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Check my CVAt Ronald McDonald House Charities UK we build and run Houses that provide a ‘home away from home’ for families who have a sick child in hospital. To do this, we recognise the importance of having strong support in our House teams.
We are excited to be able to offer a position within our Finance, Data and Technology department at Ronald McDonald House Charities. We are looking for an IT Support Analyst who is self-motivated and able to work independently to support our operations. You will have a proven track record of working in IT Service Delivery and will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of IT Support across our UK estate, including our 12 Houses.
Working with the Systems and Technology Manager, you will strive to create a technology-focused environment, ensuring technology is used as an enabler for our internal teams, at a time of growth in the Charity when there is more focus on technology than ever before. You will act as first response through providing support by phone, email and our ticket management systems, and gather common problem information to reduce incidents. The role is field based and may require frequent travel within the UK.
The Candidate Pack will provide you with more information about the role, remuneration and how to apply. Closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 7th March 2021.
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School Streets Steward Lead (Ref: SUS3091)
£10.22 per hour (plus holiday allowance)
Project dates: February 2021 – April 2021 (dependent on schools reopening after current coronavirus restrictions have been lifted)
Location: Oxford, Witney and Bicester
This very rewarding project will make streets outside schools a safer, cleaner environment, whilst also facilitating social distancing. The streets outside schools will close during school drop off and pick up times, typically restricting traffic for 30-60 minutes so that the street becomes a walking, cycling and scooting zone.
We are looking for Lead Stewards to help our in the following areas:
- 3 Schools in Oxford (Cowley area)
- 2 Schools in Bicester
- 1 School in Witney
We need a team of flexible and confident communicators who have experience of engaging with local community. Our Lead Stewards will be the main point of contact for the school and the Sustrans Active Travel Officer. You will head up a group of around three volunteer stewards to position signs and bollards and to inform drivers about the road closures.
You will need experience of working with schools, local authorities and communities and a genuine interest in and willingness to talk to people about their travel options.
Employment is subject to appropriate DBS clearance. The project will be dependent on current lockdown restrictions (school closures) being lifted. The hours will include weekdays between 8am and 10am and again between 2pm and 4pm depending on project requirements and availability. Full training will be provided.
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Tuesday 02 March 2021. Interviews will take place over MS Teams or Zoom on Tuesday 09 March 2021.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, particularly where we are under-represented. Currently this includes people who identify as having a disability and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups
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This is an exciting time for Citizens Advice services in Buckinghamshire. The charities Citizens Advice Aylesbury Vale, Citizens Advice Chiltern and Citizens Advice High Wycombe District are merging to become Citizens Advice Bucks. Like the constituent organisations that will form it have done for many years, this new charity will provide independent and impartial advice on debt, benefits, housing, employment and family issues that will help people get their lives back on track, as well as using on the ground knowledge to improve local and national social policy.
While the merger was planned long before the COVID 19 crisis, this newly formed, larger organisation will be better placed to meet the increasing demand for our services. It also matches the geography of one of our primary funders, the newly formed unity authority, Buckinghamshire Council, which will allow us to build strong working relationships at county level.
Each of the constituent charities have considerable areas of strength, providing services that respond to the need in their local communities. Citizens Advice Bucks must maintain these strengths and the local focus of services, whilst also ensuring the same high quality, availability and consistency of services across the county, and developing a strong, shared internal culture across the new charity.
We believe that in these times more people than ever will need money advice – and we need someone to help us grow this service; to meet the exacting requirements of contracts that we have in this area; and to support and develop our staff and volunteers as we change to meet the demands placed on us.
We are looking for a Money Advice Manager to join the team
Key details
Organisation: Citizens Advice Bucks
Job Title: Money Advice Manager
Salary : £35 000 per annum
Length of contract and hours: 12 months FTC, Full time
Location: Buckinghamshire
Key responsibilities
- You will be the manager of the new Bucks Money Advice Service (BMAS), including debt advice and financial capability services, ensuring services are managed, monitored, evaluated, and developed effectively and efficiently.
- You will ensure BMAS delivers a high-quality money advice service throughout Buckinghamshire
- You will work alongside the Chair of the Financial Insecurity Partnership, leading the Citizens Advice Bucks research, campaigns and advocacy work related to financial insecurity and debt issues, making the case for policy, practice and systemic change to policy makers and creditors.
