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​Working Well is an employment charity working mainly in the East End of London.  Our projects share the aim of improving the lives of those with mental health, learning disabilities and autism through training and employment.

We are a recruiting a Project Co-ordinator for a new project funded by the Trust for London and in partnership with the London and South East Network for Job Retention.The Network is made up of providers who offer in-work support and so will be a key source of information and guidance to the postholder.

The London Work Resource Project Co-ordinator will research and review models of career progression support for people with mental health issues who are in low paid work.This is in response to a growing awareness of in-work poverty and of the need to provide high standard in work support. 

We are looking to recruit someone who has experience of research or evaluation, an understanding of equality and employment issues, knowledge of HR practices and has experience of providing employment support to this client group.

The postholder will need to:

• Establish relationships with employers, HR departments, occupational health and trade unions
• Identify the key employment focused issues that prevent clients from securing better paid work within their current employment of with a new employer
• Work with clients to identify non-work issues that impact on clients securing better paid work (for example, low self-confidence)
• Review current models of support
• Test models of support with the Retention Network providers

The project aims to deliver:

• Best practice models of in-work support
• Best practice models of employer engagement
• Provide evidence to key stakeholders such as commissioners and employers

The post will normally be based in our office in Bethnal Green although it will also include meetings with employers, clients and other providers across London.Due to the Coronavirus pandemic the post will need to be home-based for some time with online and phone meetings replacing face to face meetings.

Please attach your personal statement to the end of your CV.  The statement should address how your experience and skills meet the requirements set out in the person specification.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 23rd April November at 9am.  An initial short-list will be compiled and selected candidates will be contacted for a screening interview during the week beginning 30 April.Formal interviews will be held on the 7 May.  We may choose the close the advert earlier if sufficent applications are received.

Staff benefits include an employer contribution to a personal or workplace pension equivalent to 6% of gross salary.  30 days annual leave plus paid public holidays. 

Working Well Trust is an equal opportunities and confident about disabilities employer. 

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.

To succeed we must do two things. The first task is: ‘Find what works’. This isn’t your job. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. We need you to lead the second task is: ‘Grow what works using every possible lever’. Once we work out what works we need you to make sure great things grow. This means building coalitions who will want great things to grow, changing practice in organisations and agencies that work with vulnerable children, helping great charities to grow through providing support and advice, pushing for changes in regulations, funding rules and guidance, building and maintaining relationships, ensuring the use of money to invest to support great projects. Overseeing all of this is your job.

To put it another way, your job is to make sure that we make a real difference. Sometimes we will find an amazing charity delivering a great programme and your job will be to ensure it is supported to grow. Sometimes we will find a great practice that would make a huge difference if the main agencies responsible for vulnerable children took it on board – your job will be to build the coalitions and communications to make that happen. Without you, we work out what works but nothing changes and we don’t succeed. With you in place, we believe we can make a lasting difference.

For full details of responsibilties and skills and experience required please visit our website.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. Many organisations have this calling. Our unique role is to identify what works best and to spread the good news. We won’t be able to do this unless we build excellent relationships across government and communicate expertly. The Head of Public Affairs and Comms makes sure we do just that.

Key responsibilities

All of your responsibilities boil down to this, you ensure that we:

• Build and maintain great relationships with some of the most influential people in government. Our work will identify the best ways to reduce knife crime. This won’t matter though if we have no influence on government policy. Your main job is to ensure we build relationships of trust with senior civil servants, ministers and advisers.
• Understand the interests and concerns of different parts of government. If we are to have influence, we must understand how different parts of government think and what matters to them. So many different departments affect young people’s lives including, though not limited to, the DfE, DCMS and the Home Office. You make sure that we understand their interests and concerns better than anyone.
• Ensure that YEF is highly effective at communicating: Together with the Senior Communications Manager, who you will manage, you will ensure that the YEF builds significant profile based on trust and credibility as a lead voice on youth violence. You will ensure that we are regularly and meaningfully in the public eye and that our work is highly visible to people we need to influence.
• Lead well: As a senior member of the team you will play a key role in setting the tone of the organisation. You will bring kindness, a bias to action, wise judgement, a positive supportive attitude, a sense of humility, humour and a desire to make the world a better place than you found it.

