FareShare Warehouse Coordinator
FareShare Greater Manchester re-distributes tonnes of surplus food to over 230 frontline charities and good causes who help thousands of people in need.

We are recruiting for a highly motivated individual with supervisory or management experience.

You would be equally accustomed to planning and prioritising as well as being involved in day to day tasks when required.

You will have excellent people skills to support our staff and volunteers to learn, develop and give their best each day

If you are passionate about making a difference for communities across Manchester, we’re waiting to hear from you.

FareShare’s Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.

Our Mission: To use surplus, fit for consumption food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting front-line charitable organisations who tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of food poverty.

Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives.

About FareShare
We believe that no good food should go to waste

We redistribute surplus food to charities that turn it into meals.

FareShare operates 22 Regional Centres across the UK and supports almost 11,000 local charities and community groups. In the last twelve months, FareShare redistributed 19,518 tonnes of food nationwide, enough food for 46.5 million meals to feed over 900,000 people each week.

The role
To co-ordinate day to day warehouse operations, supervise a team of staff and volunteers and ensure the ongoing success of the FareShare Greater Manchester. This will involve working closely with Managers, allocation and development teams to ensure that all operational activities are completed to agreed schedules and food safety standards set out in the FareShare operating manual.

Deadline: Wednesday 6th November, midday

Interviews: Week commencing 11th November

Wendover Youth Centre has grown to a scale where we now require a full-time worker to lead and coordinate our work. Hence this exciting new position. Wendover Youth Centre is a Company Limited by Guarantee with Charitable status. The Trustees have a clear and ambitious vision to develop and improve youth provision within Wendover. This appointment is key to the achievment of that vision

Notre Dame Refugee Centre is recruiting a Centre Administrator

The Administrator post is a key role in the Centre. The overall purpose is ‘to provide administrative support so that we are able to operate efficiently and cost effectively and quality of service provision is ensured.’

As well as this central role the postholder will assist the Director with a new project to develop the organisation’s outcome reporting. This will require proven database skills. For the full job description visit the NDRC website.

We are a busy Centre providing a wide programme of support to 1600 refugees asylum seekers, and other Human Rights applicants from all over London.

The post is advertised at 28 hours a week with a salary of £19,195.20 (FTE £23,994).

If you are interested in applying please send a CV and covering letter by clicking the Apply now button. The deadline for applications is Sunday 27th October.

 Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview on Thursday 31st October.

An opportunity to be at the forefront of change in the homelessness sector, working with organisations in the north region to achieve our vision of a country free from homelessness.

Homeless Link is the national membership charity for organisations working directly with people who become homeless in England. With over 700 member organisations, we work to improve services and campaign for policy change that will help end homelessness.

The Partnership team plays a vital role in Homeless Link’s work across England, and we are currently looking for a Partnership Manager to work across the North. Based at your home within the area, you’ll travel frequently across the region. This is a dynamic role in which you’ll develop a range of relationships with our member agencies, service providers, local authorities and other key strategic partners and stakeholders. Through these relationships you will build the capacity of the sector to respond effectively to homelessness. 

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and relationship building skills, a positive approach focused on practical solutions, and an understanding of homelessness practice. If you want to be at the forefront of change, helping agencies but also challenging them – this is the right job for you.

We are actively seeking to increase diversity within Homeless Link, and welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness, from a black or minority ethnic background and/or with a disability.

Visit our website for full details.

A unique and exciting opportunity to explore and develop new approaches to mission and church through social enterprise

Sector Minister – Director of MK Christian Foundation
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary Package: £36,500 plus pension (if ordained a stipend at denominational rates, housing and pension)

As Sector Minister – Director of MK Christian Foundation you will:

• Hold, develop and communicate, with others, the mission, vision and values of the MK Christian Foundation, with our particular expression of the Christian Faith and way, with its emphasis on the practical outworking of the gospel;
• Ensure the growth and development of  the community of our staff, trainees, volunteers and other service users enabling them to participate in delivering our mission and values;
• Oversee the on-going sustainability of the organisation, working with others to develop projects, new enterprises and expanded contracts that deliver our mission and Strategic Plan.

You will be:

• An effective leader who enjoys working collaboratively and empowering others
• Creative and entrepreneurial, taking ideas through to practical fruition
• Committed to working ecumenically and with other faith communities
• Able to reflect theologically, translating Christian traditions in ways relevant to community experience
• A good communicator, comfortable with public speaking
• Strong financial literacy and experience of contract management

This post has an Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 Part 1 that the post holder be a practising Christian as set out in the person specification.