- You will also be responsible for maintaining good relationships with funders of money advice and financial capability services, ensuring reports are delivered, and for assisting with the development of new income streams for these services, in close liaison with the Head of Development & Communications.
The successful candidate will have
- Proven ability to manage effective services, preferably in the money advice sector.
- Proven ability to plan, manage and report on projects and budgets (including to funders) and contribute to decisions on the allocation of resources.
- Proven ability to develop and sustain effective partnerships.
- An understanding of quality standards preferably within the money advice sector, and the ability to ensure that these standards are met.
- Excellent understanding of debt and financial insecurity issues and effective interventions to alleviate them.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing and use IT systems for the provision of advice, research and campaign services.
- Proven ability to manage people including the ability to recruit, develop and motivate staff and volunteers.
- Proven ability to monitor and maintain casework systems and procedures, service delivery against agreed targets and analyse and interpret complex information produce and present reports verbally and in writing.
We encourage applicants who are from underrepresented groups with protected characteristics, as we value having a diverse pool of applicants to find the best candidate.
Closing date for applications: 9:00 am, Monday 25th January 2021
Operations Administrative Officer
Our client is one of the UK’s leading air ambulance charities. They continuously push the boundaries of medical intervention, helicopter aviation and on-scene patient care to deliver a unique emergency service to patients, where and when it is most needed.
Location: Stokenchurch, High Wycombe (The ability to work from home will also be required)
Job Type: Part Time, Permanent
Hours: 24 per week
Salary: £20k-£24k (FTE)
The role:
They’re looking for an exceptional individual to join them as an Operations Administrative Officer. This role is an exciting opportunity to work across the operations team, supporting the PA to the Director of Operations and two other Heads of Department. Given the wide variety of support required the individual will need to be willing to adapt and respond to the needs of the department and the wide.
About you:
Enjoy being organised, working collaboratively and proactively? Able to balance priorities and work to deadlines?
Do you have proven experience of providing administrative support to senior managers including diary management, financial reconciliation, and a wide range of administrative tasks, such as electronic document management and departmental procurement?
Are you able to produce high quality and accurate minutes for a variety of meetings, as well as timetabling for these and drafting agendas?
The successful candidate will work closely with our clients Director of Operations PA to provide secretarial and project support and administrative support to the Head of Clinical Services and Head of Operational Delivery.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an administrator to build experience working in charity within a medical context.
If it sounds like this role could be for you, then they would love you to apply. Please submit a personalised cover letter, along with your CV.
Closing date: Midday, Friday 5th March 2021
This post may close early due to a high number of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
You may have experience of the following: Operations Administrative Officer, Administration, Operations, Administrative Officer, Administrator, Operations Administrator, Operations Support Administrator, Admin Assistant, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.
Ref: 97142
Income Generation Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary: £35,134 to £39,804 pro rata
Locations: Flexible
Start Date: Immediate Start
Connection Support is excited to announce a new post being created to implement our charity’s latest strategy to generate and diversify its income. We are looking for someone to bring enthusiasm, professionalism, personable and persuasive communication both in person and writing to the process of establishing a distinct, charity focussed fundraising strategy to generate supplementary income through grants, individual givers, events and other means, during this very exciting time for us.
From a fundraising/charity background, you have experience and a proven track record of fundraising from individual and company donors and grant making organisations and can facilitate people to plan and work together so that income generation targets are achieved.
You will be part of our senior management team working together to help us to reach more vulnerable people and make a greater difference to peoples lives.
Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.
The full Job Description and Person specification is available on our website.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Senior YPSA Manager will oversee the Safeguarding of young people in the YPSA service and will work closely with the Head of YPSA to ensure a safe, high quality service is delivered.
They will be a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for Oxfordshire Youth and will be the escalation point for any issues.
They will provide an exceptional standard of coaching to colleagues, to ensure the needs of the young people without our service are met both within their homes and within their community setting.
We have ambitious targets for young people’s outcomes and the Senior YPSA Manager will be driven to help achieve our vision that young people in the YPSA grow to see themselves, and be seen as, future change makers.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Buckinghamshire Mind works to support and represent people with mental health problems living across the county. We tackle stigma and discrimination head-on. We support our service-users to live safe, purposeful and fulfilled lives in our communities. We believe in their recovery and are hopeful about their future. Working together with national Mind we will not give up until everyone in our community gets the respect and support they need.
