Welfare Benefits Development Manager
Fixed Term Contract/Secondment (24 months) 
Full time [34.5 hours] we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Home-based 
Salary Range - 44-49k – plus car allowance if applicable

The cost of a cancer diagnosis adds an additional £1000 (on average) a month on top of a person living with cancer's (PLWC) outgoings. We at Macmillan Cancer Support are in partnership with 88 and growing community partners who deliver specialist support to PLWC. We are looking for an experienced person, who knows the complexities of the Welfare Benefits system and is able to spread great practice across the UK.

We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success. 

We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and your career, and we welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.

We offer a range of flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, e.g. 34.5 hours in 4 days instead of 5, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm and more options. 

About the role

You will be supporting a network of well established partnership teams across the UK who will be your key relationship, you will be the beacon of knowledge on welfare benefits support and structure.

This is a hybrid role that will be well  resourced to provide support on the phone, teams and face to face.

About you
Experience of the Welfare Benefits system is a must, and we are also looking for a person who can coach others to understand the system and referral pathways. Knowledge is key, but relationship building experience is also a must.

About us
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition.

Recruitment Process

The application deadline is 10th July 2022. 

In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

About The Role

Permanent
Hours: 35 per week
Days: Monday - Friday
Location: Remote/Home Based

As a key operational manager, you will lead and manage a team of school-based practitioners deliveringmental health services in schools. You will have a key eye for service delivery; delivering on Place2Be’smission, values and business priorities. This role works across a geographical area reporting directly to aRegional Director. 

Your team will span across various counties (spanning from Essex to Sussex) and will be home based.

Collaboration and Partnership work are at the heart of this role. You will ensure that the aspect of this delivery is part of a multi-agency approach with statutory and other voluntary sectors to create multiple pathways to ease access for young people and families to support their wellbeing.
 
You will bring passion and strong organisational skills to the team during this exciting period of opportunity for the organisation.

What will I be responsible for in my new role?
 
You will:

• Onboard new schools and establishing services where required
• Onboarding and inducting new members of staff
• Ensure high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service in all Place2Be schools  provide Safeguarding and Child Protection training for staff and volunteers
• establish and maintain positive and active relationships with head teachers and governing bodies in partner schools
• undertake regular line management responsibilities of team members, reviewing on an ongoing basis delivery components in line with agreed outputs and KPIs
• analyse and use service data from your team and schools to inform and improve your team’s performance
• support people development; nurture skills and talent across your team to enable people to grow and develop

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• experience of managing medium/large teams which may be multidisciplinary in nature to deliver locality/service objectives
• knowledge of relevant national policies, best practices, quality frameworks and local approaches to implementation within the specific area of mental health support for children and young people
• experience managing and leading health / social care / education services in either the statutory or voluntary sector
• the ability to influence people at all levels, in a clear, persuasive and tactful way
• strong multi-tasking skills, be flexible and show an ability to manage conflicting priorities

Interview Dates: TBC

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.

Veganuary is the non-profit that encourages people to go vegan for the month of January - and beyond. We focus on changing consumer behaviours and attitudes, while providing lots of information and practical support - to make the transition to veganism as easy and enjoyable as possible.

We also work with businesses to drive up vegan food provisions in shops and restaurants and have made veganism more visible and accessible through our work with national and international media.

What we do

• Our Aim: A world without animal farms and slaughterhouses. A world where food production does not decimate forests, pollute rivers and oceans, exacerbate climate change and drive wild animal populations to extinction.
   
• Our Mission: To inspire and support people to try vegan, drive corporate change, and create a global mass movement, championing compassionate food choices with the aim of ending animal farming, protecting the planet, and improving human health.

We work toward our lofty ambitions by following a simple, 3-step plan:

1. Encouraging and supporting millions of people to try veganism.
    
2. Creating the necessary media and social media buzz to raise awareness of the topic and the benefits of a vegan lifestyle.
    
3. Encouraging companies to promote and launch more delicious vegan options to increase the quality, availability and visibility of vegan food.

How we do it

You’ll have no doubt seen our public campaigns for Veganuary, you may even have tried it yourself. We’re incredibly proud of the global movement we’ve built, and it continues to grow year-on-year.

The part of work you might be a little less familiar with is our work in influencing businesses. The more businesses speak positively about veganism and launch new vegan products, the better the availability, visibility and quality of vegan products becomes, making it easier and tastier to try vegan. This is inspiring more people to choose plant-based options and stick with it long term.

Amongst many others, we are incredibly proud to have worked with the following companies to increase their vegan offering:

• Deliveroo
• Cadbury
• McDonalds
• Starbucks

What we’re looking for

As we head into the next phase of our strategy, we are looking for a talented Head of Operations and Finance who can help us build a robust, sustainable organisation. You will help us to shore up our gains to date and capitalise on the increasing number of growth opportunities coming our way.

This is a reimagining of an existing role and represents an investment in the charity’s future. We are looking for someone who can work closely with the board and executive to devise and implement business plans that are robust enough to accommodate our rapid growth and flexible enough to take advantage of new opportunities.

