Head of programme finance jobs

Do you want to improve the lives of people with disabilities and vulnerable people?

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an award-winning international humanitarian and development organisation. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we take action and raise awareness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respects for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Our UK team is looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join us as a Programme Funding Officer (PFO). This is an exciting and varied role working across the funding cycle from the early stage of new opportunities through to grant management. You will be regularly in touch with our country teams, supporting them to engage with UK institutional donors in-country and advising them on compliance for both grants and commercial contracts. You will also get a chance to support partnership development, as well as get involved in advocacy and policy influencing. If this sounds like the next role for you, we’d love to welcome you to our friendly and dedicated team.

Equal opportunities policy

HI UK is committed to diversity and inclusion. We recognise that discrimination shapes the opportunities that many people have in society and that people have different needs in order to realise their full potential. Addressing this requires organisations to be proactive in creating environments that encourage the inclusion and development of all. Though we still have a long way to go, inclusion is central to our identity at HI UK and we are strongly committed to the continuous work that it requires.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with disabilities and/or from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds, to help make us more representative. If you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND PURPOSE OF THE POST

The Institutional Relations team is responsible for donor engagement and influencing, institutional funding, and partnerships in the UK. It comprises the Head of Institutional Relations and two Programme Funding Officers.

As part of HI’s 2016-2025 strategy, we have ambitious targets for growth in institutional funding from UK donors, and more broadly, a focus on building strategic relationships with key UK donors and partners. Given the changing external funding environment and evolving context in the UK, we are looking for an individual who is willing to be flexible and adapt to the context in order to meet the organisation’s needs and have the biggest impact for people with disabilities.

The main purpose of this post is:

• Improving our track record for UK and other funding by increasing internal understanding of donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, supporting high quality submissions, grant management and donor compliance
• Strengthening relationships with, and generating and managing funding from UK and other institutional donors and partners

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Promoting our work and building relationships with institutional donors

Supporting the work of the Head of Institutional Relations, you will have sound knowledge of the donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, and contribute proactively to influencing their funding strategies and priorities. Duties include:

• Maintain a good understanding of HI’s programmes, strategy and approach and communicate this externally
• Identify and build relationships with a portfolio of large public and private institutional donors and their key suppliers (e.g. INGOs and for-profit development companies), mobilising colleagues from UK and across the global organisation as required
• Work with country programmes to develop country-level action plans to engage with local representatives of UK donors and partners, in order to strengthen in-country relationships, influence donors’ country-level plans and access in-country funding opportunities. This will also involve supporting the development of multi-year operational plans and advise on the funding possibilities offered by UK institutional donors  
• Anticipate future trends and the expectations of the donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, influence their policies and strategies, and negotiate and consult with them on institutional funding matters, in liaison with the appropriate colleagues from the UK team and federal network
• In coordination with the Head of Institutional Relations and the Chief Executive, monitor and where needed, contribute to collective work and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with partners and INGO networks (such as the Start Network and targeted Bond groups) with the aim of raising HI’s profile and influencing UK donors in line with our influencing priorities

Generate and manage institutional funding from UK donors

You will follow and champion HI’s internal institutional funding procedures to identify and analyse funding opportunities from UK sources, contribute to project submissions, and carry out grant management duties. You will:

• Monitor, identify, analyse and communicate all relevant funding opportunities from donors in your portfolio (including development and humanitarian grant opportunities and commercial contracts). This will involve facilitating internal go/no go decision-making for new opportunities and advising, and supporting programme colleagues on positioning and consortium-building when relevant
• Lead the review and analysis of the requirements in new funding agreements and contracts, advise internal stakeholders on compliance and ensure appropriate contract negotiation and due diligence processes are followed
• Implement internal procedures for contract/grant management and support the submission of reporting and payment requests according to donor requirements

Improve our track record for UK institutional funding

You will be responsible for increasing internal understanding of UK donors and funding mechanisms in your portfolio, supporting high quality strategic submissions and donor compliance. You will:

• Create internal communications, train and brief finance, programme and technical staff (including country programmes) on the donors in your portfolio, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge to comply with donor rules, understand donor priorities and focus areas, and maximise the potential for funding
• Support proposal development, advising on donor requirements, expectations and preferences
• Build strong relationships and internal links with technical and programme teams and contribute to internal working groups on issues related to institutional funding

Other duties

• Maintain a positive and collaborative working relationship with HI UK colleagues and the Federal Institutional Funding, and Operations teams
• Actively contribute to the HI UK operational plan and team work plans, and internal staff meetings
• Ensure high quality, accurate internal reporting and information management for your portfolio
• Keep abreast of developments within the sector by liaising with counterparts in other NGOs, and relevant networks
• Represent HI UK at external forums and meetings when relevant
• Any other activities commensurate with the level of the post, as may be required by the Chief Executive or Head of Team

BMS World Mission is recruiting four key leadership roles, within its newly restructured Department for World Mission.