Post Title: Crisis Services Manager
Reports to: Head of Operations
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours of Work: 37 hours per week
Some flexibility on working pattern with a minimum of 2 evening shifts per week (Wednesday and Thursday or Friday). The remaining hours to be worked throughout the week. Exact shift pattern to be agreed.
Holidays: 25 days per annum, plus 2 wellbeing days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
Pension: Auto-enrolment scheme in place
Probationary Period: Six Months
Place of Work: Across Aylesbury (Whiteleaf Centre and Ashton House) and High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire Mind High Wycombe Office) in line with the agreed shift pattern.
In line with Covid-19 guidance there will be a mix of face-to-face service delivery and working from home until restrictions are lifted.
Please note: From April 2021 is anticipated that further funding will become available to expand the service in High Wycombe to run 7 days per week.
ABOUT THE SAFE HAVEN SERVICE
The Safe Haven offers a welcoming, safe, friendly and non-stigmatising environment for people to access in times of out-of-hours crisis’ and as an alternative to A&E, or secondary mental health care. It offers a safe place for emotional support, resilience building and person-centered support. Its aim is to deliver the following key outcomes: -
- To provide a calm and welcoming environment for those people facing out-of- hours mental health crisis’ as an alternative to emergency departments.
- Treat service users with respect and provide personalised support focused on individual need.
- To prevent the escalation of a mental health crisis and thereby reduce A&E attendance and avoid hospital admissions.
- To raise service user awareness of alternative mental health services appropriate to personal need and circumstances and encourage their use to improve longer term mental health and well-being and reduce social isolation.
- To increase the independence and self-management skills of those people accessing the service.
ABOUT THE ROUGH SLEEPER INITIATIVE
The Rough Sleeper Initiative (RSI) is delivered by several partner organisations, including Buckinghamshire Mind. The RSI supports individuals identified as rough sleeping, or in temporary housing in Aylesbury.
Buckinghamshire Mind’s Mental Health Support & Liaison Worker (MHSLW) is situated within the Rough Sleeper Initiative. The MHSLW provides personalised asset-based support to improve mental well-being and prevent mental health crises becoming a barrier to long-term housing solutions.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Crisis Services Manager will be responsible for the ongoing operational management and mobilisation of the anticipated future expansion of our Crisis Services. Additionally, they will provide line management to the Safe Haven Team Leads and the Mental Health Support & Liaison Worker. They will have significant experience of managing and developing staff, project management, ensuring operational quality and promoting equality and diversity.
They will have significant experience of supporting and coaching staff working in challenging environments with adults with challenging behaviour and complex needs.
Excellent organisation and decision-making skills are essential for this role, as it requires being able to manage time effectively to meet tight deadlines and work unsupervised during evenings and weekends.
The Crisis Services Manager will be required to work collaboratively with the Head of Operations and will be proficient at communicating effectively with staff at all levels, a wide range of key stakeholders and service users. They will ensure the service is well resourced from a staffing perspective and embed high-quality operational plans and processes.
They will be responsible for the delivery, progression and continual improvement of Buckinghamshire Safe Haven and Buckinghamshire Mind’s contribution to the Rough Sleeper Initiative, including ensuring the achievement of all key performance indicator targets. They will have responsibility for ensuring Crisis services operate in line with organisational H&S processes and procedures and will be a member of the H&S committee.
SUPERVISION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT
- Supervision is provided by the Head of Operations on a regular basis.
- Buckinghamshire Mind has a system of annual appraisals.
- Buckinghamshire Mind is committed to training and allocates training according to a clearly defined annual training needs analysis.
- Buckinghamshire Mind is a Mindful Employer.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Tasks will vary from week-to-week depending on priorities, but regular tasks will include:
Operational Management
- To oversee the management of the Safe Haven and Rough Sleeper Initiative services in line with organisational values and service quality expectations.
- To continually drive enhancements to operational effectiveness and maximise outcomes against targets (key performance indicators) from Crisis Service delivery.
- To provide effective line management supervision to the Safe Haven Team Leads, the Mental Health Support & Liaison Worker including coaching and performance development.
- To collaborate with the Head of Operations and the HR Manager to deal with performance management/disciplinary issues confidently and effectively in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.