Person specification

• You understand how government works – as in really understand: You understand the nuance of how decisions are made within government. You understand that there is no such thing as ‘the department’s position’ (instead there are different views competing) and that while some decisions are very rational, some are more about personalities and politics. You find the process of how decisions get made within government departments, and with Number 10 and the Treasury, fascinating. In an ideal world you will have worked inside government and seen important decisions get made, but this is not an essential requirement.
• You understand how political parties and MPs work: You understand how the political side of decision-making works. You have an up to date understanding of the ups and downs of individuals and ideas within the two main parties. This may mean that you are (or have been) a member of a political party but you won’t be tribal. Ideally you have some existing connections with people working within the present administration.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You easily build good relationships with both very senior and very junior people. You can be at ease talking to a senior politician or a 15 year old.
• You are a team player: You work brilliantly in a team. You are not motivated by being the individual winner. You want the team as a whole to succeed. You enjoy coaching other people so that they perform excellently in a meeting. You are not possessive of your contacts. You don’t care who gets the credit as long as things get done.
• You are fantastic at spotting how to get something done in Whitehall or Westminster: You are really good at thinking about how to make change happen. To some, Westminster and Whitehall can seem like a blob but you are brilliant at spotting how to make change happen there. You can think through the intricacies of who to get onside, who to get advice from, who to persuade and how to get the job done. You have a track record of doing this.
• You are interested in designing a strategy to ‘make the weather’ not in passively responding to it: You are a strategic thinker. You love the idea of (for example) being given a blank piece of paper and asked to put together a three year plan for changing the way government thinks about investing in social care or training teachers. This prospect motivates you rather than overwhelms you; in fact, you have worked like this before. Some people prefer reactive jobs where they respond to events at pace - this is not that job. You are interested in doing a job that is about leading on making a long-term difference rather than being overwhelmed by hundreds of daily decisions made at pace.
• You think fast: You very quickly get your head around ideas. You have an track record that shows how quickly you think. You wear this lightly though. It is important to you to be humble. You acknowledge how much you don't know as well as how much you do.
• You have experience leading on communications and talking to journalists: You are comfortable being responsible for our communications. You have experience in putting together a communications plan and talking to journalists to pitch a story. You understand how to get a story to ‘cut through’. You write really well and care about good writing.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as Humanitarian Health Advisor – Epidemic Preparedness and Response, supporting Regional Offices, SCI Country Offices and Field Humanitarian Programmes to develop and implement disease preparedness and control measures for epidemic and pandemic prone diseases, including COVID-19.

In our Humanitarian department, we fight for children every single day. We integrate emergency and development work, through our country programmes. We increase our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. We go the extra mile - and we don't rest until the work is done.

As Humanitarian Health Adviser - Epidemic Preparedness and Response you will play a key role in developing strong public health intelligence capacity, engaging stakeholders across the SC Movement and working towards a shared work plan that reflects strategic priorities of the SC Humanitarian Technical Working Group (HTWG) for health. You will also provide more generalist humanitarian health support as part of surge capacity for response to emergencies globally. Other key responsibilities of the role include:

• Supporting country programmes to implement effective ongoing surveillance, including for COVID-19

• Providing technical support, at HQ level, to the humanitarian health lead and other key staff across members in the response to disease outbreaks

• Carrying out short field assignments in order to support country programmes in their response to outbreaks and ensure appropriate range of disease control strategies at primary and community level in collaboration with other technical sectors

• Working closely with the three-year OFDA funded READY project team (2019-21), a global consortium led by SCUS, in their priority countries to define and realise their READY indicators and surveillance objectives, and then ensure synergies between READY recommendations and our existing data systems.

