An opportunity has arisen within the Finance Team for a qualified Finance Business Partner interested in managing the development of business processes and reports across the different funds of the Trussell Trust, creating and implementing process improvements and reconciling information between the CRM and finance systems.

If you are looking for a role in this area and you are passionate about the work of The Trussell Trust, we’d love to hear from you.

For more information and to apply for this role please click on the button below and then follow the instructions given.

Please note, incomplete or speculative applications will not be considered.

We’re excited to announce that in April 2019, Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now united to create one charity for everyone affected by breast cancer. From research to care, our new charity has people affected by the disease at its heart – providing support for today and hope for the future. United, we can carry out even more world-class research, provide even more life-changing support and campaign even more effectively for better services and care.

By bringing together our passion, energy, expertise, funds and networks, we will make greater progress in more effective ways to make sure that, by 2050, everyone who develops breast cancer will live and receive the support they need to live well.

The role

The Community Fundraising Executive role will be expected to deliver excellent, personalised supporter care and event stewardship to our Community supporters. This will include managing our community email inbox and dealing with telephone queries in a professional manner. In addition, the Community Executive will be expected to send out engaging thank you letters to our community supporters. The role will also assist the Community Operations Manager in managing the stock for our community fundraising materials.

About you

You will have a background in providing excellent customer/supporter care.

You will also have considerable experience using a customer or supporter database system. We require a person with strong attention to detail, that is well organised, and who has excellent Microsoft Office skills.

If you have a keen eye for detail and enjoy a fast-moving working environment, then this new job role may suit you.

To succeed in this role, you will need to enjoy working as part of team, sharing information and helping to ensure that the team meets their set standards and targets.

Closing date: 7 October

Interview date: TBC

Online Evangelism  -  Part time from home  -   £20 per hour,  5 hours a week
You are joining a team of 3 that work with Churches and charities to help promote their evangelism online.

Originally we ran our own Facebook missions - Soul Search (facebook/soulsearch4uk/ about 470k followers, mainly online worship) and Debating Society (facebook/debating/ about 100k followers, and mainly apologetics).
Since the end of last year we are now working to promote other people's evangelism.

Job Title: Marketing Campaigns Coordinator

Department: Marketing

Location:  Whittington

Salary: Dependent on experience

Working Hours: 37.5 hrs Monday – Friday

Application Review date: 6th October 2019

Interview date: Week commencing 14th October 2019

This post has responsibility for the delivery of marketing campaigns for St Giles Hospice. You will be project managing campaigns from inception to completion in collaboration with our internal departments, particularly; Fundraising, Promotions, Lottery and Shops to ensure they fully implement their marketing plans in order to generate funds for St Giles. You will work with the Marketing Manager to devise, implement and report on campaigns as part of the annual income generation marketing calendar.

St Giles launched its 5 year strategy in April 2017, has successfully rebranded and is at an exciting point in its development. Fundraising will be key to its success and marketing is crucial to support this.

Company benefits:

To reward the hard work of our fantastic staff, St Giles Hospice offers an excellent benefits package as per the below;

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 35 days with service)

• Contributory pension scheme

• Free car parking

• Training and development opportunities as well as progression within the organisation.

About us:

St Giles Hospice is a registered charity offering high-quality specialist care free of charge for people living with diseases which may not be curable as well as providing support for their families and carers.

Services include a team of community-based St Giles clinical nurse specialists, two state of the art in-patient facilities, Day Hospice, Hospice at Home, Bereavement and Family Support, and an internationally renowned Lymphoedema Clinic. 

Patients come from across the hospice's catchment area, which ranges from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Atherstone in the east, to Cannock and Walsall in the west – and from Burton and Uttoxeter in the north, to Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill in the south.

Care is offered at the hospice's centres in Whittington, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall and in patients' own homes across the region.

St Giles spends over £9 million a year providing its specialist services and with little more than a third of this funded by the Government, the registered charity relies heavily on donations and income generation from the local community.

St Giles employee approximately 450 paid staff and over 1,500 volunteers.

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

We may review applications before the application review date, however, if you apply after the application review date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.

All correspondence in response to applications will be sent via email.  Due to the number of applications received, it is not always possible to respond to every application.  Therefore, applicants who do not receive a response within 14 days of the review date should assume that they have been unsuccessful.

