Are you inspired by church architecture? Are you fascinated by the history of churches and want them to remain part of our heritage and a vital part of community life? Are you experienced in assessing funding applications and supporting historic buildings to be well maintained and sustainable?

As the independent, UK-wide charity supporting churches, chapels and meeting houses of all Christian denominations, the National Churches Trust supports and promotes church buildings of historic, architectural and community value by inspiring support, preserving heritage and promoting sustainability. Our aims are to help maintain the UK’s heritage of church buildings and to enhance their ability to serve local communities; to promote the benefit to communities of church buildings and to inspire everyone to value and enjoy them.

Grant funding is at the heart of our work. The Trust allocates in the region of £1.2m of funds across Cornerstone, Gateway, Foundation and Micro-grant grant schemes annually. The grants team is also responsible for recommendations to a number of trusts and foundations each year. Another priority for the Trust is developing new projects to help churches become sustainable and well maintained, and our partnership work, such as with local churches trusts, funders and other organisations.

The opportunity has arisen for a new Church Support Officer to join our Church Support team. The post-holder will assist with assessment and administration for our grant programmes and have the necessary knowledge and skills to implement robust management and maintenance schemes which will assist with the sustainability of churches. You will have excellent organisational and planning skills, be able to manage a varied workload and be an effective team player, based from our office in London.

Applications are welcome both from new graduates as well as more experienced applicants. This is a full-time, fixed term contract for twelve months with the possibility of extension.

If you are interested in finding out more, an information pack can be downloaded via our website.

To apply, please send a CV together with covering letter to Catherine Townsend via the Apply button.

Closing date: Noon on Friday 13 March 2020.
Interview date: Wednesday 25 March 2020 (Westminster, London).

Fixed 18 month Contract

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists ensures that the highest achievable standards of eye care are delivered for patients through excellence in the training, education and assessment of eye doctors and their continuing professional development. 

The College is currently seeking a Workforce Manager to provide coordination and delivery of projects to improve the quality and increase the scope of workforce data to inform development of its workforce strategy. The Workforce Manager will be responsible for taking a lead in workforce knowledge, including data gathering and analysis to advise organisation wide strategic development and communications. 

The successful candidate will be someone who can work flexibly with a varied workload, is well organised and can network well with workforce counterparts to keep up to date with data collection and reporting methodologies. The post holder will work well as part of a team, have excellent, all round communication and interpersonal skills, and be able to articulate the work of the project and its recommendations. 

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter.

For an informal discussion about the role, please call Beth Barnes, Head of Professional Support, on 020 793 50702.  Office hours are 09.00-17.00.

Closing date:  17.00, Wednesday 26 February 2020

Interviews:      Wednesday 11 March 2020

Applicants must already have the right to work within the UK without restriction.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Spurgeons is one of the UK's leading children's charities, firmly supported by Christian beliefs and values, helping to support disadvantaged children and their families through delivering projects to support children, young people, their families and communities to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face.

We are passionate about the work we do and need equally committed members on our team to help us achieve those goals.

Every survivor of domestic abuse, and their family, deserves the right response at the right time, to make them safe, sooner. That's why we're delivering new interventions and ways of working that fill the gaps in the response to domestic abuse, on behalf of SafeLives and the Norfolk County Community Safety Partnership.

As one of our Behavioural Change Practitioners, you will have  experience of working with offenders or people exhibiting difficult and challenging behaviour. Successful applications will demonstrate an ability to engage perpetrators of domestic abuse and manage a diverse case load.

You will be passionate and proactive about meeting the needs of individuals and families, doing so with compassion, tenacity, and hope for their futures with a strong commitment to ensuring their safety. You will be able to build successful partnerships within the service delivery team and with key partners, in order to deliver holistic services to improve outcomes for your clients. You will value, champion and amplify the voices of our service users.

