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Support Dog is a unique and innovative national charity that has been transforming the lives of families affected by autism, epilepsy and disability for 30 years.
Support Dogs trains and provides specialist assistance dog to give 100% reliable advance warning of epileptic seizures; to help children with autism to stay safe and better engage with the world around them. Our disability assistance dogs bring independence and a better quality of life for those with physical disabilities including MS, Cerebral Palsy and Fibromyalgia.
Founded and entirely based in Sheffield our charity operates across the UK, growing significantly over recent years. The demand for our work is overwhelming, with requests for support increasing ten-fold over the past few years. Support Dogs provides all of its services free of charge and relies entirely on voluntary donations for funding.
Funding from trusts and charitable foundations is vital to our charities ability to provide its vital, life saving work. Support Dogs is going through a period of growth and is looking for an experienced fundraiser to provide support to help us to reach further and maximise opportunities as our existing post holder takes maternity leave.
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About us
REMAP is a unique national charity. It brings together two groups of people: volunteers skilled at making things and disabled people who need specialist equipment. Each year, around 3,000 pieces of custom-made equipment help transform the lives of disabled people.
REMAP’s army of ingenious inventors designs and makes equipment for young and old alike and then provides it free of charge. The aim is always to help people achieve quality of life, filling the gap where no suitable equipment is available commercially.
With an exciting new strategy that will continue to place the client at the heart of our work, we seek an experienced charity sector Operations Manager to help us deliver on our mission and vision.
REMAP is an organisation that encourages its team members to contribute their thoughts and ideas actively and work together to achieve its aims and ambitions. You will be given the space to work autonomously but with the support of your colleagues and line manager when you need us. You can work to your strengths and share your successes and learning with the broader team, who will, in turn, look to share their experiences and learning.
The Role
The Operations Manager's role is critical to the charity's long-term sustainability and is pivotal in ensuring that we remain relevant and necessary.
This is an internally focused role in our service delivery, covering clients' and volunteers' journeys. You will be part of the management team, ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of our central team's support to our network of branches.
We seek someone passionate about providing a quality service to everyone and who is not afraid to drive change and improvement. Experience in being part of a team delivering a change programme that involves volunteers is essential. You must demonstrate that you are a resilient, strong team player with an eye for detail and excellent people skills. You will thrive in a busy environment and have a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
As a small charity, the role will require balancing practical tasks with strategic planning and management. Building on what has already been done, you will work directly with the CEO and the Strategic Programme & Change Manager to help develop REMAP's operational structure and support its day-to-day operations.
About You
We want you to bring relevant experience, passion, dedication, creativity, and flair to our work.
To be considered for this role, you will have demonstrable experience in a similar position and be comfortable working with a diverse range of volunteers/people. As a self-starter, you can work at pace and quickly assess and deliver to changing priorities in a busy remote team. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to coordinate multiple tasks/activities and have the flexibility to respond to changing demands.
You will be proactive, enthusiastic, and excited about joining an organisation with ambitious plans to future-proof its services and reach more disabled people. Experience working in a remote environment is highly desirable.
Terms & Conditions
Place of work: Fully remote, with occasional 2/3 nights away for year-round events.
Working Hours: 37 hrs—a minimum of core hours from 10 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday must be met.
Salary: £35,000 – 40,000, dependent on experience
Holiday entitlement: Begins at 25 days per annum, in addition to public holidays.
To apply, please send your CV and a separate cover letter of no more than two A4 sides, setting out how you meet the person's specifications.
We are a Disabled Confident employee.
Please attach a personal statement ( no more than 2 pages long) outlining how you meet the Job Description and Person Specification.
Candidates who fail to follow the instructions will automatically be screened out of the selection process.
REMAP exists to improve the quality of life for people who experience short or long-term disability through infirmity, illness or ageing.
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Business Analyst
Remote/home working with occasional travel
£45,000 - £49,000 pa plus excellent benefits
35 hours per week
Fixed term contract for 12 months
As Business Analyst, you’ll be vital to analysing and understanding business problems and opportunities from across the charity. You will be helping to understand user and business needs, break those needs out into constituent parts, analyse multiple solutions, and support the communication and delivery of solutions to meet the user needs.
Analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills are core to this role. You will work iteratively in cross-functional teams made up of people from across the charity to bring impactful and meaningful work to life.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll be able to:
- Lead and manage investigations into business processes, functions, information flows, data structures and software development processes, using various methodical and consistent techniques.
- Deliver at pace using agile methodologies and principles.