• Head of Programme - Developing Resilience (Most marginalised)
• Head of Programme - Evangelism and Discipleship (Least marginalised)
• Head of Programme - People on the Move
• Head of Programme - Capacity Strengthening and Cross-cutting (themes)

Are you a leader with experience in leading and empowering dispersed teams in diverse and complex mission contexts? Do you have a passion to see some of the most marginalised and least evangelised communities around the world experience abundant life?

Do you have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a high level of intercultural sensitivity and leadership experience? Do you also have the ability to lead teams towards collaborative, fruitful mission impact? Have you worked with or supported organisations in a variety of contexts, including in the Global South? Do you have a commitment to seeing mission from everywhere to everywhere, where the members of the Body of Christ share in mission collaboratively? And do you bring significant experience in one or more of the following areas of BMS’ mission priorities?

• Relief and/or International/Community development
• Evangelism, discipleship, and church planting
• Refugee ministry in diverse contexts
• Organisational capacity strengthening, gender justice or creation stewardship

We are looking for four individuals to take on these new and strategic roles within BMS.

Working closely with the Director for Mission, the Heads of Programme (HoPs) will take responsibility for one of BMS’ key programmatic areas of work (Most Marginalised, Least Evangelised, People on the Move) or its Capacity Strengthening and Cross-cutting themes (including gender justice and creation stewardship), while also sharing in the team leadership of the Department for World Mission.

HoPs will line manage specialist leads and oversee the management of BMS mission workers and others, within the team they are responsible for. Oversight of the programme will involve ensuring BMS delivers on its agreed strategic goals and is able to adapt to the changing missional needs of our work with partners around the world.

The successful applicant will be a committed Christian. The nature of this role means that this is a specific occupational requirement. 

Location:                Didcot, UK or within an international mission context where BMS works

Hours:                     35 hrs per week/full-time

Employment:          Permanent

Salary range:          Salary set at the national equivalent of a UK salary of £42,646-47,865 based on relative national salary levels of the relevant Global South/BMS mission context, and  increasing in periodic increments to the top of the band

Closing date:       9 am, Friday 15 July 2022

 Interview:            Planned between 21-27 July in Didcot, England

If you would like to discuss this role with the Director for Mission, Arthur Brown, please contact Elizabeth O’Brien via at BMS World Mission, Didcot to arrange a suitable time.

For full information and to download a recruitment pack, please visit our website for more details. 

We are recruiting! Are we looking for you?

Who you are: A respected and experienced professional, motivational leader with a talent for programme development, partnership building and the skills, knowledge and experience to implement MapAction’s strategy in concert with the MapAction team.  You share the MapAction ‘can-do’ attitude, rooted in our volunteer values, held very dearly. 

An excellent communicator with great interpersonal skills, you can motivate staff and volunteers alike, to exceed expectations whilst maintaining and developing agreed standards and practices. MapAction’s exceptional volunteer membership and programme staff team will benefit from your leadership to build on their tradition of outstanding humanitarian service. You are a thinker and a doer with deep knowledge and experience in humanitarian, development or peacebuilding contexts and know the value of information management to design effective programmes. 

What you will do: 

You will lead the development of our programme and partnerships to deliver on our ambitious strategy for the future. This will involve delivering on current commitments and developing new, innovative opportunities for us to build global, geospatial capacity for humanitarian response, reduce vulnerability and contribute to ever more effective humanitarian, anticipatory action, preparedness and response. You will develop the team/s to deliver this based on a revised organisational structure and will work closely with others in the organisation to ensure a fully integrated and joined up programme.

As a member of the organisation’s senior leadership team you will take a view across the organisation to enable MapAction to deliver on its strategic goals taking responsibility for managing risk with the Chief Executive and leadership team. 

Key Activities

• Leadership: provide strategic leadership to the organisation through the development of plans and strategies for MapAction’s programmes and partnerships and through participation in the Management Team.

• Programme development: foster an environment that encourages innovation and evolution of our service offer, including proposing and designing new programmes as part of our ambitious income strategy; and identifying and promoting partnerships and networks to achieve this.

• Learning: ensure service user needs are met and MapAction is accountable, working closely with the MEAL team (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team to achieve this and drawing lessons for future programme development and delivery.

• Technology: work closely with MapAction’s technical personnel to ensure MapAction makes optimum use of latest technologies where appropriate, including those outside the areas which MapAction currently focuses on that are designed to meet service users current and future needs.

• Operational readiness: ensure MapAction’s 24 hour 365 days a year capability to respond to an emergency anywhere, is maintained and delivered, including personnel and equipment readiness, and that standard procedures are kept up and developed as required.