You will lead on financial management, supervise and optimise the organisation’s operations in the UK, and support our growing international team in operational matters.

Playing a pivotal part in the Senior Management Team, you will be responsible for ensuring that Veganuary’s day-to-day operations - including governance, administration, HR, finance, legal and IT remain compliant, responsive and efficient.

We don’t believe in prescriptive person specifications, as they limit the diversity of experience on our teams. We have just three questions of you, before you apply:

• Are you a qualified finance professional with significant experience of overseeing finance functions in UK charities?
   
• Are you a skilled strategic thinker with a proactive approach to solving problems?
   
• Do you enjoy building efficient structures and processes that limit bureaucracy and drive growth?

If you like what you’ve read, and your answer to all three questions above is “yes”, I recommend that you read the application pack by following the link below and consider getting in touch to discuss the role in more detail.

Head of Partnerships 

Dated: June 2022

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: £48,000-50,000 per annum 

Start date: Immediate

Location: Home based with potential access to desk space in central London, if required; travel across the UK may be required from time to time as part of role (subject to covid guidance) 

Reporting to: Director of Strategy and Learning

Direct reports: None at this time

Annual leave: 25 days per year plus bank holidays

About the role

The Head of Partnerships is a new and critical role, created as part of our merger with the YMCA George Williams College. We hope the merger will see our quality improvement and training work grow, alongside extending our communities of practice and our offer to them. As such, we created a dedicated post to hold, nurture and grow our approach to working with and through networks, and to oversee our partnership projects. 
 

Networks have long been at the heart of the Centre for Youth Impact’s approach. Built over the last eight years, we deeply value our relationships with our Regional Impact Networks across England, and are excited by the emergence of new relationships in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland – and indeed internationally, particularly building on the legacy of the College. There is now the opportunity to revisit our approach to working with and through networks, particularly in developing a more responsive and ‘tiered’ offer that reflects and responds to the needs, ambitions, and experiences of our different stakeholders. 

The Head of Partnerships will be responsible for implementing a new network strategy, strengthening these relationships (including transitioning existing network leads to potentially new ways of working), and framing the support that we offer to network ‘members’ across the UK (further details on our existing networks can be found here). This will include scoping, defining and implementing our approach to supporting/collaborating with members of the YMCA Federation in England and Wales alongside building relationships with the Federations in Scotland and the island of Ireland, as part of the merger with YMCA George Williams College. There is also the potential to work closely with the Director of Strategy and Learning to consider new international learning partnerships.

Over the past few years in particular, the Centre has been increasing its partnership projects: significant programmes of work with one major partner or funder, including cohort-level evaluation, capacity building and learning partnerships.The Head of Partnerships will also manage a range of partnership projects, working alongside other members of the team to initiate, design, and deliver cutting-edge programmes of work. The post-holder will work closely with the Director of Programmes and Director of Strategy and Learning to ensure that we are integrating our learning from our networks into our wider strategy and programmes of work focused on research, evaluation, and organisational learning. 

The Head of Partnerships will play a strong role in supporting income generation, particularly for our network support activities. The post holder will also contribute significantly to our communications activities, amplifying the work and voices of our networks, and offering our platform in contribution to greater collective impact.

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for an outstanding candidate who is imaginative and responsive, with strong interest and high-level skills in building alliances and collaborations, alongside capacity building for social sector organisations. You will need to have an appetite for understanding and navigating complexity, with an inquisitive mind and interest in youth-focused public policy and system dynamics. An interest and solid understanding of evaluation would be a distinct plus. You will also need to be a strong and confident project manager, with exceptional relationship skills. We take a coaching approach to all of our work, so skills and experience in this area will be a distinct advantage. 

You will have the ability to engage with humility and authenticity with a wide range of people and organisations working to support young people. You will be able to spot and make connections between relationships and areas of work and be alive to changes and patterns in the external policy and practice context and the opportunities they present for our charity. 

Finally, you will be a skilled facilitator, experienced in both designing and delivering workshops and training. You will also be a compelling and confident writer and presenter who can communicate the breadth of our work. You will be comfortable representing us externally and acting as a ‘thought leader’: openly reflecting the evolution of your ideas and thinking, and generously sharing your learning with others.

Please follow the link to our website for the full JD and person specification.

Head of Education and Training

Dated: June 2022

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: £48,000-50,000 per annum 

Start date: Immediate

Location: Home based with potential access to desk space in central London, if required; travel across the UK may be required from time to time as part of role (subject to covid guidance) 

Reporting to: Director of Strategy and Learning

Direct reports: None at this time

Annual leave: 25 days per year plus bank holidays

About the role

The Head of Education and Training is a new and critical role, created as part of our merger with YMCA George Williams College. By bringing together the College’s teaching legacy (including extensive course materials and associated learning platform) with the Centre’s research and insight, we hope to re-establish an education and training function that supports quality relational practice within the YMCA movement and beyond. As such, we have created a dedicated post to lead, design and develop our education and training offer and approach, including the partnerships and relationships that will support it. 