- Define improvements to business processes, while evaluating potential solutions based on the impacts across the organisation.
- Lead, understand and communicate the big picture while working to assure the overall goal is maintained in creation of product backlogs, in addition to working at a detailed level during sprints and iterations.
- Elicit requirements using appropriate techniques considering the nature of change and established practices.
- Lead in providing solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation, and communication.
- Define scope whilst shaping and challenging business priorities and value through collaboration.
- Assist decision makers in gathering information to make informed decisions.
An initial activity will involve working with stakeholders to understand the on-going requirements to improve how we use our CRM (Dynamics). You will:
- Liaise with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for the continuing improvement of our CRM.
- Design and document processes and workflows within the CRM and other products/services.
- The support for stakeholders in using the CRM whilst distilling relevant information to our data team.
You should have demonstrable experience of business and systems analysis working including identification of business benefits, deconstructing user needs, business process modelling, requirements capture, prioritisation, facilitation, challenging business perspectives, sharing best practices and improving team processes and delivery and co-ordinating and leading other teams.
We are RNID. Together we’ll make life more inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus.
Our charity has been through a complete transformation, while building on the best of our past. We’ve returned to our former, much-loved name, become wholly remote working, and established a new strategy, focused on reaching the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
We are creating a radically different culture which is externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated. Our values are at the heart of what we do.
We strive to be and continue to be connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose.
We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter as part of the application process, highlighting their relevant experience, skills, and enthusiasm for the role.
Closing date: open-ended.
I am excited to be working with an amazing London based disability charity in search of a Project Accountant on a 6-month FTC. You will be responsible for assisting the Financial Controller with the management and administration of the organisation’s finances.
You will manage a number of business-related and operational systems, processes, procedures and required controls across the organisations group of charities in the delivery of the charity’s services. You will play a key role in the Finance team and will work closely with departmental budget holders and other stakeholders in the organisation, performing a variety of finance tasks from bank reconciliations through to assisting with month end and year end processes and annual audits.
Main duties:
• To assist in the production of the monthly management accounts for the group.
• To process repayments, accruals, intercompany and other relevant month end journals.
• To reconcile Donation income
• To maintain the fixed assets register.
• To prepare Foundation bank reconciliation.
• To assist with the preparation of the annual accounts and liaising with auditors.
• To support the annual budgets cycle in liaison with managers and other budget holders..
• To assist with cash flow forecasting and monitoring.
• To assist with processing & reconciliation of online book sales and VAT returns for the group.
• To manage the organisation mobile phones contract.
• To assist with preparation of accounting records and supporting schedules for audit.
• To manage the Sales Ledgers and credit control function.
• To manage the Purchase Ledger.
• To provide financial information and advice to all staff.
If you have the above skills and experience and are immediately available, please apply online today, I would love to have a conversation with you!
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Are you passionate about ensuring quality care for individuals with acquired brain injuries (ABI)? Do you thrive in collaborative environments where your expertise makes a tangible impact? Join us as a Lead Assessor in our esteemed Headway Approved Provider (AP) scheme!
About us:
At Headway - the brain injury association, we're dedicated to empowering individuals affected by ABI to lead fulfilling lives. Our AP scheme ensures that service providers meet rigorous standards of care, enabling those with ABI to receive the support they need to thrive.
Role overview:
As a Lead Assessor, you'll play a pivotal role in upholding the integrity of our AP scheme. Your primary responsibility will be to conduct comprehensive assessment visits to units undergoing evaluation within the scheme. Working hand in hand with service user perspective assessors, you'll monitor all Headway AP core domains during onsite visits.
Key responsibilities:
- Review relevant documentation ahead of onsite visits.
- Collaborate with service user perspective assessors during visits, focusing on core domain monitoring.
- Facilitate post-visit debriefing meetings with assessors to ensure thorough discussion and alignment.
- Maintain open communication channels with the AP Manager to address any assessment-related queries or challenges.
- Prepare detailed assessment reports in collaboration with assessors, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
- Deliver finalised reports to the AP Manager and communicate outcomes to units undergoing assessment.
Flexibility and expectations:
This role offers flexibility, with the expectation of completing a minimum of 4 assessments within a year. This allows you to balance your professional commitments while making a meaningful impact within our AP scheme.
Hourly rate and expenses:
The hourly rate for this role is £20.00, covering administrative tasks pre and post-visit, visit duration, and travel time. Additionally, travel expenses will be covered.
Candidate profile:
- Hold a professional qualification (e.g., OT, SaLT, Nursing, Physio) with demonstrated experience in ABI.
