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Join Affinity Trust as Director of Quality Improvement and Compliance
- Location: Hybrid with frequent travel to our Head Office for Executive Meetings, and national travel to our support locations.
- Head Office: Thame, Oxfordshire
- Salary: £100,000 per annum
- Car Allowance: £6,200
- Governance: You will be the Nominated Individual and Caldicott Guardian
With the right support, anything is possible
We are looking for a collaborative and visible leader—ideally from within social care or a closely related sector—who has significant experience leading a Quality or Operations function across a large and diverse set of services.
Through your engagement with regulators, networks, and professional bodies, you will bring external insight into the organisation and help us stay at the forefront of best practice in quality and compliance.
About us
We are Affinity Trust, a national charity with over 30 years' experience supporting children, young people, and adults with learning disabilities, autism, and other needs.
With nearly 2,500 colleagues and services across England and Scotland, we are values-led, financially strong, and driven by a single purpose: supporting people to live their life, their way.
Why this role matters
This is a pivotal, high-impact role. As Director of Quality Improvement & Compliance, you will play a central part in shaping how we continuously raise the standard of support across Affinity Trust.
You will lead our approach to quality, improvement and co-production — ensuring we have the systems, insights, and culture needed to deliver consistently excellent, person-centred support.
You will influence practice across our services by working in close partnership with operational leaders, providing the challenge, guidance, and support needed to embed sustainable improvements.
You’ll also champion innovation—harnessing the potential of digital tools and outcomes measurement to improve how we understand, assess, and enhance the lives of the people we support.
Above all, your work will be vital in helping us live out our core belief: that with the right support, anything is possible. This role is key to Achieving More Together.
What you’ll bring
We're looking for:
- A proven, senior leader from social care or a similar regulated sector.
- Deep understanding of quality, compliance, and safeguarding in complex service environments.
- Strategic acumen paired with empathy, collaboration, and a values-driven approach.
- Passion for co-production, data-informed improvement, and empowering people to thrive.
- Experience engaging with regulators (CQC/Care Inspectorate), driving innovation, and leading high-performing teams.
Benefits
- £100,000 salary + £6,200 car allowance
- 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Private healthcare, enhanced pension, life insurance, and Blue Light discounts
- Hybrid flexibility, national influence, and deep local impact
Ready to be part of something extraordinary?
Apply by: 27 July 2025
Interviews: 28 August 2025
For more information, please refer to the candidate pack attached to this advert.
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“Without [Tramshed] youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize.” – Alumni and Ambassador Bernardine Evaristo
Tramshed Arts Ltd is a community arts charity in Southeast London. As Woolwich’s home of participation, we change perspectives and increase social cohesion, through offering creative spaces across generations of the local community.
Job Purpose:
The Business Development Manager will play an integral role in growing our organisation and securing its future. You will develop authentic important relationships and partnerships to:
· Increase and diversify sustainable income streams, making the best use of our creative community space and talent.
· Foster connections with local businesses to attract corporate sponsorship and payroll giving.
· Research new opportunities for raising income such as events and training programmes.
You will be inspiring, ambitious, and unafraid to do things differently whilst embracing our core value of being a truly inclusive community space.
Benefits include some hybrid working, friendly team, accessible working space, 6 complimentary tickets per season for you or your friends and family, Continued Professional Development plan.
For the full role specification please refer to the attached JD.
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Are you passionate about people, place and community?
Do you want to help shape a thriving, inclusive space at the heart of Claremont, Blackpool?
Claremont Park Community Centre is looking for a Centre & Community Coordinator to build on the strong foundations already in place, both within our Centre and across the wider community. This role will focus on developing and enhancing what already works well, alongside identifying areas for development, reaching even more residents of Claremont and helping our Centre grow as a welcoming, inclusive hub for our community.
This exciting new role will combine operational centre management with proactive community engagement. You’ll work closely with residents, partners and the centre’s trustees to ensure Claremont Park Community Centre meets the needs and interests of our community.
You’ll coordinate and deliver meaningful engagement activities, including externally funded projects and community-led events. You’ll also play a key role in implementing ideas from our People’s Plan and other local strategies, helping to create a stronger, more connected Claremont.
From managing centre bookings to hosting local groups, building relationships and bringing new ideas and activities into our space, this is a varied, hands-on role perfect for someone who cares about community and wants to make a tangible difference.
You’ll be supported by a forward-thinking trustee board and line manage a small team of Cost of Living Support Workers.
If you’re organised, community-minded and ready to take on a rewarding challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 16th July 2025.
Interviews will take place on: Thursday 24th July 2025.
