We need an outgoing self-starter to drive our work in the London (and surrounding areas) forward, making it a self-sustaining hub that delivers real social impact.

As the public face of the organisation, you will be responsible for partnership development, profile raising and managing our programmes from volunteer recruitment all the way through to evaluation. This is an “in-at-the-deep-end” role, you will work independently across the region and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence in decision making.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Growing London as a sustainable region:

• Generating new school leads and securing programmes
• Generating income outside of school programmes
• Growing a strong and supportive network of schools, Multi Academy Trusts, universities, corporate partners and others.
• Feeding into key discussions on organisational direction and collaboration on various organisational workstreams (impact, sales, programmes).

Overseeing our tutoring programmes in the region from start to finish:

• Acting as the regional safeguarding lead (training provided)
• Meeting weekly KPI’s on attendance and quality management of sessions

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students:

• Recruiting volunteer tutors for the programmes
• Retaining volunteers term by term
• Training volunteers in tutoring/coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school and online programmes (university student led and peer led across London & SE)

• Setting the timelines for the start and end of programmes
• Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback
• Visiting schools to oversee quality
• Managing and running online sessions

Programme Design and Delivery

• Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops when needed
• Running in-school workshops for groups of pupils (KS3-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of the programme.

Managing partnerships with London universities:

• Maintaining regular contact with relevant staff members in outreach and/or volunteering teams at each university
• Managing room bookings for events at university campuses.

Line managing a team of Programme Officers and Head Coaches

• Managing your staff team of up to 6 programme officers
• Ensuring all staff have the required knowledge and skills to thrive in their role
• Meeting regional KPIs across all programmes
• Delivering training for Head Coaches in London
• Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions

Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, service, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Essential characteristics and experience:

• Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK.
• Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love communicating our mission to a wide range of stakeholders (schools, universities, businesses) and bring people with you.
• Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different workstreams.
• Independence: this role requires you to work independently/alone in the office and/or from home frequently where you will need to manage your own workload.
• Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must!
• Young People: experience in a school or youth organisation as a facilitator.
• Flexibility: the role will occassionally involve working evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel: the role will involve substantial travel across the region visiting our partners.

Desirable knowledge/experience:

• 2-3 years frontline experience working in a school or social sector for example as a teacher or workshop facilitator.
• Experience of partnership development in the social or public sectors.
• Knowledge of programme design, pedagogy or coaching.
• Knowlegde of London schools and the education landscape in London

Benefits:

• An opportunity to play an important role in a young, exciting social mobility organisation with scope to grow quickly across the UK.
• Starting Salary: £28-30k per annum (dependent on experience)
• Annual Leave: 28 days (to be taken by arrangement, usually during the school holidays.)
• Flexibility to occasionally work from home
• Training: we are a reflective organisation and keen to support your professional development.

Key Information:

• Length: permanent
• Hours: Full Time, 5 Days a week (with some weekend/evening hours during recruitment phase which will acknowledged in TOIL).
• Reporting to: National Programmes Manager
• Responsible for: London and South East
• Start Date: Flexible for the right candidate (ideally August 2021, no later than mid-September 2021)
• Location: London, with travel between our office (Currently based in Camden), partner schools across the region and semi-regular visits to other regions including the South West and West Midlands where you may need to stay overnight.

Head of Fundraising & Development

Salary: c. £40,000 to £45,000 p.a., dependent upon experience

Location:  Based at our London office in Bermondsey. There may be some flexibility but we would expect the ability to travel to London at least 2-3 days a week.

Permanent full-time contract.

Construction Youth Trust is a forward-thinking charity whose mission is to help young people reach their full potential and achieve a successful and rewarding career. Working closely with employer partners, we prepare young people for the world of work, support them to build on their skills and confidence and connect them directly with opportunities aligned to their individual strengths and interests. We prioritise young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, under-represented groups and those facing significant barriers to work.

We are looking for a Head of Fundraising & Development to join our friendly team and lead on the Trust’s fundraising and marketing strategy. We are seeking a dynamic, ambitious and persuasive professional who can build on the Trust’s achievements and use our fundraising success as a platform for growth.  The Trust has a wide range of stakeholders – employer partners, trusts & foundations, corporate sponsors, statutory funders, as well as young people, schools, colleges, teachers, careers advisors, community partners and a dedicated team of industry volunteers - so we are seeking someone who can persuade and communicate effectively at many different levels. In addition to developing existing and new income streams for the Trust, an important aspect of this role is ensuring our key messages are communicated in a lively and engaging way that inspires all our stakeholders.  This role would be perfect for a professional who is passionate about young people and is seeking a high level of responsibility across a wide range of fundraising and marketing activities. 

