Jobs in South East

The Huntington's Disease Association is a UK registered charity that supports people affected by Huntington's disease across England and Wales. We provide information, advice and support to families, friends, and healthcare professionals.

We are looking for an experienced Volunteer Manager to support and inspire those who volunteer for the charity. You will lead them in line with the vision, mission and values of the charity and work to fulfil the goals of our strategic plan. You will strengthen our current volunteering strands with effective governance and great communication and will develop new volunteering opportunities within the charity.

You will manage our volunteer-led Branches and Support groups who offer peer support, fundraising opportunities and activities locally. You will also manage HD Voice, our panel of volunteers, who contribute to the internal development of the charity and ensure that the voice of the Huntington’s community is at the heart of research into the condition.

You will co-ordinate all aspects of the volunteer journey from recruitment, selection, induction, training and ongoing support and develop effective policies, procedures and guidance for volunteers as well as developing an effective monitoring and evaluation process.

We are looking for someone with strong volunteer management skills who has experience of training volunteers and of writing policies, procedures and guidance in line with data protection guidance. Also someone with great communication and relationship management skills who has experience of managing volunteers at all stages of their volunteer journey.   

There will be regular evening and weekend work as many of our volunteers work themselves so need the support out of office hours. There will be a need for travel across England and Wales. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to bring their knowledge, skills and experience to our organisation.

We offer great benefits including 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata for part time staff), a pension scheme with 3% employer contribution, a tax-free working from home allowance, a Medicash scheme, a flexible working approach, a supportive and positive working environment and fantastic learning and development opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities in our recruitment process and in order to find out how well we are doing, we collect monitoring data. This will not form part of the selection process in any way and will be used for monitoring purposes only. The completion of this form is voluntary.

The Huntington's Disease Association is looking for someone with the ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of adults at risk, children and young people. We follow safer recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the people we work with. We require the successful candidate to provide two employment references and undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for enhance disclosure before joining the charity.

Full details of how we securely handle the data you provide to us as part of the recruitment process can be found in our privacy notice for job applicants on our website.

Click on 'apply' to begin your application. To ensure your consideration, please upload both a CV and cover letter. Your cover letter should include why you are applying for the role and how you meet the requirements of the person specification. The job description and person specification can be found within the job vacancy pack.

Applications submitted without a CV and cover letter will not be considered.

Closing date for applications is Friday 3 May 2024, 5 pm
Interviews will be held Friday 17 May 2024.

Are you a skilled and experienced HR Officer? Can you combine excellence in administration with great people skills? Do you enjoy working as part of a team towards shared goals? Then this role might be for you.

BMS World Mission is looking for a skilled and experienced HR Officer to join our People and Culture (P&C) department. As part of the team, you will contribute to creating a positive, engaging and professional working environment, where our people can thrive. You will have the opportunity to help strengthen our BMS culture and uphold its core values.

As the HR Officer, you will play an important role in HR operations, providing administrative support for key HR processes spanning the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to leavers. This includes ensuring our policies and processes represent best practices, maintaining the staff handbook, and ensuring that the online HR software is used to its full potential

You will have a good understanding of good HR practices, be familiar with data protection regulations and be a very competent administrator.

 As the HR officer, you will:

·Be professional and confident.

·Be approachable, with effective interpersonal skills.

·Be discreet with confidential and sensitive HR matters.

·Be in full support of the vision and mission of BMS.

·Be flexible and able to manage competing demands within this broad and diverse role.

 If you have a passion for HR and Shared Services and want to significantly contribute to our success, we encourage you to apply.

 The successful applicant will be a committed Christian. The nature of this role means that this is a specific occupational requirement.

Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire / Flexible working.

This role can be office-based or hybrid. Coming into our office regularly in Didcot is preferred (for example one or two days a week on average). However, we are happy to appoint a candidate who lives too far from Didcot to attend the office regularly, if they are able to be flexible to come to Didcot as required. The cost of travel to BMS Didcot, whether on a regular basis or infrequently, would be borne by the employee.

Hours: 35 hrs. per week/full time

Employment type: Permanent  

Salary range: £25,855.00 to £30,678.00 per annum

Closing date: 9 am, Thursday 2 May 2024

Interview date: Thursday, 9 May 2024

If you would like to discuss this role further, please feel free to contact Sujit Varpe, HR Business Partner at BMS World Mission or visit our website for more information. 

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation with the feminist agenda at the core of its ethos? Then Advance Charity could be the career choice for you!

