The Fair Education Alliance is the UK's largest and most influential education coalition. We are a unique group of over 150 organisations dedicated to ending educational inequality by working together to make progress more quickly.

The Head of Impact and Evaluation is central to ensuring that a) the organisations we support place impact at the heart of what they do and b) that we effectively monitor and evaluate our own impact.

The Fair Education Alliance supports a range of education interventions to pilot, become established and scale through our Innovation Award, Intrapreneurship Award and Scaling Partnerships. Impact is a critical element of our support, from enabling individuals to do the most effective problem research, to embedding an organisational Theory of Change to conducting randomised control trials. This role is crucial for helping our portfolio of organisations, and the leaders developing them, to create and implement effective research and evaluation practices. The role is the FEA’s expert in impact management and as such, will also lead the team’s monitoring and annual evaluations. 

Essential experience, skills and technical competencies:

Technical knowledge

• Extensive knowledge and experience of evaluation and impact management techniques for measuring social impact including, experience supporting others to develop theories of change and theory based impact evaluations
• Experience of developing qualitative and quantitative research tools
• Experience of using and conducting analysis of large datasets
• Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel

Managing change and developing others 

• Experience of working in an advisory capacity to improve impact measurement practice
• Experience of assessing organisational needs, setting goals and monitoring results against objectives
• Proven ability to develop objectives with teams and individuals and monitor progress
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders and stakeholders at all other levels, ensuring that its results focused

Communication

• Strong knowledge and experience in making complex information accessible
• Experience of facilitating workshops and training
• Strong written and oral communication, experience of writing funder reports and reports of publishable standards
• Strong relationship management skills and experience building trusted relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels of seniority

Project and event management

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects
• Experience designing and delivering events for peer learning

You should apply for this role via email with the subject line ‘Application - Head of Impact and Evaluation’. Please review the job description on our website.

Your cover note should answer the following questions and be no longer than two A4 pages:

• Why do you want to be part of the Fair Education Alliance Secretariat team?
• What skills and experience make you an excellent fit for the Head of Impact and Evaluation?
• What is a key lesson you have learned through supporting organisations with their impact and evaluation strategies and implementation?

Successful candidates will be notified by end of day on Friday, 3rd January. First round interviews will be held on Wednesday, 8th January, and second round interviews will be held on Friday, 17th January. 

We aim to provide feedback to all applicants within 10 working days from the closing date.

Looking for a role which enables you to work with young people, schools, employers and volunteers to raise aspirations of young people, enhance their knowledge and understanding of future opportunities?

The Programmes Manager at 15billionebp is responsible for the creation, development, delivery and coordination of a range of career and employability related programmes for young people.  Safe in the knowledge that your work is improving the life chances of young people across some of London's most underprivileged areas.

• Working Pattern: Full Time, Permanent

• Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours a week

• Employment start date: ASAP

• Location: Moorfoot House, South Quay, London E14 9FJ

Due to the growth in our income an excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced, self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident project manager to join the 15billionebp Delivery Team.  The Delivery Team have an excellent reputation in working with schools, partners, employers and volunteers to deliver workshops and programmes which educate children and young people on the opportunities available to them and the skills required in order to prepare and present themselves for these.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Managing development, delivery and coordination of 15billionebp programmes mainly in secondary schools but also supporting primary school colleagues when necessary. This can include bespoke programmes, mentoring programmes or inter-school competitions.

• Assisting the Head of Development and Partnerships in expanding 15billionebp services to Corporate organisations as well as supporting the preparation of funding applications.

• Working alongside the 15billionebp primary school team to ensure effective recruitment, training and retention of volunteers across all programmes delivered by the charity.

If you have the skills and desire to join our team, please see our job description and person specification for more details.

Closing date for applications:  5.00pm, Tuesday 31st December 2019

Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 6th January 2020 and will include a skills based test.

To apply please submit a covering letter no longer than one side of A4 and your CV.

We are looking for an experienced individual to join us as Head of Partnership Development.  You will lead a team of partnerships experts in building global partnerships, optimising both funding and influence, across a range of institutional partners, to help Save the Children achieve its breakthroughs for children.

