Following a vacancy arising and a restructuring exercise, this is a senior-level post that will head up our Operations Department as part of our Senior Management Team. Inclusion Scotland is a national Disabled Peoples' Organisation who work to ensure that the voices of disabled people are heard and involved at every level in the decisions that affect us, with equal access to opportunities in employment, representation, civic and social society.

This role leads the Department responsible for:

• Finances – management and accounts, and budget generation
• Fundraising and other income generating activities (including trading subsidiary)
• Premises and facilities
• Staff Support (HR)
• Communications and Membership Development – including supporting other departments in communicating their work, and expanding our membership base through supporting the creation, growth and sustainability of Disabled Peoples’ Organisations across Scotland.
• As a member of the Senior Management Team, take shared responsibility for the leadership and management of Inclusion Scotland.

Interviews are expected to be held on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd July, remotely by Zoom.

For further details, including a more detailed background context please see job description and application pack on our website.

Inclusion Scotland particularly welcomes applications from disabled people. Please let us know if you need the application pack in another format, assistance or reasonable adjustments.

Background to the role:

Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority, established in 1986 following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh whilst at work. We work towards creating a society in which people are safer - and feel safer - from the prevalence of stalking, harassment, aggression and violence, achieved through supporting people; education; and campaigning.

Over the last few years, the Trust’s policy and development function has continued to develop and deliver hard hitting campaigns and projects. In addition to our personal safety and stalking training, we are now delivering more bespoke consultancy services to organisations, in order to improve personal safety in the workplace, which we hope to continue to grow in the coming years. The Trust’s policy function also continues to deliver personal safety projects to small charities and communities at risk of violence and aggression, such as young people entering the workplace.

Building on the success of our annual National Personal Safety Day campaigns, National Stalking Awareness Week and leadership of the National Stalking Consortium, we have secured a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to accelerate our campaigning on stalking. We have also identified a need to build up our evidence base on broader personal safety issues in order to increase our campaigning on personal safety, including public sexual harassment, safer transport, online safety and whilst at work.

We are looking for an ambitious, dynamic leader to lead this team and ensure that its work has maximum impact and is embedded into the core output of the charity.

This is a full-time role (35 hours per week), although part-time/job share will be considered.

This role is normally based at our office in London. However, please note that in line with government Covid-19 advice, the role may initially be working remotely. Once restrictions allow, we would expect this role to be worked flexibly, with a mix of remote and office-based working, with at least two days in the office (if working full-time) plus additional office-based working or travel to face to face external meetings as required to fulfil the needs of the role.  Travel to other locations in the UK may also be required occasionally. 

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the issues the Trust tackles.

Overall purpose of role:

• To lead on the innovation and development  of Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s work in research, policy, campaigns and community development, ensuring the delivery of key, strategic projects 
• To promote the work of Suzy Lamplugh Trust including the National Stalking Helpline and advocacy services, strengthening our voice as an authority on stalking and personal safety - both at work and in everyday life
• To represent the Trust externally as a leading authority in stalking and personal safety
• To ensure strategic development of the Trusts position in relation to policy and campaigning, and strengthening its role as thought leader.
• To be a key part of the Trust’s leadership team, delivering the vison of the Trust, deputising for the Chief Executive as required

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter addressing the shortlisting criteria. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered. If you do not receive a response within 3 weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful. 

First-round interviews are expected to take place in week commencing 19th July.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Watts Gallery Trust as we increase our focus on audience development and engagement.  

The Head of Collections, Exhibitions & Research will take a strategic and collaborative approach to enhancing the interpretation and display of our collection, driving engagement onsite and online, and building national and international partnerships to support our programme of interpretation, research, exhibitions and scholarship. The postholder will lead the curatorial team and play a leadership role in Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village as a member of the Senior Management Team.

Working collaboratively as part of the Senior Management Team to conserve and interpret our collection and engage and stimulate the widest range of audiences with the art and ideas of Mary Seton Watts and GF Watts, the post holder will plan and oversee the development and delivery of the gallery’s renowned temporary exhibitions programme. Working in close partnership with other departments, the successful candidate will enable audiences to explore the relevance of our artists, their contemporaries and successors in a way that challenges, supports and stimulates their interest.

