An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12 month maternity cover in a public sector organisation in Bath

This a unique opportunity to join an organisation at a time of change and development and your involvement in this role will play a pivotal part

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide the FD, Board and trustees with reliable and timely financial information and analysis
• Work closely with the business providing sound financial advise on any projects and new initiatives
• Ensure that financial performance is delivered in line with agreed budgets and forecasts
• Identify and make proposals to Operational Management Teams on financial opportunities to improve value for money for designated service areas.
• Co-ordinate, support and validate the preparation of forecasts and budgets for all designated service areas.
• Prepare monthly variance analysis and commentary of financial performance.

To be successful you will need to:

• Evidence a proven track record of successfully partnering with operational teams to build effective working relationships and provide high quality customer focused services.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, effectively managing the risk of balancing precision of accuracy with timeliness of completing accounts.
• Demonstrate effective time management skills, delivering tasks on time and in full.
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness leading to positive judgement and appraisal of risk.
• Demonstrate my ability to produce clear, accurate reports on complex issues to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrate highly developed communication skills, providing and receiving complex and sensitive information with the ability to engage people at all levels.

Director of Fundraising
Full time-35hrs
£90k; Flexible location but with significant time in London

Cancer is different for young people. Our vision is a world where cancer doesn’t stop young people from living their lives – and our job in making that vision a reality is to improve the experience, survival and recovery of every young person with cancer in the UK. 

Young people facing cancer are at the centre of everything we do. Our values are built around this. We believe we can support young people with cancer best if we work in a determined, united, spirited and kind way. What that means is we all believe deeply in what we do & why we do it, but we also bring the attitude, drive, energy and passion that makes things happen.

Teenage Cancer Trust has been a hugely successful organisation for many years – leading the way in specialist support for young people with cancer in the UK and across the globe. We’re driven by what young people with cancer need and are the UK’s leading charity dedicated solely to the treatment, care and support of 13-25-year olds with cancer.

What’s clear is that we have significant opportunities to further expand and deepen our impact - but doing that in the face of the challenges to income posed by the current pandemic is going to be challenging.  

Now, we’re not daunted by that, far from it and we’re looking for a Director of Fundraising who can rise to the challenge and seize opportunities. With the right fundraising leader to help rebuild revenue and develop our strengths we know we will not only survive but thrive. This is not an organisation – or role - that’s about more of the same or one size fits all. 
 
Our team, our supporters and most of all young people with cancer need you to be a fundraising leader who is creative, collaborative and prepared to think differently. We need to continue to innovate to help drive the growth in impact that young people deserve, and our supporters expect.
 
This role has the potential to be life changing - not only for young people with cancer - but also for you and the talented, experienced teams you will be leading and empowering.

We need our Directors to be brilliant cross-organisational leaders with stacks of emotional intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills.  You will thrive when working in partnership and making alliances. Success and strength are not about us doing everything – it’s about getting everything done with others. At Teenage Cancer Trust we succeed, fail & learn together and are stronger than the sum of our parts.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

You can review the job pack and job description and apply online via our website.Don’t forget to upload your CV and covering letter. If you require any help making your application please contact us.

Applications should be received by 3.00pm on 6 July 2020.
First interviews: 13th and 14th July (online)
Second interviews: 20th and 22nd July (online)

We are committed to working towards ensuring Teenage Cancer Trust is a diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

Based at London Bridge, with UK-wide travel

Would you like the opportunity to work for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists – the professional body representing over 33,000 occupational therapists across the UK? Are you passionate about the development of the next generation of occupational therapists and how they go forward into the workplace to transform the lives of the individuals, groups and communities they work with? If so, you may be the person we’re looking for to join the Education and Research Department.

The Royal College of Occupational Therapists is seeking to recruit a Manager to lead the Pre-registration Education Team. In the context of a complex and ever-changing pre-registration educational landscape, the purpose of this role is to lead, develop and manage RCOT’s activities related to the delivery of pre-registration occupational therapy education in the UK. In order to achieve this it will be essential for the successful candidate to remain well-informed about relevant policy, legislation and practice across the four nations of the UK and the impact it has on preregistration education and learners. The role will be required to work collaboratively with internal and external partners to protect and promote the interests of our members and the profession, wherever possible.

