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TLC: Talk, Listen, Change is a dynamic, leading relationships charity based in Greater Manchester and we are looking for a Domestic Abuse Prevention Worker (Thriving Families), to deliver tailored perpetrator interventions within a multi-disciplinary team.

The role
This role will work collaboratively within Manchester City Council’s multi-disciplinary Thriving Families Team, to support families where children are open to Child Protection or Child In Need Plans. The Domestic Abuse Prevention Worker will engage directly with adults responsible for causing harm, aiming to increase perpetrator accountability and encourage positive change. Through one-on-one tailored interventions, the goal is to reduce risk to both victims and children, while enhancing the perpetrator's willingness to alter harmful behaviours.  The Domestic Abuse Prevention Worker will work collaboratively with the Thriving Families Team and other agencies, ensuring a multi-agency, whole family approach. Additionally, the worker liaises with victim/survivor services to assess risks, formulate safety plans to secure better outcomes for those impacted by domestic abuse.

About you

You’ll be confident in delivering direct work with those who use harm.  This will include completing comprehensive assessments of risk and need to deliver tailored interventions.  You’ll have direct experience of working therapeutically with a client group and be confident in addressing challenging and harmful behaviour.  You will have experience of safeguarding processes and multi-agency working.

Above all you will have the ability to build positive relationships with difficult to engage client groups, and you’ll bring a positive, solution focus attitude. We’d also love to hear from applicants who are fluent in speaking an additional language. 

We offer an annual continuous Professional Development allowance, generous annual leave entitlement and Birthday leave.

About us

The funding secured will enable TLC: Talk Listen Change to support our work with perpetrators of domestic abuse, their partners, and families. We are continuously expanding and enhancing our programmes, including the development of new services 

and initiatives to support more people. This is a pivotal time for TLC: Talk Listen Change and we are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, engaged and highly motivated people to join our team.

We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest pool, reflecting the diverse range of people we support.

We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, please contact us. 

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

In this role you’ll work on our school food portfolio and manage a variety of activities and outputs related to this. The postholder will contribute to the organisation’s own school food work, as well as leading on our role in two school food coalitions – School Food Review and Feeding Futures.

Across these workstreams, you’ll get a chance to:

• contribute to the refinement of policy asks and comms messaging,
• undertake desk research on school food to inform policy,
• coordinate activities with different stakeholders from across the school food eco-system,
• support Ambassadors on school-food related advocacy,
• play a key role in hard hitting communications and campaign work.

• Are you a skilled Finance Officer seeking a new challenge? Do you have experience in bank reconciliations? Are you looking for an opportunity to work for a fast-growing organisation? If so, please read on…

  My client is a leading not-for-profit organisation based in central London seeking an interim Finance Officer to bolster their finance team on a 3-month temporary basis.

  The main responsibilities of the interim Finance Officer are:

  • Prepare cash book journals and balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis.
  • Ensure timely payment of supplier invoices by monitoring the purchase ledger.
  • Process supplier requests and BACS payment runs.
  • Supporting on all aspects of finance.

  My client is looking for:

  • Essential: Experience in SUN System and CONCUR
  • At least 3 years’ experience in a finance setting.
  • Experience in managing large volumes of supplier payments.
  • Experience of dealing with non-finance people.

  My client can offer a flexible approach to working, with 1 day a week going into the office based in central London and the rest worked remotely.

  Applications are under constant review and the post can close early if the right candidate is found. Please apply immediately if this role is of interest.

Impatience Earth is a non-profit climate philanthropy consultancy founded in 2020 with a mission to educate, challenge and inspire wealth holders to take bolder funding decisions to address the climate emergency.

For the first time, we will be undertaking work to focus specifically on climate resilience in the UK. Currently this work sits with two existing team members, and a network of Associates and advisors. We are hiring a new team member to support this work on a fixed-term contract running from 2026-2027. 

Why UK resilience? We can see the impacts of climate change in the UK are rapidly increasing  - from direct impacts such as extreme heat, flooding and heavy rainfall, to direct knock-on effects such as increasing food prices. What is often hidden is the social, economic and racial injustice at the core of climate vulnerability in the UK. The people who are disproportionately impacted by climate change are also most likely to be excluded from the process to address it. This includes women and girls living  at the intersections of poverty, disability and race who remain overlooked by climate policy and interventions, even though the inclusion of women in environmental decision-making processes has been shown to have a positive impact on their outcomes.

