About MHFA England

MHFA England is a social enterprise and the leading provider of mental health skills and awareness training courses in England. Our vision is to improve the health of the nation, through normalising society’s attitudes and behaviours around mental health, by developing the skills we need to look after our own and others’ wellbeing. Learn about our social mission and our history by reading our 'what we do section' on our website.

We are a friendly, dynamic, fast-paced organisation and we strive to be an exemplary health and wellbeing employer. We are embarking on an exciting journey of growth and if you are looking for the next step in your career, this a great time for you to join us.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced individual to lead on the optimisation of a new website to integrate with our digital marketing channels. You will be able to effectively manage and implement the website content strategy in line with brand and marketing objectives to successfully drive business and engage key audiences.

The successful candidate will have the ability to monitor and manage the digital customer journey using dynamic UX driven content, providing insight into cross-functional plans to develop website requirements. You will create strategies to grow subscriber and web traffic metrics. You will also create frameworks and policies to support effective delivery of website content and be responsible for ensuring compliance with website and GDPR regulations.

You will have the ability to work closely with different directorates to manage technical issues whilst working inter-departmentally to implement a digital strategy putting customer UX at the heart of strategic planning. You will also be able to build commercially sustainable relationships with valued suppliers to support delivery of marketing objectives. The post holder will be passionate, organised, detail-oriented, and able to inspire and engage others.

What can we offer you? 

You’ll enjoy 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, along with a winter and summer office closure in addition to your annual leave. We provide a pension contribution for you which is matched up to 5%. We’ll support your development and growth and help you develop your experience and skills to achieve your personal and the businesses goals.

Interested? How to apply

For the full job description and person specification please see the attached documents./ Go to our website for further information.

To apply please submit a covering letter and CV demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role. The closing date for applications is Friday 26th February. Interviews will be held early March 2021.

Mental Health First Aid England is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or those who are pregnant or on maternity leave. We are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented within the organisation, these include but are not limited to those from the LGBT+ community, people with disabilities, and those from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background.

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The job of a Save the Children’s UK Pricing & Commercial Manager is interesting and fulfilling.

• Are you commercially minded with a passion for data and numbers?
• Do you enjoy analysing and interrogating data?
• Are you passionate about using data to influence business decisions?
• Do you have exceptional interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Business Development Team Lead, the Pricing and Commercial Manager is an active member of the Business Development Team that is responsible for demonstrating to our donors the benefits for them of working with Save the Children through the delivery compelling and mutually beneficial proposals which deliver real change for children.

The Pricing and Commercial Manager will commercially support the Business Development team in their goal to competitively secure large-scale funding from institutional donors, trusts and foundations by leading the pricing for major (including multi-million-pound) national and global funding opportunities. 

Key duties will include acting as the subject matter expert on various commercial pricing projects, assessing data to help develop various pricing strategies, using statistical modelling methods to determine their potential impact, presenting pricing analysis findings to key stakeholders and recommending competitive pricing strategies which offer value for money (VfM).

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Pricing and Commercial Manager will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Pricing and Commercial Manager will support organisational commercial capacity and provide hands-on pricing strategy recommendations to the Business Development team by:

• Leading on the commercial and financial aspects of national, regional and global bidding opportunities

• Reviewing the budgets and commercial arrangements of an assigned portfolio of bids

• Ensuring bidding opportunities and pricing strategy recommendations demonstrate value for money and that costs recovery and risk is taken into account

• Conducting financial modelling/cashflow forecasts to determine the determine the financial risk potential impact of various pricing strategies

• Producing and presenting high quality, well structured, narrative commercial proposals and finance papers for key stakeholder approval

• Providing contract and financial negotiations advice and support to the Save the Children country offices and the Business Development Team

Person Profile

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in successfully understanding, evaluation and interpreting data

• Experience using Excel at an advanced level (e.g. advanced formulas and functions)

Skill

• Solid understanding of value for money (VfM) principles

• Solid understanding of financial principles and systems

Abilities

• Ability to develop large budgets (£1m+) for institutional donors and present budget information to donors

• Ability to translate qualitative information into logical budgeting and pricing recommendations

