Head of Property

London

Ca. £50,000

A South-London based charity helping homeless and vulnerable people to find decent homes and build supportive relationships is currently looking to recruit a new Head of Property.

The charity owns a significant range of property assets; non-residential properties used to deliver services; and properties bought commercially to house users of their services on a private rented basis.

They now wish to set up a registered provider subsidiary to take ownership of one of their larger hostels; explore options for stock transfer where they manage properties on behalf of other housing associations; and increase their support to local managers to ensure the regular maintenance and improvement of their properties to optimise the benefits for people we serve.

The Head of Property is a newly created role within their Senior Management Team that has been established to assist the organisation in delivering on these ambitions by developing a new organisational property development strategy. We are looking for commercially minded candidates with significant experience in asset management and property development across multiple sites within the social and supported housing sectors. Critically, you will also bring a determination to contribute to addressing the issues causing homelessness and social exclusion.

In return we can offer you a working environment that is; service user-led; diverse, open, honest and fair; with staff who are characterised by their compassion and commitment to ending street homelessness.

To Apply

To apply, please upload your CV in Word format and include a supporting statement as part of your application, addressing your experience in relation to the key points on the person specification, which should be no longer than 2 sides of A4.

Closing date is 9am on 10th August

For an informal, confidential call about the role please contact Roberta Giubilini with a copy of your CV.

We are committed to achieving greater diversity in its senior team, and welcomes applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief or disability.

Head of FP&A role with a balance of responsibilities that includes commercial analysis, management accounting, team management and long term planning. Reporting into the CFO.

Client Details

This London University is a unique institution that works on a global scale. With significant recent funding and ambitious plans for growth, the organisation is looking to drive improvement across corporate services, including the hire of two new qualified finance roles. Student numbers are looking strong and this role will play a key part in the ongoing improvement within the finance function.

Description

• Line manage and support members the finance team, including a mixture of qualified and part qualified accountants
• Lead on the preparation of the monthly management accounts, including detailed analysis and development of the board pack.
• Short, medium and long term planning for the organisation, including scenario analysis and financial modelling
• Annual and monthly budgeting input, including regular engagement and meetings with budget holders
• Supporting the CFO as a commercial finance expert

Profile

You will be a full qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and hold post qualification experience. You will have an excellent understanding of commercial and will have delivered strong financial management, analysis and guidance in your most recent role. Attention to detail is essential, as is the ability to liaise effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders at all levels. You will be ambitious, eager to learn and keen to work in a fast-paced and growing organisation.

Job Offer

• Salary up to £60,000 dependent upon experience

• Private medical insurance

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and close down over the Christmas period

• Opportunity to study a course free of charge

• Generous pension

Do you want to work for an organisation that believes that prevention is fundamental to effectively addressing the mental health crisis? If so, the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is recruiting for: a Head of Public Fundraising reporting to the Director of Fundraising and communications to support our Individual Giving, Events and Community teams.

The vision of the Mental Health Foundation is good mental health for all. We work to  prevent mental health problems, driving change towards a mentally healthy society for all, and support communities, families and individuals to live mentally healthier lives, with a particular focus on those at greatest risk. The Foundation is the home of Mental Health Awareness Week. We have pioneered change for over 70 years and are not afraid to challenge the status quo. Come join us!

Joining us as the Head of Public Fundraising, you will provide strategic lead to the Individual Giving, Events and Community, Database and Supporter Services activities, including Legacies & in memoriam to achieve the mission, value and strategic objectives. This will involve managing the overall Individual Giving and Events & Community programmes to innovate, engage and develop supporters, establishing future and sustainable income streams, through leading, shaping and managing teams to deliver multi-channel programmes.

The Public Fundraising Team raises £6.5m million income per year for MHF with a budget of £1.3m - this role will contribute to the overall success of our key strategic aim ‘Building a strong Foundation’.

What does the role involve?