To be successful you will have a background in infectious disease prevention and control. You will also have experience in data management, data collection, surveys or outbreak investigations and the ability to design and implement surveillance and other data collection systems for monitoring epidemics. An MSc in epidemiology, or public health and/or equivalent field experience is essential as is:

• Experience with mobile data collection, visualisation software and DHIS 2

• Proven practical skills with Epi-info, Excel, STATA or SPSS, Word, Powerpoint

• Progressive and solid experience on the field in the implementation and management of humanitarian health programmes

• Understanding of how to conduct and analyse a vaccination coverage survey

• The ability to travel with short notice up to 50% of the time (when the current travel restrictions lift).

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity and a real commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world, and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

We are the biggest and oldest grant-making charity focused on supporting Anglican clergy and their families. In 2019 we disbursed grants totalling over £3.1 million to some 1,410 beneficiaries.

We are looking for a new Chief Executive to succeed our current CEO, Jeremy Moodey, who is retiring in the autumn after a three-year period of significant change, including the 2019 relaunch of the charity with a new brand, a fresh strategy and a more focused approach to how we support our beneficiaries.

Reporting to the board of trustees through the chair, the Chief Executive has the following main responsibilities:

1. Working with trustees to set the overall strategic direction of the charity and deliver its key elements.
2. Providing inspirational leadership to the senior management and staff team.
3. Representing the charity externally.
4. Facilitating good governance.
5. Overseeing the operations of the charity and ensuring sound financial management.

Our next Chief Executive will be someone who has the skills and expertise to lead the charity as it explores new directions and partnerships. He or she will work with our board to confirm our position at the heart of the Anglican Communion in the British Isles and firmly in the awareness of clergy and their dependents. We are looking for an influential and inspirational leader with a proven track record of achievement and a strong external focus and natural ability to engage. Excellent leadership, communication and team-building skills are a must and, of course, the successful candidate will also be someone who cares deeply about the wellbeing of Anglican clergy and their families today.

This post has an occupational requirement under Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010 for the post holder to be a committed Christian.

Application. For more information and a candidate pack, including a full job description and person specification, please visit the website of our retained executive search firm Starfish Search.

Watch our men change their lives and share in their successes

Nehemiah runs two first-stage houses, one in Streatham and one in Croydon. Our Supported Housing Team run recovery programmes in both these houses, under the supervision of the Supported Housing Manager. The two houses offer fourteen places to vulnerable adult men, to take part in our programme. Two move-on houses are located in Clapham, housing nine men.
We seek someone who is passionate about seeing men transform their lives. The successful candidate will have 4-5 years’ experience in the sector and specific experience in all three areas of our service delivery - referrals, programme delivery and resettlement. A good understanding of the behaviour of clients with complex trauma is important in our work. 
The post will involve undertaking on-call duties no more than once a month and there is a small remuneration for this duty. Staff carry the on-call phone at all times for one week, and are ready to respond to emergencies. However, such call-outs are infrequent.

You will play a vital role in establishing and  coordinating a training, advocacy and campaigning programme to raise awareness about the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) amongst Roma migrant communities in the UK and empower them to exercise their rights. 

This role will focus on delivering training and information activities, and facilitate a peer-advocacy programme for Roma-led NGOs and advocates to support Roma migrants to engage with the requirements of EUSS process. 

The successful candidate will have up-to-date knowledge of the EU Settlement Scheme, good understanding of the legal advice sector and empathy with issues affecting Roma migrant communities in the UK. Fluency in Romanes and/or an East European language is desirable.

This post is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund for 2 years 6 months. 

For Job Application Pack, please visit our website.

Closing Date: Monday, 20/04/20 at 5pm

Interview Date: Wednesday, 29/04/20

(Please note that because of the constraints imposed by the Covid-19, interviews will be conducted by Skype, Zoom or another video conferencing service.)

Director of Finance & Resources role with a local authority funded charity in london (£20m income).