We are looking for a Community Key Worker

Salary:   £22,000 - £26,000

Location: Kent

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – until April 2025 (with the possiblity to extend)

Hours p/w           35 Hours per week

This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.  

Please note: Any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK, and satisfactory enhanced DBS check. This role is also subject to Police Vetting.

About us

Advance is an award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women and girls survivors of domestic abuse and supporting women with short-term sentences to reduce offending.  We believe in empowering women and girls to lead safe, non-violent, equal lives so that they can flourish and contribute to the community. 

We are a community-based organisation who lead in best practice approaches to supporting women in their local community. We achieve this by being available to meet and support women in local settings and at our women’s centres, and by working in close partnership with other agencies.

Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaboration, innovation, and accountability. 

About the role:

Are you an excellent relationship builder who can work with women and a diverse range of delivery partners to ensure that she meets her potential and successfully progresses through and beyond her probation supervision? Can you meet a women wherever she is at in her journey and work with her to create an individualised support package that gives her the best chance of breaking the cycle of offending?

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for a feminist organisation who understand that supporting women in the criminal justice system requires a specialist and gendered approach? Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate, and take accountability? 

In your role as a Community Keyworker, you will be working with women involved in the Criminal Justice System; those on Probation in the Community and those women being released from Prison as part of their Post Sentence Supervision; providing some in-reach and ‘Through the Gate’ support. You will be working in a team of Community Keyworkers in your region. Each Keyworker will provide holistic one to one community support to women with a variety of needs.

About You:

To be successful as the Community Key Worker you will need the below experience and skills.

You will need to hold a UK driving licence with access to car that can be used for work purposes. A creative self-starter who will support the service and look for innovative solutions to support clients with complex needs. You are confident professional relationship builder with have good awareness of Safeguarding procedures. Strong Administration skills and understanding of compliant behaviours also, experience of supporting. With good knowledge of the criminal justice system and awareness of other support provisions within the Kent

How to apply:

Please submit your up-to-date CV with a supporting statement. Please note that only applications made via the job advert on the Advance careers page, and those that include a cover letter will be considered. 

• Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 5 May 2024@23:59
• Interviews are taking place on a rolling basis

*Advance reserves the right to close the advert early, or on the appointment of a candidate

What we can offer you - Employee Benefits: 

• A 35-hour working week
• An exceptional 30 days of paid holiday per year (pro rata for part time), PLUS public holidays on top (that's nearly 40 days paid holiday per year!) 

• Additional days off to celebrate International Women’s Day, and for religious observance and moving home
• Perkbox - an employee discount platform where you can receive free rewards as well as take advantage of savings on clothes, groceries, travel, leisure and more
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity/adoption provision
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee eye-care scheme
• Clinical supervision for front line staff and first line management roles
• Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 for each referral who passes probation
• Organisation wide away days
• Thorough induction and training
• Career development pathways 

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Under the Equality Act 2010, we are required to make any reasonable adjustments. If you have a disability as defined under this act and/or have special needs, please email  the Talent Acquisition Team via the Advance website and we will aim to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and actively seek to recruit people from groups underrepresented in our current team. We have policies and processes in place to ensure that all employees are offered an equal opportunity in recruitment and selection, promotion, training, pay and benefits.

Safeguarding

Advance is committed to safeguarding and creating a culture of zero-tolerance of harm and expects all staff, including volunteers to share this commitment. We believe all individuals have the right to live their life free from violence and abuse and the right to feel and be safe.  We have a suite of safeguarding policies, procedures and practice guidance, accessible to all staff, which promotes safeguarding and safer working practices across all our services and activities. When we recruit staff, we follow rigorous safer recruitment practices, this involves carrying out pre-employment checks including references, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, and identity checks.  We ensure all staff undertake mandatory safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities, to empower them to be competent and feel confident in recognising and responding appropriately to safeguarding issues and promote wellbeing.

I am delighted to be supporting a renowned national children's charity in their search for a Trusts Fundraising Officer.

As Trusts Fundraising Officer, you will maximise income from trusts by the creation of high-quality applications. You will gather project information, curate it, and write it up into informative, engaging, high quality applications, giving trusts the opportunity to fund the charity's work. You will communicate and build relationships with funders and provide high quality account management, maximising income generation and relationship longevity. You will also gather the necessary information to compile reports that give funders real insight into what they have achieved.

