Do you get excited by seeing major construction and redevelopment projects through to completion? Can you build strong relationships and partner with both finance and non finance individuals involved in property development schemes? Are you looking for a role that offers flexibility, progression and a vibrant working environment?

Reporting into the Finance Manager, the key responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner are to:
* Play a key role in the organisation's growth plans by supplying the development, sales and construction departments with expert financial and management accounting services
* Conduct investment appraisals and assess the ongoing viability of a set portfolio of development schemes, providing a full accountancy service for those schemes
* Produce timely and accurate management accounts and provide commentary on key information
* Liaise with key decision makers and budget holders across those departments
* Understand the needs of budget holders and department heads, and working towards building effective working relationships.

On offer is the chance to join an organisation that makes serving the public and helping the community its main goal. Through your involvement in these major projects, your work will directly affect the lives of those who require affordable housing, meaning that the scope of influence here is vast. Flexible working patterns make the role adapt to you and there is a bonus system that has historically rewarded staff generously.

To be considered, you must be:
* A Qualified Accountant with an awareness of project delivery, ideally within a construction environment
* An Advanced Excel User
* An excellent communicator with a history of building strong relationships in a business partnering role.

Applications are now under consideration and the role may close early if suitable candidates are found. Please don't delay your application!

Deputy Manager - Haringey Assessment Centre

£31,559 - £34,801 pro rata

12 month maternity cover

37.5 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking to progress their managerial career in the homelessness sector.

We are looking to recruit a Deputy Manager to join work at the Haringey Assessment Centre. This flagship service has just moved to a new building (Mulberry Junction) that it shares with the newly opened Haringey Homeless Hub.

The service is being developed as a model of a Psychologically Informed Environment, and offers support in a flexible and sensitive way, taking account of the emotional needs of our clients.

In this pivotal role you will support the Service Manager in ensuring the smooth daily running of the service and deputise in their absence for all matters relating to the management of the service. This will involve taking a lead on client support, void management and throughput, health and safety responsibilities, rota management, line management of staff, and building relationships with external partners.

To succeed, you will have experience of staff management or be able to demonstrate an ability supervise, motivate and lead staff through periods of change. You will also have experience of working with vulnerable homeless or disadvantaged people and people living with complex needs. In addition, you will have a sound understanding of the issues facing people who are experiencing problems with drug and alcohol use as well as a good knowledge of the range of support and treatment options available.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities; in support of their personal and professional development.

To view job descriptions on our vacancies page, please click on the document available tab above the relevant job advert.

Closing date: 10.00am, Wednesday 25 September 2019

Interview and assessment date: Friday 11 October 2019

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check, will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2019, we are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) applicants, as they are under-represented within St Mungo’s at this level.

I am currently looking for an experienced Project Coordinator to support an amazing Christmas transport campaign for an outstanding and innovative homelessness charity. The purpose of this role is to manage and process suitably qualified volunteers to support the charity's Christmas transport service.

Job responsibilities:
Coordinate the recruitment of a sufficient number of Transport Volunteers to meet the needs of the project
Ensure that all drivers are processed, that their documents are checked and they are qualified to drive Crisis vehicles
Organise or run all necessary training and briefings for Transport Volunteers
Ensure all information about vehicles is recorded and up to date, that they are added to insurance, registered for Congestion Charge etc.
Develop a schedule and manage Volunteers in the delivery/collection and return of all vehicles
Organise office provisions for Transport Volunteers
Maintain and manage Transport job booking system, training necessary Volunteers at the start of the project
Ensure a full and complete handover of all vehicles and necessary information to Transport Volunteers at the start of the project along with a hand back at the end of the project
Implement procedures to reduce fines and damages, manage the payment of any charges/fines accrued and coordinate any repairs if necessary
Work with the Logistics Team to ensure any space used for parking meets requirements and safety standard
Manage both office based and Christmas Volunteers in the run up to Christmas supporting with administration and other tasks where necessary
Support the Resourcing team to ensure an adequate number of donated/hired vehicles are available to service the needs if the campaign
Work under the guidance of the Resourcing team to manage donor relationships and improve donor retention
Evening and weekend work will be required and time off in lieu will be given the charity will also be operational during the period of 22-30 December 2019 therefore you will be expected to be available to work as required!

