We are seeking a Head of Fundraising to join our Senior Leadership Team who will be passionate about implementing the SARSAS fundraising strategy. You will be integral to identifying and securing new funding opportunities to ensure that SARSAS can continue to deliver support to meet the needs of those that have been raped and abused across Avon and Somerset.

You will be an experienced and ambitious fundraising professional, who is target driven and has an ability to recognise new opportunities and develop existing relationships to deliver against our goals. You will be an exceptional writer, with proven experience of winning significant grants and nurturing funding relationships with a range of donors, and specifically Trusts and Foundations. You will have experience of leading and motivating a team of fundraisers and volunteer fundraisers to achieve results.

You’ll be excited by the opportunity to join SARSAS and be part of the senior leadership team leading an organisational culture that reflects a collaborative and supportive environment.
 

Closing Date: Wednesday 25th September 5.00pm.

Interviews will be held in Bristol on 8th October 2019. Please ensure you are available in person for an interview on this date.

Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) is a small national charity providing non-directive information and specialised support to women and couples through antenatal testing and when a prenatal diagnosis is made. We are looking for a  

Engagement and Development Co-ordinator

Do you want to make a positive difference to women’s lives by raising awareness of ARC’s services?

Could you help health professionals do a difficult job to the best of their ability?

Could you maintain and develop ARC’s relationships with key health professionals in the field?

Could you provide support to women and couples facing unexpected and often difficult news in their pregnancy?

The Engagement and Development Co-ordinator is responsible for developing relationships with health care professionals working in antenatal care across the UK. You will maintain and build on the respect ARC has in the field and deliver our professional training programme. 

You will also answer calls and emails on ARC’s national helpline. This involves providing non-directive information and support to contacts who can be very distressed.

You will be a quick learner with excellent presentation and communication skills, a commitment to a woman making her own reproductive decisions, enthusiasm, capacity to manage the emotional impact of the work and fit well into a small dedicated team. The job is full-time and based in our south London office. It will involve travel and some overnight stays (average 2 – 3 overnights a month).

Salary £30,000 + 8% pension contribution

Deadline 28 September 2019 Interviews 3 October 2019

To apply please send CV and covering letter. In your letter please tell us how your experience and skills meet the requirements of  the role and why you want to work for ARC.

Are you passionate about the power of communications to help transform lives, change attitudes and influence government policy? Do you have experience in creating compelling content, an eye for a great story and social media flair? 

Working Chance is looking for an exceptional, ambitious communications officer who wants to use their creative talents for a brilliant cause and make their mark. We’re a small charity respected for our unique, award-winning work, supporting women from prison into high-quality jobs and changing attitudes to the employment of people with convictions.

You’ll be passionate about telling stories and creating content across platforms, with the confidence to pro-actively sell in stories to the media and build relationships with key journalists.

Educated to degree level, you’ll have a minimum of three years’ experience in full-time comms roles, ideally in the charity sector, but be excited to work with a high degree of autonomy and minimum supervision. Although we’re growing, you’ll be the sole comms person in the charity, working closely with external affairs and policy colleagues. This is an exciting time to join Working Chance and be part of our drive to support more women and help shape the debate about how the criminal justice system treats women.

You will be joining a highly successful team that has been working with disabled people for the last four years to change attitudes, perceptions and practices around physical activity and wellbeing. You will be a dynamic person and able to work collectively, as well as work on initiative, to solve problems and create impact to the benefit of disabled people. 

The post is part of a growing area at DR UK focussed on working with partners at a national and local level to create solutions to wellbeing inequalities faced by disabled people. With a focus on physical activity as a key driver to the wider determinants of wellbeing you will lead on projects aligned with the DR UK flagship programme Get Yourself Active, funded by Sport England.

We are looking for someone determined to make a change to the way disabled people access physical activity with a willingness to learn from and engage with untraditional partners in social care, health and at the grassroots. If this is something that interests and excites you please follow link below.

This is a full-time post with a salary range of £30 - 35k. We have a flexible working policy, our offices are based on the Olympic Park near Stratford and are fully accessible. Please note that applications without a covering letter, ideally covering each point outlined in the person specification, will not be considered. 

Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) is an anti-poverty charity that combines campaigning with direct casework, helping hundreds of people to access the welfare benetits they are entitled to.  We have run a success Private Rented Access Scheme (PRS) since 2013 through which we have housed hundreds of single homeless people.  We are passionate about helping people to access a suitable place to live and to manage their tenancy effectively.  If you share that passion and enjoy working directly with people to help them live dignified lives, this role could be for you.