Creating a thriving Claremont where everyone feels welcome, connected, valued and hopeful about the future.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Could you lead our Flagship LGBTQI+ specialist mental health service? Islington Mind have an exciting opportunity to apply for the of role Outcome Senior Team Leader (LGBTQI+ specialist service). Due to the ethos of the project and funding requirements we are seeking a person from the LGBTQI+ community to lead this multifaceted service. Islington Mind has worked alongside volunteers and service users for over 40 years to co-create a unique, supportive and therapeutic LGBTQI+ community, supporting people with mental health difficulties. This role offers the opportunity to join a well-established, skilled and committed team. Please see the Job description for the full range of duties and role requirements.
We offer:
- An inclusive and supportive work environment
- Competitive salary
- 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (Pro rata for part time hours)
- A pension scheme
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
If you are interested, please visit our website, view the full job description and download the following documents:
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The Monitoring Form
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About Women in Prison
Women in Prison is a national, women-led, feminist organisation. We deliver front line support to women harmed by the criminal justice system, through our work in prisons, in the community and ‘through the prison gate’ as they resettle back into their communities. We also campaign for systems change that addresses the root causes of offending, reduces the harmful impact of prison, and creates workable, community-based alternatives to imprisonment.
Job Description:
Job Purpose:
Women in Prison’s South London Women’s Hubs provide support and advocacy to women at different points of the criminal justice system – whether they are at risk of offending, serving a community sentence, or in custody and leaving prison. The primary purpose of this role is to work with women in custody, including on remand, offering support to prepare for release and connect them with vital community support services prior to and on release from prison.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Provide high-quality, trauma-responsive advocacy one to one and group support in prison, to women on remand in HMP Bronzefield, HMP Downview and HMP Send
- Development and maintenance of professional relations in prison and the community
- Ensure clear, timely and effective communication and record keeping
- Proactively seek to develop your personal and professional practice, and contribute to wider organisational development
- Contribute to building a feminist leadership culture and positive working environment for Women in Prison
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for an ambitious and strategic Development Director to shape the future and income streams for our museum & mill . This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to build a ground up strategy and lead the development of an ambitious organisation.
Thanks to generous funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Pilgrim Trust, The Headley Trust, Granada Foundation & Arts Council England, The Silk Heritage Trust is embarking on an ambitious 18-month development programme Strengthening The Future of Macclesfield's Heritage.The Trust is working to establish The Silk Museum and Paradise Mill as a national centre for silk heritage and heritage textile crafts. Strengthening The Future of Macclesfield’s Heritage moves the Trust towards this vision, strengthening fundraising capacity plus staff and board skills, to provide a solid foundation for the future.
The Trust has achieved a great deal over the last 5 years, securing funding from public sources, trusts, and foundations. This newly created role will build on this success and attract substantial support from individuals and corporate sources. It involves working with internal and external stakeholders to raise funds for core funding, projects, and capital campaigns. It is envisaged that the post-holder will work with Trustees and staff to establish a Development sub-group to inform and drive this work. Strategic planning and communications are key to this. This role will drive forward new plans for individual giving, philanthropy and fundraising to significantly rebuild the Trust’s reserves.
Role:
To lead the Trust’s work towards financial resilience through broadening its income streams
To increase voluntary income from funders and philanthropists by 50%, reflating free reserves, through an ambitious Development & Fundraising Strategy
To initiate, lead, and deliver projects to develop and transform the work, premises, and staff of the Silk Museum & Paradise Mill, working with consultancy support to:
· Develop a 3-5 year business plan
· Cost and plan options for tackling the site:
o Limitations to accessibility and visitor welcome
o Constraints to income generation
o significant challenges to building maintenance, environmental sustainability, care, and display of our collections
o rising energy costs
· Secure funding for major conservation, building repairs and organisational development.
To build a new supporter community and membership offer to attract supporters and philanthropists for the Trust’s development plans
To build and lead strong relationships with partners for collaboration, fundraising, and sponsorship
To drive strong working relationships and communication with Museum staff, volunteers, and Trustees, to develop a broad fundraising ethos, including training and mentoring to Trustees and Museum staff
To keep current with fundraising sector developments, approaches, and opportunities
Specific Responsibilities and Duties:
Development
· Review and develop the Trust’s Development & Fundraising Strategy, identifying and pursuing fundraising opportunities, campaigns, and funding applications in line with this strategy, including:
o Trusts and foundations
o Statutory funders
o Corporate support and partnerships
o a new legacies programme, Supporters, and individual giving programmes
· Maximise income and in-kind support through fundraising activities onsite and online, including events and sponsorship, to engage current supporters and cultivate new relationships.