Key knowledge, experience and qualifications:

• Significant experience in a senior curatorial position.
• An art historian with a strong track record of published work.
• Significant experience and interest in the decorative and fine arts and 19th- and early 20th-century art and history.
• Demonstrable experience of working effectively as part of a senior management team and with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven successes in internal and external collaborative working.
• Experience of audience development and outreach.
• Experience of working with the press and good networking skills.
• Positive line management and coaching experience.
• Strong budget management experience.
• MA or PhD in Art History or equivalent.
• Working towards or already a Fellow of the Museums Association (FMA) or equivalent.

A full job description, including key competencies and details of how to apply, can be downloaded from our website or from the attached supporting documents.  Closing date for applications is 12pm on Tuesday 13 July.    Watts Gallery Trust is fully committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.   We actively encourage ethnic minority and disabled applicants and value the positive impact difference has on our teams. 

• Applications close: 9am, Monday 28th June 2021 (Please note that late applications cannot be accepted)
• Salary: £35,000 – £37,000 p.a. (+ Inner London Weighting, where applicable)
• Contract: Full-time, permanent
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
• Location: This role is London-based. However, we would consider applicants who would like to be based in our Birmingham office with regular travel to London, or would like to work remotely with regular travel to London (Once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted: home-based until that point).
• Interviews: First interviews between Tuesday 6th July and Wednesday 7th July. Timing of second interviews TBC.
• Start date: ASAP
• Function: Impact Team
• Reporting to: Impact & Strategy Director

About The Access Project.

We support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access and successfully transition to top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. We work with them to make good applications, get the grades and transition to university. Our volunteers are trained and supported to be effective tutors who work with our students for an hour a week to raise their grades. In addition, a dedicated school-based staff member mentors the students so they have the knowledge and support to make strong university applications. Our results show this approach works.

About the role.

The Access Project (TAP) is an evidence-based, data driven intervention. Central to our programme are the ways in which we use data to ensure each of our students receives the provision they need, to learn about how we can improve our delivery and to evaluate our impact on our students’ attainment and university prospects. We have developed sophisticated monitoring and evaluation systems bringing together data from a variety of sources to track students’ progress (impact management) as well as ascertain their outcomes (impact evaluation). We collect data on our students’ academic and socio-demographic background, their participation on TAP’s programme and progress on our bespoke university readiness scales, and their academic results and university destinations. We use this data to intervene in real-time when delivery goes off-course but also to understand how TAP activities affect student outcomes and to re-design the programme year-on-year to ensure that it is as impactful as possible for our students.

As part of the Impact Team, the Head of Programme Quality will ensure the quality of TAP’s core programme design and delivery. They will make sure that TAP’s delivery model can achieve its intended outcomes, that programme design is consultative and evidence-based and that the programme team – from frontline staff to management – have all the resources, training, data and systems they need to successfully deliver and improve the programme. As a senior manager, the Head of Programme Quality will lead planning processes, manage people and budgets, and represent TAP externally with senior stakeholders.

Please see below/attached for full job description and person specification

Duties and responsibilities

1) Programme Design

• Accountable for programme design for TAP’s core programme. This includes running an effective, evidence-based and collaborative design process, and ensuring that all key outputs – including delivery materials, training materials and systems changes - are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Ensure that appropriate reactive changes are made to the codified programme inyear if required, and that these are followed through with the necessary documentation, monitoring and support to the delivery team (e.g. delivery and training materials, systems changes, etc).
• Act as a senior contributor to the annual outcomes evaluation. Ensure that the programme design implications are clearly consolidated, documented and followed through to action.
• Continuously improve the annual programme design process. Ensure that TAP has a coherent, structured and codified approach informed by high quality internal and external evidence, including best practice from across the sector.

2) Performance Management & Quality Assurance

• Responsible for the quality of the performance management processes across the programme. This involves working with the Data and Insight Coordinator to prepare and run monthly Programme Review Meetings and annual delivery and outcome reviews, documenting decisions and feeding them back into programme design and quality assurance processes.
• Work with the Head of Programme Development to incorporate pilots into routine Performance Management processes as needed, and to plan for embedding of successful pilots into TAP’s programme and delivery models over time.
• Oversee the implementation of our quality assurance (QA) framework for tuition and university mentoring. Work closely with the Programme and Volunteering teams to ensure that QA is embedded in all aspects of programme design, delivery and performance management. Share learning from QA processes as relevant within the impact team and with other functions, to influence/support future practice.

