The Grants Executive will be a key role within the grants team, supporting the Head of Grants and Director of Grants and Investment in the delivery of innovative and impactful grant-making.

You will lead on the delivery of grant assessment and management across key programmes, making recommendations on complex and strategically important requests for funding, and work closely with the Impact and Evidence team to ensure successful applicants are supported to deliver high quality, impactful projects that will build the evidence base of “What Works” to support the most disadvantaged young people into good jobs.

Please note we are also recruiting for a Grants Officer; please visit our website for more details. 

Leeds Community Foundation and GiveBradford are looking for an effective communicator with a proven track record in securing gifts from individuals or companies to join our Development Team.  This is a great opportunity for a committed, motivated person who will enjoy working as part of a busy and friendly team to attract, steward and encourage philanthropy within the cities of Leeds and Bradford.

The successful candidate will have experience of donor relations and the ability to build warm, professional relationships with a wide range of people, including High Net Worth Individuals and corporate responsibility specialists.

For further information and to apply for the position, please visit our website.

(Please note: our office is in Leeds city centre but the majority of our staff are currently working from home, in line with government guidance on Covid-19.  We do envisage a return to working in the office as those guidelines change).

Based in an inner city multi-racial area of Leeds, Chapeltown Citizens Advice is an independent charity with 19 paid staff and 45 volunteers that provides a comprehensive advice service from its main office and
outreaches.

The role

We are looking for 1 fte adviser to join the Help to Claim Team. Citizens Advice is responsible for the delivery of a service called “Help to Claim”, which offers end-to-end support to help people make a new Universal Credit claim and be ready for when their first payment arrives. Delivery of the service is multi channel and includes face to face, telephone and webchat.

Presently delivery is restricted to telephone and webchat advice only due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to providing practical support, we are looking for an adviser with an excellent knowledge of the welfare benefits system. You will determine eligibility for Universal Credit, carry out benefit checks, and research and explore options and implications so that clients can make informed decisions prior to claiming any new benefit.

You’ll have the ability to interview clients using sensitive listening and questioning skills to get to the root of the issues, whilst maintaining structure and control of meetings. You will be responsible for maintaining detailed case records that meet quality standards and funder requirements. You will require good IT skills in order to support clients to complete new Universal Credit claims where appropriate. With a background in advice work, you will be able to assess client needs, identify related issues and offer support to access other services.

We also require that you have a commitment to the aims and principles of the Citizens Advice Service and that you ensure the work reflects and supports the Citizens Advice service's equality and diversity strategy. You will work from Chapeltown Citizens Advice and outreach venues, contributing to both the Help to Claim service and our wider service ambitions. We will accept applications from people willing to work between 3 and 5 days per week.

36.25 hours per week
Fixed-term contract to 31st March 2021

CLOSING DATE: 4pm 10th November 2020

PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL ONLY BE IN CONTACT WITH CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW

Chief Executive – Overgate Hospice

Hours: Full time

Salary:                         £73,000 - £83,000

Accountable to: Board of Trustees

Job Summary

As Chief Executive you will provide strong and inspirational leadership to develop and deliver our strategic vision; navigate us through a rapidly changing environment and lead our ambitious and exciting plans to build a new Inpatient Unit and redevelop our Day Hospice facilities.

The post holder working with the Board of Trustees will lead the Hospice whilst building and maintaining excellent working relationships with key stakeholders and local decision makers, whilst representing and promoting Overgate in a professional and positive manner.

The post holder will:

• Be an inspirational leader, creating an environment and culture where best practice, governance, relationships and professional development of staff and volunteers flourish
• Be accountable to the Board of Trustees for the overall leadership, management, performance, governance and development of Overgate Hospice and Overgate Hospice Support Company (OHS)
• Build alliances and partnerships with other organisations and act as an ambassador for the Hospice 
• Work with the Board to develop and implement the strategic plan, ensuring alignment with Hospice’s short-term and long-term objectives
• Lead all operational and business activities to ensure effective, efficient and safe running of Hospice, meeting all clinical, statutory, financial, regulatory and legal requirements
• Work collaboratively with the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership Team to continuously improve palliative care services for patients and their families, responding to changing community needs and patient requirements
• Lead the Capital Appeal and redevelopment of the Overgate site
• Develop and sustain income streams and financial controls which provide ongoing financial security of the Hospice       