Z2K initially set up a Private Rented Access Scheme (PRS) in 2013 as a response to cuts in Social Security benefits, particularly the cap on Local Housing Allowance rates of Housing Benefit and the subsequent benefit cap.  We recognised that this would lead to benefit shortfalls, which would inevitably lead to the greater risk of rent arrears and homelessness for many of our client group.  Through the scheme, we work to support single homeless people to secure accommodation within the private rented sector. 

When a person enquires about our PRS scheme, we start with systematic assessment of suitability for independent living. Once this is established and the terms of our work are understood, we broker relationships between clients and landlords that we have carefully selected; in addition, we support clients to source properties themselves.  After a property is found, we provide support with understanding contracts, sourcing furniture and starter packs and organising removal.  We make housing benefit, Universal Credit applications. We secure the rent in advance through Local Support Payments.  We also maintain a positive relationship with landlords, working with them to increase their understanding of the social and economic needs of our clients

We are looking for a new Tenancy Engagement Caseworker to lead on our PRS project.  You will be the main point of contact for those who want to access our PRS scheme and you will support them to secure assured shorthold tenancies in the private rented sector.  You will:

1. Work to accommodate annually around 30 people in PRS.
2. Support tenants post tenancy with a range of issues from managing relationship with their landlord, financial planning and skills building
3. Negotiate with landlords to achieve the best terms possible for our clients
4. Support tenants to address other challenges, such as addiction and mental health issues
5. Support tenants to manage their Universal Credit claims through the setting up managed payments of housing costs and providing support with accessing eligible entitlements.
6. Oversee workshops that bring tenants we have housed together
7. Widen our referral links and partnerships with others.

In addition to the above, you will work closely with the Campaigns and Tenant Voice Officer to:

1. Identify tenants who maybe interested in being involved in our campaigning work
2. Analyse and identify common themes that expose faults in the system where we should be working to influence policy

1. REDRESS is an international human rights organisation based in London and The Hague that represents victims of torture to obtain justice and reparation. We bring legal cases on behalf of individual victims of torture, and advocate for better laws to provide effective reparations. Our cases respond to torture as an individual crime in national and international law, and as a human rights violation with state responsibility. We apply our expertise in torture, reparation, and the rights of victims to national and international courts. Through our victim-centred strategic litigation we are able to have an impact beyond the individual case to address the root causes of torture and to challenge impunity. We conduct research and advocacy to identify the changes in law, policy and practice that are necessary. We work collaboratively with international and national organisations and grassroots victims’ groups.

Position Profile – Finance Officer

2. Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Finance Officer will be responsible for the administration of the finances of REDRESS UK and Stichting REDRESS NL. The main tasks include:

· Day-to-day book-keeping using QuickBooks Online including all transaction processing and reconciliation of accounts;

· Responding to payment requests using cheques, BACS and international transfers as appropriate;

· Providing regular insight into unrestricted and restricted balances;

· Maintaining cashflow management controls;

· Assisting and preparing interim and final financial reports to funders;

· Supporting and monitoring overseas partner organizations by reviewing their reporting and transaction checking in multi-currencies;

· Assist the Head of Finance in preparing the statutory accounts;

The Finance Office is also expected to carry out such further duties as may reasonably be required from time to time by REDRESS.

Ideal Professional Background

3. The successful candidate will need to have the following competencies:

· A minimum of three years directly relevant work experience;

· University degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience;

· Demonstrated proficiency in Excel and QuickBooks programmes;

· Fluency in English: additional language skills an advantage.

Personal Attributes

· Comfortable working as part of a small team and with a collaborative approach;

· Shows initiative: able to think creatively and strategically;

· Pays close attention to detail and accuracy;

· Well organised with strong project management skills: pays attention to deadlines;

· Able to understand and support the aims, objectives and values of REDRESS and reflect them in all aspects of work;

· Flexible

Reporting Relationships

4. The Finance Officer will report to the Head of Finance under the overall supervision of the Director. They are expected to work in collaboration with the Office Manager and all other members of staff.

Terms of Employment

5. This is a full-time position for 35 hours a week. The position is based at the REDRESS office in London. The salary is commensurate with experience, and there is a three-month probationary period. There are generous holiday benefits, with a 10% pension contribution after successful completion of the probation. Candidates will need to have the right to work in the UK.

6. Closing date is Friday 27th September 2019 with first interviews taking place on 8 and 9 October 2019.

How to Apply:

We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible as we will start interviewing candidates as soon as they apply and meet the criteria.

Please send: A cover letter explaining your interest in REDRESS and your qualifications for the role, a Curriculum vitae, the names and contact details of two references (these will only be approached in final short-listing process).

