We believe in the power of your personal lived-experience of the criminal justice system.

We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement and support everybody can change.

Do you want to use your experience to enable others to change the system from within?

IF YOU DO, THEN THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!

 DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Been in prison or on probation?
• A People person and a good listener?
• Good IT/literacy/numeracy skills?
• Turned your life around and want to help others?
• Have something to give and can say what it is?
• Manage your own life well, and can prove it?
• Highly motivated and passionate about change?

If the answer to ALL of these is yes, then we want you…!

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A mixture of full and part-time positions
• 12 month fixed-term contract (liely to be extended)
• Up to £25,000 depending on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
• 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time)

* The post is subject to a 6 month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check

CURRENT VACANCIES

WORKING ACROSS BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SOMERSET & WILTSHIRE

WORKING ACROSS DORSET, DEVON & CORNWALL

WORKING ACROSS ESSEX

WORKING ACROSS KENT, SURREY & SUSSEX

WORKING IN PRISONS ACROSS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE 

HOW TO APPLY

Visit our website to find details of how to apply for any of these positions.

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship.  As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

Individual Team Members will demonstrate some, but not necessarily all of these skills and as a result will be responsible for different areas of delivery as assigned by the Engagement Team Leader as set out below.

Engagement

• Service user engagement and recruitment - Including through presentations, surveys, focus groups and workshops
• Staff engagement - including through presentations, staff and individual meetings
• Stakeholder engagement - including other statutory and voluntary sector partner agencies

Retaining relationships

• Providing training to an accredited standard
• Facilitating groups, including meetings, focus groups, workshops and large events
• Recruiting and managing service users and volunteers - including providing clear activities, support and signposting to further opportunities

Co-ordination

• Coordinating tasks and activities within the project plan and producing regular reports
• Keeping accurate and up to date records - including participants details, engagement levels, diversity/equality monitoring data
• Assessing risk, working within safeguarding best practice and reporting incidents

In addition to the above duties, the post holder will be required to perform other duties, which are assigned from time to time. However, such other duties will be reasonable in relation to the individual’s skills, abilities and grade.We believe in the power of your personal lived-experience of the criminal justice system.

We believe in the power of your personal lived-experience of the criminal justice system.

We believe with the right opportunity, encouragement and support everybody can change.

Do you want to use your experience to enable others to change the system from within?

IF YOU DO, THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Been in prison or on probation?
• Able to lead a team of dedicated staff?
• Excellent communication skills?
• Drive and have your own car?
• Strong IT skills?
• Experience of managing multiple projects?
• Experienced managing volunteers or small groups?
• Experienced managing budgets?
• Highly motivated and passionate about change

IF THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THESE IS YES, THIS IS THE JOB FOR YOU.!

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• Full time position
• 12 month fixed-term contract (likely to be extended)
• Up to £30,000 depending on experience
• 25 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays

* The post is subject to a 6 month probationary period and Enhanced DBS check

CURRENT VACANCIES

SOUTH EAST BASED - WORKING ACROSS LONDON, KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HAMPSHIRE & THE ISLE OF WIGHT

MIDLANDS BASED

At User Voice we believe in transformation powered by experience, and are committed to making the criminal justice system work for everyone.We believe that with the right opportunity, encouragement and support everybody can change.Only offenders can stop re-offending…

HOW TO APPLY

Visit our website for details of how to apply for this role.

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – collaborative, democratic, resilient optimistic, ordering chaos and authentic. You’ll get an experience like no other with the chance to fast forward your career.

We offer career enhancing opportunity, support and encouragement to develop new skills.

Successful candidates will be results and outcome-orientated with knowledge of the criminal justice sector. As well as managing the development and delivery of the service, we are looking for motivated people willing to travel and go above and beyond to get the job done.

Our Engagement Teams are responsible for engaging with a diverse range of service users with different experiences in order to improve services and promote active citizenship.  As balanced Teams they have a range of complementary skills in order to achieve these aims, including service user engagement, service provider engagement, project management and administration.

At Crimestoppers we believe everyone has the right to feel safe from crime, wherever they live. Hundreds of thousands of people trust us each year with their crime information by calling our anonymous telephone number or using our untraceable online form. Our charity gives people the power to speak up and stop crime 100% anonymous. Always.