Climate change is occurring at the same time as trust in British society, democracy and politics is collapsing. As recent research from Climate Outreach shows, voters in the UK feel overlooked, disillusioned about the present and fearful for the future, and many are yet to be convinced that net zero offers a positive way forward. 

Yet research also shows that the majority of the public do care about climate change and protecting nature, and we know from our work that there are individuals and groups across the UK who are taking action to create a more resilient future - often on a shoestring budget. When Impatience Earth convened funders around the topic of climate resilience in the UK, we had a lot of interest. We also heard that a common challenge is identifying resilience-building work to fund. A recurring question was ‘resilience-building work: how do we know it when we see it?”

This new role at Impatience Earth is designed to help us answer two key questions: 

1. How do we use our position and bird's-eye view of the philanthropy ecosystem to make climate philanthropy work more effectively for marginalised communities in the UK and withstand political headwinds?

2. How do we build the ecosystem for gender just climate action in the UK?

To answer these, it will be important to work in partnership and collaboration with other UK philanthropic support organisations (such as the Environmental Funders Network); help build bridges between the different organisations and groups doing this work across the UK; and shine a light on the opportunities for funders and policy-makers to support climate action that builds the resilience of the people who are most affected, but often overlooked. This role is an exciting opportunity to increase awareness and action in the philanthropic sector around the different dimensions of climate risk in the UK, especially as a result of gender inequity, poverty and other intersecting forms of marginalisation. 

About Impatience Earth

Impatience Earth is a non-profit climate philanthropy consultancy with a mission to educate, challenge and inspire wealth holders to take bolder funding decisions to address the climate emergency. Since 2020, IE has catalysed over £250 million in new philanthropic funding for climate action around the world, of which over £90 million has already been disbursed to impactful organisations working to mitigate climate change and build the resilience of communities in the face of increasing climate risk.

With a core focus on climate justice, Impatience Earth explores with funders how they can effectively resource and partner with the leaders and communities on the frontline of climate actions who are often overlooked and underfunded by mainstream climate philanthropy. Impatience Earth’s portfolio of work in the UK is increasingly focused on how funders can build the power of local communities to increase their resilience against increasing climate impacts - such as extreme weather events - that also exacerbate existing vulnerabilities. 

Requirements for this role

1. You live and are legally able to work in the UK (unfortunately we are unable to sponsor UK work visas)

2. You have a good understanding of the way that climate change will intersect with different forms of oppression and vulnerability in the UK, particularly gender but also: racism, poverty and class inequality, disability, discrimination due to sexual orientation, faith, migration status and other factors.

3. You have a good understanding of the ways that climate change is already impacting communities in the UK, as well as solutions relating to resilience-building.

4. You have a good understanding, likely through your own lived experience, of the difference in economic opportunities and investment beyond London and across the different parts of the UK. 

5. You have a demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with a range of stakeholders, which might include: community-based organisations, philanthropic foundations and local authorities. 

6. You are respectful of people with different backgrounds, cultures, faiths and lived experiences. 

7. You are curious and a good listener. 

8. You are highly organised and motivated to work in a fast-paced organisation. 

9. You enjoy working in-person with different stakeholders, and you’re happy to travel to other parts of the UK when required to attend in-person meetings, events and represent Impatience Earth (travel expenses will be covered).

10. You can lead, and contribute to, research and written reports that can be shared with funders and external audiences. 

11. You are highly competent with online working and online collaboration including: email, Zoom conferencing, and online documentation.

Day-to-Day Activities 

Whilst this work is still being developed, and you will have an opportunity to shape it, the day-to-day activities will likely include the following. 

Strategy

• Support the development of Impatience Earth’s UK resilience strategy, by reviewing existing plans and providing feedback and suggestions.

• Throughout this role, share learnings and feedback with the Impatience Earth team, Associates and other stakeholders, aiming to ‘work in the open’.

• Help Impatience Earth to recruit and work with a group of advisors.

Relationship building and new collaborations

• Connect with the UK organisations and individuals that Impatience Earth has already built relationships with, identify opportunities to collaborate, and take plans forward. This could include convening a roundtable or co-designing an event.

• Make new connections with individuals and organisations outside of Impatience Earth’s existing network who are working to build the resilience of communities across the UK. This could be through attending conferences, community events, or cold outreach and calls. 