If you have the above skills and experience, please apply online or call Sekai today!

Business Analyst - London - £350 Per Day

Your new company
My client, a local Government organisation is looking for a Digital Business Analyst to join their team in assisting with identifying, understanding and validating opportunities for new and amended software components.

Your new role
You will Support the project management function in the successful delivery of digital projects that actively contribute to initiatives that will achieve the Council's corporate objectives and meet the commitments of the Borough Plan. You will ensure a high-quality customer experience, including delivery of fit for purpose systems, and high standards of access, availability, usability and usefulness, providing an excellent standard of service at all times. Actively contribute to Council-wide and directorate initiatives that will achieve and implement the Council's priorities and corporate objectives and meet the user needs of local citizens and businesses. You will also Inspire creativity and flexibility in the management and application of IT.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be proficient in applying techniques which help investigating, analysing, modelling and recording a business area or system of interest. Example, but not limited to: business environment analysis and process modelling. You will have experience in use of tools (manual or automated) to record the structure, relationships and use of information within an organisation. You will be familiar with the selection and application of information elicitation methods, tools and techniques which are appropriate to the information required and the sources available. Examples, but not limited to: focus groups and surveys/questionnaires. Experience in establishing relationships, analysing perspectives and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Adapting stakeholder engagement style to meet the needs of different audiences. The identification of key business stakeholders and an assessment of their level of power and interests, and their perspectives to inform the way(s) in which they should be considered and managed. You will have local/Central government experience.

What you'll get in return
£300-£350 Per Day (must use umbrella or PAYE)

What you need to do now
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If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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akt are the national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity; focused on prevention and early action we provide: safe homes, mentoring, training, advocacy and support to young people who are homeless or living in a hostile environment after coming out to their parents, care givers and peers. 

The Executive Assistant is a critical role within the organisation. The role will :

• provide administrative and diary support to the Chief Executive
• be the administration lead for our HR function, providing a resource to our management team
• provide administrative / diary support to the executive and non-executive team
• act as office manager of our London centre ensuring the building is fit for purpose and fully operational for staff, volunteers and young people

KEY TASKS:

• Manage CEO’s diary, travel and accommodation needs
• Oversee phone contact to the CEO at the London office
• Complete administrative tasks for the CEO, which will require a good knowledge of Mac and Microsoft Office based packages
• Ensure the upkeep of all HR administration, including: personnel files, recruitment and induction process, servicing interview panels, identifying reports / training / news to help the executive team keep up to date with HR policy
• Provide administrative support to Directors and Board of Trustees, as agreed with the CEO
• Manage the London Service Centre to ensure its smooth running; including the upkeep, safety and general running of the building
• Undertake administrative IT related project work, to include database and systems issues
• Act as the lead health and safety officer for our London Service centre
• Take on other additional projects, as directed by the CEO

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL:

• Demonstrable experience of administration work and supporting senior staff
• Excellent information technology skills, including good working knowledge of Microsoft office and Apple products
• Experience interfacing with the public by phone / person in an office environment
• Strong organisational skills
• Demonstrable experience handling highly confidential information
• Understanding and appreciation of promoting and championing diversity
• Experience of managing an office or centre

Desirable:

• Experience of undertaking HR related administration tasks to support the Executive team
• Experience of working within the voluntary sector

Witton Lodge Community Association is a pioneering community anchor organisation and housing provider creating opportunities for local people to take action to improve their lives. Our vision is of good quality homes, services and facilities that enable people to flourish in a safe, clean and friendly community that people are proud of.