To be considered for this role, you will need:

• Previous experience working or volunteering for a charity.
• Experience in writing successful bids and securing income, ideally from trusts.
• The ability to take complex information and translate this into persuasive written communication which leads to action.
• Solid research skills, which can be applied to identification of suitable new prospects for our funding pipeline.

If this role sounds of interest to you and you want to have a chat and review the full job description, please do contact Dominic at Harris Hill on [email protected] or call him on 020 7820 7332.

Salary: £27,000 - £30,000
Permanent, Full-time
Location: Office based in Amersham with flexible hybrid working

The deadline is rolling so please send your CV to Dominic ASAP.

Harris Hill Charity Recruitment Specialists operates an equal opportunity policy and commits to treating all of our candidates and jobseekers fairly. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

ARMA (UK) is the professional association for research management in the UK. We currently have around 3,5000 individual members from 250 organisations, ranging from universities and research institutes to research funders and the National Health Service.

This role will be responsible for the effective delivery of ARMA’s scheduled and ad hoc training and development events (c25 per year) and our mentoring programme, working closely with our Qualifications and Member Engagement Officers, various working groups and our volunteer trainers to support them to deliver high quality training.

Community Fundraiser
Hours: Minimum 30 hours per week – up to 37 hours per week.
Contract: Permanent
Base: Osney, Oxford, Hybrid role (Travel Requirements across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) 
Salary: 
- 37 hours per week = £25,500 - £27,444 (dependent on skills, experience and knowledge)
- 30 hours per week = £20,675.68 - £22,251.89 (Salary dependent on skills, experience and knowledge) 

Who we are, and what we do

• We’re Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity, operating across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West
• We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets both support and respect

Why work for us?

• We offer a friendly working environment and are committed to staff wellbeing
• We are devoted to equity, diversity, inclusion, and equality, with staff working groups and support groups
• We are an Oxford Living Wage employer

Here is a taste of what we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance, 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, increasing after 5 years
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working including; hybrid working, part time, compressed hours
• Ensuring growth and development of our people along their career journey
• Free support package from Health Assured for you and your family
• Great discounts and cash back card schemes

What will you do?

• Provide excellent support to our community supporters (schools, community groups, societies etc).
• Manage fundraising activity from start to finish, delivering on time and within budget.
• Create compelling content to maximize fundraising.
• Meet income targets by engaging with diverse individuals and groups.

What’s essential?

• Familiarity with fundraising practices or ability to work with numerical data.
• Experience in fundraising or similar roles involving relationship building.
• Proven track record of meeting income targets.
• Flexibility to travel extensively throughout Oxfordshire and Berkshire for events.

Who you are 

Open - Are you open to help people realise their potential?
Together, partnership - Are you a team player?
Responsive - Are you a good listener?
Independent - Do you have the confidence to speak out fearlessly?
Unstoppable – Do you have a positive, never give up attitude?

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! 

Closing date: 09:00am on 30th April 2024
Shortlisting date: 30th April 2024
Interview date: 10th May 2024
Interview location: Online

We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Oxfordshire Mind is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We therefore require a Disclosure and Barring Service check, for all our roles. The level of which will vary depending on the nature of the role.

Interested?

For more information and to complete your application, please click the Apply button.

You will be taken to the next stage where you can find out more information, download the full job description and complete your application by following the instructions.

No agencies please.

We have a brand new homeworking role in our People and Culture team.  This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the role and make it your own.  You will be the  first point of contact in the team.  You will have experience of HR administration and continuously improving processes to ensure they are both efficient and effective.  An understanding of UK employment legislation is a must. You should have a demonstrable track record of successfully building and maintaining working relationships across an organisation. You should be adept in identifying pragmatic solutions considering the full circumstances of a situation.

We are a small yet busy team. The ability to work at pace whilst maintaining attention to detail is vital, as are good organisational and prioritisation skills

SCIE is a national charity with a clear vision of a society where care and support maximise people's choices. removes social inequality and enables people to live fulfilling, safe and happy lives.

To achieve this we research, evidence, share and support the implementation of best practice. We use this evidence and experience to shape policy and outcomes, and to raise awareness of the importance of social care and social work for creating a fair and equal society. Everything we do is informed by people with experience of care and support.

We are clear that to achieve our purpose we require a workforce of capable, valued and engaged employees.

At SCIE, we are driven by our values:

• Progressive – always learning and developing.
• Inclusive – working together for equality, diversity, and fairness.
• Credible – evidence-based, robust, and reliable.
• Transparent – open and honest.
• Committed – focused on making a difference to people’s lives.