We currently have a vacancy for a

Fearless Outreach Worker - Kent

£ 22,330.00

37.5 hours per week

3 year Fixed Term Contract

Fearless is the youth brand for Crimestoppers UK, the only national crime reduction charity.  Our work is focused on helping young people make informed decisions about reporting crime.

We have a really important message; we don’t want any young person to live with, or in fear of crime, so we provide awareness workshops and the ability to report crime anonymously, without having to go to the police.  Fearless is recruiting a full-time outreach worker to deliver this message to young people across Kent.

As an outreach worker, you will deliver a Fearless programme, working with young people in a variety of settings including schools and youth groups delivering age-appropriate workshops.  So we are looking for people who are dynamic, passionate and have a natural ability to engage young people.

Alongside this you will contribute to our professionals training – we’ve already trained 2,000 professionals to deliver the Fearless message to the young people that they work with, and we want to expand this effort across London. You’ll be working in partnership with stakeholders including the local authority, school liaison officers, schools, youth centre workers, Office of the Police and Crime Commission, Kent Police, pupil referral units and youth charities.

As you will regularly come in to contact with young people, the successful applicant will be asked to complete a Disclosure & Barring Service application.

To apply, please submit your Covering Letter & CV closing of post 29th September 2019 12:00pm.  A selection process, including interviews and presentation to be confirmed.

Victim Support is looking to recruit a Senior Independent Victim Advocate Team Leader based in Accrington, Lancashire.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

We are recruiting a Senior Independent Victims Advocate, managing a team based in our Accrington office.

To be successful in this role you will have knowledge of the Criminal Justice system and the impact crime has on people and communities. You will also be able to demonstrate a background of managing teams.

You will work as part of the team on a shift pattern covering the operating hours. The post is subject to an enhanced criminal records check

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (s). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Liaison and Diversion Peer Support Worker
Salary: starting at £19,554 pa (NJC Scale Points 7 - 11)
Hours: 37 hours per week (Job share will be considered)
Contract: This role is fixed term for 12 months
Location: West Yorkshire – Primarily Leeds & Kirklees

You will complement the work of the Wakefield Liaison and Diversion service, providing practical and emotional support to service users who have come into contact with the criminal justice system, with support needs around mental health, learning disability and/or substance use.

You will work with a caseload of service users, in the community and at court, recording all interactions with service users in line with Liaison and Diversion procedure and liaising with Project Workers around their support. 

You will need to have lived experience of offending and one of the vulnerabilities listed above, as well as accessing support services. You will have experience of giving and/or receiving peer support and will be able to demonstrate how you manage your recovery and what you are currently doing with your time to being able to step up into full time employment.

Candidates must be abstinent from all illicit substances, and in active recovery for at least six months, with at least two professional/character checkable references.

Candidates must be free from offending for at least 12 months and must be at least 6 months free from a custodial sentence.

The successful candidates will need to have strong communication skills and the ability to positively engage with a wide range of service users, colleagues, and other professionals.

These are developmental positions and successful candidates must be willing to take part in a full induction programme and ongoing training. Peer Support workers will receive a robust package of support and supervision to enable them to manage their workload and promote their wellbeing.

There will be an Open Day on Monday 23rd September, 10am – 4pm at Touchstone House, 2-4 Middleton Crescent, Leeds.

Please come along to speak to Connor Ashworth (Liaison and Diversion Operations Manager) about this opportunity.

Closing Date: Sunday 29th September 2019
Interviews will be held on: Monday 14th October 2019

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website where you can download the application pack.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

Touchstone is a Trans Positive employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Mindful Employer, has been granted the Positive about Disabled People mark and Investors in People Platinum.

No agencies please.

• Section S7(2) (d & e) of Sex Discrimination Act applies
• This post is exempted from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
• Fixed term contract 2 years

Location: Anawim Women’s Centre

Grade: SCP 46-49

Salary: £41,156 - £43,947 Per Annum

Hours: Full time 37 hours per week

Aim

Anawim is growing, especially with the establishment of our residential service, Dawn House. The aim in appointing a COO is to support & free up the CEO to focus on influencing strategic change and lead the growth and strategic development of Anawim. The COO will oversee day to day delivery of new and existing services ensuring Anawim is resourced with the right capability and continues to build an inclusive and accountable environment in which both the women we support and our staff can thrive. The COO will work collaboratively with the project management team in shaping the overall development of the organisation.

