Here at Doorstep Library we believe in the power of words to take you places. We are a not-for-profit community organisation dedicated to bringing the gift of books and the joy of reading into the homes of families across London who need our support, reading with them and their children to inspire a love of books, of stories and storytelling, and to instil a lifelong passion for reading.

Equipped with a reading stool and a supply of books, our volunteers are right on the doorstep, ready to use books to fuel children’s natural love of stories, fire their imaginations, and encourage their appreciation of reading. Our goal is to help each child develop the self-confidence and essential skills they need to access all the opportunities that will come their way in life. Whether in person, or online, we are there to support children and families who need us most. 

The organisation has gone from strength to strength.  Now in our 10th year we will shortly be expanding into our fourth London borough and launching our new Virtual Reading Corner service – bringing our unique service to even more families.

Job Purpose:

• Strategic responsibility for the operations of the charity, including finance, IT and human resources;
• To work closely with the SMT and actively contribute to the overall strategy and direction of the charity;
• To ensure the effective day-to-day running of the charity.

Responsible to: CEO;

Responsible for: Operational management and strategy, finance, IT and human resources.  Managing the Finance Officer.

About the role

We are looking for a Head of Operations to report to the Chief Executive Officer. This full-time role will have ultimate responsibility for ensuring adequate resourcing and managing programme budgets.  The successful candidate will sit on the Senior Management Team, working closely with the CEO, Head of Marketing & Communications, Head of Programmes and Head of Fundraising & Partnerships.

You will have substantial, proven experience of working in an operational role, ideally in the third sector and in managing financial systems. You will be a highly organised people-person and will be responsible for line managing the Finance Officer.

Finally, you will be truly passionate about the work that we do to support children and families in disadvantaged areas of London.   As part of our expansion, we are currently setting up new on-the-ground projects and launching our brand new online reading service (Virtual Reading Corner).  To support this expansion we are growing our team and this position will be key to ensuring we have the infrastructure in place to enable us to attract, develop and retain staff. The right person will be able to hit the ground running to help us deal with the challenges of the coming year, creating a return to the office strategy and supporting a new mixed model of delivery.

Duties

Strategy

• Strategic responsibility for the operations of the charity, including finance, IT and human resources
• Ensure the effective day-to-day running of the charity
• To work closely with the SMT and actively contribute to the overall strategy and direction of the charity

Finance and Operations

• Long term strategic financial planning, including costing and modelling for longer term expansion
• To ensure that budgets are monitored and maintained across the network
• Overall management of operational budgets, forecasting, targets and financial performance against business plans
• Working with the Finance Officer to produce annual accounts
• Ensure that all services/goods received in kind are recorded and used for maximum benefit
• To ensure that finance systems are in place across the charity for transparency and monitoring purposes
• Support the fundraising and marketing teams with budgets and financial reporting to stakeholders
• Oversee the overall governance of the charity, including full compliance with statutory requirements, charity and company law, quality assurance and health and safety
• Ensure appropriate risk and contingency plans are in place to anticipate risks and outline appropriate action to be taken to minimise impact
• Oversee the equipment needs of employees and the charity as a whole
• Oversee the management of contracts and services for IT hardware, software and communications

HR and Line Management

• Oversee processes relating to human resources need, including personnel development, performance management and objective setting and reviews for all staff
• Lead on staff recruitment, and where relevant, to work in partnership with the other members of the SMT including preparing job specs, advertising and short-listing
• Ensure all policies and procedures are revised and up to date at all times
• Ensuring that all contractors, staff and volunteers are appointed in compliance with our equal opportunities policy and in line with Doorstep Library values

General

• To carry out all duties and responsibilities in line with Doorstep Library’s policies and procedures
• To undertake additional duties as from time to time may be required.

Salary - £40,000 per annum – permanent

Hours – 35 per week

Benefits – 6% pension contribution, 25 days per annum annual leave, flexible working arrangements (including working from home part of the week).

Hours: 40 hours per week

Location: Flexible (Head Office is based in Peterborough)

Salary: Circa £35,000

Closing date: 4th June 2021

Interview date: 25th June (in the Peterborough office)

This is a critical appointment.  

You will need to be an empowering people manager, passionate about serving churches and the homeless in our country.

You will need to be highly committed to our vision of seeing churches, across the country, housing the homeless and doing it brilliantly. This appointment is key to us accelerating towards our 5-year vision of having 200 churches housing the homeless by 2025, at a moment of urgent social need.