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check.

The deadline for applications will be 12.00 midnight on Friday 7 November 2019.
We are using a two stage interview process with first interviews on Friday 22 November 2019 and second interviews on Friday 29 November 2019.

Please click the 'Apply Now' button for more information on how to complete your application. 

Applications will only be accepted on the forms provided (No CV’s).

We value diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

No agencies please.  

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week

Location: Derry / Londonderry

This role is known as Prince’s Trust Executive in The Prince’s Trust

You will work directly with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage young people to live, learn and earn!

We are looking for individuals who engage in challenges with optimism and resilience, who are adaptive, flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation and ideally have experience in one of the below areas:

• Youth Work
• Delivery of Outdoor Learning
• Education Sector
• Employability / Self Employment Sector
• Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers

You will be a natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people. Working as part of a team within a defined geographical area, you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most. 

To learn more about the role, please go to our website.

About The Prince’s Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.  We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

To help us realise our vision, we are changing our approach and looking at innovative ways to develop and enhance our ways of working.  This has led to the creation of exciting new opportunities across The Prince’s Trust at all levels based throughout the United Kingdom.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince’s Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please complete the online application.  To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince’s Trust Behavioural Framework.

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This is a full time post based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, supporting four hospital charities - Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity, Heartlands Hospital Charity, Good Hope Hospital Charity and Solihull Hospital Charity – which all work together with the administration carried out at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham offices.

The Grants Assistant will work closely with other members of the hospital charity, in particular the Senior Grants Assistant, to efficiently administer the grant making programmes at each of the four hospital charities.

Working as part of a team the post holder will have specific responsibility for accurate inputting of charitable orders, checking suitability of grant requests, correspondence with suppliers and procurement teams.

The post holder will also learn how the Charity proactively seeks feedback on its grant programme, and will be actively involved in sending out and obtaining grant review forms and passing on interesting case studies to the Charity’s communications team.

About us

St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating more than 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Your new role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Fundraiser to join our busy Fundraising Team who currently raises £1 million annually through community fundraising and bespoke fundraising events and projects.

The Senior Community Fundraiser role will be strongly focused on bringing in new community partnerships and account managing both these and existing relationships. Specifically, the post holder will work with the Community and Event Fundraising Manager to develop and deliver a strategy to increase the level of community support and income through the pro-active engagement and management of local groups, clubs, organisations and individuals across the five boroughs we support and build long term relationships with these partners; to be a representative for St Christopher’s at external events; recruit volunteers to represent the hospice at community events and at our own events such as Open Gardens and to build support of St Christopher’s from other organisations through research and submitting applications to be selected as the fundraising beneficiary of third party events. All this will fit within the overarching Fundraising Strategy and the Community and Events Strategy.

We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and driven individual who has a sound understanding of community fundraising with excellent relationship building skills. Someone who works well in a busy environment developing, managing and delivering a portfolio of initiatives, who is a team player but also able to work on own. You will be able to demonstrate a successful track record of delivering against targets in community fundraising with experience of volunteer management and growing community fundraising groups. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who is able to interact with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships and partnerships.

To succeed in this role

You will be solutions focussed and a great team player. Additionally, it is just as important to us that you have the following skills;

• Self-starter with strong team working ethic who is willing to take the initiative and pro-actively engage with community supporters;
• Have the ability to communicate empathetically with patients and supporters around sensitive issues such as bereavement;
• Be confident, articulate, outgoing and with excellent customer service skills;

What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community. In addition you will benefit from access to excellent training and development opportunities, a number of health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free off street parking nearby and an onsite staff canteen at our Sydenham site.

Closing Date:  20 October 2019

Interview Date:  28 October 2019

About us

St Christopher’s Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating more than 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Your new role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Event Fundraiser to join our busy Fundraising Team who currently raises £1 million annually through bespoke fundraising events and projects.

The Senior Event Fundraiser role will lead on all bespoke fundraising events, delivering outstanding event management, stewardship and marketing to inspire and motivate event fundraisers. Specifically the post holder will work with the Community and Events Fundraising Manager to develop, deliver and implement a strategy to maximise income and support the short, medium and long-term sustainability of the organisation. This will fit within the overarching Fundraising Strategy and the Community and Events Strategy. They will manage the performance of event fundraising activities to ensure that ambitious targets are achieved through delivery of the current programme and introducing new, exciting projects to expand St Christopher’s event portfolio.