You will build on our successful housing management service; working with our tenants, colleagues and partners to provide an excellent housing service - including supporting our tenants to maintain their tenancy; monitoring rental income and arrears and processing repair requests.

You will also work with the wider staff team and partners to maximise opportunities for tenants to engage in a wide range of Flourishing Community initiatives.

We are looking for people that can support and assist our clients to attend appointments with services and advocate on their behalf if needed.

We are proud to announce that SPEAR have been awarded funding from the Big Lottery to continue our health link service which engages and supports rough sleepers with their mental and physical ill health needs. Helping them access services that are often difficult to access, meaning that they have poor access to health and social care services.

This service is delivered in the London boroughs of Kingston and Richmond in an outreach model in the community, working with homelessness providers and primary care health providers in those boroughs.

The service consists of a team leader, health link workers and peer advocates.

You will need to have great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, as well as being able to able to build on the relationships we have with our clients and stakeholders as well as create new relationships that benefit the service users and SPEAR as an organisation.

We are particularly interested in candidates that may have a history of homelessness, or that come from a disadvantaged background and would like to kick start a career in social care.

This role is on a permanent basis working 22.5 hours per week.

SALARY: £12,943.50 per annum
WORKING HOURS: 22.5 hours per week
CLOSING DATE:  11th September 2019
INTERVIEW DATE: 16th September 2019

akt are the national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity; focused on prevention and early action we provide: safe homes, mentoring, training, advocacy and support to young people who are homeless or living in a hostile environment after coming out to their parents, care givers and peers. 

The Finance Officer is a critical role within the organisation. The role will primarily be responsible for the day-to-day financial processing and the running of the Quickbooks accounts system and preparation and processing of the company payroll.  You will report directly to the Director of Finance and will support the organisation in maintaining financial procedures & systems, budgeting, and producing management reports.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced individual who is capable of working independently and can identify and implement ways of improving working practises and processes.

KEY TASKS:

• Manage and process sales and purchase invoices
• Prepare weekly payment runs in line with payment terms and in line with financial procedures
• Process company credit cards and staff and volunteer expenses, ensuring back up information is accurate and complete
• Perform all month end close activities including preparation of accruals and prepayments and processing any journals
• Conduct reconciliations of bank accounts and regular reviews of debtors and other control accounts
• Maintain debtor account and ensure timely payment of invoices

• Be responsible for petty cash claims and reconciliations in the London office and oversee petty cash reconciliations for the Manchester and Newcastle offices
• Process income received and liase with the fundraising department to ensure all donor income is reconciled between the accounts system and donor database in order to maximise gift aid claims within HMRC regulations.
• Maintain financial information for housing income on the IN-Form rent module and liase with services staff to ensure rent accounts are kept up to date and bad debts are kept to a minimum.
• Prepare first draft of management accounts for review by Director of Finance
• Preparation and processing of monthly payroll, including reconciliation and reporting to HMRC and submitting pension information
• Implement new processes to automate and improve financial systems
• Provide information and reports to staff as required
• Be the main point of contact for financial queries within the organisation

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL:

• At least 3 years experience working in a similar role
• Educated in a Finance discipline, ideally with a Foundation Level Accounting Qualification (AAT; ACCA; ACA)

• Operational experience of Quickbooks accounts system or equivalent accounting software
• Demonstrate previous payroll experience with up to date knowledge of current legislation
• Knowledge and experience of budgeting, expenditure monitoring, cash-flow and financial monitoring reports
• Experience of preparing monthly management accounts
• Good level of excel skills
• Highly organised with an ability to multitask and manage a busy workload
• Ability to use initiative and work with minimum direction

Desirable:

• Experience of charity accounting, including charity SORP requirements
• Knowledge of office365

Welfare Benefits Advisor 
Part time, 18.5 hours per week
£29,213 pro rata (£14,606)
Waterloo, London

C&C have 260 employees, and manage c. 2000 properties in prime locations within the M25 corridor, providing housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for the over 55s in London.