• Lead on the planning and implementation of strategies that enable MHF to build long-term sustainable income by managing and developing relationships with individual supporters. Using a range of fundraising channels and approaches.
• Responsible for ensuring efficient and accurate management of data and supporter care function.
• Providing management and leadership across Public Fundraising Team (PFT), ensuring fundraising objectives and targets are achieved, and that all project management, budgetary and planning expectations are met. Building on cross-organisation working including Trustees, the CEO and Directors to ensure that long-term developmental opportunities are maximised.

What are we looking for?

• Evidence of effective working knowledge and development of strategies for individual giving and community fundraising across two or more of the following areas; legacy marketing, regular giving, cash appeals, donor acquisition, online giving, retention, supporter care, challenge events and community fundraising.
• Experience at senior level of working collaboratively with colleagues in Programmes, Research & Policy and Communications to identify the work and stories most likely to be valuable to our fundraising approaches and to ensure that this is gathered and communicated effectively to supporters and potential donors.
• Proven leader with demonstrated experience using a coaching and collaborative approach to managing teams and stakeholders.

Why should you join our Mental Health Foundation?

• 25 days excluding bank holidays, rising to 27 after 5 years of service
• Generous non-contributory pension plan, up to 10% employer contribution
• Various flexible working options
• Enhanced Maternity pay
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme

MHF is fully committed to safeguarding all. Please note that all our roles require a DBS check.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post.  In order to apply for this post, you must demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. 

How to apply: Apply via our website 

Interviews are planned for 1st – 3rd September 2020.

Diversity is valued at the Foundation and is important in the work that we do. Applications from all sections of the community are welcome and will be considered on merit. Should you have a disability and require any additional support or if you have any questions regarding the above role.

Due to Covid-19 and until further notice, we are currently operating digital recruitment and on-boarding processes. The successful candidate may be required to work from home until such time as our offices re-open. We are open to consider flexible working and we are currently working on a proposal, based on staff consultation, about how a return to the office, planned for September, could look like. This may include having a blend of working in the office and working from home, to allow for social distancing to be put in place, as well as supporting staff wellbeing in longer term.

Royal Osteoporosis Society have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Marketing and Communications to join their team based in Camerton, Bath.

Job Title: Head of Marketing and Communications

Location: Camerton, Bath

Salary: Up to £49,282 per annum

As a member of the Royal Osteoporosis Society team, your role exists to work with colleagues to ensure better bone health for everybody and help people to live well with osteoporosis.

Our mission is to improve the bone health of the nation and prevent osteoporosis by influencing healthcare providers and professionals; supporting services to help our beneficiaries; and drive research. We do this through living our charity values and we all work together to realise a future without osteoporosis.

The way we deliver our vision and mission is important. In this role, the decisions you make and the way you behave to deliver our mission, should reflect our organisational values. We have three guiding values; caring, influential and innovative.

Head of Marketing and Communications - The Role:

As Head of Marketing and Communications, you will lead on the digital marketing and communications strategy, management and creative leadership of the ROS brand, and development of information products and services.

With a current and proven working knowledge of digital content and development, a key part of the role will be in delivering the digital strategy, encompassing our successful digital channels which reach our various audiences.

As a member of the Leadership Team, you will report directly into the CEO, taking responsibility for the delivery of activity on time and within budget.

Head of Marketing and Communications - You:

Essential

- “Can do”; solutions-focused; keen to measure and prove impact

- Strong affinity with and commitment to our purpose

- Experience of leading multi-function teams through change, and supporting behaviour and cultural change

- Experienced line manager

- Highly organised with strong project management skills, and a creative and entrepreneurial ability to identify and develop new marketing and communications opportunities and partnerships

- Experience of influencing people at all levels with strong facilitation and negotiation skills to problem solve and agree consensus

- Strategic thinker with the ability to adapt and drive innovation in an operational environment, leading on planning and co-ordination

- Strong understanding of where / how to collate data, good level of analysis and ability to use insight to inform decisions

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal for a variety of audiences

- Demonstrable experience of planning, implementing and evaluating successful marketing and communications campaigns

- Strong digital strategy and implementation skills

- Strong media relations skills, experience of working with specialist and national news media

- Sensitivity to political audiences and other key stakeholders such as members of the Royal Family

- A pragmatist with a natural ability to problem-solve, be flexible, diplomatic and assertive with good negotiating and prioritisation skills

- Ability to set measurable objectives, evaluate and continuously improve activity

- Proven ability to manage budgets on time and to task

- Understanding of data protection regulations and GDPR 2018 requirements

Desirable

- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics 365

- An understanding of the health sector in the UK

The closing date is Monday 24th August 2020 and interviews will take place the week commencing 31st August 2020.