We strongly believe that a diverse and inclusive team is vital to our work. We are especially interested in hearing from individuals who are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background and/or those with a lived experience of the young people we support.

If you are passionate about transforming the life chances of young people and are looking for the next step in your fundraising career, please send your CV and a written statement (no more than 500 words) explaining why the role interests you, your track record in fundraising and how you believe you meet the person specification.

Closing date for applications – 9am on Monday 9th August 2021.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles are subject to safer recruitment practices, and this position will require an Enhanced Disclosure with Barred list check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated individual to make a real impact on the Service Delivery of Wessex Cancer Trust, helping us to reach more people affected by cancer in the Wessex region. 

Delivering services that stand out as trusted, effective and accessible for our clients is critical to our success, and our enthusiastic and passionate services team works hard to achieve this daily. Following a period of 18 months adapting our services to be accessible remotely as well as now face to face again, there are a number of services projects that need to be effectively project managed. We are looking for a Deputy to work alongside our Head of Service Delivery to help drive and deliver these projects and provide cover during her maternity leave which will begin towards the end of 2021. We’re looking for someone who has a background in therapeutic service provision and excellent project management skills. You’ll have excellent communication skills, confidence and authority, so you can effectively deputise for the Head of Service Delivery, ensuring that the team continues to thrive.

The Head of Support Services will create a positive, supportive culture of personal growth, underpinned by a holistic and empowering health and wellbeing approach. Supported by the trustees, the CEO, staff and service users, the post-holder will be a leader and will provide a constant stimulus for self-improvement in a learning, supportive and diverse environment. They will provide high level and efficient management of Betknowmore UK support and community programmes, including:

• North London gambling community support hub

• Peer Support services, including the Peer Aid programme

• Bespoke projects, including Women’s Recovery Programme, Digital Hub and activities, Experts by Experience engagement and support

  The post-holder will work to ensure successful service provision and outcomes. Recruit, train and supervise a team of staff/mentors/volunteers to deliver support and community activities. Oversee service integration or collaboration with the National Gambling Treatment Service (NGTS) partners and other key stakeholders.

  A key aspect of the role will be to work closely with people presenting with gambling harm issues
  and/or people affected by this issue. The Head of Support Services will oversee sustainable recovery interventions that may include structured psycho-social 1:1 and group activities, counselling and therapy, peer and mentoring support, with services co-produced by clinician and health professionals, and insight and knowledge from experts by experience. Experience of gambling support and treatment and /or harm minimisation programmes is desirable, but not essential.

  Working with other members of the SMT, they will input into management of the charity, as well as supporting grant, contract and tender submissions, operational management, governance, performance and contract monitoring and outcome reporting. This will include financial planning and budgeting. Adherence to health and safety and equal opportunities and diversity policies is expected at all times.

What Works for Children's Social Care is looking for a Head of Programmes Evaluation to oversee our ambitious programme of research funding focused on improving outcomes for families and young people with a social worker. At WWCSC, the Programmes team is responsible for funding the delivery of promising programmes or interventions (typically through Open Funding Rounds, or occasionally through direct awards) - as well as their accompanying evaluations. 

The Head of Programmes Evaluation will provide leadership on evaluation within the Programmes team, and work closely with the Research team to further develop our approach to evaluation. This role will hold key relationships with the Evaluation Advisory Group and our Panel of Evaluators as well as working closely with grant applicants to support evaluation of sector-led programmes. 

The Person

Values:

1. Personal commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people, and their families.
2. A passion for the agenda around What Works Centres and the broader agenda around evidence-based policy and practice in public services. 

