Are you passionate about how brands interact with their audiences? Do you want to engage with one of the largest student populations in the country? Would you like to work to position the University of Manchester Students' Union right at the centre of city life in Greater Manchester? We're looking for a new Marketing & Communications Manager to help us develop into one of the sector's leading Marketing & Communications functions.

You will be at the heart of one of the largest Students' Union's in the country, working with colleagues from our charitable services such as our Advice centre, to our Volunteering & Fundraising team right through to our commercial services such as 532 Bar & Kitchen and much much more.

You may already have experience leading a team or this might be your first 'Manager' role but the willingness to partner with and lead key stakeholders including internal Students' Union departments, University colleagues, research & insight, design & digital and student media teams is a must.

We want you to bring innovation and creativity to the role and to the rest of the organisation. 

The British Heart Foundation organisational strategy theme of ‘Striving for Excellence’ combined with our People Experience aim of ‘Let’s make a safe, healthy and inclusive workforce’ underpins the aims and objectives of the Wellbeing, Safety and Resilience team. Our aim is to make sure work activities and environments are safe, promoting individual wellbeing so that our people feel enabled to support the fight against cardiovascular disease.

About the role

The role of Health and Safety Adviser will provide support to teams across the business. Playing a key role in the successful implementation of our safety management systems in our Retail division offices and other directorates. 80% of this role will be to build and maintain relationships with a range of levels of management within our Retail division and their supporting functions, with the remaining 20% with other directorates. 

You will play a key role to embed the safety management systems with all our teams and assisting with policy development and communication. You'll support the H&S manager(s) to develop regular reports based on data and insight to improve the safety and wellbeing culture across the organisation. You will also be responsible for developing and monitoring standards through H&S inspections and audits within directorate premises to provide assurance on compliance with legislation and BHF policy.

About you

With previous H&S experience within a a large complex and geographically dispersed organisation you’ll hold both the NEBOSH General Certificate & Tech IOSH Membership Status. 

You’ll have experience of actively working within the Retail sector (ideally multiple sites) and knowledge and some experience in the development and delivery of health and safety management systems or wellbeing programmes.

You’ll be IT proficient and competent user of MS Office. With comprehensive knowledge of H&S legislation and best practice as applied to third sector/charities, office premises/Retail, you’ll be able to influence and instruct BHF colleagues to improve awareness and compliance on H&S standards and have confidence to challenge others on current practice where required.

Please note that this position is home-based with frequent travel to our Retail premises and offices. There will also be a requirement to support with fundraising events which may occasionally require working on a weekend.

About us

Every single one of us is vulnerable to the heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases – they are the world’s biggest killers. But the research we fund represents hope. And nothing matters more than finding cures and treatments that give us more time with the people we love.

Here at the BHF we understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our people work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.

Interview process

The interview process will be held over MS Teams.

Referrals Assistant

Are you a Referrals Assistant looking for your next career move? Do you have experience working within a busy administrative role? Do you like the idea of working for a business with a genuine passion for supporting Young People & Young Adults?

Our client have an exciting opportunity for a Referrals Assistant to join their friendly and professional team based within their Head Office based in Stockport, where you will support the Business Development Team with overall service occupancy and assist in facilitating a smooth transition for young people from point of referral throughout the referral pathway.

You will provide efficient and effective administrative support whilst promoting a positive and professional corporate image, ensuring an effective and responsive referral experience.

You will be required to work Monday to Friday over a 37.5 hour working week, which will initially involve remote working due to the current pandemic, with the scope of returning back to an office setting on a blended working basis in due course.

Company Benefits

- Circa £20,344.82 (Dependant on experience)
- 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (Rising to 27 days holiday plus bank holidays with length of service)
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities
- Enhanced company pension
- Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Departmental and company induction process
- Free on-site parking
- Paid DBS check
- Employee Assistance Programme / 24-hour Counselling Service
- Online shopping discounts, free eye tests and various other benefits
- The opportunity for internal promotions & progression
- Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
- Regular social events and recognition schemes (‘Employee of the year awards’, Summer & Christmas parties)

