Who we are looking for

We are looking for two motivated and talented candidates with project management experience to join our Programme Operations team as a Programme Manager. This role will lead the operational delivery (end to end project management) of a specific cohort or programme. It will provide the interface between the organisation and our stakeholders on a programme or range of programmes providing varied support to stakeholders either directly or through a team. The manager will be responsible for overseeing the quality of engagement with their stakeholders and maintaining excellent customer experience. They may also lead on the development of stakeholder engagement and communication plans.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of, and be responsible for, the effective and high quality delivery of Ambition Institute's programmes.

Based in any of our London, Birmingham or Manchester offices, and reporting to the Associate Dean Programmes Lead, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that all elements of the programmes are planned, managed and organised to ensure effective delivery from start to finish. You will require a detailed skillset and will be involved in all stakeholder communications, as well as the development and line management of a team of staff. The role will engage directly with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery a busy set of programmes.

This exciting role is varied and complex, and will require candidates with the ability to shape communications through the use of multiple channels to support stakeholders through their learning journey. We also require candidates to have excellent organisation skills, project management experience and excellent team and management skills. Candidates should also be committed to ensuring a high quality experience of those engaging with our programmes, through a focus on continuously improving effectiveness and a real attention to detail.

Who are Ambition Institute?

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

Our offer

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

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays

• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 20th January 2021. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 25th January 2021.

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

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship to interested candidates who do not currently have the Right to Work in the UK.

Who we are looking for

We are currently looking for applications from people based in the West Midlands to fill this key role within our organisation Ambition Institute. Our Training Managers deliver teacher development to staff in schools registered on our programmes. Central to this work is the delivery of high quality virtual and face-to-face training to groups of teachers. We are looking for a motivated and talented teacher-training professional to join our Learning and Development team as our new Training Manager. This role will develop and facilitate training sessions for a variety of stakeholders, delivering across our range of teacher training programmes. This role is also responsible for building excellent relationships with stakeholders as well as developing good quality coaching practice within a portfolio of schools. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of the coaching and mentoring of some of the country’s upcoming educational talent.

Based in our West Midlands/ Birmingham region, and reporting to one of our Fellows, you’ll be responsible for leading high quality training sessions to a group of teachers, as well as building meaningful relationships with the teaching staff on your programmes that work to both support and challenge. This role is expected to model expert coaching with teacher educators, so it is essential that you have previously worked in the education sector as a teacher yourself.

We hope you will be passionate about teacher and school development, and have a strong track record of delivering exceptional outcomes for pupils living in a social deprivation and those with lower prior attainment. With this, we require skills in training and development, including the coaching and mentoring of teachers, as well as a strong understanding of best practice in teaching and learning.

We will accept applicants from all subjects/phases. These roles involve travel throughout their associated regions.

Who are Ambition Institute?

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

Our Offer

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

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to Apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 11th January. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 18th January 2021.

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

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

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

About the Role

In this exciting new post, you will play a pivotal role as a senior leader within the newly formed Funding Strategy Directorate, working closely with the Funding Strategy Director and Senior Management Team to ensure the implementation of the Fund’s vision and ambition.

The Funding Strategy Directorate is a central enabling function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding across all our funding portfolios. This role will lead the Funding Design and Development function, accountable for our grant management system alongside funding controls, policy and practice. With a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches and applied strategic thinking you will enable us to deliver excellent services both to our external customers as well as our internal teams.

To be successful in this post you will be passionate about our work and strategy ‘People in the Lead’. You will be an established leader with first class team leadership and coaching skills. You will be adept at setting strategies that drive forward positive change marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You will have experience of designing and delivering a major digital system and be skilled in making complex decisions balancing outcomes with risks.

The team is spread across the UK and you can be based at any of our office locations. When we return to the workplace there will be some travel between offices.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: W/C 1 Feb 2021

Essential Criteria

Please ensure that your application demonstrates, with examples, how you meet all these essential criteria.

• Deep understanding of the communities we serve and our role as a funder
   
• Experience of leading strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis
   
• Demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches, applying strategic thinking in how to provide the best service
   

• Responsibility for the design and delivery of at least one major digital system used by a business or organisation to manage its work whilst aligning with its ambition.
   
• Building or growing at least one team of mixed skills to deliver such a project.
   
• Proven ability to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices, thinking of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes
   

• Excellent Communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrable ability to mediate between people and communicating with stakeholders at all levels
   
• Experience of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity

Desirable Criteria
 

• Knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology, understanding how these impact on a funder context

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
   
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
   
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
   
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
   
• Paid volunteering leave
   

How to Apply 

Visit our website on The National Lottery Community Fund for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

 Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

This role can be based at any of our 9 offices; Croydon, Central London, Brent, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Rotherham, Liverpool or Newcastle.

About us
Crisis is the UK’s national homelessness charity. We work side-by-side with people to help them rebuild their lives. Through decades of experience of working with people who are homeless, we know what’s needed to leave homelessness behind for good. We use this experience to shape the services we provide and the changes we campaign for. 

The News and Media team play a central role in building Crisis’ public profile, awareness of our year-round services and securing the changes we need to ensure everyone has a safe and stable place to call home. We tell compelling stories of people who’ve experienced homelessness, support our fundraising efforts on a national and regional level and highlight our work at Christmas and throughout the year in new and creative ways. 