We are seeking an experienced, target-driven events fundraiser who is ready to take the next step in their career to help us continue to grow income and deliver our ambitious targets. You will have previous experience of community and events fundraising and supporter care. You will be able to demonstrate experience on working on a mass participation event and developing, implementing and successful delivery of fundraising events. You will be comfortable building relationships to secure support and raise awareness of the organisation and have proven experience to recruit, steward and retain dedicated supporters. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal skills who is able to interact with a wide variety of individuals to achieve positive outcomes and establish sustainable relationships and partnerships.

To succeed in this role

You will be solutions focussed and a great team player. Additionally, it is just as important to us that you have the following skills;

• Self-starter with strong team working ethic who is willing to take the initiative and pro-actively engage with community supporters;
• Drive and enthusiasm;
• Confident, articulate, outgoing and with excellent customer service skills;

What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to influence and make a real difference in the community. In addition you will benefit from access to excellent training and development opportunities, a number of health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free off street parking nearby and an onsite staff canteen at our Sydenham site.

Closing Date:  20 October 2019

Interview Date:  29 and 30 October 2019

Service Manager - £25,054 - 40 hours per week

Do you thrive on being at the centre of operations? Are you perceptive, reflective and able to think holistically about people? Are you energised when creating opportunities which enable others to develop? Are you highly organised and able to shape good information systems?

Brunswick Organic Nursery in Bishopthorpe is a registered charity (No. 1010178) that offers a productive supported workplace for adults with learning difficulties to work in horticulture, crafts, cooking, woodwork, office administration and gardening

We are looking for an energetic, flexible and skilful Service Manager who ideally has experience in adult social care.  We’re looking for someone who can efficiently and warmly oversee processes from welcoming new service users and supporting high quality annual reviews with them, to supporting staff and exploring new ideas of what Brunswick can offer.  The Service Manager will be our safeguarding lead and so being able to sensitively handle complex situations is vital as well as having good judgement. You will need to be able to step in to support unforeseen situations that may occur during the day and then reprioritise you work as needed. You will need to have the confidence to make sensible and swift decisions. This role is incredibly varied and we’re looking for someone who can thrive in a role where no two days are the same. 

All staff roles involve building relationships and pooling our knowledge to enable people with learning difficulties (‘workers’) at Brunswick to have the fullest lives possible at Brunswick and beyond. In this role in particular, the ability to build meaningful relationships with people is essential as the postholder’s interactions will include supporting staff in complex situations, understanding worker’s wishes, liaising with parents and carers and social workers too. 

If you have a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, a straight-forward approach and want a role that makes a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.

Edible Playgrounds transform areas in school grounds into vibrant outdoor spaces that excite and teach children about growing and eating healthy food. You will be part of the engagement team, who support schools for a year after their Edible Playground has been built. You will create planting plans, growing guides and work with teachers to link these into their teaching plans. You will also develop curriculum resources and deliver training to teachers and pupils. Your biggest challenge will be to influence teachers to come out of their classroom and into the garden. You will work mostly with primary schools (some secondary) in London and possibly other UK cities.

Who we are

Trees for Cities is the only charity working on an international scale to create greener cities. We have been in existence for 25 years engaging communities to plant trees in parks, streets, schools and housing estates across the UK, as well as internationally, revitalising these areas and improving the lives of the people who live in them. We strengthen communities through volunteering opportunities.

What we’re looking for

• Ability to work efficiently and calmly within a busy team and fast-paced working environment.
• Ability to demonstrate strong project management skills to deliver multiple projects at once.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, able to engage with confidence and authority with pupils, teachers, headteachers and the wider school community.
• Experience of leading outdoor workshops and events with schools, community or volunteer groups about food growing.
• Good working knowledge of growing fruit and vegetables and general horticulture. Strong excel skills and confident recording data for monitoring and evaluation.

Closing date to apply is midnight on Thursday 24th October 2019.

Quality Assurance Officer (Social Care)

Hft is one of the leading learning disability charities in the country, providing support for 3,000 people with a learning disability and employing around 3000 staff. Operationally, we have been and continue to be innovative in recognising and championing good support, whilst taking an alternative view at how support is provided. Our efforts are sector leading and recognised and observed by CQC and local authorities who provide most of the funding for care packages.