Skills and Abilities:

1. Quality written and oral communication, able to produce high quality written reports, deliver impactful presentations, and facilitate discussions.
2. Experience either in delivering evaluations including randomised controlled trials or in working in organisations that fund these types of evaluations
3. The ability to work a fast paced organisation to deliver excellence across your programme of work 

Knowledge and Experience:

1. Significant understanding of education or children’s social care, either as a researcher or a funder, or both.
2. Experience in leading a team managing complex projects including a number of stakeholders e.g. evaluators, local authorities, and/or charities.
3. Experience and/or training in evaluation methodologies, including pilot studies, randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental methods.
4. Understanding of, and commitment to, working to meet the needs of a diverse group of beneficiaries and stakeholders and the challenges and barriers associated with this.
5. Experience of maintaining multiple stakeholder relationships.
6. Experience working in a fast paced, start-up environment (desirable)
7. Understanding of organisational development and implementing cultural change in organisations and across the sector. (desirable)
8. Politically aware and reflective. (desirable) 

Please note that the salary shown is based on a full-time salary - this is a part-time role at 3 days per week, so the salary will be £21,000 pro-rata. 

About Strength & Stem

Strength & Stem is a small charity that exists to help prepare women who have survived human trafficking for meaningful employment, using floristry as the tool. We believe that floristry can be used as a practical tool to help survivors of human trafficking to build a future for themselves, as well as a therapeutic tool in healing from trauma.

Founded in 2019, we ran an inaugural series of floristry workshops in October of the same year. The aim of the pilot was to see if floristry could help female survivors of human trafficking grow in confidence, social connection, and sense of purpose. Our pilot was a great success. All the women reported learning a new skill, 70% reported feeling more confident and we had several requests for further training and opportunities to put their skills into practice.

We have since evaluated and built on the content and structure of the pilot to develop a more holistic programme which we will begin rolling out from 2021. In addition to floristry training, the new programmes will involve supplementary skills training, mentorship and work experience.

Programme and Impact Manager

The Programme and Impact Manager will be responsible for the planning, coordination, and the safe and effective delivery of our upcoming programmes as well as their impact measurement and evaluation. As this is a brand-new role there is real opportunity to shape and grow our programmes, establish strong monitoring and evaluation frameworks for the future, and set the direction of Strength & Stem as a charity.

Job title: Programme and Impact Manager
Responsible to: Trustee Board
Hours: Three days per week (22.5 hours per week, 0.6 FTE). This is a fixed term role for 12 months, with the possibility of an extension of a further 12 months subject to additional fundraising.
Based: This is a remote role; however, you will be required to attend the floristry and skills training sessions in person, as delivery of the workshops are a key part of the role. These sessions will take place in London or Surrey. You may also need to be available in London or Surrey for meetings that require in person attendance. You must have the pre-existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this role.

This is a new role, and the first paid role within Strength & Stem, funded by a grant from the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010. Strength & Stem values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Application deadline is midnight on Sunday 8th August 2021.

Location: Working flexibly with an expectation of regular travel to Guildford

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000

Contract: Permanent, Full time (37.5 hrs pw)

Could you be the voice of Cycling?

Imagine a country where cycling is a safe and natural way most people choose to move around. Imagine a country where air pollution is no longer poisoning our children, obesity has been eliminated and our towns and cities are free of traffic congestion. 

This is the vision we cherish at Cycling UK and we’re on mission to get a million more people cycling. But not just the usual suspects. Our campaigning, engagement, volunteering, and behaviour change programmes are intended to make sure the cycling population more closely reflects the diverse make-up of the UK.

This is an exciting time for a communications specialist to join the team. At a time when cycling is on a boom. Through the lockdown the public have re-found their love for the bike with shops selling out and cycling levels hitting 400%. Exciting as all the UK nations governments have woken up to the wider benefit of cycling to our physical and mental health, to our environment and green transport.

You’ll be a seasoned communications and media expert, ready to profile the charity and take the news to the national media to maximise on cycling’s popularity, build upon the public’s increasing engagement on digital channels and at a time of environmental awareness capitalise on the zeitgeist of this autumn’s COP26 to show just what cycling can achieve.

We need your experience and zeal to lead the team to sell cycling, to shout about our successes, to help us fundraise, to counter the negative perceptions of cycling in the media, society and in decision makers, to make cycling inviting for all.

We are an inclusive organisation and would particularly welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. We strongly believe that diversity strengthens our work. If you are already passionate about cycling, that’s great, many of us are too! But if you are simply really excellent at what you do, no matter what your background, that is what matters most to us.

Come and join us for the ride.

Tell us why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity.

Head to our website and explore the job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening and send to our recruitment team (contact details on our jobs page).

Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

Apply before 9am Monday 9 August. Interviews to be carried out 24 August 2021.