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Our partner, specialists in International Grant Assurance are seeking outgoing auditors for a critical role; navigating a diverse group of grant recipients & donors, such as the UN, EC & the World Bank worldwide (e.g. Malawi, Peru, Vietnam, Belgium, Oxford, Sierra Leone, Brazil, Fiji, Cameroon). You'll be London-based travelling 30+% per annum on assignments 1 to 3 weeks in length (Post Pandemic)

These unique and extremely rewarding opportunities would suit experienced multi-lingual audit professionals that are outgoing, love diverse travel experiences, meeting and supporting a broad range of inspiring people and supporting very worthwhile causes. A great opportunity to take statutory audit to the next level - broadening skills into a much wider more impactful remit.

Role overview

Complete international grant audits of a extremely diverse range of projects funded by international donor institutions ranging from emergency aid, to long term development in areas such as agriculture, health, education or infrastructure, to SME development or technical research. 

The role will use all your communication, problem-solving and analytical skills and will give you experience in working with major institutions all over the world. An example assignment might see you leading an audit opening meeting with a UN country office on the Monday morning, before heading off to spend a few days with a local NGO or government partners to audit the way they have spent UN funds. You will look at a sample of supporting documents to make sure the expenditure is genuine and for the purposes intended by UN, and review the internal controls of the NGO, making recommendations as to how these might be improved to strengthen the management of the UN resources. 

Requirements

• Qualified ACA / ACCA or equivalent(Finalists considered)
• Experience of grant management/ assurance or audit or similar within nfp or education sectors
• Diplomacy and cultural sensitivity while working with a hugely diverse range of clients and beneficiaries
• A real interest in international development and associated funding structures
• 'Ideally' fluency in a second language is preferable, especially in French, German, Mandarin
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills

Candidates for permanent London based roles must have the right to work in the UK

About Us

AfID are leading specialists in supporting NGOs operating globally with their financial management capacity & recruitment needs, on both a 'pro-bono' & ,commercial' basis. For more opportunities in the international development sector (International & UK) or to find out more about how we can assist your non-profit organisation please visit the AfID website.

Head of Data and Analytics

We are One Housing, and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

We truly value the benefits data and technology can offer to bring about positive change for customers and staff alike.

We can be described as friendly and fast-paced,  loving what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality services  we provide, seeking always to improve

We offer our colleagues a professional and collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career within a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Join our I.T. Team as the a Head of Data and Analytics

High quality data and smooth-running systems are essential to the success of a  modern and agile organisation. This is particularly so for One Housing.

As company that provides a broad range of products and services  there is the ongoing challenge of providing data and insights that support continuous improvement and fresh business challenges.

We offer the opportunity to put your stakeholder engagement abilities, problem-solving skills and technical knowledge to fantastic use, in support of an organisation with a clear social purpose and strong values.

We value that we keep our promises; that we do a great job; that we value diversity; that we work together and that we always look for ways to improve. This is  what makes us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Head of Data and Analytics based in Camden(or currently from home). Your responsibilities will include:

• Chairing the Information Governance Steering Group tasked with overseeing the deployment of the current Information Governance strategy. This includes liaising with stakeholders such data-owners and overseeing the training need of data-stewards, as well as co-steering the ongoing deployment of data management and reporting technologies.
• Chairing the Data Change Board tasked with change management across all data domains within the Group, including data that is crucial to the customer, thereby mitigating risks to customer safety and the disruption of essential services.
• Lead the Business Intelligence team which currently provides data, reporting and analytics to the Group. This team is a key contributor to the accurate and timely production of performance and regulatory reporting, as well as responsible for evidencing that data quality is being maintained across all our data domains.

More about Governance

• Oversee the implementation of the Information Governance strategy to drive value from and manage risks associated with One Housing data.
• Chair the Information Governance Steering Group to ensure effective use of information over the long-term.
• Chair the Data Change Management Board to ensure data quality standards are maintained and services are not disrupted.
• Develop and maintain Information Management Policy and Procedures.
• Ensure Data Architecture Principles are maintained (Eg less spreadsheets, use of master data management and appropriate data repositories)

More about Leadership

• Lead the Business Intelligence team such that it has the skills and capacity to develop and provide reports, analysis and data sets for the Group.
• Provide thought-leadership in terms of One Housing emerging as a data-driven organisation with increased use of data analytics.
• Oversee the management and development of the reporting and data management technologies within the Group.
• Lead the array of Subject Matters Experts in order to  be effective in the role and as a team.