In addition to overseeing RCOT’s pre-registration accreditation procedures to assure and enhance the quality of pre-registration occupational therapy education, you will manage a team of accreditation and student liaison officers. As a strong advocate for the profession, pre-registration learners and new entrants to the workforce, you will represent the Royal College across all four UK countries and at high-level Boards and meetings, which will involve regular travel to destinations across the UK, with overnight stays.

To be successful in this role, you will be or have:

• An HCPC registered/registerable occupational therapist with extensive experience of working at a senior level in pre-registration occupational therapy education within an education provider context.

• Robust understanding of all aspects of pre-registration occupational therapy education, with sound knowledge and understanding of the role and value of educational quality monitoring and enhancement processes.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and project management skills.

• A sound understanding of current education and health and social care policy and a working knowledge of current issues in higher education across the UK.

• The proven ability to work autonomously and as a positively engaged team member, and to effectively supervise, manage and support staff to achieve business objectives.

In the current context of COVID19, all staff are presently working from home which may have implications for the role going forward.

If you are interested in this opportunity and wish to discuss it further, including the possibility of flexible working arrangements, please contact Dr Jo Watson, Assistant Director – Education and Research via our website.

If you are interested in applying, please download the role description from our website and then forward your CV and a covering letter, explaining why you are interested in and suitable for this role, to Angela Conway, HR Advisor by email.

Interviews will be held Friday 24th July 2020

ROLE: Senior Finance Manager (multiple vacancies)

SALARY: Band 8a £50,575 - £56,490 *

LOCATION: South London

SECTOR: Public Sector, Healthcare

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week

TYPE: Full-time, Permanent

*inclusive of HCAS

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

The Trust’s experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon. They are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where every one of the 3600 members of staff is valued. CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team. Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

The financial management division is currently recruiting three Senior Finance Managers to join their team and manage specialist divisions such as Corporate Services, Women and Children, Surgery, IT and Facilities.

Senior Finance Manager Job Overview:

• To act as the principal financial advisor integrated into the management team of the Corporate / Clinical Directorates to which the post-holder is aligned, including making a significant contribution to the business planning and financial monitoring processes.
• To produce a monthly financial position that has integrity, accuracy, analysis and contains all financial information relevant to the directorate, supporting both the Directorate and the Trust in achieving its financial objectives.
• To produce monthly variance analysis for the Directorates so that this can be used to take corrective action where appropriate. Enable them to understand the whole financial picture, including SLR, activity and income information.
• Business Case Production, where required to provide financial input into the preparation of Directorate or Trust wide business cases, working with both financial and operational managers.

Senior Finance Manager Person Specification:

This person will hold a professional qualification in accountancy (CCAB) and will be able to provide evidence of continuously developing by having relevant post-qualification experience or significant management accounting experience in a large, complex organisation (NHS experience is beneficial but not essential). Business partnering is a key element of the role so this person must demonstrate strong communication/people skills, the ability to present analysis and influence budget holders.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s values are to always be professional, compassionate, respectful and safe. It is important that the Senior Finance Manager’s values are in line with these expectations and that they are able to communicate well and work with people at all levels of the organisation.

Senior Finance Manager Salary and Benefits:

• Band 8a £50,575 - £56,490 * (*inclusive of HCAS)

• 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (holiday entitlement raises to 33 days with service)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Excellent training, learning and development opportunities
• Generous pension scheme (including 20.68% employer contribution and a tiered system of employee contribution depending on your salary from 5% to 14.5%)
• Subsidised on-site nursey and childcare vouchers
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme including an on-site gym
• Health services discounts (retail, holidays, entertainment and restaurants)
• Season ticket loan

If you would like to find out more information about the opportunities, the Trust and to receive the full job description please contact Brooke Cooper at Allen Lane.

I am currently working with a growing charity, looking to develop a viral campaign to raise awareness, support the NHS and health care systems and ultimately raise funds.

The charity has never before embarked on a campaign like this, so require someone who has previous experience of developing an online, viral campaign and bought it to a worldwide stage.

The client is setting a viral challenge which would be shared on social media for friends and family to partake. They have the pieces of the puzzle but need the expertise to put it all together and launch.

This is a very exciting time for the charity, so will be a great opportunity to get involved at the early stages with potential to grow further.

