Volunteer Management Jobs
Job Title: Citadel Co-ordinator (London)
Hours: 35 per week (full time)
Location: Hybrid - minimum 1 day per week in Vauxhall office with regular travel across London.
Contract: Fixed term (until January 31st 2026)
Salary: £ 37,840
About us
Housing Justice is a charity that acts on homelessness and housing need across England and Wales. We work to prevent people from experiencing homelessness, help people out of homelessness or destitution, and enable the building of affordable homes. We also take a leading role as the voice of the faith and voluntary sector, supported by the Welsh and UK Governments. At Housing Justice, we value differences: we are a diverse organisation, and we work with people of all faiths and none. We seek to influence and bring about change for the benefit of those we serve through partnership, lobbying and networking. Our initiatives include Faith in Affordable Housing, Hosting people seeking sanctuary, Support for people from Ukraine, The Winter Night Shelter Network and Citadel.
About you
We are looking for outgoing, confident and skilled communicators who are well versed in public speaking, building relationships and influencing people. You will feel confident to speak to anyone and will proactively seek out opportunities to build partnerships and promote the projects. You will be a self-motivated, committed person with experience of working in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community sectors.
About the role
We are seeking to hire 4 driven and proactive Citadel co-ordinators across South East London (Southwark, Lambeth, Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley) – to recruit, train, support and supervise committed volunteers who will directly support people experiencing homelessness locally.
About Citadel
Citadel is a volunteer-led project preventing homelessness by helping people find or sustain their tenancies and establish a home. Volunteers, once recruited, trained and DBS checked are matched with those referred for support. Co-ordinators and volunteers work closely with those referred to establish what matters to them and how best they can support them.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave (3 fixed over Christmas), plus an additional day per year of service over 3 years (up to 5 additional days)
- Openness to flexible ways of working
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Home office set-up
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing & Hounslow Mind remains at the forefront of service provision, committed to working in partnership with the NHS and other MH providers to ensure more CYP can access MH treatment and specialist support. At HFEH Mind we ensure we understand the needs of our community so that we can tailor our response accordingly by providing appropriate services. In response to this and government plans for expansion and provision an exciting Crisis Café referred to as Circle is being developed by HFEH Mind as part of the newly established Complex Needs Hub.The purpose of the Circle is to help alleviate mental health and wellbeing during heightened arousal or crisis through supportive therapeutic provision within the local community facilitated by the Circle team.
This Team Manger role would suit either a Health Care Professional (HCP) who is an established leader/manager or an experienced operational manager with a proven track record working with stakeholders in a Third sector voluntary agency, the NHS, statutory agency or other similar organisation. The ideal candidate would have worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team or operational managed a consortium or group of services simultaneously. Experience in promoting MH wellbeing services, involvement with crisis/acute MH presentations or working creatively on effective evidence-based de-escalation for CYP in the community will be an added bonus.
Main duties of the job
The Circle Team Manager role is a core part of the HFEH Mind Complex Needs Hub providing flexible and evidence-based episodes of crisis care and treatment to young people aged 5 - 18 presenting to Circle. This role will include having an overview and taking the lead in all mental health support and psychoeducation facilitated by the Circle for CYPs who are experiencing acute crisis. The Circle Team Manager will work in partnership with, and other agency leads to formulate strategies to alleviate MH Wellbeing in acute crisis using short term evidence based therapeutic treatment modalities grounded in psychosocial models of care.
The aim of the service is to provide psychosocial, holistic support in crisis to help de-escalate crisis presentations, problem solve difficult circumstances, guide mental health self-management and subsequently alleviate mental health wellbeing for all children and young people aged 5-18 accessing the service.
You will facilitate this by leading the drive for a systematic, collaborative individualised needs-based psychosocial approach to children and young people mental health fostering specific key relationships.
Essential Requirements
- Must have a minimum 18-month post qualification experience of working children and/young people in a mental health service as an HCP with relevant professional registration.
OR
- Must have a minimum of 2 years' experience as an Operational Manager with relevant CYP mental health qualifications preferably educated to Post Graduate level.
- Working knowledge or management experience within services targeted at Children and Young people.
- Experience of using, collecting and interpreting routine service outcomes to inform service development/expansion.
- Some understanding of child development and psychosocial influences on MH presentations.
- Experience engaging a range of stakeholders and involving service users and commissioners throughout service planning and delivery
Full Job Description and Person Specification in document provided.
About Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind
This is an exciting opportunity to join and support a fast growing and dedicated team supporting the wellbeing of communities across West London.
