Harris Hill is recruiting for a Head of Finance - Corporate Finance for this well-established Charity based in Birmingham

* Head of Finance - Corporate Finance
* Salary: £50,000pa - £52,000pa
* Location: Flexible working from home of up to 3 days a week, - offices in Birmingham
* Benefits: 30 days holiday

The Head of Finance - Corporate Finance has responsibility for the day to day management of the Financial Accounting Team of 3 direct reports with 11 in the team, ensuring the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions. The role will also oversee the management of the ledgers and closing of accounts, regulatory reporting and the statutory audit.

Essential Requirements

* Qualified Accountant
* Corporate Finance with closing of accounts, regulatory reporting and the statutory audit experience
* Worked for a large charity with big teams.
* Investment experience ideally
* Strong technical financial accounting skills and experience
* Management of financial accounting teams

The position

* Overseeing the financial transaction processing, ensuring that robust controls are in place, mitigating financial risks
* Management of the month end process including maintenance of the Trial Balance ensuring all Balance Sheet reconciliations are completed on a timely basis and that reconciling items and queries are resolved promptly
* Championing best practice in the management of the General Ledger, Treasury and Financial Accounting teams
* Managing the relationship with Investment Managers and preparing monthly reports on the performance of these Investments
* Drive process improvements, collaborating and consulting with appropriate stakeholders and communicating any changes to service users
* Collaboration with the Finance Leadership Team to prepare Board Reports
* Manage the Month End deadlines for the Financial Accounting Team ensuring that the ledgers accurately reflect the assets and liabilities
* To liaise with our Banks as necessary in relation to our transactions and facilities
* Ensuring that regulatory returns are made accurately and on a timely basis
* Ensure that long term liabilities and provisions are accurately recorded within the ledgers
* Ensuring that the appropriate level of documentation is retained to support the financial transactions through the ledgers
* Ensuring that the VAT Return is prepared accurately and submitted promptly

Senior HR Business Partner (Acting Head of HR)

Full Time 37.5 hours per week 

London, Birmingham or Manchester

£50,000 per annum (plus £3,000 London Weighting if applicable) 

Who we are looking for 

We are a growing national charity supporting leaders working in some of our most challenging schools.

We're looking for a curious and analytical senior HR professional to join our HR team as Senior HR Business Partner (Acting Head of HR) on a 12-14 month FTC (maternity cover). This an exciting role, responsible for providing high quality operational and strategic support and advice across the organisation.

The post holder is also responsible for supporting the Senior Leadership Team in their efforts to promote a positive organisational culture, with a particular focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. This is fantastic opportunity to work with managers and employees at all levels to ensure effective people management, at a particularly significant point in the charity's evolution.

Based in either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office, and reporting to the CEO, you’ll provide advice on a wide range of HR issues as required, including support for organisational change. You will work closely with the HR Business Partner and Ambition’s Leadership Team on continuous service improvements, develop and optimise policies, processes and procedures that are compliant with current employment law and aligned with Ambition’s mission.

The role is varied and complex, and will require skilled communicator with an ability to listen and understand the needs and motivations of others in order to offer appropriate support and challenge. It is essential that you are an experienced HR Generalist with experience of managing complex employee relation issues and desirable that you hold a CIPD level 7 qualification. You must be a team player, comfortable working in creative ways with minimal supervision, and enjoy the challenge of a fast moving, highly mission-driven culture.

Who are Ambition Institute? 

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer 

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply 

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 26th May 2021. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 31 May 2021.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website. 

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

An exciting opportunity for an Operations Director with excellent change management and leadership skills to join Coventry Citizens Advice (CCA) and ensure the effective delivery of free, independent advice services to the people of Coventry.

About the role

As Operations Director, you will play an instrumental role in the provision of a continuous high-quality service, ensuring that a ‘client first’ approach is always taken. You will be responsible for managing resources, developing effective service delivery mechanisms and maintaining a high standard of operational procedures in line with our membership and regulatory requirements. You will work closely with the Project Managers identifying operational risks and overseeing the management of their areas of responsibility.