The rate is based on a salary of £35k with the higher value being a Ltd/ Umbrella worker. They can be flexible however. This role is also working from home.

If this sounds like something you have done before and would like to get involved, we would love to hear from you.

This highly respected medical regulator are looking for a Policy Professional to join their team.

Within this role you can look forward to developing and implementing the organisations policy and strategy work, providing support by undertaking research writing and developing reports and policy documents relating to the key work that they do in establishing and reviewing standards of their field.

You can also look forward to monitoring policy, legislative and other developments related to their field, and undertake research and provide background briefings to colleagues upon request. You will be researching and preparing responses to external consultations and advise members of the management team on key policy and standards issues.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an experienced policy professional
• Have experienced working and briefing senior members of staff
• Have a strong stakeholder engagement ability
• Have a strong writing ability, including writing detailed reports

Job title: Senior Policy Adviser
Location: London with occasional travel to Leeds
Role: Fixed Term Contract to 4th June 2021, Part-time, 3 days per week
Salary: £48,270 + £4,000 London Weighting pro rata at 0.6 (FTE)

Job Details

We welcome applications for secondment from the health sector and encourage anyone wishing to do this to have advance agreement from their employer.

The NHS Confederation is the independent voice of NHS leadership. Our aim is an empowered healthy population supported by world class health and care services. Our 500+ members span the full range of organisations that provide and commission services including acute, community, mental health and ambulance service trusts; independent providers; clinical commissioning groups; and academic health science networks. We work across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and have a European Office focused on Brexit and international learning opportunities. We support our members to address the policy and strategic challenges facing the health and care system, influence the development of national policy and represent their views at the highest levels and in the public arena. In the last few months we have been working with members to ensure that there has been sufficient Government support to manage Covid-19 and we are now working on how we restore health and care services  more widely as part of our #NHSReset campaign.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Excellent knowledge of contemporary health policy, service delivery challenges and the wider NHS.
• A successful track record of delivering insightful and influential thought leadership and influencing through policy products and engagement activities
• Ability to write accessible and compelling policy narratives
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that cut through complexity and provide insight
• Proven ability to build strong personal relationships and effective formal and informal networks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including being personally credible and influential with senior stakeholders
• Ability to effectively manage a mixed portfolio of policy work, including scoping, ensuring it is relevant, timely and of a high quality

The Role

At this time of profound change our members need support to address the policy and strategic challenges of the evolving health and care policy landscape and a strong voice that materially shapes and influences the direction of travel so that the needs of patients and local populations are met in the best way possible. 

We have an opportunity for an exceptional policy professional who can work closely with our members to understand their views and needs and shape a programme of policy and advocacy work to meet them. You will be used to working at national level, with members and stakeholders to gather intelligence, develop policy positions, reports and briefings. Also, in acting as an expert in your field, representing the organisation’s and members’ views. You will be used to working effectively as part of a team of policy experts but also flexibly across organisational teams.  

In return you have the opportunity to develop a strong public profile as a national expert commenting on and helping to influence the future direction of health policy and practice. As well as an excellent benefits package including 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and season ticket loans. 

The NHS Confederation welcomes all applicants from all backgrounds and is committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from discrimination. We believe it is essential to build a diverse and inclusive company culture where all employees feel valued, respected, and acknowledged.

The NHS Confederation is also committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly to respond to changing circumstances and we want to ensure we do as much as possible to help support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.

Application deadline: Thursday 16th July (midnight)
Interview date: Tuesday 28th July (remotely)

Summary

Diabetes UK is bringing people together to work in partnership in order to support those living with diabetes, prevent Type 2, make research breakthroughs in diabetes and ultimately, find a cure. In order to achieve this mission, effective capture, management, cleaning and enhancement of our data is essential. Over the last few years the charity has grown and with it the amount of data we process, its complexity and the number of sources data is received from. And the need for our services has never been stronger. We face unprecedented challenges in managing our data effectively and ensuring secure, prompt access can be managed across our dispersed workforce.

At the heart of our upcoming strategy lies the need to unlock our data and support organisation-wide self-service access to quality reporting. This is an opportunity to help us achieve the goals of our Data Strategy by driving forwards our programme of better data integration, modelling and surfacing through effective data warehousing to support analytics across the organisation.