Background to the post

To ensure that Anawim continues to grow in a sustainable way, the CEO is engaging in increased amounts of policy and influencing work, therefore the core management team has expanded. A fundraising role has been created; finance has been bought in-house alongside the recruitment element of HR. With the increase in staff numbers and complexity of the work we require a stronger HR and operational management presence in-house to share the supervision of this now large team and to ensure that the charity is run in an organised and efficient way by a motivated, skilled and focused team.

We are seeking an experienced and innovative person with a deep commitment to the importance of the role of women’s centres who has initiative, common sense, a great personality and the ability to manage people and projects. The COO will have a proven ability to engage with and influence a wide range of people at all levels from Anawim service users to commissioners and MPs.

Victim Support is looking for a Media and External Communications Lead based in London.

Victim Support is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

Our Media & External Communications Lead plays a critical role in ensuring that the charity is able to represent the voice of victims in the local and national media. The role sits as part of the wider Communications & Governance department bringing together all Victim Support's communications, digital, governance and brand work.

The main duties of this role are to:

• Lead on delivering an effective external communications strategy
• Support the senior team to raise VS's profile in prioritised areas
• Maintain VS's profile nationally through reactive media relations
• Help enhance and protect VS's reputation using effective communication channels
• Drive self-referrals through PR and media coverage

To be successful you will have experience of delivering media relations across print, broadcast and digital for a complex organisation. You will have strong influencing skills, be an excellent communicator and have a proven ability to work under pressure, and to plan and deliver activities to meet tight deadlines.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (s). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form. If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role. If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

This is a temporary role to cover a period of maternity leave with the possibility of contract extension as the organisation grows.

The Ben Kinsella Trust is one of the leading anti-knife crime charities in the UK. We were set up following the murder of Ben Kinsella in 2008. We exist to campaign against knife crime and to educate young people about its dangers and help them make positive choices to stay safe.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to support the day to day running of the Ben Kinsella Trust to ensure our core ethics and goals both long term and short term remain on achievable. This role includes assisting the Ben Kinsella team with funding applications and ensuring the smooth functioning of the Trust’s workshops and other core administrative functions as well as having an input in day to day operational activities and future activity forecasting.

This is a hands-on role where you will play a key part in our business operations across the business.

The post offers significant opportunities for innovation, development and growth both personal and organisational and will enable you to play a key part in our mission.

Your main responsibilities and activities will be;

• Line management of 6-8 sessional workshop facilitators

• Manage and administer the workshop booking process, data management, sending invoices and processing payments, chasing schools and others for missing information

• Organise mass-mailings, phone calls and email broadcasts to communicate necessary information and updates to schools and other parties

• Oversee workshop logistics, including generating reports, booking facilitators and compiling essential information for schools

• Supporting fundraising events and activities

• Administer health and safety including and risk assessments in our exhibition space

• Act as the first point of contact for incoming telephone and email enquiries

• Ensuring that Ben Kinsella Trust work is informed by the views and experiences of young people using our services

• Assisting with the management and expansion of our social media platforms

• Represent the views of The Ben Kinsella Trust by speaking at public events and to the media as and when required

• Carrying out other administrative duties as required

Experience

• Experience within similar role is desirable but not essential, we are eager to discuss this opportunity with candidates of all experience levels

• Experience of working or volunteering in the voluntary/third sector

• Experience of working with schools and youth groups

Skills and knowledge

• Well organised with the ability to manage and prioritise workloads to meet deadlines

• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal - with ability to present information concisely IT literate including use of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Experience of using different social media platforms

  Personal Qualities

• Helpful, respectful, approachable and team oriented, able to build strong working relationships and a positive work environment
• Discreet, sensitive and non-judgmental attitude with the ability to understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality

• A personal commitment to equality and inclusion

• A general interest in the Ben Kinsella message and mission as a charitable organisation

Shared Services Connected Ltd are acting as an agency and are advertising this role. The successful individual will be employed by The Ben Kinsella Trust.

The Ben Kinsella Trust is one of the leading anti-knife crime charities in the UK. We exist to campaign against knife crime and to educate young people about its dangers and help them make positive choices to stay safe.

We are embarking on a major five-year strategy to grow the charity’s reach and influence. The Operations Manager  is a new role and will support the Chief Executive Officer, playing a vital role in shaping and implementing our strategic plan as well as delivering the wide range of operational functions to maintain our message to ensure our mission is fulfilled.

