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The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF)
Operations Consultant – Commissioning and Procurement
Reports to: COO/Head of Grant Operations
Open to: Individual consultants or consulting firms with significant experience supporting organisations receiving and distributing public funding to strengthen processes and use of best practice.
Period: Start immediately, with aim to complete audit work by no later than August 2024.
Budget: YEF anticipates a budget of approximately £10,000 and typical day rates for consultants working for the charity range between £500-£650, depending on experience.
About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We exist to prevent children and young people from becoming involved in violence. We do this by funding great initiatives, finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
To make this possible, YEF funds a wide range of organisations aiming to prevent young people from becoming involved in violence. This ranges from delivery organisations providing front line services to young people who need it most, evaluators working with those organisations to understand what’s working, research organisations focused on helping us deeply understand the context and problem, organisations supporting us to put this knowledge into practice, and a variety of organisations supporting our team to execute in the most effective way possible. We have several departments commissioning this work to external organisations and a variety of different processes and mechanisms to do so.
As the volume of work we commission increases across our various departments, we’re looking for an experienced individual or team to support ensuring consistency, compliance with our policies and procedures, and training across a number of different teams on best practice.
Key activities
· Conduct a thorough desk review on YEF policies and guidance, regarding our commissioning and grant management practices across our programmes, evaluation, research and change departments. Interview a subset of individuals to get a sense of their understanding and comfort with the policies. Produce a written report on how this is going, highlighting any areas where we could improve in consistency or best practice.
· Advise the delivery operations team on how they can best support teams to commission effectively, including helping to clarify roles and responsibilities and ongoing training or support needs for teams.
· If needed, suggest revisions to YEF policies, guidance or agreement templates to support greater efficiency, compliance or best practice.
· Conduct a series of trainings across our different departments to ensure staff responsible for commissioning understand YEF’s policies and best practices for distributing and managing the use of public funding.
· Create a set of public facing materials to help external organisations understand YEF policies and processes for applying for funding, as needed.
Deliverables
· Provide a written report on how YEF is doing adhering to its own policies, ensuring consistency in practice across different teams and adhering to best practice.
· Conduct 3-4 training workshops to different YEF teams, taking into account their own commissioning and grant management requirements.
· Conduct regular, informal advising sessions for a subset of individuals responsible for overseeing commissioning across the organisation.
· Produce a set of public facing guidance on YEF commissioning practice relevant for organisations navigating applications for funding.
· As needed, produce revisions to policy, internal guidance, or agreement templates.
Key requirements
· Must have significant experience of commissioning and procurement within an organisation of comparable size, preferably with organisations receiving and distributing public funding.
· Experience and proven track record working to improve policies, processes and practices within an organisation.
· Experience of charitable grant-making or research work in the UK, either as a grantee, a grant-maker, or a grant evaluator or researcher.
· A strong understanding of UK government guidelines and legal terms and conditions related to grants and contracts for services. This does not mean you need a law degree, but you must be very comfortable understanding and working with a variety of different agreement mechanisms.
· The ability to understand, collate and synthesise complex sets of information and use them to make informed recommendations.
· Ability to work independently, seeking input from relevant team stakeholders throughout.
Desired experience
· Prior experience working with a What Works Centre or other evidence-focused organisation.
To apply
Final applications will be due by Friday, June 7th 2024.
Your proposal should contain:
· CV and day rate of consultant(s) for the work
· A maximum 3-page cover letter containing:
o A description of how you would approach and deliver the work, including time scales
o Relevant experience of similar work
o Day rate(s) and total anticipated cost for the work
o Two references
Referees will only be approached with your express permission.
First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 17th of June with an appointment anticipated that same week.
It is important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status, or social economic background.
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Support Dog is a unique and innovative national charity that has been transforming the lives of families affected by autism, epilepsy and disability for 30 years.
Support Dogs trains and provides specialist assistance dog to give 100% reliable advance warning of epileptic seizures; to help children with autism to stay safe and better engage with the world around them. Our disability assistance dogs bring independence and a better quality of life for those with physical disabilities including MS, Cerebral Palsy and Fibromyalgia.