As a Referrals Assistant, you will

- Provide a timely response to all enquiries and referrals received via email, telephone, or post in order to develop and maintain new and existing stakeholder relationships.
- Ensure all new enquiries and ongoing contact calls or emails are accurately recorded on the CRM system.
- Arrange for all new referrals to be screened by the clinical team within agreed timescales, gathering additional information where required.
- Ensure that referrers and all internal and external stakeholders are kept fully updated throughout all stages of the referral process.
- Liaise with referrers to coordinate and arrange assessments with CiM clinical and residential assessors.
- Provide high quality administrative support to the wider team including proof reading of formal assessment response letters and needs assessments.
- Add new resident information and upload relevant files to the Electronic Care Record.
- Maintain referral activity databases to accurately map referral activity.
- Support development and implementation of referral activity reports.
- Actively participate in referral meetings and provide administrative support as required, including minute taking. Provide updates on the status of current enquiries and referrals within the meeting.
- Significantly contribute to the overall referral pipeline by promoting webinars, educational events etc.
- Support Business Development with gathering of market intelligence to support Business Growth into new localities.
- Contribute to personal growth by completing all mandatory training, attending supervisions and appraisal meetings and identifying areas for own personal development.

Requirements of a Referrals Assistant

- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent, including Grade C or higher in English.
- NVQ Level 3 in Customer Care, Business Admin or equivalent or willing to work towards this
- Full UK Driving Licence with access to own vehicle
- Previous experience of working in a busy administrative role
- Good verbal & written communication skills and the ability to assist with reports and record information accurately
- Strong IT skills including the use of spreadsheets, databases, email and Microsoft applications
- Able to effectively and efficiently manage patient information to populate care records.
- Able to deal with a wide range of people and establish effective and professional working relationships with staff, managers and external bodies.
- Able to work from home where necessary – Effective Wi-Fi connection and suitable working space.

Desirable Criteria:

- Experience of basic data analysis
- Previous experience within a clinical, health or care organisation.
- Knowledge of the commissioning process

If you are interested in joining an enthusiastic, motivated business who thrives in developing and rebuilding young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please apply today.

Please note that they do not accept CV’s and the application must be completed in full.

To support their commitment as a COVID-19 Secure employer, all of their interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams.

They operate a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check.

They are an equal opportunities employer who value diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.

They reserve the right to close the advert early, should they appoint a suitable candidate.

Ref: 98551

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruitment Advertising Administrator to join our Recruitment team based in our friendly, busy Head Office near the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes’ walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for a graduate who has interest in developing a career in Recruitment for a not-for-profit organisation.

For this interesting and varied role you will be responsible for proofing and advertising recruitment focused job advertisements online, in addition to the production and review of associated job descriptions and interview question sets. Additionally, you will provide first class customer service to applicants and managers and will support the wider Recruitment department with other functions such as applicant queries.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work flexibly under pressure in order to meet deadlines. You will have proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel and will have a confident but polite telephone manner. Additionally you will have strong administration skills and an excellent standard of English to proof read text for inaccuracies and create high standard role specific texts.

Creative Support is celebrating 30 years of delivering care and support in England. We continue as a national not for profit social care organization based in Stockport. This means all of our funds go back into our good work. We are an Investors in People Silver Employer, with our HR and Learning & Development Teams setting the Gold standard. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and our proud of our BAME staff as we continue to embed our Black Lives Matter Manifesto. We were established 30 years ago by our current Chief Executive, Anna Lunts, and we continue to focus on delivering an excellent standard of care to vulnerable adults and children and on recognising our valued staff.

Creative Support is not just an employer or provider. We plan and build and imagine the best and most brilliant ways of working and living and supporting people. Then we implement and embed and fight to put that in place, for our staff, our services users and the communities we work and live in. We give everyone the Opportunity to be themselves, the Choice to make decisions over their lives and we advocate for everyone’s Wellbeing. This is who we are. Join us.

Our range of employee benefits includes:

- Guaranteed Full Time Contracted Hours, 37.5 hours per week

- Free life assurance

- Pension with company contribution

- A range of employee discounts

This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk.

Creative Support is celebrating 30 years of delivering care and support in England. We continue as a national not for profit social care organisation. This means all of our funds go back into our good work. We are an Investors in People Silver Employer, with our HR and Learning & Development Teams setting the Gold standard. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and our proud of our BAME staff as we continue to embed our Black Lives Matter Manifesto. We were established 30 years ago by our current Chief Executive, Anna Lunts, and we continue to focus on delivering an excellent standard of care to vulnerable adults and children and on recognising our valued staff.