More Stakeholder management

• Develop effective working relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the BI team is always aligned to business needs.
• Champion Information Governance and Data Ownership across the Group.
• Co-create awareness and training initiatives to increase staff capability regarding all aspects of data management.
• Through stakeholder and peer engagement, track whether One Housing’s transformation roadmap is remaining aligned to the Information Governance strategy.
• Inform stakeholders in terms of the art-of-the-possible in terms of reporting, analysis and insights.

More about Team Management

• Design and implement strong demand management and solution delivery processes for BI requests.
• Ensure that Team development activities are aligned with the overall strategy and objectives of One Housing.
• Annually review and define future BI requirements via  a thorough assessment of stakeholder needs.
• Informing budgets and objectives accordingly.

More about Delivery

• As per agreed deadlines, the BI team are required to deliver monthly departmental KPIs, compliance levels report, management accounts and service area activity tracking.
• Including regulatory compliance reporting, as well as providing enterprise-wide data quality reports and metrics.
• Enable data-driven decision making at pace, via repeatable and scalable mechanisms such as established metrics, reporting and review mechanisms.
• Overcome technical challenges in a cost-effective way, influencing the implementation of better tools, technologies and best practice.

More about Change and Transformation

• Understand the underlying business processes and be able to articulate why certain metrics and reports are priority.
• Support the development of compelling business cases to bid for resources.
• Ensure close engagement with other technology teams to maximise insights and value from new processes and platforms.
• Build forecasting models for our priority data domains, reporting on projected KPI performance, and thus enabling pre-emptive business action.

More about high priority Data Domains and the specific responsibilities of this role:

1. Asset Management Data

• Provide comprehensive stock data  for One Housing and all its subsidiaries.
• Evidence triangulation of this One Housing stock data  with all other stock records.
• Identify any anomalies in the triangulation, investigate and lead the resolution in a timely manner.
• Provide on demand a triangulated and reconciled stock reports to the Asset Compliance Group, Executive Team and the Group Board.
• Oversee the additions/ deletions to the stock list.
• Provide assurance that the compliance reports are reconciled across a comprehensive data-set at a property/component level to the Asset Compliance Group, Executive Team, and our Group Board.
• Prepare and supply regulatory and statutory stock reports regarding One Housing and its subsidiaries to One Housing Governance team.

2. Customer Data

• Provide assurance reports to Customer Service teams in terms of the quality of key data associated customers, e.g. data related to customer safety and risks, satisfaction, contact preferences and current service activity.
• Including assurance reporting, validating that automated digital services being provided to customers e.g. via MyOneHousing and our other digital channels.

3. Income and Property Management Data

• Provide assurance reports that data held in accordance business rules and data protocols associated with income and property  management.
• Delivering and embedding change to make One Housing an efficient and effective organisation. This has been a focus for the last 3 years and Continuous Improvement is now at the heart of what we are doing to move to the next phase of the organisations development.

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who demonstrates a friendly, positive demeanour. The successful candidate will:

• Have a solid track-record of leading Business Intelligence teams of up to 10 members,
• Managing budgets,
• Senior stakeholder engagement and liaison,
• Strategy and policy development,
• And being able to describe your successes within previous governance and oversight roles.
• Demonstrate having been able to drive real value from data,
• And of facilitating analysis, insights and forecasting via the systems and services you have managed,
• While having satisfied high-demand through effective communication with stakeholders and reliable delivery management.
• Have a deep understanding of best practise information governance and data management strategies,
• And of reporting, analytics and data management technologies (e.g. current Microsoft platforms)
• As well as of data architectures and integration concepts.
• Be able to apply Information and Data related legislation within a business context.
• Have an appropriate academic qualification or describe the knowledge you have acquired through your own experience .