Founded and entirely based in Sheffield our charity operates across the UK, growing significantly over recent years. The demand for our work is overwhelming, with requests for support increasing ten-fold over the past few years. Support Dogs provides all of its services free of charge and relies entirely on voluntary donations for funding.
Funding from trusts and charitable foundations is vital to our charities ability to provide its vital, life saving work. Support Dogs is going through a period of growth and is looking for an experienced fundraiser to provide support to help us to reach further and maximise opportunities as our existing post holder takes maternity leave.
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Join a team with a bold mission – at Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind, we are dedicated to reshaping the landscape of mental health and emotional well-being in our community. We believe in empowering individuals with opportunities for a richer life.
What You'll Do: -
Collaboration and Efficiency: Work hand-in-hand with existing Mental Health Provision for people and their families, as well as other local agencies/organisations to effectively support people transitioning from services.
Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, becoming key in shaping this role as the service develops as well as providing support to the core Access Community Mental Health team.
We provide advice and support to empower anyone in our local communities experiencing a mental health problem.
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THE ROLE: Full-time (37 hours per week) / Permanent / Job description and application pack are available to download from our website.
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
We are seeking an experienced Rent Officer to join our small, dispersed Rent Team which consists of a Rent Team Leader; two Rent Officers, and two part-time Rent Team Administrators which sits within our Housing and Property services. In conjunction with our Supported Housing services, the Rent Team is responsible for the collection of the organisation's rent and other property charges. As a Rent Officer you will manage a caseload of properties and will be responsible for monitoring rent accounts; ensuring that appropriate action is taken to maximize rental income. You will ensure accuracy of rent accounts’ and service users’ information held on the rent management database (Pyramid).
In addition, you will liaise with relevant local authorises housing benefit departments; ensuring positive relationships are forged. You will have knowledge of the external environment in which YMCA DownsLink Group works and keep abreast of key changes, particularly around Welfare Reform.
Hybrid role – mainly based at Reed House in Hove, with an expectation to work out of other locations across the YMCA DownsLink Group area when required. Working a minimum of three days at Reed House / on site and two days from home - working hours of Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm and Friday, 9am to 4.30pm.
ABOUT YOU: We know there are great candidates who may not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself and why perhaps you are looking to take the next step.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person who can work independently and as part of a team. Ideally you will have experience of working in a rent management setting; working with a computerised rent/ payment database and other IT packages; and with an understanding of some of the challenges young people may face, which could impact on their ability to pay their rent. You will be an effective communicator at all levels with both colleagues and external partners, with the ability to self-motivate, work using your initiative and prioritise your workload. In addition, you will be able to accurately reconcile data and other financial information, along with gathering and collating statistical data.
CLOSING DATE: 9 June 2024 at midnight. We reserve the right to close this advert early if a successful candidate is found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Successful candidates will already have the right to live and work in the UK.
An inclusive workplace: We are committed to policies and practices of equity, diversity, and inclusion and to supporting our people to make sure our culture is consistent with this commitment. We encourage applications from people from all sections of the communities that we serve.
Accessibility: If you require assistance or have questions regarding the application process, please contact us. If you require the recruitment documents in another format, please let us know. We can also post them to your preferred address.
YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns. Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced DBS (including the Children’s and Adults’ barred lists) check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Closing date: 10th June 2024.
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.
Are you a good communicator and curious about people? We’re looking for an Involvement Assistant Apprentice to join the Involvement team and support activities that enable us to gather evidence to better understand peoples’ experiences, across the full spectrum of lived experience of dementia. You’ll support key involvement activities influencing local and national work, helping us to make the case for change as well working on projects that have a direct impact on people’s daily lives.
You’ll have the opportunity to take forward a project that will support the Alzheimer’s Society to reach and involve more people affected by dementia.
The apprenticeship is for 18 months and in this role, you will complete a Level 3 Business Administration apprenticeship.
About you
You will play a key co-ordination and support role within the Involvement Team. Working with colleagues, people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers in person and by telephone, email, via social media channels and over teams and zoom.
You’ll be supporting activities that enable people with lived and learnt experience to collaborate, sharing their knowledge, skills and opinions to help plan, shape and influence the work of Alzheimer’s Society.