Creative Support is not just an employer or provider. We plan and build and imagine the best and most brilliant ways of working and living and supporting people. Then we implement and embed and fight to put that in place, for our staff, our services users and the communities we work and live in. We give everyone the Opportunity to be themselves, the Choice to make decisions over their lives and we advocate for everyone’s Wellbeing. This is who we are. Join us.

We are seeking a talented and highly committed individual to join our busy Tendering Team based in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

As a Bid Writer you will develop, write and lead the submission of bids and proposals, create tender presentations, and be collaborative in proofing/editing your colleagues’ work. You will contribute to the development of new services, systems and innovative models of delivery as part of writing submissions. You will attend relevant events/briefings, and may also attend interviews and/or presentations as part of the bid process.

As a junior member of the team you will lead on your own tenders as well as work on collaborative submissions and receive on the job mentoring. You will need to have 1-2 years’ experience in writing bids within the health & social care sector, preferably in a relevant service area such as mental health, learning disability, autism, older people, complex lives & social excluded groups.

You will be able to write creative, aspirational and meaningful submissions which reinforce our person centred approach to supporting vulnerable adults. You must have excellent writing & editing ability, strong analytical skills and knowledge to appraise tender opportunities. You will need to be organised, hard working and flexible as this is a fast paced role.

We are looking for a writer who is passionate about the services we offer and has a genuine drive to create excellent submissions.

Continuous professional development and on the job support will be provided, but you must be able to work independently, willing to work flexibly and be motivated to meet individual/team goals and the changing needs of the organisation.

We are a small, supportive and very busy national team, with a base at our friendly Stockport head office. There is scope for partial or full time home working in this role (please detail preference in your application to discuss at interview). 

We are a passionate, inclusive and anti-racist organisation. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. As a Disability Confident Employer we welcome applications from people with a disability, and as a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion we actively encourage applications from the LGBT+ community.

Stage 1 Interviews will be held the week commencing 10th May 2021

Creative Support is celebrating 30 years of delivering care and support in England. We continue as a national not for profit social care organisation. This means all of our funds go back into our good work. We are an Investors in People Silver Employer, with our HR and Learning & Development Teams setting the Gold standard. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and our proud of our BAME staff as we continue to embed our Black Lives Matter Manifesto. We were established 30 years ago by our current Chief Executive, Anna Lunts, and we continue to focus on delivering an excellent standard of care to vulnerable adults and children and on recognising our valued staff.

Creative Support is not just an employer or provider. We plan and build and imagine the best and most brilliant ways of working and living and supporting people. Then we implement and embed and fight to put that in place, for our staff, our services users and the communities we work and live in. We give everyone the Opportunity to be themselves, the Choice to make decisions over their lives and we advocate for everyone’s Wellbeing. This is who we are. Join us.

We are seeking a talented and highly committed individual to join our busy Tendering Team based in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

As a Bid Writer you will develop, write and lead the submission of bids and proposals, create tender presentations, and be collaborative in proofing/editing your colleagues’ work. You will contribute to the development of new services, systems and innovative models of delivery as part of writing submissions. You will attend relevant events/briefings, and may also attend interviews and/or presentations as part of the bid process. As a more experienced writer, you will also support junior members of the team in building skills and creating top quality bids.

You will need to have 3 years’ experience in writing tenders in a relevant service area such as mental health, learning disability, autism, older people, complex lives & social excluded groups. You will be able to write creative, aspirational and meaningful submissions which reinforce our person centred approach to supporting vulnerable adults. You must have excellent writing & editing ability, strong analytical skills and knowledge to appraise tender opportunities. You will need to be organised, hard working and flexible as this is a fast paced role.

We are looking for a writer who is passionate about the services we offer and has a genuine drive to create excellent submissions.

Continuous professional development will be provided, but you must be able to work independently, willing to work flexibly and be motivated to meet individual/team goals and the changing needs of the organisation.

We are a small, supportive and very busy national team, with a base at our friendly Stockport head office. There is scope for partial or full time home working in this role (please detail preference in your application to discuss at interview). 

We are a passionate, inclusive and anti-racist organisation. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. As a Disability Confident Employer we welcome applications from people with a disability, and as a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion we actively encourage applications from the LGBT+ community.