Your new company
£20m income charity that provides services to local authorities.

Your new role
„ Report to the CEO and liaise with organisation Board of Trustees to deliver the highest possible standard of financial management and planning.
„ Take responsibility for overseeing the organisation's financial systems, legal services and procurement.
„ Play a key role on the SMT, contributing to its strategic leadership and ensuring the effective daily management of the organisation.
„ Develop management reporting and analysis to support effective decision-making at a senior level.
„ You will work closely with the Business Development team on bids for Local authority contracts to deliver services.

What you'll need to succeed:
A qualified accountant and member of one of the recognised accounting bodies in the UK (ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA). A minimum of 5 years' experience of management within a Finance Department, demonstrating a proven track record of hands on financial and management accounting skills. Experience of managing strategic financial plans, budgets, financial reporting, procurement and fixed assets in a complex/dispersed organisation. Experience of charity finance statutory reporting and the charity Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP).

Please apply ASAP for more info and to be considered. The client will review CVs on an ongoing basis so the role may close before the closing date.

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Prospectus is pleased to be working with a professional medical body for psychiatry in Scotland, promoting excellence in psychiatry and mental healthcare. They are currently looking to recruit a Policy Officer to join them on a 12 months fixed term contract.

Please note travel to Scotland will be required as part of this role.

As the Policy Officer, you will ensure the organisation has an effective input into the work of all levels of government in Scotland relating to mental health along with developing strategic external alliances with relevant stakeholders. You will analyse government policy, facilitate research as well as assist officers and committees in developing and delivering policy strategy.

To be considered for this post, you will have previous policy experience working in a similar role. You will have excellent knowledge of current Scottish policy surrounding mental healthcare along with research experience skills. With the ability to work independently and proactively, you will have the confidence to deal with a wide variety of people, prioritise competing deadlines and comprehend complex situations quickly along with great IT and organisational skills.

My client is a busy and growing charity. They are looking for an Assistant Accountant to join their team.

Your new company:
My client is a busy and growing charity based in London which supports local as well as national projects. They are looking for an experienced Assistant Accountant to join their busy team.

Your new role:
This new and exciting role will support the finance team dealing with:
Assisting the Financial Controller with:
Budgeting and forecasting
Variance reporting
Producing reports in Excel
Investigating variances and providing commentary
Fixed assets
Complex reconciliations, including balance sheet reconciliations and reconciliations of several bank accounts
Multi-currency work
Use of Excel and internal systems

What you'll need to succeed:
In order to succeed, you will need to have prior experience in accounting duties. My client is also ideally looking for someone who is studying for a professional qualification. Previous experience in using financial software is also required.

What you'll get in return:
In return, you will have the opportunity to work for a well-regarded local charity which makes a real difference in the local and wider community.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Digital Fundraising Manager

A brand new and exciting role has arisen for a Digital Fundraising Manager with a good mix of direct marketing and digital channel experience to join a well-known global charity based near Camden, London. This charity is currently going through a sustained period of growth and are looking to add an experienced Digital Fundraising Manager to their team.

This is a brilliant chance for a Digital Fundraising Manager to help build Digital Fundraising as a function as the charity look for different ways to increase income and ultimately you make a real difference to the charity and those animals helped by it.

You will benefit from a very strong work life balance, including the ability to work from home.

Skills required for the Digital Fundraising Manager are:
- Extensive experience fundraising for a charity (eg direct marketing)
- Experience managing Digital channels
- Strategic management experience
- Strong stakeholder management

Digital Fundraiser / Digital Fundraising / Charity / Non-profit / Individual Giving / Direct Marketing

This is an incredibly exciting chance for an experienced Digital Fundraising Manager to make the step up into a Senior position within a leading charity.

Salary: £39,000 - £46,000 + Fantastic benefits

Location: Near Camden, London

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity.
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Location: Greater London, covering postcode areas: WD, HA, UB, NW, W, WC, SW, TW, KT, SM, CR, SE, BR, EC, E N, EN, IG, RM and DA.