• Build bridges between organisations and funders working across different themes (such as climate and gender) to strengthen the ecosystem on intersectional climate resilience. 

• Develop and maintain excellent external relationships, always acting as an ambassador for Impatience Earth, to help build our reputation and profile.

• Manage the planning and execution of events, including developing an agenda, giving presentations, facilitating group discussions, and providing logistical support. 

Research and writing

• Support Impatience Earth to develop a taxonomy for gender-just climate resilience in the UK, that will later be shared with funders and other external stakeholders.

• Work with other team members  to conduct research and mapping that can form the basis of recommendations for funders.

• Draft high-quality written reports, blogs, presentations and other online materials on the topic of intersectional, gender-just climate resilience.
   

Internal knowledge management and communication

• Communicate across the Impatience Earth team, with colleagues working in different parts of the world, to share information and cross-check opportunities. As a remote team, our work is made possible by internal knowledge management and communication. This will include:

  • Timely writing up of notes and actions from meetings you attend and saving on our Google Drive

  • Sharing time-sensitive insights and opportunities with the team on Slack

  • Joining weekly online team meetings

Benefits

As part of this role, you will have a pro rata allowance of 25 days paid annual leave, individual coaching, a professional development budget and be part of a passionate team committed to advancing climate action. We have taken a range of steps to build an inclusive and welcoming work culture and we hope we will receive applications from people from a range of backgrounds.

How To Apply

We are not able to sponsor visas unfortunately and are not doing calls with candidates in advance of applications. 

We are committed to inclusive recruitment. If you have any access requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know so we can discuss how to support you.

Stage 1: Submit your CV plus either a cover letter (1.5 pages max), or a short video, that includes details about your relevant experience for the role and why you think you’ll be a good fit. Please consider the Requirements for this role section when you write your cover letter/record your video, particularly points 2-5. Please submit documents in PDF format as we are unable to open MS Word files.
 

Stage 2: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an initial video interview carried out via Zoom to discuss your experience and what excites you about the role. We will send all candidates the interview questions in advance.

Stage 3: You will be asked to complete a short assignment at a time that suits you. At this stage in the process, we will offer candidates a £50 stipend to cover the time invested in this exercise.

Stage 4: As part of the final interview stage, you’ll be invited to a full interview and we will be sending all candidates the interview questions in advance. At this stage in the process, we will offer candidates an additional £50 stipend to cover the time invested in preparing for interview.

Who You Will Meet

As part of the interview process, you will meet our CEO Yasmin Ahammad, Director Sarah Farrell and People and Wellbeing Director, Heather Salmon. For more information, see our website impatience.earth.

Summary of the Role

Inclusion Gloucestershire is commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council to carry out Quality Checks of residential homes, supported living settings, day services and domiciliary care providers across the county. The purpose of these checks is to ensure that disabled people who live in these settings are safe, healthy and happy, and that the care that they receive is appropriate to their needs.

Our Quality Checks are peer-led. Every Quality Check involves a team of two people, a Quality Checker (Expert by Experience) who has lived experience of disability, autism and/or mental ill health working alongside a Quality Checking Coordinator.  The Coordinator’s role is to facilitate the quality check on the day, record all of the information gathered and produce a report which identifies good practice and areas for improvement. The Expert by Experience will lead on asking questions during a Quality Check and contribute to the report by telling the Quality Checking Coordinator what they thought about the setting.

Inclusion Gloucestershire provides a comprehensive framework of questions asked by the Expert by Experience on the visit and used to write the report with. The framework focuses on questions for the people who are supported in the setting and also includes questions for the staff and manager.

Job Purpose: To organise and facilitate Quality Checks, working alongside and supporting Quality Checkers to complete Quality Checks in a range of care and support settings.

Reports to: Quality Checking Manager

Main Duties and Responsibilities

· Carry out a minimum agreed number of Quality Checks per month alongside an Expert by Experience. Quality Checks include questions for people who are supported, the staff who support them and the manager of the setting. They also include observations and checks of some paperwork and processes.

· Liaise with our administrator to ensure quality checks are risk-assessed and sufficient preparation carried out.

· Support the Quality Checker to prepare for the visit.

· Capture information about the setting and liaise with individuals and providers to ensure visits are accessible and inclusive.

· Support the Quality Checker to interview and interact with participants in the process.