The Partnership Development Team sits within Global Programmes in the Programme Partnerships Department. Our vision is that Save the Children has exceptional partnerships with multilateral and bilateral organisations, optimising funding and influence to deliver our shared aims for children. We seek to achieve this by::

• Holding the broad overview of the multi-faceted partnerships we manage on behalf of SCUK and the movement, and taking a long-term, global approach.
• Presenting compelling and consistent messages that clearly articulate the synergies between Save the Children’s goals and those of our partners.
• Providing partnership expertise in brokering both financial and non-financial relationships with institutions. 
• Driving strategic external engagement at global, regional and local levels, both by actively engaging ourselves and by supporting a culture of external engagement across the global movement. 

As Head of Partnership Development you will provide vision, strategic direction, leadership and support to the team in delivering the ambitious aims of Save the Children by creating conditions for realising the potential of institutional partnerships within Save the Children UK and the wider Save the Children movement. In addition you will:

• Ensure there are effective co-ordination mechanisms across Save the Children UK’s full suite of institutional partnerships, maximising synergies and leveraging expertise across all key Save the Children UK divisions and departments, Save the Children Members and Save the Children International
• Provide leadership to develop and motivate team members to sustain high performance, through effective challenge, prioritisation support, learning and development support, career planning and performance management
• As account lead for global partnerships set the tone of Save the Children’s movement wide approach to global relationships.

To be successful you will have a thorough understanding of international development issues and significant experience of developing relationships and managing strategic partnerships with institutional partner organisations including one of more of DFID, EU, World Bank or the UN.  Educated to degree level or similar, you will have strong negotiation and influencing skills in relation to multiple stakeholder contexts and matrices.  In addition you will have:

• Experience of influencing and delivering results cross-organisationally within a large complex global organisation
• Proven experience of providing creative and innovative approaches in developing new initiatives that contribute towards partnership objectives
• Strong leadership behaviours including external orientation, situational agility, and partner focus
• The ability to network with, and influence, senior people both internally and externally to achieve a pre-defined outcome
• Exceptional team and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively and with impact.

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.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

To apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 8th December 2019

Executive Assistant to ED of Digital and Innovation
£26,000-£30,000

London

The Executive Assistant will provide an exceptional standard of support and assistance to the Executive Director: Digital and Innovation and provide support to the wider department as required by the Executive Director and EA network.

 Key responsibilities:

· Provide complex diary management support for the Executive Director’s busy diary.

· Conduct regular diary management meetings with the Executive Director to discuss future engagements, invitations and other requests.

· Co-ordinate internal/external meetings as required and be responsible for all changes associated with rescheduling meetings.

· Proactively ensure that the Executives Director is fully prepared for key external/internal meetings.

· Organise meetings for senior internal and external stakeholders including senior management sub teams circulate papers and book rooms.

· Liaise with contacts and greet guests on behalf of the Executive Director.

· Attend various meetings and take minutes, following up action points as required.

· Work closely with other Executive Assistants to ensure quality and consistent administrative support is provided throughout the organisation and to develop a strong understanding of the work and priorities of the Executive Leadership Team

· Act as the central point of communication between staff, outside parties and the Executive Director.

· To support and actively participate in ad hoc and regular working groups within the department as required.

· Identify and manage discrete projects leading to better working practices across the department and cross-organisationally.

· Build strong relationships across the whole organisation to enable efficient problem solving and to build knowledge of how the organisation works.

Essential Education and Competencies:

· Strong project management experience - carry out multiple tasks and working to deadlines in an organised manner.

· Strong experience of stakeholder management and engagement

· Solid IT literacy in MS Windows, MS Office and Outlook

· Complex diary Management - shield the Executive Directors diary to ensure the optimum use of their time in delivering organisation priorities

· Strong attention to detail - to produce work, which is consistently accurate, and which fits the purpose for which it was intended.