Working within the Quality & Improvement Team the Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor will be responsible for driving quality as set out in the Quality Strategy to support services.

Position: Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor
Location: National Role, Home based
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £31,122 per annum + company car
Benefits: Hft Plus benefits package (discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out), 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) increasing to 25 days after first year, contributory pension scheme and life assurance, an Employee Assistance Programme, annual staff award schemes, access to award winning training and development.

Closing date: Thursday 31 October 2019

About the role:

Supporting the Quality & Improvement Manager, the post holder is part of a team to ensure all services are safe and compliant in line with regulatory & contractual requirements while supporting the regions to achieve great outcomes for the people we support.

The Quality Assurance and Improvement Auditor will work closely with all operational Managers to assess the risk and lead on the development and implementation plan as required.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting good governance and continuous improvement across the organisation.

You will carry out an annual programme of Compliance audits and be involved in assessing, monitoring and reporting on operational delivery of Services. This will include working with services across all regions and will involve regular travel and overnight stays

About you:

- You will have an understanding or background in quality assurance and / or audit processes within a Social Care setting with the ability to analyse data and produce written reports, enabling you to make improvements and support managers with SMART action planning.
- Experience of managing the operational delivery of services, an understanding of the Quality Care Commission, Registered Services and Registered Managers requirements and current legislation are essential requirements.
- You will need to hold full, current UK / EU driving licence.
- Having a management qualification and previous audit experience are both desirable.

Strictly no agencies please.

You may have experience of the following: Quality Assurance Officer, Quality Assurance Officer, Quality Assurance & Improvement Auditor, Quality Assurance Auditor, Quality Assurance Inspector, QA Inspector, QA Auditor, Quality and Assurance, QC Auditor, Quality and Control, QA, Quality Assurance, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not for Profit, NFP, etc.

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Evaluation and Learning Manager

£34,000 - 38,000pa

London

The Learning and Evaluation Manager is responsible for the design and delivery of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for selected portfolios linked to two of Comic Relief’s social change approaches: Sport for Change and Social Tech. This includes advising organisations funded by Comic Relief in the UK and internationally on MEL design and systems, designing collective learning approaches across cohorts of funded organisations, and undertaking work to evaluate and inform Comic Relief’s role in making change happen.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and manage MEL activities related to portfolios within our social change approaches, working closely with the Comic Relief Investment Partners who manage those portfolios
• Support funded organisations individually and collectively to strengthen their capacity to monitor, evaluate and learn from the work funded by Comic Relief (which includes a mixture of project and core funding)
• Commission and undertake work to better understand Comic Relief’s effectiveness as a grant maker and grant manager to inform strategic decision-making
• Recruit and oversee external consultants to deliver specific evaluation and learning projects as required
• Ensure strong MEL systems are in place across our Investment portfolios, and that insights from MEL activity are used to inform strategic decision-making.

Key competencies:

• Strong MEL experience in the UK charitable sector or international development context
• Familiarity with supporting the MEL capacity of a range of charitable organisations, from grassroots to large-scale organisations
• Understanding of effective grant-making and grant management processes
• Strong planner with outstanding attention to detail, time management and analytical skills
• Problem solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and critically about monitoring, evaluation and learning for a grant-maker.

Occasional UK and international travel may be required as part of this role.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 21st Oct 2019 BST (Europe/London)

Membership is crucial to the future of the RSPB, and the Face to Face Membership Logistics Officers are essential to ensure our public facing staff have everything they need to inspire the public to give nature a home.

This will include physical resources and ensuring their timely distribution to the team, as well as ensuring support systems run effectively, with clear communication of any changes to working processes.

Face to Face Membership Logistics Officer
Reference number: HyEw1-3 and 4
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary starting at: £17,276 to £18,716 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent

You will be responsible for the smooth distribution of uniform, stock and other resources to every member of the team and overseeing the key processes that underpin the administration of the team, including using specialised computer software programmes.

The role demands a commitment to managing a diverse and varied workload that changes from day to day, supporting the F2F team to deliver its targets and building excellent relationships across the organisation.

If you have a high level of attention to detail, a desire to constantly review and improve processes as well as excellent communication skills then we want to hear from you.

Please send in your application as soon as you are ready - we are actively recruiting and may draw the role to close when suitable applications are received. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Closing date: 24th October 2019

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the 'Apply Now' button to be directed to our website where you can download the role profile and application details.

When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number HyEw1-3 and 4 on any correspondence.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.

No agencies please.