St Giles Hospice, Fisherwick Road, Whittington, Lichfield, WS14 9LH. Registered charity 509014 Company limited by guarantee 1430090

Hammersmith & Fulham Save Our NHS (H&FSON) is a campaigning organisation set up by residents in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, initially to campaign against the downgrading/closure of Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals. Since Charing Cross Hospital has now been saved, H&FSON now campaigns against cuts and privatisation in local community, primary and secondary NHS services and works with other campaign groups in NW London and nationally to protect the NHS as a publicly funded and publicly provided health service free at the point of delivery.

Legacy Officer

35 hours per week / Permanent

Closing Date: 14 October 2019

Interview Date: w/c 21 October 2019

About the team

The Legacy Administration Team is one-third of the Legacy Team and works closely with the Central and Regional Legacy Marketing Teams. An opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual to join our successful Legacy Team. After years of growth, we are looking to expand our Legacy Administration Team to include an additional Legacy Officer. If you'd like to become a valued member of our Marie Curie Team, please read on…

About the role

This role will be responsible for a dedicated caseload that includes pecuniary, residuary and reversionary legacies, ensuring that Marie Curie receives its full entitlement in a timely manner, whilst protecting our reputation and adding value to gifts, where possible.

You will ensure legacies are allocated in restricted and unrestricted funds in accordance with the will and ensure strict observance of the Law Society's Guidelines on Non-Contentious costs. Whilst closely monitoring legacy case files on a regular basis, you will take appropriate action to move cases through to completion as smoothly and quickly as possible ensuring relationships are developed and nurtured.

There will also be opportunities to work on personal and team projects that are borne from our updated Legacy Strategy.

About you

An ambassador for Marie Curie who embodies our values and exudes passion and enthusiasm about the work we do.

You will be confident, personable and be able to demonstrate solid experience of legacy administration and who has an understanding of probate law. You should be highly numerate with an excellent eye for detail - accuracy is of the upmost importance. We are looking for someone with excellent written and verbal communication and a team player.

The ideal candidate will be well organized, self-motivated and supporter driven. A focused individual with excellent interpersonal skills will excel in this role.

Experience of using a legacy database is essential - FirstClass 4 would be highly desirable, but this is not a requirement as training will be provided.

It truly is an exciting time to join Marie Curie so if you think you fit the bill then we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left. Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

This role may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Closing Date: Midnight 6th October 2019
Interviews:  TBC

We are currently recruiting for 2 Lead Workers to join our Newham SORT team. This a new service and forms part of a significant increase in the boroughs complement of services to improve its response to rough sleeping.  Newham SORT works to reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough. Newham has some of the highest numbers of rough sleepers in London and working in this team will give you an opportunity to make a real difference to rough sleeping.

If you are looking to use your existing knowledge and experience of working with homeless people to move into a role where you will have more influence and responsibility and be able to work to resolve the homelessness of some of the most complex rough sleeping clients in London this may be the opportunity you are looking for.

This post will give you the opportunity to build on your ability to carry out assessments, identify options, devise plans to achieve these and oversee a multi-agency problem solving approach with people who may have a history of challenging services.

With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills to enable you to create and deliver options for people where these may be hard to find. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development.

To be successful you’ll need to have the interpersonal skills and the commitment, patience and perseverance required to work with a case load of complex rough sleepers and the confidence in public speaking to enable you to represent Thames Reach and speak about our work to our partners. As we work in partnership with enforcement agencies such as the Police and local authority enforcement teams, you’ll be comfortable doing this and will be able to speak to others about the benefits of this joint working approach.

You will have the confidence and knowledge to supervise volunteers and the strong I.T skills needed to be able to collect, collate and interpret information and statistics on rough sleeping and present these in external meetings. You will need to have the ability to be flexible and responsive to meet the needs of rough sleepers, including being available for some early and late shifts.

At Thames Reach we are driven and committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in service delivery to vulnerable people.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:

– Support to develop your leadership and strategic skills.

– A contributory pension scheme, tuition aid and management specific training.

– 29 days holiday and 8 paid bank holidays.

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

This is a part-time position and you will be working across the Student Voice Department in order to coordinate the academic and social policy work of the Students’ Union. The role will involve delivering briefings on academic policy to stakeholders, identifying trends and providing support with academic advice and guidance. The successful candidate should have experience of working within a representation, advocacy or social policy role, have strong communication and public speaking skills and an interest in Higher Education issues. 

If this post sounds like the kind of challenge for you, application packs and further details are available from our website. This post is a part time, permanent contract, looking to start as soon as possible.