• Duty of Care: lead on security, health and safety, and conduct management for all deploying personnel ensuring MapAction exercises its Duty of Care at all times. 

• Personnel: line manage a team to deliver the above, ensuring they receive the support, development, and freedom to excel in their role, and recruit and maintain the volunteer and transition team ensuring a competency-based training framework is implemented. 

• Finance and fundraising: be responsible for the programme and partnerships budget and proactively work with the Fundraising and Marketing team to provide ideas and develop and write successful fundraising bids in line with MapAction’s strategic goals.

• Communications: communicate regularly internally to inform and engage the membership on programme and partnership activities. Work with the Marketing and Learning teams to communicate externally for fundraising or programme policy purposes. 

Direct Reports

MapAction is progressing a change in its organisational structure in line with our new strategy, that means the current arrangements will change as funding is secured for more positions. Currently this role line manages 5 roles and has a very active role in emergency deployment management. We are working towards a team of c.16 positions in the Programme and Partnerships team with the Programme and Partnerships Director managing the team through four direct reports in the key areas of programme delivery. A key part of this role’s responsibility will be to implement this change process, subject to securing the necessary funds. 

Works closely with

• Technical Director 

• Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Fundraising and Marketing team

Key Competencies

We have made quite a list but if you have skills, experience and knowledge that you think is relevant and are not mentioned here, please tell us about them. 

Essential

1. Five years or more proven programme and partnership development experience with a practical “get it done” approach. (E)

2. Team leadership experience, strong motivational qualities in working with volunteers and staff. (E)

3. Technical expertise in at least one of the following:  humanitarian, development or peacebuilding contexts. (E)

4. Ability to deal with ambiguity, use judgement in challenging circumstances, think laterally and be propositional and creative. (E)

5. Project management, report writing, budget management and proven track record of writing successful fundraising bids including experience with restricted grants. (E)

6. Positive team player - goes the extra mile, experience of collaborative working with ability to initiate, develop and sustain positive and productive working relationships with a wide range of people. (E)

7. Strong commitment to MapAction’s mission and values. (E)

8. Good IT skills and experience of shared knowledge management platforms, confidence in using technologies. (E)

9. Ability and willingness to travel, including being deployed at short notice to humanitarian locations and ability to attend training events out of normal office hours. (E)

10. Ability to conduct business in one or more of the following: French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic. (D)

Additional Information

• This role is full-time (37.5 hours a week)

• Flexibility and willingness to work outside office hours including evenings and weekends, attending monthly weekend training events for which time off in lieu as agreed, 

• Must have the right to live and work in the UK (MapAction is unable to consider candidates who do not already hold appropriate permissions)

• Must have a full, clean driving licence and access to a car.

MapAction

MapAction is a small and dynamic volunteer-based charity using geospatial technologies to support international humanitarian response coordination and operational effectiveness for humanitarian responders. Our contribution to the humanitarian sector, lies in informing life-saving humanitarian action, and training local actors to do the same. We cultivate a diverse community of technical specialists, connecting our partners to a unique range of expertise, collaborating to create innovative solutions using data, GIS, remote sensing and Information Management to anticipate, communicate and respond to humanitarian needs. This mapped information helps responders target their response effectively, contributing to saving lives and minimising suffering. MapAction is in the process of revising its strategy for the next five years to ensure it can adapt to the needs of service users around the world. It has built a strong reputation in the humanitarian sector and is a technical partner of the United Nations, regional emergency management agencies, INGOs, Civil Society organisations and Academia. 

Equal Opportunities Policy

MapAction is an Equal Opportunities employer. All employees have a personal responsibility to promote and support measures designed to create a working environment which is free from harassment or discrimination on the grounds of gender, marital status, family status, age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, membership of the Travellers community or HIV&AIDS status.

This job description is not incorporated in the employment contract. It is intended as a guide and should not be viewed as an inflexible specification as it may be varied from time to time in the light of strategic developments and following discussion with the post holder. The post holder will be expected to work to agreed objectives, which should facilitate achievement of the responsibilities in accordance with the performance review process.

How to apply

Please send an expression of interest for this role via gohire. We are running this as an open recruitment so we reserve the right to close it as and when. We strongly advise you to apply early.  Please include the following to be considered for the role:

• a cv 

• covering letter identifying how you meet the essential and desirable competencies 

• a statement of up to 500 words, that demonstrates your experience in one or more of the following: the role of information management in developing effective programmes.

Permanent, offered as full-time; open to job share partners or part-time contracts (preferably 0.8+)

This is a key leadership role with the opportunity to own and develop communications strategy and deliver programmes that position the Academy as an independent and trusted voice, helping people make decisions about their health.