- To ensure interpret performance and impact data for crisis services and be responsible for reporting against service targets.
- To mobilise the expansion of future crisis services in line with agreed project plans.
- To pro-actively develop relationships with external stakeholders in order to improve and develop crisis provision for people with mental health needs.
- To ensure excellence in the recruitment, training and ongoing support of staff and volunteers where applicable.
- To support the Safe Haven Team Leads to ensure adequate and appropriate staffing at all times within the Safe Haven service.
- To work closely with the Finance Manager to ensure the Safe Haven Services are delivered within the available budget.
Partnership Working
- Work collaboratively with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust staff to support, develop and promote both the Safe Haven services.
- Manage the Mental Health Support & Liaison Worker to fully contribute to the Rough Sleeper Initiative partnership meetings and provide an interface to other Buckinghamshire Mind services.
- Establish excellent working relationships with out-of-hours services such as Emergency Services, Crisis Teams, SCAS and GPs, around inward and outward referrals.
- To attend and contribute towards meetings pertaining to patient care on behalf of the Safe Haven service, to ensure collaborative multi-agency working.
- Represent Buckinghamshire Mind at external meetings as agreed with the Head of Operations.
Quality and Compliance
- To work within Buckinghamshire Mind’s policies and procedures including Performance Management, Confidentiality, Safeguarding, Equal Opportunities, Service User Involvement, Health and Safety, GDPR and Professional Boundaries.
- To embed all operational policies across managed services in line with a consistent organisational approach.
Service User Involvement
- To ensure high levels of meaningful service user involvement in service provision, responding to the needs of service users locally.
- Ensure bi-annual service users satisfaction surveys are undertaken.
Quality and Monitoring
- Ensure data and qualitative information is collected, collated and communicated to key partners and key stakeholders, as required and directed by the Head of Operations.
- Ensure that all managed services are effectively informed by service user feedback.
- Keep up to date with best practice and contribute to the continuous improvement of the service.
- Monitor the quality of the service and ensure appropriate data is collected (in line with GDPR) to monitor outputs and outcomes.
- Produce regular service summary reports.
- Attend and contribute to H&S committee meetings.
General
- Undertake such duties not included in the job description as are reasonably requested by the Head of Operations.
- This role involves out of hours working and a willingness to work flexibly is required.
- To keep line manager informed about other projects, events and related issues regarding Buckinghamshire Mind’s managed services.
- To prepare for supervision and use it effectively.
- To work in a flexible way to take on other responsibilities as appropriate.
NOTE: The post holder will be an employee of Buckinghamshire Mind but will also be given an honorary Oxford Health contract to access premises and read and upload patient notes.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
The person specification seeks to define a person most likely to be suited to the job of Crisis Services Manager. Candidates are required to meet all the essential Conditions listed. E = essential criteria; D = desired criteria. Reference to both Conditions and Requirements in completing your application form will help in selecting candidates for interview.
Conditions
- Positively supports the aims and work of Buckinghamshire Mind (E)
Requirements
Qualifications and experience
- Managing services for vulnerable people in a service delivery organisation. (E)
- Excellent people and project management skills and significant experience of supporting and managing staff. (E)
- Experience of working in the voluntary sector. (D)
- Experience of working within a mental health crisis service or similar (E)
- Experience of working within a homelessness service. (D)
- Experience of motivating, developing and training staff. (E)
- Successful track record in performance management of staff. (D)
- Experience of creating and implementing safety and risk policies and procedures. (E)
- Compiling and interpreting performance data and reporting against service targets. (E)
- Successful track record in planning and project management. (E)
- Experience of report writing and presentation. (D)
- Supporting people with mental health problems. (E)
Knowledge
- Knowledge of and empathy for the issues facing people with mental health problems. (E)
- Knowledge of the day-to-day application of relevant legislation e.g., Health and Safety. (E)
- Understanding of the principles of ensuring safe service provision for people at risk and how these are put into practice. (E)
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant statutory authorities including NHS and social care. (D)
Skills/attributes/abilities
- Excellent communication skills and able to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences. (E)
- Commitment to service user involvement and able to work with service user groups to develop this. (E)
- Is committed to working in an anti-oppressive way and striving to create equal opportunities for all people (E)
- Commitment to working within the policies of Buckinghamshire Mind including confidentiality and safeguarding. (E)
- Positive attitude, passionate about working for Buckinghamshire Mind and able to inspire people to higher levels of performance. (E)
- Team player and able to form positive, professional relationships with staff at all levels. (E)
- Able to work effectively with a range of external stakeholders. (E)
- Strong organisational skills and able to take control of own workload and meet deadlines. (E)
- Ability to work independently with minimum support. (E)
- Confident in challenging poor performance assertively, constructively and successfully. (E)
- High professional standards and the ability to communicate these clearly to others. (E)
- IT literate to aid communication and analysis of data. (E)
- Willing to undertake training and development. (E)
- Has a full driving licence and use of own vehicle (work related mileage will be paid) (E)
Employee Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 wellbeing days pro rata
- Sodexo employee benefits - access to a portal with discounts on supermarket shops, holidays, high-street shops, days out, cinema and gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme – free professional confidential counselling
- Childcare vouchers
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Flu vaccinations
- Free eye tests
- Pension: Auto Enrolment (currently 3% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution
To apply, please send the following 2 documents:
- CV
- Supporting Statement (explaining how you meet each criteria in the job description)
Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, therefore please apply as soon as possible.
