities
Leading grant and contract administration for UK government grants
Ensuring timely communication with donor
Working with the finance and legal teams to manage grant and contractual financial processes
Developing a monthly grant management analysis for project teams across Global Offices to ensure appropriate risk management of key UK government grants
Ensure adequate coordination with UK government MEL
Organising kick-off, monthly and quarterly meetings with project staff and ensure the grant contract clauses and all project-related are complied
Supporting programme teams to develop narrative and financial reports that are aligned with grant agreement requirements
Building staff capacity and providing support to ensure grants are managed in compliance with donor requirements.

Person specification
Experience in grant management, coordination and reporting of UK government grants
Experience or demonstrable understanding of donor contract and budget management, reporting and cost eligibility
Experience identifying compliance issues and developing tools, processes or procedures to improve compliance
Experience using resource management and planning skills to develop efficient systems and processes to support effective grant management

If you would like to see the full job description or find out how to apply, please send your CV to Shweta Prabhakar [email protected] or call on 02078207320.

You will be an experienced grantmaker willing and able to be very hands on, as is necessary in a small organisation, alongside operating strategically working with the talented leadership team. You will be used to balancing the big picture and collegiate leadership with operational involvement and detail, and be committed to ensuring the grants and impact team works collaboratively across the charity.

Responsible to 

Chief Executive

Direct Reports

Immediately responsible for the interim Grants Manager (and Grants and Partnerships Officer when she returns from maternity leave in autumn 2021). In due course the department and responsibilities may grow in line with organisational growth and priorities.

Working Hours and Contract

This is a permanent role. Depending on experience, we will consider flexible arrangements including part time, flexible hours, and some home working beyond the current pandemic arrangements.

Salary

c. £55,000 pa (depending on experience)

Location

Central London, home working currently (February 2021)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Grants and Impact

• Oversee all of the Foundation’s grant-making programmes and policies.
• Develop and refine our new grants assessment and decision processes.
• Design and deliver new funding and organisation support programmes, responding to research and insight and the changing context.
• Commission, monitor and share relevant research to support our grants and impact activities, in consultation with colleagues.
• Develop a suite of non-funding offerings for grantees and the sight loss sector, ensuring that the Vision Foundation becomes an exemplar “Funder Plus” Foundation – offering capacity building, shared learning, convening, and a shared platform for the voices of grantees and their beneficiaries.
• Ensure grants and impact data is properly recorded and analysed to grow our organisational knowledge and expertise and ensure we continually improve our own impact.
• Design, develop and deliver appropriate impact monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Ensure that our learnings through grants evaluation are captured, distilled, and shared to drive our own activities and promote best practice across the sector.
• Continuously analyse risks, potential, changes in environment and voluntary sector politics; and use to inform plans.
• Lead on shaping our policy and influencing, advocacy and campaigns contribution based on research and insight, working closely with the CEO and Head of Communications.
• Explore strategic partnerships and co-funding and regranting opportunities with other funders/sight loss organisations.

Leadership and management

• Work closely and collegiately as a member of the Executive Leadership Team leading and setting the strategic direction for the charity.
• Work in partnership with other members of the Executive Leadership Team to embed a high performing, motivated, collaborative, creative and dynamic culture within Vision Foundation – and seek opportunities to celebrate success.
• Provide management, leadership and support to the Grants Manager (and Grants and Partnerships Officer when she returns from maternity leave), and 5 develop and manage new roles as appropriate, including internships and voluntary placements as the organisation grows.
• Establish, with senior colleagues across the Foundation, appropriate and proportionate performance targets demonstrating commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
• Provide comprehensive monthly performance reports to the Chief Executive and Executive Leadership Team.

Cross-team working

• Work with the Director of Development to develop income generating products and propositions to take out to fundraising audiences.
• Support income generation at the Foundation by helping to cultivate new donors and steward existing donors; including attending and presenting at funder meetings, sourcing case studies, delivering and translating impact data into everyday language fit for a fundraising audience.
• Work in collaboration with the Director of Development and the Head of Communications to design and deliver impact reporting for our funders and the wider sector.
• Work closely with senior fundraising and communications leads to support activities in both these departments in service of growth and greater impact.
• With the Head of Communications, manage and empower our network of blind and partially sighted advisors.
• Work with the Director of Finance and Resources to ensure grants and impact financial commitments and deployments are tracked, reported and reconciled.