Training and capacity building has long been part of the Centre for Youth Impact’s work, but this has historically focused more on skills for evaluation and learning rather than quality practice in informal and non-formal learning. Our merger with the College creates an exciting opportunity to broaden our education and training activity in response to our learning about quality and impact over the past eight years. It also creates new potential for international learning partnerships to advance and extend our collective understanding. 

The Head of Education and Training will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing a new education strategy, working closely with the Director of Strategy and Learning. This strategy will include the education and training ‘offer’, the partnerships and relationships that support it, a solid understanding of the context/need/demand, and a robust approach to quality assurance.

 We want our education and training offer to encompass a range of modalities, including training courses, programmes of study, modules (that could stand alone or be incorporated into partners’ training offers), workshops, webinars and self-study resources. We would like to explore the role of and potential for accreditation, and for our offer to reflect our range of expertise. This includes:

• The ‘impact to improvement journey’: the design, delivery, and improvement of informal and non-formal provision to ensure that evaluation informs organisational learning;
• A ‘leading for impact’ programme: leadership, team development, collaborative working and shared learning across organisations to facilitate impact; 
• A continuous quality improvement offer focused on the core ‘mechanisms of change’ that evidence suggest support positive outcomes for young people; and 
• Our socio-emotional learning framework that supports practitioners and volunteers to create safe and supportive environments, role model socio-emotional skills, and offer engaging opportunities for young people. 

The Head of Education and Training will play a strong role in supporting income generation, and will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to embed insights from our research and evaluation activity into our education and training offer, alongside communicating with and reaching out to our networks.

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for an outstanding candidate with a deep understanding of relational practice, and how adults and young people learn and develop, social and emotionally. You will need to be imaginative and proactive, with strong interest and high-level skills in building alliances and collaborations. You will need well-developed skills in designing learning content and associated resources, alongside being an exceptional facilitator, trainer and coach. You will need to understand the world of further and higher education, and continuing professional development for youth workers in particular. You will also need to be comfortable bringing those skills into a fast-paced charity setting. An interest in and solid understanding of evaluation would be a distinct plus, as would an awareness of youth-focused public policy and system dynamics. 

You will have the ability to engage with humility and authenticity with a wide range of people and organisations working to support young people and their communities. You will be able to spot and make connections between relationships and areas of work and be alive to changes and patterns in the external policy and practice context and the opportunities they present for our charity. 

Finally, you will also need to be a strong and confident project manager and a compelling and confident writer and presenter who can communicate the breadth of our work. You will be comfortable representing us externally, and acting as a ‘thought leader’: openly reflecting the evolution of your ideas and thinking, and generously sharing your learning with others. 

Please follow the link to our website for the full job description and person spec.

IntoUniversity are looking for a high-calibre candidate to take on the role of Head of Operations (Scotland).  You will have responsibility for overseeing the charity’s work in Scotland and will play a key role in leading further expansion of IntoUniversity’s work in Scotland, including the development of new projects.  You will be responsible for sustaining and developing the charity’s complex range of partnerships and stakeholder relations, including with our key partners, Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities and with local and national government.

You will have substantial experience of managing projects and people and will have excellent written and oral communication skills, and ideally three years’ full-time paid experience working with children and young people in a relevant role, for example working as a teacher or youth worker.

The role will be fast-paced and challenging. Each day you will be contributing directly to the success of the charity and the transformation of the lives of some of Scotland’s most disadvantaged young people. Flexibility, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task are all necessary for your day-to-day routine. You will be proactive and able to use your initiative at all times. You will have excellent organisational skills and be highly efficient.

As a charity with social mobility as its core objective, IntoUniversity is wholly committed to equality of opportunity. We work with children and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds, and we believe that our staff team should be similarly diverse and representative.

The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise that we have much more to do in this regard. We are committed to building a culture where students, staff and volunteers are valued for the unique people they are. We therefore encourage applications from candidates from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. In particular, we actively and warmly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, male candidates and candidates with a disability as they are currently under-represented within IntoUniversity.

Location: Flexible in the Central Belt of Scotland. Travel will be expected to London. 
Annual Leave : 33 Days 
Interviews: 4th August in Glasgow 

Population Matters is a non-profit organisation that empowers women to take charge of family size, campaigns for more controlled human consumption, and seeks to tackle the population boom crisis that has been noted by luminaries such as Sir David Attenborough.
 

Our Approach

1. We work with our global partners, friends, and stakeholders to achieve a better future for people and planet.
    
2. We campaign, inform, undertake research and do all we can to encourage an open, fair-minded and constructive debate about population. We aim to create a wave of public awareness and corresponding policy action on overpopulation and unsustainable consumption.
    
3. We promote positive, practical, ethical and entirely voluntary solutions — encouraging smaller families, inspiring people to consume sustainably, with the aim of enabling everyone to enjoy a decent quality of life whilst respecting and sustaining the natural ecosystems upon which all life on earth depends.
    
4. We empower choice. In a world of finite resources, our reproductive and consumption choices are critical for achieving that vision of humanity in harmony with nature, prospering on a healthy planet. We believe everyone should have the freedom and ability to choose a smaller family.
    