You will be on the Executive team of one of the fastest growing, award winning, Christian charities in this country. Contributing to our development, you will need to do so whilst embodying our values and culture, which strives to be both highly caring, and action orientated.

The role will be reporting to the Executive Director and responsible for the IT, Housing, Finance and HR. You will also report into the sub-committee(s) from the board of Trustees. (See Job Description here). A broad and varied role that will require the capability to juggle these different priorities as well as supporting the strategy, values and spiritual strength of the organisation.

About you:

We are looking for an exceptional leader with considerable background in organizational development, leadership and management, preferably with a strong understanding of information, IT, systems and project management.

You will display comprehensive experience of leading teams and organisations, and need to be comfortable taking responsibility. Essential to Hope into Action is that you are a good listener, team player and passionate about empowering others, especially your teams.

Experience of organisational development is essential, ideally with particular expertise in information management as well as an ability to manage, strategically, housing, finance and HR. We would expect, over the next few years, to see improvements in our efficiencies, quality and systems.

Your location can be flexible, but post-Covid we envisage at least 2 days per week in the Peterborough office. You will also need to travel to various locations as part of your role.

About us:

We believe everyone has the right to a home and churches have the power to meet the tragedy of homelessness in their community.

Starting 11 years ago, we have grown into a mature organisation working with over 70 churches running 90 homes for over 250 tenants.

We have won numerous awards both secular and Christian including from the Guardian newspaper, Homeless link and Centre for social Justice.

We provide not just shelter and housing know-how, but also the friendship of a church, we are passionate about harnessing the social, financial and spiritual power of churches to enact real change both in them and our tenants.

Our first home had a real heart for men coming out of prison. Homes are now available for a wide range of people experiencing homelessness: people in recovery from addiction, people sleeping rough, women and children fleeing domestic violence, people coming out of rehab, former prostitutes, refugees, those suffering mental health issues and survivors of human trafficking.

Roughly, 50% of our homes are in our ‘line-managed cities’ (Peterborough, Norwich, Nottingham, Cambridge.), the other 50% are found across a further 20+ towns which we franchise into.

We encourage others to replicate our model through franchising. The tragedy of homelessness is in every community. Our vision is for every church to lovingly provide the homeless with a home.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a distinctive charity in south west Hertfordshire dedicated to delivering excellent services in partnership with funders, users and the local community.

Volunteering and a good public spirit are at the heart of every successful community and every contented individual. Watford & Three Rivers Trust have worked for over forty years to ensure that the local community benefits from voluntary groups that are welcoming, effective, accountable and sustainable, and to ensure that people can contribute to the design and delivery of the services on which they rely.

Watford & Three Rivers Trust promotes, supports and delivers activities that strengthen the local community. They run the CVS service supporting Watford charities on fundraising and governance, their Dragon's Apprentice Challenge has raised over 100k for Watford charities and every week they provide activities and contacts for 200 older people within the community. Each month, Watford & Three Rivers Trust complete around 200 interventions to help vulnerable people living at home and each year their volunteer drivers complete around 20,000 miles taking people to urgent appointments. In total, they manage two community centres hosting 2,500 community activities each year, and lead a partnership aimed at supporting 14,000 people a year to relieve pressures on the NHS and adult care services.

They are now looking for a Head of Adult Community Wellbeing Services to join the team on a permanent basis.

Watford & Three Rivers Trust - Head of Adult Community Wellbeing Services

Location: Watford - Hertfordshire

Salary: 40,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

The post-holder will be responsible for W3RT's community health and wellbeing services: operational management, member engagement, service delivery, ongoing programme development, data management, quality assurance, administration, building community responses, liaising with the commissioners, strengthening partnerships, meeting targets, preparing reports, ensuring an excellent and people-focused service.

We are looking for an individual with a track record of success leading the delivery of excellent adult care services. You will have a solid understanding of the health, social, communication and support needs of vulnerable adults, older people and carers. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of working with the NHS, Clinical Commissioning groups and local authorities with a clear understanding of how they work together.

Closing date for applications: Friday 7th May at 5.00pm
First Stage Interview: W/C 10th May

If you would like to receive more information about this role, with details on how to apply, please contact Faye Marshall at Harris Hill via the apply button. 