Patience, empathy and a willingness to learn are essential skills. Someone who is self-motivated and has great interpersonal skills. You’ll be technically literate /IT proficient and interested in learning how to use our Dementia Voice Database.
6 hours per week will be dedicated to the apprenticeship and developing in the role.
At the end of the apprenticeship training, you will complete an End Point Assessment where you will present a portfolio of the work that you have completed that links to a set of competencies set at the start and you will present a specific project you have worked on.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
KTP
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are a unique UK-wide activity that help businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity by making better use of the knowledge, technology and skills within universities, colleges and research organisations.
THE PROJECT
The University of Essex in partnership with We are the Minories (WATM), an arts charity and gallery in a historic townhouse in Colchester, offers an exciting opportunity to a graduate with the relevant skills and knowledge to develop a data led and long-term strategic plan, to enhance WATM’s growth.
The associate will work with WATM’s managers and University of Essex academic supervisors to ensure WATM's sustainable and prosperous future while keeping their community ethos and values at the heart of their activities. This will be achieved through four key strategies:
- Developing innovative solutions to evaluate and measure the social impact of WATM’s activities to enhance its success rates in funding applications.
- Introducing business model innovations to support WATM in improving its income generation, such as through new product/service development (e.g., consultancy) and exploring additional income-generating activities like leveraging its physical space.
- Enhancing WATM’s capabilities in managing both social and economic missions and supporting them in sharing their knowledge through consultancy to third-party organisations.
- Developing marketing, operational, and financial plans to foster the sustainable growth of WATM.
This post is fixed term for 18 months.
DUTIES OF THE POST
The duties of the post will include:
- Conduct literature reviews and summarise findings for a non-academic audience.
- Design and develop a framework to measure social output, outcomes, and impacts of WATM's activities.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Develop and design data-driven and customer-driven strategies to improve the sustainability and growth of WATM
- Develop strategies for augmenting earned and grant income.
- Formulate and implement robust and well-informed marketing, operational and financial plans based on the collected data and selected strategies.
- Develop a comprehensive knowledge management plan, encompassing strategies for disseminating insights and best practices derived from the project.
- Manage activities, stakeholders and relationship building across diverse groups, including WATM’s board of trustees, art gallery/café visitors, artists, employees, volunteers, and wider community.
- Disseminate findings in scientific articles and conferences.
These duties are a guide to the work that the post holder will initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- A first/undergraduate degree in Management, Business Studies or a related discipline, OR a first/undergraduate degree in a subject related to Arts and Humanities or nonprofit sector with business development experience.
- Excellent market research, analytical and problem-solving skills to generate insights and support evidence-based decision making.
- Knowledge and experience of qualitative and quantitative data analysis and proficiency with data analysis tools and methodologies.
- Experience of producing written reports in an academic context.
- Proficiency in strategic planning, business development and consultancy.
- Ability to formulate and implement robust and well-informed marketing, operational and financial plans.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships and facilitate training sessions.
- Excellent time keeping, budget management and project management skills.
BENEFITS
As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:
- A personal development budget of £3000 (exclusive of salary).
- Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
- An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
- Full access to university resources to complete the project.
- World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.
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About Us
Inspire is a charity based in East London. We inspire children and young people across London and beyond, using data to understand the barriers they face and connecting them with a range of employers and opportunities to open doors to their success.
We have over 30 years of experience in delivering high quality services and programmes to children, young people, schools, local authorities and employers. Working alongside our large network of employer volunteers, we design and deliver programmes that inspire and support children and young people to create a positive future for themselves in their journey from the classroom to workplace. We provide them with independent careers guidance, high aspirations and strong employability skills.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Partnerships Manager to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Business Development Team and make a significant contribution to delivery of the charity’s high quality services to children and young people, providing them with opportunities and inspiration to enable them to achieve their potential, create a positive future for themselves and open doors to their success.