Interview Date: TBC

Package

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan (on completion of your probation period)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

Main Responsibilities

• Technical solution design: Guide the design and direction of the Data Strategy by leading the design and deployment of appropriate data stacks to manage integration, exception handling, master data management, and warehousing which can support self-service analytics across the organisation. Support us to establish ways of working to be rolled out across the organisation.
• Data modelling: Lead the development of the organisational data model in the new technology environment using industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards. Reverse-engineer data models from existing live systems; compare and align different data models.
• Data analysis and synthesis. Undertake data profiling and source system analysis and present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data.
• Metadata management: Work with implementation partners to design an appropriate metadata repository and define changes to existing metadata repositories.
• DevSecOps Engineering: Work within a DevOps environment and ensure security is considered at each stage of work, from design to implementation. Work with our information governance team to develop best practice access and retention approaches to support compliance.
• Testing: Review requirements, specifications and define test conditions. Identify issues and risks and support implementation partners and internal developers to resolve these.
• Problem resolution: Diagnose and respond to problems in databases, data processes, data products and services as they occur. Establish monitoring services and identify trends to resolve problems. Determine appropriate remedies and assist with implementation of it as well as preventative measures.

Ideal Candidate

This role will work as part of our fast-paced Better Data Programme, and will co-ordinate and matrix manage a team of developers to deliver an organisation-wide ETL, data import, and master data management approach, and surface the organisational data model through data warehousing. This will be done while fostering an entrepreneurial and creative work ethic, and willingness to learn and adapt to emerging or different technologies. This role will support the delivery of appropriate analytics tools for insight leads in teams across the organisation to be able to build reports and dashboards. In turn we know this will lead to better relationships between Diabetes UK and those who benefit from our services and those dedicated to supporting our cause of working towards a world where Diabetes can do no harm.

Fantastic opportunity to work within a fun, engaging and highly motivated Fundraising Team.  Based in Runcorn, Cheshire,  we have a vacancy for a part time Fundraiser.  The job holder will need to be able to work flexibly, be mobile and have experience of networking and active engagement within their local community, supporting events and running fundraising initiatives.

Our ideal candidate will be self-motivated, a confident communicator with great team spirit and a flair for marketing, fundraising and engagement.

Halton Haven Hospice provides palliative care to the community across Widnes, Runcorn and surrounding areas, as well as comprehensive support for the families of patients. The Hospice aims to relieve the symptoms and improve quality of life in anybody that has a life limiting illness. Our vision is that people in Halton, facing life limiting illness, will have quality of life and dignity in death. Our mission is to care for people living with life-limiting illness by providing safe end of life care and support and, also to support their families. We will lead and inspire excellent care wherever people chose to die

To be successful in this role you will be honest, full of passion and confident in yourself and also in our cause. You will be creative and constantly willing to learn about new ways of connecting with people, asking what you need and why?  Able to paint a picture through positive 'story telling' but be able to prepare and present a commercially astute business case.  Strong IT skills with a focus setting goals and achieving results. 

If you are a 'go-getter' and feel you are up to this exciting challenge, we would love to hear from you.

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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Closing date for this role is 17th July, 2020. 

Strategy and Planning Manager

£38,969 - £43,300 (depending on experience)

Plus additional London allowance if relevant (£5,029)

Swindon or London based

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a partner organisation within UK Research and Innovation. The mission of the Medical Research Council (MRC) is to improve human health through world-class research. We develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world and work collaboratively with industry, academia and government in exciting partnerships.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the MRC’s Strategy and Planning Team and contribute to high level strategic development.

What we offer

UKRI recognises and values employees as individuals and therefore provide a flexible working scheme, a Career Average Revalued Earnings pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance plus 10.5 public holidays, a nursery on site and many other benefits.

About the role

You will work at the heart of corporate strategy development at the MRC, supporting the Executive Chair and the Director and Head of Strategy and Planning in developing MRC strategy.  You will undertake strategic planning activities and strategic projects across the remit of the MRC within the wider context of UKRI, including the co-ordination of bids for Spending Reviews, fiscal events, UKRI cross-cutting funds and the production of corporate MRC strategies and Delivery Plans.  You will manage Strategy Board meetings and act as the primary interface with both the scientific community and internally regarding Strategy Board, as required.  You will also keep senior staff advised on important strategic, scientific and policy developments and other relevant matters.