This post is funded by Norfolk County Community Safety Partnership, Big Lottery Fund Women and Girls Initiative, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Peter Cundill Foundation and The Aurum Charitable Trust as part of the delivery model for Norwich, on behalf of SafeLives.

This is a fixed term contract until June 2021.

Interviews will take place on 06 March 2020.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people we serve. This post is subject to necessary safeguarding checks including an appropriate level DBS Disclosure.

Relate is planning an ambitious new response to helping the four million people who currently benefit from our services and support, and the many more who could do so in future.

We’re planning to change our relationship with those we exist to support: we want people to not only to come to Relate in times of crisis but to develop a life-long relationship with us where our services and support are accessed at key life transition points. We want to be there to strengthen the nation’s relationships throughout life in ways that work for each individual.

Understanding our users and the wider context in which we’re working will be key to achieving this ambition. We want to build strong and meaningful relationships with relevant communities to inform, test, promote and join our work – and, crucially, to continually learn from one another. Learning from these relationships and adapting our services, support and channels appropriately will be central to helping more people in more ways that work.

Frontline Service Night Adviser (part-time at 28 hours, Home Based, UK)

Fixed term contract ending 31 August 2021

28 Hours per week (over a 2-week rolling rota)

£21,000 - £25,000

GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice, support and free treatment for the prevention and treatment of problem gambling. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental.

GamCare operate the National Gambling HelpLine to provide information, advice and support for anyone affected by problem gambling as well as providing free treatment across England, Scotland and Wales.

We operate the National Gambling HelpLine 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

We are therefore recruiting Frontline Advisers for our overnight shifts who will provide information, advice and support to individuals between the hours of 11.30pm and 8.30am, on a rota system. You will be an excellent communicator, with the ability to work as part of a team, and will ideally have experience in health and social care settings. We are seeking individuals who are committed to delivering high quality services.

You should have previous experience in working in a helpline or clinical/addiction setting. You should have excellent ICT skills. Training, supervision and a full CPD-programme is offered to staff.

The role is home-based; however, you will be required to attend training and update sessions in our offices in London. You will need to have a modern ICT set-up at home and access to an appropriate environment to deliver confidential support. 

You will form part of an enthusiastic team working and committed to supporting those affected by problem gambling across Great Britain.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

To apply, please complete the following application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey and send to recruitment at gamcare

Please note we do not accept CVs

GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.

If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:

Job application: <name of vacancy>

Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.

Previous applicants need not apply

For further information about the role please email Fiona Macleod Senior Service Manager. Application forms forwarded to this email will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications is 16 March 2020

Interviews are scheduled to take place in London.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Junior Graphic Designer who can design creative, engaging, and stand-out visual content across a range of Barnabas Fund digital and print communications.

To fulfil this role, you will have experience of working with multiple Design tools to produce the graphics for both our hard-copy and digital written publications. You will need to hold a degree in a related field, such as graphic design, communications, media, digital art or others alongside demonstrable achievement in graphic design content. Your experience could have been gained in the not-for-profit, public or commercial sectors.

This is an amazing opportunity to join our organisation to use your skills and abilities to serve the global persecuted Church. In this fast-paced and rewarding role, you will be working within our Design team and across our creative teams to produce outstanding visual media and published content.

Why Barnabas Fund?

As a world-renowned international aid agency, Barnabas Fund serves the global persecuted Church by channelling practical aid to suffering Christians in over 80 countries who face oppression, discrimination and persecution. This is an opportunity to be part of an organisation that transforms the lives of our persecuted Christian family throughout the world.

What will you be doing:

You will be involved in the production of regular publications, leaflets and other printed materials including adverts, booklets, posters, exhibition banners etc. The candidate will work within a tight-knit team to formulate and develop design concepts and oversee their creation. This will include taking ideas through in house production processes to execution on both large campaigns and quick assignments.