An experienced manager, you will create a positive and supportive working environment in which equality and diversity are championed, dignity at work is upheld and staff are empowered and motivated to be as effective and agile as possible within their roles. You will be directly involved in the management of HR procedures as well as people and performance management and reviews.

About you

We are seeking an individual with exceptional leadership skills and an understanding and keen interest in CCA’s work, aims, principles and values. You will have demonstrable experience of change management in a complex organisation along with the ability to inspire a team with an open and honest approach.

A strong communicator and collaborator, you will maintain effective working relationships with existing and new partners, funders and networks and support the CEO in identifying relevant new contract opportunities and associated bid writing.

You will have demonstrable experience of budget and contract management as well as an understanding of the commissioning environment in national and local government.

About us

CCA is a progressive organisation that has been able to continually innovate and develop new services for over 80 years.

We embrace equality and diversity and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We have equality and diversity champions within the organisation and we are proud of our diverse workforce.

In the last 12 months during the pandemic, we have helped 8,749 people presenting with 28,956 issues and helped secure £7,298,409 financial gains which clients either did not know about or had not accessed before. The world has changed considerably and so have we. We have accelerated investment in our ICT infrastructure ensuring that our workforce can work flexibly and revised our service delivery model to ensure that we are flexible in the way we deliver our services and can effectively meet the changing needs of our clients.

Benefits

We offer a friendly working environment with an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Work placed pension scheme
• Health & Wellbeing services provided through Occupational Health
• Fees paid for membership of relevant professional bodies
• Regular professional development

How to apply

If you’d like to find out more about this opportunity, please visit our website to download the recruitment pack and apply.

Closing date: 9:00am on 1st June 2021

Interviews will be held on the 16th June 2021.

ASSISTANT OPERATIONS MANAGER 

Are you an accomplished, confident, approachable and empathetic manager? Do you want a job where you make a difference every day? Can you listen as well as talk, be organised as well as flexible?  If this is you, then you should take the next step and apply to join the family of the Fishermen’s Mission.

We are looking for an Assistant Operations Manager to work closely with the Operations Manager to deliver frontline emergency response, practical welfare and pastoral support operations throughout the UK. 

This job is about commercial fishermen and their families and the Fishermen’s Mission staff that support them in times of need.  You will be able to drive consistency and professionalism in service delivery and lead the application of the charity’s values. You will be able to communicate clearly the bigger picture of the charity's aims and will also have the attention to detail to make sure everything is running like clockwork, both from an administrative perspective and in terms of HR, compliance and governance.

The role will entail significant travel to staff at the fishing ports and harbours throughout the UK. (Easy access to major travel routes would be an advantage as it is anticipated that the succesful candidate would be expected to be travelling and visiting operational staff around the UK for approxiamately 70% of the time. )

As a key player in the Head Office team, you will also be able to input to the development of operations at the management level. This is one of the most rewarding jobs you could ever hope to have. 

The Fishermen’s Mission is a Christian charity that has been around since 1881.  We help active and retired commercial fishermen and their families.  You could be part of our vital work.   Relevant experience is important, but we’re not caught up in qualifications; we are looking for the right person.  Someone who can organise and inspire a dispersed and diverse team to perform willingly and consistently.  Sound like you? Get in touch.

Head of Transformation, People, Organisation and Workforce
Reference: APR20213950
Location: Flexible
Salary: £58,181.00 - £64,545.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Annual leave, Flexible Working

As the UK’s largest nature conservation charity and one of the UK’s most recognised charities, with a workforce of over 14,000 employees and volunteers across all 4 countries of the UK, the RSPB has an ambitious programme of work transforming its approach to saving nature.

Recognising that people are the heart of delivering this we have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join the RSPB’s leadership team.

Reporting to the Executive Director of People, you will play a leading role in shaping and delivering the RSPB’s organisational, workforce and leadership change programme.

The successful candidate will lead a team of programme and project managers to exemplify a culture that consistently improves change capability across the organisation.  Through this team you will deliver the organisational workforce and leadership changes that are described in our newly designed RSPB Strategy that defines who we are and what we will deliver over the next 10 years.