Closing date- Sunday 6th October 2019

Interviews- 14th & 15th October 2019

Job title: Grants Officer Level 1

Region: London HQ

Directorate: Operations

Contract: Permanent

 35 Hours per week

Salary: £26,215 per annum (£21,763 plus £4,452 London Weighting)

About The Royal British Legion

The Legion is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community through thick and thin – ensuring their unique contribution is never forgotten. We’ve been here since 1921 and we’ll be here as long as they need us.

Our Values and Behaviours

Does the following describe you?

• A desire to provide a great customer service and support

• Enjoy and thrive in working in teams and with others

• Passionate about supporting the Armed Forces community and honouring their contribution

• Come to work each day to be the best you can and to learn and develop

• An encourager, eager to share your knowledge and experience to help others

If so then we would like to hear from you ….

The Role

The Royal British Legion is recruiting a Grants Officer (level 1) within its Grants Department. This dynamic team assesses a high volume of grants applications relating to people who are eligible to receive support from The Legion, provides information and guidance to colleagues, and generally supports the centralised aspects of the Legion grant audit and fulfilment processes.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate empathy and judgement while maintaining service standards and helping to safeguard the Legion’s finite funds. The roles involve considerable liaison with external charities and agencies and it is anticipated that successful candidates will be experienced, tactful communicators.

How to Apply

Please apply by clicking ‘Apply Online’

Closing date for this role is: Monday 7th October

Assistant Data Manager
Reference number: A1910919
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary starting at: £17,276 to £18,716 per annum - Applicants should expect under normal circumstances to receive an offer at the bottom of the advertised range
Hours: Full time
Contract: 6 months

The Conservation Data Management Unit (CDMU) are a highly skilled and innovative team, who oversee all aspects of mapping and data management at RSPB. This includes managing and supporting Merlin (our in-house conservation database, mapping and reporting system) as well as various commercial GIS software packages, tools and apps. We work with staff and volunteers from across the whole organisation to disseminate best practice in data collection, management and archiving and provide training and support in GIS and data management. We also provide various consultancy services to the RSPB and its partners, creating maps, undertaking spatial analyses and keeping up to date with new technologies around mobile data collection and remote sensing tools, to ensure the RSPB is able to make optimal use of these for conservation.

We are looking for a full-time Assistant Data Manager to join the Data Management Services section of CDMU for 6 months, based at our Headquarters in Bedfordshire. The Data Management Services team provide a wide range of services to many different parts of the RSPB - our day-to-day tasks range from working with reserves staff to ensure that monitoring data they're collecting in the field are correctly entered into our database, advising project staff on the best ways to collect and manage priority species data, running remote training courses on how to use our in-house species database and GIS system (Merlin), developing and delivering interactive webinars on species data management, liaising with other conservation organisations to facilitate data flows and working with RSPB ecologists to improve our in-house species recording processes.

You will have excellent computing skills with experience of using Excel to manipulate data, a keen eye for detail and an understanding of GIS and data management. You will need to be a good communicator, who is confident liaising with colleagues and supporting our GIS users on the phone, over email and in person.

This will be a good opportunity to learn how to use new software and tools related to data and information management, so an aptitude and enthusiasm for learning new skills will be essential and an interest in ecology or natural history is highly desirable.

This is a great opportunity to join a friendly and dynamic team, where you'll have the chance to develop your data management skills and help to ensure that RSPB have the very best data management and dissemination practices in place, to enable well-informed decision-making for conservation.

Closing date: 14 October 2019
Interview date: 30 October 2019

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.

This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.

When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number A1910919 on any correspondence.

No agencies please.  

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a global research and learning organisation for equitable and sustainable change, based in Brighton

The Finance Team at IDS are currently seeking to recruit a Contracts and Compliance Support Officer to support the IDS Contracts and Compliance Manager and wider research teams in ensuring that the way the institute manages its contracts with sub-contractors and partners is efficient, effective and legally compliant. As well as providing support to the institute as a whole, this role will provide targeted support for the DFID funded Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) programme.

Applicants will be qualified to degree or equivalent level of higher education and have experience in drafting and finalising contractual agreements with individuals and organisations. Due to the nature of the CREID programme, cultural sensitivity and excellent communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate financial matters in straightforward English to a wide array of stakeholders is of particular importance. 