· Make observations during the Quality Check and look at identified documentation.

· Record all information gathered during the Quality Check using the appropriate frameworks and tools.

· Review your findings with the Quality Checker, assess what is good practice and where improvements need to be made.

· Write an accurate and comprehensive report and action plan for each setting visited.

· Complete follow up visits, where necessary, to ensure actions are completed by Providers.

· Share reports and action plans with the Council and the Providers.

· Be aware and act on the need to report safeguarding concerns.

· Advocate for Inclusion Gloucestershire and its projects at meetings and events and within your own appropriate networks.

· This role profile is not exhaustive and may be subject to change to meet the operational needs of the charity.

Line management of Quality Checkers:

· Working according to the values of the organisation, promoting a strength-based and inclusive approach in support for your team.

· Providing day to day support for Experts by Experience with managing diaries, administration duties and facilitation of visits.

· Providing formal and recorded one-to-one support at a minimum of four times per year for identified colleagues but tailored to individual need and in line with policy and procedure.

· Ensuring identified colleagues have an annual appraisal in line with policy and procedure.

· Supporting Quality Checkers to identify their skills and training needs.

· Supporting Quality Checkers with their timesheets each month.

General:

· The role requires an ability to travel within the county. Any vehicles or drivers used will need to be insured for business purposes.

· The role requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

This role profile is not exhaustive and may be subject to change to meet the operational needs of the charity.

Essential Skills/Experience

Items marked * will be used as shortlisting criteria for this post

· Understanding of what good and not so good quality looks like in care and support services. *

· Understanding of the social model of disability. *

· Able to plan, manage workload, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines *

· Able to be a proactive team player*

· Good communication skills and ability to easily build rapport with individuals, staff and managers.

· Able to work in a flexible manner, with a proactive and solution focused approach to overcoming obstacles.*

· Proven ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. 

· Able to show empathy and active listening skills.

· Observant and able to capture a large amount of information in a busy setting.

· Thoroughness and an eye for detail when reading through documentation.

· Ability to manage potentially difficult conversations including defusing tension and conflict management/resolution.

· Trustworthy and able to handle confidential information. *

· Understanding of key Safeguarding principles.

· High standard of written English.

· Excellent IT skills, including confidence in arranging video call meetings using Zoom and Microsoft Teams. 

· Willing to learn.

· Friendly, caring and understanding.

· Able to travel independently around the county.

Desirable Skills/Experience

· Experience of a range of support services for people with disabilities, mental ill health, autism. This could be in the role of staff, management, family/carer or as a disabled person.

· Experience of supporting or working with disabled people or people who face disabling barriers.

· Ability to communicate with people who may not communicate verbally.

· Previous experience of line management.

Values and Personal Beliefs

Inclusion Gloucestershire is driven by its values, at the heart of all that it does. Teams are expected to share and demonstrate these values:

· We are a user-led organisation, driven by the social model of disability, which sees people as disabled by society rather than by their impairment or difference.

· We make sure everyone is meaningfully involved and included

· We empower choice and control through peer leads and place experts by experience at the forefront of our delivery

· We challenge when things aren’t right and give people facing disabling barriers a strong voice

· We believe it is right to treat people fairly and always behave in a way that is honest and trustworthy even when nobody is looking

· We are a caring and professional organisation who work together towards shared goals

· We work in partnership to deliver exciting new ideas and support each other, our members and our community.

We are proud to have been recognised with an Inclusive Employer award but realise that people from some backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce and across the wider charity sector. A more diverse workforce will enable us to deliver even more impact and we particularly encourage applications from communities which are currently underrepresented. This includes people from ethnically diverse communities, people with lived experience of disability or mental ill health, and people who are neurodiverse.

This role isn’t funded by National Lottery funds, or any other funds raised through the proceeds of a lottery, gambling or through interest or investments.

Make a difference every day at Brent Carers Centre

At Brent Carers Centre, we believe unpaid carers deserve recognition, respect, and support — and so do our staff.

Join our team and be part of a warm, inclusive workforce where compassion meets action.

The role of advice, information and advice worker for the adults team contributes directly to improving the lives of unpaid carers across Brent, giving you the chance to see the impact of your work first-hand.

Whether you’re developing new skills, building lasting relationships, or championing carers’ voices, you’ll find your career here both meaningful and rewarding.