We are recruiting a Welfare Benefits Advisor to join us on a part time basis (18.5 hours per week) to provide a range of welfare benefit and debt advice for our residents to assist them in maximising their household income and sustaining their tenancies.

You will provide effective support to high risk Universal Credit cases, carry out welfare benefit checks for residents and signpost complex cases to other agencies. 

Our Investors in People accreditation means what is says - we are committed to developing and promoting our staff in line with their strengths. We have a variety of benefits and learning programmes in place and offer support to help you achieve relevant qualifications.

To join us as our Welfare Benefits Advisor, you will require the following: 

- Experience in a similar role with a proven record of helping to sustain tenancies 
- An in-depth understanding of welfare benefits, especially Housing Benefits and Universal Credit 
- Excellent customer care and communication skills 
- A good standard of numeracy and literacy and the ability to use IT and housing management software 
- Experience of dealing with complex caseloads 

To apply for the role of Welfare Benefits Advisor, please select the apply button shown.

Our policy is to remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process, and applicants will not be excluded on the grounds of sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race, marital status, disability, age, religion, belief or sexual orientation.

Additional Keywords: Welfare Benefits Advisor, Part Time, Welfare Benefits Officer, Welfare Support Officer, Welfare Advisor, Benefits Advisor, Resident Support Officer, Resident Benefits Advisor.

Income Officer - Part Time 18.5 hours

Salary: GBP 29,213 Pro Rata (GBP 14,606)

Location: Waterloo

C&C is an innovative provider of over 55s housing and care in London. We manage c.2000 properties in prime locations within the M25 corridor. We provide housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for the over 55s solely in London as well as some general needs tenants.  

Our Income Manager, Alison Wade, is totally committed to working closely with you to manage our housing and care rent accounts to maximise the income for c1500 housing schemes and properties. 

Our policy is to provide a supportive working environment to grow your knowledge and experience of housing law and welfare benefits to the full in taking responsibility for the effective management of rent arrears and court actions. 

With the help of our Investors in People status, we will provide the resources you need to help you grow your career and develop your finance & income management skills as far as you may wish to take them and beyond.

We take our recruitment process seriously and it is really easy to apply. Please select the apply button shown to find out about the next step.

Our policy is to remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process, and applicants will not be excluded on the grounds of sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race, marital status, disability, age, religion, belief or sexual orientation.

Additional Keywords: Income Officer, Part Time, Income Recovery Assistant, Income Recovery Advisor, Debt Collector, Debt Recovery Officer, Debt Advisor, Collections Officer, Debt Collections Officer, Arrears & Recoveries Officer, Arrears Agent, Arrears Officer, Arrears Collector.

Job Title:

Outreach Worker – Supporting Migrant Rough Sleepers Luton ROMANIAN

Department:

Welfare Services

Hours:

37.5 per week or negotiable subject to availability

Some unsocial hours and weekend work will be required. This will involve regular 5am starts or a 1am finish no more than once a week.

Bank Holidays may be worked on a rota basis for which time in lieu may be taken.

There may be a requirement to work for one Saturday morning each month.

Annual Leave:

25 days plus bank holidays

Salary

£20,478 pa

Probationary Period:

6 Months

Conditions of employment

As contained in staff contract and NOAH Enterprise’s Statement of Terms and Conditions of Employment and Staff Handbook.

Reporting to:

Outreach Team Leader

Background

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of those who are among the poorest in our community. Your initial remit will be to ensure that migrant rough sleepers in luton are offered prompt and effective support to move away from life on the streets. You will be committed, compassionate, caring, have common sense and be empathetic to the needs of those among the most deprived. The clients may be chaotic, have mental health and addiction issues but need your help and support.

You will understand what is important to people of all nationalities and the type of challenges that they face in achieving these in modern Britain and in particular be able to communicate with Romanian nationals. 