From Bernie Sanders to Greenpeace UK, progressive organisations are using digital mobilisation to activate hundreds of thousands of campaigners and raise millions of pounds online. Forward Action believes that a digital mobilisation model - where organisations use digital channels to drive tens or hundreds of thousands of supporters to take advocacy, fundraising and volunteering actions - can revolutionize campaigning and fundraising in the NGO sector, but its potential is still largely untapped in the UK. We help progressive organisations build digital mobilisation programmes and, as our Head of Creative, you will lead our creative team to produce copy and designs that inspire people to take action.

You’ll be in charge of our copywriting, design and creative work. You’ll set the creative direction for our work, write and edit copy, come up with digital engagement tactics, facilitate brainstorms with our partners and ensure we deliver high quality creative work that helps our progressive partners hit their goals. And finally, you’ll manage two Digital Creatives, overseeing their work to keep delivering creative that produces excellent results with our partners.

If you know how to write copy that drives people to act, have great attention to detail, enjoy supporting partners to come up with creative ideas, and would be excited to help spread digital mobilisation across the charity sector, this job is for you.

This is a permanent role, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely from home, although during any lockdowns you will, of course, only work from home. You can work either four or five days a week.

People from communities that traditionally experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or immigration status; women and non-binary people; parents; people with disabilities; and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply.

Who we are

Forward Action is a digital mobilisation agency for progressive causes. We help our partner organisations reach new supporters, then mobilise them to become activists and donors. We have been in the engine room of some of the most successful election and charity digital campaigns of the last few years, helping our partners add millions of new supporters to their email lists, raise more money online (from more donors) and create campaigns that have led to real-world change. You will play a key role in this in your job.

Our values are critical to us: we will only work with causes that make the world a better place. You will get to work with some of the most inspiring and impactful organisations in the sector - such as Greenpeace, Cancer Research UK, and Amnesty International - and spend your days helping win progress on everything from climate change to homelessness.

You will be working at the cutting edge of digital mobilisation. We trust in data rather than our gut instincts, so we are constantly testing and iterating in our work in order to challenge assumptions and drive better results. We are an agile, fast-moving team, and you will have the opportunity to rapidly expand your knowledge and experience. 

One of our fundamental values is that all our work should drive real-world, measurable results. But we also believe that the greatest progressive impact we can have is to give our partner organisations the skills, knowledge and culture they need to do what we do themselves. We want to spread our skills and way of working across the progressive sector, not make our partners dependent on us. 

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Set the overall creative direction and messaging for our work with partners, and ensure that all the copy we deliver meets a high standard

• Plan, write and edit copy for emails, Facebook ads, signup and fundraising pages, and digital engagement tools (example here)

• Collaborate with other members of the Forward Action team to ensure our creative work remains innovative and sector-leading

• Share creative recommendations with our partners and train them in copywriting and email best practice

• Manage creative capacity for Forward Action, ensuring that concepts, copy and other deliverables are produced on time and to a high standard

• Line manage our two Digital Creatives, overseeing their workload and supporting their professional development

• Provide clear, constructive feedback on copy written by the Digital Creatives, freelance copywriters and other members of the team

• Facilitate brainstorms and creative sessions, and come up with concepts for handraisers, fundraising campaigns, engagement tools and other tactics

• Lead on the design process for new webpages, including planning user journeys, providing designers with briefs, and feeding back on designs

Benefits and location

Pro Rata Salary: £46,375 if you live inside London, £41,406 (plus £3,000 travel expense allowance) if you live outside London.

Contract Term: This is a permanent contract. The role can be either full time or four days a week.

Location: At home during lockdown; post-lockdown, in our Hoxton office, with the option to work remotely. Ensuring our team is open to people who live outside London and enabling staff to work flexibly are important values to us, so you’ll have the freedom to work from home regularly. Many of our meetings are held via video conferencing, but post-lockdown you will need to attend meetings with partners in London fairly regularly - once or twice a week on average.

Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.

Extra holiday for travelling sustainably: We’re a member of the Climate Perks scheme, so you’ll have an extra two days of holiday a year if you use them to travel by land or sea instead of taking a flight.

Maternity and Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave: For a small organisation, we’re proud to have a generous and progressive parental leave policy. Maternity leave is 12 weeks at full pay, 14 weeks at 50% pay. Paternity/Long-term partner parental leave is 6 weeks at full pay.