5. We are committed to human rights, women’s empowerment and global justice. We believe action to address population must always be consistent with these principles.
    

What we’re looking for

Having achieved 265% growth in income since 2017, we are in a strong growth position and are looking for a talented Head of Finance and Operations who can contribute to building a resilient, sustainable organisation. You will help us to consolidate our current position and put us on a sure footing for continued growth, as we take advantage of the opportunities available to us.

This is a new role and contributes to the re-organisation and development of our SMT, and represents confident investment in the charity’s future growth. We are looking for someone who can work in lock-step with the Executive Director and Board to develop and implement business plans that are robust enough to accommodate our rapid growth and flexible enough to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

You will lead on the development of our financial systems and management, as well as the management and optimisation of our business operations – covering finance, IT, HR, governance, administration, legal, and facilities. Whilst the role has a mixed portfolio, it’s worth noting that the finance element is absolutely at the heart of the position.

Playing a key role on the Senior Management Team, you will be responsible for ensuring that Population Matter’s day-to-day finances and operations remain compliant, responsive and efficient.

We try to avoid prescriptive person specifications, as they limit the diversity of experience on our team. Instead, we have just four questions for you:

1. Do you have an accountancy qualification and significant experience of overseeing finance functions in UK charities, with demonstrable success in building robust financial systems within high-growth environments?
    
2. Do you have a keen eye for detail and a desire to drive ongoing improvements, building efficient structures and processes that limit bureaucracy and drive growth?
    
3. Do you have the team building skills needed to work with a highly-motivated, diverse, remote working and internationally operating staff team? Not to forget building a positive, dynamic relationship with our Board.
    
4. Do you have a commitment to the change we’re trying to create and the way in which we’re trying to create it?

If you like what we do, the role is grabbing your attention, and you answered yes to the questions above, then we’d wholeheartedly recommend you read our detailed application pack, by following the link below, and consider putting an application together.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Salary: £44,000

Working hours: Full time 36.5 hours Mon - Fri (plus some evening and weekend working)

Contract type: Permanent

Location: The Active Wellbeing Society Head Office - Hay Hall Manor House, Hay Hall Business Park, Redfern Road, Tyseley B11 2BE with travel around Birmingham and other locations as and when required. Note this is a hybrid working post to include some homeworking.

The Active Wellbeing Society are a community benefit society and cooperative working to tackle inequality and promote community wellbeing. Our work with communities cuts across a wide range of policy agendas – from health and social care to transport and planning, community cohesion to climate action, jobs and skills to physical activity – and is increasingly recognised nationally as demonstrating best practice in reaching and supporting those from our most disadvantaged communities and achieving significant system and behaviour change.

As Head of Funding, you will join the organisation at an exciting time as we develop our national profile and delivery. You will lead a team of Development Officers working across a wide range of programme areas, building on the work of the organisation over the last 4 years.

You will be an active member of our Senior Management Team and help shape ideas and thinking as the organisation embarks on the next phase of its future development and growth, including contributions to emerging shifts in our fundraising strategy.

Main Duties

1.Manage the funding & development team, oversee and strengthen our current funding operations

2.Build on our existing portfolio of funding, which includes statutory and commercial tenders, as well as grant funding

3.Ensure funding streams are consistent with TAWS’ core values and strategic goals

4.Ensure existing funding relationships are positively maintained, and relationships with commissioners are effectively managed, undertaking high-level representation when required

5.Lead on the preparation of major funding proposals

6.Track and report on external fundraising trends and help teams match opportunities with strategic priorities

7.Proactively manage the organisational funding pipeline of opportunities and rolling submissions, as a tool for planning and decision-making

8.Ensure funding perspectives are integrated into programme-level strategic plans

9.Support the organisation to realise its income targets

10.Inspire and manage the funding & development team so that they are motivated, flexible and collaborative in their approach, and are developing professionally

11.Cultivate relationships with programme leads and support them in:

12. Developing new projects and services with appropriate funding strategies

13.Achieving quality proposal submissions, including sign-off responsibility

14. Ensuring effective grant management

15. Work closely with colleagues in finance and HR to ensure funding proposals and submissions are fully costed and resource implications are understood.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Knowledge and Experience

·Extensive experience as a leader in a fundraising environment with strong managerial and leadership skills

·Track record of raising both unrestricted and restricted funds, and achieving high value contracts and grants

·Track record of successfully support, motivating, mentoring and managing colleagues

·Experience of developing and delivering on fundraising strategies

·A record in confidently developing networks, building alliances, nurturing ideas and relationships with individuals, new collaborators and funders – including avenues for income generation

·Involvement in at least one of the following: public sector commissioning, institutional/statutory grants, trusts and foundations or commercial bids.