Duties and Responsibilities of the Post:

Strategic

• Provide visionary leadership of the hospice and OHS and ensure Overgate achieves its mission, values and charitable objects
• Develop the strategic direction of the hospice, in collaboration with the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership Team
• Build effective strategic partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders locally to improve end of life care in Calderdale and also regionally and nationally.
• Keep abreast of best practice in the hospice movement, advising the Board of Trustees of risks and opportunities to respond to national and local policy documents  and developments that impact on the Hospice and patients with life limiting conditions
• Lead the delivery of short-term and long-term plans including the redevelopment of the hospice site within agreed budgets
• Oversee the development and delivery of strategic plans to achieve targets for raising funds to meet running costs, support service development and achieve the capital appeal targets
• Seek external funding opportunities within the public, private and charitable sectors
• Maintain a strong governance framework for the Hospice to meet external legal, regulatory and clinical requirements, including Charity Commission Guidance, the Charity Governance Code and the Care Quality Commission Standards
• Develop a culture and create an environment where people feel motivated and which promotes learning and development of staff and volunteers
• Lead and manage change effectively as required to enhance specialist services and increase patient access within available resource
• Represent the hospice effectively, building trust with key stakeholders and liaising with the media, corporate and individual supporters

Operational

• Lead and motivate the workforce to develop a high performing Senior Leadership Team and advance employee engagement

• Support the Registered Manager of the Hospice in meeting the requirements of the role, including meeting Care Quality Commission standards and other clinical and legal requirements.

• Oversee the fiscal management of the Hospice, including budgeting, reporting and auditing and agree monitoring arrangements with the Board of Trustees 

• Ensure that Overgate and OHS raise the funds needed to maintain the viability of the hospice and meet capital appeal targets.

• Ensure that the Hospice and OHS have effective risk management and audit systems in place

• Ensure the hospice provides high quality, effective and efficient services, meeting the standards required of regulatory bodies

• Maintain, develop and implement clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures to deliver safe, high quality services

• Seek ongoing improvements in services to meet the changing needs of the diverse Calderdale community, regularly reviewing staffing structures to ensure they support service development

• Create a culture that supports the retention and recruitment of high calibre, motivated staff and volunteers

• Ensure effective performance review and appraisal systems are in place and oversee the organisational development plan, providing staff with ongoing learning and development enabling them to deliver their contributions to Hospice’s objectives

• Ensure that incidents and complaints are fully investigated and that learning from them is implemented effectively

Key Working Relationships 

Chair and Trustees

Senior Leadership Team

All other staff and volunteers

Key Local Partners

Care Quality Commission

Peers at regional, national Hospices and other charities

Peers in local and regional foundation trusts and clinical commissioning groups

Professional and clinical networks/senates

Supporters and local businesses

Other Responsibilities

Maintain strict confidentiality in all matters relating to the Hospice, its business, patients, staff and others

Any other activity as requested by the Board of Trustees.

This job description is an outline of responsibilities and will be subject to review with the post holder in light of the changing needs of the post and Hospice

Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk

All Hospice staff are required to act in a way that at all times safeguards the health and well-being of children and adults at risk. Familiarisation with, and adherence to, the Hospice safeguarding policies is an essential requirement, as is participation in related mandatory/statutory training.

Valuing Diversity and Equality

All staff should carry out their duties in accordance with the principles of valuing diversity and equity of provision. It is the responsibility of all staff to support the Hospice vision by promoting a positive attitude to diversity and equality of opportunity, to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment and to manage, support or comply through the implementation of the Hospice’s Equal Opportunities Policy.

About the Role

You will work directly with children and young people providing advocacy and other children’s rights support which will empower and support them to navigate the care system. This direct work will include issues based advocacy support for children in need, looked after children and care leavers, as well as children subject to the Child Protection process.

You will be a capable ambassador for Coram Voice with the ability to engage effectively with professionals, foster carers, commissioners, other stakeholders and most importantly children and young people.