Sheffield plus outreach work across South Yorkshire

Closing date: 13 October 2019 at 11.30pm

Are you a client-focused individual with proven experience of providing welfare benefit and debt advice? Then join Shelter as an Advice, Support & Guidance Worker and you could soon be playing a key role within a vital programme in South Yorkshire.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Funded by the Big Lottery and the European Union Social Fund Building Better Opportunities (Sheffield City Region) is being delivered by South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) and partners that include Shelter. It will provide an integrated, strengths-based employment service for people with physical and mental health conditions, people with learning disabilities and people from disadvantaged communities. Shelter has been chosen to provide specialist Welfare Benefits & Debt Advice to clients in the programme on an outreach basis across the Barnsley, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Rotherham & Sheffield areas. It's here that we need your help.

About the role
Working in partnership with South Yorkshire Housing Association and other BBO partners, your challenge will be to help ensure the service is delivered successfully and achieves the required outcomes. Your main focus will be on providing free, impartial and confidential advice to clients referred as part of the programme. Indeed, you’ll provide information and guidance on a range of different topics related to Welfare Benefits and Debt. In a typical day you might help clients make informed decisions about returning to work and its financial impact or assess whether they’re claiming all the benefits they’re entitled to. Supporting applications for benefits, including appeals and tribunals, advising about managing debt and liaising with third party organisations on your client’s behalf – all are aspects of this interesting and varied role.
About you
A great communicator who is commercially aware and results-driven, experience of working with vulnerable people or people with multiple and complex needs is key, as is a good understanding of the safeguarding framework. What’s more, you’re comfortable working with a wide variety of stakeholders, both statutory and non-statutory. A full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes is also required, for which an essential car user allowance will be paid. You’ll need to be proficient using a range of IT tools to carry out your work too, including case management systems, Microsoft Office applications, internet and email etc., while the ability to type is preferred.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to join our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week

Location: Bristol

This is an exciting opportunity to join The Prince’s Trust’s Contract Management team as a Contract Executive within our South team.

Key to our success is our engagement with a wide variety of public sector and private funding sources.  This needs effective contract management to allow us to maximise our draw-down, keep local delivery informed of Funder’s requirement and ensure that all relevant and eligible expenditure is included in claims.  This role is pivotal to this success.

This role is responsible for ensuring we maximise our contracted income in compliance with our funding agreements by compiling and submitting claims and reports to the Funders in a timely manner, and working effectively across The Prince’s Trusts Operations, Finance and Fundraising teams in a proactive manner. 

The successful candidate will require excellent planning and organisational skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities and work to strict deadlines.  Excellent attention to detail is required along with good Excel skills. Some previous finance experience is also required. 

To learn more about the role, please download the job description.

About The Prince’s Trust

The Prince's Trust is a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome.

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.  Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.  We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.  We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince’s Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince’s Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application.  To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of The Prince’s Trust Behavioural Framework.

A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we'd like a helping hand. We'll be in touch if we need you.

The Connection at St Martin’s (CSTM) is based in the heart of London, near Charing Cross Station and Trafalgar Square. CSTM has been helping homeless people since the First World War and is one of London’s largest homelessness charities. CSTM helps 3000 people each year through delivery of services for rough sleepers and people who are vulnerably housed.

Alongside our own fundraising and some statutory work, the charity benefits from the BBC Radio 4 Christmas Appeal, run by our partners - St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity. CSTM has a high profile, a sound financial footing and an ambitious new 5 year strategy. We are recruiting for a Facilities Manager to join our Corporate Services Team to help take forward our plans by:

· Delivering facilities and IT which support excellent service delivery;

· Managing our Landlord and tenant relationships to promote efficiency and team work;

· Ensuring buildings are compliant, safe, effective and environmentally efficient;

· Delivering facilities services internally as an effective, responsive business partner;

· Ensuring our IT is effective, secure and compliant for all users.

The successful candidate will have a track record in facilities management. They will be able to provide really excellent facilities support to underpin service delivery for homeless people. They will be confident and experienced in handling contractors and suppliers to achieve best value. They will be resourceful with budgets. Finally, they must be a highly effective communicator across a wide range of stake holders including clients, staff, volunteers and our partners on the St Martins site.

Closing date: Monday 7th October 2019.

Interview date: Wednesday 16th October 2019.

So, are you ready to take on this exciting opportunity?

To apply, please read and then complete the application form, ensuring that you have clearly demonstrated that you meet the requirements of the role set out in the person specification.