About Brent Carers Centre

· We’re a trusted local charity supporting thousands of unpaid carers across Brent.

• Our services range from advice and advocacy to support groups and activities.
• We work closely with health, social care, and community partners to ensure carers are recognised and supported.
• Our team is passionate, diverse, and committed to making Brent a better place for carers.

The Role

• Delivering high-quality support to carers, helping them navigate services and access the help they need.
• Build strong relationships with carers, professionals, and community organisations.
• Contribute to projects that raise awareness of carers’ needs and champion their rights.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in a supportive, values-driven environment.

What We’re Looking For

• A passion for making a difference in people’s lives.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing needs.
• Previous experience giving benefits advice and information.
• Experience in health, social care, or community work (desirable but not essential).

What We Offer

•  Professional growth: Training, mentoring, and opportunities to develop your career.
•  Inclusive culture: A diverse team where everyone’s voice is valued.
•  Impact: The chance to see the difference your work makes every day.

How to Apply

If you’re ready to join a team where compassion meets action, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us champion carers in Brent. Please complete our application form, submit your c.v a long with a cover letter setting out how you meet the person specification.

Job Title: Development Officer

Closing date: 19 January 2026 17.00 GMT

Interviews TBC

Reports to: Programme Manager  

Location: Min 2 days per week based in North London office,

remote working available for max 3 days a week

Pay: £37,000-£40,000 full time, gross per annum

Type of Contract: One-year fixed term contract

Annual Leave Entitlement: 28 days’ annual leave, including UK bank holidays. 

Pension: 3% employer pension contribution on eligible earnings.

About The Role 

The Development Officer is a key role in The Phoenix Way (TPW). It has a lead responsibility for strengthening organisational effectiveness and sustainability, enhancing the skills, knowledge, and resources of Black and racially minoritised voluntary and community-based organisations.

The Development Officers work will work closely with local community leaders and their staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders to assess needs, develop strategic plans, and implement capacity-building activities that promote growth, resilience, and optimal service delivery within the sector.

We are looking for exceptional candidates who can help developing staff capabilities, build strategic partnerships, and implement programmes that increase organisational capacity to achieve their outcomes. Strong communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills are essential for effectively facilitating change and empowering Black and racially minoritised community groups across TPW Greater London partnership.

Creative Coordinator

Job Title: Creative Coordinator

Closing date: 5 January 26 17.00 GMT

Interviews: 12/13 January in person

Reports to:   Communications Lead

Location: Min 2 days per week based in North London office, remote working available for max 3 days a week

Pay: £37,000-40,000 full time, gross per annum

Contract: One-year fixed term contract

Leave Entitlement: 28 days’ annual leave, including UK bank holidays. 

Pension: 3% employer pension contribution on eligible earnings.

About The Role 

This is a brand-new role and a great opportunity for the right candidate to share their passion and creativity in the social justice space. Ubele is looking to take our communications to the next level. As part of our strategy refresh and pending organisational restructure we are ready to welcome a new team member into this important and valued role.

This role will be responsible for creatively transcribing Ubele’s stories into tangible and exciting content across a variety of mediums. Ubele’s stories and those of the community are worth telling well and this role needs to work across a variety of stakeholders with differing levels of communications expertise to do it.

Creativity is one of the organisational values and storytelling is at the heart of Ubele’s practice. Could you join us in translating that into an impressive communications offering?

The Talent Set is delighted to partner with the fantastic membership association to recruit an Events Manager for a 12-month fixed term contract. This contract position offers an exciting opportunity to lead diverse events and develop strategic partnerships, playing a key part in shaping the organisation’s future conferences and community engagement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver, and oversee a range of events, ensuring operational excellence and alignment with organisational goals.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with external partners, sponsors, and stakeholders at various levels.
• Develop innovative event concepts, incorporating audience and community needs, while ensuring smooth logistical execution.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to support event promotion, registration, and post-event evaluation.
• Contribute to long-term strategic planning for future events in line with organisational objectives.

Person Specification

• Proven experience in managing complex events with excellent logistical and operational oversight.
• Creative approach to event concepts and ability to develop fresh ideas to elevate event offerings.
• Strong relationship-building skills, capable of engaging external partners and stakeholders effectively.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to plan future initiatives aligned with organisational targets.
• Comfortable working in an external-facing role, with excellent communication skills at all levels.
• Experience working with commercial partners or sponsors is advantageous.
• Demonstrates adaptability, maturity, and the ability to hit the ground running.