The offer

Our [email protected] benefit package offers you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Salary: £70,000-£85,000
• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

More about us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.

Apply today for a fulfilling career in our I.T. team.

An exciting opportunity to become the first Finance Director of a new company established by a group of Yorkshire Age UK Charities: Doncaster, North Yorkshire and Darlington, Sheffield, Wakefield District and York with an ambitious vision to share support services.

You will join the newly-incorporated CASEwork organisation at its inception and play a crucial role to ensure that the organisation provides effective and efficient corporate, financial and financial management systems and policies that maximise the charities’ resources to enable them to successfully deliver their charitable objectives, providing excellent financial functions using a new Microsoft Dynamics finance system to the five founding members, and potentially new members in future.
The post is crucial to the successful implementation of this system and way of working. A qualified accountant, skilled in providing strategic advice, budget development and producing statutory accounts, experienced in leading change projects.

You will build a robust organisation, providing effective leadership, working with the Board to grow the business and increase the range of services. You will lead on corporate governance for the Board.

Marine Society and Sea Cadets are seeking to appoint a Growth & Development Worker to join our team. You will be home based but will be required to travel around the area. You will join us on a part-time, fixed term basis working 21 hours per week for 6 months, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £25,000 Gross per annum (pro rata).

Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a leading maritime charity in lifelong learning and personal development and is the governing charity of the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC), a civilian voluntary youth organisation engaging some 15,000 young people over 400 Sea Cadet Units, throughout the UK.  The SCC offers a wide range of youth opportunities with the same enduring objective – to give young people the best possible head start in life through nautical adventure and fun.

The Growth and Development team is based across the UK and works on a variety of projects that aim to grow the Sea Cadets. These projects include setting up new Juniors Sections, supporting Sea Cadet units in schools and helping existing Sea Cadet units to develop plans and strategies for sustainable growth.

Key areas of focus for our Growth & Development Worker include:

- Delivering a variety of training sessions on, for example, recruitment of cadets and volunteers
- Developing new growth and recruitment tools and ideas
- Promoting flexible volunteering and the volunteer strategy
- Assisting with running our social media accounts
- Working with and empowering our volunteers to develop plans for growth
- Planning and setting up Juniors Sections in new and existing locations/units
- Delivering assemblies in schools
- Forming part of various working groups with colleagues to develop the tools, resources and processes needed to increase the positive impact of the Growth and Development team.

Our ideal Growth & Development Worker will:

- Experience of working with volunteers and a good understanding of how to ensure they are most effectively recruited, on-boarded, supported and managed
- Experience of actively promoting projects or programmes to engage adult volunteers and young people from diverse communities to participate
- Practical understanding of equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion
- Experience of communicating with internal and external stakeholders using excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to present information in a manner appropriate to the audience, including through formal and informal presentations
- A track record of working with others to develop and deliver projects
- Experience of delivering projects against targets
- Experience of monitoring project activity and outcomes to meet external and internal reporting requirements
- An understanding of health, safety and safeguarding legislation and best practice procedures as they relate to working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Working knowledge and understanding of the voluntary and community sector

In return as our Growth & Development Worker you will receive:

- Pension Scheme
- Life Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- season ticket loans
- Eye Care

Closing Date: 29th January 2021 Midday
Interviews: W/c 1st February 2021

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Growth & Development Worker then please click “apply” below – we’d love to hear from you!

Applications should consist of a CV and supporting statement. Without this, we sadly will be unable to consider your application for this role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional individual with a demonstrable record of policy and research work, ideally within an asylum or immigration detention context.

You will be responsible for the delivery of our policy, research and parliamentary work.  As part of your role you will gather evidence from our casework and elsewhere to prepare briefings, papers and research reports about the harm caused by immigration detention to alert the Home Office, NHS England, medical professional bodies, parliamentarians, and the courts to ongoing issues.