You will have influence across the organisation and oversee a wide portfolio covering news media, digital communications, content production, brand reputation, marketing and corporate communications. You’ll support and coach a team to excel in these areas too and see their successes as a driver for yours.

You will get to work with our Fellowship of the most influential scientists and our community of emerging and established researchers supporting them to become accessible and trusted communicators. You’ll also work with patients, carers and members of the public to develop communications that make a difference to peoples health.

We will happily make reasonable adjustments for applicants as needed. Please do specify these at the time of applying. We welcome discussion of different working arrangements and locations with any successful applicant.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.

Closing date: 5.00pm on Monday 18 July 2022

Interview date: 26/27 July 2022 (TBC)

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.

Job Title: Head of Programme Funding

Company: Self Help Africa

Location: London / Dublin / Cardiff (or any SHA/UP country office location)

Reports to: Director of Programmes

Hours: Full Time: 37.5 hours Monday - Friday

Job Purpose:

Self Help Africa (SHA) is an international NGO dedicated to the vision of an economically thriving and resilient rural Africa. Headquartered in Ireland, SHA creates scalable and sustainable solutions to eradicating long-term poverty through knowledge transfer, investment, and market linkages.

In 2021, Self Help Africa merged with United Purpose. This doubled our size and created an international NGO that is implementing projects to end extreme hunger and poverty across 17 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Collectively a part of the wider Gorta Group, which also includes social enterprise subsidiaries Partner Africa, TruTrade and Cumo Microfinance, the organisation will work with close to six million people this year.

The Head of Programme Funding is a senior role in the organisation, responsible for leading the restricted and strategic funding function of the Gorta-Self Help Africa group (i.e. Ireland, UK, Africa, Brazil and Bangladesh, and supporting SHA US). The post is responsible for strategic leadership, developing and implementing restricted funding plans from grant and commercial contracting opportunities and donor strategies and growing income from these sources. The Head of Programme Funding will lead, manage and support a Programme Funding team across multiple countries to deliver high quality work.

Key Responsibilities

Funding Strategy and Donor Engagement

· Develop and implement plans and strategies to maximise income from statutory and foundation donors, expanding the organisation’s donor base.

· Network and represent SHA externally with donors and contacts, and in donor funding-related groups and networks.

· Contribute to organisational strategic planning with expertise on the restricted donor funding landscape.

· Mainstream and support the execution of a key relationship management system.

· Represent SHA UK in London/UK at events.

· Maintain overview of restricted annual income and co-funding requirements.

· Liaise with the Fundraising department to coordinate and track co-funding bids.

· Report on progress against plans and strategies, including tracking potential pipeline funding and expenditure and income budgets.

· Provide updates to the management team and board on progress towards increasing funding from statutory and foundation donors.

· Prepare updates for the UK board and attend meetings to present Programme Funding work.

Team Management and Leadership

· Lead, manage and support the Programme Funding Team to be high-performing and achieve income targets.

· Line manage direct reports, including coordinating workloads and assigning donor leads.

· Support the Programme Funding Team to achieve KPIs through regular support and identifying development opportunities as required.  

Proposal Development

· Have overall responsibility for developing high-quality funding proposals for statutory and foundation donors from opportunity identification through to submission/contract signing.

· Support the Programme Funding and Country Teams to identify, research and advise on funding opportunities and coordinate cross-organisational teams to respond to them.

· Develop and maintain internal review and approval procedures, to ensure the quality of submissions is as high as possible.

· Work closely with colleagues in the Programmes Department, who lead project design, to contribute to the assessment, research and design of programmes for unsollicited proposals and specific donor funding opportunities.

Donor Relationship Management

· Oversee the development of donor strategies to maximise relationships and funding from statutory and foundation donors.

· Ensure the Programme Funding team is up-to-date on donor strategies and priorities, and ensure relevant staff, such as Country Directors and Senior Management, are briefed on donor activities.

· Work closely with Programmes Department colleagues to support and/or lead contract negotiation with institutional and foundation donors.

Commercial Contracting

• Lead the growth and development of SHA’s commercial contracting portfolio, including collaborating with Finance, HR and Programmes to improve systems and processes.
• Track commercial contract opportunities and maintain knowledge of contract holders and potential prime partners.
• Identify and develop strategic relationships with potential commercial contract partners in order to improve SHA’s external profile. Liaise with country teams, SHA US and the management team as required.
• Prepare high-quality capacity statements and tender documents in response to commercial contracting opportunities.

Programme Funding Team and Miscellaneous

· Develop and manage Programme Funding team processes to improve coordination and quality, liaising with colleagues across the organisation as required including IT, Finance and the wider Programmes Department.

· Work with colleagues within the Programme Funding Team, and across SHA, to improve the standard of proposal and report writing and donor relationships, and ensure funding opportunities and contracts are managed according to donor requirements.