You will have responsibility for heading up the People Directorate’s ‘Transformation’ team which runs several projects and programmes designed to ensure the RSPB has the right workforce, capabilities, behaviours and structures to deliver its mission.  The role also includes leadership of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team. 

You will work alongside other senior leaders in the RSPB, as well as be an important part of the leadership team of the People Directorate which includes the Executive Director, People, the Head of Human Resources and Development, Head of Volunteering and Employee Engagement, Head of Health, Safety and Environment and Head of Facilities Management. 

2021 is an exciting year for the RSPB, we have a new strategy alongside implementing new ways of working following the global pandemic.  The incumbent will play a key role in enabling the RSPB to achieve its strategic ambitions through its people, organisation and workforce and building on the success of its last People Strategy.

Key Result Areas

• Contribute to delivering the RSPB strategy, particularly with regard to the RSPB’s organisation, workforce and leadership aspects of strategy.
• Lead the People Transformation Department– which involves directing the planning, prioritisation and future development of objectives and its specialist team
• Lead the RSPB’s Organisation, Workforce and Leadership Portfolio Board (as Portfolio Executive) which involves working collaboratively with Board Sponsors (Executive Director or People and Executive Director of Finance and Governance) other members of the Portfolio Board and other Portfolio Board Executives to plan and deliver objectives
• Leadership of the organisation’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team (which includes EDI specialists).
• Develop high level, strategic and collaborative internal and external relationships with key stakeholders ensuring that the RSPB is represented, and corporate aims are delivered, while also securing support for the organisation and nature.
• Demonstrate leadership by creating a vision, inspiring engagement and enabling teams to achieve their goals; proactively develop them, take an interest in their future aspirations, support them through coaching and mentoring.
• Set and model expected behaviour and performance to ensure that RSPB targets, culture and competency frameworks are delivered.

Experience we are looking for

• Experience of leading and delivering major transformation and change in a complex environment through people, preferably within a portfolio structure of governance.
• Leadership experience working collaboratively across an organisation with other senior leaders, using your influencing skills to build credibility and support.
• Experience of leading and developing a team of specialists leading to high performance and a positive culture consistent with our values.

Skills

• Leadership and people management skills to motivate, coach and develop team members for high performance
• High level communication skills to present, influence and represent the organisation
• Collaboration skills to build relationships, navigate politics and manage conflicts
• Business management skills to understand strategy, business functions and decision making
• Strategic business planning to ensure all relevant parts of the organisation work in harmony to deliver organisational success
• A strong commitment to, and an understanding of, how equality, diversity and inclusion enables an organisation to be successful

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or relevant high-level experience to effectively communicate complex messages and use management information to undertake responsibilities.
• CIPD or equivalent qualifications are desirable

This is a permanent full-time opportunity working 37.5 hours per week.

Closing date: 23:59, 18 May 2021

To Apply and For More Information:

If you would like to apply or find out more about this position, please click the 'Apply' button. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your application.

No agencies please.

Brilliant opportunity for a dynamic, committed Christian, with a vibrant faith, to facilitate the growth of faith in parents, children and young people, using excellent relationships our church has in Willenhall Coventry. The role includes some practical missional working with families supporting parenting and other difficulties. Great prospects for identifying, developing, implementing and reflecting on projects and initiatives that enable young parents, children and young people to have a life-enhancing encounter with the Christian faith and the person of Jesus Christ.

You will have a proven ability to lead and organise others, coupled with the ability to work constructively as a member of a team. You will have the demonstrated ability to communicate the Christian gospel effectively to families, children and young people and to equip them to grow in their faith. You will be a creative person who identifies opportunities and inspires others to try new things,  and have a good track record of working within a church context on a variety of community activities. You will have excellent interpersonal and social skills and be able to relate well to a wide range of people, both from within and outside the church, including schools.

You are someone who is able to:

• Create a culture that recognises and welcomes the capacity of young parents, children and young people to transform the Church and the world.
• Ensure that all relevant regulations for working with young children are understood, adhered to and complied with.
• Develop and manage budgets and expenditure.
• Assist with identification and applications to grants to support the projects.
• Be aware of issues around mental health in young parents and young people.