What will you need:

Essential:

• Highly proficient using Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Attention to detail, a well trained eye for design and the ability to motivate others to achieve the best possible results as a team
• Must be able to multi-task in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• Visual communicator with expertise in digital design
• Ability to work within brand guidelines
• Experience preparing files for print
• A good knowledge of Christian theology, current affairs, geopolitical issues and world religions would be a considerable advantage.

Desirable:

• Ability to produce regular video, audio and interactive media.
• Skills in animation and motion graphics using Adobe After Effects.

Salary is dependent on skills and experience.

You will be working within our Design team from our head office in Pewsey, Wiltshire. This is an office-based role.

Any successful candidate will need to be committed to Barnabas Fund’s ethos, statement of faith and aims and already have the right to work in the UK.

Would you like to work at one of RSPB Cymru's flagship reserves? Visitors come to our stunning Lake Vyrnwy nature reserve in their droves every year to enjoy the vistas, wildlife and walks we have to offer.

We have a vacancy for a part time Visitor Experience Assistant to work alongside the Visitor Experience Manager and wider face to face team to support and deliver our visitor experience vision.

Visitor Experience Assistant
Reference number: A5730220
Location: Lake Vyrnwy
Salary starting at: £16,010 to £16,252 per annum, pro rata
Hours: Part time, 22.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term for 6 months

Are you passionate about delivering the highest standards, a great communicator able to engage and inspire people, and motivated by achieving targets? Would you like to become part of a high performing team? Are you flexible and self motivated, and have a desire to succeed?

We welcome over 200,000 visitors and up to 1200 school children each year, have a busy shop and run a programme of exciting events, and carry out important conservation work on our moorland, farmland and woodland. We also run the largest Organic farm in England and Wales from the reserve.

We are looking for someone with energy, enthusiasm and imagination to ensure that the reserve offers our visitors exceptional, inspiring and safe experiences and to help deliver the daily face-to-face welcome and engagement with visitors.

Together you will take a lead in identifying opportunities for income generation within visitor experience, and play a critical role in the delivery of the reserve membership recruitment target.

This post is a O.6 FTE role but we would be looking for this to be annualised over the period of 12 months to ensure we maximise our opportunities during peak times, ie school holidays.

The Post holder will be required to work three out of every 4 weekends, bank holidays and occasional evenings.

It would be beneficial for the post holder to hold a driving licence and have access to a car as there is no easy access to the reserve by public transport.

The RSPB is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the appropriate safeguarding checks upon appointment.

Closing date: 5 March 2020
Interview date: 13 March 2020

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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

Our job information pack and accompanying role profile on our website, tells you all about the key result areas and the skills and experience needed for the role. Please make sure you include reference number A5730220 on your application.

No agencies please.  

Are you a project manager with experience of Digital product implementation, looking to share your knowledge and experience with the charity sector?

The NSPCC's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in the UK. We’re leading the fight against child abuse in the UK and Channel Islands. We believe that every childhood is worth fighting for.

We have ambitious volunteer targets to support us in the delivery our strategy for children, and have set up the Volunteer Engagement Programme (VEP) to ensure we can attract, recruit, engage, develop and retain our critical volunteer workforce. It includes five organisational priority workstreams: 

• Volunteer communications
• A review of community fundraising
• Volunteer learning and development
• Volunteer recognition
• Digital; creating a streamlined and appropriate digital journey for volunteers

We're looking for a highly experienced and motivated Project Manager to lead the digital workstream and hit the ground running with the implementation of our new digital volunteering product through to completion.

You will need to be able to manage multiple, and often complex, interdependencies within this project. You will drive the day to day delivery and ensure we build an excellent digital experience for our volunteers.