· Excellent communication skills – written and verbal

· A proactive, positive and fun individual with a “can do” attitude

· Some experience and/or an interest in the digital landscape would be beneficial

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 12th Dec 2019 GMT (Europe/London)

We are recruiting in behalf of an amazing welfare charity for an IT Officer to provide 1st/2nd line support and maintenance to ensure a secure and effective data network, including all mobile IT devices, and operational telephony network. Additionally, provide IT support to co-located charities in accordance with individual tenant agreement. This is a 4 month FTC to start 3rd January 2020

The Role
Provide IT user support (desk-side and via telephone) and user IT security training.
Assist management of on site physical, virtual and cloud server environments.
Assist management of hosted Avaya telephone system.
Maintain charity wide mobile devices and associated connectivity requirements.
Troubleshoot and rectify 1st/2nd line issues across entire network and server infrastructure.

The Candidate
MCSE Server Engineer with 2+ years experience as practitioner.
Solid experience working as 1st line support.
Expertise in troubleshooting windows 10 and server 2012/2016 R2.
Microsoft Office- both officer 365 and Azure Active Directory.
Previous experience of managing VMware/ HyperV architecture.
Proven troubleshooting and fault finding skills.

Software Requirements
VMWare, Veeam, Hyper-V
HP servers, Cisco ASA Firewalls,McAfee Endpoint, Avaya hosted telephony.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.

Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.

Project Manager – Supported Living (Ref: ISSKPM-1219)
Salary: £24,905.66 per annum
Hours: Full time, 35 per week
Contract: Permanent (including days, evenings, occasional waking nights and some weekends)

Are you organised, driven and eager to contribute to the development of high-quality services for people with learning disabilities? Look no further! 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated and adaptable manager to assist with the management of two small supported living projects supporting adults with learning disabilities. 

Working alongside the Senior Support Worker and a team of Support Workers, you will provide excellent person centred care to ensure the tenants’ wellbeing, enabling independent and fulfilled living. This will involve supporting service users to take part in a range of meaningful and fun group activities, develop friendships and access services, as well as support with all aspects of day-to-day living.  This may include working in partnership with family and advocates, where possible and appropriate. 

This is a valuable opportunity to have a positive impact on the life of the people we support, by taking responsibility for encouraging a culture of respect and dignity, providing supervision and clear management to a team of Support Workers, as well as developing and implementing care plans designed to provide meaningful choice and support to tenants.

We are looking for someone with prior experience of supporting people with high and complex needs, who will instil a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, self-reflection and respect for those in need of support, through dialogue with service users, their families, advocates and others. The right candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record in motivating and developing staff, alongside an understanding of leadership in social care and excellent interpersonal skills.  Ideally they will also have experience of PMLD, mental health and complex care conditions, as well as providing and planning end of life care support.

How to apply: Please submit a CV along with a cover statement (either within the email itself or as an attachment) addressing the following: “Tell us more about why you are interested in this role and what you would bring to this post in terms of your knowledge, skills and experience”. Please ensure you refer to the person specification in your statement and explain how you meet the criteria.

We would also appreciate if you could complete a diversity monitoring form.

Closing date: 5th January 2020

Centre 404 is dedicated to staff development and supervision and we will provide a detailed induction and on-going training and support. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and we are looking to recruit people who share these values. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS check, proof of eligibility to work in the UK and two satisfactory references.

We are dedicated to providing a meaningful and rewarding work environment, as well as offering a range of perks and benefits for our staff to enjoy. 

Centre 404 is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Charity ref number 299889

Simplified Recruitment is a Job Advertising Agency working on behalf of Centre 404. By applying for this position you are giving us permission to pass your CV and covering letter to a third party in relation to recruitment. A full copy of our privacy policy can be viewed on our website.

 Ref: SR506449

Senior Innovation Manager

Permanent

London

£40,382 with an annual progression up to £44,869 (London based with availability at Whitecross Studios, 50 Banner Street, EC1Y 8ST)

Fancy working in a charitable organisation where innovation is prioritised and failure is positively celebrated as a necessary road to success? Come join an exciting new team at the Children's Society where you'll manage an innovation pipeline using insight as a core driver and use a mix of methodologies, including Business Model Canvas.

This post sits in the New Ventures team within our ambitious new Supporter Impact and Income Directorate and you will play an integral role in helping us to implement our transformational new approach to supporter engagement. Together we will connect, inspire and mobilise people and communities across the country to give their time, money and voice to our cause, collectively transforming the lives of vulnerable young people.