What’s on Offer

Salary: £28,000 pro rata (equivalent to £35,000 FTE)

Hybrid Working: 1–2 days per week in our Gloucester office

Flexible Hours: Minimum 30-hour contract, with Wednesdays as a required office day

Contract Duration: This is a 12-month position, ideally starting in January.

How to Apply
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the ‘apply now’ button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.

Commitment to Diversity
The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.

Our client provides stability, encouragement and support to people across South East London who are experiencing homelessness. The charity provides a range of services from their Gateway Centre in Deptford, supporting their clients to learn new skills, find work and rebuild positive social networks. They are now recruiting for a Female Intervention Worker to oversee a small caseload of female service users with complex needs.

Working as part of a small, tight-knit team, you will provide triage, assessment and holistic progression planning for service users, identifying and addressing their immediate housing situation as well as wider social, health and wellbeing issues with the ultimate aim of facilitating a pathway out of homelessness. As well as overseeing the Women’s Sanctuary this role focuses on holding a small caseload of women experiencing homelessness and overlapping challenges such as sex work, DA, addiction, trauma or mental ill health. You will build trusting relationships with individuals using and working within the service, and will use a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to deliver flexible, responsive interventions.

To apply for this role, you must have significant experience of working in a client-centered way with vulnerable adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. You must have demonstrable experience of case management and partnership working, and ideally experience of working in a busy day centre, drop-in centre or community outreach setting.

If this sounds like an exciting challenge, please submit with a Word Copy of your CV (further information will be provided to the shortlisted candidates).

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application.  We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply.

Please note, this is initially a fixed term contract until June with possibility of extension.

Please also note, this is a part-time 4 days a week role (Tuesday-Friday 08:45-16:45).

Our partner is seeking an experienced fund accounting consultant to deliver a short, fixed-scope diagnostic review following a recent finance system migration. The focus of this contract is to identify and triage discrepancies in fund balances ahead of an upcoming statutory audit.

This is a standalone Phase 1 engagement, with a clear written diagnostic as the primary output. Any follow-on support would be subject to findings and separately agreed.

Responsibilities

• Carry out a focused diagnostic review of fund balances following a finance system migration.
• Analyse discrepancies between legacy system balances, current system balances, and supporting fund schedules.
• Review available historical fund documentation and reporting to assess consistency and data integrity.
• Assess the treatment of opening balances and brought-forward positions at fund level.
• Identify whether issues are primarily data-driven, configuration-related, or reporting logic-related.
• Evaluate audit and governance risks and the proportionality of potential remediation options.
• Recommend a defensible historical cut-off for fund balances.
• Produce a concise written diagnostic note outlining findings, risks, assumptions, and recommended next steps.

Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Strong experience in charity or NGO fund accounting, including restricted and designated funds.
• Practical experience of finance system migrations and post-migration troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of NetSuite, particularly fund or donor dimensions and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills and confidence working with complex or imperfect data.
• Clear written communicator, able to summarise complex issues succinctly.
• Comfortable working independently on a short, fixed-scope contract

Working Arrangements

• Short-term contract of approximately 5 days.
• Expected start January 2026.
• Fully remote, UK-based.
• Fixed scope Phase 1 engagement with a defined written deliverable.
• Right to work in the UK required.

Our partner is working towards a new strategy launching in 2027 and is seeking external support to review its business and operating model. The organisation is operating in a challenging funding environment, with volatile grant income and a concentrated, ageing donor base, and wants to ensure its future model is financially sustainable, affordable, and resilient.

The review will combine an assessment of income sustainability, cost recovery, and organisational structure. Alongside continued efforts to diversify donor income, they are exploring opportunities for growth and efficiency, including potential changes to their operating model and the feasibility of moving to a dual-entity structure. The consultancy will support senior leadership and trustees to make evidence-based decisions during this transition.

Indicative scope of support includes:

• Reviewing the organisation’s current business model, income profile and cost base, identifying gaps, risks and opportunities for improved financial sustainability.
• Assessing the potential of existing and emerging income streams, the investment required to grow them, and modelling future income scenarios over the medium term.
• Supporting improvements to cost recovery, including benchmarking against peer organisations, refreshing cost recovery policies, and considering adjustments to recovery rates while remaining competitive with donors.
• Reviewing the current organisational and operating structure to identify efficiencies and alternative ways of working, including consideration of a dual-entity or other revised operating models.
• Modelling the financial and operational implications of proposed changes and supporting senior leadership through facilitated discussions and decision-making.