· Ensure that all fundraising activities are delivered professionally and timely to ensure maximum and meaningful engagement
· Manage the evaluation of fundraising activities and prepare and submit reports to key stakeholders.
· Deliver reporting for statutory funders, ensuring that the museum delivers on its reporting requirements in a timely manner.
General responsibilities and duties
· Oversee the work of the Programming Team (Senior Curator, Paradise Mill; Museum Curator; Community Engagement Programmer) in delivering, evaluating, and reporting on existing funded programmes, including Arts Council CIP, Pilgrim Trust, Granada Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Macclesfield Town Council.
· Contribute to the success and culture of The Silk Heritage Trust
· Interact and cooperate proactively with all employees, trustees, and volunteers, ensuring good teamwork.
· Manage performance of staff, volunteers, and researchers as appropriate and in line with the Trust’s performance management processes.
· Make best use of technology across our activities.
· Support effective communications and promotion of The Silk Museum and Paradise Mill
· Work flexibly at times and on occasions that connect with the needs of audiences and communities.
· Ensure we are adhering to and compliant with our policies, processes, and statutory obligations.
· Help to ensure any barriers to equality of opportunity are removed and to eliminate unfair and unlawful discrimination, giving everyone an equal chance to learn, work and live free from discrimination and prejudice.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and target driven individual with experience of delivering investment from wide range of funding streams. The successful candidate will have a passion for storytelling, relationship building and strong negotiation, networking, and stewardship skills. You will know the complexities of working with funders and stakeholders and are able to develop strong long-term relationships, resulting in investment.
Diversity and equality within our workforce, programmes and approaches is crucial to our mission of being inclusive and relevant to our communities. We want everyone to feel welcome. We, therefore, particularly welcome applications from candidates under-represented at The Silk Museum and within the heritage sector, including Global Majority candidates and/or candidates with disabilities.
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KEY DETAILS
DISCLAIMER: THERE IS AN OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR THIS POST HOLDER TO BE A CHRISTIAN. See section below for more information.
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Job title: Operations Manager
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Flexible schedule across at least 4 days, core hours from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm) with occasional need to work out of hours.
Salary: £32,400 to £36,000 depending on experience
Contract: 12 months with potential/possibility of extension
Reports to: Church Leadership Team (Ministers and Trustees)
Location: Westbourne Grove Church, London W11 (Please note that the nature of the role means that hybrid working is not an option)
Closing date and how to apply:
8.30am on Friday 18th July 2025.
FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS, HOW TO APPLY AND COVER LETTER INFO, SEE DOCUMENT ATTACHED.
Other essential information: You must have the right to work in the UK and/or a visa that allows you to work in the UK for the duration of this contract. The Trustees are willing to consider sponsoring a visa for this role.
ABOUT THE CHURCH
We welcome everyone to join with us in discovering Jesus and sharing God’s love, especially by caring for those in need.
Located in a multicultural and socioeconomically diverse neighbourhood, the church actively promotes inclusion, stands against racism and discrimination, and is an equal opportunity employer.
OUR ETHOS – GUIDING VALUES AND IDEALS
We believe that God is loving, good and just, and chooses to reveal himself to us! He made humans in his image, so we’re designed to live in relationship with him and with each other in community. The world is currently not as God wants, and his plan is to renew the whole of creation. He invites and calls us to the privilege of working with him on this mission.
With this in mind, we want to reflect God’s love and character in our values and actions.
OUR VALUES
- We value growing in relationship with God in a wide variety of ways - welcoming questions and doubts as vital parts of learning and growing. We long for people to know Jesus and follow Him.
- We build relationships on love, compassion, and mutual respect.
- We treat everyone with kindness and dignity, caring especially for those in need, and seeking justice and reconciliation.
- We seek to reflect God’s generosity, integrity and honesty in business.
- We share our beautiful building with the local community and offer a place of belonging, hope, and participation.
- We believe leadership is servant-hearted, and all are encouraged to take part.
- We seek to express encouragement, forgiveness, and lasting hope.
OUR WORK AND MISSION
Our church activities flow out of our community's passions and interests, aiming to embody God's character in all we do.
OPERATIONS MANAGER - ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
The Operations Manager is a key support for the church’s leadership and heads the staff team providing management over key operational and missional areas of the church’s activities.
This leadership role supports the ethos and ministries of the church and its mission to be a church for the community - discovering Jesus, sharing God’s love, and caring for those in need.
A vital aim for our church’s work in the local community is that our staff relationships, our Venue ministry, our Christian hospitality and how we use and share our building should all reflect God’s character - showing compassion, generosity, and kindness.