Regular travel to the other Head Office site (Swindon or London) will be required.

You will need:

• A degree in a relevant subject
• Excellent project management and forward planning expertise and the ability to identify strategic objectives and their implications
• Significant experience of providing a broad understanding of scientific issues and research and innovation policy

How to apply

Applicants are required to provide a CV and include a cover letter providing evidence of how they meet the criteria described.

Applications are handled by UK Shared Business Services. To apply, and for further details on the role, please click the apply button. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.

The closing date for applications is the 19 July 2020

Primary Care Navigator

26hrs per week

Initially fixed term contract until 31/10/21

Have you got experience of supporting and enabling people and a passion for working with older people?

Do you have great listening and communication skills?

If you have a good local knowledge of community activities and the initiative to find out more, then being a Care Navigator could be the great new role for you.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of the Midland Partnership Foundation Trust’s Care Coordination Team in East Staffordshire to improve the well-being of local people in East Staffordshire.

As a Primary Care Navigator (PCN) you will deliver a service in the community working remotely across East Staffordshire. The aim of the role is to use a person-centred approach to enable people to keep healthy, independent and safe in their own home.

Ideal candidates will have experience of working with health and social care and the voluntary sector, be organised and able to manage a caseload.

Application deadline is midday Wednesday 8th July 2020

Interview Date w/c 13th July 2020

For further information and an application pack please access our website.

We are now at the exciting stage where we are looking to recruit a Finance Manager to support our work, and to help the organisation to achieve its ambitious plans for growth. For this home-based role, the successful candidate will help to develop processes and policies to support our plans for growth.

We are seeking a highly motivated, skilled and resourceful individual with professional finance skills at least to Finance Manager level. Ideally we are looking for a candidate with finance experience within charities.

The post-holder is expected to contribute to On Call Africa’s initiatives and development activities at a senior level, while also carrying out day to day reporting requirements. Within the small team all staff are expected to work in a flexible way and tasks that have not been covered in the job description may have to be undertaken.

This hands-on position is a part-time role (3 days per week), based from home, with some travel across the UK. The post has a salary of £34,000 per year pro rata (£20,400).

PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW

Reporting to the Director, you will be responsible for the development of, and day-to-day management, of our financial and accounting needs. The ideal candidate will possess good business acumen, and will be looking for a varied and challenging role in an organisation through which they can make a real impact.

The main responsibilities are as follows:

• Manage On Call Africa’s financial and accounting systems and help the organisation to prepare for significant growth;
• Providing efficient and effective management and financial accounting, forecasting, modelling and financial analysis which promotes the best use of resources using Value for Money principles;
• Develop financial policies to support best practice, and provide oversight of the organisations financial function in the UK and Zambia;
• Maintain and strengthen internal financial controls are in place;
• Produce / manage month end financial reconciliations to provide assurance on reliability of financial data
• Manage a finance assistant in the UK and matrix manage the work of the finance team in Zambia
• Provide robust financial information that empowers stakeholders to make best decisions for the future financial sustainability of the organisation;
• Managing the day to day financial functions and financial administration of the organisation;
• Preparing quarterly reports and supporting re-forecasting for senior management and trustees.
• The post holder will be responsible for meeting deadlines set and may be required to respond at short notice to requests for information or advice. Priorities may change on a regular basis.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsible to: Director

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting

• Work with the Director to produce robust Budgets, multi-year forecasting, production of timely management accounts including key performance indicators within the monthly timetable
• Produce quarterly financial reports and summaries for the board of trustees
• Production of accurate and clear Draft accounts including clear auditable working papers for review and Audit by adhering to statutory regulations and accounting principles. Support with statutory year end accounts preparation will be provided.
• Work closely with external Auditors to ensure an efficient Audit by providing assurance of key processes, implementation of recommendations, and responding to requests for information within timescales to achieve a clean Audit
• Make continuous improvements in the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of reports

Day to day finance function

• Ensure accurate monthly reporting from relevant staff in Zambia and the UK
• Populate financial systems and ensure accurate reporting of income expenditure
• Monthly reconciliations supported by a strong month end process
• Ensure finance processes and sign off procedures are adhered to in line with financial policies
• Ensure timely payment of invoices, salaries, HMRC and pension payments
• Ensure accurate coding of income and expenditure and account for spending related to restricted funding
• Provide detailed financial reports related to specific projects or grants
• Support any Business projects by providing financial analysis to the project team