Want to use your skills in Bid Management to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Bid Management Lead to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you'll be joining a 2018 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

WaterAid UK has an ambitious new strategy to grow the size of it programmes through restricted income - over the next five years WaterAid UK plans to grow its restricted income for its programmes by a minimum of 35%. It is expected that this growth will primarily come from institutional partnerships with some of the world's leading bilateral development agencies, including DFID, USAID, SIDA and DEVCO. The organisation is therefore now at a turning pointing in its approach to institutional funding and is making significant investments into its capacity and capability to deliver growth. Within this context, the newly formed Institutional Funding and Partnerships Team is leading on the operationalisation of this new strategy as well as increasing the expertise and capability of the staff working on resource mobilisation and institutional partnership building.

As our Bid Management Lead you will work across the organisation with your team to help deliver a step change in WaterAid's approach to bidding on restricted funding, driving up success rates.

The role will initially be fixed term for 36 months. There is likely to be significant travel involved to our international programmes. The role is envisaged as London based and full time but for the right candidate there can be flexibility on this.

In this role, you will:

- Build and implement a strategy for improving bid management capability in line with the IPD Institutional and Restricted Funding Strategy

- Ensure an effective and timely supply of bid management capability across the range of strategic funding opportunities in the pipeline

- When appropriate, lead the development of bids for strategic, complex or high value funding opportunities (including multi-country funding opportunities)

- In collaboration with our Technical Unit, develop good practice on proposal/programme design for strategic, complex or high values opportunities.

- Build and maintain a repository of standard 'boiler plate' information for funding bids (e.g. capacity statements, track record, CVs, organisational capability sections, etc)

To be successful, you'll need:

• Comprehensive knowledge, understanding & evidence of successful application of major principles of good practice relating to bid management
• Experience/ evidence of strategy development and implementation
• Experience/ evidence of successfully leading, motivating and coaching teams at a senior level to achieve individual & team goals.

To see the full job pack, please click "Apply"

Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.

Applications will close at 23:59 on Sunday 23rd February 2020. Availability for the 1st interview on the w/c 2nd March and w/c 9th March for 2nd interview.

Salary: £48,900 - £51,500 with excellent benefits.

Other Information

WaterAid benefits?include:

• 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working up to 2 days a week
• Season Ticket Loan
• Free annual eye tests
• Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

WaterAid is currently located at Durham Street, Vauxhall. However, we will be leaving our current location in the summer of 2020 (likely to be June/July 2020) and moving to 20 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. Therefore the London Office location and contract base, if you are successfully offered the role, will change. This will be discussed at the interview stage with you.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

WaterAid is fully committed to protecting those with whom it comes into contact in WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct.

We will conduct the most appropriate preemployment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained. WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us at [email protected]

The role Face to face Fundraising Junior Team Leader

You will work as part of a team of Fundraisers to inspire and motivate members of the general public about Medecins Sans Frontieres’ work. To recruit Direct Debit donors, via face to face fundraising at events and other indoor locations and events around London, whilst ensuring the highest standards of fundraising are maintained. You will be approaching people, building a rapport and asking for monthly donations.

You be will trained in fundraising skills and you will also receive leadership training. Come and join one of the most successful fundraising teams in the country.

Added extra Not only will you be learning new skills but you will also be given the chance to work at some of the best UK music festivals in the Summer.

Plus, having Doctors without Borders on your CV along with the leadership training you will receive will look great.

Who are they looking for? MSF are on the lookout for bright, passionate, extremely confident people with to join their fundraising campaign. You will have work experience in sales, fundraising, customer service or events.

Will I be trained? Yes. MSF will conduct fundraising skills training as well as regular leadership trainings for this role. Department Fundraising

Hours 37.5 hours per week

Reports to Face to Face Team Coordinator

Location London

Salary Your salary equate to £10.75 an hour, rising to £10.97 on completion of targeted induction. Plus travel expenses of £10 per day from London zones.

About us: Our medical teams act fast to save people’s lives in conflict zones, natural disasters and epidemics. We go where we are needed most. We run a very successful fundraising team with regular socials and trainings and we also put on talks from MSF field workers.

How to apply for this great opportunity

Step 1 Click apply.