Influenced by our robust and unique evidence base, our credibility and effectiveness, as well as the expertise of our staff and volunteers, Medical Justice enjoys excellent collaboration with lawyers, other NGO’s in the field, medical professionals and parliamentarians.  Medical Justice is the only NGO consulted by NHS England on its Service Specifications for healthcare provision in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).  In 2019 Medical Justice became the secretariat for the newly formed All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention.  In 2020 Medical Justice was granted Core Participant status in the Brook House IRC Public Inquiry which provides what is probably the best prospect there has ever been to expose ongoing systemic failures in immigration detention.

Working closely with the Director and the Casework Manager, and line managing the Parliamentary and Research Analyst, the successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring Medical Justice has the greatest possible impact on immigration detention policy and practice.

Though the full-time Policy, Research & Parliamentary Manager post is very much preferred, Medical Justice might alternatively consider a combination of a 3 day a week Policy Manager post plus a 2 or 3 day a week Researcher post – if you would be interested in either of those part-time roles, please express your interest as soon as possible.

Medical Justice is keen to look beyond the traditional review of your qualifications and work experience to what relevant knowledge and skills you may have acquired through your life experience. 

Wiltshire Citizens Advice is part of the network which delivers the Help to  Claim Service which offers end-to-end support to help people make a new Universal Credit claim and be ready for when their first payment arrives.

As part of this, there is a national network  of Best Practice Leads, to gather and share learning about how Universal Credit and the Help to Claim service is performing, develop relationships with relevant local stakeholders and share ideas and best practice. 

The role will work across a Jobcentre Plus district in Dorset, Hampshire, WIltshire and the Isle of Wight area to improve people’s experience of Universal Credit and Universal Support as well as feed into the wider Best Practice Lead network and work of national Citizens Advice.

You can be based anywhere in the region but must have the ability to travel to Wiltshire approximately 1 day per week. 

Who we are

Open Doors is a Christian charity that is looking to recruit active, practicing Christians to help meet the growing needs of the persecuted church worldwide. Hostility, violence and abuse of Christians around the globe is on the increase. Open Doors works in over 50 countries to ensure that those facing such persecution are not forgotten, but can stand strong to serve their communities and give life.

Job summary

Working closely with the wider IT Team, this role will be responsible for delivering a timely and effective IT service to both existing and new Open Doors UK&I staff both in person and remotely. The role will provide 1st and possibly 2nd line support as well as managing overall service operations in terms of Incident, Problem and Change (ITIL) process.

About the team

Reporting to the ICT Support and Development Manager, you will work closely with the IT team, 3rd party support organisations, and all Open Doors UK & I staff.

Hours

37.5 hours per week. Usually between 8.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday. This position involves some evening and weekends at conferences and events or for emergency call-outs for which TOIL (time off in lieu) may be claimed.

Responsibilities and requirements

Provide excellence in service by:

Ticketing and service management

• ensure all incidents reported are logged, distributed and followed up on within agreed response times
• ensure that all parties are consistently updated with regard to current activity and status of tickets/tasks/projects
• ensure effective technical on-boarding of new staff and volunteers including hardware, user accounts, software and operating systems
• ensure effective off-boarding of staff and volunteers that leave Open Doors UK&I
• daily monitoring of staff issues, responding and following up on these issues within agreed timescales
• communication of IT issue status via email, announcements and social feed updates
• escalate unresolved incidents that are out of SLA
• able to work on-call / out-of-hours for major incidents (with time in lieu)
• escalate issues to 2nd line IT Support when required.
• liaise with our external 3rd line support team for more complicated issues

Service management

• ownership of infrastructure risks, policy and control implementation including IT security and mitigation actions
• contribute to supplier contract negotiations and renewals
• identification and delivery of IT infrastructure improvements where appropriate

 IT Operations

• management of operational responsibilities such as tape backup. Being available to support onsite maintenance where required
• undertake operational IT processes including daily checks, processes and procedures per an agreed checklist / schedule and SLA
• maintain a high-quality level of business data through regular clean-up tasks
• maintain assets and configuration database and comply with change procedures
• maintain client desktop and laptop updates
• computer account administration through Active Directory / O365 for password resets and user setups. Exchange Administrative Centre for e-mail accounts
• maintain documentation for regular tasks to a high quality