We’re here to make sure that everyone suffering with a mental health problem gets the help they need to recover. We listen, support recovery, fight stigma and work with partners to take action. We provide services for adults, children and young people, signposting for everyone and training and consultancy for employers.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
HFEH Mind are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer; and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for skilled project manager someone who is highly organised, delivery focused, motivated, creative, has excellent interpersonal and IT skills and most importantly is enthusiastic about supporting the east London community.
About ELBA
ELBA is a leading social regeneration charity in east London. It facilitates corporate investment from the business sector into community programmes in east London, Islington and beyond. ELBA develops & delivers a range of programmes to help reduce poverty, improve equality and strengthen social mobility.
A registered charity, ELBA has over 30 years of experience in enabling successful partnerships between business and the community. In a typical year, ELBA helps place over 200 people into work in London through its award-winning Employment Works programme, delivers over 10,000 business volunteers into the community, and works with over 300 local organisations in Islington and east London. Our mission is to create possibilities to bring about positive change in London by channelling the wide-reaching resources, people power and influence of the private sector to address key areas of need.
Purpose of the job
The main purpose of the job is to support with the delivery and development of the Challenge: ELBA programme which provides one-off, team based practical and social volunteering opportunities for member and non-member companies.
The programme is well established and the Challenge: ELBA team delivers circa 8,000 volunteers each year. The focus now is to reengage with companies that paused in-person volunteering due to COVID and to continue to develop virtual team opportunities. The project manager will be working with the team to take the programme to the next level by proactive marketing of team challenges, developing new materials, including social media presence; working with companies to “adopt” community organisations, and ensure as many challenge volunteers as possible convert to longer term business volunteers. There is also great potential to engage non-member companies and develop an income generation stream through providing team challenge opportunities.
The role is busy and demanding and Project Managers are expected to show great independence and initiative in delivering a busy programme of activities. The Project Managers will be working with the team to deliver our annual programme and targets as well as constantly developing new activities to help tackle social issues in the community.
Project Managers are the backbone of ELBA. You will be fully supported and trained and there is opportunity to advance quickly to Senior Project Manager after just 12 months in the role, subject to performance.
Working for ELBA
- Competitive salary
- Generous annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
- Life assurance
- 5% employer pension contribution
- BUPA health cash plan
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- An active wellbeing and equalities programmes led by staff
- A varied and busy learning and development schedule
- Cycle purchase scheme
- Employee Assistance Helpline
In our staff survey our people tell us they love the interaction with active and caring colleagues; the worthwhile nature of our work; and great agency in how they deliver their objectives.
Job Description
Main duties
- Identify and build relationships with a range of community stakeholders, including charities, community groups, social enterprises, education institutions, faith groups etc
- Assess organisational needs and develop creative corporate volunteering opportunities to meet the needs and build the capacity of community stakeholders via volunteer teams
- To manage a high volume of enquiries from corporate and community partners
- Develop relationships and effective partnerships with key stakeholders in the community including the local authority and community infrastructure support organisations to maximise the impact of ELBA’s work
- To proactively develop and market Challenge: ELBA opportunities to member companies and match them with appropriate teams
- To facilitate Challenge: ELBA events, organise and run planning meetings and provide support on the day.
- Source, place and manage cohorts of corporate volunteers in line with business plan and targets
- Support the Challenge: ELBA Programme Manager to understand ELBA’s corporate partners’ community investment programmes
- Develop effective working relationships with ELBA’s corporate partners. Ensure that these partners are supported to develop employee volunteering and other initiatives that meet their targets, priorities and strategies
- Develop and implement effective evaluation and impact measurement tools in line with ELBA corporate partner requirements including the London Benchmarking Group, ensure evaluation informs best practise to ensure continuous improvement
- To deliver training sessions to employee volunteers where needed
- Work on any projects with ELBA, as and when required.
General
- To adhere to and actively promote ELBA’s safeguarding policies
- Use ELBA internal systems to maintain records and report progress, including due diligence and volunteer recording via Salesforce
- Ensure that effective project management systems for monitoring and evaluation are in place and keep detailed records
- Complete monthly, quarterly and annual reports as required
- Proactively generate case studies, news articles, photos and social media content to promote the work of ELBA in line with ELBA communication targets and protocols
- Collaborate with other ELBA colleagues on projects where appropriate, and contribute to the development of ELBA as an organisation overall
- To represent ELBA at meetings, social events and functions.