About the role
As Crisis’ Senior Media Officer specialising in services, engagement and fundraising, you will play a key role helping us plan and deliver creative media campaigns that bring our work to life, demonstrating how we end peoples’ homelessness for good through education, training and support with housing, employment and health. You will also help raise the profile of our range of fundraising events, campaigns and corporate partnerships with key target audiences.  

Your role will be stimulating and varied. You’ll work with our frontline staff to identify people facing homelessness who want to share their stories and empower them to do so. You’ll also work alongside our Artist Liaison Manager to devise creative ways for our high-profile supporters and ambassadors to engage with the cause publicly and play a crucial role in some of our biggest organisational campaigns, like our annual Christmas campaign. You will also help make the most of reactive opportunities that come through to our press office and help build relationships with key journalists. 

About you
You’ll be a skilled communicator with experience of working within a busy press office environment/PR agency or as a journalist. 
You’ll have a track record of delivering high-profile, integrated media strategies that secure quality coverage in national, regional and consumer outlets. 
A passion for writing, and experience of working with and interviewing case studies, will mean you know how to tell a compelling story that will capture the attention of journalists and build public support for our goal of ending homelessness for good.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8% 
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Wednesday 27th January 2021 
Interviews will be held from w/c 8th February

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Do you have a significant understanding of domestic abuse and its effect on women and children and substantial experience of managing a caseload? Would you like to be part of an organisation that counts on the professionalism, insight, expertise and passion of its staff to inspire and support positive change for the people they work with? Then join us as a Programme Facilitator and play a vital role within our Domestic Violence Perpetrators Programme in the West Midlands.

Right now, My Time, a division of Richmond Fellowship, is looking for a Male Domestic Violence Programme Facilitator to join them. My Time is a supportive organisation that gives its clients time and space to rethink their lives and discover new ways to tackle problems. Their Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme (DVPP) has Respect’s SMP standard.  The service is committed to keeping women and children safe whilst offering the support and opportunity to men who have been abusive within their intimate relationships to address their behaviours.

Working closely with another facilitator, you’ll deliver a structured intervention as part of a rolling programme to individuals who have perpetrated domestic abuse towards their intimate partner. As well as managing a caseload and challenging any emotive and volatile situations arising within the group, you’ll ensure important feedback regarding the safeguarding aspect of victims is reported as high priority and maintain close links with victim support service caseworkers. Keeping records that are accurate, up‐to‐date and in line with Respect practice standards will be important, as will staying aware of current and developing legislation regarding Domestic Abuse issues for both the victim and perpetrator. When it comes to developing relationships with local stakeholders and supporting the DVPP Lead’s in marketing the service and maintaining referrals and assessments, again, we'll rely on you.

To succeed, you will need a recognised qualification in counselling and psychotherapy or a degree in psychology, health and social care or equivalent demonstrable experience within the field. Flexible in your approach to working hours, you also have a proven ability to manage conflicting demands and priorities. You’ll also need an understanding of the need to offer an integrated service to both male perpetrators and to the women who have experienced domestic abuse. Knowledge of CBT, experience of challenging cognitive distortions and awareness of patterns of behaviour in domestic abuse perpetrators are all ‘must haves’ too. Solution‐focused and outcome driven, with an open and encouraging approach, lots of tact and diplomacy and good verbal and written communication skills, you're also able to lead by example and supervise and motivate others in a group work setting.

The salary for this post is £23,400.00 per annum.

This post is offered as a fixed term contract ending 31st August 2021

We are looking for a Male Programme Facilitator.

The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 applies to this post.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.

It is a mandatory requirement of the application process for this post that candidates submit a CV and Supporting Statement, thus only candidates that provide this, and who meet the essential criteria within the person specification,  will be considered for an interview.

The closing date for this post is 20th January 2021 at 11:59pm, however we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date if sufficient applications are received prior.

In return, you can expect some great benefits, including 25 days' annual leave plus statutory bank holidays and a contributory pension scheme after a qualifying period.

So, get inspired today and take the first steps towards a more fulfilling career.

Recovery Focus is a new group of expert charities with the shared aim to inspire individual recovery nationwide. Between us we have a track record of more than 200 years of developing and running personalised services that work with people with mental health, substance misuse and other complex needs to achieve their ambitions. Each partner organisation has its own rich history of success, but together we believe we can lead the way in evidence‐based recovery pathways, tailored to meet local and individual needs.

We are looking for a brilliant Operations Executive to join the Health & Social Care Team to work as part of our Wellbeing and Impact Hub. They will be responsible for the central region but also coordinate with the national Health & Social Care Team.

We don’t just want to get our young people through the front door of their new employer, we want to support them to start a good career and to feel well at work, with this being just one vital part in The Prince’s Trust ambition to support 10,000 young people into jobs in health and social care over the next 3 years.

We need someone who will be dedicated to contacting people who have been on our health & social care programmes to check-in on how they are doing, offer extra support and connect them up to a range of benefits available to people in health jobs. You could help be the difference between someone leaving a new job in the first few weeks and someone sustaining a job that kickstarts their career.

You will be able to work both independently and as part of a team and use your initiative to find creative solutions to problems. This role is perfect for you if you have experience of delivering programmes with young people, with the ability to work to a project plan whilst responding to changing demands.  

Alongside supporting young people, this role will work with a smaller team to collect and generate insight from data and feedback. This is an exciting role with ample opportunity to continually improve our offer to young people. A curious, enthusiastic and pro-active person would fit right in. If you have a passion for data and reporting it will be a bonus!

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and would expect that you live these behaviours when you interact with colleagues, our partners, young people & the public.