Relationship management

• Ensure positive and productive relationship management with grantees and former member charities and sector colleagues.
• Create strong links and networks with other funders and voluntary, community and public sector bodies, seeking opportunities for partnerships to realise broader benefits through collaboration.
• Represent the Foundation at external events and forums, building the Foundation’s profile.
• Work with the Association of Charitable Foundations and London Funders and others to ensure that we are visible and adhering to and leading best practice.

Governance

• Attend Board and Committee meetings as required and contribute comprehensive quarterly performance reports to the Trustee Board.
• Ensure that the Trustee Board and any other senior volunteers and advisors are effectively served by the Executive Team, and that their expertise is used to support our development and delivery.
• Develop and support the Grants and Impact Advisory Committee to ensure it is efficient and effective and adds value to the grants and impact operation, including preparation of Committee meeting papers.
• Ensure positive and productive relationship management with Grants and Impact Advisory Committee members.
• Oversee programme expenditure to ensure compliance and accordance with budgets.
• Ensure our grants processes incorporate appropriate due diligence and scrutiny to ensure we are a responsible grantmaker.
• Support the wider ambitions of the Vision Foundation to become an inclusive and empowering employer, including the development of voluntary and paid employment placements across the business including our retail arm.

Flexibility

The role description is a general outline of duties and responsibilities and may be amended as the Vision Foundation develops. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience

• Extensive experience of grant-making or a comparable environment at a senior level, with a strong understanding of wider funding mechanisms in the charity sector (essential)
• Understanding and (ideally) experience of shaping and delivering capacitybuilding support to charities (essential)
• Experience of commissioning and overseeing research, and using the results to inform decision-making (essential)
• Experience of policy, advocacy or campaign work (desirable)
• Experience and understanding of the financial and capacity challenges facing London’s voluntary and community sector, and of large and small organisations and community groups working for social change (essential)
• Knowledge of the sight loss sector in London (desirable)
• Experience of negotiating and securing funding towards major projects and/or contracts or funding agreements (desirable)
• Ability to manage high volumes of varied work and operate to tight deadlines (essential)
• Experience of leadership within an organisation which is seeking to build transformational growth; including responsibilities as part of a Senior Leadership Team and reporting at Board level (essential)
• Experience of leading and line managing others to develop and grow, and building and maintaining a high performing team culture (essential)
• Experience of building relationships, and influence, with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders (essential)

Personal Qualities

• Intelligence, enthusiasm and resilience
• Ambitious for the organisation, able to balance creativity with practicality
• An understanding of and commitment to London’s sight loss community. An excellent communicator, able to present complex information clearly in oral and written form, and to inspire and enthuse others
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Ability to understand and interpret numerical information at pace, including budgets, financial reports, monitoring and evaluation data, and impact reports
• Ability to assess and balance risk and opportunity
• Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity
• Highly developed skills of diplomacy and engagement, and with a practical and accessible manner
• Emotional intelligence and excellent listening skills
• A team player, committed to working collegiately and supportively with others
• Highly committed to equal opportunities and inclusion

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a supporting statement.

• 1st interviews: week beginning 15 March
• 2nd interviews & informal meetings with colleagues: week beginning 22 March 2021. There is also likely to be an exercise at second stage.

Grants Operations Project Manager
Location: King’s Cross, London
Salary: circa £35,000 per annum
Contract: 12 month FTC - full time

Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for art. We believe that art can make you see, think and feel differently, and through our work we help make art more accessible to as many visitors as possible, wherever they are.

We give grants to help museums and galleries acquire works of art for their collections, share them with wide audiences, and support the training and professional development of curators. We are supported by our growing membership of 159,000 through the National Art Pass, as well as the generosity of many trusts, foundations and other individuals.

Following a big increase in the number of grant applications we receive, Art Fund is looking for a project manager to support the agile delivery of a new grants database. This will be built on Art Fund’s existing CRM platform (MS Dynamics), and will deliver grant-making operations across all our funding programmes. The Grants Operations Project Manager will act as the key liaison point within the in-house Programmes team for this project, working with Art Fund’s Technical team to ensure the system is configured to Programmes team specifications, timely decisions are made on prioritising different elements of the project, testing of the new system is effective, and colleagues are trained and onboarded onto the new system with minimal interruption to business-as-usual.

Taking the delivery of the new grants system as a starting point, the role will also undertake a review of the end-to-end administration of current grant-making – from initial enquiry to the receipt of evaluation – and make recommendations for improvements to all administrative workflows and further development of the system, revising guidance and implementing training as required.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience working with database systems and operations related to grant-making, ideally gained in at least two different organisations. Experience of working with suppliers and technical teams on the development and rollout of new systems and associated database migrations would also be useful, particularly when delivered under an agile methodology, as well as experience of co-ordinating the onboarding of new-users, acceptance testing and go live/business as usual with colleagues. They’ll be a self-starter who loves being part of a team and collaborating across different functions to drive a project forward successfully.