You will be a mature Christian with a firm faith, sympathetic and able to work within the church tradition of St John the Divine Willenhall Coventry (Middle). You will be committed to growing in your faith and able to organise your time to include space for both personal prayer and bible study. You need to be willing to be a committed member of St John the Divine Willenhall and play a full part in our life. You will be professional, friendly and approachable, including when under pressure, culturally sensitive and able to work with people from different backgrounds. You will be discreet and trustworthy, able to sensitively manage private or confidential information.

Qualifications

• A standard of education commensurate to this role.
• Ideally a theological qualification or training qualification to work with parents, children/young people or equivalent experience.
• Full driving licence.
• It is an Occupational Requirement (Schedule 9 part 1 of the Equality Act 2010) of this post to have a committed Christian faith and be actively involved in worshiping in a church community.
• This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
• Start date – Flexible
• Contract – This is a fixed term appointment for an initial 3 years. It will have a probationary period of six months.
• Hours – 25 hours per week including attendance at Sunday morning service, weekly daytime and evening activities, meetings and training.
• Employer – The Parochial Parish Council of St John the Divine Willenhall Coventry.
• Salary + Pension – We can offer an annual salary of £24,000 gross per annum (based on a 37 Hour week) pro rata (£12,700 – 16,000) per annum  subject to experience, plus pension.
• Annual Leave – Five weeks (120 Hours including a maximum of 5 Sundays).

Department: Customer Journey

Interview date: week commencing 24/05

Contract Duration: 18 months

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

You will be part of a high-profile, business critical, priority team transforming the platforms used by Citizens Advice volunteers to deliver remote advice to the public. This will involve replacing existing telephony and webchat platforms and introducing video chat capabilities to the network. Our phone service alone receives millions of calls from the public every year and is staffed by thousands of volunteers. The team is multi-disciplinary and involves staff from across the organisation. You will be working particularly closely with product managers, delivery managers, user researchers, user experience designers, service designers, data scientists and strategists. We work closely with colleagues in technology and data and operations.

You will provide business change management support to this transformation effort, which is expected to take up to 2.5 years and will involve discovering requirements, testing and procuring solutions and rolling out new technologies to thousands of volunteers across England and Wales. You will be responsible for ensuring that this significant body of change is delivered successfully. As well as bringing extensive change management experience, including knowledge of current methodologies and tools and their practical application, we are looking for someone with experience of working in a multidisciplinary team delivering high transactional digital products and platforms using agile methodology. You'll also have experience discovering training requirements and supporting the delivery of training programmes that meets those requirements. To be successful, you’ll need strong analytical and judgement skills and be adept at building effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels.

Starfish Services Limited are looking to recruit new Trustees.

Starfish Services Limited is a Charity 1146237 with a focus on Mental Health and Wellbeing.  We are committed to improving lives, by building communities, through community transformation models including ABC, Co-production/Co-design, and practices-based learning.

Starfish have projects in communities across the midlands and the North East, which includes projects to improve employability, reduce loneliness and improve social connections, also projects to enhance our digital offer to reduce social and digital isolation.

Trustees Roles 
We are looking for individuals who have worked at a management/senior officer level and have had or are in roles in Mental Health or Community development, with a skillset that will complement the existing expertise of the board members. They will have strong inter-personal skills, with an adaptive approach and strategic mind-set. Additionally, they will be committed to Starfish Services ltd ethos and values.

The core functions of these roles are to ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction, holding leaders to account for outcomes and financial performance of the charity. The board of trustees manages the business of the charity and may exercise all the powers in compliance with its charitable objects, company and charity law.

Every trustee is expected to abide by the Starfish Services Ltd code of conduct and the seven principles of public life set out by Lord Nolan: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

Time Commitment 
The trust board meets 6 times per year, and normally last 2 hours; at the moment meetings are taking place via Zoom or Teams (Training will be given to use both of these methods).

Closing date: 16th May 2021

No agencies please.