·Experience of project design and development

·Experience of planning and managing budgets

Skills & Attributes

·Good interpersonal skills with an ability to lead a team, build effective working relationships and deal with senior level contacts, both internally and externally

·A collaborative team player who builds on colleagues’ knowledge and expertise to develop innovative ideas and positive learning

·A strategic thinker with the ability to spot opportunities, grasp ideas, generate solutions and operate with initiative, confidence and drive

·Good understanding of communications and an ability to convey the organisation’s mission and added value

·Proven ability in programme and project design, and the translation of complex ideas into fundable proposals

·Good writing skills with attention to detail

·An ability to prioritise and manage a diverse and demanding workload, meet deadlines, and deal with unexpected changes (including occasional evening and weekend work)

.       Excellent written and spoken English

Staff Benefits 

We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:

• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution.
• Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
• Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
• Life Assurance – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days
• Flexible working
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month

APPLICATION DETAILS

Please submit a Cover Letter and CV addressing the experience you have had relevant to the 'Main Duties' and the 'Knowledge & Skills' sections of the advert, paying attention to the following:

1. Extensive experience as a leader in a fundraising environment with strong managerial and leadership skills
2. Track record of raising both unrestricted and restricted funds, and achieving high value contracts and grants
3. A record in confidently developing networks, building alliances, nurturing ideas and relationships with individuals, new collaborators and funders – including avenues for income generation
4. Involvement in at least one of the following: public sector commissioning, institutional/statutory grants, trusts and foundations or commercial bids.
5. Track record of successfully support, motivating, mentoring and managing colleagues

Closing Date: Monday 18 July 2022 midnight

Due to the high numbers of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP

We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application, this will usually be within 1 week of the application window closing.

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we, in recruiting for our team we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring. The Active Wellbeing Society is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based upon capability and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. At The Active Wellbeing Society we are searching for people who share the passion for what we do with different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, collectively making a difference.

If there is anything we can do to assist you in your application or preparations to be interviewed for one of our job vacancies please let us know and we can ensure you have a positive and comfortable experience.

Thank you for your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society, we look forward to receiving your application.

We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable Operations Manager to support our small, dynamic team as we work to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital world in which we live. The varied role is critical to the effective running of the organisation and covers the areas of IT, HR, finance and administration.  If you thrive on using your initiative in a collaborative environment and have a passion to support an organisation that can transform people’s lives please get in touch with us.
Applications close at 9am on Monday 11 July 2022.

About New Local

“An ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE bunch of change-makers.

New Local puts me and my team at the heart of an exciting movement

that’s genuinely transforming our relationships with our communities”

Sandra Farquharson, Assistant Director, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

“It’s rare to work for an organisation as committed and positive as this one.

There’s an energy, focus and enthusiasm that runs through everything – from

the core mission of community power down to their innovative events”

Simon Kaye, former team member, New Local

“We recruit nice people and encourage them to be friendly, caring colleagues and the senior management model this. Does this make us soft under performers?

Absolutely not. Our membership, revenues and impact grow every year. That's because what drives performance is not whip-cracking managers but clarity of vision, a sense of shared mission and skilled, motivated people.”

Adam Lent, Chief Executive, New Local (view the Twitter thread)

New Local is the proud host of Stronger Things, an annual event that’s become known as the place for equipping and inspiring those that believe the future of public services is community-powered (watch the videos from 2020 and 2022).

The profile of this event has grown massively in recent years and we now want to take it to the next level. Our vision for Stronger Things 2023 is an international festival of community power, a must-attend for professionals and activists from across the globe. 

We’re also eager to launch a second event under the Stronger Things banner, as well as work with our network of local authorities and other organisations to increase the income-generating events that help resource our work.

You and your role 

This new role is an exciting opportunity for an events professional who wants to build on the work we’ve already done and make Stronger Things their own. 

We’re looking for someone who already has extensive experience of events planning, management and delivery. We need a doer as well as a thinker, not afraid to embrace both direction-setting strategic thinking as well as hands-on tasks. 

As we move to make Stronger Things financially self-supporting you’ll also need a strong track-record of growing income – a natural at starting and sustaining positive relationships with the fantastic organisations that support community power. 

Our brilliant network and events team will support your work and, as the Stronger Things approaches, you’ll be expected to lead staff from across the organisation as everyone pitches in.

Just as important as all the above is someone with the imagination and rigour to keep our events standing out. ‘Keeping the quirky’ might sound cheesy, but for us, it’s a fundamental part of creating the warm, safe and fun space that enables people to share and learn with vulnerability. 

Location:  New Local operates a highly flexible approach to work location and welcomes applications from across the UK. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Key tasks and responsibilities 

Stronger Things 

• Envision and innovate - Lead the conversation across our members, stakeholders and team about what they need from our flagship event. Use this to develop its theme and format, combining virtual and real-life aspects. 
• Plan & Deliver - Do the legwork that’s needed to deliver this event, including, managing budgets, attendee registration mechanics and supplier liaison. 
• Grow the audience - Bring in new people from different sectors and communities as well as make our digital audience a global one. 
• Develop our income - Bring in new sponsors and partners (and increase their opportunities for engagement) to help pay to the costs of this event. 
• Secure speakers with something to say – Find us rock star speakers who will inspire our audience. 
• Keep the quirky – Don't lose sight of the little things that make our events special. This year we ditched our registration desks, had a big pink sofa centre stage and hosted an after-hours jazz band. You’ll beat that.