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Full-time role, 35 hours per week - £20,000 per annum
Community Impact Bucks Office (Monks Risborough – our team is currently working mainly from home).
Would you like a varied administrative role where no two days are the same?
Would you like to support Buckinghamshire’s communities, charities and voluntary groups to be strong and resilient?
Could you provide our staff and volunteers with the support needed to successfully deliver our work?
If you are highly organised, and enjoy talking to people from a variety of backgrounds, this could be the role for you.
About us
At Community Impact Bucks, we are passionate about helping people to get involved and make a difference in their communities.
- We support hundreds of communities and causes across Buckinghamshire by helping charities and voluntary groups to be the best they can be – perhaps by helping them find funding, run their organisation or find volunteers.
- By helping local residents to find volunteering roles, we support people who want to give back to their communities while at the same time help local charities to find the volunteers they may need to support vital services.
- And through our community services, we help to build strong, resilient communities and directly help people – the elderly, vulnerable and socially isolated – where we see an unmet need.
Our office in Monks Risborough has free parking and good bus and rail links. Our team is currently working mainly from home, but with access to the office when needed.
About you
Enthusiastic, committed and customer focused; you will be an experienced administrator with a flexible approach, and relish variety in your work.
You will understand the needs of older and vulnerable people, with the ability to demonstrate a respectful and non-judgmental approach to volunteers, clients and colleagues.
Key responsibilities
Key tasks include:
- Provide administrative support to the Gardening and Handy Helpers projects including organising client visits, preparing paperwork and liaison with clients & Team Leaders.
- Provide first point of contact for enquiries and referrals to our projects and services, including from vulnerable adults.
- Recording and collating monitoring information – using SurveyMonkey and other tools. Providing support with our database (Salesforce).
- Creating/editing reports, presentations, online forms, leaflets, newsletters and other materials.
- Conducting welfare telephone calls to vulnerable older or disabled clients.
- Co-ordinating the recruitment, induction and supervision of volunteers.
- Supporting fundraising activity by researching funding opportunities.
- Maintaining an equipment inventory and making purchases.
Key requirements
- Experience of administrative support and customer service
- A multi-tasker who is able to prioritise tasks, plan ahead, be resourceful and use own initiative.
- Able to communicate effectively and with people from a variety of backgrounds in writing and face to face.
- Respectful of confidentiality, with a high level of emotional intelligence.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Confident working with data and spreadsheets.
- Able to work outside normal office hours on occasion.
Diversity & Inclusion
Community Impact Bucks is committed to challenging inequality and values the diversity of our communities in Buckinghamshire. We recognise that reflecting that diversity will only ever make our organisation better. We work to ensure an inclusive culture where colleagues feel welcomed and supported to succeed and thrive. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from under-represented communities.
How to apply
For more information please visit our website to download the Job Description.
To apply, please send a CV with a cover letter explaining how your skills, experience and interests meet the Job Description and Person Specificationby 9am on Friday 12 March 2021.
Interviews will take place via video call – Teams or Zoom.
At Community Impact Bucks we are passionate about helping people to get involved and make a difference in Buckinghamshire communities.