Warwickshire Vision Support (WVS), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Charity based in Warwick, Salary circa £48,000 - £58,000 per annum dependent on experience.

About you:

Are you an enthusiastic, self-motivated and well organised individual who can take the reins in leading a dynamic Charity as it embarks on a brand-new strategy?

If so, you’ll be a real team player, friendly and committed with a ‘can do’ positive attitude. You will be keen to bring your experience to shape this role and implement new ways of working both internally and externally.

This is a great opportunity to develop our thriving, successful charity supporting people living with sight loss.

The Charity:

Warwickshire Vision Support (WVS) is the primary local charity for people living with sight loss in Warwickshire. We offer a holistic service from the point of diagnosis, through visual impairment rehabilitation to long term social support to ensure that any person with a visual impairment gets the support they need, when they need it. 

We have a staff of 24 people and value diversity and inclusion in our approach to the community we serve.

We believe that diversity and engagement is not only the right thing to do, but is the only way we can achieve our goals.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds and cultures.

We are looking for an experienced and proactive CEO who can embrace this role within Warwickshire Vision Support (WVS), leading the organisation with responsibility for operations, finance, quality and strategy. The purpose of the role is to lead and further develop the Charity, providing statutory rehabilitation and voluntary support services to visually impaired people in Warwickshire.

This is a full-time, permanent position working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday with occasional weekend and evening work. A part-time position will also be considered.

You will be entitled to the following package:

• 23 days annual leave (increasing to 25 days after 4 years’ service) plus an additional 2 days at Christmas, and 8 bank holidays.
• Flexible working from home and office.
• Pension scheme.
• Sick pay.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Professional fees supported.

Please can you upload a covering letter to explain why you are the perfect candidate for this position and what skills and experience you will bring to this role. Please note, CV only applications will not be accepted.

CEO Main Duties (non-exhaustive list):

• Ensuring that the Charity achieves its missions for blind and partially sighted people, through inspiring leadership and a collaborative approach.
• Ensuring that the Charity meets the requirements of contracts, grants and other agreements that have been entered into.
• Ensuring that the Charity has the resources to function, developing opportunities from diverse income streams.
• Building an effective working relationship with the Board of Trustees.
• Preparing an annual operational plan/business plan and annual budget for approval by the Board of Trustees.
• Ensuring that all contracts held by the Charity are managed, monitored, evaluated and reported as required, ensuring that contractual obligations are met by all parties.
• Operating within the annual budget; providing regular reports on income, expenditure and annual forecasts to the Board of Trustees.
• Developing and maintain productive working relationships with national, regional and local charities, public sector organisations and other bodies.
• Leading the promotion of the Charity and the voluntary sector to members and the community at every opportunity.
• Representing the rights of visually impaired people regarding equality of access to services and the environment.
• Recruiting, supervising, managing, and training staff, delegating responsibilities to staff members as appropriate, including employees who are home based and officed based working.
• Carrying out such tasks and duties from time to time as are required by the Charity’s Board of Trustees.

CEO Necessary Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Previous experience in a Senior role, in management or organisational leadership, is essential.
• Previous experience within the Voluntary sector is desirable.
• Previous experience in setting and managing budgets is essential.
• Experience using a CRM system is essential (the Charity use Charitylog which is desirable).
• High level of self-motivation with the ability to exercise professional judgement.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to balance conflicting priorities.
• Ability to delegate responsibilities to staff members.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with proven success in influencing and negotiating at all levels.
• IT literate and experienced with the Microsoft Office Suite including, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Willingness and ability to adopt a flexible approach to accommodate the demands of a senior role.

While we would like to contact all our candidates, unfortunately, this is not possible so if you haven’t heard from us a week after the closing date, your application has not been successful.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies.

A well-known UK charity is seeking an Interim Finance Director for a 12-18 month fixed term contract for a project based role covering 2 of its small regional franchises – one in Worcestershire and one in Staffordshire.