· Ensure the Programme Funding Team’s donor information is up-to-date in Self Help Africa’s management information system.

· Keep up-to-date on developments in relevant sectors.

Key Relationships:

Internal

· Executive Director

· Director of Programmes (line manager)

· Programme Funding Manager

· Programme Funding Coordinators

· Director of Fundraising Ireland and UK (Liaison)

· Programmes Department (Liaison)

· Country Directors / Heads of Programme (Liaison)

· Finance, Internal Audit and HR (Liaison)

· SHA US Inc.

· Partner Africa

· TruTrade

External

• Restricted/strategic donors
• Partners – NGOs, private sector, academic institutions

Knowledge, Experience and Other Requirements

Essential

· Minimum of seven years’ experience of securing institutional funding.

· Minimum of seven years’ experience working with large and diverse multi-nationality, multi-location teams.

· Evidence of success in winning large (multi-million GBP) donor funding grants/contracts.

· Experience in leading, inspiring and being part of a programme funding team.

· Evidence of building, managing and developing key funding relationships.

· Experience of managing and prioritising team workloads, meeting tight deadlines and working under pressure.

· Excellent written skills including proposals and reports and strong interpersonal, networking and influencing abilities.

· Strong and creative oral presentation skills and experience.

· Strong numeracy and analytical ability, with ability to develop and understand complex budgets and expenditure reports.

· Commitment to Self Help Africa’s vision.

Desirable

Ability to speak/understand French and Portuguese

To Apply - Please submit you cover letter, CV and appliaction form (available to download from our website) through the careers page on our website. 

All candidates offered a job with Self Help Africa will be expected to sign Self Help Africa’s Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.  Specific roles may require Police/DBS/ vetting.

Self Help Africa is an equal opportunities employer.

Hours: 0.8 FTE

Line Manager: Principal & CEO

Team: Finance & HR

Location: Ware, Hertfordshire (remote working considered with at least one day per week on site)

Salary: £45,000 per annum pro-rata + benefits

We are looking to recruit an experienced Head of Finance to lead on all financial matters at All Nations Christian College. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will control, direct and manage all college financial resources to meet statutory obligations and best practice financial management standards, and provide financial analysis and advice to assist the general management and strategic development of the college.

All Nations Christian College has a long history of successfully equipping men and women whose sights are firmly set on a future in mission work. In 2021 we celebrated 50 years of training for these remarkable individuals. We believe our work to be vital – preparing people for mission requires training for ‘the whole person’. And central to our ability to deliver high standards of education and growth for our students is a highly skilled, diverse and engaged team, ready to serve and make a difference. Could that be you?

For more information, please see the full job description.

Due to the nature of the role, it is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder is a committed Christian and fully supports the objectives of the college.

All Nations Christian College is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children from abuse and neglect. We expect all staff who work with us to share this commitment.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Head of Programme Delivery

Charlie Waller Trust
Full-Time, Permanent
£40,000 - £46,000
Hybrid - with Flexible Working

West Berkshire

Are you an empowering leader looking to lead and support the development of programmes which impact mental health in young people? Charity People is helping the fantastic team at Charlie Waller Trust find a talented Head of Programmes, to head up their national programmes and lead a busy team which delivers training, programmes, projects, and strategies.

Through offering free resources, training and information, the Charlie Waller Trust educates young people and those responsible for them about mental health. They have created a national network of parents and carers of children with mental health concerns and have piloted bespoke training for parents and carers who want to become peer support workers. As a result of the expansion of these projects, a brand new Head of Programmes role has been created.

About the role

You will have a varied role within the Trust and will be given the opportunity to make your mark by leading the development and planning of new programmes and projects from scratch. You will be heavily involved in establishing the future strategy for the Trust’s programmes.

You will lead and support the development of programmes in different stages, some which have been established previously, and others which can be developed further and grow. You will provide line management, mentorship and coaching to direct reports. You will embody the Trust’s values of warmth, empowerment, collaboration, compassion and openness, and will work closely with senior internal stakeholders; you’ll instigate and develop co-production with parents and carer, and liaise with mental health services.

About the person

•You will be a strong leader, with experience in line management, seniorleadership and managing projects at a high level. A particularly strong candidatewill have experience managing a remote team.

•You are an analytical and strategic person and have strong experience instrategy. You will have experience of developing operational plans and meetingstrategic goals. You can identify strengths and weaknesses within an organisationand are rigorous about risk management.

•You are passionate. You have an awareness of mental health issues within thecommunity and have a desire to impact this space for the benefit of young peopleand those responsible for them.

•You are creative and can use your strong interpersonal skills to engage withpotential partners and maintain existing relationships both within and outside theTrust.
 