Throughout your work you will have considerable autonomy and significant periods of time lone-working enabling you to make a personal difference to people’s lives. You will have excellent time-management, prioritisation, organisational, inter-personal, and administrative skills. You will be competent in IT and communication, have the ability to build relationships with people from many nationalities and a commitment to help those in need. You will be persistent and undaunted in the face of seeming adversity.

Purpose of the job

• Working as part of a wider outreach team you will provide an effective Street Outreach Programme meeting rough sleepers at the earliest opportunity.
• Work with the NOAH Welfare Centre, NOAH Academy and NOAH Social Enterprise as well as the Local Authority and other agencies to open new opportunities for migrant rough sleepers to make positive changes in their lives. In particular to lead, mentor and motivate migrant rough sleepers through to achieving success in either finding sustainable work and a settled lifestyle or a positive reconnection to their home country.
• As well as achieving these outcomes be prepared to support holistic needs such as addressing health and other issues such as substance misuse, maintaining their tenancy and managing their finances, reducing offending and establishing positive social networks in the community.
• Support vulnerable people to apply for the EUSS scheme and find innovative ways to successfully evidence their history in the UK.
• Deliver the outcomes specified in the conditions of grant re the Supporting Rough Sleepers with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) project i.e.

• Monitoring the total migrant rough sleeping population size
• Increase numbers engaging in training in English
• Increase numbers engaging in ‘preparation for employment’
• Increase numbers engaging in work experience
• Increase numbers reconnecting
• Increase maintained reconnections
• Increase numbers moving into and staying in employment
• Prepare case studies where lessons have been learnt and successes achieved.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Visit the localities that migrant rough sleepers frequent such as camps, parks, woods, disused buildings and other sites at the regularity prescribed in visiting schedules at the hours prescribed;
• Enter into conversation with them via their native language where possible with a view to persuading them to engage with NOAH’s services;
• Upon engagement and as a priority help them into stable accommodation where finances exist;
• Act as a front-line worker with rough sleepers by completing a needs assessment and support plan. Setting objectives targeted towards the end goals of either finding work or reconnecting such as

1. Learning to speak English fluently (b) Understanding the customs of the UK.

• Respond quickly to new referrals and rough sleeper sightings. Keep a caseload of up to 20 clients making sure that they are all visited weekly. Complete weekly tasks allocated by the Outreach team leader within a 7-day deadline;
• Liaise with statutory authorities on behalf of clients regarding housing, benefits and health issues as their ‘single trusted adult’.
• Accompany them to meetings as required to remove any barriers to engagement and actively prevent drop out by flexible, creative and personalised key working;
• Identify barriers to employment/reconnection and work creatively with the NOAH welfare team to overcome these.
• Encourage clients to make effective use of all NOAH resources such as preparation for employment programmes, English language programmes, training and voluntary work experience, job readiness workshops, obtaining of ID documents and relevant qualifications.
• Encourage all clients to actively play a growing part in their recovery from homelessness by sharing tasks and preventing dependencies from developing. Work towards appropriate discharge from the service and onward referrals where needed;
• Maintain a statistical record of activity, outcomes and outputs achieved and monitor improvement and/or regression where appropriate;
• Submit written reports as required;
• Maintain comprehensive client files for all individuals on the NOAH Database including Support Plans, Needs and Risk Assessments, Client Questionnaires and all Client contact;
• Maintain an up-to-date online outlook calendar to ensure safe and effective lone working and comprehensive daily scheduling.
•  Ensure a consistent Street Outreach Presence is maintained with frequent spot checks.