New events

• Establish and deliver new events - Use the Stronger Things banner to introduce an events programme from scratch.
• Develop our business - Work with our organisation partners to develop new, income-generating, events that help fund our work. 
• Protect our data - Use processes, software and systems in a way that protects our event registration data.

Other work

• Collaborate with colleagues - Work closely with our research, practice and communications teams, ensuring our events are an asset to their work. 
• Muck in - Work alongside the rest of your team (and the rest of the organisation!), sharing in event and member admin, never afraid of getting involved in even the most basic jobs.

Knowledge, skills and experience needed

• Experienced events professional, with a deep understanding and demonstrable background in delivering amazing high-profile events for large audiences.
• Broad-ranging and adaptable, equally comfortable in front of a potential sponsor, attendee spreadsheet and strategy planning session.
• Great communicator, with an ability to write compelling emails and pitch persuasively in-person. 
• Relationship-builder, a natural friend-maker for an organisation that relies on strong professional connections
• Data-lover, who is not just an excellent record keeper, but someone who pushes data to spot gaps and opportunities for our organisation.
• Innovative and entrepreneurial, committed to evolving the experience of our members and event participants
• A champion for our mission, bringing an understanding of community power and a commitment to its principles.

Above all, a friendly and supportive colleague able to work in a highly creative and collaborative environment that encourages autonomy and excellence from all members of the team.

In addition to the advertised salary, we offer: 

• A minimum of 27 days’ holiday a year and ten days holiday over Christmas/New Year
• Highly flexible working and work location arrangements 
• Regular training opportunities 
• A number of other benefits listed in the job description.

For further details of the role and benefits on offer, and how to apply please refer to the attachment.  Full information about the role including the Head of Events Job Description / Person Specification can also be found on the jobs page of the New Local website.

If you wish to discuss this role, please get in touch to arrange a discussion to take place before Thursday 16 June.  After this date we will be happy to explore your questions at the interview stage. 

About New Local

“An ABS­OLUTELY INCREDIBLE bunch of change-makers.

New Local puts me and my team at the heart of an exciting movement

that’s genuinely transforming our relationships with our communities”

Sandra Farquharson, Assistant Director, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

“It’s rare to work for an organisation as committed and positive as this one.

There’s an energy, focus and enthusiasm that runs through everything – from

the core mission of community power down to their innovative events”

Simon Kaye, former team member, New Local

“We recruit nice people and encourage them to be friendly, caring colleagues and the senior management model this. Does this make us soft under performers?

Absolutely not. Our membership, revenues and impact grow every year. That's because what drives performance is not whip-cracking managers but clarity of vision, a sense of shared mission and skilled, motivated people.”

Adam Lent, Chief Executive, New Local (view the Twitter thread)

Our network of councils – local authorities from across Britain – are some of the most articulate, innovative and imaginative and you’ll ever meet. They’re itching to change the way they do things and look to us for the research, resources and connections they need to transform.

Over the last two years our network has almost doubled in size as appetite has grown for our core mission: places powered by communities. We’re eager to grow more, but never sacrificing the quality of our current relationships and depth of their impact.

You and your role

As our new Head of Network, you’ll lead on increasing the engagement of our existing members as well as bringing new councils on board. You’ll also deliver our popular peer-led programmes of sessions, not only fronting many of them personally but also helping with the nitty-gritty of organising them.

You’ll already be an expert on the behind-the-scenes administration that enables networks like ours to thrive, and we’ll expect you to use that expertise to improve our processes and systems.

A local government background is far from essential - as long as you have experience of networks like ours, we’ll welcome the new ideas and fresh perspectives that you bring. You can learn about local government - and its unique power to shape our lives and places – on the job.

This role involves working closely with others from across our organisation – highly skilled people in our research, practice comms and operations teams. We value creativity, collaboration and self-determination above all else and are looking for someone who can help us foster those values as well as being a friendly, kind and supportive colleague.

Location:  New Local operates a highly flexible approach to work location and welcomes applications from across the UK. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Grow our network: Draw in new members and make being part of our network so good it’s impossible to leave.
• Deepen engagement: Strengthen relationships with (and between) every one of our local government members.
• Map and measure participation: Track our members’ level of interaction, finding new ways to assess the value our members are getting from our network and act on the results.
• Work with annual partners: help these organisations engage with our current work and develop new opportunities to reach our network.
• Communicate frequently: Use compelling and frequent written communications to share the resources, sessions and opportunities we provide our members.
• Take member sessions to a new level: Keep us at the cutting edge of peer learning, both online and offline, by experimenting with new styles, formats and speakers. As well as designing our session programmes.
• Lead and facilitate sessions: Be a face of New Local sessions, coming alongside members, together tackling some of the biggest challenges they face.
• Protect our data: Take responsibility for looking after our network data.
• Lead your team: Coach, support and provide line management for your small, but brilliant, team.
• Collaborate with colleagues: Work closely with our research, practice and communications teams, ensuring our network is an asset to their work.
• Muck in: Work alongside the rest of your team (and the rest of the organisation!), sharing in event and member admin, never afraid of getting involved in even the most basic jobs.