Please note, we do not accept CV’s, please click ‘Apply’ now to be redirected to our website where you can submit your application for this exciting Head of Marketing and Communications opportunity.

As Head of Membership and Development you will join a growing health focused membership organisation, which supports the NHS. This is a new role in a small organisation at an exciting time of growth, and they are looking for someone who will energised by this.

In this role you will develop, define and implement a membership engagement strategy and refreshed membership value proposition.

Key responsibilities:

* Be responsible for Member engagement and retention, listening to member feedback and responding proactively to member's needs.
* Deliver and develop the full member services offer, including events, bespoke advice and guidance, peer support and both offline and online/digital resources. Assist members to build capacity and capability recognising the diversity and different needs of member cohorts.
* Provide expert advice to the Director of Operations and senior leadership team on membership issues.

Your previous experience:

* Sound knowledge and demonstrable management experience of working within a customer focussed membership organisation
* Knowledge and experience of delivering member services
* An understanding of the membership landscape, ideally within a VCSE and/or health related sector
* Experience of managing a team, ideally in a dispersed setting

Contract 6 month FTC. Full-time, 5 days a week.

Salary £50,000 plus 10% pension contribution.

Location - Warwick 2 days a week, with 3 days from home or in the London office.

To apply please email your CV to [email protected] ASAP , as the charity look to hire quickly. Please note candidates will need to be able to start immediately.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Job title: Head of Trust and Statutory Funding

Salary: Circa £40K

Location: London

We are working in partnership with an international children’s charity providing specialist health services in Africa, Asia and Central America.  They have a unique twinning approach with a network of international hospitals and volunteer specialists with teams on the ground to improve the health of children around the world to make a lasting difference.

The charity is now seeking to appoint a Head of Trust and Statutory Funding who will lead on raising income from Charitable Trusts, Foundations and Statutory sources.  The successful individual will demonstrate:

• A strong track record of fundraising significant sums from trusts, foundations and or statutory funders
• An understanding of the international context of child health
• Exceptional communications skills including the ability to translate specialist information into compelling proposals
• The ability to work on multiple projects, cross departmentally
• An understanding of the importance of delivering high quality supporter care
• A proven track record of setting, monitoring and managing budgets
• The ability to prioritise and work on own initiative.
• Experience of managing staff and/or volunteers

The successful individual will have excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines.  You will have a passion for both international development and improving the lives of children.  The role will involve travel within the UK and abroad.

Please apply as soon as possible by e-mailing your CV and Supporting Statement, quoting our reference JO1756.

Our client is looking to receive applications as soon as possible, so please apply without delay.

Interviews will be held during week commencing 10 August 2020

Head of Fundraising and Community Engagement

Kentish Town - North West London

Part-time position - c.14 hours per week with flexibility

Salary - £30,000 pro rata

Brandon Centre is a registered charity that provides young people aged under 25 with access to free and confidential specialist support around their psychological, emotional, mental health and sexual health needs. We predominately work with young people in Camden, Islington and other London boroughs and our mission is to expand our network to support even more young people who we hope will truly benefit from our services.

As we embark on our next stage of development, and with an enviable reputation for the services we provide, we are now in a position to recruit an experienced Head of Fundraising and Community Engagement.

This is a new, exciting and pivotal role that will help us to develop and lead our fundraising and communications team. With your expertise in corporate and community fundraising - which are new areas of development for Brandon Centre, you will help us to develop and implement our wider fundraising and communications strategies. As part of this role you will have the opportunity to recruit and develop a team of volunteers and young ambassadors to support us and broaden our engagement and fundraising within our local communities. 