Step 2 Someone from our team will call you back ASAP and send you the job description.

Step 3 We can book you into an interview and coach you for the interview.

Step 4 Get hired the same day as your interview.

Interviews will take place on throughout January and February with immediate starts available.

About the Venue

Tucked away in a tranquil Mayfair street just yards from the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly, you will find the Royal Institution, a unique venue in one of Central London’s most prestigious locations.

The home of science and innovation for over 200 years, the Royal Institution is a place that was created to find solutions and answers. Only one question remains: do you have the skills knowledge and experience to lead our commercial offer?

In our welcoming Grade I listed Mayfair venue, discoveries were made that literally changed the world. Today it offers the perfect location for private and corporate events. Our historic Georgian rooms with fine portraits and original features blend seamlessly with more our contemporary spaces, all equipped with a wide variety of AV technology to suit needs.

About the role

Our wonderful Head of Commercial Events is going on maternity leave and we are looking for someone to join the team at the Ri and lead our commercial venue team, responsible for a team of three and working closely with our in-house catering partner Searcys.  The team’s main objective is to generate income (currently £1.4m) from events and conference hire at 21 Albemarle Street, the profits from which are used support the Ri’s charitable activities.  This post will play a crucial role in leading the team to achieve quarterly sales targets.

We are looking for someone to start in the role towards the beginning of April 2020 and it is envisaged that the role will continue to June 2021.

About you

Do you have a passion for events and have a strong track record in sales and in event delivery and logistics?

The ideal candidate will be proactive, hardworking and able to work under their own initiative.  With a strong commercial mind, they must be able to identify opportunities for revenue growth and then strategically plan to deliver on these opportunities.

 In this multifaceted role (involving sales strategy, financial planning and forecasting, marketing and communications and operational delivery) the successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent communication, people management experience, customer service skills and display a high level of organisational and project management ability.

Interested?

Please review the full job description and person specification, and click the apply button below to submit your CV. Please also unclude a cover letter of no more than 500 words explaining why you want the job and how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification.

Closing date is 9.00am on Monday 2 March.

For this busines critical role we reserve the right to close the application process once we have recieved sufficient interest. We would therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Interviews are scheduled to take place during w/c 9 March.

We would ideally like someone in post by early April to ensure sufficient time for handover.

The North East branch of ADASS is working in partnership with Shared Lives Plus to implement an ambitious growth and development plan for Shared Lives across the region.  All twelve local authorities in the North East have collectively come together to achieve a regional approach to the growth, development and diversification of Shared Lives. 

We are recruiting for a new and exciting role to support and coordinate the regional programme, support the delivery of communities of practice and delivery of a North East Shared Lives communications strategy. Within the role you will have responsibility for working in partnership with Shared Lives schemes in each local authority to deliver local action plans, liaising with key stakeholders and reporting on project progress to Directors of Adult Social Care (DASS).

The role will have responsibility for:

• Being the primary contact for the project
• Providing dedicated support to each local authority across the North East
• Project communication to stakeholders
• Raising the profile of Shared Lives across the North East
• Project monitoring
• The development of communities of practice which will explore the growth, development and diversification of Shared Lives across the region.

How to apply 

Apply by sending an up to date CV and a supporting statement, which should be kept to a maximum of two pages. Please start your supporting statement by saying why you want to work for us and work in the Shared Lives sector. Your supporting statement will also need to demonstrate how you meet the requirements of each area of the person specification below:

• Relevant skills and experience
• How your knowledge, values and attitude make you a suitable candidate
• How you would meet the practical requirements of the job.