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

JOB TITLE: Community Engagement worker

SALARY SCALE: £29,750

HOURS: Full-time (35 hours per week)

LENGTH OF CONTRACT: until 31st March 2022

LOCATION: Flexible

ANNUAL LEAVE: 28 days per annum excluding bank holidays

PENSION PAYMENT: CommUNITY Barnet will make a pension contribution into a workplace pension scheme

Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas in the UK to use at least £1m of national lottery money over a 10-year period to make a lasting and measurable difference to their communities.

The Wembley Central Big Local Partnership Board (WFBL), in association with CommUNITY Barnet (the Locally Trusted Organisation) wishes to appoint a member a Community Engagement Officer on a fixed term contract to support local volunteers and residents to implement the Big Local Plan and the management and delivery of its priorities.

Located in Wembley Central, north west London, this role would ideally suit a person who is inspired by enabling local communities to actively change their local area and can communicate this enthusiasm to others.

We are looking to appoint a confident self-starter with experience community development, youth work and/or project management.  You will need analytical skills to track, monitor and evaluate the progress of projects, with the ability to produce appropriate, clear, written update reports. Good IT skills are essential as is the ability to communicate with potential volunteers and the wider community.

Our ideal candidate is someone familiar with the local area, has a positive, flexible and can-do attitude. You must have the business skills to ensure WCBL always achieves value for money to support the Big Local Plan priorities.  Successful applicants will need to demonstrate a commitment to, and an understanding of equal opportunities, diversity and safeguarding.

Working under the umbrella of CommUNITY Barnet we can offer you training as appropriate to support your own career development.

The job requires flexibility to meet the requirements of weekend or evening work.

To apply, please send your CV demonstrating your experience against the job description and a covering letter to show how you meet the points of the person specification of Community Engagement Officer.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates

Deadline for applications: Thursday 13th May 5pm

Interviews (to include a presentation): Saturday 5th June 2021.

Head of Community & Events Fundraising – Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity

Job ID: 020868
Salary: £56,060 - £64,405 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Business unit: Fundraising & Supporter Development
Department: Events & Community Fundraising
Strand Campus

Are you a passionate fundraiser, looking for an exciting, career-defining opportunity? It’s time to join our team.  Fundraising at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Evelina London hospitals has always been ambitious and high achieving but over the past year we have been on an incredible journey. Given the heightened value placed on NHS charities, as well as a trend towards digitalised fundraising and virtual products, we’re recruiting a Head of Community & Events Fundraising with a pivotal new focus on product development and innovation to maximise income potential by engaging with supporters in the communities served by our hospitals across South London and the wider South East of England.

The post holder will lead a team of seven in delivering an ambitious fundraising strategy that seeks to grow income to £2m+ per annum through challenge events and community fundraising (including volunteers). We are looking for an exceptional fundraiser with excellent interpersonal and relationship development skills, that thrives on variety and the ability to be both a strategic and creative thinker. As a growing charity, this role presents a brilliant opportunity to help shape and implement audience-led, integrated strategies, that builds on the incredible impact achieved in the past year for our hospitals, their patients and staff.

About Guy’s & St Thomas Charity: the vision for Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is to advance health and wellbeing, as a local, national and international leader in clinical care, education and research. Famous globally for its medical breakthroughs and innovation, it has a long history of clinical excellence and high quality care. With 1,000 inpatient beds across two of London’s best known teaching hospitals and more than 2 million patient contacts made each year, it is one of the busiest and most successful foundation trusts in the UK.

The Trust’s work is supported by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity (GSTC), which is the official charity for the Trust, including Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children’s hospitals and an independent place-based foundation. GSTT and GSTC have a shared ambition to increase fundraised income to benefit patients and staff of the Trust, by developing new services, innovative research and an enhanced hospital environment. The Trust is also part of King’s Health Partners, one of only six academic health sciences centres in the UK, pioneering in health research.

Fundraising and Supporter Development (F&SD) is an integrated department that provides a single fundraising and supporter engagement function for King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity and for King’s Health Partners, working closely with the Maudsley Charity. Based at KCL, we work with colleagues across our partners to help them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract

This is a full-time post

Contact details for Caroline Gormley, Deputy Director of Public Fundraising, can be found on the apply page.

Closing Date: 12th May 2021

Overview Of The Role 

Chell Perkins Ltd is looking for a passionate fundraiser with management experience to support our small, yet dynamic team. 