Ad hoc / project support

• provide support in IT moves and changes for desk moves, remote working and equipment deployment
• support the audio-visual systems and provide meeting and support for smaller events
• linking in with the Facilities Manager to ensure new staff setups are completed including imaging new computers and any bespoke software setup
• assist with administration and support for the CRM system including user setup

 End user training and support

• disseminate good IT security practice and alert IT management of possible security breaches
• provide user coaching, guidance and day-to-day support for computer and technology use
• updating staff awareness of upcoming IT upgrades
• training of staff where a knowledge gap is identified through issues raised
• induction of new staff to PC / Network / Print / CRM navigation and usage within ODUK&I

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

Applying your Christian faith to this role

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

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

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

Limits of Authority

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

Who you are

You will demonstrate the following essential criteria for this role:

Competency

• computer management with knowledge and experience of Windows Server management, Active Directory, IT Administrative tools (e.g., Azure and O365 management)
• educated to GCSE or equivalent
• ability to work effectively under pressure, managing workload to meet time deadlines and produce work of a consistently high standard
• self-disciplined and able to work on own initiative, to prioritise effectively, and to meet deadlines
• strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with and serve a wide cross section of people
• good standard of written and verbal communication skills
• high level of accuracy and attention to detail especially in relation to data input                                                                                                                                               

Character

• demonstrates a high level of commitment
• able to work effectively under pressure
• responsible and mature outlook
• high standard of personal hygiene; clean, tidy and professional appearance
• a positive and professional approach both internally and externally                                                                                                                                                           

 Calling

• committed Christian who is completely in sympathy with the calling and mission of Open Doors

Culture

• chemistry with Open Doors staff
• commitment to Open Doors’ Core Values

In addition, it would be beneficial for you to demonstrate the following:

• IT experience working within a 1st line support or similar environment with a working knowledge of ITIL and service levels
• experience and training of ITIL Incident, Problem and Change processes
• experience of working with Office 365 / Azure

Enhanced disclosure information may be requested from the DBS in the event of a successful application.

Your application answers will be reviewed blind to ensure fairness. Your responses will be randomised and the shortlisting panel will not see any details about you, including your CV. Your CV will only be seen after shortlisting if you have been invited to an interview.

Please note: this is a part-time role, two days a week.

Job Description

The curriculum lead will make a significant contribution to the development of the teaching, learning and assessment (grading and observation of practice and academic components) on Frontline’s programmes. The Curriculum Lead will also be primarily involved with delivery of teaching materials in various settings, including at the summer institute, recall days and in unit teaching. You will play a key role in the development of Practice Tutors and Consultant Social Workers, running briefings on curriculum areas, developing teaching skills, undertaking observations of teaching, unit meetings, individual and group coaching sessions.

This is a varied and exciting role in an ambitious organisation. We need people who are enthusiastic about joining us to ensure our programmes remain innovative and excellent and that we become widely recognised as delivering world leading programmes. You will  be passionate about teaching and learning and have a deep interest in social work education. You will have expertise in parenting interventions with children and families and expert knowledge in attachment theory, mentalisation, trauma and social learning theory.

Ambitious College is London's only registered Specialist College dedicated to educating and training young people with a primary diagnosis of autism aged 16-25. The college is currently based on two permanent campuses co-located and in partnership with mainstream further education colleges.

Ambitious College is an award winning, Ofsted “Good” day college. We believe that every young person attending Ambitious College deserves a fulfilling, happy and rewarding life. Our person-centred educational approach ensures we focus on the individual learners requirements at all times. We are proud to be an inclusive college with a diverse co-hort that values difference.

If you are ambitious about making the ordinary possible for young adults with autism, can inspire, lead and innovate we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and innovative Deputy Head who has:

• High expectations of our learners achieving their goals and aspirations, along with a commitment to providing education that promotes excellent progress and improves life chances, ‘making the ordinary possible'.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a transdisciplinary team to ensure young adults are prepared for adulthood.
• Experience of working in a culture of change.
• Extensive teaching experience with young adults with complex special education needs.
• Experience of ensuring the objectives outlined in the service development plan are realised through a regular cycle of development planning, implementation, review and evaluation.
• Experience of leading, managing and supporting the development of colleagues through coaching or mentoring.