Requirements

• A senior finance leader (preferably qualified accountant) with expereince supporting a complex international charity through a period of transition, including reviewing and redesigning operating models.
• Experience in multi-year financial planning, scenario modelling, cost reduction and cash management. 
• Experience of ideveloping commercial business models and raising investment is strongly desirable.

Working arrangements

• It is expected the consultancy will take 15-20 days
• Expected start date is January/February 2026, with the work to be completed within the first quarter of 2026
• Mainly remote in the UK with some meetings in their London office
• Right to work in the UK essential

Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - Glasgow
Hours: 35 hours per week, Full-time
Salary: £40,295 per annum (rest of UK)
Benefits: Read more about the
Contract type: Fixed-term until August 2026
Travel: Travel between our Glasgow office and the Scottish Parliament will be required on a monthly basis with additional occasional travel around Scotland.
Closing date: 23:59 hours, Monday 05 January 2026

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

About the role

As part of Scotland's policy and influencing team, you will play a critical role in shaping and influence policy thinking, managing time-sensitive projects across our policy priority areas, and building relationships with stakeholders and decision-makers across Scotland.

You will gather, analyse, and share information about external policy developments and their implications for people with arthritis, developing policy positions, producing evidence-based briefings and reports and contributing to consultation responses.

As well as working closely with nation influencing colleagues and teams across the Services and Devolved Nations Directorate, you will work closely with the UK Advocacy and Health Intelligence team, Research Directorate and Strategic Communications teams, including representing us on cross-sector policy groups and participating in events and conferences.

We'll give you autonomy, variety and challenge with opportunities to lead projects, to work together with inspirational campaigners and people with arthritis, as well as collaborate with senior Scottish Government and NHS Scotland stakeholders. We're a supportive team who will value your well-being and professional development.

About you

You will have ready-made resourcefulness, be a creative thinker, with strong analytical, written and verbal communications skills. An enthusiastic, adaptive and flexible approach is important, together with an ability to work with autonomy and across teams as well as:

• Experience of influencing external policy and decision making within Scotland.
• Understanding of current healthcare policy issues relevant to people with long-term conditions or disability.
• Experience of drafting policy papers and briefings, and the ability to understand and articulate academic research and policy papers.

*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings.

As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Application deadline and shortlisting 

• We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Please note that we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during our recruitment and selection processes, and we would respectfully ask that you also refrain from using AI during the selection process. Whilst we do recognise that AI may be a beneficial tool for some when aiding research and preparation for an application or interview, we want to maintain a fair, inclusive and positive recruitment experience at Arthritis UK where candidates can feel supported to demonstrate their experience, knowledge, and skills without the use of AI generated answers.

Interview

First interviews expected in week commencing Monday 12 January 2026 at Edward House, Glasgow.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That's one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life - affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as 'just a bit of arthritis'. We don't think that this is OK. Arthritis UK is here to change that.

Arthritis UK is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Starlight has a long and successful track record of delivering high-profile, high-value special events, including the prestigious Blenheim Ball, Newbury Race Day, and until recently, the Highclere Clay Pigeon Shoot. These events are supported by influential committees and play a critical role in raising income, stewarding donors and connecting supporters with our purpose.

With a gap in our Philanthropy team and maternity leave expected to begin in March, this 18-month fixed-term role exists to lead and deliver Starlight’s flagship events at a senior level, with immediate responsibility for the Blenheim Ball (April) –  the event Tatler refers to as “ society’s smartest ball “chaired by Lady Alexandra Spencer Churchill; and Newbury Race Day (May) – one of Starlight’s longest-standing and most successful supporter events, hosted by Nicky Henderson and his Committee.

This is a senior, delivery-focused role designed for an experienced events professional who can hit the ground running and immediately take ownership of two flagship events. Working closely with the Committees, you will bring leadership, strategic judgement and outstanding project management to ensure these events continue to excel in reputation, income and supporter experience.

We are specifically looking for talented individuals who have a short notice period and are available to start in January. Candidates need only apply if available through to April 2026 with no planned significant periods of leave.