Yeldall Manor is a recovery centre, supporting men with addiction problems to heal, transform and thrive. We are a healing community with a holistic approach and Christian foundation. We are situated in the countryside near Reading.

If you have catering skills, certification in food safety and hygiene (or willingness to gain this), and the ability to encourage, motivate and challenge, you could be the person we are looking for to join our friendly staff team. 

As a cook, alongside the existing post-holders, you would take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the kitchen, working together with our residents themselves to provide lunch (up to 50 people) and dinner (up to 25 people). We are looking for someone who can work approximately one in two weekends and occasional weekdays. No evenings.

This rewarding role includes:

· Ensuring that nutritious meals are provided, and that food hygiene and Health and Safety protocols are adhered to

· Supervising residents allocated to the kitchen, providing meaningful and positive work for them

· Supporting residents by interacting with them and encouraging them in their recovery and Christian faith

Yeldall Manor is a Christian organisation, and this role has an occupational requirement that the successful candidate be a committed and practising Christian (in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010). This position is subject to a satisfactory criminal records check or enhanced DBS check. If you are in recovery, a minimum of two years’ demonstrable clean time is required.

Prison Facilitator - Bank Staff (South Region)

Shannon Trust Prison Facilitator - Bank Staff (South Region)

Do you want to join an organisation committed to addressing illiteracy amongst people in prison?

Shannon Trust are delighted to be working with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) to provide peer-led literacy and numeracy programmes across a number of prisons. To ensure the continuation of our programmes during times of staff absence, we are now seeking to recruit a Prison Facilitator on a bank working basis to work across the South region. Working closely with prisons and their staff, people in prison, Shannon Trust volunteers and mentors, this post will support with the delivery and development of our literacy and numeracy programme in the South region, maximising opportunities for people in prison to learn to read.

Ideally you will have some experience of prison settings underpinned by the ability to build relationships quickly and personal qualities that include resilience, determination and a problem-solving approach. You will also have a willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice, to provide short or long term cover within the region including some overnight stays.

This role will be prison-based. This is a bank role and so the number of days to be worked will vary and are not guaranteed.

Employee benefits include paid expenses and travel, a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme. The biggest benefit though is our culture – our people really want to work for the organisation.

We welcome job applications from people with lived experience of the criminal justice system and do not routinely ask for details of any criminal convictions. These roles do require prison security clearance, so we will need to ask for details of any relevant criminal convictions before an offer of employment is finalised.

Interviews are planned for 15 & 16 May 2024 (online).

Salary: £116 per day

Hours: Various

Benefits: Standard Shannon Trust: Employee benefits include a company contribution to pension scheme of up to 5%, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, life insurance, paid volunteering days, discounts via Reward Gateway and an Employee Assistance Programme.

Closing date: 08-05-2024

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The Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (Rape Crisis South London) is looking for a committed, professional and skilled Helpline Support worker to provide high quality emotional support, information and signposting in our Support Line team.

The 24/7 Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Line is a partnership between Rape Crisis England and Wales, the Rape and Sexual Abuse support Centre (RASASC - Rape Crisis South London) and two other Rape Crisis Centres (ARCH Teesside and Lincolnshire Rape Crisis). The post-holder for this role is employed by RASASC (Rape Crisis South London).

The post-holder will provide emotional support, information and signposting to survivors of any form of sexual violence, of any gender, aged 16 and upwards, and their supporters via phone calls and chats. Helpline Support Workers also provide support to colleagues and volunteers as part of their daily duties. Helpline Support workers have experience of either providing emotional support on a telephone helpline or experience providing support to survivors of sexual violence. You will also need to have good knowledge and understanding of the impact of sexual violence. 

Brain Tumour Research is looking for an Office Administrator to help deliver a superior supporter journey, managing volunteers and fulfilment of fundraiser and supporter materials. To manage merchandise and stock to ensure timely and accurate recording of stock movements and sales. To answer the main telephone line in a sensitive and professional manner.

Position: Office Administrator
Location: Head Office, Milton Keynes
Salary: Circa £25,000 per annum
Hours: Full time, 35 hours pw
Benefits: Holiday entitlement, 25 days per annum, excluding UK Public Holidays, access to an Employee Assistance Programme and option to join our healthcare scheme, death in service policy, electric car and bike salary sacrifice scheme.