The role has a lot of different components, so we’re looking for someone who sees all aspects of this job as an expression of the church’s mission to proclaim the Good News and will facilitate and serve the congregation, the staff and the volunteer teams as they creatively explore ways to express our Christian ethos through the life and ministries of the church. This therefore requires that they are someone who has a mature Christian faith.
They will need to be a “servant“ leader who is mentally agile, energetic, able to schedule and prioritise, a good delegator, a team player, a quick learner and capable of taking initiatives, with a healthy understanding of self-care - we’re not looking for a “hero”, but someone who can work sustainability.
Leadership:
- Work closely with the church leadership team to support the trustees, staff and congregation in the development of church vision, ethos, mission and ministries.
- Create a positive, Christian work environment, and cultivate supportive team working relationships and working practices that align with the church’s mission.
- Lead the staff team, providing effective leadership, management, administration, recruitment, and staff development. Facilitate the team as they represent the church’s values in the day-to-day open house ministries of the church.
- The Operations Manager must be able to represent the church and the church’s Christian ethos in the absence of the Minister.
Building Management:
- Support and develop initiatives that enable every aspect of the building's use, welcome and presentation to be missional.
- Provide effective management, administration, organisation, maintenance, and development of the WGC church buildings and equipment.
- Coordinate with the Estate Manager to develop long-term maintenance plans for the common parts areas of the building.
- Provide the Trustees with regular building management reports.
Compliance and Legal Administration:
Provide effective management, administration, organisation, and compliance with UK laws, for:
- The maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment.
- Safeguarding, equality and inclusion.
- HR matters including safe recruitment, induction, training and employee development.
- GDPR
- Matters relating to Westbourne Grove CIO charity’s Trust Deeds, Constitution and Church Rules, and leasehold responsibilities.
- Requirements as a registered charity (CIO) including timely submission of reports to the Charity Commission.
- Develop and implement policies, risk assessments and safe working procedures and keep them regularly updated and reviewed. Ensure policies and safe working practices are adhered to.
- Provide adequate information, training and supervision to ensure employees and volunteers are competent to do their work.
- Lead in communications with the freeholder, the management company, the estate manager, and church tenants. Oversee any necessary legal input for decision-making and work closely with the WGC Trustees, and external organisations on decisions relating to the common parts of the building.
- Keep administrative records. Provide reports for the Trustees.
Administrative Services and Support:
- Provide administrative support for the Ministers. Develop and maintain administrative, organisational, communications systems and record keeping procedures for the church’s general administration. Maintain membership and constitutional records.
- Administrate the church's IT infrastructure, broadband, phone systems, and utilities accounts and ensure they meet the operational needs of the building and its ministries.
- Assist the Venue Manager to develop and maintain suitable and effective systems, strategy, pricing, communications, contract management, staffing and customer relations.
- Develop the church’s visibility and profile in the community using the church’s website, social media, ArtSpace, and missional displays and exhibitions, ensuring these align with the church’s ethos and mission.
Financial Oversight:
- Oversee provision of financial management information to Leadership team and Trustees, including budgeting, salaries, financial reports, end-of-year statements. Support them in developing financial strategies and policies.
- Oversee the accurate functioning of church financial systems, controls and procedures. Monitor and administrate reserves and investments.
- Ensure WGC's financial practices comply with UK charity regulations. Assist with the filing of the accounts and annual report to the Charity Commission.
Provide financial oversight, management, and support for:
- Venue ministry finances, pricing and strategy
- Finance Administration - ensure all financial records, payroll, pension administration, invoices, and reports are accurate and timely. Authorise payments.
- Manage the buildings budget including liaising with the Estate Manager regarding common parts expenditure.
- Financial interactions with lease and licence holders including new leases, rent reviews, break clauses and lease renewals, insurance contributions.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential Personal Skills and Characteristics:
- A practising Evangelical Christian - Pastoral skills: able to mentor, and support in prayer.
- Leadership and team building: Ability to lead with a servant heart, to encourage, enable and enthuse team members. Emotionally intelligent and resilient. Skilled at delegating. Has the wisdom and confidence needed to handle conflict. Reliable and consistent, creating a stable and secure environment.
- Problem solving: Strong management and administration skills. Strong organisational, strategic, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. Able to think clearly, creatively and collaboratively.
- Attention to detail
- Time-management
- Sound judgement and decision making across many fields of work. Awareness of when wider consultation or authorisation is required.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills with a wide range of people.
- Flexible and Confident: Works well under stress, supports others when working under pressure. Good at multitasking and responding to the unexpected. Comfortable to work alone and as part of a team. Can-do attitude and open to input from others. Keen to develop existing skills and learn new ones.