3) People and budget management

• Line manage and matrix manage Impact Team staff. Ensure that staff are well supported in their day-to-day work and have opportunities to develop in key areas, including their effectiveness as leaders.
• Lead on strategic planning for your areas of work. This includes agreeing priorities with colleagues, making detailed delivery plans, and planning improvement and change.
• Develop budgets in line with your delivery plans and with organisational guidance. Ensure that spend on your budget lines is closely monitored and that action is taken to address any expected over/under-spend.

4) Leadership and external representation

• Act as a leading voice in maintaining and further developing TAP’s impact culture. Ensure that we use varied channels for sharing, recognising and celebrating impact, and that others actively engage in sharing learning with internal and external audiences.
• Contribute meaningfully to mutual sharing of best practice across the sector and to growing the profile and reach of TAP, through networking and seizing opportunities. This includes being alert to new opportunities for TAP and exploring them proactively, in close coordination with colleagues.
• Represent TAP externally with senior stakeholders. This includes putting together and delivering presentations in a variety of contexts; including senior level meetings, at short notice, across a broad range of topics.
• Working with the Impact and Strategy Director, contribute to the development of TAP’s medium and long-term strategy as required.
• Model the tone and behavioural expectations of The Access Project amongst staff.

Person specification

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Experience of designing and evaluating social impact programmes.
• Understanding of what effective performance management of social impact programmes looks like in practice.
• Experience of and excellent skills in effective cross-team working. An expert in facilitating meetings and pushing to decision-making and action.
• Experience of managing complex cross-organisational processes, including bringing others along with change.
• Track record of fostering trust-based relationships, having difficult conversations, and sensitively discussing performance issues.
• An experienced line manager who helps their team to deliver and develop, and builds morale and team spirit.
• Sound understanding of the principles of monitoring and evaluation (M&E); experience of developing and delivering against M&E plans, including systems development/adaptation.
• An effective influencer with senior colleagues and senior external stakeholders, including experience of confidently presenting to a variety of audiences.
• Interest in becoming a deep subject matter expert - developing networks, talking with colleagues and researching to keep up-to-date.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the widening participation sector and issues affecting disadvantaged students’ access to and success in higher education.
• Familiarity with academic attainment data.
• Experience of working with Salesforce CRM.

Benefits

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications for all suitably qualified persons. However as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals are currently under-represented within the organisation, which does not reflect our diverse student body, we would particularly welcome applications from BAME candidates. All appointments will be made on merit.

TAP offers:

• A great working environment!
• 25 days annual leave p.a. (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure.
• PerkBox Perks – offering nationwide shopping discounts, gym memberships, holidays, freebies, learning and much more.
• Employee Assistance Programme, a 24 hour helpline for staff
• Online Medical assistance – access 24/7 to a qualified GP within minutes, with referrals and prescriptions available same-day.
• Interest-free travelcard loans
• Cyclescheme loans
• Employer’s pensions contributions (3%)
• CPD options
• TAP welcomes requests for flexible working arrangements

Further information

For detailed information regarding this job opportunity, please see the following link below to our online application portal.

Play a leading role in supporting young people develop skills for life.

We're Scouts and everyone's welcome here. All genders, races and backgrounds. Every week we give almost half a million people aged 6-25 the skills they need for school, college, university, the job interview, the important speech, the tricky challenge and the big dreams: the skills they need for life.

At a time when communities are becoming more divided, we bring people together. We encourage our young people to do more, learn more and be more. We’re a worldwide movement, creating stronger communities and inspiring positive futures. We welcome talent from all backgrounds and your contribution to help even more young people succeed in life.

By 2025 we will have prepared more young people with skills for life, supported by amazing leaders who deliver an inspiring programme. We are growing, being more inclusive, shaped by young people and making a bigger impact in our communities. We now have over 102,000 girls and have started 834 sections in areas of deprivation since 2013. We believe it’s a priority to reflect the diversity of the communities we are in.

We now seek a new Head of Member Support England who will work in partnership with volunteers to co-create and deliver the organisation’s member facing services. Ensuring that high standards of service delivery are maintained at all times and responsible for a team of c.50 field-based staff, they will work to make the Scouts Skills for Life strategy a reality in communities across England.