This is an exciting, hands-on role where you will direct and manage service and business operations across the business and have a remit to develop the Trust’s highly regarded exhibition and workshop programmes and assist in the expansion of our operations to new locations within the UK.

The post offers significant opportunities for innovation, development and growth both personal and organisational and will enable you to play a key part in our mission.

Your main responsibilities and activities will be;

• Development and oversight of staff appraisal and supervision systems, in line with required competencies

• Responsible for the effective delivery of all the Trust’s services and projects

• Production and implementation of operational work plans and budgets

• Further development of the Trust’s monitoring and evaluation processes

• Monitoring performance against targets and deliverables for all contracts/services

• Developing new income streams, which will include meeting funders, producing budgets, writing bids and identifying funding opportunities

• Responsible for ensuring all funding monitoring reports are accurate and submitted in a timely manner to funders and donors

• Develop and manage the Trust’s internal policies, procedures and quality standards

• Create and manage a ‘beneficiary involvement’ programme to engage young people in the Trust’s operations and strategic planning

• Assisting the CEO with media and PR duties, for example giving interviews or representing the Ben Kinsella Trust at external events

• Production and presentation of reports and updates to CEO, to support internal strategic and risk review processes (including to Trustees)

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of managing grants, donors and other funding awards

• Experience of developing monitoring, evaluation, and performance monitoring systems which improve business services

• Evidence of successful collaborative working within the third and/ or public sector within similar role

Skills and knowledge

• Well organised with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

• Knowledge of knife crime, youth violence and other key current issues affecting young people

• Good understanding of health and safety, GDPR and safeguarding processes

  Personal Qualities

• Demonstrable commitment and passion to improving young people’s life chances

Shared Services Connected Ltd are acting as an agency and are advertising this role. The successful individual will be employed by The Ben Kinsella Trust.

Victim Support is looking to recruit an Independent Victim Advocate (IVA) - Admin Lead based in Hampshire.

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve. In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight VS is commissioned to deliver the Victim Care Service. The Service provides support to victims of all types of crime, aged 4 upwards.

The purpose of the role is to offer and provide, where that offer is accepted, ongoing practical and emotional support to victims of crime predominantly by phone but involving the deployment of volunteers for face to face support where required. Our support is available to all victims, regardless of whether or not they have reported to police. In this role you will help victims to cope with, and recover from, the effects of crime both directly and by referring/signposting to additional support services. You will be part of a team that provides the first line of support for all self-referrals and general enquiries relating to the service, which is available between 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 4pm Saturday on a rota basis. The post holder will also line management a small admin team who support the work of the operation teams.

Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and Police Vetting.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (s). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

Victim Support is looking to recruit an Administrative Assistant located in Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh, Hampshire

Victim Support (VS) is an independent charity for people affected by crime in England and Wales. We work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and respect they deserve.

To be successful in the role you will have experience of Microsoft Office, payroll, finance, IT and HR processes. Training will be given on in-house finance and recruitment systems.

Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and Police Vetting.

Victim Support offers competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as (s). In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role.

If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

Full-Time (35 hrs p/w)

Fixed-term contract until December 2020

HMP Cardiff

Ref code: AWC-191

Are you a highly organised, efficient and proactive self-starter able to work on your own initiative? Looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, join St Giles Trust as an Administrator, where you will provide vital administrative support and contribute to ensuring compliance with systems and procedures, standards and performance targets relating to the administrative functions.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

About this exciting opportunity

This key role will see our successful candidate undertake a broad range of essential office-based, meeting-setting and facilities monitoring tasks. This will involve managing, developing and updating the Client Database, collecting and collating data, and developing and maintaining effective and efficient administrative and office systems, including filing and recording systems.

You will also be expected to process all relevant internal and external correspondence and access emails regularly and distribute messages promptly, while offering general support to Peer Advisers, staff and manager when necessary is also an important aspect of the role.

What we are looking for:

• Strong IT skills, including proven Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook experience
• An excellent communicator, verbal and written, with impressive interpersonal skills
• A self-starter who is organised and able to manage own workload
• Strong attention to detail and a proven ability to produce accurate work
• Impressive time-management, organisational and prioritisation skills
• The ability to develop and maintain filing, database and recording systems
• Sympathy with the aims and ethos of St Giles as an organisation

In return, you can expect a competitive salary and generous leave allowance, staff pension scheme, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more besides.