- People skills: builds relationships with colleagues. Develops a culture that demonstrates the Biblical “one-another’s” and celebrates life together. Earns trust, able to maintain confidentiality. Speaks truthfully and kindly, takes responsibility, and apologises for their mistakes. Gives and receives constructive feedback lovingly, honestly and humbly. Invests in the development of others. Sensitive to cultural differences and behaves respectfully and appropriately in a multicultural team.
- Committed to excellence to serve Jesus, WGC and those we reach out to. Seeing projects through to completion.
- Self-motivated: pro-active in developing new initiatives and inspiring others. A desire for personal development and willingness to learn and grow.
PREFERRED WORK EXPERIENCE
Candidates should be able to demonstrate either experience in the following areas of responsibility and/or the skills needed to carry out these responsibilities.
Preferred leadership experience – preferably in a church or other Christian organisation:
- The ability to contribute to the management decision making process.
- Understanding of the church and charitable sector.
- Leading and managing projects of a diverse and complex nature in a team-oriented workplace and of delivering operational excellence in challenging environments.
- Leading and creating effective teams and of working co-operatively and collaboratively with others. Experience in delegating effectively.
Other preferred areas of experience, skill and understanding:
- Operations and building management.
- Administrative and operational support,
- Human Resources, including employment laws, practices, and administration.
- Charity compliance, legal compliance with leases, tenancy agreements and customer contracts.
- General church administration, organisation and communications.
- UK Health and Safety regulations and compliance including writing and implementing policies, risk assessments and procedures.
- Safeguarding administration and understanding of training requirements at a team leadership level.
- Oversight of finances and managing budgets. Understanding of financial management systems - able to interpret and define financial reports.
- Venue management.
- Technical experience required for effective team working, including email, online meeting forums, and shared calendars and drives. Proficient in the use of Office 365 suite including Word and Excel.
- Experience in the use of websites and social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook to promote public awareness. Experience in the use of Square Space, Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator, to produce website and social media content, and for graphic design of posters, church displays and exhibition materials.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in the work environment.
- Holds a UK driving licence.
This job description outlines the key areas of responsibility for the Operations Manager role but is not exhaustive. It may evolve based on the church's changing needs and the skills and interests of the appointed candidate. Regular reviews will take place to ensure the role remains aligned with the church’s vision and mission.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Westbourne Grove Church is a Christian Charity committed to equal opportunities
and is an ‘equal opportunities’ employer within the parameters of its ethos and values. We make employment decisions by matching the church’s needs with the skills and experience of candidates.
We want all staff members, despite their differences, to know that they are welcomed, respected and included at WGC, able to do their jobs free of discrimination.
As a Christian community we operate according to the principles of our faith and therefore reserve the right to recruit Christians with an understanding of Christian values and support for the church ethos where there is an Occupational Requirement to do so.
Occupational Requirement:
In accordance with schedule 9 of the 2010 Equality Act, the church considers that there is currently an occupational requirement for the holder of Operations Manager role to be:
A mature practising Evangelical Christian: with a personal faith in Jesus Christ, of godly character, committed to personal growth, a worshipper with a passion for God’s Kingdom; a person of prayer, with good knowledge of and respect for the Bible as God’s inspired word; able to apply biblical principles to working life and showing evidence of calling to the role.
They need to:
Be an active member of Westbourne Grove Church.
Understand, be in agreement with, and be happy to promote the ethos, vision and practices of Westbourne Grove Church.
Be willing to accept and abide by the WGC Ethos Statement and Statements of Faith and to work in accordance with the WGC Constitution and Rules.
This Occupational Requirement is in place to:
Provide pastoral and prayer support, missional direction and Christian leadership to the staff team.
Protect our strong Christian ethos and values and to ensure that these are demonstrated in the work and practices of the staff team.
Ensure: that the requirements of the Church Constitution and Rules are followed in all the church practices; that our charitable objective of advancing the Christian faith is understood and carried out by the staff team.
Ensure that the church building is used to its full missional potential so that the local community and visitors encounter something of the life and presence of God.
If you require reasonable adjustments in order to carry out the role or attend an interview at WGC due to a disability, caring responsibilities, or any other reason, please let us know when you apply. Thank you.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND HOW TO APPLY
The role is full time (37.5 hours / week - flexible schedule across at least 4 days, core hours from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm) with occasional need to work out of hours.
Please note that the nature of the role means that hybrid working is not an option.
Salary £32,400 to £36,000 depending on the competencies and experience of the successful candidate. The package also includes 28 days’ leave + Bank Holidays, and a workplace pension (with 4% employer contribution) following the successful completion of probation.