Working alongside volunteers, you will develop and lead strategies to open new Scout sections, recruit and retain adult volunteers, support the roll out of transformation projects locally and manage critical incidents. You will put inclusion at the heart of the Scouts local delivery in England, ensuring that that Scouts represents the communities it serves.

We are seeking someone with demonstrable record of achievement in a leadership role at senior management level within an organisation of comparable size, scope and complexity. You will come with knowledge and understanding of increasing engagement and developing high performing teams, whilst instilling a strong sense of accountability and empowerment in a values-based culture. Experience of service delivery design and management is also desirable.

We want to attract leaders who are brave, curious and bold, are solution focused and forward thinking and genuinely excited by the prospect of realising our further potential. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

If you think this describes you then please visit the job page on Peridot Partners' website via 'Apply on website'.

Formal closing date: 9am, Friday 9th July 2021

Archaeology. 

Veterans.

History. 

Education.

Working with a top multinational team to make a difference.

This is a rare opportunity to be part of an exciting and fun Charity that does serious work; making people’s lives better, rewriting history, and educating. Since 2015 Waterloo Uncovered has been running an internationally acclaimed archaeological  excavation on the Waterloo Battlefield, Belgium, supporting veterans and serving military personnel in the process.

We are seeking an experienced marketing professional with an advanced understanding of creating, developing, and implementing marketing and communication strategy to raise awareness and support fundraising. This role is ideal for someone with considerable marketing and management experience looking to find a better work-life balance (slowing down or returning to work at their own pace) or wanting to add something different and rewarding to their portfolio.

Waterloo Uncovered is internationally renowned and partners with some of the top people and organisations in its fields of operation. Leading our small and dedicated marketing and communications team, the successful candidate really will be involved in groundbreaking work that makes a difference! 

The Situation

Since the start of Covid we have seen demand for food from our many charity partners rocket, and now we are sourcing and delivering food for more than 500,000 meals every week (a 300% increase since March 2020). With our talented and energetic team of staff and volunteers we are committed to make an even greater impact on food poverty by growing this to 2 million meals per week (100 million meal per year) by the end of 2023..

In late 2020 Felix joined the FareShare national food redistribution network as the London distributor. Combining our existing operations with additional services adopted from FareShare we are now solely responsible for the ‘last mile’ of the process. This is a complex and multi-faceted distribution business, managing food, services, volunteers and assets with full traceability to serve more than 1000 local charities and community organisations across London.

Technology is a core feature of our growth strategy. We have committed to Microsoft 365 infrastructure and we already utilise Outlook, SharePoint, Teams and PowerBI, with users established on Azure AD. With the help of Accenture and Avanade we have implemented Dynamics 365, managing our deliveries of food in our fleet of vans using a PowerApps Portal to enable live updates for our volunteer drivers. In 2021 we have also successfully implemented CRM for fundraising, donor management and marketing automation.

By virtue of our partnership with FareShare we are also starting to realise a number of valuable enhancements to our technology and data capabilities, including adoption and integration of the national GLADYS stock control system. We expect further benefits to flow by working in close collaboration with our FareShare colleagues.

Building on all this we want to extend the use of dynamics into all aspects of our organisation by migrating data and processes from proprietary systems onto our Dynamics 365 CRM platform, and implementing world-class analytics and insight in pursuit of our vision of A London whrere no-one goes hungry and food is never wasted.

In a nutshell

We're looking for an innovative and experienced technology professional to join our leadership team assuming responsibility for ensuring that our technology platforms and future investments deliver measurable benefits for our business and our customers.

Working from home and regularly from any of our four depots across London, you'll inspire and deliver all aspects of technology infrastructure and systems development in support of our ambitions growth plans.

This newly created position would suit an experienced technologist with experience of systems development and technology innovation in an SMB environment. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years hands on experience in a similar role, together with a good understanding of the environment, challenges and needs of charities. Experience of the food industry and sitribution sectors would be an advantage.