Deadline: Friday 27th September 2019

Part-time, 21-28 hours per week, split over 3 or 4 days
Fixed term, maternity cover for 12 months

Mind provides information, advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. Last year, our information and support was accessed more than 14 million times – but we’re ambitious to do more.

We’re looking for a Head of Content to lead the development of our online and print information and be a source of mental health expertise across Mind, including to our helplines.

You’ll be able to evidence a commitment to supporting people through the provision of high-quality, timely and format-appropriate information.

As part of a job share, you will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, and be a natural and empathetic team player. A strong understanding of mental health problems – be that through personal experience, or previous job role – would be highly desirable.

To apply, please follow the link below to our website.

Closing date: 27 September 2019
Interviews: 11 October 2019

Mind is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

High Trees Community Development Trust is a community anchor charity based in Tulse Hill in Lambeth. We deliver a range of services focused in 4 key areas - Children, Young People and Family Services, Community Education and Training, Employment and Careers and Community Action. All our work is focused on improving the social and economic welfare of the local community.

The work of the Children, Young People and Families is diverse, and current services include an Adventure Playground, Coaching in local schools, Homework Clubs, Youth Work Provision, out of School and Holiday Services and a Family Support Programme. You will be part of a small and dynamic team, delivering a range of innovative early intervention and targeted services from our Adventure Playground nd in local schools.

You will be confident that your professional approach and your solid grounding in youth/ play and community work will allow you to work within High Trees’ collaborative approach to service delivery with other partners, stakeholders and local groups in order to provide the services needed in the local community. You will be skilled at service delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our standardised online software and individual funders requirements. You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing young people and will be flexible in adjusting your practice to meet these needs.

Your work within the Children, Young People and Families team will contribute to ensuring High Trees meets its aim of providing the highest quality provision and continually strives to improve and expand its services as needed by the community.

 We are currently looking for an experienced trans project worker to provide support and resettlement to trans people. Ideally you will have experience within a supported housing setting, providing structured support for a vulnerable and complex client group; An understanding, directly or indirectly of the issues affecting trans people and supported accommodation is essential.  The post will run for 6 months with the possibility of a further 12 month extension and requires an immediate start.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a covering letter no more than 2 sides of A4 explaining why you want the position and how you meet the person specification.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

1. Experience lived, or of working with homeless or vulnerable trans people, in voluntary or paid employment setting.

2. Experience lived, or of (extensive) working with trans people.

3. Experience of working in a supported environment

4. Experience of working with and delivering services to a diverse client group with a wide range of support needs.

5. Experience of supporting people who have faced trans discrimination or hate crime.

6. Experience of lone working and working as part of small team.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of homelessness, particularly in relation to trans people.

2. Knowledge of the current benefits available to single people.

3. Knowledge of common themes, trends and issues within supported and shared accommodation

4. Knowledge of pathways into medical and social support for trans people.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

1. Ability to provide a range of housing related support services, i.e. key working, independent living support, welfare benefits advice, developing and using support plans and providing resettlement support.

2. Ability to manage challenging behaviour and complex needs, report and raise incidents and safeguarding alerts.

3. Ability to prioritise and maintain case work across multiple projects at the same time

4. Excellent recording and reporting skills to accurately reflect work with young people.

5. Excellent written and verbal communication with young people

6. Ability to effectively involve and engage trans people in services.

7. To be resilient in regard to working with challenging behaviour from service user’s who may have experienced trauma leading them to be mistrustful of support providers.

ESSENTIAL ATTITUDES AND PERSONAL QUALITIES

1. A commitment to equal opportunities in all aspects of the work.

2. A commitment to the aims, values and beliefs of the organisation.

3. Ability to empathise with vulnerable trans people.

4. Ability to comply with our organisational policies including those on Health and Safety, confidentiality and data protection.

Direct Marketing Executive (Individual Giving), an excellent opportunity for a passionate marketer to join a Welfare Charity, based in Central London.

This is an excellent opportunity to progress your Direct Marketing skills within an established and successful charity, working with a supportive team.

The Marketing Campaigns/Individual Giving team lead on direct marketing campaigns that engage with new and existing supporters, focused on increasing awareness and income for the cause.

As the Direct Marketing Executive (Individual Giving), you will work closely with the Head of Individual Giving to plan, coordinate, deliver and project manage a portfolio of Direct Marketing Campaigns across on and off-line channels; Direct Mail, Email and Social Media.