Art Fund offers an excellent benefits package with generous annual leave, an Art Allowance that includes a paid half-day a month to visit exhibitions and galleries, and regular lunch-and-learns to support your development. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive team.

Closing date for applications 10 March 2021
Interviews will take place w/c 15 March 2021

Applications

If you would like to apply for this position, please click the apply button and attach your CV and a short covering letter, it will be sent automatically to us.

No agencies please.

Rocket Science is a specialist grantmaking and consultancy organisation focusing on poverty and welfare, young people, health and social care, and employability and skills. We work across the UK from our three offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London.

We work closely with our clients including central and local government, charities and community organisations to design, delivery and review programmes providing innovative and impactful grantmaking.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our growing grantmaking team for a Grants Officer. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member with at least 18 months’ experience in grant making or at least 3 years’ experience in our areas of expertise.  As a Grants Officer you would be responsible for working across a range of funders and grantees to design, deliver and review a range of high quality, impactful grant programmes designed to improve the lives of our communities.

Essential to this role are strong organisational skills to balance grant making activities across several grant programmes, a high level of interpersonal skills to provide support to our clients and grantees who are often small community organisations, and a proactive nature to stay ahead of the work and issues and offer better ways of doing things.

This role will be based in London but is open to those who are happy to travel to London part time when we are able to return to our offices.

We focus clearly on staff support and progression within our company ensuring that all staff are provided with the support and opportunities required to enable them to progress within the organisation. This grant officer role has a clear development pathway and there will be opportunities to progress as your experience and skills develop in grant making and our specialist areas.

We offer a highly supportive work environment centred around an intent based leadership approach that empowers Rocket Scientists to be leaders in everything they do. We are accredited at Gold level as both Investors in People and Investors in Young People. We are also an accredited Living Wage employer.

A national healthcare institute is seeking a Programme Manager on a temporary basis to support in the development of their grants and awards programme. 

You will be part of the team delivering on the selection, awards and onboarding process. In setting up the programme, you will:

• Establish programme milestones including developing objectives and outcomes 
• Develop and define the awards and review process (in line with funder regulations and governance requirements)
• Monitor and report on programme progress with regular updates provided to internal and external stakeholders
• Support in managing key funder relationships 
• Set up and manage the risk register, identify and manage key risks appropriately 
• Coordinate review panels with internal and external partners to ensure regular updates are provided

The role is an initial 3 month contract and requires an experienced programme manager with knowledge of grants and awards processes and funding. In adhering to strict deadlines, you willl be used to / able to work in a fast-paced environment, as well as running complex multi-organisational programmes. 

Interviews are to be conducted on an 'as and when' basis for a start as soon as possible thereafter so candidates are encouraged to apply swiftly to avoid disappointment. 

Grants Officer

THE ORGANISATION

The Fund for Global Human Rights (the Fund) is a leading supporter of locally rooted human rights groups around the world. Dedicated to finding and funding the most effective human rights organisations, the Fund offers grants and facilitates technical support to ensure the long-term effectiveness and viability of frontline groups working in challenging conditions with scant resources.

Since 2002, the Fund has awarded more than $95 million to nearly 650 human rights organisations across the globe. Grantees work on a wide range of issues from indigenous land rights in Guatemala, to women’s rights in Morocco, to discrimination against HIV positive people in India. The Fund currently maintains programmes in five regions. 

Based in London, the Fund’s European Office leads its work in Europe and seeks to raise the profile of the organization and its grantees in front of key audiences across the continent. The Office is expanding with a dynamic staff of ten working across a range of departments – communications, development, program, and operations.

THE POSITION

The Grants Management team sits within the Fund’s Operations department and is primarily focused on ensuring that resources are reaching frontline activist organisations. The team seeks an Arabic-speaking Grants Officer who will report to the Manager of Grantmaking Operations and manage the Fund’s programmes in the Middle East & North Africa.  Please note that portfolio assignments are subject to change.

The successful candidate will join a high-performing, enthusiastic grants management team, a deeply committed global staff, and an organisation constantly learning and adapting to global contexts.