Purpose of the Role

To provide leadership in all aspects of technology and its successful and consistent adoption by the entire organisation. To participate in strategic planning and budgeting and be accountable for delivery. To ensure good communication between internal and external parties and that the IT team works closely with the business and stakeholders to ensure business objectives are delivered. Responsible for compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Felix leadership team and Technology Steering Group to develop the IT strategy to reflect and support the strategy of The Felix Project
• Accept shared responsibility as a member of the extended leadership team, providing professional advice and functional leadership in all matters related to IT
• Own and develop the IT business plan, establish and manage the annual IT budget
• Communicate vision, strategy, and roadmaps internally and externally as appropriate
• Ensure  business systems are fit for purpose and able to deliver business objectives
• Ensure processes and business systems are integrated and provide comprehensive management information
• Provide expert knowledge, experience and professional advice as required across the organisation
• Ensure all staff are well trained and make best use of the available IT, including the creation of workstreams and champions
• Lead, inspire, and develop the IT team of staff and volunteers
• Commission, lead and deliver technology projects and share ownership of delivery of business outcomes driven by these projects
• Ensure appropriate disaster recovery and business continuity plans and in place and regularly tested
• Foster and drive innovation throughout the business, working with internal and external clients and operational teams to understand what they really need
• Continually review external technical and regulatory environments to identify relevant risks and opportunities
• Oversee IT hardware, networks and security, telephony and services together with software solutions
• Take responsibility for day-today compliance with respect to data privacy and compliance, in liaison with senior colleagues and the independent Data Protection Officer
• Show general leadership across the organistion by having a visual and active prescence across the charity including amongst depot based staff and volunteers.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential:

• Success in delivering successful IT systems development and technology projects
• Knowledge and experience of strategic planning, implementing and managing IT at cross- organisational level
• Demonstrable experience of change management
• Understanding and experience of Agile development methodologies
• Budget management including development of business cases
• Track record in IT service management
• Experience of managing third party supplier relationships
• Ability to work with colleagues to translate organisation and customer needs into successful service delivery
• Commitment and capability for team leadership, collaboration and people development

Desirable:

• Relevant experience of the nonprofit sector, and the food and distribution industry
• Experience and qualifictions in Microsoft365, Dynamics365 and related technologies
• Experience of working in a large organisation as an IT senior manager
• Relevant specialist or general business professional qualification(s)
• Experience of IT software development methodologies and best practices
• Experience of business analysis tools and processes

Person Specification

The Felix Project recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds.

We of a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background, as BAME people are currently particularly welcome applications from those under-represented within The Felix Project.

• Proactive and business-driven
• Genuinely interested in IT and abreast of new thinking / innovation
• Willingness and flexibility to operational demands and working hours where required
• Analytical and able to communicate compelling business cases supported by evidence
• Demonstrable commitment to the purpose and values of The Felix Project
• Understanding of diversity and commitment to equity of opportunity
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing at all levels within the organisation
• Proactive decision maker who can positively influence change
• Inspirational collaborative leader who supports, coaches and leads the team
• Well-developed influencing skills, comfortable operating in a consultative capacity
• Commitment to delivering solutions for internal clients on time and within budget
• Ability to establish and maintain the confidence, trust and support of reports, peers and users through periods of significant and organisational change
• Plan, establish and manage the annual IT budget
• Team leadership, people development

If you are a fundraising professional with at least three years of experience, this is an excellent opportunity to take on a challenging, yet highly rewarding role supporting our work.

Boxing Futures are a national charity that believes in the goodness of the human spirit and that people can change people.  We use non-contact Boxing & Boxercise training, coupled with social and emotional learning programmes, to outreach into our local communities and engage positively with disadvantaged young people, with a focus on physical and mental well-being.

We are looking for a new person to join our small, but purposeful team, to grow income from trusts and foundations, to enable us to diversify our fundraising approach, including major donors, legacy giving and securing corporate support and sponsorship. 

We offer…

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible working arrangements are available
• Pension scheme with 3% contribution

In this role, you will be responsible for…

• Leading fundraising to achieve a budgeted income
• Implementing and delivering a successful fundraising and communications business plan
• Best practice surrounding fundraising, GDPR, Gift Aid and direct marketing
• Growing and setting up strong relationships with key donors and supporters to be trying to secure large gifts from foundations, individuals and corporates

You will be suited to this role if you have…

• A successful fundraising background
• Experience in trusts and foundations
• Knowledge in marketing and fundraising legislation
• Excellent relationship building skills with a broad range of prospective fundraisers and supporters
• Previously implemented a fundraising plan

Deadline for applications is Monday 5th July at 12pm

First round interviews will take place on Tuesday 20th July via Zoom

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Please note that the successful candidate will be offered the job subject to a DBS (CRB) check and suitable references.