• Plan and schedule marketing campaigns, working with and briefing external agencies and suppliers.
• Write creative briefs for external agencies and collate information for each campaign.
• Oversee data selection, copywriting and manage the creative processe of each campaign.
• Monitor and evaluate performance of each campaigns, making recommendations for future projects

Our client is looking for a passionate marketer who is passionate about the charity sector and loves coordinating marketing campaigns, aimed at raising awareness and funds for the cause. You will have previous experience and skills in areas such as:

• Experience in marketing, across various channels and an understanding of Direct Marketing techniques. Ideally managing direct marketing campaigns.
• Excellent copy writing and proof-reading skills with outstanding attention to detail.
• Excellent communications skills to work with a range of external suppliers.
• Experience using of using Excel or databases and the ability to analyse data.
• Experience of project managing multiple projects at any one time.

The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families supports distressed children and their families through innovative therapeutic practice and research, training and promoting awareness of mental health issues. In April 2019, the Centre opened its new Centre of Excellence located in King’s Cross.

The Centre delivers a wide range of training and conferences, aimed mainly at mental-health and allied professionals and are core to the Centre’s mission of disseminating skills in innovative practice, as well as being a way of generating income.

The trainings last between one and nine days and are held both internally in the Centre’s training rooms, and externally in various settings. The training content ranges from teaching specific therapeutic methods for working with people to helping professionals gain deeper understanding of types of patient behaviour through research methods.

We are looking for an efficient, hardworking Training Administrator to work as part of a small team to help administer our trainings. The Training Administrator would predominantly administer two of our large training programmes, and would support the team with other training administration as needed.

The role would ideally suit a strong administrator who has experience of working in a busy office environment within an events or not-for-profit organisation. We would also consider a self-motivated, focussed individual with a strong interest to develop a career within the events or voluntary sector.

The post-holder will be based at the Anna Freud Centre, 4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH.

The Centre values diversity and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

TPP is currently partnering with a leading sports charity which helps young people to overcome barriers and develop their future potential. To do this, they partner with schools and local authorities.

You will be responsible for generating income from a portfolio of existing and new trust and foundation organisations, statutory sources and commissioning bodies. You will research and seek out prospective funders which are relevant for the charity's projects. You will work collaboratively across the organisation to build compelling cases for support in order to maximise grant success. Finally, you will line manage one fundraiser.

In order to be successful in this role you will have a strong track record in grants or bid writing particularly in relation to trusts, government, big lottery or other relevant funding sources. From this you will have excellent writing skills in order to engage and enthuse grant making bodies. You will also have excellent relationship building skills to influence relevant external stakeholders.

The organisation is willing to be flexible for the right candidate. You can work from home but must spend at least 1 working day per week within the office in Loughborough.

How to Apply

Closing date - 26th September

Interview date - 2nd October

If you are interested in this role or wish to register with TPP to hear about future posts, please call Patrick on 020 7198 6040 or send your CV to [email protected]

Fuel is looking for an energetic Finance & Operations Coordinator to join the team. This position is responsible for supporting the Fuel team in an administrative capacity, with a focus on supporting the Executive Director with organisational finance, working with our part-time Head of Finance, and implementing the company’s day-to-day administrative systems and operations.

Main responsibilities include maintaining Fuel’s financial records for all transactions, preparing monthly and quarterly financial reports and processing reimbursements, working within Fuel’s core values of curiosity, trust, collaboration, learning, representation, and creativity. If you have a background in Finance and knowledge of bookkeeping, we’d like to meet you.

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, modern slavery and human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,000 women and children in our national network of services.  These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services, culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between Refuge and Women’s Aid). We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, manage a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless. 

Job title: IGVA (Independent Gender-based Violence Advocate) – Romanian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian or Hungarian speaking

Salary: £27,177 - £29,943 per year

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (9.00am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday)

Location: Hounslow, Brent and Ealing

In this fast paced and well established service for Eastern European women and children, you will provide high quality personal welfare support for survivors of gender based violence, including domestic and sexual violence, modern slavery and prostitution. You will work with survivors from the point of crisis, assisting them through civil and criminal justice systems in Ealing, Brent and Hounslow and offering intensive support to ensure short-term and long-term safety. You will be a Romanian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian or Hungarian speaker.

You will support the service manager in building sustainable referral pathways and joint working protocols with a range of partners working with survivors of gender-based violence, including community housing organisations, BAMER support groups, health, substance misuse, law-enforcement agencies and other voluntary and statutory organisations. You will have proven experience of providing direct emotional and practical support to women as well as up-to-date knowledge of legislation relating to survivors of gender-based violence. You will have excellent casework skills, good written and verbal communication skills, clear professional boundaries and be a proactive team player.

All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpin all of our work.

Refuge is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. Other benefits include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a childcare voucher scheme.

Closing date: 15/10/19

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role. The post is co-located part-time in a police station and therefore may be subject to the Metropolitan Police Service vetting procedures.

Refuge is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.