Working culture and hours: Our team is open, inclusive, friendly, respectful and kind. We are especially looking forward to seeing applications from people that experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or immigration status; women and non-binary people; new parents; disabled people; and LGBTQ+ people.

We work eight hour days (including a 30 minute lunch break), with core hours of 9:30am-4:30pm. We put a lot of importance on ensuring everyone finishes on time: while there are some times when you’ll need to stay a little later to finish work, people in the team rarely work more than 45-60 minutes late. No one ever works on weekends or their holidays. 

Abilities and experience you’ll need to have

• 3+ years experience working in digital campaigning and/or digital fundraising

• Excellent copywriting and communication skills

• Experience writing and editing copy for emails, online ads and websites

• Enthusiasm for thinking creatively, coming up with and evaluating new ideas

• Comfortable working across multiple projects and partnerships simultaneously

• Good organisation and attention to detail

• Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society

• Fluency in spoken and written English

We’re also looking for a quick learner. We don’t expect you to know or have done everything when you start - instead, we’ll be looking for you to pick up new skills and knowledge quickly, then run with them.

Abilities and experience that are nice to have

We know it’s not possible for any applicants to have all these skills - it’s likely you’ll be able to bring 3 - 5 of the following to our team:

• Strong facilitation skills

• Experience managing at least one team member

• Experience working as a freelancer and/or at an agency

• An understanding of online user experience (e.g. how to lay out a web page to improve conversion rates)

• Experience planning supporter email journeys

• Experience planning Facebook ad campaigns

• Knowledge of how to plan a fair A/B test

• Experience working with designers

The House of St Barnabas is a charity pledging to break the cycle of homelessness. We run a social business, our not-for-profit members’ club in our Grade I listed home on Soho Square to help people prosper through paid employment, allowing them to break their cycle of homelessness. We are seeking to re-define the notion of a private members’ club, challenging stereotypes around ideas of exclusivity and creating a community united by a passion for social change.

Academy participants and graduates are at the heart of all we do. The journey for trainees starts with a 12-week Employment Programme offering onsite work experience and training throughout the club and charity offices, and continues with 12 months of mentoring and ongoing support from our Academy team.

When our programme is in progress, participants will be on work experience throughout the House; in the club spaces and in our offices. The HoSB team act as professional buddies to those in office-based roles, working closely with them to provide skills training and to set a positive example of ways of working. This one to one support throughout the programme gives the participant a nurturing environment to learn and flourish.

We are looking for a special individual to join us who is excited to play a part in people’s journey towards lasting paid employment and independence.

Job description:

We are looking for a fully qualified accountant to head up the finance team. You will be proactive, professional, keen to continually improve standards and enjoy contributing to cross team projects. You will have experience of managing a finance team; the ability to support and deputise for the Finance Director when necessary; strong technical accounting skills and knowledge; excellent written and verbal communication skills and an impressive academic record.

Areas of responsibility:

• Support the Diector to prepare information for the SLT, Finance, Audit and Risk Committee and the Board of Trustees
• Deputise for the Finance Director as required
• Manage the other team members and support any Employment Academy participants as required
• Oversee the preparation and audit of the annual report and accounts and other statutory submissions
• Further develop our professional monthly management accounts pack
• Be responsible for effective treasury management and cashflow forecasting
• Develop and maintain the financial system and ensure effective and efficient finance processes including integrations with the CRM and point of sales (POS) systems
• Be the lead relationship with banks, auditors, HMRC, loan and grant making bodies
• Provide excellent, analytical management reports as required
• Provide advice and support on the development of hospitality processes and information
• Lead or participate in organisational projects as appropriate
• Develop our future VAT strategy to ensure compliance and maximise our tax position
• Automate our payments process
• Oversee the production of VAT returns and Gift Aid claims
• Check that the payroll (outsourced) is accurate

Personal specification

Essential:

• Experience of managing a finance team and producing monthly accounts in both a charitable and commercial setting
• Experience of managing the final accounts process and working knowledge of Charity SORP
• VAT expertise
• Excellent IT skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Cross-team project management skills and experience
• Fully qualified accountant
• Ability to see the big picture whilst having attention to detail
• Ability to assimilate and analyse new information quickly and accurately
• Ability to predict problems and formulate solutions
• Role model HoSB values and ways of working across HoSB

Desirable:

• Finance experience in a membership-based organisation
• Finance experience in a hospitality organisation
• Experience of Xero accounts package
• Experience of Lightspeed PoS system
• Experience of Salesforce CRM

What we can do for you – why working for us is so great.....