If you are self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident with experience in successfully securing, managing and developing partnerships from initial prospect research through to contracting and ongoing management, then this role is for you. Working alongside the Director of Business Development and Partnerships, you will support and contribute to the charity’s business development strategy with responsibility for managing activity including raising funds for Inspire from a range of sources including corporate partnerships, community fundraising, trusts and foundations.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
1. Writing and submitting applications for new funding to statutory bodies, trusts, foundations and corporates.
2. Researching funding opportunities, competitors and market trends.
3. Developing and maintaining an annual calendar of community fundraising activities.
4. Identifying new business development opportunities and developing a pipeline of opportunities and proposals.
5. Management and growth of Inspire's entry to mid-level corporate partnerships.
6. Working with delivery team colleagues to ensure funders’ reports are completed on time and to a high standard.
Benefits
29 days annual leave plus bank holidays
3 volunteering days per year
Family friendly policies
Hybrid working arrangements
If you have the skills and desire to join our team, please see our job description for further details.
How to Apply
If you wish to apply for this role, please provide your CV and a covering letter outlining why you are suitable for the role, clearly addressing the requirements of the person specification.
Closing date
Interviews will be held on a rolling basis. We will review applications as we receive them and aim to appoint as soon as we meet the right person. We reserve the right to close the application process early if we find a suitable candidate.
Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants.
Inspire is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Are you passionate about motivating and supporting people to take part in a wide range of fundraising events? Do you have a proven track record of engaging positively over time with donors throughout their journey alongside a charity? Are you a positive, skilled communicator with an eye for detail and an ability to get ‘stuck in’? If so, this role could be for you.
SUDEP Action is the only UK charity focused on preventing epilepsy-related deaths. We have the only epilepsy bereavement service freely available to anyone suddenly bereaved by epilepsy (including SUDEP). By representing the voices of those who have died and who are bereaved, we aim to learn from deaths, and use research, policy and campaigns to raise awareness and take action that helps save lives.
Working both independently and with the wider team you will deliver a high-quality community fundraising service. We’re looking for someone who has worked in a fundraising department and/or similar role before, preferably in the charity sector. Engaging confidently with people and feeling comfortable in adapting your approach to different audiences is a key skill for this role - whether they are major donors, corporates or community fundraisers. This is particularly important as many of our supporters & fundraisers are bereaved.
Building positive supporter connections is at the heart of what we do at SUDEP Action, so setting a positive example of this through your plans and actions, and demonstrating the importance of maintaining strong, personalised supporter relationships is key. You’ll know how to follow processes to record, monitor and evaluate supporters’ engagement with community fundraising activities, so this feeds back into how the charity operates.
Much of the charity’s income comes from our motivated and passionate supporters, so this role is a key part of income generation. The successful candidate will be able to build on current processes and successes to grow our engagement across all fundraising activities, platforms and campaigns. Experience of bid/grant writing would be desirable.
Interested? Please send us a CV and cover letter showing us why you want to work at SUDEP Action, why you think you are a great candidate for this role, and why your skills and experiences make you a good fit. It doesn’t have to be long, 1-2 pages at most, but should give specific examples to demonstrate your suitability to the role. Please note we will not accept applications without a covering letter which clearly covers this.
Our mission is to stop preventable epilepsy deaths and to provide the UK's only bereavement service for anyone who has experienced an epilepsy death
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Are you a passionate D&I professional, keen to drive positive change? Would you like to own, shape and deliver the D&I strategy for the UKs largest military charity?
We are looking for a Head of Diversity and Inclusion to join our People & OD senior leadership team at RBL and be a true custodian of our organisational diversity and inclusion strategic vision.
Inclusion at RBL is a key part of our values, as well as being a critical component of our culture alignment programme. You will be joining us as a great time, where our current strategy is now being refreshed and you will play a key part in developing that strategy with our senior leaders.
Come and be part of the leading Armed Forces charity, making a difference to the lives of those who have served to keep us safe and protect our way of life.
You will recognise that RBL is complex and diverse in the communities who we both serve and who deliver our charitable aims. This role works across all of these communities, developing and supporting the delivery of our inclusion strategy for our staff, our members, our volunteers and also our partners across other miliary charities and government.