General Requirements

Contribute to NOAH Enterprise Welfare team duties by: -

• Assisting on a rota basis with the staffing of NOAH Enterprise Bank Holiday, weekend and Christmas Luton Welfare Centre opening;

Administration

• All duties to be carried out in accordance with the policies and procedures of NOAH Enterprise;
• Attend any meetings, seminars, training sessions as requested both on and off NOAH Enterprise premises;
• Complete the care certificate qualification before graduating from the probationary period
• The post holder may from time to time be asked to undertake other duties as specified by the Chief Executive, Head of Welfare Services or Outreach Team Leader.  Permanent changes to the job description will only be made in negotiation with the post holder.

Christian Ethos:

The work of NOAH Enterprise is founded upon a Christian ethos and it is expected that the post holder will respect this ethos.

You will be supporting lobbying activity and delivering a diverse range of high quality written communications

Client Details

A Professional body

Description

You will be:

• Preparing persuasive and reasoned responses to government consultations

• Presenting elements of draft Bills, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, and Regulations in forms that can be easily understood by external and internal stakeholders

• Building and maintaining an awareness of the sector landscape and being highly organised to manage deadlines for written responses to a variety of consultations and calls for evidence

• Assisting with lobbying Government, MPs, AMs, MSPs and other relevant parties on issues affecting the property industry

• Creating fact sheets to support member compliance with legislation.

• Creating persuasive and engaging written content to support campaign messaging and wider external affairs.

• the point of contact for a wide range of policy issues

Profile

Essential skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills with a wide range of people and audiences

• Strong analytical skills

• Working knowledge of legislative processes and procedures, preferably across the UK

• Demonstrable ability to draft formal reports and position papers

• Experience of developing policy lines

• Proactive, ambitious and professional

Job Offer

£25k-£35k (DoE)

We are excited to be working with a well known homeless charity in search of their new Corporate Development Manager. As part of your role, you will be supporting on both account management and new business within fundraising, looking after a portfolio of 5 and 6 figure corporate partnerships. You will also be working closely with the Head of Fundraising on new business strategies and line managing 2 members in the team. This organisation adopt a great flexible working policy. 

For this role, you will need:

• Experience of successfully managing existing corporate partnerships and securing new business partnerships 


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation/pitching 


• Experience in managing and motivating a team 

Salary: £40,278

Deadline: 9th September 2019

To hear more about the role please call us on 0203 006 2787 or apply online.
If enough applications are received, the charity reserves the right to end the application period sooner. If you would like to have an informal discussion, please visit our website for details.

We require a good team player who is positive, proactive and on task to work as an Archiving and Removals Operative on a busy Property Services Team based at the Head Office in Stockport.

In order to fulfil this varied job role you will hold a full driving license and be proficient in manual handling as the nature of the work at times requires quite physically demanding tasks to be carried out.

Good communication skills are also essential to the Archiving and Removals Operative role as you will often be providing instruction and assistance to the staff of residential sites and offices in dealing with new and historic archiving efficiently.

You will be able to resolve minor logistical problems by demonstrating good attention to detail and plan your time effectively and appoint collections and deliveries of stock as required along with other duties; on occasion to cover existing staff which may include cleaning, gardening or assembling furniture.

You will have a good standard of written English with the ability to identify and sort archived documentation and data and be computer literate with competencies in Office applications (Word, Excel and Access) as the work will involve managing email requests and updating and organising xl archive log sheets.

The position will involve travel to national sites and occasional early starts and late finishes. You will be expected to attend training to keep up to date with the company requirements and undertake regular supervision meetings with your line manager. Experience in a previous archiving role is desirable but not essential.

Creative Support is a dynamic organisation with charitable status providing supported housing and a range of personalised care and support services for older people, people with mental health needs, learning disabilities, autism and physical disabilities. We currently support over 5,000 service users in 65 local authorities in England. We are also registered with the HCA as a provider of social housing and own and lease around 700 units of accommodation. Our pleasant and friendly Head Office is based in the centre of Stockport close to  Manchester and enjoys excellent public transport links. We currently have an annual turnover of around £100 million and employ over 4,000 highly committed staff.This opportunity offers opportunities for continued personal and career development.