House of St Barnabas provides the following great benefits:

• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact, playing a part in people’s journey towards lasting paid employment
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Half a day extra leave for your birthday so you can celebrate in style
• Flexible working hours (in line with business needs)
• Fun team days out twice a year
• Free Barista coffee from our club downstairs(!)
• Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme
• Access to a whole host of amazing talks gigs and events
• Attending our amazing graduation ceremonies

We look forward to hearing from you!

Programme Manager
London Office based, or home based with travel as required
Permanent
Full Time – 37.5 hours a week
£31,000 to £34,000 pa

Each year, Young Enterprise helps thousands of young people develop the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to succeed. Through our nationwide enterprise and financial capability programmes, we give young people the opportunities and experiences to discover who they are and what they’re good at.

This important programme management role is the driving force in the implementation and delivery of Money Heroes, our largest financial capability programme for teachers, children and parents. This is a complex and wide-ranging programme, with multiple competing workstreams and a number of high-profile partners and stakeholders, including funders and digital/design agencies.  The role also carries line management responsibilities for two direct reports.

We are seeking an individual with a solution focussed attitude to problem solving and the ability to balance and prioritise competing demands across a busy multi-faceted programme. A successful track record of building strong internal and external relationships is crucial. An understanding of education and school centred programmes, plus experience working with web and digital developers would be a distinct advantage.

The Programme Manager will be operationally, politically and commercially astute, with considerable operational and financial skills, and should be able to demonstrate their success in complex project management alongside an understanding of the challenges that face educational settings.

They will have the ability to think strategically and analytically, and be able to make quick and appropriate decisions to ensure the continuity of the project. A previous track record of delivering projects on time and within budget is critical.

To apply, please submit your CV and covering letter (up to two sides of A4) outlining your suitability for the role based on the Job Description and Person Specification no later than midday on Friday 6th August 2021. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and may shortlist before the closing date.

Interviews will take place either in person or via Microsoft Teams w/c 9th August.

We need an outgoing self-motivated person to enhance our work in the West Midlands.

At the forefront of the organisation, you will be responsible for maintaining partnerships, supporting tutors/coaches and delivering our programmes from volunteer recruitment and workshop delivery all the way through to evaluation. This is an “in-at-the-deep-end” role and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence and autonomy.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Contributing to the development of the WM region:

• Generating new school leads and securing programmes
• Supporting a strong and supportive network of schools, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), universities, corporate partners and others
• Ensuring retention of volunteer coaches (meeting minimum targets set termly)
• Maintaining relationships with coaches, pupils and teachers

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students and young professionals:

• Meeting recruitment targets for tutors/coaches across the region each term.
• Training volunteers in tutoring/coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school and online programmes (university student led and peer to peer) across the West Midlands:

• Setting timelines for programme start and finish dates
• Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback after sessions
• Visiting schools to oversee quality.
• Managing and running online sessions.

Programme Design and Delivery:

• Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops when needed
• Running in-school or online workshops for groups of pupils (KS3-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of our programmes

Line managing a team of Head Coaches:

• Delivering training for Head Coaches
• Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions

Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, service, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Essential characteristics and experience

• Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK so a person’s background does not determine their future.
• Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love delivering workshops to groups as well as communicating our mission to a wide range of stakeholders (businesses, senior members of MATs, universities etc.
• Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different programmes and workstreams.
• Independence: this role requires you to work independently/alone from time to time in the office and/or from home
• Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must! • Young People: experience in a school or youth organisation/working with young people.
• Flexibility: the role will occasionally involve working evenings & weekends

Desirable knowledge/experience:

• Experience working with young people in a school or youth work setting.
• Experience recruiting volunteers.
• Experience measuring and evaluating impact
• Knowledge of programme design, pedagogy or tutoring/coaching.
• Knowledge of UK schools and UK university sector.

Benefits:

• An opportunity to contribute to a young, exciting charity with scope to input widely and take on new roles.
• Starting Salary: £21-23k per annum
• Annual Leave: 28 days pro rata
• Office space: initially working from home. Longer term to be based in our West Midlands office in Handsworth.
• Training: we are a reflective organisation and keen to support your professional development.