Key aspects of this role will include: 

• Training and mentoring support: supporting our growing team with the delivery of a full range of fundraising activities on behalf of Chell Perkins’ clients, assisting in high-quality trust applications, strategy formation work, event management, direct mail appeals, online giving campaigns, major donor/corporate fundraising and research activities. 

• Line management responsibilities: logistically supporting the developing fundraising team, managing contract timings and conducting work reviews.

• Client liaison: supporting staff to ensure that all of our clients are looked after and receive excellent communication throughout their contract(s)

• Business development: being an ambassador for our company, promoting our business and attending networking/sector events on our behalf

• Fundraising delivery: you will also manage your own small client case-load

At all times the candidate successful with this role will comply with regulations affecting fundraising, including (but not exclusively) guidelines from the Fundraising Regulator and Information Commissioner's Office. The Head of Fundraising may also be required to assist in the delivery of training and mentoring packages directly to clients.

Chell Perkins Ltd… Who are we? 

There are thousands of charities throughout the UK with the most amazing vision for transforming the lives of those in their communities. However, unfortunately some of these charities are unable to unlock the full potential of their vision due to a lack of finances, resources and/or fundraising expertise. At the heart of it, Chell Perkins Ltd exists to make a very real and lasting impact on the third sector through increasing the availability of high quality fundraising. We achieve this by identifying, partnering with and nurturing the next generation of potential fundraisers to see all charities have access to bespoke, effective and affordable fundraising support.

Before forming Chell Perkins Ltd, we were fortunate to work for charities passionate about developing their staff. They offered us training, sharpened our fundraising skills, challenged us, and invested in our ability to fundraise well.

For the last four years, Chell Perkins Ltd has been trying to pay this kindness forwards through our Junior Fundraising Training Programme and we are now looking for support from an experienced Head of Fundraising to take this programme further. 

Momentum Children’s Charity is a local organisation that supports families whose children have cancer or a life-challenging condition. We were founded 17 years ago by our current Chief Executive and have grown enormously over that time. We currently have partnerships with six local hospitals who refer families to us for support, which ranges from therapies and counselling, to respite holidays and special family experiences.

It’s an exciting time for us, as our vision is to expand further to meet the needs of even more families. To support this growth, we need to raise awareness and the profile of the charity, as well as substantial funds to deliver our support programme. We have an ambitious three-year strategy, which includes broadening our reach into new geographical areas and, in turn, this opens the opportunity to increase our profile, supporter base and fundraising activities in new communities across South-West London, Surrey and Sussex.

The Head of Fundraising will play a crucial part in helping us achieve our vision. Reporting to the CEO, you will be a key member of the Senior Management Team, working alongside our Head of Strategic Development, Head of Service Delivery and Head of Finance and HR.

You will have overall responsibility for Fundraising and Marketing activities, leading and inspiring a small but dedicated team. We want you to bring fresh ideas and lots of enthusiasm: in return, you have our guarantee that we recognise the value and need to invest in fundraising. We’re doing a lot of great things already, but we know we’re not perfect! In particular, we hope you can develop our Individual Giving, Community and Events income streams, and support the other key fundraising areas in reaching their potential. You’ll be joining us as we launch a fabulous new brand design which, alongside a compelling children’s charity cause and plenty of fundable activities, makes our charity a genuinely exciting place to be!

2021 is shaping up to be a significant year for climate action. With major international climate talks planned for November and governments and businesses alike making big announcements, change is in the air.

Bioregional’s communications team is vital to ensuring that we play our full part in maximizing the opportunities of unprecedented environmental awareness and action, and helping set the world on a path to net zero emissions.

We are looking for a strategic communicator. Someone who can help us cut through the noise to reach our target audiences within the built environment, retail and local government sectors, and to lead our small but mighty communications team in raising our profile, promoting our services, and sharing our brilliant stories. Our aim: to show others that a better future is still within our grasp, and inspire them to take bold action now.

Responsibilities and experience required

Our Head of Communications oversees all communications and marketing activities. This includes working with our advisory teams to promote their services and expertise through digital communications and PR, overseeing a programme of events, and supporting our CEO to add our constructive voice to relevant policy debates.

They are also responsible for promoting wider use of our internationally recognised sustainability framework, One Planet Living®.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A strong track record of achievement in a communications, marketing or PR role
• Excellent writing and editing skills for a range of audiences
• A good working knowledge of a broad range of digital communications channels and tools
• Experience in leading teams, able to bring out the best in people
• Experience of working within a sustainability or purpose-led organisation
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
• A deep personal commitment to sustainability

About Bioregional

Bioregional has been winning awards and creating cutting-edge solutions to sustainability for over 25 years. Our ambition is simple. We want to inspire people to live happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of the planet, leaving space for wildlife and wilderness. We call this One Planet Living.