Your personal focus will be to increase Brandon Centre’s income through corporate partnerships, sponsorship and major donors. Bringing new business into Brandon Centre will be your primary focus and where you will account manage and build relationships with future partners and stakeholders.

The role will be expected to generate an income of c.£200,000 in 2021-22 through potential donors and other revenue streams. Strong pitch creation and relationship building skills are vital to develop plans for the individuals concerned and to support our CEO and Trustees in making the ask.

You will be part of an experienced and ambitious Leadership Team that also includes the Head of People & Governance and Head of Finance & Performance. Reporting directly to the CEO, there may be occasions where you will deputise in her absence.

Core responsibilities will involve:

1. Fundraising – Strategy, Communications, Grant Funding, Major Donors, Corporates (local and national) and Reporting
2. Campaigns and Communications – Branding, Media, Campaigns, Digital, Events, Strategy
3. Monitoring and Evaluation – Including marketing, communications and fundraising activities seeking continuous improvement and high return on investment
4. Working Relationships – Internal – Working closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team to ensure strong integration of communications and the income generation strategy. External – Seeking and engaging with external partners, media, funders and supporters. Build and maintain excellent relationships with peers in the Young People’s & charitable sectors and major funders & donors.
5. Leadership/Management of the Campaigns & Community Engagement Team – Providing clear and consistent leadership and management of the team along with some volunteers and young ambassadors. As income increases there will be further scope to develop and recruit additional community engagement and corporate partnerships portfolio

Already a key performer in the charity or not for profit sector, you will need evidence of successful corporate fundraising and multi-year partnerships of a minimum £100k value.  Experience of developing and delivering organisation-wide fundraising strategies and tactical plans, along with a proven track record of managing and exceeding fundraising targets is essential.

A proven track record of organising community and engagement events will be extremely useful complemented by a good understanding of communications strategy, particularly in relation to planning marketing campaigns based on evidence of customer insight.

This role will particularly suit an experienced Fundraising Manager looking to expand your portfolio to communications, or maybe an excellent Corporate Partnerships Fundraiser looking to take a step up in your career.  A good knowledge and understanding of equality and gender issues will be necessary.

Further details about this key role can be found on the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Brandon Centre also offers a range of options for flexible working and we would be happy to discuss these at interview stage.

If, like Brandon Centre, you have a big heart for supporting young people, we would love you to come on board and join us on our incredible journey. Applications are being handled by our Advising Consultant, Sue Sowerby at The Sowerby Group, so please email a covering letter and CV stating how you meet the criteria of the role and Sue will get in contact with you directly.

Closing date: Friday 14th August 2020 at 5.00pm

Selection/interview dates: To be advised

In order to maintain the Board’s high standards of diversity, Brandon Centre welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and of all ages.

No agencies please

Head of Performance and Compliance

This is a remarkable time to be joining them. They are proud to be developing their carers and nurses to achieve the highest standards in domiciliary care and extra care housing with the opening new high-end schemes.

They are seeking an experienced people manager with a proven track record of developing and engaging their team. You will be used to taking the lead and achieving fantastic results in the health and social care sector. Their Head of Performance and Compliance is responsible for the supervision, support and guidance of Draycott’s 165 nurses and carers to ensure they deliver the highest possible standard of service to their clients. They are a dynamic forward-looking organisation with substantial growth ambitions.

Head of Performance and Compliance Requirements:

• Leadership of operational staff

• UK Health and Social Care CQC knowledge and experience.

• RGN or similar clinical background.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Maintain high standards

• Knowledge and implementation of Quality Assurance Frameworks

• Outstanding Collaborative approach and teambuilding skills

• Able to build and maintain excellent stakeholder relationships

• Flexible approach and able to multi-task

• Passionate about providing exceptional and bespoke care according to their values

Desirable Criteria

• Good knowledge and application of ISO 9001:2015 to drive continuous improvement

• Knowledge of GDPR

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft applications.