Please visit the Shared LIves Plus website for a copy of the Job Descriptions and Person Specification.ea

The closing date for this role is Friday 28th February 2020 at 1pm. Interviews will be held the week commencing 9th March 2020

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Mark Gallagher at Shared Lives Plus

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Job Description and Person Specification

You will have responsibility for

1.  Providing dedicated support to each local authority involved in the Shared Lives North East Partnership

i. Being the primary contact for the project

ii. Work in partnership with key stakeholders in each region to successfully implement and deliver their local Shared Lives action plan. Stakeholders will include Shared Lives schemes and Shared Lives carers, people using Shared Lives and their families, steering group members, Directors of adult social Care (DASS)

iii. General administration tasks relating to governance of the project

1. Project monitoring
2. Developing and implementing project monitoring processes to keep track of progress against project milestones.
3. Compiling regular project reports detailing the progress of project deliverables and outcomes for Shared Lives Plus, key project stakeholders and the project steering group

3. Communications

i. Raising the profile of Shared Lives to increase understanding and awareness of the Shared Lives model across the region and in each local authority partner.

ii. Leading on internal stakeholder communications.

iii. Showcasing the impact and outcomes of the project to local stakeholders across different media platforms and through the production of case studies, newsletters and impact reports

iv. Supporting the development and delivery of the regional communications strategy

1.  Development of communities of practice

i. Being the project lead for the creation, coordination, development and delivery of Shared Lives communities of practice. Communities of practice will bring together representatives from across the North East to develop ideas and share good practice regarding the growth, development and diversification of Shared Lives across the region.

ii. Producing stakeholder summary reports of the findings and outcomes from communities of practice.

1. General

5.1 Work in accordance with Shared Lives Plus’s aims, objectives, policies and procedures and promote a positive image of the organisation and its members.

5.2 Undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required, commensurate with the level of the post. As Shared Lives Plus is a small organisation, all staff carry out 'hands-on' work at all levels, on occasion.

Person specification:

Criteria

Qualification

Experience

· Of working in a small team, using your initiative and organising and planning your workload

· Working with disabled people and their families

· Meeting and event planning

· Coordination of projects – where delivery is taken on by others but keeping things on track is your responsibility

· Liaison with client and colleagues to keep projects on course and moving forward

Skills

· Ability to manage time efficiently, to prioritise and to work well under pressure

· Competency in all aspects of Microsoft Office

· Good customer relation skills – wanting to go the extra mile for our customers; internal and external

· Good, positive and friendly telephone manner

· Able to coordinate colleagues and senior staff – ability to work across all levels of the organisation

· Some basic digital skills to support the Communications team

· Structured, diligent and committed to getting it right first time

Knowledge

· An understanding of Shared Lives and the philosophy and values underpinning our work and the sector

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Values and Behaviours

Ability to demonstrate behaviours that reflect the Shared Lives Plus Values -

· Authenticity

• Integrity
• Sense of Purpose

· Zest and Energy

Attitudes

· Commitment to empowering people who use services and their families

· Demonstrable commitment to working in ways which promote equality of opportunity and diversity

· Values the principles of co-production, empowering people who use services and partnership working

· You will be an energetic, tenacious and friendly person who enjoys meeting new people and building relationships

· Confident, Positive, and innovative

· A genuine team member – willing to help and support colleagues in a small team

Practical

· Ability to work the hours dictated by the needs and demands of the job (occasionally including evenings)

· Able to travel as and when required by the job

Battersea are hiring!

They are on the look out for full time fundraisers and team leaders to join their in-house venue fundraising campaign in London.

The role: Talk to members of the public in shopping centres and events about the welfare of dogs and cats up and down the UK. You will inspire people to commit to a regular donation and change the fate of so many vulnerable animals in the process.

In return for your hard work you will receive a great starting salary, weekly pay, holiday pay, training and support from the start and a great team of people, just like you.

• £10.55 per hour, increasing to £11 per hour after one month.

• Weekly pay - every week on a Thursday

• Holiday Pay

• Great progression opportunities

• Be part of the UK's leading animal welfare charity.

• Full time hours, 37.5 hours per week, between Monday to Saturday.

• London based.

• Work as part of a small team of fundraisers each day.