The role will involve:

-Managing the finance departments of 2 small charities within the franchise (both £1.5-2 million turnover), providing general FD duties

-Overseeing both finance teams of around 2 staff in each location

-Assisting the 2 CEOs with strategic finance advice

-Responsibility for integrated management accounts, forecasts and budgets for both charities

-Leading on the migration to Sage 50 cloud version for both organisations, and standardising other finance systems and processes

Requirements:

-Prior experience at senior/strategic level within the charity sector

-Good knowledge of charity accounting (SORP, restricted income etc)

-Experience juggling multiple projects across different sites

-Staff management experience

-Sage experience desirable

-Qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA accountant desirable but not essential

-Able to commute to Stafford & Worcester regularly (although 60% of role can be home based)

Please note this is a full-time role for 5 days per week, on a fixed term/salary basis (not day rate contract), with a salary of £50,000 per annum.

It is anticipated that approximately 60% of the role can be done remotely/from home, with 20% required onsite at the office near Worcester, and 20% required onsite at the office near Stafford.

The role will be offered on a 12-18 month fixed term basis, with possible extension thereafter.

Initial closing date: 18th May

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.

The opportunity

Can you deliver exceptional customer service and aspire to make real impact on our customer journey? 

About the role

Our Customer Payment Advisors play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth process of customer payments, working closely with data and income processing. 

You’ll  also put the customer first in providing excellent customer service.

About you

You’ll be a self-starter with excellent attention to detail and a calm, can-do attitude. Strong communication skills are essential plus the ability to build successful working relationships.  You'll be able to work with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

You’ll have a good standard of IT skills and computer literacy specifically relating to Microsoft Office packages, database/CRM systems and the recording / inputting of information. This will be matched by your data entry and manipulation skills and ability to proof read.
 
With excellent numerical skills you’ll have the following skills and experience:
• Ability to use own initiative and manage own workload
• Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service skills and respond by telephone and in writing sensitively to our supporters and customers
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, this is key when proof-reading all of our acknowledgement letters

About us
 
We’re here to keep hearts beating and blood flowing. With research spanning all heart and circulatory diseases, we are out to beat the world’s biggest killers. From head to toe you have over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body so we have our work cut out.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life.  Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.
 
Interview process 

The interview process will be held over MS Teams. 

The BHF is currently following Government guidelines regarding working from home. Although the role is based in Birmingham, the expectation is that once restrictions are eased, we will follow a blended approach between office and home working.

How to apply 
 
To apply for this role please use the apply button below. Our process involves submitting your CV and a supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role’s criteria.

We celebrate diversity and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Diversity and Inclusion forms a main pillar in our People Experience Strategy. Our aim is for all of our colleagues and volunteers to bring their true self to work, so we can beat heartbreak for everyone.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us

The Board of Directors of NORTH WORCESTERSHIRE BASEMENT PROJECTS is inviting applications for a Chief Executive Officer to continue our work with young people 25 years and under, who are homeless, potentially homeless or in crisis and need support with housing and other related issues in Worcestershire.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a proven ability to set up, develop and sustain projects, has experience in successfully managing a staff team and working to targets to deliver results. Someone who is self-motivated, and who is comfortable with a high degree of autonomy to develop the project through identifying opportunities, networking and working collaboratively with our partners.

The successful person must be knowledgeable about the issues and challenges young people face and ideally have previous knowledge and /or experience of working with and empowering young people to become independent. In return we offer a supportive and flexible work environment and an opportunity to shape and develop the project moving forward.

Pay scales are based on experience with ongoing professional development encouraged.

All successful applicants will be expected to complete an enhanced DBS check.

Salary: £32,500 - £37,500 depending on qualifications and experience

Full time: 35 hours per week

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Applications must be on an application form only – CVs will not be accepted.

Closing Date for applications: 12 noon on Wednesday 19 May 2021

Interviews will be held in the week beginning 7 June.

North Worcestershire Basement Projects is working towards Equal Opportunities and Diversity (or “recruits in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy”?)

Registered Charity Number: 1106209. Company Number: 5230659.

The Citizens Advice Service provides free independent confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.

Citizens Advice Bromsgrove and Redditch (CABR) is an independent registered charity covering the Bromsgrove and Redditch area.