Essential Duties of the Position

Grants Management

• Manage the Fund’s Middle East & North Africa grant
• Manage incoming grant proposals and evaluate eligibility of prospective grantees
• Prepare and send grantees grant letters
• Disburse funds to grantees, track disbursements, and troubleshoot disbursements when issues arise
• Track reporting deadlines and communicate with grantees to ensure that they are met
• Work collaboratively with fundraising and finance staff to track restricted funding, manage donor-advised funds and administer donor-advised grants
• Collaborate closely with programme officers to ensure grants and grantee relationships are managed according to their risk level and operating context; identifying operational challenges due to changing contexts and local financial and compliance regulations
• Occasional travel to the field and/or domestic conferences
• Translate grant-related documents and materials as needed
• Correspond with grantees in Arabic, French and English

Database and Systems Management

• Act as an internal expert on the Fund's grants management database (GIFTS Online), including:
• Ensuring that all grant and grantee information is entered consistently and accurately
• Generating reports and dashboards for the programme, fundraising, and finance teams
• Acting as a point person with GIFTS Online support staff when we encounter glitches
• Support staff training across departments on how to use the database to get the information they depend on
• Work collaboratively with the Manager and Sr. Grants Manager to implement new and refresh current grants management workflows, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency and accuracy, as needed
• Collaborate with programme, finance, and fundraising staff to ensure grantmaking budgets are accurate ad regularly updated
• Responsible manage and monitor grantmaking financial platforms and currency tools
• Maintain accurate digital grantee files

Docket Preparation

• Collaboratively project manage the docket workflow with the Manager of Grantmaking Operations
• Work closely with programme officers to prepare and assemble docket materials

Organisational Citizenship

• Participate in cross-departmental working groups as needed
• Participate in annual grants management retreat
• Participate in annual all-staff retreat
• Be an enthusiastic member of the Fund’s European Office

Qualifications:

• One+ years of experience managing grants or Two+ years of relevant work experience, e.g. managing workflows and processes
• Strong organisational, time-management and problem-solving skills
• Track record of strong and consistent attention to detail while managing a large portfolio in a fast-paced, complex environment
• Working knowledge of databases
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Able to exercise good judgment and maintain confidentiality in maintaining critical and sensitive information.
• Fluent in English and strong working proficiency in Arabic and French (written and verbal)
• Authorised to work in the UK without sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a non-profit environment; grants management experience at private or public foundation a plus
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds
• Experience in or demonstrated interest in human rights and/or social justice issues
• Additional language proficiency, especially in Spanish, Hindi, Thai, or Burmese
• Familiarity with US and/or UK non-profit compliance requirements and best practices
• Familiarity with a grants management database, especially GIFTS Online, Fluxx, or Foundation Connect

The ideal candidate will also possess the following attributes:

• A constructive and solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey information accurately and listen effectively
• Exceptional and consistent attention to detail while performing routine tasks in a fast-paced, complex environment
• Ability to manage workflows and processes for different programmes at the same time
• Thinks strategically and analytically; anticipates the impact of changes—small and large
• Works proactively to address molehills before they become mountains
• Comfortable in fast-moving, ever-changing environment
• Enterprising, curious and willing to take on new projects
• Strong interpersonal skills and thrives in collaborative, diverse team settings
• Customer service oriented; understands who we serve and, considers the client(s) when managing change

The Fund for Global Human Rights UK encourages candidates of all racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to apply; we especially encourage people of colour, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTIQ applicants.  As a human rights organization, cultural competency and sensitivity are requirements for all staff positions at the Fund. The Fund for Global Human Rights UK is an equal opportunity employer.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a deadline of March 31st 2021. The position will be filled as soon as a qualified candidate is identified. Start date is flexible, but April 2021 preferred. No phone calls please.

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Grants Communications Manager (12-month FTC)

Are you a keen and skilled science communicator? Then you’re just who we are looking for. Come and help us show the world the impact Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) is having on the lives of seriously ill children across the UK and around the globe.

We are looking for a full-time Grants Communications Manager to join our dynamic team on a 12-month fixed term contract (Maternity cover). By helping to shape and drive communications that highlight the importance, impact and long-term vision of a large and varied programme of scientific and clinical charitable activity, your main role will be to work in partnership with internal fundraisers to help inspire and steward their audiences.

This role will have you working across the charity, the hospital and its research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) to gather and share information, and will make you an instrumental player in:

• translating varied and vibrant programme of scientific and medical research.
• showcasing the hospital’s quest to create state-of-the art hospital environments that benefit children’s recoveries, combined with the latest technology to enhance diagnosis and treatment;
• demonstrating the fundamental importance of our services to aid the wellbeing of patients and their families; and why investing in GOSH staff is so important.

