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Location: Remote (UK based)
Salary: £23,00 per year
Length of contract: Permanent
Hours per week: 37
Who are Women’s Aid?
Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children. We are a federation of over 170 organisations which provide just under 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across England. For almost 50 years we have campaigned on behalf of our members and survivors to shape policy and practice, and to raise awareness of domestic abuse.
Purpose of the People & Culture Assistant role:
To work as part of the People and Culture team to provide a professional, high quality, timely, customer focused HR recruitment/contractual administration/transactional service to key internal stakeholders, job applicants and support closely on people and culture activities especially the Learning and Development workstream.
Key duties and responsibilities of the People & Culture Assistant:
To provide high quality HR administrative support across the full spectrum of the employee lifecycle, including:
· Conducting pre-employment checks for new starters (references, DBS, Right to Work in UK)
· Recruitment administration (writing and posting adverts, shortlisting, arranging interviews)
· Absence management
· Preparation and issue of contractual documentation (including contract variations)
· Payroll updates
· Maternity/Paternity administration
· Administration of performance management and improvement systems (probation, Appraisals, PIP forms)
· Termination of employment (all categories, including writing leaver documentation and conducting Exit Interviews)
· Upkeep of electronically stored personal records
· Conducting regular HR Audit checks to ensure integrity of data is maintained
· Supporting the P+C Manager on all other aspects of HR administration
What we are looking for in our People & Culture Assistant:
· Experience of working in a complex administrative role within HR
· Experience of using HR/Payroll/recruitment ATS online systems
· Good numeracy and literacy skills
· Awareness of employment legislation
· Ability to effectively organise and work to tight deadlines with excellent attention to detail
· Ability to work independently and a willingness to contribute to team efficiency through sharing information and supporting others
· Experience of providing informal training/coaching to colleagues in relation to administrative tasks
· Proficient in the use of software packages and Microsoft office software
Benefits of joining us as our People & Culture Assistant include:
· Generous Annual Leave: 25 days + 2 Company Holidays + 8 UK Bank Holidays, with an extra 1 day per year after 1 year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
· Valuable Pension Benefits: a generous 7% employer contribution.
· Flexible Working: remote working, a generous TOIL scheme, and family-friendly policies
· Wellness and Support: including a cycle to work scheme, free optician check-ups, annual flu vaccines, access to a 24-hour employee assistance counselling helpline, a ‘Headspace’ app for mindfulness, and ‘Reflective Practice’ sessions.
· Making a genuine difference, in a rewarding role where your work will directly result in helping Women’s Aid to be able to provide lifesaving services for women and children across England.
How to apply?
· Please submit your CV and a Cover Letter. Your Cover Letter should be no more than 2 pages long and should include a summary of your reasons for applying for the position. You should also include details of how your skills, behaviours and experience meet those necessary for the role, as listed in the Job Description and Person Specification.
· Please ensure that you also complete the EDI form and send all completed paperwork to the recruitment email address. (Please clearly mark your name and the role title in the subject line of your email).
NB:
· Women only need apply under schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010
· If you have been shortlisted for interview, you will be informed by email. Regrettably, we are normally unable to acknowledge unsuccessful applicants.
· We reserve the right to close a recruitment campaign earlier than the advertised closing date if a high volume of responses are received.
· All posts, including remote posts, must be based in the UK.
· Women’s Aid is committed to quality, equality, and valuing diversity. Applications are particularly welcome from Black and minoritised women.
· We are a Disability Confident employer. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for vacancies.
· Please read our Single Sex Statement on the Women's Aid website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This role will lead on providing senior technical advice, leadership and guidance to the planning, delivery and monitoring of communications activities across the organisation.
Are you an ethusiastic and creative individual that enjoys supporting and working with others? Are you interested in championing Action Hampshire's communication activities?
The successful candidate will join our existing communications team and support our communications and engagement. This role will lead on providing senior technical advice, leadership and guidance to the planning, delivery and monitoring of communications activities across the organisation. This includes supporting on elements of our communication activities; newsletter creation, website maintenance, graphic design and social media.
We are looking for someone with a creative eye, good interpersonal skills and excellent attention to detail who can communicate effectively. A key part of the role will involve exploring and implementing a data visualisation tool to efficiently monitor and review the reach and effectiveness of Action Hampshire’s communications (including social media platforms, newsletter, website hits and publication downloads, event attendance).
As a strengths-based organisation, we value the unique contributions each member of our team brings and our organisational culture emphasises coaching and leadership over management. We’re committed to inclusivity, equity and to the wellbeing and safety of our team.