If you are as excited by this role as we are, please send your most recent CV initially to Kate at Charity People, your consultant for this role. We’ll then be in touch with lots more information, including the role profile.

Closing date: Wednesday 6th July at 9am

Interview date: Wednesday 13th July

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Finance Officer

£25,000 - £27,000 pa (pro rata for 3 days/week) + 6% pension

Permanent, 21 hours/week

We are looking for a detail focused, organised, approachable Finance Officer to join our finance team. This role would suit someone with experience in a charity finance and administration team. You will have good organisation skills, attention to detail, accuracy, an ability to assess and deliver information in a timely manner and be able to work to deadlines. An accountancy qualification is preferred but not required.

Your main responsibility will be to maintain the organisation’s financial records using QuickBooks, ensuring that all transactions are accurately and fully recorded.

We are currently working in a hybrid model. You would be expected to work one to two days from our office in Deptford.

Please refer to the job description and person specification. To apply, please complete the online application form on our website.

Deadline: 9am Monday 18th July 2022

Interviews: Week beginning 25th July 2022

You will lead a small team and be joining at a busy and challenging, but exciting time for Orione Care. Several long standing senior managers are retiring and with a new Executive Director in post since January 2022 there is strategic change and improvement in the pipeline as we continue to pivot from provision of residential care to a focus on social housing and supported living.

The new Head of Finance (HoF) will have the opportunity to make a real mark on Orione Care as they contribute to defining and implementing a new strategic plan that includes multiple property redevelopments and a desire to grow its income and services.

You will lead a small team and be joining at a busy and challenging, but exciting time for Orione Care. Several long standing senior managers are retiring and with a new Executive Director in post since January 2022 there is strategic change and improvement in the pipeline as we continue to pivot from provision of residential care to a focus on social housing and supported living.

The new Head of Finance (HoF) will have the opportunity to make a real mark on Orione Care as they contribute to defining and implementing a new strategic plan that includes multiple property redevelopments and a desire to grow its income and services.

This will be a diverse role ranging from negotiating and supporting long term structured financial packages to delivering day-to-day financial processing for all aspects of social housing tenancy operation and small donations to the worldwide commitments of the Congregation.

The preparation of high quality group management accounts and cash flow forecasting are vital to enabling the Trustee Board to fulfil their duties. The HoF will be the lead contact for auditors and banks and for ensuring financial compliance with the Charity Commission and Companies House.

You will support the day to day spending and financial arrangements of the congregation in addition to the wider charities finances.

The HoF will also lead on all procurement processes, on matters relating to insurance and on overseeing payroll and pension arrangements.

The HoF will have oversight of the charity’s IT facilities, and a substantial part of the role will be about reviewing and updating systems, and streamlining processes as part of the charity’s current change programme to ensuring our financial service is future proof and fit for purpose.

The HoF will also:

• Champion and support the mission and values of the charity
• Draft reports that are factual and informative, plus accessible to trustees and other leaders from non-financial backgrounds.
• Take part in occasional out of hours cover for emergencies
• Deputise for the Executive Director in their absence
• Undertake reasonable duties requested that are not explicitly defined within this job description.
• Tackle complex financial situations
• Support the senior leadership team in day to day operational running of the charity
• Work with the Trustee Board to determine future strategy and take effective and informed decisions
• Undertake reasonable additional duties
• Support the congregation on day to day financial spend and costs
• Lead on the organisations IT and insurance procurement and use

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) is on a mission is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. As the leading training platform in the humanitarian sector, the HLA is at the forefront of how high-quality humanitarian learning can be scaled through networks and digital technologies.

To develop and truly sustain this impact the HLA aims to achieve substantial growth as a social enterprise whilst maximising the benefits of its close relationship to Save the Children. We believe that this, more independent, more commercial and more focused business model is an archetype for the future of NGOs. This is an opportunity to push new boundaries in how NGOs can operate.

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic and creative Head of Business Development to help lead this expansive agenda and generate commercial, philanthropic and social investment income alongside more traditional restricted charitable funding.

We are looking for fresh thinking, so a strong charitable fundraising track record is not a pre-requisite. If you are excited by this proposition, have a track record of generating business and are strongly aligned to our mission then we want to hear from you!

Job Purpose

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy aims to substantially grow its business through the development of a profitable business model around its sector leading Kaya learning platform complemented by substantial growth in restricted, unrestricted and social investment income streams. Achieving this will enable the HLA to have impact at scale in the countries most affected by disaster, be transformative in the humanitarian sector through collaborative change and, deliver learning solutions that allow organisations to take ownership of their long-term learning needs.

The Head of Business Development will focus on a key element of the new strategy: increasing and diversifying HLA's income streams.