• Agile project management experience

About Our Client:

Delivering world class Nursing and Care. Their daily and live-in care enables their clients to remain in their own home whilst being cared for by professional and highly trained Carers and Registered Nurses.

Established in 1996, for over 20 years they have been recognised by doctors, consultants and clients for exceptionally high professional standards and 24/7 support. Now expanding out of London and driving an exciting partnership to provide on-site healthcare within a unique new complex of 5-star luxury London apartments.

Location: Kensington, London

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £45,000

You may have experience of the following: Head of Performance, Head of Compliance, Head of Operations, Head of Service Delivery, Performance Manager, Compliance Manager, Operations Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Care Manager, Registered Nurse, Clinical Care, Head of Clinical Care, etc.

Ref: 93536

Would you like to work for an organisation that believes prevention is fundamental to effectively addressing the mental health crisis? If so, the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is recruiting for Head of Corporate Partnerships reporting to the Director of Fundraising and communications to support our Corporate Partnership Team.

The vision of the Mental Health Foundation is good mental health for all. We work to prevent mental health problems, driving change towards a mentally healthy society for all, and support communities, families and individuals to live mentally healthier lives, with a particular focus on those at greatest risk. The Foundation is the home of Mental Health Awareness Week. We have pioneered change for over 70 years and are not afraid to challenge the status quo. Come join us!

Joining us as the Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will provide strategic lead to the Corporate Partnership activities, including workplace mental health in conjunction with our wholly owned subsidiary Mental Health at Work CIC to achieve the mission, value and strategic objectives. This will involve managing the overall Corporate Partnership Programme to innovate, engage and develop partnerships that build sustainable income streams, through leading, shaping and managing team to deliver.

The Corporate Partnership Team raises £880,000 income per year for the Foundation with a budget of £330,000 - this role will contribute to the overall success of our key strategic aim ‘Building a strong Foundation’.

What does the role involve?

• Lead on the planning and implementation of strategies that enable the Foundation to build long-term sustainable income by managing and developing relationships with corporate partners. Using a range of fundraising and staff engagement approaches.
• Working with the Foundation’s Fundraising, Communications, Programme and Research Teams to identify the work that will appeal to a broad range of corporate sectors, engage companies in both financial and non-financial ways, across multiple years.
• Providing management and leadership across Corporate Partnership Team, ensuring fundraising objectives and targets are achieved, and that all project management, budgetary and planning expectations are met. Building on cross-organisation working including Trustees, the CEO and Directors to ensure that long-term developmental opportunities are maximised.

What are we looking for?

• Evidence of effective working knowledge and development of strategies for corporate partnership fundraising including both the acquisition of new partners and the ongoing account management of partnerships.  
• Experience at senior level of working collaboratively with colleagues in Programmes, Research & Policy and Communications to identify the work and stories most likely to be valuable to our fundraising approaches and to ensure that this is gathered and communicated effectively to current and potential partners.
• Proven leader with demonstrated experience using a coaching and collaborative approach to managing teams and stakeholders.

Why should you join our Mental Health Foundation?

• 25 days excluding bank holidays, rising to 27 after 5 years of service
• Generous non-contributory pension plan, up to 10% employer contribution
• Various flexible working options
• Enhanced Maternity pay
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme

The Foundation is fully committed to safeguarding all. Please note that all our roles require a DBS check.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post.  In order to apply for this post, you must demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. 

Diversity is valued at the Foundation and is important in the work that we do. Applications from all sections of the community are welcome and will be considered on merit. Should you have a disability and require any additional support or if you have any questions regarding the above role.

Due to Covid-19 and until further notice, we are currently operating digital recruitment and on-boarding processes. The successful candidate may be required to work from home until such time as our offices re-open. We are open to consider flexible working and we are currently working on a proposal, based on staff consultation, about how a return to the office, planned for September, could look like. This may include having a blend of working in the office and working from home, to allow for social distancing to be put in place, as well as supporting staff wellbeing in longer term.