Key tasks include:
- Providing leadership enabling the delivery of high quality, impactful, engaging and informative content for the Action Hampshire website, newsletter and social media platforms
- Provide support and work with our Communications Officer and Communications Administrator to ensure we are alignment with our communications strategy
- Explore and implement a data visualisation tool to efficiently monitor and review the reach and effectiveness of Action Hampshire’s communications
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation and build relationships with our members and users
For almost 75 years, Action Hampshire has supported communities across Hampshire. Today, our mission focuses on strengthening the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, supporting communities to raise their voices, and doing all we can to reduce disadvantage and celebrate diversity across Hampshire. Our responsive approach means we work across a wide range of issues relevant to our communities, from increasing the availability of rural affordable housing to ensuring cancer awareness messaging reaches seldom heard communities.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our talented, ambitious and friendly team. Our new 3-year strategy sets out clear goals and actions which we’ll achieve together. Our leadership team are embedding a culture of learning, experimentation and development. Our team is caring, collaborative and driven by our values of being bold, enterprising, informative, and empowering. We very much welcome applications from all members of the community, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith or disability. We are a Living Wage employer and Disability Confident.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Closing date: 30th April
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We are looking for an outstanding individual that will provide seamless, executive level assistance and support to our Director of Dementia Support and Partnerships. This is an engaging & exciting role that sits at the heart of the organisation and has lots of touch points across the whole Society.
As the Executive Assistant to the Director, you will be essential in optimising the effectiveness of leadership. This role requires impeccable organisational skills and a sharp eye for detail. We are looking for someone who can provide high level administrative support, managing a complex calendar, co-ordinating travel, and scheduling high level internal and external meetings with efficiency to ensure the best use of the Director’s time.
This role will require you to take exceptional quality minutes, accurately recording discussions during meetings, producing high level minutes that capture essential actions and decisions. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to use your advanced planning skills to proactively organise and prepare for upcoming meetings, engagements, and deadlines, adapting swiftly to changes with agility and foresight.
We are looking for someone who can research and craft senior level presentations and briefing notes that inform and drive strategic discussions. You will co-ordinate multiple high-level meetings, seamlessly arranging and overseeing logistics, ensuring all parties are well prepared and that outcomes align with objectives.
Alzheimer's Society was named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
About you
You are a highly organised and detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
You will bring:
- Proven experience in an executive support role with a focus on high-level administrative management.
- The ability to anticipate needs and execute tasks with precision and accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of producing high-quality minutes, reports, and presentations.
- Excellent IT skills and extensive experience/knowledge using Microsoft packages.
- Experience in responding to queries and concerns on behalf of the Director.
- A collaborative approach, supporting colleagues when there are deadlines and knowing when to ask for help.
- The ability to prioritise your workload effectively and remain solutions focussed.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
- Flexibility for meetings, held in London in particular.
Application Process
Please ensure you apply with your most updated CV and a supporting statement on why you believe you would be the most suitable individual for this position.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
We are seeking talented and experienced senior managers to lead the organisation’s Workforce and Living Well Programmes.
Position: Programme Lead x2 roles (Workforce or Living Well Programme)
Location: Remote/Hybrid
Salary: £50,000-£60,000 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week (negotiable)
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holiday, Personal Pension Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff Awards Scheme, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Flexible working patterns
Closing Date: Monday 22nd April 2024
Interview Date: 8th or 9th May
About the Role
As a key member of the Strategy and Impact Directorate, you will establish and lead one of our strategic programmes and focus on building key relationships, developing a portfolio of projects and helping us achieve our strategic ambitions.
You will be able to draw on the organisational resources, bringing them together around the problem with a clear and unrelenting focus on impact. Whilst it is important that you bring an effective and efficient approach, it is also critical that you bring creativity and vision to enable the programmes to realise their full potential.
As an experienced senior manager, you will lead the organisation’s Workforce Wellbeing Programme, bringing together a range of projects and activities that respond to the challenges and emotional distress faced by the NHS workforce on a daily basis.
Or, you will lead the Living Well Programme, bringing together a range of projects and activities that respond to the challenges presented by inequality and help to unlock the power of people and communities to create health, maintain good health and to manage as effectively as possible whilst living with one or more chronic conditions which in turn seeks to reduce or avoid demand on NHS services
About You
Whichever Programme you lead, you will have experience of:
· Leading complex multi-partner and stakeholder programmes in the VCSE or public sector
· Leading large programmes including programme management, governance, monitoring, impact measurement and reporting
· Working in an evolving strategic and operational environment and able to maintain and direct impactful programmes through periods of change
· Building and delivering communication strategies, using learning and insight to drive transformation
· Leadership and people management
· Co-production, collaboration and partnership working
· Working in a team to support the delivery of team objectives
About the Organisation
This is an exciting time to join the organisation as we begin to plan and deliver against our newly launched strategy, to achieve our vision of a future with a thriving NHS and the best possible healthcare for everyone, in which the finance team plays a vital role.
You will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and if selected and a supporting statement outlining how you meet the job description, person specification and any preference for a specific programme, via NFP People. The supporting statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4.
Please indicate which role you are applying for. If applying for both please submit a single CV but a separate personal statement for each outlining how your skills and experience meet the requirements of each role.
Other roles you may have experience of could include Programme Lead, Programme Manager, Programme Officer, Senior Programme Manager, Programme, Programmes, Impact, Engagement.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.