We need passionate storytellers, who love animals and have a bubbly, bright and engaging personality with sales or customer service experience.

About Battersea: Battersea is here for every dog and cat and has been since 1860. We are a leading animal welfare charity and over the last 150 years we've grown from one home in London to three rescuing and rehoming centres across the South East. With 500 staff and 1000 volunteers, we have cared for over three million vulnerable animals. We also campaign tirelessly to make things better for dogs and cats; sharing our expertise and educating the public and policymakers about responsible pet ownership.

Join us and make a difference for every dog and cat. If you'd love to join this brand new team, get in touch with Holly from Flow Caritas by applying for this role and she will call you back.

Interviews throughout January with a fast start date available.

Job Description : Centre Worker (Education & Training).

Job Title : Centre Worker (Education & Training)

Salary : £ 21,000.00 p.a.

Job Location :          Ace of Clubs, Clapham, SW4 7AP

Hours :Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Reports to : Manager of Centre Operations & Case-working

Purpose of Job.

To participate in and contribute to the day-to-day operations and activities of Ace of Clubs Centre.

Key duties :

Centre

Under the direction of the Manager of Centre Operations, and in conjunction with other centre staff, to :

Welcome and engage centre users.

Support centre users in accessing appropriate services at Ace of Clubs.

Ensure centre is clean and safe.

Complete centre administrative and financial tasks as delegated by management.

Deal with incidents and emergencies in the centre in compliance with policies and procedures.

Support and guide volunteers at the centre.

Centre User Support

Provide information, advice and guidance to individual centre users on a range of issues, including : housing, welfare, benefits and health.

Encourage and apply a client-centred approach to assist centre users in identifying and achieving personal goals.

Refer to and liaise with  partners and agencies within statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

Ensure best outcomes for service users.

Education, training & development

Lead on the development and delivery of education, training and employment support for centre users.

Establish and maintain relationships with partner organisations to facilitate delivery of internal courses as well as external opportunities for centre users.

Encourage and develop active participation of centre users in available courses, and associated activities.

General duties.

Ensure that all duties are carried out in accordance with policies, procedures and regulations as stated in Ace of Clubs employee handbook.

This job description is not exhaustive and the post-holder may be required to undertake other appropriate duties, responsibilities and projects from time to time.

Key relationships.

Internal : Centre Director, Manager of Centre Operations, Centre Staff.

External : Welfare agencies, charitable organisations, charitable partners, educational organisations.

Person Specification.

Qualifications

Good basic education to GCSE.

Minimum level C (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics.

Relevant experience in the charity sector will carry greater weight than academic qualifications.

Experience

1 year’s minimum experience of working within an outreach centre in the charity sector.

Experience participating and contributing to projects for the homeless and vulnerable adults.

Energy, enthusiasm and flair to work hard and contribute the efficient running of the centre.

Ability to contribute to the management  and development of internal and external relationships.

Database experience.

Proven experience of participating in educational training and development.

Knowledge of Universal Credit, and local government benefits.

Experience of dealing with welfare agencies.

Skills and competencies

Good organisational skills.

Ability to plan, balance and cope with competing priorities.

Proven time management skills with regard to prioritising and meeting deadlines. 

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Personal attributes

Highly motivated and ability to work alone or as part of a team.

Self-motivated and able to motivate others.

Ability to contribute to the development  and maintenance of strong working relationships with staff, volunteers and agencies  .

A proactive and creative approach.

Commitment to delivering quality services.

Other

Cross-cultural sensitivity to, and understanding of, the needs of  Ace of Club’s client group.

Good diplomatic skills.

Recruitment process.

Stage 1 : Submit C.V. and cover letter through Charity Job, online.

Stage 2 : Short-listed candidates invited to interview

with Ace of Clubs interviewing committee.

Finally : Successful candidate will be required :

• to be security approved (e.g. DBS)
• to provide two referees (previous employer & personal)
• to commit to 6 month probationary period