Bioregional is known for being an exceptionally friendly place to work, with a strong team culture that continues to thrive even during the pandemic.

Diversity and inclusion

Bioregional is committed to increasing diversity within our organisation, and the environmental sector as a whole. We welcome job applications from everyone, and treat all applications equally, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other equality characteristic. We expressly welcome applications from people of a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background.

More information

The post is permanent and full-time and is normally based at our offices at BedZED in South London, on the mainline Victoria and Thameslink train lines.

Salary: £49,000 to £55,000 depending on experience, plus 6% employer’s ethical pension contribution and 25 days of annual leave, rising by one day a year up to five years’ service.

Deadline for applications

9am, Monday 24 May 2021

We aim to hold interviews on either 3 or 4 June 2021. We regret that as we have limited resources, only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

The Head of Fundraising & Development will oversee, manage and take responsibility for the fundraising function in order for us to deliver our clinical operations now and the growing demand anticipated in the future. 

This is a newly created role and you will be joining the Fundraising team at an exciting time.

Blue Smile is a charity dedicated to transforming the mental health and life chances of children across Cambridgeshire. We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring individual to enable us to implement and drive the fundraising strategy for the Charity and have a positive impact on many children’s lives across Cambridgeshire - giving more children the chance of a brighter future.

As Head of Frontline Innovation, you will lead the first half of the Year Here Fellowship. This will involve securing paid partnerships with frontline organisations across London and curating a powerful learning experience for our Fellows.

Frontline service sits at the heart of Year Here – giving the Fellows a chance to gain the insight and legitimacy that comes from working with people living through tough realities. You’ll make sure that our Fellows make a meaningful contribution in their placements and drive innovation that has lasting impact.

It’ll be really varied. In any given day you might be trying to sign up new placement partners, designing a learning session or coaching a Fellow on their frontline innovation project idea.

As part of Year Here’s management team, you’ll also contribute to strategic initiatives across the whole Fellowship. The Head of Frontline Innovation will report to the Fellowship Director.

This is a London-based role. We are open to full-time or 4 days per week.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Co-create the frontline phase of the Fellowship – working with faculty to impart the curriculum and create a powerful learning experience.
• Secure paid partnerships with frontline services across London.
• Lead programme setup, guiding Fellows from offer through to day one.
• Draw on your frontline experience to coach our Fellows to success.
• Be the face of Fellows’ frontline learning experience.

Who we’re looking for

• You have a solid frontline background – with a track record of improving services and innovating new solutions.
• You’re a confident manager of projects and commercial partnerships.
• You’re a bold and creative facilitator.
• You’re insatiably curious about how people learn and grow.
• You’re committed to social justice, diversity and inclusion.
• You’re not afraid of working hard in pursuit of a big vision.

Head of Marketing and Communications

As a leading social mobility charity, WeMindTheGap transforms futures for under-served young people across North Wales and Northwest England.

Marketing at WeMindTheGap is at the heart of creating and deepening our relationships with our young people, our funders, our employee partners and our other stakeholders.  Telling compelling and engaging stories about our young people and their journeys is key to the success of this role.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced communications professional to create and lead our marketing strategy and charity brand awareness as we expand into new areas. You will be responsible for embedding our new website as the starting point to all of our communications as we prepare for our next phase of growth.

Description

• Applications close: TBC
• Salary: £30,000 – £37,000 p.a., pro-rata
• Contract: Part-time, permanent
• Hours: 30 hours per week. We are open to agreeing a flexible working pattern that is beneficial to the candidate and our charity.
• Location: Flexible base location, working from either our Wrexham or Manchester office, however you will be required to be in the Wrexham office at least once a week.
• Interviews: TBC
• Start date: ASAP
• Reporting to: CEO

About the role

The pandemic has put the national conversation on social mobility into the spotlight. WeMindTheGap has the insight, data and stories to be prominent in this conversation. Growing the charity’s profile will play a central part in attracting more funders, partners and donors, raising awareness of social mobility and influencing change.