The role will be responsible for capitalising on the increasing interest and demand in our existing products and will; increase sales & profitability of existing products (Kaya portals, HPass and consultancy services), bring to market new products. It will also be responsible for the development of new funding streams outside of product sales. 

By introducing and selling new commercial products to a global audience via the proposed Kaya Marketplace, this position will showcase to the humanitarian and development sector, that organisations a commercial model that balances charitable and commercial activity is viable. Doing so will stimulate better quality and more widespread supply of humanitarian learning. 

Key Accountabilities:

Line management  and overseeing business development 

• Manage a growing team of fundraising and commercial business development professionals.
• Develop and manage income streams with the intention of growing to multimillion pound turnover from commercial revenue and social investment. 
• Oversee and diversify charitable income for the HLA.
• Pipeline management - Manage a healthy pipeline of commercial clients to grow and retain income. 
• Costing, pricing, budgeting, and profitability across the HLA - Accountability for costing. pricing, budgeting, and ensuring profitability across the commercial product portfolio and the award funded programme portfolio working closely with finance 
• Maximise sales, retention and business development - Using key success metrics (ROI, cost of acquisition, profitability, churn) and working closely with the HLA Fundraising Lead and HLA Commercial Lead, ensure products are profitable and programmes meet strategic goals
• Proposal and Programme Development - Working with colleagues across the HLA's programmatic portfolio and strategic partnerships, to identify strategic opportunities and identify opportunities for funding partnerships
• Accountable for relevant strategic projects that are a priority for the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, leveraging resource from across the entire unit to deliver on HLA's goals and priorities that are imperative to the HLA's success.
• Responsible for team budget management

As a senior member of the HLA team 

• Represent the HLA in public forums and contribute through wider thought leadership on strategic areas of this body of work, to include but not limited to advocating for the professionalisation of learning in the sector.
• Lead and manage a team of people, ensuring the development of an inclusive and supportive environment, strong and effective ways of working which motivates and encourages innovation and creativity across the team.
• Develop and build strong relationships with a cross section of stakeholders, including decision makers' influencers and partners, within the Save the Children movement and internal and external to the wider humanitarian sector. 
• As a member of the Senior Management Team within the Academy, and alongside the other Heads of Teams, ensure that there is a sense of collective responsibility to draw upon the resources and expertise across all four teams to drive forward sustainable, yet ambitious growth across the unit and that supports the localisation agenda.

Person Profile

You will be an expert in business development with experience in generating significant income (six figures plus) for ideally innovative social enterprises and/or charities on a global scale. You will have an entrepreneurial background with the ability to bring new products to global markets and create new fundraising products..

 Experience/Skills

• Significant, strategic business development experience in a charitable/impact driven organisation and/or social enterprise on a comparable scale with ambitious financial targets.
• Extensive experience leading on the production of professional high-value commercial proposals with a good track record of success.
• Entrepreneurship and business development skills - proven experience of establishing new projects initiatives and of developing strong relationships and productive partnerships 
• Demonstrable success and expertise in building and managing complex relationships, often through others, with a variety of stakeholders.
• Strong evidenced project management experience including cross organisational or multi-stakeholder projects ensuring that targets are met within the timeframe and budget set.
• A proven track record of setting, delivering, and tracking strategic direction that supports financial decision-making at a leadership level

Abilities

• Ability to build and work as part of a high performing team and work effectively across the different functions to ensure maximum effectiveness and impact
• Strong representational and communication skills, able to articulate a vision, strategy, or ideas clearly and concisely
• Instinctively collaborative and able to develop and maintain strong relationships with partners and stakeholders

 Aptitude

• Passion and energy to work in pursuit of transforming humanitarian response globally 
• Market leading approach to progressive and innovative revenue generating initiatives
• An instinctively analytical and strategic thinker
• Undeniably positive with high levels of personal resilience and motivation to lead and manage a team
• Highly effective in influencing, negotiating, and lobbying

Please note we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and interviews will be scheduled as applications are received. Please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

This role can be based internationally outside the UK provided it is in a country with an SC office from which you would be able to and have the right to work - the salary will be based on local pay structures if not based in the UK. 

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

My client is a world-class research centre, run as a non-profit employer, bridging the gap between business and academia. It turns great ideas into commercial reality by providing access to world class research and development facilities, and expertise that could otherwise be out of reach for many businesses in the UK.

As part of a recent expansion and development programme, they are now looking to recruit a Interim Head of Finance for 6 months to help with an increase of workload and projects

Reporting into the Deputy Director of Finance , this role will be responsible for delivering all the financials of a small yet rapidly growing SME, in an efficient, well managed and effective manner leading a small finance team in the process.

You will also lead on the financials for several new projects and business cases providing stakeholders and non finance people with accurate and relevant information.