Head of Quality and Service Development
Home Based (with travel to sites across the UK)

About Us

Perennial is the nation's only charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture. Together with our network of partners, we provide free support, information, advice, financial assistance and services for horticulturalists and their loved ones experiencing illness, disability, bereavement, family breakdown and financial difficulties.

Our support services put individual needs, interests and voices at the heart of life-changing outcomes, providing the scale and reach needed to meet the increasing number of individuals and their families experiencing challenging times.

We are now looking for a talented and inspirational Head of Quality and Service Development to join us and oversee the quality and development of our ‘help’ and ‘prevent’ services. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £36,000 per annum
- 25 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
- DIS benefit
- Sickness pay
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme
- Well-established family friendly policies, including the ability to have extra unpaid leave
- Time off for dependants

If you have experience of delivering services for adults, families or young people with complex needs, this is an amazing opportunity to make a real difference at a strategic level.

We are in a uniquely powerful position to deliver high-quality support for all horticulturists in need and their families. We are well established, well managed and well resourced. While we deliver exceptional services, we are still eager to do more – that’s where you come in.

You will have the chance to build on our previous successes, help us to continually develop the quality of our services and grow our solutions so that they can continue to build better futures for horticulturists.

The Role

As the Head of Quality and Development, you will oversee the quality and service development of our ‘help’ and ‘prevent’ programmes across the UK.  

In this integral role, you will develop and deliver outcomes that make a real and lasting difference to people’s lives. Working with our Director of Services, you’ll influence and lead the development of our services strategy, including the delivery of key sub-strategies, and ensure service sustainability.

Additionally, you will: 

- Implement an assessment and theory of change methodology to meet the needs of people working across horticulture
- Ensure that lived experiences, including experiences of those from diverse and disadvantaged communities, both inform and guide service development
- Regularly review performance against operational goals and budgets
- Develop and implement effective outcome and measurement frameworks
- Maintain your understanding of the latest developments in social policy

About You

To join us as our Head of Quality and Service Development, you will need: 

- At least five years’ post-qualified experience in a service delivery environment, with significant experience of working with adults, families or young people with complex needs and providing outcome-focused interventions that support resilience and achieve long-term change 
- Significant experience of strategic planning and operational management at a service manager level and developing and delivering services at senior service management level
- Experience of developing processes and procedures for an organisation and monitoring the compliance of an organisation or service against an agreed set of standards
- Previous experience of managing services which work successfully to deliver positive outcomes for adults/children
- A track record of leading service developments for adults and their families, often with complex needs
- Experience of working on implementing quality frameworks, assessment and case audit tools and embedding practice across remote workers
- A good understanding of organisational systems and frameworks, line management and project management
- Knowledge of risk and needs assessment, safeguarding and support planning procedures as well as how this is delivered in practice
- Knowledge of adult and children safeguarding principles, child abuse and child protection issues and MARAC, with the ability to effectively manage all safeguarding policies and procedures

Other organisations may call this role Head of Support Services, Head of Social Services, Health and Social Care Project Manager, Care Project Manager, Service Delivery Manager, or Head of Health and Social Care Services.

Webrecruit and Perennial are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. 

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as our Head of Quality and Service Development, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week (including some weekends and overnight stays)

Permanent, Part-Time (30 Hours)

London Lead – Independent Visitor Service

About this Opportunity:

There are exciting opportunities to join Coram Voice as our Independent Visiting services continue to grow across London and SE. We are looking for a talented coordinator to be our London Lead for Independent Visitor Services. This is a pivotal role as we develop our new Independent Visitor services supporting children placed across London and South East. We currently hold contracts in Waltham Forest, Southwark and Hillingdon. As a resilient and supportive leader you will be responsible for supporting our Independent Visitor Coordinators across London and the South East.

The post will require strong leadership, supporting and supervising a diverse team of volunteers, with excellent interpersonal skills. You will enjoy working with children and young people and will be driven to creating better chances for children though supporting them through care and accessing their rights. You will also be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with social workers, foster carers, commissioners, and other stakeholders.

We are looking for an experienced child focused professional who can lead, work as part of a team, and proactively contribute to service development. We are looking for people who like a challenge, want to make a real difference in the lives of the children and young people and will innovate to achieve this. Above all we want someone who will be a champion for children and young people.