Read moreVolunteer Link Up exists to promote volunteering in West Oxfordshire and seeks a manager (25 hours a week) with experience of smaller charities
The Manager’s overall responsibility is for:
- contributing to the strategic direction and development of the organisation
- ensuring that Volunteer Link Up’s work and the management of the organisation and its staff is carried out effectively and efficiently in line with best practice
To be responsible for ensuring that the charitable objectives in the governing document of Volunteer Link Up are carried out. To liaise with statutory and voluntary organisations, exchanging information and advice and exploring opportunities to work in partnership. To line manage the three part-time members of the VLU staff team. To seek out and apply for grants and make other financial bids including contract negotiations with statutory sector bodies. To prepare the Annual Business Plan and to prepare and monitor budgets.
Person will ideally have experience of business planning and preparation of funding applications. Essential to have experience of working in a smaller not for profit organisation, to show excellent communication skills, be IT literate and have knowledge of financial systems and budgeting.
The salary quoted is FTE. For 25 hours per week it is £24,000 to £26,000 pa
Full job description and person specification will be provided in an application pack. Applications by 5.00pm Monday 8 March 2021.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- Additional management accounting support to senior staff
- Explaining links between the Management Accounts and Financial Statements
Client Details
My client is a large organisation in the not for profit and charities sector.
Description
Key responsibilities of the Interim Management Accountant:
- Provide Management accounting support for multiple directorates.
- Financial analysis working effectively with the Financial Reporting team.
- Assist with support the smooth running of budgeting and forecasting process.
- Provide assistance to the FP&A team at key stages of the year in preparation for the budgeting and quarterly forecast processes
- Support the production of Management Reporting. This will include management reporting on year end, budgets, forecasts and the 5 year forecast.
- To be a key source of financial analysis used by the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager for reporting.
- To act as an effective channel of communication within the Finance Division, with particular focus on the relationship and understanding of the differences between management and financial reporting.
Profile
The successful Interim Management Accountant:
- ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA qualified.
- Experience in a large accounting environment with proven management accounting, budgeting and planning skills
- Experienced in communicating financial, management accounts, processes and functions to non-financial staff, including senior management and administrators.
- Resilience and a focus on achieving deadlines with a 'can do' attitude.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain multiple relationships to a high level of effectiveness, engendering confidence from a wide range of stakeholders.
- Versatile with an ability to complete ad hoc tasks and support multiple requirements
- Strong IT understanding of financial systems (Oracle), including experience of using such accounting systems and strong Excel skills.
Job Offer
For the successful Interim Management Accountant there is an opportunity to work within a large non profit organisation based in Oxfordshire, flexible working, daily rate of circa £275 (via umbrella) and a March start.
Global Canopy is data-drive think tank that targets the market forces destroying nature. Over the last two years, fires raging in the Amazon have focused global attention on this critical issue like never before. In response, 230 investors with USD $16.2 trillion in assets under management publicly demanded corporate action on deforestation in the Amazon and beyond. This project manager role is responsible for effective coordination of resources across the projects under our Corporate Performance and ESG programme, reporting directly to the programme lead.
This is an important and fast-growing area of work, responding to a growing need among companies, financial institutions and governments for the best possible information on how market actors are tackling their impacts on forests and nature. Our world-leading deforestation data (see, for example, Trase Finance and Forest 500) is used by the private sector and civil society to enable action and improve accountability. This work is now being integrated with data from partners worldwide, to produce aligned common metrics that can significantly improve mainstream ESG metrics in this area and ultimately drive finance away from destructive activities.
The project manager will support the programme lead to create project plans, manage tasks across teams, report to donors, and manage budgets. They will ensure any issues are escalated in a timely way, and that the projects can achieve their objectives on time and on budget. The project manager will also from time to time carry out research to support Global Canopy’s strategies and engagement.
Above all they will have a deep interest in environmental metrics, the determination and ambition to deliver with excellence, and the maturity and diplomatic skills to work effectively with different teams internally, and leading private, public and third sector partners worldwide.
To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter the most:
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Experienced project manager delivering outcomes across a diverse team and multiple projects.
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Strong judgement and emotional intelligence in balancing and managing trade-offs, while bringing people with you.
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Relevant sector experience, a drive to contribute to our mission, and a deep understanding of environmental and ESG metrics and issues.