Are you looking for an exciting and new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children, young people and families? If so, look no further!
Are you passionate about helping children, young people, and families achieve positive change? We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Administrative Worker to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with Children young people and families, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is committed to safeguarding and improving outcomes for children.
We are seeking a part time, Administration Assistant to work across our Best Start Family Hubs within Sandwell. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a passionate and committed team and be an active member of the wider Best Start Family Hub Network.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with Children young people and families, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is committed to safeguarding and improving outcomes for children.
Car driver is preferred due to travelling across the whole of Sandwell when cover maybe needed.
Working pattern:
Monday to Friday with flexibility required for occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.
Some key activities/objectives include:
- Provide a warm, friendly and approachable welcome, ensuring all individuals feel valued, respected and at ease.
- Arrange meetings, appointments, and events for visitors and external partners, ensuring all necessary facilities and health & safety requirements are in place.
- Support the Administration Lead and wider team to ensure accurate monitoring data is collected and reported on a quarterly basis, including case studies and service user feedback, in line with GDPR requirements.
- Support the safety and wellbeing of service users and visitors, including recognising and reporting safeguarding concerns and escalating appropriately in line with procedures.
- Ensure the hub is presentable at all times, including maintaining displays and preparing rooms in line with bookings and activities.
- Assist with signposting, logging requests and liaising with senior staff and project workers as required.
- Stock taking of resources to ensure that the hub is fully equipped with necessary items such as stationery and first aid supplies.
- Support the promotion of materials to engage communities, including newsletters, leaflets, notice boards, displays etc.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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Garfield Weston Foundation are exciting to be recruiting a Grants and Foundation Assistant to joing their team.
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a well-established and highly respected grant-making charity, supporting a wide range of causes across the UK. With over £1.7 billion donated since its inception and more than £100 million awarded annually in recent years, the Foundation plays a vital role in strengthening communities and organisations nationwide.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation at the heart of impactful grant-making. The role will play a key part in supporting charities throughout the application and grant management process, ensuring a high-quality and responsive service at every stage.
You will be a central point of contact for applicants and colleagues alike, providing hands-on administrative and systems support, maintaining accurate records, and contributing to the smooth running of the Foundation’s grants processes. This is a varied and rewarding role, ideal for someone who is organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about supporting the charitable sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide administrative and operational support across the full grant lifecycle, from application through to payment
- Act as a key point of contact for charities, responding to enquiries and providing clear and supportive guidance
- Manage shared inboxes and ensure timely, consistent responses across the team
- Maintain and update the grants database, ensuring high levels of data accuracy and integrity
- Support application processing, including eligibility checks and monitoring workflow progress
- Monitor application pipelines and follow up on outstanding information to ensure smooth processing
- Provide flexible support to colleagues during busy periods or staff absence
Person Specification
- Experience in an administrative or customer facing role, ideally within a charity, not-for-profit, or professional environment
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced setting
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate, high-quality records
- Confident using Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) and working with databases or CRM systems
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including excellent telephone manner, with the ability to engage professionally and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Proactive, adaptable team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a genuine interest in the charitable sector
What’s on Offer
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000
Location: Mayfair, London (On Site 5 Days A Week)
Contract: Fixed-term (18 months, with potential extension)
How to Apply
We are partnering with The Talent Set on this appointment. To apply, please submit your CV only. Suitable candidates will be contacted for a conversation with request of a full application.
Commitment to Diversity
Garfield Weston Foundation and The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