Coram Voice particularly welcomes applications from care leavers or individuals with experience of being ‘looked after’ by the state. We are also actively encouraging applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and young people we help.

If you have the necessary experience and skills and a commitment to promoting the rights of young people, we would like to hear from you.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to our website.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

Closing Date: 9am, 30th October 2020

Interview Date: 10th November 2020

All posts are subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and successful candidates will not be able to work unsupervised with children or young people until the completion of this process. Coram Voice - working towards quality through equality and the development of a diverse workforce.

We ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this position. We have chosen to recruit directly as this helps us to minimise our recruitment costs, ensuring that valuable funds aren't diverted from the children and young people we help.

Registered Charity Number 1046207

Fixed Term Contract
Volunteer Manager – Grandmentors Bradford
Ref: V288
Start date: As soon as possible
End date: 30 September 2021
Hours/Days per week: 35/5
Salary: 6/26 - £22,668
Location: Flexible working- Primarily at home with some working from our local partner offices as required.  
Closing date: 30 October 2020 – 5pm
Interview date and Location: TBC

Overview

At Volunteering Matters we use volunteering’s unique power to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.

We bring people together to resolve some of society’s most complex issues.  From social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence and opportunity; to ensuring young people can become change makers in their community, the impact that we make is great.  And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.

People-led and impact driven, we’re a national charity that is deeply embedded in local areas across the UK.  We operate in five regions: London and the South East; Wales and the West of England; East of England; the Midlands and North West England; and Scotland and North East England.  We also have an Employee Volunteering Team with over 25 years’ experience, acting as a broker to provide tailor-made solutions to employers. We turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.

Volunteering Matters is looking for an experienced and dynamic Volunteer Manager to join our Central England and South Yorkshire Delivery Team. We are looking for someone who can work flexibility and demonstrate an understanding and commitment to our organisational values.

To apply please visit our website. 

Your supporting statement is of equal importance to us as your CV and is a key part of our shortlisting process. It is an opportunity for you to outline your experience and credentials directly to the details of the post.

Volunteering Matters is committed to the provision of equal opportunities in employment and accordingly wishes to ensure that no job applicant is treated less favourably on unjustifiable grounds. To assist in the monitoring of our performance in relation to equal opportunities you are requested to complete the enclosed monitoring form. The questionnaire is for statistical purposes only. Upon receipt it will be separated from your CV and cover letter and will not form part of the selection process.

Please note: Due to the volume of applications we receive if we have not contacted you by the interview date it means that on this occasion, we are unable to take your application further.

GDPR Statement

If you apply for a role with us, we will retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months.  We will not use your personal data for any other purpose or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information or ask us to delete it from our records.

Contract: Permanent, Part-Time (25 hours per week)

The Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) provides foster carers and adopters the opportunity to have the proposed decision of their agency reviewed by an Independent Panel before the final decision is made.

About the role

As Contract Manager you will be responsible for the delivery of this important service. It will be your task to manage the process of the IRM, systems and the staff to ensure smooth efficient service is provided to both applicants and agencies.

The Contract Manager can, if required, have a flexible working arrangement agreed by their CCLC manager being primarily home based but with agreed days to be spent in the office when it reopens.

To apply, please click on the 'apply now' button to be redirected to the application form.

Please note CVs will not be accepted as we only accept completed application forms.

Closing date for applications: 23:59, Saturday 31st October 2020

Interviews: To be confirmed

Coram Children’s Legal Centre is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered charity no. 281222.

Bank Support Worker

Are you currently looking for a job that offers flexibility in between personal commitments or during educational study? Are you interested in gaining valuable workplace experience and making a real difference in young people’s lives? Maybe a role as a Bank Support Worker is the next step for you?

Our client is currently looking for kind, caring and friendly people to join our professional team as a Bank Support Worker. Experience is not essential and full training will be provided but understanding the issues young people face in their daily life will really help to make a difference.

You will join their Bank Team on a “Zero Hours Contract” supporting their Residential Home in Liversedge working flexible shifts that fit around your personal life.