What we offer:

• Excellent CPD including a wide-range of in house and external training courses.
• As a growing organisation there is opportunity to progress your career.
• Competitive annual salary paid over 52 weeks.
• Annual staff recognition awards.
• Cycle to work scheme up to £5000.
• Season ticket loans.
• A wide range of wellness programmes including: virtual yoga & zumba classes, running club, art & cooking classes and learning programmes.
• Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
• Access to physiotherapy.
• On-site parking. 

The position will require regular travel to both college sites.

Role Closes: Sunday 31st January 2021

Applicants informed of outcome: W/C 1st February 2021

First stage interviews: Thursday 11th February 2021

Second Stage Interview: W/C 15th February 2021

Start date: As soon as possible.

To find out more about this position please find attached the recruitment pack entailing the role details. For an informal discussion regarding this exciting senior leadership role, please follow the link to our website. 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Marine Society and Sea Cadets are seeking to appoint a Volunteer & Business Support Manager to join our team based in London. You will join us on a full-time permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £35,000 Gross per annum.

Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a leading maritime charity in lifelong learning and personal development and is the governing charity of the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC), a civilian voluntary youth organisation engaging some 15,000 young people over 400 Sea Cadet Units, throughout the UK.  The SCC offers a wide range of youth opportunities with the same enduring objective – to give young people the best possible head start in life through nautical adventure and fun.

This is an exciting time for the Sea Cadets with our post-Covid regeneration strategy being developed, increased support for our volunteers being put in place and a real focus on growth.

As Volunteer & Business Support Manager (VBSM), you would have a key role in helping deliver work across the London and Essex Area. In particular, you will be responsible for supporting the Sea Cadet Units across the Area in all aspects of business management: including governance, finance, growth, volunteering and property issues.

Flexible/Remote Working: Contractually, this role is office based in London, however we offer flexible working. Due to current Covid-19 Restrictions, our employees are required to currently work from home, but when we resume to office working, employee will be able to work remotely up to 3 days a week with the remaining time in the office.

Key areas of focus for our Volunteer & Business Support Manager include:

- Delivering a variety of training sessions on, for example, recruitment of cadets and volunteers
- Developing new growth and recruitment tools and ideas
- Promoting flexible volunteering and the volunteer strategy
- Assisting with running our social media accounts
- Working with and empowering our volunteers to develop plans for growth
- Planning and setting up Juniors Sections in new and existing locations/units
- Delivering assemblies in schools
- Forming part of various working groups with colleagues to develop the tools, resources and processes needed to increase the positive impact of the Growth and Development team.

Our ideal Volunteer & Business Support Manager will:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Experience of delivering business advice and contributing to business, growth and development plans
- Experience of project planning and delivery, including monitoring and evaluation, and working to targets
- Managing and administering budgets
- Managing and supporting staff
- Working in conjunction with and supporting volunteers
- Contributing to the development of organisational policy and procedures
- Experience of case, complaints and investigation management
- Experienced in meeting and group facilitation and able to deal with conflict confidently and effectively
- Familiar with current IT office software including Microsoft Excel or equivalent

In return as our Volunteer & Business Support Manager you will receive:

- Pension Scheme
- Life Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- season ticket loans
- Eye Care

Closing Date: 10 February 2021 Midday
Interviews: Mid February 2021

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Volunteer & Business Support Manager then please click “apply” below – we’d love to hear from you!

Applications should consist of a CV and supporting statement. Without this, we sadly will be unable to consider your application for this role.

Pain Management Service Lead (Maternity Cover)

Contract: Fixed term maternity cover until 1 March 2022

Hours: 21 per week

Location: London

Salary: £30,821 pro rata (actual £22,817)  

We have an exciting opportunity for an accredited healthcare professional to join our Clinical Services Department on a fixed term basis as a Pain Management Service Lead. 

The purpose of the role is to make specialist pain management interventions available to all service users across our five treatment centres which are situated in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow.  