- Adhere to and implement policies, including equal opportunities and health and safety
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager
Person Specification
ELBA’s core competencies define the principles and ethos that are central to the way we seek to operate as an organisation and the way we treat those with whom we come into contact. They inform what we do and how we do it; we expect every member of staff to commit to creating value for our members and community partners. ELBA’s core competencies are:
· Accountability
· Leadership
· Commercial awareness
· Relationship management
· Adaptability
· Delivery
· Communication
· Creativity
In addition the ideal candidate will have:
Essential skills and experience
· Strong project management skills, managing projects from inception through to completion and evaluation
· Highly organised with an ability to prioritise, work under pressure and deliver against set targets to agreed deadlines
· Ability to manage and track multiple projects, often with competing deadlines
· Effective time management skills and interpersonal skills including negotiation, persuasion, flexibility and problem solving
· The ability to drive creative ideas from conception through to completion
· The ability to get things done
· Sound practical experience of planning and delivering small to large events
· Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to articulate messages clearly and concisely in an engaging style consistent with ELBA’s brand
· Thoroughness, accuracy and attention to detail
· Experience of developing sustainable and effective partnerships with multiple stakeholders
· The ability to work across all levels of ELBA corporate partners, community partners and local stakeholders
· Ability to work collaboratively within ELBA to develop and share best practise
· An understanding and passion of the principles of corporate community investment and employee volunteering
· Experience of working with and facilitating employee volunteering activities
· Experience of programme monitoring and evaluation
· A high level of IT literacy
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience of working with or within the corporate sector and good commercial awareness
- Knowledge and experience of corporate community investment
- Experience of working in or with the voluntary and community sector
- An understanding of evaluation and impact measurement techniques within corporate community investment
- Experience of maintaining social network platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram amongst others, capitalising on publicity opportunities
- Full UK clean driving license is highly desirable
ELBA wants to represent the diverse community we support and aims to be an inclusive employer in terms of ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation & background. We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications.
Please note this role is required to have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The successful candidate will be required to comply with ELBA's safeguarding policies and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory references as well as DBS.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Citadel Co-ordinator
Hours: 35 per week (full time)
Location: Home working, roles must be based in Bristol (x2), Cornwall* (x2), Sheffield (x1) or Hastings (x1)
Contract: Fixed term (until January 31st 2026)
Salary: £33,786
About us
Housing Justice is a charity that acts on homelessness and housing need across England and Wales. We work to prevent people from experiencing homelessness, help people out of homelessness or destitution, and enable the building of affordable homes. We also take a leading role as the voice of the faith and voluntary sector, supported by the Welsh and UK Governments. At Housing Justice, we value differences: we are a diverse organisation, and we work with people of all faiths and none. We seek to influence and bring about change for the benefit of those we serve through partnership, lobbying and networking. Our initiatives include Faith in Affordable Housing, Hosting people seeking sanctuary, Support for people from Ukraine, The Winter Night Shelter Network and Citadel.
About you
We are looking for outgoing, confident and skilled communicators who are well versed in public speaking, building relationships and influencing people. You will feel confident to speak to anyone and will proactively seek out opportunities to build partnerships and promote the projects. You will be a self-motivated, committed person with experience of working in the homelessness, housing or voluntary and community sectors.
About the role
We are seeking to hire 6 driven and proactive Citadel co-ordinators across Bristol, Cornwall, Sheffield and Hastings – to recruit, train, support and supervise committed volunteers who will directly support people experiencing homelessness locally.
About Citadel
Citadel is a volunteer-led project preventing homelessness by helping people find or sustain their tenancies and establish a home. Volunteers, once recruited, trained and DBS checked are matched with those referred for support. Co-ordinators and volunteers work closely with those referred to establish what matters to them and how best they can support them.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave (3 fixed over Christmas), plus an additional day per year of service over 3 years (up to 5 additional days)
- Openness to flexible ways of working
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Home office set-up
- Cycle to Work Scheme
*we will consider applications from across Cornwall, but will take location - in relation to where individuals are being supported - into consideration as part of the application process – access to your own transportation will be critical in this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
- £15.59 per hour
- 7-15 hours per week
- Sessional contract
- Based in London Borough of Bromley with regular travel across the boroughs of Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich
- Hybrid working: Group delivery in local Children’s Centres, and additional work from home or office.
Mindful Mums is an award-winning perinatal mental health and wellbeing peer support project that builds resilience and confidence in women and birthing people in the first year of motherhood.
As a Mindful Mums Project Worker, you will help co-deliver our five-week Perinatal Wellbeing programme with our peer support volunteers. Within these groups, you will provide a safe, non-judgemental space for women and birthing people to share their experiences, meet others and discuss the challenges that come during the first year of parenthood.
You will be involved in all frontline aspects of the project, including training volunteers who have lived through their own perinatal mental health problems. You will also help to review, monitor and evaluate the project, and disseminate learning.