The successful candidate will be passionate about levelling the playing field for disadvantaged young people, with significant experience of communications strategy development. You will have a strong editorial eye and copywriting skills. You will build strong relationships with colleagues across the organisation and with journalists and ambassadors for our cause.

About WeMindTheGap

We transform lives with love and meaningful opportunities. How? By giving new opportunities in life and work to under-served young people in our local communities  through the provision of totally holistic programmes that address any gaps in maturation, aspiration, confidence, care and skills.

This is not about CV-writing workshops and tea and toast for poor unfortunates…or ticking boxes… This is about delivering real and lasting change for young people who deserve better.

This is social mobility in action.

Some initial focus areas for the role will be:

1. Work with the CEO, our charity’s founder and Chair of the board and senior leadership team to create and deliver an integrated marketing and communications strategy. As part of this, you’ll identify key pieces of work to take forward, develop and deliver.
2. Ensure the new website is refreshed and maintained regularly.
3. Proactively spot and take advantage of media opportunities to promote the work of WeMindTheGap.
4. Develop a relationship with our Ambassadors and Voices to support and build our profile.
5.  Line management of our Social Media Officer

Please see below for role profile and person specification.

 Integrated Communications Strategy

• Development and implementation of integrated communication strategy to support WMTG’s strategic plan
• Set appropriate indicators of success for effective delivery
• Develop processes, tools, and ways of working to deliver integrated communications
• Ensure best practice in crisis communications and reputation management for WMTG

Raising WMTG’s profile

• Develop impactful marketing campaigns and secure local, regional and national press and broadcast coverage to raise the profile of WeMindTheGap, placing us in the national conversations around social mobility and employability.
• Build relationships with journalists, proactively pitch stories and maintain a media contacts database.
• Make the most of local and regional press opportunities within the communities where our projects are based.
• Keep track of relevant news and policy developments in social mobility and employability.
• Help to source and support Ambassadors and Voices for WMTG.
• Help to grow our profile in the social mobility sector, promoting us as leaders in our field
• Ensure WMTG is nominated for relevant awards
• Work with MPs and relevant sector committees to gain traction for WMTG on priority policy areas.

Communicating our impact and gappie stories

• Ensure our sector-leading impact is clearly communicated on our website, social platforms and other channels
• Ensure our gappie stories are compiled and shared in a compelling way.
• Develop publicity materials for WMTG including our strategy document, brochures, leaflets and short films.
• Ensure the privacy and safety of the young people we work with in all communications and media work.

Developing our messaging and brand

• Ensure our brand guidelines are up-to-date, practical and accessible
• Ensure WMTG has suitable messaging and materials for their key audiences (e.g. funders/commissioners, employer partners, etc)
• Develop and share a monthly newsletter for stakeholders
• Ensure mailing lists and stored data are GDPR compliant

Line managing our Social Media Officer

• Provide oversight and guidance; work with postholder to develop and monitor objectives
• Create opportunities for professional development

Person specification

Essential

• Confident communicator, with experience of working at board or senior leadership level
• Experience developing and implementing an organised communication strategy
• Proven track record of pitching and securing press and broadcast coverage
• Superb copywriting skills
• Ability to convey complex information in an appealing way, understanding the needs of different audiences
• Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues, journalists and ambassadors
• Flexible and able to work under pressure to short deadlines
• Good knowledge of digital communications and what a good digital and social strategy looks like

Desirable

• Knowledge of the social mobility policy environment
• Line management experience
• Experience of brand development
• Experience of crisis communications and reputation management

Benefits

WeMindTheGap offers:

• A friendly working environment!
• 20 days annual leave per annum (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure
• Coaching support
• Employer’s pension contributions (3%)
• Commitment to supporting your professional development
• WMTG welcomes requests for flexible working arrangements

Further information

References

All appointments are subject to verification of employment and suitability of the candidate for the post applied for. We will request your permission before taking up employment references.

Disclosure of Criminal Record

The Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order 1986 does not apply to posts where there is access to children. This means that applicants for employment which involves working with children and young people must disclose any criminal record. If your application is successful, you are required to make these disclosures and consent to WeMindTheGap verifying the accuracy of your response with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We are seeking an experienced  client services Manager to manage the work that we do with some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

Summary of Role

The Rapha Services Manager will work within the parameters outlined in Bethel’s Strategic Plan collaborating in partnership with local groups, consortium and charities. Responsible for recruiting and managing a team of paid staff and volunteers, accurate record-keeping of the progress of the project and outcomes for clients, reporting to funders, as well as engaging with partners and developing new strategic links across the city.