Key Information:

• Length: until July 2022 (extension dependent on performance and funding).
• Hours: Full Time
• Reporting to: Head of Region
• Responsible for: Individual Programmes
• Start Date: August/September 2021 (with the possibility for flexibility for the right candidate)

How to Apply and Next Steps:

• Email Robin your CV and a cover letter of no more than 350 words by Friday 13th August 2021. In the subject line, please mention you are applying for the West Midlands Programme Officer role.
• First round interviews will take place on a rolling basis from early August. Please note: The role may close before the end date if the right candidate is found, so please do apply as early as possible.

We need an outgoing self-motivated person to enhance our work in the South East. At the forefront of the organisation, you will be responsible for maintaining partnerships, supporting tutors/coaches and delivering our programmes from volunteer recruitment and workshop delivery all the way through to evaluation. This is an “in-at-the-deep-end” role and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence and autonomy.

SE Programme Officer Job Description
Key Areas of Responsibility

Contributing to the development of the SE region:
•Generating new school leads and securing programmes
•Supporting a strong and supportive network of schools, Multi-Academy Trusts
(MATs), universities, corporate partners and others
•Ensuring retention of volunteer coaches (meeting minimum targets set termly)
•Maintaining relationships with coaches, pupils and teachers

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students and young professionals:
•Meeting recruitment targets for tutors/coaches across the region each term.
•Training volunteers in tutoring/coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school and online programmes (university student led and
peer to peer) across the South East:
•Setting timelines for programme start and finish dates
•Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback after sessions
•Visiting schools to oversee quality.
•Managing and running online sessions.

Programme Design and Delivery:
•Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops
when needed
•Running in-school or online workshops for groups of pupils (KS3-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of our programmes

Line managing a team of Head Coaches:
•Delivering training for Head Coaches
•Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions
Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, service, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Essential characteristics and experience
•Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who
share our desire to make education fairer in the UK so a person’s background
does not determine their future.
•Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love
delivering workshops to groups as well as communicating our mission to a
wide range of stakeholders (businesses, senior members of MATs, universities
etc.
•Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different programmes and workstreams.
•Independence: this role requires you to work independently/alone from time
to time in the office and/or from home
•Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must!
•Young People: experience in a school or youth organisation/working with
young people.
•Flexibility: the role will occasionally involve working evenings & weekends

Desirable knowledge/experience:

•Experience working with young people in a school or youth work setting.
•Experience recruiting volunteers.
•Experience measuring and evaluating impact
•Knowledge of programme design, pedagogy or tutoring/coaching.
•Knowledge of UK schools and UK university sector.

SE Programme Officer Benefits

•An opportunity to contribute to a young, exciting charity with scope to input widely and take on new roles

•Starting Salary: £21-23k per annum

•Annual Leave: 28 days pro rata plus public/bank holidays
•Office space: initially working from home with travel to partner schools and universities
•Training: we are a reflective organisation and keen to support your professional development.

Key Information
•Length: until July 2022 (extension dependent on performance and funding).

•Hours: Full Time

•Reporting to: Head of Region

•Responsible for: Individual Programmes

•Start Date: August/September 2021 (with the possibility for flexibility for the
right candidate)

Contract length: 10 months

Application deadline: 13/08/2021

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Head of Communications and Engagement

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Direct Reports: Digital Marketing Manager, Copywriter

Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours

Contract Duration: Fixed until 25th June 2025

Salary: £32,000-£35,000

Location: Position can be based from home or our Liverpool of Sheffield offices. If home based, will require occasional travel to those offices

Closing Date: 11th August 2021

Interview Date: 1st round of interviews w/c 16th August

Probationary Period: 3 months

RESPONSIBILITIES

Your responsibilities will include:

You will be responsible for developing and communicating City Hearts messaging and brand awareness internally and externally.

You will lead on our communications and engagement strategy working closely with the Head of Income Generation and Innovation. You will develop engaging campaigns as part of this work and project manage PR activity associated with them.

You will demonstrate a clear passion for one or more of our impact areas having communication experience within that sector.

On a day-to-day basis this means creating a steady flow of content; finding, crafting and promoting relevant and engaging stories and industry specific newsworthy content that shares our vision, mission, values and activities.

You will create a pipeline for gathering stories in a way that does not place a significant burden on frontline staff and will demonstrate a clear understanding of informed consent and safeguarding in relation to vulnerable individuals and risk assessment processes.