- Exhibit unwavering objectivity and impartiality during assessments.
- Uphold strict confidentiality standards in handling sensitive information.
- Possess a solid understanding of key legislation and frameworks pertinent to ABI care provision.
- Able to review and analyse evidence thoroughly.
- Skilled in engaging with staff, service users, and families.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to travel independently to assessment visits.
Join our team:
If you're ready to leverage your expertise to ensure the highest standards of care for individuals with ABI and make a meaningful difference in their lives, we invite you to apply!
Become a Lead Assessor and play a vital role in advancing our mission to champion excellence in ABI care provision.
Areas:
We are currently looking to recruit in the following areas:
- East
- North East
- North West
- South East
- Wales
- Midlands
- Yorkshire
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We are looking for a dynamic and driven Business Development Manager who can spearhead our fundraising initiatives, lead the development of new projects and support organisational change to facilitate the growth of our services.
You will be part of the Senior Leadership Team, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organisation to maximise the positive impact that we have on our member’s lives. Starting with a strong foundation to build upon, you will lead on fundraising activities and service development to support our exciting new strategy.
Bexley Mencap is a small and dynamic local charity focused exclusively on supporting people with a learning disability and their families. Our vision is that people with a learning disability are respected, valued and empowered to live life to the full.
This is an exciting time to join our organisation; we are entering into year 2 of an ambitious new strategy, have a range of new opportunities on the horizon and are actively expanding and developing the support and services that we provide.
About the role
As the Business Development Manager, you’ll be part of the Senior Leadership Team. You’ll do everything to make sure that we have the capacity and resources we need to deliver on our strategy and ensure that every person with a learning disability can live life to the full. You will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and sustainability of the organisation helping us to build upon our strong reputation and existing relationships.
This is an exciting time to join our team with a lot of opportunities to grow our existing services and develop new, flexible services which offer a range of options to members and carers. You will be central to supporting our team to adapt to new ways of working and evolving how we deliver change in the future. Depending on your success in the role there will be opportunity to extend the contract and/or number or hours at a later date.
About You
We are seeking a driven and determined candidate with proven experience in fundraising or business development ideally gained from the voluntary sector. Our ideal candidate has an enthusiastic attitude as well as experience in developing and growing services. We are looking for someone who aligns with our mission and we ask that all our staff live our organisation’s values and demonstrate them in their day-to-day work.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to enable you to build authentic relationships with members, donors, partners and commissioners. You will also need experience in leading change within an organisation, supporting our team on our journey of growth and sustainability.
You will need to be approachable, organised and have excellent communication skills with good IT skills to be able to excel in fundraising.
What we offer
We offer a range of benefits including discounts at local shops and restaurants (through a Blue Light Card), training and development opportunities and flexible working. We also offer 22 days holiday plus all English bank holidays as well as a variety of other leave such as volunteering days and enhanced carers leave.
Duties Include:
Fundraising and project development:
· Lead the implementation of Bexley Mencap’s Fundraising Strategy; reviewing existing fundraising strategies, identifying opportunities for development and introducing innovative strategies to achieve fundraising goals.
· Research and pursue new funding opportunities; including grants, legacies and social enterprise/earned income opportunities.
· Develop compelling cases for support, tailoring funding bids and applications accordingly
· Develop and maintain funding pipelines, providing reports to the Trustee Board
· Support and line manage part-time member of the team (may be required to support more staff if the role grows/adapts)
· Support the Chief Executive in extending and strengthening relationships with existing partners and developing new relationships
· Ensure all fundraising initiatives adhere to best practices, ethical guidelines and legislation
· Identify and evaluate opportunities for new projects and initiatives aligned with the mission and objectives of the organisation.
· Lead the development of project proposals, including conducting needs assessments, defining project scopes, and establishing timelines and budgets.
· Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure successful project implementation and delivery.
Organisational Change and Growth:
· Work closely with the senior leadership team to identify areas for organisational growth and improvement.
· Champion initiatives aimed at enhancing organisational capacity, efficiency, and sustainability.
· Support change management processes to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
· Coach, motivate and guide staff and volunteers
Other:
· To be familiar with and work within the organisation and the service’s values policies and procedures, maintaining records and reports accordingly.
· To be a part of the Senior Leadership Team, supporting the wider team in the absence of other management.
· To attend and participate in team meetings, supervisions, appraisals and training as required
To support anti-discrimination policies and procedures and promote equality of opportunity at all times.
To provide support and opportunities to people with a learning disability and their families. We raise awareness and promote community understanding.
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