In line with our safer recruitment policy, the successful candidate will have to undertake a DBS check and all those invited to interview will be required to complete a declaration of suitability and provide references. References will be taken up prior to appointment.
Please note that you must have the right to work in the UK and/or a visa that allows you to work in the UK for the duration of this contract. The Trustees are willing to consider sponsoring a visa for this role.
Please send your CV and a cover letter of no more than 2 pages please - to Charlotte Thackery, Operations Manager (email found on doc attached) by 8,30am on Friday 18th July 2025.
Your cover letter should include:
1. Why you would like to work at WGC generally and this role specifically;
2. Why you think your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this role;
3. Describe how your Christian faith informs your life and actions
4. When you could start the job if you were to be offered it.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to record a 1-minute video of themselves addressing a particular prompt. The highest performing candidates will be called for an interview with members of the WGC team.
Whilst we appreciate the time and effort that has gone into your application we can only correspond with short-listed candidates. If you have not heard from us by 04 August 2025 then your application was unsuccessful. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Refer to the document attached. We require a CV and a Cover Letter of no more than 2 pages addressing the following questions:
1. Why you would like to work at WGC generally and this role specifically
2. Why you think your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this role
3. Describe how your Christian faith informs your life and actions
4. When you could start the job if you were to be offered it.
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About the role
Northern Ireland has an amazingly rich heritage of church and chapel buildings that we want to see well maintained, valued and in use. We’re looking for a Support Officer – based in Northern Ireland – who can help us to complete the delivery of our pioneering The National Lottery Heritage Fund project. This role will support churches of all denominations with maintenance and tourism advice, training and events and be a key contact for churches looking for heritage support in Northern Ireland.
This is a fixed-term role until the end of April 2026, with the possibility of an extension. The role is full-time (35 hours per week); part-time will be considered for the right candidate. You will be home-based in Northern Ireland, with occasional travel to London.
About the National Churches Trust
As an integral part of the UK’s heritage, we want to keep the UK’s wonderful collection of church buildings well maintained, valued and in use. Working on the ground in all four nations, we support churches of all denominations with the challenges and opportunities they face. Our vision is to see open churches thriving at the heart of their communities.
Our mission
- We Speak Up: churches are valued and supported
- We Build Up: churches are well maintained, adaptable and in good repair
- We Open Up: churches are sustainable, open and welcoming support
Our values
- Being straightforward in responding to others’ needs
- Providing support that makes a difference
- Joining forces to achieve greater impact
- Driving change that brings our vision closer
You can find out more about our pioneering Treasure Ireland project on our website.
To find out more about the role and apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: Midnight on Tuesday, 15 July 2025.
Interview dates: Monday, 11 / Tuesday, 12 / Wednesday, 13 August 2025, in person in Northern Ireland (date and venue TBC).
Two Saints
Head of Governance and Company Secretary
£50,200 pa
South East
Having adopted a new and ambitious strategy, and embarked on a period of transformational change, Two Saints are now looking to ensure they are in the strongest position to deliver their vision in what are difficult times. This vision is ‘to be a safety net for people in tough times and the springboard to a brighter future.’
These are challenging times for our sector - but we like a challenge and are determined to remain financially strong whilst meeting our regulatory and governance requirements, so we can continue to support our clients and be a springboard to a brighter future. Which is where this role comes in!
Applicants for this newly-created role will be professionally qualified and ideally bring experience in the social housing sector or similar – but we’re most interested in what you can bring to our team. You’ll be working for an agile, well regarded organisation and we’re always busy, so your energy and enthusiasm will count for a lot.
Closing date 5pm Monday 28th July 2025
About Reprieve
Reprieve works with the most disenfranchised people in society. Our aim is simple: to consign the death penalty and abuses carried out in the name of “counter-terrorism” or “national security” to history, drawing public and political attention to these past harms with a view to preventing them from occurring again. In our view, you can best judge a society by how it treats prisoners, criminal defendants, and the far-flung targets of an ever-changing counter-terror policy. To us, the rule of law means little if we selectively apply it to people we agree with. It is for all of us. Liberty is always eroded at the margins. Reprieve’s staff is made up of courageous and committed human rights defenders.
Founded in 1999, we provide free legal and investigative support to people facing the death penalty and those victimised by states’ abusive counterterror policies – rendition, torture, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killing. We fight our clients’ cases in courts around the world; investigate their mistreatment; and advocate on their behalf, encouraging public and political debate of human rights issues. Reprieve’s main office is in Aldgate, London, UK. Reprieve also supports full-time Fellows, who work as lawyers, investigators and campaigners in the countries in which we work. We work closely with a number of partner organisations in jurisdictions all over the world, who provide access to clients, expertise, knowledge and guidance on specific issues or regions. We work in cooperation with relevant government officials, individual lawyers and human rights defenders, as well as individual, corporate and foundation funders to further the cause of our shared goals.