About the Role 
This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who wants to make a difference in one of the most innovative and exciting medical research fundraising charities in the UK.

As an Office Administrator, you will be a key part of the fulfilment process, using Shopify, aiding our fundraisers and supporters to achieve maximum income generation, answering calls and emails from our supporters and fundraisers, with a focus on the supporter journey by being sensitive and empathetic, while raising awareness.

About You 
If you would like to join an exciting, innovative, and ambitious charity, with a passion for finding a cure for brain tumours, then we would love to hear from you.

Do you have:

• Experience of working with members of the public and/or volunteers
• Experience working with Microsoft Office and a CRM database
• Ability to converse authentically and empathetically with members of the public who may going through or have just gone through a difficult experience
• Experience working in a stock room desirable but not essential

About Brain Tumour Research 
Brain Tumour Research is an exciting, innovative and ambitious charity. We are passionate about finding a cure for brain tumours through the establishment of dedicated Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence around the UK.

We are invested in our employees and are proud to be accredited by Investors in People.

Closing Date: 3rd May 2024

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Candidates may also have experience in, or be looking for a career in: Administration, Charity Administrator, Fundraising Administrator, Charity Assistant, Office Administrator, Administration Assistant, Office Junior, Stock Assistant

No agencies please.

Clinical Supervisor

Permanent

Part-time 17.25 hours scheduled over a 7 day period Sunday to Monday, including occasional Bank Holidays

Home Based

£27,846 (based on 17.25 hours per week)

About us

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

In this role, you will offer clinical supervision to the Macmillan Support Line teams including advisers, nurses, line managers, service knowledge specialists and other groups and individuals as needed. As part of their continuing professional development, you will enable colleagues to reflect on their practice in supporting people affected by cancer while maintaining their own wellbeing.

You will be part of a team of 3 part-time clinical supervisors and will be given opportunities to feedback on recurrent themes to the organisation. You will learn about organisational wellbeing and be a key part of a team capable of working in an emotionally challenging, fast paced, live contact centre environment.

You will be running regular small group supervision sessions (approximately 3 per day) for 1hr 15’ each, managing a caseload of approximately 25 groups monthly. You will also offer individual supervision where needed.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• You must hold one of the following qualifications: Clinical Supervision Level 6 or above; accredited Counsellor or Psychotherapist (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, UK Council for Psychotherapy, Health Professionals Council)
• Your experience of delivering both 1-1 and group supervision virtually will be essential
• Experience of delivering supervision to colleagues who provide a live, frontline, fast paced health related service is desirable

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Sunday 28th April 2024

First interview dates: May 2024

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Development / Fundraising Assistant
Hours: Minimum 30 hours per week, with flexibility to increase to 37 hours per week. (Some evening and weekend work required in line with fundraising events).
Salary: £24,031 - £25,863 per annum FTE (£19,484.59 - £20,970 pro rata for 30 hours per week) dependant on skills, experience and knowledge
Contract: Permanent
Base: Osney Mead, Oxford, Frequent travel within Oxfordshire and Berkshire required.

Who we are, and what we do

• We’re Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity, operating across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West
• We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets both support and respect

Why work for us?

• We offer a friendly working environment and are committed to staff wellbeing
• We are devoted to equity, diversity, inclusion, and equality, with staff working groups and support groups
• We are an Oxford Living Wage employer

Here is a taste of what we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance, 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, increasing after 5 years
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working including; hybrid working, part time, compressed hours
• Ensuring growth and development of our people along their career journey
• Free support package from Health Assured for you and your family
• Great discounts and cash back card schemes

What will you do?

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to learn and grow within the Fundraising sector.

This is an integral part of the development team, providing essential support across various fundraising initiatives and providing excellent supporter stewardship (nurturing our supporters/fundraisers on their journey with us). This is to maximise income and encourage supporters to remain engaged with our charity.

You will represent the charity at various events, meetings and networking opportunities to build opportunities with supporters to help them reach their fundraising potential!

What’s essential?

• Strong administration skills to maintain the Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) and previous experience of CRM systems.
• Excellent customer service and relationship/interpersonal skills.
• Proactive and solutions focused approach to work.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting Fundraisers throughout their journey with us (stewardship) such as but not limited to; send materials to fundraisers such as t-shirts, and certificates, making calls/thank you calls, sending letters to event supporters.
• Attending events and assisting with activities on the day.
• Responding to supporters’ queries and requests, providing email cover across multiple inboxes.
• Help support content for communications/marketing.
• Help support the team identify fundraising opportunities.
• Maintain, develop and update the Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) system and in turn become the team's champion/subject expert.