We regret that we can only respond to applicants who make it to the interview stage.

No agencies please.

Check commute

We are seeking a dedicated and talented individual to help enable our 3,000 volunteers to reach their full potential in delivering Prison Fellowship’s mission in prisons across England and Wales.

The post holder will be an outstanding leader who understands the prison environment and is aligned with our mission to show Christ's love to those in prison.

This role is currently home-based due to the ongoing pandemic. Once it is safe to do so, the post holder will be required to work flexibly between our Westminster office, home and prison group locations.

Please apply with a full CV and covering letter.

Head of HR

(Part time / flexible – working 28 hours a week over four days)

Central London with some home working

Salary circa £50,000 (pro rata, per annum)

Optometrists have a major part to play in the health of the nation. They examine eyes for eye health problems and to enhance people’s quality of life by making them see more clearly by prescribing and fitting spectacles and contact lenses.

The College, a Royal Charter body and registered charity, has a unique role to play in supporting our 16,000 members through professional development, guidance and research to ensure they are well placed to deliver the highest quality eye care for their patients. 

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to help shape our business and values-based culture through the delivery of a professional, comprehensive and effective HR service to a dedicated team of 50 employees plus a range of consultants and contractors. 

In addition to providing operational support and advice, the successful candidate must add value by taking a strategic lead in organisational development.

Skills and experience required

CIPD qualified, you will have a breadth of HR experience with a working knowledge of employment law. Excellent written and verbal communication skills will be essential, in order to provide effective advice and support at all levels coupled with the ability to influence, consult and negotiate. You will be adaptable and flexible in your approach to work and manage a varied workload.

You will be a successful HR Generalist with experience of the whole employee journey; including recruitment, induction, performance management, learning and development and employee engagement. In turn we can offer you a chance to shape HR strategy at the College having an influential role as part of the senior leadership team working with an engaged and supportive team.

For a job description and more information about the College go to our website 

To apply, please click on the apply button.

Application deadline: Tuesday 6 July at 1pm

First interview date: Monday 12 July 

Second interview date: Friday 16 July

Head of Operations and Services

Could you lead the operations and services of a small charity, at the heart of the voluntary sector, dedicated to increasing the positive impact of charities through them being well-governed and led?

Background

The Association of Chairs is a membership organisation supporting Chairs and Vice Chairs of charities and social enterprises in England and Wales. Chairs come from a very wide variety of backgrounds, but very few get support to do their role well. We launched in October 2013 to fill this gap.  We support Chairs to lead good governance and run an effective trustee board and our resources and events are designed specifically with this in mind.

Appointment of a Head of Operations and Services

This post has been created in recognition that the AoC is at a pivotal stage in our development. We have achieved a great deal since our inception just 7 years ago, with our small, committed staff team and dynamic trustee board.  We now pride ourselves in providing high quality services to over 900 members and over the next few years, we plan to deepen and broaden our support to Chairs and achieve a threefold growth in the number of Chairs we reach. 

Reporting to the CEO, the purpose of this newly created role is to lead AoC’s operations, service delivery and development. Growing our reach, scaling up our services and extending our offer are our key priorities.  You will have a key role to play in our successful growth by ensuring our operations run smoothly and by leading the development of our existing services alongside building new member services.

To be considered for this role, you must have experience and skills in the following areas;

• Strong experience of achieving impact through leading on service delivery and development.
• Commercial mindset & ability to generate earned income. Experience of contracting out services is a plus.
• Genuine open, collaborative style, built on trust-based relationships.
• Skilled at leading and developing people, with an empowering style
• Strategic awareness, critical thinker who can generate new ideas and approaches.
• Able to build secure organisational and process foundations, whilst retaining flexibility.
• Experience of operating at senior team level in the not for profit sector

So if you want to make a big difference at the heart of the voluntary sector, this role could be for you. It’s a great time to join us. You’ll play a decisive role in realising our ambitions. It’s a crucial and busy role that offers great experience and development. You’ll be joining a committed team and working in a supportive environment.