This is a crucial role in delivering a new 5 year Impact Strategy that will build a dynamic growing movement of people collectively transforming the lives of young people through their actions.

Innovation will be a major enabler of this strategy and has been identified as one of five core goals on the path to success. You will help deliver an innovation pipeline aimed at generating value with our core supporter segments to help achieve financial and non-financial objectives.

Working in the Supporter Income and Impact Directorate you will work closely with fundraising, communications, partnerships and our beneficiary programme delivery departments to ensure delivery of a fast moving pipeline with a joined-up approach to innovation.

While the role will capacity build business as usual teams to deliver incremental change to the performance of the current portfolio, the focus of this role will be to build and test completely new propositions, aiming for the truly disruptive, and at least, delivering completely new income and engagement lines for new supporters.

Vacancy closes 23:59pm 30th November 2019. Previous applicants should not reapply.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Moreover, interviews may commence prior to the advert closing date.

Salary: £23,440 - £26,044 plus London Allowance of £3,500 per annum

Hours: 35

Contract Type: 12 months Maternity cover

Closing Date: 06/01/2020

Interview Date: TBC

Marie Curie's Overseas Challenges portfolio offers supporters the chance to see some of the most breath-taking parts of the world and ensure Marie Curie nurses can support people living with a terminal illness and their families.

You will manage several events from across the portfolio raising over £700,000 in 20/21. From Everest base camp and Kilimanjaro to the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China, you will support participants in their training and fundraising for their challenge, you may also have the opportunity to represent Marie Curie on an overseas challenge!

You will support the Senior Fundraising Product Manager in developing the stewardship journey, training of challenge reps, managing partnerships with tour operators, selecting future challenges and engaging colleagues across the charity.

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left. Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

This role may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.

As Building Manger, you’ll be looking after an utterly unique space in the heart of London. You’ll need a passion for caring for beautiful spaces, an eye for detail, an ability to research and come up with creative solutions, a high level of independence, and strong experience of building management. 

You’ll be joining a dynamic, values-driven team, working within a multi-faith environment. Diversity is important to us, and we are especially interested to hear from people with a range of faiths and backgrounds. Ideally you will bring both practicality and a love for beauty to the role.

This is a part-time role (2.5 days a week, ideally split over 5 mornings, timing negotiable).

Salary: £34k pro rata.

Deadline:  5pm 13th December.  Interviews in early January. 

To apply, please send us your CV and covering letter 

St Ethelburga’s Centre:

St Ethelburga's is a 15th Century grade 1 listed church building, hidden between towering glass office blocks of the City of London. Having survived the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, it was almost completely destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993.  It was rebuilt and opened as a Centre for reconciliation and peace in 2002. In 2010 a Bedouin Tent, was added within the magical courtyard garden for people of all backgrounds and faiths to come together in community.

Today St Ethelburga’s is a thriving voluntary organisation running programmes that inspire people to work across cultures, becoming peace-makers in their own contexts and lives. We run leadership programmes for young adults, we work with refugees and asylum seekers, and we host a diverse range of public events, trainings, music events and workshops.

Duties will include:

One-off projects:

• Manage, supervise and coordinate the work of contractors for complex renovation projects and building improvements

Day-to-day:

• Manage planned maintenance to keep a high level of upkeep, décor and cleanliness throughout the building and garden (including calculating and comparing costs, supervising works, and following up on any deficiencies)
• Deal promptly with maintenance issues and any building related urgencies as they arise
• Monitor spending and manage the building budget
• Manage relationship with neighbouring corporate contractors
• Manage equipment, storage (tech equipment, furniture etc)

Health and safety:

• Health and Safety  -  keep policies up to date, keep procedures current and relevant, report to the board
• Lead or coordinate team trainings and updates to reinforce staff practices
• Undertake fire alarm tests, organise team practice evacuations
• Improve energy efficiency where possible and work towards silver eco-church status

Security:

• Coordinate building security
• Respond to occasional out-of-hours emergencies

Team involvement:

• Be the first point of contact for the team for any building related issues
• Attend a monthly team meeting
• Coordinate volunteers where needed

Possibilities for the role

There’s scope for the role to evolve around the interests of the successful applicant, and some possibilities include: 