Reprieve works in close partnership with its independent sibling organisation Reprieve US. This collaboration is mutually beneficial to both Reprieve and Reprieve US as it enables each organisation to work more effectively and take advantage of the strategic locations to increase the impact of our work.
Reprieve is an equal opportunity employer and we particularly welcome applicants from Black and minority ethnic communities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those with disabilities. Reprieve is committed to fighting racism and advancing racial justice, both in our work and within Reprieve. For more information, please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement. You can also read more about our recruitment process.
About the Role
The MENA Death Penalty Caseworker will undertake a range of activities in support of Reprieve’s work on cases of individuals on death row or at risk of the death penalty across the MENA region, including casework and investigations into individual cases and the broader death penalty landscape, support to Reprieve clients, and support to partner organisations and lawyers in the MENA region and beyond. The MENA Death Penalty Caseworker is an integral member of the MENA Team, and will work closely with the Media, Campaigns and Digital, and UK and US Policy teams, and the Directors and Deputy Directors. You will share our commitment to fighting against racism and advancing racial justice, and understand our responsibility to do our work in a way that does not compound racist structures.
Background on MENA Death Penalty Work
Several countries in the MENA region consistently rank amongst the highest executing states in the world. Reprieve is one of few international organisations working on combatting the use of the death penalty in the region, working with partners primarily on Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, and monitoring the use of the death penalty across the wider region. The MENA team’s work is diverse and constantly evolving to shape, respond to, and anticipate changes in the domestic and regional death penalty landscape. Our strategy in any given jurisdiction is developed in collaboration with – and informed by – our partners and fellows. Direct casework on strategic cases is core to our work in all regions, and includes legal, political and advocacy strategies as appropriate. We look in particular to find and develop cases and narratives which have the potential to change the landscape and benefit as many individuals or classes of individuals as possible. We also undertake and assist with longer term thematic projects and engage with regional and international mechanisms and organs where it is strategic to do so.
This is a full-time position on a one-year fixed term contract, to cover parental leave, based on a minimum of 37.5 hours per week. Due to the global and sometimes urgent nature of Reprieve’s work, flexibility on working hours will sometimes be required.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
London Youth Gateway is a sector leading service supporting 18-25 year-olds facing homelessness or rough sleeping across the capital. Our mission is to make sure young Londoners bounce back quickly and safely in times of crisis and to prevent or solve their homelessness for good. You will be playing a leading role in helping to shape the work of the partnership, its collaborative processes as well as its connections with each of the London local authorities.
This is a key role in our organisation, and we are looking for someone with demonstrable experience in partnership and stakeholder engagement who knows how to get and keep people on board to meet mutual or differing needs. The ideal candidate will be a confident communicator and persuasive negotiator with an eye for detail. You will be able to facilitate multi-agency meetings and collaboration, hold responsibility for regular reporting to the commissioner, and contribute to our broader policy and influencing work. We have big ambitions for an organisation our size, so we are on the look-out for someone who can work at their own initiative, support our different teams, and is not afraid to get hand-on with administrative tasks, while tuning into partner priorities and sniffing out great opportunities to connect.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Learning & Development Manager (LDM) – Cymru Wales, West Midlands & South West
Home - Based but within commutable distance to Wales, West Midlands & South West
If you’re passionate about helping further the mission of Methodist churches, circuits and districts, then we would like to hear from you. As an experienced professional with a proven track record in learning and development, and management, you will be part of a Learning Network (LN), within the Ministries and Learning team and part of the Connexional Team of The Methodist Church.
The LN comprises 30+ staff working as part of a single team operating across the Methodist Church in Britain. The team is strategically and collaboratively managed by Learning and Development Managers (LDMs), each having responsibility for a number of Learning and Development Officers (LDO) working within a geographical area. We are seeking to recruit an LDM for the Cymru Wales, West Midlands and South West area. There is a requirement to live within this geography that includes the Methodist districts: Wales Synod Cymru, West Midlands (following the merger of the current Birmingham District and the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District on 1st September 2025), Southampton, Channel Islands, Bristol, and South West Peninsular.