Financial Systems & Controls

• Develop and continuously improve robust and effective financial procedures, controls and systems that are properly documented, regularly reviewed and efficiently implemented
• Ensure there are effective processes for the payroll & pensions processing, payment processing and credit collection
• Ensure there are clear processes for managing Cash & Bank transactions
• Ensure all financial processes are clearly captured in the Finance Manuals and updated regularly
• Ensure that relevant stakeholders (finance and non-finance) are trained appropriately on finance requirements
• Ensure compliance with HMRC & other statutory requirements
• Develop, design and implement an effective Internal Audit programme to identify and improve controls and mitigate against key risks to the organisation
• Maintain and contribute to the development and improvement of financial applications and databases,

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 2 years experience of working in finance roles within the charity sector
• Experience of developing charity accounting systems
• Experience of developing and implementing financial policies and procedures
• Experience of providing financial reports to a board of trustees
• Experience of managing and motivating others as part of a team and supervise coach and mentor  members of the finance team
• Experience of managing and leading improvement projects
• Experience of producing management accounts
• Experience of financial reporting to donors and funders
• Experience of working as part of a remote team
• Experience of working in international development

Qualifications and training

• Undergraduate university level or equivalent professional qualifications/experience in finance and accounting

Skills and abilities

• Excellent financial skills including the ability to produce accurate quality financial information and interpret and present information for non-accountants
• Ability to set and agree clear work programme, set objectives, to work to deadlines and manage conflicting priorities
• Ability to problem solve, work positively with others to deliver results
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work
• Excellent coordination and organisational skills
• Financial management and budgetary control skills

Personal qualities and attributes

• High levels of enthusiasm, self-motivation and a self-managing ‘can do’ attitude
• High levels of determination and willingness to take on new challenges and responsibilities
• Collaborative and supportive attitude in a team
• Willing to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias
• Enjoy using own initiative and being creative
• Effective team leader and team player
• Effective communication skills

Other requirements

• Happy and able to travel across the UK 
• Happy and able to work some evenings and occasional weekends
• Willing to carry out any additional work, challenges and responsibilities

Want to join Vista’s friendly fundraising team?  We are looking for someone ambitious who wants to take a lead on the creation and submission of a portfolio of trust and grant applications to achieve financial targets in line with our growth plans. 

If you have demonstrable experience in writing or securing income from trusts, foundations and grants this role is for you.

You will be required to work 30 hours per week, flexibly Monday to Friday with the requirement to work occasional weekends and some unsocial hours to meet service needs.  

In this role you will;

• Support the fundraising and Partnerships Manager to work with multiple teams and maximise the current and future income generated from grant making trusts
• Research, cultivate and secure new funding from trusts and foundations to reach income targets
• Submit funding applications to a wide range of charitable trusts
• Develop and support relationships from a portfolio of new and existing trusts and foundations

With exceptional research and creative writing skills, you will be proactive in developing consultations, and write compelling bid applications to a wide variety of trusts and foundations.

It is an exciting time to join a pivotal team within the organisation, with ambitious targets for the year ahead.  This would be a great opportunity for an energetic professional looking for a challenge to build on our success. 

We are very keen to find the right candidate for this role and can be flexible in working arrangements.

We offer excellent health benefits, a defined contribution pension scheme and access to an employee assistance programme. 

Working for Vista means you will be working for one of the oldest and largest local charities in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, working with people with sight loss and their families

Are you a dynamic financial leader looking for a role at a developing and fast paced charity? Breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! Is recruiting for a Director of Finance to cover maternity leave.  Responsible for finance and operations of the charity, the successful candidate will take a key role in the SMT and support the organisation to make strategic decisions as we navigate the next period of the pandemic and onward. 

This varied role will suit a good communicator who can work across an organisation , with both finance and operational experience as well as prior experience reporting at  board level. 

Benefits include, a friendly, working environment, monthly exercise bursary and flexible working. Be part of an ever evolving charity, one where you will have impact and help to drive change and ultimately, save lives.

Full JD  below

Applications via our website 

Applications close Monday 6th July at 10am 

CoppaFeel! welcomes applications from black, asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups within the charity.