Reporting to the Executive Director: People & Organisational Development, some key responsibilities will include:
· Develop and deliver the next RBL Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and implementation plans
· Be the orchestrator of change for D&I work across all Directorates – influence, educate and engage leaders on how we communicate, engage and involve all of our people
· Ensure D&I is woven into everything we do, across the services we deliver, the partnerships we forge and the beneficiaries we serve
· Be a visible, ongoing, inclusion educator and champion ensuring regular communications across RBL to various communities, and support leaders and internal communications to weave inclusion across and through our communications channels
· Identification and design of training opportunities and materials to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion
You will be a great relationship builder, confidant and be able to work across a variety of responsibilities and initiatives, with pace and credibility. Your proven experience of leading D&I related initiatives and programmes will be well utilised and you will be given the support and development to lead us on the next stage of our D&I journey.
Here at RBL, we aim to support our people and their wellbeing, with a package including generous paid holiday allowance and pension scheme contributions, and a range of optional benefits and discounts.
You will be contracted to our London, Haig House, Hub. Under our Future Working framework, there will be some flexibility for working remotely/at home, using our collaboration tools to work with colleagues but with a minimum expectation of two days/week connecting directly face-to-face with colleagues at the hub.
For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.
RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
Closing Date: 28th May 2024
Planned Interview Dates: First Stage: week commencing 10th June 2024
Virtual
Second Stage: week commencing 24th June 2024
Face to face at our London, Haig House hub
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role(s). Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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King’s College Hospital Charity is dedicated to supporting life-changing care at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. We’re here to help King’s go beyond what the NHS can provide to meet the needs of current and future patients.
We make the best care possible by raising money for cutting-edge equipment and facilities, innovative research and pioneering treatment, pushing boundaries, transforming clinical services and finding new ways to improve how people experience King's hospitals.
We are looking for a creative, ambitious and supportive team member to work across the fundraising and communications department and help us build awareness and engagement with our key audiences, especially hospital teams.
As Communications and Fundraising Assistant, you will play a particularly prominent role in telling the story of what Charity funding makes possible at King’s – generating high quality content to communicate the difference we’re making, and helping our communications officer to bring it to life it on our digital channels. It will suit somebody who uses social media extensively in their personal life and can draw on that insight to help the team connect with our audiences.
Key Tasks
- Working with the Communications Officer to create content for websites, digital platforms, social media, email campaigns and other channels. This includes the Trust’s Inside King’s magazine as well as our own channels. It could involve interviewing staff, patients and volunteers, creating films, taking photographs.
- Organising, distributing and updating the Charity’s marketing materials around the Trust, including posters, leaflets and banners.
- Helping to maintain the Charity’s social media presence, creating and scheduling engaging content across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, producing analytics reports and using insights to inform future strategy.
- Developing our use of Sharepoint as an internal communications channel, and maintaining the Charity’s presence on the King’s staff intranet.
- Helping the Communications Officer keep our website fresh and engaging, identifying key user journeys and supporting colleagues across the charity to use the website to achieve business goals.
- Acting as a champion for the Charity’s work by attending regular events and assist in delivering internal engagement opportunities, such as fundraising events, celebrations, and so on.
- Generating reports on the team’s KPIs across all digital platforms, helping to improve user journeys across our digital platforms.
- Keeping communications and fundraising systems running smoothly, including the media library, filing systems, budget, and planning and reporting processes.
- Building effective relationships with digital suppliers such as website agency.
- Acting as an ambassador for and representing the Charity in a professional and efficient manner.
Person Specification
- Experience of working or volunteering in marketing or communications in a professional environment.
- Experience of supporting an organisation’s digital presence across social media, website, email marketing and internal channels.
- Extensive personal experience of using social media platforms
- Understanding of basic digital analytics tools and processes, such as Google Analytics.
- Experience of creating communications and marketing content and materials in adherence with brand guidelines.
- Ability to express ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences, turning complex information into compelling.
- Experience of using website content management systems (ideally Drupal) email marketing software (we use DotDigital), social media management tools (Hootsuite) and design programmes (Adobe Creative Suite).
- Experience of working with external suppliers and agencies to support the delivery of impactful communications.
- Photography and video production and editing skills.
- Confident and proactive, with strong sense of initiative.
- Excellent planning, time-management and organisational skills.