About the Team:

The Grants Team has three main responsibilities: allocating funding in a rigorous manner; evaluating the impact of charitable funding; and communicating the difference it makes to the lives of children.

You will be working as part of a sub-team responsible for the communications aspect. Our mission is to help the organisation raise more money and fund more life-changing grants by co-creating content that inspires and engages our audiences.

About You:

You will be a creative, keen and autonomous worker with excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills. Being able to establish credible and effective working relationships is critical in this cross-organisational role. The ability to quickly understand complex scientific and clinical concepts and translate them into concise, interesting and inspiring documents and presentations is also essential.

Specifically, you will need to have:

• A basic life sciences degree.
• Experience of networking and liaising with scientific, clinical and research communities.

About the Charity:

Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Our staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill
children starts with you.

How to apply:

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.? You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the ‘Application and Interview FAQs’ on the career section of our website before you apply.

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment. ?

Due to the large number of applications we receive, we are unfortunately only able to inform shortlisted candidates of the outcome of their application. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If your application is not successful, we hope that you will not be discouraged and will still apply for other suitable vacancies in the future.

Location: WC1N Central London (currently home-based until June 2021)

Contract type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000

Closing date: 10 March 2021

You may have experience of the following: Media Manager, PR, Public Relations, Public Relations Officer, Press officer, Social Media, Journalist, Communications Manager, Marketing Communications, Campaign Manager, Project Management, Science, Scientific, Charity, Third Sector, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

Ref: 97077

Join Our Team

There are more than 21,000 unpaid carers in Swindon and we are a small but dynamic team who are passionate about supporting them.  We have high expectations for ourselves, our colleagues and our carers and love the collaboration that comes with that.  Staff development and wellbeing is a key focus too, so if you'd like to join a friendly and supportive bunch and have a lot of scope for creativity in your role, then we could be for you! 

Swindon Carers Centre provides advice, information and support to unpaid carers aged 5 and upwards who look after a family member or friend who due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability cannot manage on their own.

We are seeking a passionate, effective and committed individual to become part of our friendly, professional team. You will be someone who thrives on using their initiative, enjoys multi-tasking in a busy environment, and has a strong eye for accuracy and detail.

Job Purpose - To develop and grow our grant funded programmes and lead on overall grant management, monitoring reports, project evaluation and communicating the impact of our work to support Swindon Carers Centre. This is a newly created role working closely with the CEO, Finance and Resources Director and the Management team. You will project manage the entire process of impact and evaluation reporting, including developing timelines and facilitating cross-team discussions and writing of reports that satisfy commissioning and funding body needs. Along side this you will quality assure all quarterly local authority monitoring reports. The full job description and key responsibilities can be seen on the attached documents. 

We prioritise staff wellbeing and many of our team work flexibly in different ways, including part-time and from home. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking. 

Swindon Carers Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required for this post.

For an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact us on 0 1 7 9 3 9 7 5 3 1 7 and ask to speak to Suzanne Hunt, Finance and Resources Director.

A superb opportunity to help us increase the impact that volunteers make within the NHS at St Mary's and Western Eye Hospitals in Paddington by growing our volunteer community and improving the quality of experience for volunteers and staff alike to provide patients with the care and support they deserve.

About us
We're Imperial Health Charity, an organisation that helps our hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising. We support the five hospitals of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye. 

During the height of the covid-19 pandemic surge during 2020 we channelled the huge outpouring of kindness from the public into vital wellbeing support for NHS staff and a better hospital experience for thousands of patients. Volunteers played a pivotal role in supporting our efforts during this time, for which we were awarded a Mayor of London Volunteering Award in the Crisis Response category.

About our volunteering programme
We’ve just completed our 2017-2020 volunteering strategy and we’re proud of what we’ve achieved over the last three years:

• engaged nearly 1000 volunteers
• appointed over 700 new volunteers
• achieved the Investing In Volunteers standard in volunteering management
• ran a successful youth volunteering programme for 16 to 25-year-olds, with 169 volunteers taking part
• during our most recent annual volunteering survey, 95% of volunteers agreed that their expectations of volunteering with us had been met.

Our approach is one of partnership, working with our hospitals, bringing our knowledge and expertise on engaging volunteers successfully, together with the hospital’s needs and expertise in managing health and care safely. 