Stage 1 Interviews will be held the week commencing 10th May 2021

Victim Support is looking for a Homicide Service Children and Young People Senior Caseworker to join our National Homicide Service. This post is fixed term until 31/05/2022

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.

The successful candidate will be joining our National Homicide Service. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a high-quality, front-line service to bereaved young people following murder or manslaughter.

You will be expected to manage a complex-caseload, support, coach and manage a small team of caseworkers and work collaboratively and jointly within the Homicide Service and other relevant organisations that can help to progress identified needs, and ensure that young people are central and integral to all processes that concern them.

Applicants should have experience of working with vulnerable young people. They should also be able to work under their own initiative and be able to prioritise work and deal with conflicting demand/needs and interests, whilst keeping victims at the focus of all work undertaken.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, an ability to build and sustain solid working relationships with various partners and most importantly build rapport with young victims and witnesses.

The ability to advocate and support young victims and witnesses through their recovery is a must, as well as managing the multi-faceted challenges you will experience on a day to day basis

Being a CYP Homicide Caseworker is a demanding role, but hugely rewarding. You will be joining a passionate and committed team who support each other to ensure that young victims and witnesses receive an outstanding, and consistently premium service.

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 A. 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.

VS 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 is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe having a diverse workforce at all levels allows us to represent the communities we serve and connect better with people affected by crime. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all communities and monitor the diversity of applicants to analyse if we are representative of the communities we serve in terms of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, age and socio-economic status. As part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter we would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities.

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 is looking for a part-time Anti-Social Behaviour Vulnerable Victims Champion to work 30 hours a week, Monday to Friday to cover a maternity leave.

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.

Your primary role will be to make initial contact with victims of anti-social behaviour (ASB) referred to the service. You will be responsible for carrying out an impact and need/risk assessment, referring victims assessed as high risk to ASBRAC. You will be required to provide tailored one-to-one, specialist support to vulnerable victims of ASB and you will be required to assist vulnerable and persistently targeted victims and those with complex needs ensuring they receive the support required to complete their journey through the Criminal and Civil Justice System (CJS).

In order to provide the best possible service to victims of anti-social behaviour you will work and collaborate with the Crime ASB Officers and Partner Agencies and also attend ASBRAC meetings in Rochdale.

You must have experience of carrying out risk and needs assessment to victims of ASB, therefore a good understanding of ASB, its impact on individuals and knowledge of ASB legislation is crucial.

You must be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and be able to assist with the monitoring, evaluation, and administration of written statistical reports; therefore good IT skills are an essential requirement.

Experience of working with vulnerable victims with complex needs and other service providers and agencies in a statutory, voluntary, and social or community setting would be a distinct advantage.

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 Essential. 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, along with police vetting.

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

Would you like to join the dynamic team behind the City of Trees movement, creating a greener and more resilient Greater Manchester? We are looking for a talented Communications Manager with a dynamic range of skills across the marcomms spectrum to lead on engagement and awareness raising.

City of Trees has an innovative and exciting plan to transform the landscape of Greater Manchester by planting a tree for every person who lives here, bringing community woodland back and developing a woodland culture.

We are looking for a highly organised individual who can effectively communicate to a myriad of stakeholders. You'll be confident working independently, prioritising effectively and line managing a social media and digital assistant.

This is the perfect job for you if you enjoy a busy, rewarding and varied portfolio spanning engagement, press and digital across a range of communications channels. An average day might include engaging with partners, writing a press release, coaching your direct report, running a virtual event, updating the website and campaign planning. You can expect an exciting blend of strategy and hands on day-to-day delivery.

To apply, you'll be an experienced communications professional (ideally with charity sector experience that includes campaigns and/or fundraising) who can demonstrate a broad range of skills and experience. You'll have a positive, energetic approach, be able to build strong relationships and bring fresh ideas to the communications strategy.

£33k salary with up to 8% employer contribution pension.

Flexible, life and family-friendly culture. Currently based remotely, but longer-term open to office/home mix with a small, happy and collaborative team waiting to welcome you.