The role will include preparing reports and statistics and ensuring the future sustainability of the project. To raise awareness of the work of the project and its profile, to ensure clients’ voices are heard and listened to and their needs appreciated at strategic levels. A person with good communication skills and development experience in a community engagement or social care/health environment would be best suited to this position.

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Management

1. To manage the Rapha listening service for people with needs local communities across Birmingham as well as those referred from other agencies. This will involve the recruitment and training of a team of volunteers or interns who will become “listeners”. To manage any issues that may arise and signpost people, as necessary, to specialist agencies.
2. To work closely with Bethel’s partner organisation, to develop and maintain a presence across the City,
3. Provide high quality line management to the Rapha team, motivating and inspiring them to achieve our objectives through clear communication and regular reviews;
4. Work with the CEO and senior managers to develop and implement the strategic/annual plan

Project Management

1. To establish a healthy-living project to provide health-focused activities especially for people who are isolated, vulnerable or at risk of mental health problems and to recruit volunteers/interns to help run these.
2. To be responsible for assessing each beneficiary referred to the projects (including self-referrals), for making decisions about appropriate support for each and for ensuring that service delivery is implemented efficiently.
3. To establish referral pathways, liaising with other agencies and provide support for their service users, who may require mental health support and/or healthy-living activities.
4. Work closely with the Volunteer Co-ordinator to ensure best possible outcome for clients and volunteers

Networking and Partnerships

1. To liaise and communicate with health and social care professionals providing health support to the client group (isolated and vulnerable people and those at risk of mental health problems), as appropriate.
2. To liaise and network with a variety of voluntary and statutory agencies, to ensure that partnerships are sound, referrals are appropriate and that the voice of the project is heard across the city.
3. To advertise and promote the projects amongst professionals and agencies who are likely to refer new clients.

Monitoring and Evaluation

1. To keep accurate records, the expenditure of projects, feeding this back to the Operations Manager on a regular basis.
2. To keep accurate records of the beneficiaries of projects, ensuring that monitoring of their progress is carried out and recorded and that statistics are reported to funders as required, as well as making it available to the management committee.
3. To report regularly in writing on the progress of the projects to the Bethel Board.

Quality and Compliance

1. Ensure the highest quality service to the Rapha clients and volunteers, and in line with contractual requirements.
2. Ensure effective use of Lamplight to collate, analysis and use data to inform and drive performance
3. Ensure the highest standards of compliance in relation to safeguarding, health and safety, GDPR/data protection.

Fundraising

1. To identify funding opportunities and to work with the Fundraising Officer, Operations Manager and CEO in the development of funding bids to support the project management and development.

Other

1. 14. To carry out any further duties deemed necessary by CEO and/or Bethel Board
2. 15. Work within and adhere to Bethel’s policies and procedures.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualification

Essential

A degree level or vocational qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. community development, health, mental health, social care etc.) or equivalent experience.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Experience of developing and managing community and/or health projects and developing collaborative partnerships.

Experience of managing and/or working with volunteers and/or interns.

Experience of collating service user monitoring information and ability to keep accurate records of work output and financial expenditure for the purposes of review and service development.

Experience of working in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith setting.

Desirable

Experience of working with disadvantaged client groups.

Experience in a health environment and/or in a community setting.

Some knowledge or experience of recruitment and training

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Good listening, verbal and written, communication and interpersonal skills and a friendly and non-judgmental attitude towards vulnerable people.

Computer literate (word processing, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, email and internet), CRM systems.

Ability to show leadership but also the flexibility to work under direction and be a team member.

Ability to motivate and energise people.

Fundraising and bid development.

Desirable

An ability to work with a diverse group of people.

Customer service, marketing or sales skills.

The ability to create good work partnerships with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally

Competencies & Behaviours

Essential

An understanding of a variety of cultures, together with an understanding of how a change in culture can isolate and affect an individual.

A high level of self-motivation and initiative, as lone or proactive work is a major part of the role

Other

Essential

Satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.

In sympathy with the Christian ethos of Bethel Health and Healing Network.

Willingness to adopt a flexible working pattern, including attending meetings and events on evenings and weekends.

Desirable

Current, clean driving licence and car insured for business use

Bethel Health and Healing Network are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.  All applicants will be vetted for their suitability to work with these groups where required. Applicants for posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act will be asked to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Any offer of employment and continued employment will be contingent upon satisfactory vetting results and checks made prior to and during employment where required.