Application is by CV and a covering letter which should indicate why you are interested in applying for the role and how you meet the role requirements. 

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 14th July, with shortlisting interviews taking place that week and the week after. Interviews with AoC will take place on July 26th or 27th.

AoC is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within the recruitment process.  Our recruitment organisation Eastside Primetimers works to ensure that their recruitment approach is fully inclusive and reaches a diverse range of potential candidates. We warmly welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Head of Digital Skills and Capability - Wales

Salary: £65k - £75k (depending on experience)

Location: Wales - at present we do not have a physical office and are all working remotely. Once restrictions ease, we will discuss with our staff any potential blended models of home and office/hub working. We will continue to support remote working where needed.

Term: Fixed term contract to March 2022. We are seeking to secure future funding for CDPS from April 2022 onwards and the role may be extended.

This role is available as a secondment for Welsh public sector employees. Please follow your own organisation’s policy around informing and getting permission from line managers.

The ability to speak and write Welsh is desirable.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be judged less favourably than those submitted in English.

Summary

About the Centre for Digital Public Services (CDPS)

Here to deliver better public services that work for everyone the Centre for Digital Public Services (Wales) is an arms-length body of Welsh Government setup to enable and support digital transformation of public services in Wales.

The Role

As Head of Digital Skills and Capability you’ll be at the forefront of supporting our remit for digital transformation in Welsh public services. The role will include not just helping build digital transformation skills and confidence of staff in existing roles, but also how to support those who want to move to digital within the Welsh public sector. The role will also look at how we can support workforce planning across the Welsh public sector, making it an employer of choice for people with the appropriate digital skills.

This is a role at the heart of our remit, scaling digital expertise across public services.

What You’ll Do

• Set and deliver the plan for building digital capability, confidence and development across the Welsh public sector that.
• supports existing digital professionals across the Welsh public sector.
• helps reduce any digital skills gaps within the sector.
• builds a shared understanding within the sector of digital transformation, iterative design and user-centered design.
• upskills existing Welsh public sector employees who are new to digital.
• Build strong working relationships with our stakeholders, our users and our business and training partners.
• Develop a culture that focuses on user experience, feedback and data, allowing for continuous improvement of our support and services.
• Design and implement performance measures and key performance indicators to measure the value and success of the digital capability programme, inform future learning and development activities, and demonstrate return on investment.
• Work with digital colleagues in the public, private, academic and third sectors around Wales and wider to identify ways to support people at all experience levels in understanding how increased digital capability can improve their effectiveness, performance and ability to work.
• Provide information on best practice in professional development in the DDaT professions across digital public services in Wales.
• Develop and implement sustainable approaches to apprenticeships, internships, career pathways, and learning and development.
• Call upon a range of external contacts, including suppliers, thought leaders, other professional bodies, and use these relationships to maintain and enhance user-centred, efficient public services.
• Delivering, coordinating and supporting tangible improvements in skills and capability improvements in large and/or complex Welsh public sector organisations.

Who you are

We want to hear from people with skills in

• Building capability and skills development programmes ideally within public services.
• Creating training programmes that meet user needs and requirements, working collaboratively with our stakeholders and potential users of our training services.
• Sharing expertise within the wider digital, data and technology community.
• Analysis, synthesis and integration of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Fluency in spoken and written Welsh (desirable).
• Confident communication: able to persuade; negotiate; influence; network; and collaborate.
• Getting to the heart of an issue, demonstrating expert knowledge in an applied setting.
• Understanding of the political and social landscape of Wales.

You should be

• Naturally curious and able to champion your own learning and development.
• A champion for user-centred practices embedded within agile delivery.
• Respectful in your approach to stakeholders and services who aren’t as familiar with user-centred design.
• Proactive and will take the initiative rather than to see a problem and ignore it.
• Committed to the development of improved digital strategy across Wales.
• Alert to opportunities to improve our teams, tools and processes.

If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you, so do please apply.

We are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of disability, neurodivergence, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, gender and gender presentation, marital status, sexual orientation, culture and religion.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement - 28 days annual leave plus public holidays.
• 37.5-hour week for all full-time team members.
• Flexible working policy.
• Enhanced contribution to our workplace pension.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter to support your application.