If you care deeply about the future of our planet, please send your CV for lots more detail on this unique opportunity. Our Regional specialist, Ellen Drummond, is looking after this one.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 17th May
First round interviews to be held w/c 24th May

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Job Summary

To build on the foundations of Student Social Work Placements, Volunteering (and other meaningful involvement) and Cross Organisation Induction programmes to provide stability, consistency and to ensure Gaddum over-delivers its organisational objectives. Responsible for monitoring systems and processes in relation to placements, volunteering and inductions; developing areas of improvement to enhance our offer and embedding placements into the day-to-day work of the charity.

Job Purpose

The postholder will be responsible for three key organisational areas:

-Student Social Work Placements: 60% of workload
-Induction Plan Coordination: 10%
-Volunteering Programme: 30%

The postholder will be responsible for coordinating, monitoring and reviewing the above functions. This will entail stakeholder engagement both with internal leaders and external partners. The role will involve a close working relationships and crossover workstreams with HR department, Health & Safety systems and compliance responsibilities.

Job Title: Corporate Fundraiser

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (including occasional evenings & weekends)

Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

Location: Manchester (Gorton)

Our state-of-the-art £6.6m facility opened in September 2020 to provide an engaging and inspiring place for thousands of young people aged 8 – 19 (up to 25 for those with additional needs) to spend their leisure time.

Open 7-nights a week, 52-weeks a year plus school holidays, the Youth Zone’s incredible facilities include a 3G pitch, skate park, 30ft climbing wall, boxing/mixed martial arts gym, 4-court sports hall, sensory room, fitness suite, recreation area and dance, arts, music and media suites and much more.

THE ROLE
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a new, dynamic fundraising team to develop our corporate fundraising programme. In this role you will be responsible for working on the delivery of fundraising campaigns and initiatives in order to recruit, cultivate and grow income from corporate supporters.

Pledges of financial support are critical to the success of HideOut and help to ensure that we can provide a first class offer and maintain excellent services for young people from Manchester. As a dynamic self-starter you will have fundraising experience with a strong ability to develop and maintain relationships with a range of stakeholders.

In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please complete a HideOut Youth Zone Application Form (copies can be found here under the Corporate Fundraiser Tab on our vacancies page)

Application can be emailed to HideOut Youth Zone. **CVs will only be considered in addition to a fully completed application form**.

Deadline for applications: Thursday 29th April 2021

Provisional Interview date: Friday 7th May 2021

For more information, please contact: Richard Driffield.

For information regarding how we process your data, please visit our website.

The ICO’s work as the UK’s privacy and information rights regulator has never been more important. The ICO is an independent public body; we uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. 

We have a number of new roles which come at a really exciting time for the ICO, as we begin to take ownership of the specification, delivery and maintenance of large parts of our Digital & IT Service and continue on our ambitious transformation program. 

We’ve already improved the working lives of our users through the deployment of ‘cloud first’ laptops, collaboration tools and Office 365, making our users truly agile and supporting our COVID-19 business continuity response. Alongside this we’ve delivered major projects such as a CRM platform to ensure our casework colleagues can work effectively and have easy access to the records they need, a new EDRM to support our corporate record keeping, and an intelligence database to ensure that we make best use of intelligence data. These are just a small number of the projects we’ve been working on so far, alongside the day to day support for c. 900 colleagues and the infrastructure and systems that they rely on. 

Looking to the future, we want to deepen our relationship with our users, allowing us to better understand and anticipate their needs. In order to support this we are moving towards a product focussed Digital & IT service, introducing delegated accountability, faster decision making, increased agility and better business outcomes. The new roles complement the existing team and ensure that we have the skills and resources to take forward our plans.

Incident and Problem Management Officer 
Starting salary £28,737 - £32,379 pa depending on experience, skills and knowledge 

You will manage the lifecycle of all ICO system Major Incidents and associated communications – owning them through to resolution and following up on root cause and fix implementation. Communicating the status of both Incidents and Problem Records to key stakeholders within the ICO. As such you must be confident and effective with written and verbal communication. 

You will facilitate Major Incident Reviews, Problem Management calls and meetings with the ICO’s third party support partners. You will proactively analyse incidents, monitor trends and you should be able to demonstrate a good level of analytical report writing skills.

Apply

Please upload your CV and complete the Equal Opportunities part of the application form only.

Closing date: 23:59, Friday 9 April 2021

Why work for the Information Commissioner's Office?