Contract length: 9 months

Part-time hours: 21 per week

NB: Must complete Bethel Network application form

Application deadline: 13/05/2021

Hammersmith United Charities was founded in 1618 and makes grants to community organisations helping local people address complex social issues such as poverty, inequality or mental ill health. We are looking for an experienced grantmaker to lead on our grantmaking, communications and community action work and help a 400 year old charity become a 21st century community leader. 

About the role

Your remit will span every aspect of the grant lifecycle – from marketing through assessment, to award, ongoing relationship management and reporting on outcomes. You will also lead the Charity’s communication strategy promoting our services and developing the Charity’s profile as a bold and informed voice. You will help develop the Charity’s wider work in the community creating new ways of delivering ‘relief in need’ and establishing HUC as a core strategic partner and leader in our community. 

About you  

HUC is a small team so you will be an effective team player who is also happy to work independently. You will be an experienced grantmaker who is comfortable leading operational and strategic partnerships, writing and delivering  communications strategies and developing impactful community projects. You believe in the value of community.

We value and respect all the differences that make us who we are, including: age, cultural background, disability and mental health, ethnicity and race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and social background. 

The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check. 

How to Apply

Please read the Job Description, complete the Application Form and send along with your CV and supporting statement by Monday 31 May. We anticipate that first interviews will be held during week commencing 7th June, and second interview and presentation during the week commencing 28th June. 

An exciting and unique opportunity to join the team delivering Hope Street, a pioneering, purpose built, county-wide residential community for women and their children.

Our vision is a justice system that recognises, understands, and responds to trauma.

Our mission is to redesign the justice system for women and their children by:

• Redesigning the way that the justice system responds to women and their children in a way that can be replicated on a national scale.
• Educating women involved with the justice system to understand how trauma can affect them and equip them with the skills to respond; and training front-line staff to understand and respond effectively to trauma and adversity.
• Influencing politicians and policy makers to encourage a cultural change across the justice system and the people who work within it.

Trauma informed by design Hope Street is both a safe place and a new way of working alongside women. Hope Street will offer a community within which women and their children can access education, practical, and therapeutic support in a respectful and trusting environment.

As Head of Wellbeing and Community you will be part of a pioneering vision to change a part of the justice system that is failing women and their children at every level. Your focus will be on ensuring that all the provision across the Hope Street Community is underpinned by the five core values of trauma-informed care:

Safety • Trustworthiness • Choice • Collaboration • Empowerment

We are striving for excellence and to redesign the way the current justice system works with women. As part of the leadership team you will help build and model a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues to be the best that they can be. You will deputise for the Community Director in her absence and will also be the designated Safeguarding Lead.

You will be an experienced leader and manager of residential and community-based services for people with multiple vulnerabilities, and have extensive experience and skills in leading, managing and developing staff teams. An understanding of the impact of trauma and a commitment to working consistently in a trauma-informed way are essential for this role.

In addition you will be responsible for ensuring the effective leadership and development of the wider Hope Street Wellbeing and Community staff team to ensure that the provision of the day to day emotional and practical support always meets the One small Thing Gold standards of trauma informed care and responsiveness.

Working closely with the Community Director and the One Small Thing team you will be involved with the detailed planning and design of the service provision, the development of key partnerships, and the recruitment of the Hope Street staff team over the next 12 months to prepare for Hope Street opening in 2022.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: We value and respect all the differences that make us who we are. We want to recruit a team that reflects the local community and that women and children who come to Hope Street can identify with. We want to ensure that we deliver specialist services that meet the diverse needs of all the women in the Hope Street community. We are particularly keen to hear from women:

• Who have experienced custody and involvement with the justice system.
• From Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Refugee, Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.
• Who have experienced abuse and exploitation.

Safer Recruitment: Safe recruitment is central to the safeguarding of adults, children, and young people at risk. One Small Thing is committed to the safeguarding of every woman and child who is part of the Hope Street community and expects all employees to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks and an enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for all roles involving direct contact with women and children in our community.

This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Closing Date: 10am 17th May 2021

Interviews: 24th & 25th May 2021 (There will be an informal interview and an assessment, followed by a formal interview during which you will be asked to give a presentation, details of which will be sent if you are successfully shortlisted).

Please note that you will only hear from us if your application has been shortlisted.