Join Coram Voice:

Coram Voice is the leading specialist provider of advocacy and children’s rights services for children and young people in care and on the edge of care. We support some of the most vulnerable children and young people in society, giving voice to the voiceless and reaching out to those who have missed out on the support they need. Join us as we work to transform the lives of children and young people by supporting them to uphold their rights and actively participate in shaping their lives.

Coram Voice is part of the Coram group of charities which develops, delivers and promotes best practice in the support of children and young people. Our vision is that every child has the best possible chance in life.

We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of up to 28 days’ annual leave plus an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing

Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications from care leavers or individuals with experience of being ‘looked after’ by the state. We are also actively encouraging applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and young people we help.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to the application form.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 9am, Monday 17th August 2020

Interview Date: Tuesday 25th August 2020

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Registered Charity No. 1046207.

Who are we?

Part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, SAMS is Scotland’s premier independent marine science organisation generating new knowledge for the benefit of the marine environment and society since 1884.

What are we looking for?

Do you enjoy working in an accountancy environment but get your greatest motivation from developing a high performing team who are successful in supporting business delivery through a partnership approach?  We need someone who enjoys the responsibility of delivering finance and contracts work, a natural leader with proven success at nurturing talent and maintaining a happy, focused and competent team. Being an excellent communicator, you will also foster positive relationships with key stakeholders and partner organisations.

You will be creative, pro-active and keen to develop a commercial agenda to support SAMS growing focus on enterprise activities alongside our research and education activities.  You will also be conversant with accountancy software and may have implemented or developed new systems.

So, what do we offer in return?

A stimulating working environment working alongside world class academics, enterprise consultants and professional services staff as well as students. In an amazing scenic location on the west coast of Scotland, we offer flexible working hours, freedom to grow as an individual and to develop your career.  In addition, we offer a generous remuneration package including pension, holidays, free onsite parking, as well as access to our employee benefits package. 

Interested?  We would love to hear from you and answer any questions you might have before progressing through the application process. Please contact HR 

Further information is available online. Alternatively, please send a CV and cover letter to: Human Resources, Head of Financial Services (Job Ref. D02/20.NO), Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 17th August 2020

SAMS is a registered Scottish charity (SC 009206), has an equal opportunities policy and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Do you have project management experience and a passion for the heritage sector?

Cause4 are looking for an experienced Head of Programme to take the lead on our new Business Support Programme with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

You’ll be working with an exciting new partnership of Cause4, Creative United and the Arts Marketing Association. 

The new Head of Programme will work closely with Cause4’s Director of Strategy and Programmes, to deliver the aims and objectives of the Heritage Fund programme. This is a new post within the organisation.

This is an ideal position for an experienced Project Manager, Producer or Head of Development interested in the development and delivery of arts, heritage and cultural support programmes, in a national context, with a wide brief to support and develop the fundraising skills, and business models of the sector.

The role is ideal for a candidate with experience in training delivery for small arts and heritage organisations, or someone interested in learning specific skills in training delivery as part of a future portfolio. All training will be provided.

The deadline for applications is 21st August 2020. Subject to Government guidelines we will interview face to face but Zoom interviews may be required for the first interview. Interviews will be held in Cambridge on the 26th August 2020.

Download the job description for more information about the position and full details on how to apply. 

My client is a very well known brand in the UK offering a wide variety of services. At present, they are looking to recruit an interim Head of Financial Accounts to lead on a transformation project within the team to ensure best practice throughout.

Key duties:

• Oversee all technical financial accounting including statutory accounting, tax and transactional recording.
• Deliver a full review of current processes and procedures to ensure best practice throughout the team.
• Promote finance as a responsive and customer facing business unit.
• Manage and support the team, ensuring clear objectives are set and training and support provided.

With a strong academic background, the successful candidate will be a fully qualified accountant who has already operated at a significantly senior technical accounting level within the charity sector.

Due to the current Covid crisis, this role will initially be home based, although formally based in London.