TLG Volunteer Programmes are available for churches who have a heart for the struggling children and families in their communities. For Early Intervention (EI), we train, equip and support volunteers to coach children for an hour a week in school. For Make Lunch (ML), we train and support volunteers to provide nutritious meals and activities during the school holidays.

The TLG Regional Leader role offers a unique opportunity to manage a cluster of EI Centres and ML clubs within the South Central areas of England (including a large area of Central and Greater London). The ideal candidate will be a very organised, strong relationship builder with a vibrant Christian faith.

This key role involves training, leading and supporting new and established TLG EI and ML Programmes, working mainly with the Volunteer Coordinators who are leading their team of volunteers. The Regional Leader will be required to support progress against set key performance indicators to ensure the best possible support is given for thriving programmes.

TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and their families and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check. The role will require you to travel. You will also be expected to attend events & meetings during the year as required along with visits to National Support office in Bradford, West Yorkshire. This is a part-time position covering three days a week (22.5 hours). Specific days to be confirmed.

The deadline for applications is 5pm, Thursday 30th April 2020 (this may be extended due to the Coronavirus pandemic). Video interviews and formal interviews will be arranged with dates communicated nearer the time.

Department: Customer Journey

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in-person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

As a product designer at Citizens Advice, you’ll be excited by the challenge of designing services that work across multiple channels, devices, browsers, and platforms. You and your team will ensure we’re building meaningful, accessible, inclusive, and secure services. You’ll be an active member of the product design team; contributing to our design direction and choices, sharing your skills and learning from others.

You’ll be comfortable providing feedback and sharing your skills and experience with other designers in the team, participating in a supportive environment where human-centered design is valued and can succeed. You’re able to see the bigger picture as well as the fine detail, understand how to design in an agile environment. It’s a great bonus if you can sketch in code as well as on paper.

You’ll work with product managers, user researchers, service designers, content designers, data people, developers, and delivery experts in an agile environment. You’ll have access to the latest equipment needed to do your best work; including MacBooks, Google Suite, and prototyping tools.

We're looking for someone passionate about designing services for the most vulnerable and helping solve society’s most complex problems. Our products will impact people’s everyday lives. It’s an exciting thing to be part of. We need you.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from LGB and Trans and non-binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Our client, a professional development body, has a new opportunity available for an experienced Procurement Manager. You don't necessarily have to hold a CIPS or MCIPS qualification for this vacancy as long as you can demonstrate substantial experience of public sector/EU commissioning processes. This role comes with 30 days annual leave (not including bank holidays) and is permanent, based in London.

Key responsibilities for this Procurement Manager opportunity:

* Participate in tender evaluations, negotiation meetings and agreement of contracts with winning bidders
* Support the delivery and achievement of Grant and Contract objectives
* Maintain compliance with legal requirements and internal policies and procedures
* Manage commissioning life cycle from the decision to commission through engagement, tendering and contracts
* Produce commercial documentation for invitation to tenders
* Participate in tender evaluations, negotiation meetings and agreement of contracts with suppliers
* Manage complex procurements using working knowledge of public and EU legislation
* Work closely with the Business Development Manager to support preparation of bids/grant applications

CIPS/MCIPS would be great, however not necessary if you can demonstrate substantial procurement/contract/commissioning experience in relation to large grants in the public or third sector. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate experience of drafting commissioning documents e.g. service specifications, questionnaires, CQ logs. You will naturally have a good understanding of the legal basis of commissioning, including procurement requirements and frameworks applicable to the public sector. Advanced analytical skills in order to be able to evaluate factual and qualitative information in relation to contracts and procurement processes will be highly beneficial for you to perform well in this post. Your ability to negotiate with strong influencing and outstanding stakeholder engagement skills will make you an ideal candidate for this opportunity.

To apply for this Procurement Manager role, please email your CV to our Office & Specialist Support Team quoting the reference number 72670DW. All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.