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 11pm, 30th September 2019. Interviews: 8th October 2019.

Full-Time (35 hrs p/w)

Fixed-term contract until December 2020

HMP Swansea

Ref code: AWS-191

Are you a highly organised, efficient and proactive self-starter able to work on your own initiative? Looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, join St Giles Trust as an Administrator, where you will provide vital administrative support and contribute to ensuring compliance with systems and procedures, standards and performance targets relating to the administrative functions.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. 

About this exciting opportunity

This key role will see our successful candidate undertake a broad range of essential office-based, meeting-setting and facilities monitoring tasks. This will involve managing, developing and updating the Client Database, collecting and collating data, and developing and maintaining effective and efficient administrative and office systems, including filing and recording systems.

You will also be expected to process all relevant internal and external correspondence and access emails regularly and distribute messages promptly, while offering general support to Peer Advisers, staff and manager when necessary is also an important aspect of the role.

What we are looking for:

• Strong IT skills, including proven Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook experience
• An excellent communicator, verbal and written, with impressive interpersonal skills
• A self-starter who is organised and able to manage own workload
• Strong attention to detail and a proven ability to produce accurate work
• Impressive time-management, organisational and prioritisation skills
• The ability to develop and maintain filing, database and recording systems
• Sympathy with the aims and ethos of St Giles as an organisation

In return, you can expect a competitive salary and generous leave allowance, staff pension scheme, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more besides.

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: 11pm, 30th September 2019. Interviews: 9th October 2019.

HR and Resourcing Manager (6 Month Contract)
Hammersmith (with travel across the London boroughs)

If you have generalist HR and recruitment experience, this is a superb opportunity to help shape the culture and processes of a forward-thinking charity with exciting plans on the horizon.

About Us 

We are Advance, a women-only organisation dedicated to helping women cope and recover from experiences of domestic abuse, as well as women who are at risk of offending or with short term sentences to reduce offending.

We are currently looking for an HR and Resourcing Manager to join us on a six month contract, working either 35 or 28 hours per week. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £36,000 - £38,000 DOE pro rata
- Pension
- 30 days’ holiday pro rata plus Bank Holidays
- A day off for International Women’s Day

This is an incredible opportunity to take on a rewarding contract with a charity that is empowering women and girls to lead safe, equal lives, so that they can flourish and contribute to the community. 

Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, to collaborate, innovate and be accountable. We believe our employees play a key role in achieving our aims and we provide a work environment where they can learn, pursue their ambitions and thrive. 

In this exciting hybrid role, you will have the chance to work closely with our Head of HR and Governance and make a real difference to our organisation in a short space of time.

The Role

As the HR and Resourcing Manager, you will help to create the capability and culture that will enable us to continue to deliver high-quality services as we grow. 

You will develop our recruitment approach, implementing supporting processes to grow our longer-term capability and enable us to proactively resource vacancies within the required timescales. 

The other key focus of your role will involve working with the HR Team to review processes and develop support for our overall employee lifecycle.

Additionally, you will: 

- Review and develop the end-to-end recruitment and onboarding processes 
- Work with hiring managers to attract and source high-quality candidates 
- Develop processes to support internal career development opportunities
- Increase awareness of Advance as an employer of choice 
- Review HR data and systems and propose improvements 
- Support day-to-day HR operations 

About You

To join us as an HR and Resourcing Manager, you will need: 

 - HR experience and skills, including knowledge of employment law 
- Recruitment experience, including developing sources and networks for advertising to reach appropriate candidates 
- Experience of directly sourcing candidates and developing talent pools of potential candidates 
- Resource planning experience 
- Project management and problem-solving skills 
- An understanding of data management and relevant legislation relating to personal data in HR and recruitment 

Please note: only female applicants will be progressed as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

We’d like to hear from you if you’ve worked as an HR & Recruitment Manager, HR Manager, Human Resources Manager, Recruitment Manager, Resourcing Manager, HR Generalist or Senior Recruiter. 

This role is available on a full or part time basis, working 35 or 28 hours per week.

The closing date for applications is the 23rd September 2019, with interviews scheduled to be held on the 25th September 2019.

Advance is committed to equality and diversity and strongly encourages applications from women with disabilities, from BME backgrounds and the LBT community.

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as our HR and Resourcing Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.