Knowledge, skills and experience needed

• Experienced membership professional, with a deep understanding and demonstrable background in growing a network like ours, in whatever sector.
• Great communicator, with an ability to write compelling emails, pitch persuasively in-person and facilitate sessions with flair.
• Data-lover, who is not just an excellent record keeper, but someone who pushes data to spot gaps and opportunities for our organisation.
• Articulate and knowledgeable connector, with the understanding and confidence to build relationships and work in a highly networked way.
• Innovative entrepreneur, committed to evolving members’ experience as well as our broader business development.
• A champion for our mission, bringing an understanding of community power and a commitment to its principles.
• Supportive manager and coach, with experience of building, motivating and managing high-performing teams.

Above all, a friendly and supportive colleague able to work in a highly creative and collaborative environment that encourages autonomy and excellence from all members of the team.

In addition to the advertised salary, we offer: 

• A minimum of 27 days’ holiday a year and ten days holiday over Christmas/New Year
• Highly flexible working and work location arrangements 
• Regular training opportunities 
• A number of other benefits listed in the job description.

For further details of the role and benefits on offer, and how to apply please refer to the attachment.  Full information about the role including the Head of Network Job Description / Person Specification can also be found on the jobs page of the New Local website.

If you wish to discuss this role, please get in touch to arrange a discussion to take place before Thursday 16 June.After this date we will be happy to explore your questions at the interview stage. 

Job Type: 

Contract, Full-time (but we also welcome candidates seeking 4 days/week)

Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London for team meetings, and to UK school locations required

Closing Date for Applications: Friday 15th July 2022

Planned Interview Dates: short video calls with a longlist of candidates will be w/c 18th July, followed by a first interview w/c 25th July and second interview w/c 1st August. 

All interviews will be by video call.

Who we are

Apps for Good exists to ensure ALL young people have the tech innovation skills to thrive in an ever-changing world.

We have over a decade of experience providing free tech innovation courses to almost 240,000 UK young people. Our courses give students the skills and determination to shape their future through technology, while giving teachers the support and confidence to deliver high quality computing content and resources.

More than half of the schools we work with are in challenging circumstances and we’re committed to offering an opportunity for all. We’re proud to partner with leading brands such as Lego, Spotify, and Google to keep our course content 100% free to schools. Students benefit from industry expertise from over 300 industry volunteers

We’re now embarking on an exciting new chapter. Young people, especially those with experience of disadvantage, are not learning the skills they need to create innovative solutions to climate change. We have created a new programme, Innovate for Climate Change, building on our existing methodology, experience and networks, so that young people can thrive in a transformed post-carbon economy.

The team

We are a small, close-knit, ambitious and energetic team who all believe strongly in our mission and values. We’re currently working very effectively remotely and will continue to be a distributed team with regular days together in London.

The role

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about education, social impact and Apps for Goods mission in helping provide more young people with the tech and innovation skills that will prepare them for the future of work.

In this role, you will have the chance to work across Apps for Good’s Programmes team and you'll be responsible for day to day line management of our Education Community Manager and Senior Learning Manager, supporting them to deliver their priorities for the year and working with the team to develop plans and strategies for implementation. 

As part of a small team, you’ll get to work hands-on to develop and deliver our education recruitment strategy, growing and supporting our community of teachers delivering Apps for Good courses across the UK. You will also manage the day to day responsibilities of our Senior Learning Manager and help them deliver their roadmap and priorities for creating exciting and innovative new content for teachers and students. Working closely with our Fundraising and Partnerships team, in this role you will also help organise partner engagement programmes with schools across the UK and companies including LEGO, Spotify and Bank of New York Mellon. 

You will be joining Apps for Good at an exciting time as we have ambitious plans to scale the delivery of our new and existing content to schools across the UK, as well as build new and impactful relationships with education providers and partners. If you have experience supporting and growing online communities and have an interest in how tech education can empower young people by providing them with the skills to change their world we want to hear from you.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Line manage Education Community Manager and Senior Learning Manager 

• Strategy development & delivery: support the development and delivery of our education and content strategies including detailed quarter by quarter planning

• Work with Education Community Manager to create and implement a plan to grow our reach of schools across the UK

• Lead on building strategic partnerships with organisations and education providers and support in the development of engagement products and volunteering opportunities, including workshops and facilitated engagement days with our corporate partners

• Project management: work with the wider team to implement funded projects and products

• Oversee and support the Education Community Manager to manage all student & school engagement; workshops, Expert Sessions, Showcase pitch practice, Showcase judging sessions, funder/partner visits, filming/comms visits

• Track, analyse and report on key education, platform and content metrics, impact and learnings, developing KPI’s

• Develop and implement strategies in line with our organisation impact framework for effective user research and feedback from teachers and, students to inform and develop programmes and content

Benefits

This is a 1 year fixed-term contract role to support with team capacity whilst our current Director of Programmes moves to an Acting CEO role. You’ll work remotely with regular travel to schools, when safe to do so. It’s full time but could be four days per week and we’ll consider other working patterns. We’ll aim to meet in London as a team every quarter. We offer flexible working, 24 days holiday and extra days off over Christmas, plus you get your birthday off.