You will work with our Head of Income Generation and Innovation to promote our initiatives, corporate partnerships and individual fundraisers to support reaching charitable fundraising goals.

You will generate creative PR ideas (COPE model: Create Once Post Everywhere)

You will build and maintain relationships with key journalists, broadcasters, content creators, celebrities and influencers

You will oversee our engagement and communications channels including social media, web and SEO.

You will be able to position City Hearts at the forefront of the sectors we operate in communicating our innovative approaches, gaining traction and recognition across a wide audience.

You will ensure that media, press and other external queries are handled in a timely sensitive, mutually beneficial and accurate way.

You will evaluate and measure impact of PR activity

Develop key messages, lead on creating and maintaining appropriate and consistent language and terminology across all media.

You will keep up to date on best practice and news within our sector in particular changes to communications innovation, legislation and codes of practice.

You will ensure City Hearts abides by all relevant legislation in relation to its communications.

You will ensure all spend in relation to Communications and Engagement team and projects is within parameters of any agreed budget.

You will respond to breaking and industry worthy news to highlight our services and position us at the front of industry knowledge sharing.

You will support City Hearts spokespeople in preparing for press interviews and act as a spokesperson when required.

You will track relevant daily news stories to our impact areas, responding to trends, key industry announcements and maximizing opportunities.

You will line manage and coach a small but effective team of marketing and content production staff

You will be responsible for the content produced by the charity including collateral, with the support of your team.

You will ensure the CEO and board of trustees are provided with relevant information through regular reporting.

You will be part of the senior management of the charity and maintain an effective working relationship and communication with members of senior management to ensure the Communications and Engagement Strategy aligns with organisational and departmental goals, strategy, and actions.

You will support senior management with internal communications as and when needed.

PERSON CRITERIA

The ideal candidate will have at least three years’ experience in a similar role.

Additional qualifications in a marketing, journalism, communications or similar field are desirable.

You will have experience in creating and delivering a communications strategy and PR campaigns.

Highly proficient in writing press releases, press statements, Q&As, briefings, blogs and opinion pieces.

Experience in media response to crisis situations, handling enquiries, creation of statements and briefing key staff members for interviews.

You will have a passion for and proven track record of creating dynamic and inspiring content, able to demonstrate previous success at securing media coverage across print, broadcast and online that engages with a range of audiences.

You will have a good understanding of websites and social media platforms.

You will have a desire to amplify the voices of the people we support and our team and have demonstrable experience of having done this previously. 

You will be well organized, creative, analytical, focused on results, demonstrate attention to detail and prioritise your work effectively.

Experience of line management within a communications environment.

Ability to track, record, analyse and use data and insight to generate media stories.

Proven ability to generate excellent media coverage across different types of national and local media.

Ability to follow PR procedures to ensure clients safeguarded.

Proficient in content management systems such as Hootsuite and MailChimp.

Ability to effectively communicate complex information quickly and concisely.

Flexible to work outside of usual working hours as required in order to respond to the needs of the charity in managing media opportunities and enquiries.

Excellent interpersonal skills – comfortable building relationships and communicating with a variety of people.

Through its sector improvement programmes, Student Minds aims to ensure that every university, Students’ Union, and HE organisation has a strategic, whole-organisation approach to wellbeing,and proactively creates conditions where all students can belong and succeed in the ways that matter to them.

The University Mental Health Charter Programme is a UK-wide practice-sharing network of universities working to develop a strategic, university-wide approach to mental health and wellbeing. Student Minds SUs is a similar programme for Students’ Unions. Both programmes offer members access to practice-sharing events, consultancy, training and development opportunities to upskill them to work towards Student Minds’ good practice frameworks. Members of the University Mental Health Charter Programme can also apply to the Charter Award, a rigorous accreditation process that recognises those universities that demonstrate excellent practice. 

The post holder will work with the Sector Improvement Lead and Programme Manager (Sector Improvement) to develop and coordinate these programmes, with a particular focus on designing, planning and facilitating programme events, training and development activities to upskill programme members to improve their approach to mental health and wellbeing. They will also liaise with Charter Award assessors and university stakeholders to manage the Charter Award processes.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in the delivery of our two pioneering sector improvement programmes, with the potential to impact 2.5 million staff and students across the UK. We are looking for a confident and proactive delivery manager with the ability to balance a varied workload and attention to detail to join our vibrant team.