Responsibilities of the Learning Development Manager include:
- strategic shared leadership of the LN
- leading and managing the LDOs, balancing the needs and expectations of lay and ordained
- developing, implementing and reviewing, alongside other LDMs and the Director of Ministry Learning, the strategic work plan of the LN
- building and maintaining good relationships across the Connexional Team and with individuals and communities across the church and beyond
- encouraging the sharing of individual gifts and experiences across a number of teams and stakeholders
- travel (including overnight stays), weekend and evening work
We are looking for someone who has:
- proven experience of coordinating and managing a dispersed team of staff and volunteers
- significant experience and is passionate about learning and development
- a strong commitment to collaborative and partnership working
- a proven track record of meeting deadlines within a complex and varied workload
Knowledge of the Welsh language would be a valuable asset to this role
Our Culture, Values and Benefits
Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.
We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.
The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups.
For ministers in Full Connexion the standard terms of service apply.
Closing date: 23:59 on 21/07/2025
Interviews to take place on: 08/08/2025 in London in person.
N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission.

The Research Manager will work in a small team that is responsible for commissioning and managing high quality, robust social research, and for synthesising and disseminating evidence of what works to support the most disadvantaged young people into good jobs.
About the role:
The Research Manager will support all aspects of Youth Futures research, from project development to impact.
This will include:
- helping to develop our research strategy
- identifying research questions alongside colleagues in Youth Futures
- working closely with our research partners and suppliers so that projects are delivered on time and to budget; and ensuring that all research outputs are consistently high quality and make clear, practical and impactful recommendations for practice and policy.
This role can be based at any of our hubs located in Birmingham, Leeds or London. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.
How to apply:
Apply via our website. A full job description and person spec can be found in the job recruitment pack.
Due to receiving high volumes of interest in our opportunities, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised deadline. To ensure your application is considered, please submit it as soon as possible.
We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.




The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the Role
The Assistant Reserves Officer is one of our team managing and developing the Trust’s nature reserves for people and wildlife. Your work place includes internationally recognised wetlands and woodlands along with nationally important meadows, chalk grasslands and heathland across Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
You will need to have strong experience in practical habitat management, including the use of power tools and machinery, such as chainsaws, brush cutters and BCS mowers. You will have experience of working within a dynamic team and leading volunteers. You will need to have a keen interest in wildlife and preferably a knowledge of the habitats in our area.
No two days are the same as an ARO at HMWT; you will get the opportunity to utilise and develop your practical habitat management skills across our nature reserves including tree felling, coppicing, scrub clearance, hay cutting and pond/ditch management. You will also undertake the maintenance of site infrastructure; assist with the management of livestock; and perform surveying and monitoring of habitat/species, tree safety and infrastructure. These tasks will be delivered working closely with members of the nature reserves team; our volunteer wardens and our practical conservation volunteers.
Willingness to travel throughout our work area and flexibility to work occasional irregular hours is required for this post.
As an employer we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of all our staff.
About the Trust
Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local conservation charity working to protect wildlife and help people connect with nature. With a team of volunteers we care for wild places so that nature has a place to thrive. We help people experience the wildlife on their doorsteps and to take steps to protect it.
We believe that wildlife should have space to thrive alongside our everyday lives and that everyone benefits from having access to nature.
Our head office is based in the attractive setting of Verulamium Park on the outskirts of St Albans.
Our staff team is enthusiastic, friendly and committed to wildlife conservation and exemplifies our values of professionalism, valuing contributions by others and continuing to improve.
How do we support you?
The Trust strives to be a positive employer supporting our staff through flexible and hybrid working, and training and development. We recognise the importance of our staff team and looking after their health and wellbeing. Our values and expected behaviours reflect the culture which the Trust seeks to maintain to ensure productive, efficient, effective and pleasant workplaces and roles.
In support of this, we offer an excellent benefits package, ranging from office perks, generous leave entitlements and financial benefits. You can find out more by visiting the Hertfordshire & Middlesex Wildlife Trust website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Two Saints
Executive Director of Finance and IT
£84,400 pa
South East
Having adopted a new and ambitious strategy, and embarked on a period of transformational change, Two Saints are now looking to ensure they are in the strongest position to deliver their vision in what are difficult times. This vision is ‘to be a safety net for people in tough times and the springboard to a brighter future.’
These are challenging times for our sector - but we like a challenge and are determined to remain financially strong and grow, so we can continue to support our clients and be a springboard to a brighter future. Which is where this role comes in! Applicants for this role will need to demonstrate experience of leading a finance team in the social housing sector or similar. This could be your first Director-level appointment, or you may be a more experienced executive leader - you’ll be working for an agile, well regarded organisation and we’re always busy, so your energy and enthusiasm will count for a lot.
Closing date 5pm Monday 28th July 2025