We are committed to developing our team and supporting their career aspirations. We are incredibly proud that colleagues have gone on to work for organisations such as Pearson, the Government Digital Service, Tech UK, University of Salford, checkout com and Times Higher Education.

We have a long history of flexible and remote working across our team and believe everyone should have a good work/life balance while contributing to work they care about. 

We embrace a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge within Apps for Good. Joining a small collaborative team means you’ll contribute to a variety of projects and everyone across the team has their voice heard and contributes to our strategy and operations. 

Requirements

• Enthusiasm for Apps for Good’s mission

• At least 3 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: 

  • Teaching or leadership within a school

  • Working in an organisation or charity building relationships with schools and education providers

  • Programme management within the education sector 

• Experience managing projects independently, with strong attention to detail and process, and ability to solve problems

• Experience line managing individuals and/or teams

• Confident networking and engaging with stakeholders at all levels 

• Great interpersonal and teamwork skills, with the ability to work across the team and with external organisations 

• Enjoy delivering high quality presentations and pitches to external organisations

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience managing data and presenting metrics

• Effective time management

• Experience of presenting at events/conferences

How to apply

Please submit a CV and around 500 words describing why you’d like to join the team and how you meet the role requirements.

Belong’s vision is of hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. We inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime through restorative Justice, psychotherapy, mentoring, and training for criminal justice professionals.

Last year marked our tenth anniversary, and there is much for us to celebrate! Growing steadily from our London based beginnings, we now support over two thousand people who have been victims or perpetrators of crime across England each year. This year we are working from a range of prisons including HMPYOI Isis, HMPYOI Feltham, HMPYOI Brinsford, HMPYOI Aylesbury, HMP Winchester, HMP The Mount, HMP Coldingley, HMP Featherstone, HMP Brixton and HMP Send. In addition, we deliver restorative justice, mentoring and psychotherapy in a range of community settings. Belong fosters a working environment where everyone’s voice is listened to. The culture of the organisation is one that puts people first and the charity enjoys high staff morale and good staff retention. We will provide you with the support and training that you need to do your job, as well as opportunities to develop your skills and progress within your career.

We have recently launched our strategy for 2022 – 2024. This outlines our ambitions to continue to sustainably and ethically grow our reach so that we can offer powerfully unique change opportunities to even more people. Please read more about us and our work on our website, being sure to enjoy our 2020-21 annual report which you can find on our publications page on our website. 

We are seeking an inspiring, empathic, driven leader with solid experience of working in the criminal justice sector, preferably including prisons, to play a major role in shaping the services and support we provide. As Head of Programmes, you will lead the development and growth of our restorative justice, mentoring, psychotherapy and training programmes. You will take forward our ethical, person centred and thorough approach to supporting people, championing innovations to improve our work whilst identifying and developing opportunities for growth and expansion. Whilst increasing the number of individuals who can access our support, you will strengthen durability and resilience in our internal systems. You will ensure that the effectiveness of our work is well-evidenced and clearly demonstratable to funders. With line management responsibility for a team of up to five staff members, you will model our values of perseverance, respect, inspiration, restoration and empowerment. We particularly welcome applications for this position from candidates who are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, who have had personal experience of the criminal justice system and/or who have current enhanced prison security vetting.

Please apply for this position by emailing via the button below with a detailed covering letter outlining how you meet the skills, experience and knowledge requirements outlined in our Job Description and Person Specification document. Please also send us your CV. Applications for this position close at 11.30pm on Thursday 14th July 2022. Interviews for this position will be held on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th August 2022.

Applications for this position are particularly welcomed from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with lived experience of the criminal justice system, and/or with current enhanced prison security vetting.

We’re recruiting for a Test Lead, who will help people with sight loss live the life they choose by leading a team of test analysts and being the gatekeeper of quality configuration, customisation, and data for our Digital platforms.

As a Test Lead working in an Agile environment across a large and complex enterprise architecture, the successful postholder will be a key player in ensuring that all software change is optimised to the very highest quality.

Responsibilities include:

• developing a test strategy and function
• formulating and executing test cases, managing test data, and supporting the  team and colleagues in the execution of Business Acceptance Testing

We’re looking for someone who can be hands-on in ensuring the effective utilisation of defect tracking software (Jira), and who’ll work closely with our Technology Delivery Manager and other Heads of Technology verticals to ensure effective communication, coordination and feedback across our testing, development and delivery functions.

This homebased role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.

We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

Diversity

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

Candidate profile

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

Essential

• ISTQB certification or recognised equivalent certificate in Testing
• Experience in leading and managing test analysts
• Experience in developing testing strategy to support an organisations technology stack
• Experience in creating/Implementing Test Cases, Plans, Scripts etc.
• Experience of Selenium Webdriver
• Good interpersonal skills / friendly and approachable, strong facilitation skills. 

Desirable

• Agile accreditations
• Experience working in the non-profit sector
• Defining Test Strategies for functional and non-functional testing

For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.