The covering letter should be no more than two sides of A4. Please provide evidence in the letter of your suitability for the role, based on our "Who You Are" section and explain why you are interested in the position and where you saw the job advertised.

Closing date: 30 June, 12:00

Permanent / Full time 37.5 hours per week / Home based / £50,000

We are Enham! Together we have been making a difference to the lives of disabled people for the last 100 years and we are looking forward to continuing this for the next 100 years! Together we explore opportunities with people so they can live the lives they choose by overcoming limitations and expanding possibilities. Through first class care, personal development, housing options, and employment, we support people to exercise individual choice and control in their lives.

We live by our values, TOGETHER we do amazing, we WOW people every day and we dare to be DIFFERENT!

The role:

We are looking for a Head of Income Generation to play a pivotal role in the trust’s growth agenda. Your role will be to lead the Trusts Fundraising Strategy and lead the trusts work to identify, prepare for, and submit high quality competitive tenders for new business opportunities.

You will have line management responsibility for the fundraising team and will be responsible for developing and implementing the Enham fundraising strategy.

This is a role of significant importance within Enham with this position being a vital member of the Senior Leadership team. This role will have full autonomy to lead the income generation function and guide us to our aspiration of generating £1 million in revenue per year.

If this sounds like an opportunity that you would excel at, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

“For this role we are able to consider home working options and other alternative ways of working and would be happy to discuss these with you further”

As our Head of Income Generation, you will:

• Monitor market sectors that provide tender growth opportunities for the trust and provide strategic insight and direction to the directors and service leads to inform service development and lead us in becoming tender ready.
• Attend market engagement and tender opportunity events, working with service leads to understand market opportunities at an early stage and develop trust wide understanding of the provider landscape within target sectors.
• Update and implement a sustainable fundraising strategy ensuring that it supports and contributes to the organisations strategic plan.
• Lead the annual fundraising planning process to produce effective strategies to achieve income targets across a range of revenue streams.
• Research prospective funders and work closely with the fundraising team and colleagues to develop compelling and effective applications for funds to support the work of Enham Trust.
• Develop and grow supporter base, working with the fundraising team, existing supporters, volunteers, and trustees to increase support at a grassroots level.

What we are looking for from you:

• Track record of drafting high quality, engaging proposals to secure contracts from local authorities, CCG’s, or other statutory authorities.
• Proven track record of achieving income in excess of £250k fundraising income.
• Prior experience of managing a fundraising team
• Strong tender/bid and fundraising writing skills

Some of the perks!

• Rising holiday entitlement starting at 33 days including statutory bank holidays
• Discounted healthcare membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension scheme with matched employer contributions up to 6%
• Flexi-time arrangements (dependant on job role)
• Learning and Development scheme offering you internal and external training

Apply

The closing date for this vacancy is 2nd July 2021.

***Please note that we will be conducting a rolling programme of short-listing and interviewing and reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time, therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible to ensure you do not miss the opportunity.***

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Enham Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident Leader; as part of this commitment all disabled applicants, who meet the minimum criteria, will be guaranteed an interview. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme it’s vital that you declare your disability, impairment or long-term health condition when you apply.

Enham Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity status.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK.

Head of Advocacy

An exciting opportunity, has arisen to work for Kidney Care UK as Head of Advocacy covering the UK. This is a challenging but rewarding role with opportunity for career development and personal growth.

Kidney Care UK is the leading national charity working to improve quality of life for kidney patients through advocacy, direct grants, educating and informing patients, counselling and funding patient-centred research, healthcare professionals and projects. The charity was established over 40 years ago to address the many issues associated with kidney disease and kidney failure.

We wish to appoint a dynamic, motivated and experienced leader who has excellent business, people and service delivery skills with the ability to work with patients, carers, health professionals and health and community stakeholder groups. 

The successful applicant will lead our team of experienced and dedicated Advocates and also be the Safeguarding Lead for the organisation. At present there are three Advocacy Leads and a team of fourteen advocacy officers based across the UK.

The position will be home-based but travel will be required once the restrictions have been lifted and it is safe to do so.  This opportunity will suit someone with strong people skills, a natural leader and communicator. This role may also suit someone with kidney disease, a carer or family member, health professional or someone who has worked closely with people with long-term conditions.

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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