During 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic we successfully managed an emergency response at our hospitals, engaging over 330 Crisis Response Volunteers (most of whom we recruited during the pandemic). Since the start of 2021 we have been working with our NHS partners to deploy our Reserve Crisis Response Volunteers as well as restart recruitment efforts so that we can support our hospitals as they roll out the vaccine, continue to treat increasing numbers of patients affected by the virus and help keep the health service running, in spite of the current pressures.

The Volunteering Manager role
As the Volunteering Manager, you will oversee the day-to-day running of the volunteering programme at St Mary’s and the Western Eye hospitals.

Building strong relationships across the Trust, you will empower volunteers to provide a high-quality experience for patients and staff and, in doing so, have an outstanding and highly-rewarding volunteering experience.

Day to day you will find yourself doing the following:

• Recruiting, training and supporting volunteers
• Identifying new areas for engaging volunteers
• Helping to project manage the design and introduction of new volunteer roles
• Supporting hospital staff who are working with, managing and/or supporting volunteers
• Developing training and guidance resources
• Providing support and line management to the Volunteering Support Officer

What we are looking for
You will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced and people-focused environment, with experience of working with and managing volunteers and volunteering programmes/roles. You will have strong experience of working methodically and within project management principles, with a keen eye for accuracy and attention to detail. You will enjoy juggling multiple projects, priorities and stakeholder expectations in order to deliver a high-quality service. You will have strong IT and systems skills with experience using digital CRM, project management and/or training systems. You will enjoy and be confident in creating and delivering training and presentations to different audiences. You are someone who plans and reflects, but who also is ready to get stuck in and help fix a problem if it arises, including resolving concerns or disputes between people.

If this sounds like you and you're looking for a new challenge then we'd love to hear from you.

This is a great opportunity to lead our brilliant Brent service delivery team, and to work as part of the Senior Management Team at Young Roots.

The Services Manager in Brent is responsible for the development and delivery of our programme of work in the locality.  They ensure the excellent quality and safety of all our services and activities: our casework service, youth activities and English language learning projects.  They are responsible for ensuring youth participation is central to our work, monitoring and evaluation is embedded in the delivery of activities, funders receive excellent feedback and reporting, the team is well supported and IT systems meet the needs of staff. The Services Manager in Brent is the deputy Safeguarding Lead for Young Roots.

Youth Programme Manager

Y’s Girls Peer Mentoring Development

£25,000 - £26,000

37.5 hours per week

If you are looking for a meaningful job, a caring, progressive work environment and an opportunity to reach your fullest potential, consider a career with the YMCA.

 

We are seeking individuals who are inspired by playing an important role in changing people’s lives and therefore communities. We are all about creating inspirational pathways and opportunities, opening doors and welcoming all to get involved and make a positive difference. Working with us means helping children, young people and families at all levels of ability, from all walks of life, to develop their self-esteem and potential in new ways.

Job  Purpose

This is an exciting new post developing  and delivering our Youth Peer Mentoring Programmes across the YMCA and taking them to the next level so we can reach more young people and impact on their lives.

The post is part of a new national Y’s Girls Mentoring programme and will involve working closely with colleagues in YMCA England & Wales, YMCA Scotland and those other YMCAs across the UK who are delivering the programme.  It will also involve working locally with colleagues in social work, police and education to develop mentoring pathways and community engagement.

The post holder will recruit, train and support a team of volunteer mentors (over 18’s) to prevent vulnerable young girls from developing mild to moderate mental health difficulties by engaging them in a range of positive activities. You will engage with other professionals in joint agency referral, support and evaluation processes and will work with other service providers to provide diversion and prevention opportunities to the client group.

You will work closely with our Peer Mentoring Schools programmes proving line management to the Youth Worker delivering these creating pathways for young people between programmes.

A working week of 37.5 hours, this will involve delivery after school and early evenings two to three times per week. 

• To the successful candidate we offer:
• Flexible working environment
• Opportunities to apply for other internal roles
• An opportunity to work for a company who offer on-going development within your role
• The post holder must be aware of equal opportunity principles and comply with the YMCA’s equal opportunity procedures.
• Job Share will also be considered 

Closing date for the role is 9:00am on Monday 1st March 2021 Applications received after this time will not be considered.

1st stage interviews Thursday 4th March

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving, we are only able to contact candidates who are successful in progressing to the next stage, if you have not been contacted within 5 days of the closing date then please presume that you have not been successful 

Womankind is seeking a highly skilled feminist Programme Management Officer to support a 5-year multi-partner, multi-country, policy and advocacy programme that began in January 2021. This circa €10 million programme funded by the Netherlands government under Power of Women funding framework focuses on strengthening women's movements in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to be more representative of diverse groups of women, including women with disabilities, resulting in a stronger collective voice to challenge social norms and influence policies and key decisions affecting them.