We are a member of National Citizens advice, the leading UK Advice Charity. The main areas we help our clients are in debt, benefits, housing and employment and offer information and advice to a large number of clients to a high, accredited standard of quality. We dealt with 5630 clients in 2019/20 and circa 20000 issues. The core areas are debt, benefits, employment and housing.

We are recruiting to the pivotal role of Chief Officer. We are looking for someone who will drive Citizens Advice Bromsgrove and Redditch forward to become a flourishing and dynamic organisation that will be there for the community long into the future.

Organisation: Citizens Advice Bromsgrove and Redditch

Job Title: Chief Officer

Salary: c. £37,000

Location: Based in Bromsgrove with some travel to key stakeholders within Bromsgrove and Redditch with some flexibility for home working

Reporting to the Trustee Board you have overall responsibility for the quality and delivery of advice provided by Bromsgrove and Redditch CA – ensuring we meet the standards required under the Performance and quality Framework (PQF) and the objectives of the Strategic Business and Development Plan.

Your direct reports will be the CA Service Manager, Senior management team, Paid staff team and volunteers responsible for service delivery.

You will have specific responsibility for all external liaison and activity and will be a proven relationship builder who has exemplary interpersonal skills to strengthen our reputation.

Our network includes National CA, Bromsgrove District Council, Redditch BC, other funders and stakeholders and the local community,

You will have a proven track record of maintaining and developing funding streams to enable continued support for our core service along with specialist service delivery to meet local needs.

You will ideally have managed or been a key influencer on a significant transformation project.

COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the delivery of our advice service. Supported by a committed staff and volunteer team we have mobilised home working to continue helping local people in need by phone and email during this period.

Undoubtedly the landscape for local charities has dramatically changed and we are looking for a dynamic and innovative leader who can navigate us through the next steps in offering an excellent service to our clients.

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.

If you would like to receive an Information Pack for this role with details on how to apply, please click apply. This will contact our consultants, Aled Morris and Jenny Hills at Harris Hill, who will send the infromation pack.

Please note: responding to this advertisement will not in itself be considered an application. We will need a CV and a supporting statement addressing the full person specification in the information pack.

We are seeking an inspirational Chief Executive Officer to join our small independent charity, someone who shares our vision and values, invites innovation and thrives on making a positive difference to the people and communities we serve.

Martineau Gardens, holders of the Queens Award for Voluntary Service, is an organically managed community garden close to Birmingham city centre. We offer volunteering opportunities for Social and Therapeutic Horticulture; work placements for SEN students; environmental education for schools; family activities and courses for adults. We supplement our charitable income through public engagement activities including events; plant and produce sales; venue hire and visitor donations.

The opportunity to join as our new Chief Executive comes at an exciting time for the charity as we seek to grow our resources and expertise to support more people and maintain the restorative properties of the Gardens. We are seeking an individual who can develop strategy using a creative approach; someone with high levels of emotional intelligence and the ability to influence, who has experience of managing a team with diverse skills and who has expertise in budgeting and governance.

As Chief Executive Officer, you will lead and guide your team of 10 and support them to adapt and develop their services to ensure sustainability and identify opportunities for new ways of working, delivering plans that meet strategic and operational aims.
 
Reporting to the Chair of Trustees, the role of Chief Executive will support the Board of Trustees in fulfilling their responsibilities in the governance of the charity and will bring good strategic and analytical skills coupled with the credibility and gravitas to represent the charity, motivating and empowering through values driven leadership.

Potential candidates will need to be fully motivated to provide the dynamic and inspiring leadership needed to ensure the charity grows and to be able to support the Charity’s vision, mission and values. You will ideally have previous experience leading in the Charity sector, however we will consider applications from a wide range of backgrounds. Knowledge of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is desirable but not essential.

If you have the ambition, credentials and values to help steer our charity to the next level, we would love to hear from you. Any offer made is subject to satisfactory references to the charity and an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring service (DBS) will be essential if successful.

Closing date: 27th May 2021
Interview date: Week commencing 9th June 2021