• Fundraising – preparing funding applications for discrete building improvements and projects
• Design and decoration projects
• Developing a team of practical building-care volunteers
• Leading history and story-telling projects

Meetings and supervision

1. Your line manager will be the COO
2. You’ll work closely with the office manager and venue hire manager on day-to-day issues
3. A member of the board of trustees will be responsible for overseeing H&S

Passionate about bringing a change in people's health and wellbeing? We are recruiting a Project Coordinator for the Community Cancer Champions Project, to be delivered in London boroughs of Redbridge, Havering and Barking and Dagenham from November 2019 to May 2020. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on prevention of Cancer, including promoting cancer screening and thereby help prevent and early detection of cancer amongst at-risk communities in the three boroughs.  

Salary: £35,086 plus London Allowance of £3,500

Hours: 35

Closing Date: 06/01/2020

Interview Date: TBC

Marie Curie's Overseas Challenges portfolio offers supporters the chance to see some of the most breath-taking parts of the world and ensure Marie Curie nurses can support people living with a terminal illness and their families.

You will manage a portfolio of events raising over £700,000 in 20/21. From Everest base camp and Kilimanjaro to the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China, you will support 300 participants train and fundraise for their challenge. You will also be responsible for line management of 2 members of staff, developing the stewardship journey, training of challenge reps, managing partnerships with tour operators, selecting future challenges and engaging colleagues across the charity.

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left. Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

This role may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Why work for us?

CARE International is one of the world's leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world's most vulnerable places.  We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

About the role

CARE International UK is seeking a skilled and dynamic Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Advisor for the Women's Economic Empowerment team on an 18-month fixed term contract (with possibility for extension). This is an exciting opportunity within the global team which leads the CARE International confederation on advancing thinking about how we tackle the issues of poverty and inequality which systematically disempower women.

The post-holder will lead on supporting country offices in developing new programmes and in demonstrating their impact. The post-holder will support colleagues across the globe, and particularly within country offices, to implement robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks and will take on responsibility for developing our learning framework in order to capture best practice from our programming so as to drive programme quality.

About You

CARE International UK is seeking someone who has demonstrable experience of working in program quality, research and MEL, in addition to technical knowledge and experience of Women’s Economic Empowerment. You will have strong skills in the design, development and delivery of monitoring and evaluation systems, experience in managing evaluations and impact measurement, and enthusiasm for and experience in capacity building of colleagues in country offices.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in CARE International UK includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK

Closing Date: Monday 6th January 2019

We are committed to Equality and value Diversity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job (see person specification).  If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch.

A DBS disclosure will be requested for the successful candidate.

Centre for London is a think tank and a and charity focused on London’s critical challenges. Through this opportunity you will gain a better understanding of how urban policy is created and shaped in a global city, how a successful events programme is run, as well as learning what is required to find and steward donors.

You will plan, deliver and fundraise for high-level conferences for London’s government, business and civic leaders, experts and citizens.In this role you will lead delivery of our flagship event, The London Conference, as well as developing and delivering other large and medium scale events. 

This role would best suit someone who already has a good level of experience in event management and is able to take on a high level of responsibility for projects.We will be ramping up our delivery of conferences in 2020-2021, so experience delivering large scale events is strongly desired. We don’t ask that you are an expert in London policy issues – though some understanding of would be helpful – but you will need to be able to learn quickly, think creatively and communicate effectively.

This is either a four day or full-time role; we are supportive of flexible working.

Full details of the role can be found in the job description. If you meet the criteria in the person specification and are excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications from people without the right to work in the UK.  

Closing date Monday 13th January 9am. 

A small museum in central London is looking for an experienced Accounts Assistant for a part-time role (3 days per week) for a 12 month fixed term contract. There may be the possibility of an extension or the role being made permanent after 12 months.

The role will involve:

-Bank reconciliations

-BACS payments

-Income processing

-Processing invoices

-Gift Aid processing

Candidates must have experience in both bank reconciliations and Gift Aid processing.

Experience with Navision accounting software is useful but not essential.

Experience in the charity sector in a similar role is essential.

The salary for this role is £25,000 FTE (£15,000 for 3 days)

Please note interviews for this role will take place w/c 9th December.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.