We are looking for a dynamic, detail-oriented and passionate feminist Programme Management Officer to join the team. Specifically, we are looking for someone who has strong project cycle management skills. In addition, the successful candidate will have experience of working on high-value programmes and will demonstrate their creativity, flexibility and down-to-earth approach when it comes to working in a multidisciplinary project team. You will be working with partners and colleagues in different countries so cultural sensitivity and understanding is a must, as is being adaptable, especially considering the context of COVID-19.

This position is located in the UK.

Salary £30,587 per annum plus pension contribution.

Deadline for applications: Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 noon 1st round interviews: w/c 29 March 2021 TBC 2nd round interviews: TBC

Role Purpose

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the Programme Manager: AWESOME and project team, coordinating this exciting 5-year advocacy focused programme, Advancing Women's Engagement: Strengthening Opportunities to Mobilise for Equality (AWESOME). This innovative programme will be jointly implemented by Womankind partners in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, managed and closely supported by Womankind.

The AWESOME programme focuses on two themes including Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and Women's Participation and Leadership (WPL) including political leadership. It works at three levels: self- to provide safe spaces for Women's Rights Organisations (WROs) including those led by women with disabilities, activists and young women to come together to increase collaboration and solidarity; society - to ensure greater willingness and support to challenge harmful gender norms and attitudes; and formal institutions - to improve the policy and legal framework for the realisation of women's rights.

We are implementing the AWESOME programme as a consortium of seven organisations including Womankind as the lead organisation. The post holder will support the implementation of all the programme activities, working closely with the project team at Womankind, the six programme partners and the Joint Consortium Steering Committee (JCSC). Partners implementing the project in the three focus countries are:

• Ethiopia: Siiqqee Women's Development Association (SWDA)
• Ethiopia: Ethiopian Women with Disabilities National Association (EWDNA)
• Kenya: Federation of Women Lawyers, Kenya (FIDA-Kenya)
• Kenya: Women Challenged to Challenge (WCC)
• Uganda: Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)
• Uganda: National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU)

This role forms part of the AWESOME project team at Womankind which includes Director Policy and Communications, Director Programmes and Learning, Programme Manager, 2 Policy and Advocacy Managers, Impact and Learning Advisor, and the Projects Finance Manager.

The successful applicant will work closely with the Programme Manager: AWESOME to ensure coherence and consistency of approach, ideas and activities. They will make a strong contribution to the work and aims of Womankind with the scope to further develop and gain a wide range of practical experience and skills, in accordance with our feminist principles and approach.

The role reports to the Programme Manager: AWESOME. The role has four key areas of responsibility:

Project and Consortium Management Support:

• Support the Programme Manager by coordinating day to day programme activity as per the programme plan in collaboration with the project team and partners;
• Support and contribute to the effective coordination of consortium partners and Womankind AWESOME project team so that the programme is implemented in an efficient manner and delivers a coherent and useful body of evidence and learning;
• Support project delivery through arranging logistics as per project need whether for partners, colleagues or other stakeholders;
• Support in the recruitment of suitable consultants as required;
• Engage with Womankind AWESOME team members, consortium partners and stakeholders as they deliver activities;
• Support the production of programme research and documentation through quality checking and assurance to ensure they meet required standards;
• Coordinate programme communications including all meetings and the maintenance of effective communication channels;
• Support the Programme Manager and Projects Finance Manager to manage the AWESOME budget, including all associated project activity within budget, and support the programme team to ensure the effective and efficient management of delegated budget in accordance with Womankind’s financial procedures and local governance regulations;
• Adopt and promote best feminist practice in all aspects of the role including in relation to the wider organisation and Womankind’s programmes and partnerships approach and best practices of feminist ways of working.

Programme Governance Support:

• Provide support for Joint Consortium Steering Committee (JCSC) meetings, and attend and document programme meetings;
• Contribute to reporting processes at Womankind to ensure high quality narrative and financial work plans and reports, grant management, monitoring and evaluation, linking and learning, and financial management - in collaboration with other Womankind colleagues;
• Contribute to all necessary or ongoing partner due diligence in collaboration with other Womankind colleagues;
• Contribute to regular progress reports for key stakeholders including donor reporting;
• Contribute to project and funder administration and record keeping to ensure that it is delivered with excellence;

Contribution to knowledge and evidence base:

• Contribute to effective and appropriate technical monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes for the AWESOME programme in collaboration with the Impact and Learning Advisor
• Contribute to the work of the communications team through drafting content on the AWESOME programme for the website and social media channels.