- Ability to build good professional relationships with partners, supporters and suppliers.
- Approachable and helpful, with a can-do approach.
- Ability to articulate our vision and mission with passion.
We are a friendly team, committed to a diverse and inclusive culture and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. We offer a collaborative working environment with bespoke learning opportunities, 25 days holiday plus the bank holidays, and various employee benefits to help you balance your work and life. To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter of no more than one page on setting out how you meet the criteria via the Charity website by Thursday 30th May at 23:59:59.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Kensington & Chelsea, London
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Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of working and engaging positively with young offenders or other vulnerable groups? Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy?
If so, St Giles has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Caseworker to work on our pioneering SOS+ project, where you will provide vital support to 10-15 young women up to 25, who are involved in serious youth, violence, county lines, exploitation, and criminality.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
Our successful candidate will complete initial needs assessments with young women and support them to develop individual action plans and regularly review them to assess progress, plus undertake risk assessments and regular holistic needs assessments of each individual. You will develop safety and care plans with each client and their families, ensuring that they are equipped to understand the factors which can make them vulnerable, put them at risk and know where to access support if they need to, while also delivering ongoing dynamic risk and contextual safeguarding assessments.
We will count on you to provide important advocacy and support to young people with regards to welfare and financial advice, housing options and/or how to sustain tenancies, rent arrears, access to suitable and affordable housing, and how to access education, employment, and training (ETE) opportunities, as well as facilitating access into positive activities to divert young people away from criminality, offending and harm. Developing and maintaining relationships with referral and regional agencies, being responsible for two volunteers and participating and attending team and strategy meetings and child protection conferences, are also key aspects of the role.
What we are looking for
• To have worked on an offender-led support project, had personal experience of the criminal justice system, served a prison sentence, or still be serving a prison sentence in a prison within reach of London
• Experience in negotiation with partner agencies to establish links to further aims of the project
• Experience in working in local community-based projects
• To have a relevant qualification to a good standard, or be working towards one
• An understanding of the Government’s Prevent (anti extremism) programme
• Knowledge of services for offenders and patterns of offending in London borough/s
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.
We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred DBS Check.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
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Closing date: 30 May 2024 @ 23:45
Interview date: 7th June 2024.
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Join our unique and award-winning charity and use your skills to help us build our future. An exciting opportunity for anyone with passion, drive and enthusiasm looking for a leadership role in the third sector.
Include tackles the issue of communication difficulty as a community, in a fun and innovative way.
We provide creative speech and language therapy-based activities which build confidence and skills in people with communication difficulties due to learning disabilities, autism or dementia and provide training for communication partners.
About the role
Include was founded in 2018, in response to an identified lack of opportunity and support for people with communication needs and has grown steadily ever since. This post has been created in response to that growth and achievement.
The Operations and Business Development Lead will play an important role in overseeing effective organisational service delivery and working closely with the CEO to develop the role of the charity within Surrey and beyond. The role requires overseeing delivery of key projects, managing a small team of staff and volunteers, developing long-term business plans and curating relationships with new partners and funders to ensure Include has the resilience to deliver against its mission into the future.
As OBD Lead, you will be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team working with the CEO, Finance & Data Lead, Communications & Partnerships Lead & Clinical Lead to develop and deliver Include’s core services and processes, with an eye for sustainability, impact and long-term growth.
This is a hybrid role. You will be asked to assist at events or performances, in addition to regularly attending sessions and meetings.
Key Responsibilities:
Operations Management
- Develop, support, and improve service delivery of key activities
- Review and improve impact measurement processes
- Review and improve policies and procedures
- Review and improve governance frameworks
- Manage a team of staff and chair meetings
- Support with HR functions and structural
- Prepare and create reports for the benefit of CEO and board of trustees
Business Development and Fundraising
- Develop new relationships to improve the profile and reach of the charity
- Support the fundraising team with grant applications, community fundraising, donor management or corporate support as required
- Identify new revenue streams and opportunities
- Oversee, develop and support the funding strategy to ensure financial resilience
- Develop and update the organisation’s business plan
- Work with the senior leadership team to set achievable KPIs
- (Potential to develop fundraising qualification through apprenticeship)
Event Management
- Manage and coordinate Include events
- Evaluate event delivery and ROI
Volunteer Coordination
- Oversee and support volunteer recruitment including supported volunteers
Please see attached Job Description and Person Spec for more detailed information.
Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments to apply
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The British Society for Immunology (BSI) is recruiting a permanent full-time Senior Marketing & Communications Officer to deliver engaging communications to a variety of audiences to drive the reach and influence of the Society’s work.
The British Society for Immunology is an influential and authoritative voice for immunology, a key scientific and health field that plays a central role in many of the most pressing global health challenges we face, including research into the COVID-19 pandemic, developing new treatments and vaccines against disease, and supporting ageing populations to experience healthier lives for longer. This role is split equally between supporting activities of the BSI and those of our publishing portfolio. On the BSI side, you will be responsible for developing and delivering our marketing and communications activity through a variety of channels. Activities can include promoting our membership offering to immunologists working in academia, industry and the clinical sector, promoting key activities such as our events or training offerings, and supporting initiatives to raise the importance and influence of immunology. On publishing, you will be responsible for developing and delivering impactful marketing activities to increase submissions and readership of our official journals, Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Immunotherapy Advances and Discovery Immunology, in particular building the reputation of our newer Open Access journals
This creative role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with excellent communication and organisational skills and a passion for science, who is looking to build their expertise and experience working on impactful marketing and communications projects in an innovative charity.
Please read the job description to find out more about the role. To apply, please email a copy of your CV and a cover letter explaining your suitability for the role. The deadline for applications is Monday 20 May. Interviews will be held via Zoom on Thursday 30 May.
Driven by our values and behaviours, we are a high-performing, ambitious and forward-thinking organisation, who value teamwork and collaboration. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds who are inspired by our values and behaviours.
We request no contact from agencies. Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted after the application deadline.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Us:
Coast and Vale Community Action is a registered charity and not for profit company primarily operating in the Scarborough and Ryedale areas of North Yorkshire.
Our vision is of thriving, connected and independent communities where local people are enabled to identify and act upon common issues, working together to improve quality of community life. We provide managed workspace, community facilities, community projects and services, as well as providing a means for local people to come together to identify and act upon matters of community importance.
About the role:
We are delighted to have been awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to deliver an exciting four year initiative to further support and develop communities in our local area. Street Action will co-develop a programme of work with communities in the Scarborough area which helps individuals and groups to celebrate the good things about where they live whilst also providing the support needed to enable them to work better together to tackle the common challenges. This is a grassroots up approach, driven by communities themselves and the Project Officer will be key to its success.
The post holder will be expected to be out and about in communities, making themselves known, developing new contats and learning about what makes the area tick. They will utilise a variety of community locations to learn about and work with local people. They will identify individuals with vision and passion and help them with the practical steps needed to gather others around them to create community solutions.
About you:
We are looking for a motivated, confident and proactive individual who will have:
· Good knowledge of the local area (or the ability to quickly gain that knowledge)
· Excellent interpersonal skills
· Strong communication skills
· Energy and initiative
· Ability to motivate self and others
· The ability to work positively as part of the CaVCA team and work on own initiative towards the achievement of project outcomes
· Keen awareness of the role of the public sector, private sector and voluntary sector in the life of local communities
· An understanding of how marketing tools, including social media, can be used to reach key audiences
· Good working knowledge of IT systems
· Experiences of running community events
· Commitment to CaVCA’s mission
· Willingness to work outside of office hours where required
· Full driving licence and access to own transport, or the ability to travel independently throughout the project area
Please try to address each of the points in the person specification in your covering letter, with examples, as this will be used in our shortlisting process
Coast and Vale Community Action (CaVCA) exists to help communities thrive, because people and places matter
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Are you looking for a role which gives you purpose?We are looking for an ambitious candidate who will have several years fundraising’ experience, particularly of increasing income and cultivating supporters. We need you to develop and implement our fundraising strategy by contributing to agreed objectives, income targets and other key performance indicators within the timeframe and budget specified while contributing to our purpose of helping vulnerable people to live in dignity and to achieve their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.