Who you are
Open - Are you open to help people realise their potential?
Together, partnership - Are you a team player?
Responsive - Are you a good listener?
Independent - Do you have the confidence to speak out fearlessly?
Unstoppable – Do you have a positive, never give up attitude?

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

Closing date: This post will close as soon as a sufficient number of applicants have been received.
Shortlisting date: TBC
Interview date: TBC
Interview location: TBC

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Oxfordshire Mind is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We therefore require a Disclosure and Barring Service check, for all our roles. The level of which will vary depending on the nature of the role.

No agencies please.

Role Summary

You will work closely with The Governance and Team Lead to ensure smooth and effective running of our finance and HR processes. You will work with the wider team supporting their effective delivery of training and projects as well as provide day to day support. This is a mixed and self-directed role with opportunity to contribute to a range of work and projects. We require some core office hours, by agreement and support team members to work flexibly to accommodate good work/life balance.

Role Description

HR

• Support management of team Compliance and Training
• Support the organisation to be legally compliant
• Support the organisation to reflect its values in HR process

Finance

• Issue invoices and monitor and pursue unpaid invoices
• Manage and administer monthly procedures linked to payroll
• Manage and monitor monetary transactions
• Monitor expenditure against budgets
• Monitor and support wellbeing fund spend
• Monitor associate invoices and provide support as needed

General

• Be a point of contact and support team members
• Support to project team including monitoring emails and responding to enquiries
• Support online events and manage bookings
• Provide basic IT support to team members
• Format documents in line with the company brand guidelines
• Support team members to produce reports and presentations
• Work with our team and partners to enable Neurodiverse Connection to run efficiently in line with the overall company aims

Personal Specification can be found in the Application Pack

About Neurodiverse Connection

Neurodiverse Connection is a Neurodivergent led Community Interest Company.

Our mission is to:

• Listen to and amplify neurodivergent views and voices.
• Give additional consideration to intersectionality and how we can support the amplification of views and voices that are often unseen and unheard.
• Support people from different neurologies to understand each other, facilitating solutions to the double empathy problem.
• Lead on changing understanding of sensory and social processing differences, particularly in relation to the built environment.
• Challenge the common misunderstandings and misconceptions of autism and support an improved understanding of neurodiversity within health and social care.
• Promote an improved understanding of neurodivergent culture and communication.
• Support neurodivergent people to have equal opportunities in life.
• Support neurodivergent people to have equal opportunities and outcomes in health.
• Support neurodivergent employment, including in leadership positions and facilitating change for the neurodivergent community.

Our commitment to you

It’s part of our mission to be a great place to work and to demonstrate how to work in neurodivergent affirming ways. We believe this is beneficial to everyone, regardless of neurology.

We aim to:

• Offer flexibility in delivery hours, within agreed parameters.
• Work to make Neurodiverse Connection an organisation that you enjoy being part of, that supports you in your role, that recognises your contribution and that delivers great outcomes for the neurodivergent people we work to support.
• Involve you in shaping and directing the organisation.
• Listen when we don’t get it right, and welcome constructive feedback.
• Involve team members in development opportunities and spending the social value we’ve accumulated together.
• 35 hour full time working week.
• 4% work place pension contribution.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata.
•  Access to a wellbeing fund.

Recruitment details

Recruitment Timeline

• Deadline for applications : Tuesday 7th May 9am (unfortuantely we cannot accept any applications past this deadline)
• Applicants notified if shortlisted : Thursday 9th May  
• Dates of interviews : Thursday 16th May
• Interviewees notified if they have been appointed : no later than Friday 24th May

How to apply

The application process is two stages.

Stage 1: download and complete the application form.

• You will be asked to enter some of your contact details and details of previous work.
• You will then be asked to answer 3 questions.
• You will also be asked to complete an optional equality and diversity form.

Stage 2: If you are shortlisted you will be invited to attend an online interview. You will be sent the interview questions 5 days ahead of the interview date.

As part of the interview, you will be asked to complete two tasks that are relevant to the role. One task is responding to email enquiries, and one task is to review and update a finance spreadsheet.

To apply for the role download the application form and return it to recruitment@ndconnection by Tuesday 7th May 9am.

Please note we do not accept CVs.

Further details can be found on our website