Representation:

• Serve as a programme representative and be an active participant in cross-departmental initiatives and information sharing activities as determined by the Programme Manager.

The role may also undertake other responsibilities not outlined above which are commensurate with a role of this nature and which will be discussed and agreed with the line manager.

The role must be committed to the mission, vision, values and aims of Womankind Worldwide as it seeks to support and speak out about women’s human rights and development internationally.

All posts are expected to contribute towards developing a supportive working environment at Womankind and to demonstrate commitment to Womankind’s values and ways of working.

Ability and willingness to travel:

This post may travel between 2-4 weeks per year.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of supporting the implementation of international programmes to a high standard, preferably for the promotion of women’s human rights and gender equality that are multinational and/or multi-stakeholder in scope;
• Demonstrable experience of working with civil society actors, including women’s movements, and/or membership movements, networks or coalitions.
• Demonstrable experience of working within a multi-disciplinary programme team including on programmes funded by statutory donors, with a strong familiarity with government mechanisms, policies, guidelines and restrictions;
• Demonstrable ability in administration, financial management, grant compliance and management, and tracking activity performance and costs;
• Demonstrated facilitation and collaboration skills;
•  Ability to assimilate and analyse information quickly and accurately;
• Experience of contributing to reports (narrative and financial) to donors;
• Experience of working with partner organisations located outside the UK with the ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and in different cultural settings;
• Demonstrable skills and track record as a strong, collegial team player who contributes to a creative and supportive work environment;
• Very strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills (in English);
• Ability to work autonomously and manage own portfolio of work;
• Comfortable planning and delivering multiple activities under pressure to strict deadlines and high levels of precision.
• Advanced ICT skills and experience of developing and using the systems required within a dynamic, multinational and inclusive environment.

Desirable:

• Experience of working on women's human rights, and/or the rights of persons with disabilities including work with Women's Rights Organisations and those led by women with disabilities
• Experience of living and working in the global South.

Terms and conditions:

Hours  

35 hours

Salary

£30,587 per annum

Contract

Permanent

Probationary period 

6 months

Holidays

28 days per annum plus statutory holidays (3 of these days are to be taken over the Christmas and new year period when the office is closed).

Pension

Womankind has a contributory pension scheme in place 

Other benefits

We offer a wide range of flexible working options, enhanced maternity leave, group pension scheme and free eye tests

This position is located in the UK.

How to apply

Womankind Worldwide welcomes all applicants and values diversity.  We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. 

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we will not be able to respond personally to applicants who are not shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline for applications: Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 noon

1st round interviews: w/c 29 March 2021 TBC

2nd round interviews: TBC

Grants Coordinator

MQ Mental Health Research

We champion and fund world-class research to transform the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.Having recently launched a new 5-year strategy, MQ is at a critical point in its development.

An exciting opportunity has come up for an Events and Grants Coordinator. The right person will be passionate about tackling mental health, and driven to ensure that all projects happen to the highest possible standards. 

You will have an innovative and agile approach to events and project management. You will need to work closely with colleagues.

Job Purpose

• Events management, including MQ’s annual Mental Health Science Summit, sector conferences, and expert meetings 
• Supporting stewardship of funded research projects, including current awardees and alumni
• Delivering grant rounds
• Effective project management 
• Using and maintaining operational tools for programmes, including grant management software (e.g. Flexigrant and Research Fish)
• Other activities as they arise that can be reasonably expected of this role

Requirements

• A degree in a relevant discipline(E), a relevant higher degree (D) 
• Proven success in effective events management (E)
• Demonstrable ability to build good relationships and effectively communicate (verbally and in writing) with a range of stakeholders including scientists, colleagues and members of the public (E)
• Commitment to working to, and facilitating, the highest standards (E)
• One years’ experience working in a non-profit related program (E) 
• Experience in grants management (D)
• Up-to-date understanding of relevant sector developments (D)
• Familiarity with sector developments in PPIE, reproducibility, project management, impact analysis, Flexigrant and Research Fish (D) 

Terms

This is a full-time role with potential for flexible working arrangements and a requirement for occasional flexibility about working hours. This role would work well as a 12-month secondment. Due to COVID-19 we are currently predominantly working from home. 

PLEASE INCLUDE A COVERING LETTER - any application without a covering letter will not be considered. Thank you.