Company Benefits

• Competitive pay (£9.54 p/h)
• 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Excellent Learning and Development opportunities (NVQ Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care)
• Enhanced company pension
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Paid Induction (Running over 7 days)
• Free on-site parking
• Paid Enhanced 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)

Your role as a Bank Support Worker

• To carry out direct and indirect care of young people with complex mental health needs
• To work in a team, giving the highest standard of care possible to the young people.
• To closely follow individual care plans and support young people with education, shopping, and social and leisure activities.
• To carry out multiple interventions involving the delivery of care to young people
• To promote independence amongst the young people
• To provide support, advice and information to the young people, parents and other carers
• To carry out further duties as per our attached document (Writing reports, general office admin etc)

Requirements of a Bank Support Worker

• Flexibility - Your role will involve working shifts including sleep ins/weekends/Bank Holidays
• Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen to others
• Good written skills and the ability to write basic reports and record information accurately
• IT Literate (Able to write emails and use Microsoft Office)
• An understanding of the issues around confidentiality
• An understanding of safeguarding
• Professional working boundaries between staff and service users
• Ability to remain calm in emergencies, supporting others during difficult situations

Desirable Criteria

• Full UK Driving Licence
• NVQ Level 2 qualification or equivalent in Care
• Previous experience of working with young people who have mental health needs

If you are interested in joining an enthusiastic, motivated business who thrive in developing and rebuilding young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please submit your application by Thursday 12th November.

Please note that interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams as a video interview.

Our client operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

They are an equal opportunities employer who values 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.

We're proud to be heading up the search party for one of the UK's leading children's charities who are looking for a Philanthropy Manager covering Yorkshire or the East Midlands patch. This is a really exciting role within a successful, growing philanthropy team and a brilliant opportunity to gain national charity experience working to support some of the region's most vulnerable children.

Home-based in either Yorkshire or the East Midlands with tons of flexibility, it's a grown-up culture open to suggested working patterns with a charity that understands the importance of life and family-friendly working. Condensed hours, a 9-day fortnight and 4 days per week are all possible.

You'll be working with high net worth individuals to secure major gifts across a wide ranging portfolio. Working closely with existing major donors and colleagues across corporate and community fundraising teams, there is plenty of opportunity to open up this network and make new connections, as well as using your creative business development head to find untrodden paths. This fantastic organisation is keen to build its major donor fundraising in these regions and so this really is a rare opportunity to join a successful team of high value donor fundraisers, responsible for raising the millions of pounds needed to continue the much needed work this charity does.

Ideally, we're looking for a major gifts expert, although this role could work equally well with a talented corporate fundraiser/business developer or a candidate from the commercial sector with experience of high-net worth individuals. You're used to operating at six-figure level with senior stakeholders and have the gravitas to steward key donors strategically.

Whatever your background, you're highly motivated and target driven with exceptional stewardship and relationship management skills who is comfortable in making significant asks. This isn't the job for a maverick: you'll need to be a collaborative team player who understands that a sharing and supportive culture yields better results and that, sometimes, a colleague will be better placed to manage a relationship than you.

If this is you, please get in touch with Ellen at Charity People who can fill you in on the role in more detail.

Closing date: 9am on 1st November

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.

Latch is looking for an experienced fundraiser who is passionate about our work to help us to secure financial and in-kind support from a variety of funders including corporate partners, charitable trusts, trade bodies and small and medium-sized enterprises. This is a new role at Latch and an exciting opportunity to help us to continue to grow and provide innovative and high quality services to our tenants.

Latch is a unique charitable organisation that purchases and refurbishes derelict and run-down houses in Leeds. When they’re fully modernised and furnished, our properties provide supported housing for people who are homeless or in housing need and are ready to make a positive change in their lives. We also provide training opportunities for long-term unemployed people to gain experience and skills on our property refurbishment projects.

Temporary for 6 months, extension possible subject to funding. 

Interviews to be held 11 November

Location: This role can be based in either our Birmingham or Leeds hub. Please specify your preferred office location when applying

Reporting to: Director of Strategy and Innovation

The Youth Futures Foundation is a new, independent, not for profit organisation set up to tackle youth unemployment with a £90million endowment from the Reclaim Fund. We are looking for bold and impactful ways to help young people find and keep good jobs. There are over 750,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK. Young people are twice as likely to be unemployed than older adults in the labour market and BAME and disadvantaged young people disproportionately bear the brunt of it.