Also crucial to this role is the ability to work with a variety of different people across a business, have excellent communication and people skills and be able to adapt quickly to changing priorities

Programme Finance Specialist, Temp. £200 per day (Umbrella). Remote

For an international NGO operating in over 100 countries, we are recruiting an interim Programme Finance Specialist for up to 2 months to support them during a busy period. This role will provide contract, finance, and compliance support for several contracts through end-to-end programme management, funding proposals, donor reporting and project close-out. The Programme Finance Specialist will work on key UK and FCDO donors and deliver finance training to programme managers. This is a fully remote role.

Main Duties:

• Provide support on program management and contract set up, budget cost proposal, grant management, compliance, cashflow management and monitoring of the grants and contracts
• Support Program Funding Team in proposal budget development
• Prepare country office agreements (IPIA) and advise on consortium agreements
• Ensure compliance with FCDO donor requirements
• Review contract performance of projects and carry out contract and finance activities including Donor reporting
• Prepare responses to donor audit queries as well as budgeting and reforecasting processes
• Reconcile all active projects and close-out calculations

What will you bring to this role?

• International grant management for EU and UK Donors including FCDO
• Budgeting and financial analysis of international programmes
• Strong MS Excel
• Experience from the charity and NGO sector including Donor contract and reporting
• Strong understanding of UK/European donor financial compliance and contract requirements

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

After 25 years, we have reached a stage in our story where for the future of the charity, we need someone with senior management experience to look at the next five year plan, and guide us to the next level.

Off The Fence (OTF) is a Brighton-based charity founded in 1997 working to support the homeless and vulnerable in Brighton and Hove. OTF is both practical and faith-based believing that to love God means loving our neighbour, whomever that may be and whatever the cost. It employs 25 highly motivated full or part-time staff and is supported by 120 committed volunteers.

Job Objectives:

Reporting to the CEO, deputising for him as required and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the charity (excluding income generation and marketing) as well as playing a key role in the development of strategy. Joint responsibility, with the senior management team, to guarantee that the vision of the charity operates within the Christian ethos and values of OTF. The successful candidate will be a mature and committed Christian, in order to ensure that the Christian culture of OTF is maintained throughout the charity. This is a hands-on role where the job holder will be expected to personally deliver against a range of key objectives.

Your duties will include ensuring optimum staffing levels, processes and quality of service delivery. You will continually review all aspects of the Charity’s operations and service and make recommendations to the CEO and Board on tactical and strategic changes.

In addition, the job holder will play a central role in the transition of the charity to new leadership as the founders prepare to retire.

Finance:

• Take responsibility for the creation and management of expense budgets, with particular regard to supplier contracts, property, provisioning and allocation of resources.
• Manage the delivery of budgetary reporting for the CEO, budget holders and Board.
• Work with colleagues to develop a robust, long term financial strategy for the charity that maximises value, enhances delivery to clients and is aligned to overall strategy.
• Play a lead role in future capital appeals.

Property

• Lead the property strategy for the Charity aligned to the five-year plan.
• Ensure a plan for the maintenance of the existing property portfolio and maximise income opportunities including letting contracts.
• Take a leading role in any future property transactions acting as the point of contact with vendors, legal advisers etc.

People

• Working closely with the General Manager develop an umbrella strategy for human resources including pay and reward, succession planning, appraisals and recruitment.
• To provide ongoing Christian leadership and participate in regular staff and prayer meetings.

New Projects

• Prospect and advise on potential new developments for the charity including employment opportunities, housing, partnerships.

External Relationships

• Work alongside the CEO, Head of Income Generation and Comms and General Manager in liaising with external partners, funders and agencies.

Management

• Provide cover for the CEO when required, including with partners, the Board and staff.
• Contribute to the day-to-day running of OTF.
• Provide Christian leadership in areas such as change management, new projects, and staff/board relations.
• Act as expert counsel on key people issues including recruitment decisions, staff allocation, and pastoral care/dispute management.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to apply business knowledge to real-world scenarios in the Charity sector
• Excellent communication skills
• Outstanding organisational and administrative skills
• Able to lead and operate at both a strategic and tactical level
• Knowledge of business software, such as accounting programmes or client management tools
• Able to bring people with them, challenging where required and providing support for each person to reach their full potential
• Reviewing existing operations and finding areas for development and growth
• Experience of C-level interaction and recruitment
• Prospecting opportunities for staff training, development and advancement within the company
• Modelling charity policies and values

Experience

• Should ideally have at least five years of experience working in a leadership role within a third sector organisation, along with a range of management roles prior to this.
• Demonstrable experience in leading people and financial management and strategy.
• Experience working across departments and levels and with external partners is essential.
• You will require a solid range of business skills, good humour and excellent people skills to be successful in this important role.