You will take a lead role in relation to the broader physical therapy at Freedom from Torture and will act in an advisory role to all of our treatment centres and to the Clinical Secretariat regarding recruitment, clinical standards and development. You will hold a small caseload in the centre in which you are based, (London) and you will oversee a team of volunteer physical therapists (physiotherapy, osteopathy, massage) providing direct clinical provision to survivors of torture and organized violence through individual and group interventions.

The ideal candidate for the role will have knowledge of the impact of torture and exile on individuals and families across the full range of ages and phases of the life cycle, extensive experience of delivering physical therapy services to those who have experienced trauma, and experience of working clinically with asylum seekers and refugees

This is an important role within Freedom from Torture. A role where no two days are the same and where your level of commitment, knowledge, experience and skills will benefit so many.

If you believe you have the qualities necessary to perform well within this position, we would like to hear from you.

To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click the link provided.

Please note CV and cover letter addressing the JD and Specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position.

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

Our team of dedicated professionals provide direct support to survivors including psychological therapy, physical health services, legal and welfare support, and expert medical reports for use in survivors' asylum claims. We also support other providers to deliver high quality rehabilitation services to survivors. 

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work. 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
 
 Closing date: 19/02/2021  
 Expected date of interviews: 26/02/2021

Freedom from Torture is striving to be an Equal Opportunities Employer.

No agencies please

New Year , new challenge? As an experienced Finance Officer you would provide strategic financial information to Municipal Charities. We run 5 almshouses and the Relief in Need charity in Stratford Upon Avon.  

We are seeking an experienced Finance Officer to provide strategic financial information to the staff team and the Trustee body, of Municipal Charities. Municipal Charities is a very long-established group of charities whose objects are to provide housing for local people in need and over 58 years old. In addition to forty-six almshouses, the oldest of which dates back to a Royal Charter granted in 1553, the group also operates a grant-making charity for the benefit (Relief in Need) of residents of the Town of Stratford upon Avon. Additionally, the group owns a small portfolio of freehold interests in commercial properties. The group is looking to expand further in terms of more almshouses, as opportunities present themselves. The Trustees are looking for a Finance Officer to support the group forward into the next chapter of its 468-year history.

The Finance Officer has the following specific responsibilities:

• Financial Oversight and providing financial information to the Board of Trustees
• Entering all transactions onto the SAGE accounts package
• Producing monthly management accounts including accruals and cash flow statements
• Producing annual budgets
• Producing annual accruals accounts ensuring that they are compliant with the current Charities SORP;
• To deal efficiently and effectively with all invoices and bills; obtain authorisations as required and obtain countersignatures as required;
• To deal with banking issues  and initiate online bank transactions and being a cheque signatory;
• To co-ordinate the bank accounts arranging for online payments
• To undertake bank and other monthly reconciliations;
• To act as an internal resource for financial information, budget monitoring, internal audit and accountability;
• To process and pay staff salaries
• To maintain the petty-cash system and process staff expenses
• To make adjustments as required between the various charities
• Ensuring that appropriate accounting procedures, controls and risk management procedures are in place
• Helping to manage the Portfolio of freehold property interests to maximise their value for the owning charity and its beneficiaries.
• Helping the Finance and Risk committee to develop and  implement appropriate accounting, reserves and investment policies for the Charities

The charities are regulated by the Charity Commission and the Regulator of Social Housing. The postholder will be expected to help ensure compliance with current and future legislation; working closely with the relevant professionals and advisors is central to discharging these duties.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following:

• Financial experience working at a senior level as an accountant, book keeper in the public, private or charity sectors including experience of reporting to a Board.
• Awareness of the charity SORP 2015.
• Experience in producing management accounts.
• Excellent understanding of financial accounts and budgeting.
• Experience of preparing accruals accounts
• Experience of using SAGE or another accounts package
• Experience of Office procedures 
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of payroll packages e.g. 12Pay
• Knowledge of investment,
• Knowledge of the almshouse movement is desirable as is an understanding of the social care sector and issues facing older people.

The ideal candidate will be a team player who is able to demonstrate the highest levels of integrity and standards, and someone with extensive life experience and a desire to “give something back”. You will have the ability to work on your own initiative, be able to give financial guidance and advice to the staff team and Trustee Board to keep the charities financially compliant and viable.  .