We are building an ‘empowerment foundation’ to identify practical solutions that work in a complex world yet are simple and cost effective enough to roll out across multiple locations, to reach as many young people as possible. To do this, we are now building our own inspiring team to help us achieve our vision.

As our Head of Marketing and Communications working with the Director of Strategy & Innovation you will create and deliver the organisation’s overall marketing and communications strategy to support YFF grow its influence and impact, with young people always front and centre. You will need to be creative, innovative and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You will bring a vision for building a movement of people and organisations committed to improving employment prospects for young people that spans our online presence, press activity, real and virtual events. You will think ‘digital first’ and know how to create a highly professional, user centric online presence that makes complex ideas appear simple through clarity of thought, harnessing animation, film and podcasts, coupled with the intelligent creation of bespoke online toolkits. You will have the freedom and budget to engage external partners to make this happen.

We need your creative flair to tell our story and motivate others to join our cause. You will do this through articulating and promoting the Youth Futures vision and strategy, highlighting and linking to the great work our many and varied partners are doing in this field, sharing the stories of young people looking for work, and developing user friendly toolkits to make information about ‘what works’ accessible and useful for young people, practitioners, employers and enablers (ie Government, funders, commissioners).

We are especially interested in hearing from individuals who are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background, and those who have lived experience that reflects the lives of the young people we are seeking to support. Whatever your background, if you have a personal mission that aligns with ours, and the ability to engage equally well with young people sat on the floor of a community centre as you do with business and government leaders in imposing board rooms, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

The closing date is 11.59pm 4th November 2020.

Touchstone (registered charity No. 1012053) is a leading voluntary sector agency providing high quality services to improve the health and wellbeing of local people

Business Development Director
NJC Scale Points 41 – 46, starting at £44,863 - £49,864 pa
37 hours per week

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire.  Our passion is people and we aim to deliver our vision of inspiring communities, transforming lives through the excellent teams of people we recruit and nurture.  Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, developed to their potential and trusted to lead.

Touchstone is now seeking an experienced and motivated Business Development Director, to join its Senior Management Team.  You will be required to provide strategic and ethical leadership for business development across Touchstone, to ensure long term sustainability of the organisation and our work in the region’s most deprived communities. You will have:-

• Leadership, strategic and operational management experience.
• Excellent negotiating, analytical and organisational skills.
• Experience of working with and reporting at Board level.
• Excellent business development and bid writing skills including financial modelling.
• Outstanding relationship building ability and an understanding of the power of partnerships.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Closing date: 2nd November 2020
Interviews will be held on: 12th November 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website to download the application pack. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.

Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.

No agencies please.

The Marketing & Communications Executive will work in the communications team to establish Youth Futures Foundation’s reputation as a centre of excellence in the field, with young people always front and centre.

• You will have day to day responsibility for marketing and communications activities including managing digital media; maintaining and updating the website; drafting content including press releases, newsletters, articles, writing up case-studies; implementing PR and media campaigns including pitching to journalists; producing monthly reports on web and social metrics (user traffic, online mentions, social media engagement) and identifying ways to improve engagement; fielding media inquiries; creating media lists from the database; helping to create print and digital marketing collateral; supporting events
• Ensuring coherent branding across the website, social media and printed material
• Contribute to the output of the team by identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness, seizing opportunities, anticipating risks and committed to innovation and improvement.

Department: Business Development

Interview date: Week commencing 9th of November

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Proposal Writer to join our Bid Development Team. 

The new role is an excellent opportunity to develop bid-production skills and gain a strong understanding of the public sector commissioning agenda.

The Bid Development Team bid team manages all tender-proposals for our national office, and supports our network of Local Citizens Advice offices to win contracts across England and Wales.

In this role you will gain a solid foundation in proposal development within a professional proposal management environment.  On successful completion of our in house training scheme, you would be eligible to apply to join the Association of Bid and Proposal Management Professionals (APMP).

This role is ideal for individuals with no bid experience, individuals with experience of bids, Bid Administrators, Bid Coordinators and aspiring Bid Managers. 

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early. 

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 5 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Liverpool, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.