We are proud to provide our people with a premium benefits package. We are continually improving the rewards we offer. Here are a few of the valuable rewards that you will enjoy:

• Flexible working hours, including flexi leave.
• Civil Service Pension arrangements.
• 25 days' paid holiday a year with options to buy, sell, and bank days.
• Extra "privilege" days in addition to normal public holidays.
• Compressed working hours options.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Health cash plan.
• Colleague assistance scheme.
• Access to many discounted products and services.
• Welfare and family-friendly policies.
• Staff medical scheme and eyesight testing.

Our employees are currently working remotely in line with government guidelines.

Please note if you are appointed to work with the ICO you will be required to complete security clearance processes. These include identity and qualification checks and a Basic Disclosure level check of unspent criminal convictions. 

The ICO is committed to Equal Opportunities in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Barnardo's National Counter Trafficking Service

Post Title: Regional Practice Coordinator

Greater Manchester

Location of Post : Home Based with extensive travel around the regions

Hours of Work: Full-time - 37 hours per week

Specific Job Description

This post will be working in the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service (ICTGs).

Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTGs) are specialist professionals who provide direct support children who have been identified as trafficked or potentially trafficked to navigate the complex systems of social care, immigration and criminal justice.

Regional Practice Co-ordinators work alongside the ICTG's within the various regions, offering indirect support to children and young people by providing advice and guidance to professionals who are supporting the child or young person directly.

What we are looking for:

* Individuals with the drive, energy and experience to develop the ICTG Service within the advertised region especially in regards to child trafficking and modern slavery.
* Ability and drive to keep developing, learning and investigating your own practice knowledge so that this can be cascaded within the sector in creative and effective ways.
* Ability to capture trends and undertake regional and national analysis to improve practice outcomes for children and young people.
* A confident person who can engage and contribute in multi-agency forums bringing constructive challenge, advice and guidance alongside the child's voice and perspective.
* A person who has the interpersonal skills to develop trusted relationships with many individuals from across both the statutory and third sector, which provides a platform to advocate effectively for the needs of children and young people.
* A person who had an experienced track record of working within both operational and strategic roles and the ability to navigate a range of legislative frameworks.
* Someone who has demonstrable experience of developing effective and sustainable relationships with a range of stakeholders on both a local and national level.
* A natural trainer / facilitator who can use practice lessons from the frontline work of the service to inspire strategic practice development, which includes delivering training and public speaking events.
* Someone able to navigate online platforms to deliver sessions and training and general knowledge around IT.

Job title: Public Policy Manager

Region: London. Birmingham or Manchester also considered.

Directorate: Director General. Public Affairs and Public Policy

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time – 35 hours per week

Salary: £32,500 to £36,000 plus £4,452 London Weighting per annum, if London based

About the Royal British Legion

The RBL is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community through thick and thin – ensuring their unique contribution is never forgotten. We’ve been here since 1921 and we’ll be here as long as they need us.

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide a great customer service and support.
• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others.
• Passionate about supporting the Armed Forces community and honouring their contribution.
• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop.
• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others.

If so, then we would like to hear from you ….

The Role

Although best known for our Remembrance work and the iconic red poppy symbol, the RBL is also the largest welfare provider in the Armed Forces charity sector, providing practical care, advice and assistance to serving personnel, veterans and their families. We have a long and proud campaigning history, having sought to further the interests, rights and welfare of the Armed Forces community since 1921, and we work to safeguard the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.

We are looking for an experienced individual to manage and coordinate public policy development in support of the RBL’s campaigns and lead on social and economic policy.  You will help position the RBL as the leading voice on policy matters affecting the Armed Forces community.

You will have the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence and ensure that we are working in partnership with government and other key stakeholders on social policy, including responding to government consultations.

You will have extensive experience of public policy and campaigns work, in a charity, public or private sector organisation, together with a knowledge and understanding of social and welfare issues which may affect the Armed Forces community.  You will also have experience of undertaking and using research and evidence to successfully influence for change .  Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with a wide range of stakeholders including government, academics, charity sector partners and our beneficiaries are a must.

The role is primarily office based, however due to COVID 19 the team are currently working from home.  This role would likely begin remotely and then follow government and organisational guidelines on returning to the office.

The role is based in London although other locations may be considered such as Birmingham or Manchester.

How to Apply

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply online’.

Closing date for this role is Tuesday 4th May 2021.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.