You will have knowledge of perinatal mental health, be an effective communicator with experience of delivering groups or workshops, and preferably experience of working within community based or voluntary services. Your exceptional organisation skills will support the successful delivery of the project and ensure that it is evaluated effectively.
We ask that you:
- Have good communication skills and group facilitation experience
- Appreciate the pressures and stresses facing women and birthing people during pregnancy and as new parents
- Are reliable, consistent and dependable
- Have an understanding of the additional challenges faced by parents from culturally diverse backgrounds and LGBTQ+ parents
Points to note:
- This role will involve travel across the boroughs of Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich
- Groups take place during term time during school hours, Monday – Friday
- You must be available to deliver a full five-week programme
- Groups are held within Children’s Centres and community venues across the London Boroughs of Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich
Within your application, please state your preferred number of hours and the days of the week you are available. Please also mention if you have any particular expertise in any of the group formats we offer, such as LGBTQ+ or young people.
Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Closing date: Monday 1st July (11:59pm)
Likely interview date:Thursday 11th July
SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support.
SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that’s part of who you are.
Read more about staff benefits and why staff love working here on our website.
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Purpose of the Role:
Bow Foodbank is proud to have developed a highly trusted relationship with our guests and the community. We are often the first point of call for people when they are starting to struggle financially. We want to use our trusted place in the community to support our guests with more than just food, helping to connect them into a wide range of services and community groups - aiming to help guests to build their resilience and move them away from the causes of poverty. This will be done by inviting specialist partners to offer their services at our centre, as well as training and overseeing our volunteers in signposting guests to services that will help them build their resilience. We want to do this in a way that builds dignity so will aim to follow up with them the impact of any referrals and how they have improved guest wellbeing. Our aim is to limit the length of time guests depend on any foodbank and increase the community’s access to support services and community groups.
This role will train and oversee the work of our volunteers in signposting guests to high quality services. They will be responsible for holding guest voice strategy and will feed into the senior leadership team the opinions of our guests so we can continually improve the service we offer them.
This role will build partnerships with organisations to create support pathways. We want to maximise use of our building by creating a support ‘marketplace’ inviting partners into the foodbank and increasing guest access to the broadest range of services.
Please provide a cover letter of no more than two A4 typed pages that outline your experience in meeting the person specification for this role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job description
The coordinator roles are vital components of this project. We want to attract candidates from the North West of England with sound local knowledge and willing/able to travel in the region - these will be important parts of this job.
Purpose of the roles:
- To be responsible for the development, coordination, and delivery of Neighbourhood Watch’s partner project involving Neighbourhood Watch volunteers within the North West.
- Delivering training to volunteers so they can deliver information sessions to community groups.
- Organising community events where information sessions are delivered by volunteers.
- Ensuring information sessions are delivered to the highest and consistent standards, and that feedback requests are acted upon swiftly.
Hours of employment are:
0.8FTE (28 hours per week)
12 month fixed term contract. Core hours are 10am-12pm and 2-4pm with an unpaid lunch break.
Neighbourhood Watch is looking for someone who can develop a strong volunteering base and support them. The ideal candidate will be a good self-starter and have exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and recruit excellent volunteers and mentors who can contribute to the work.
The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Neighbourhood Watch does and the positive effect it has on the community. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a wider team but also able to manage their own time and workload. The successful applicant will need access to transport. The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Neighbourhood Watch’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable, and personable.
They will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community.
Who you are:
You will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community, a proactive team member who is enthusiastic about volunteering and can motivate and inspire a team of volunteers.
You’ll be good at:
- communicating vision and values to individuals and large groups
- recruiting and inspiring volunteers
- managing your own time and workload
- working in a geographically dispersed team
You’ll be:
- passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community
- very approachable, responsible, reliable and personable
You’ll have:
- A strong and demonstrable commitment to the aims and values of Neighbourhood Watch.
- A clear understanding and demonstrable commitment to promotion of equality and diversity
- A full, clean UK driving license and use of a car
You’ll have experience of:
- Coordinating volunteers
Benefits of working for Neighbourhood Watch include:
- Flexible working hours
- Stakeholder Pension
- Cyclescheme
- Techscheme
Our mission is to support and enable individuals and communities to be connected, active and safe, which increases wellbeing and minimises crime.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The charity is seeking a dynamic and motivated individual to work as part of a Volunteer Service Coordinator’s Team to oversee the co-ordination and delivery of Womankind’s remote befriending service for women with mental health issues.
Some of the credentials you will need:
- Experience of working within one or more of the following areas: volunteer management, counselling/therapeutic services, mental health, sexual violence, domestic abuse, health and social care.
- A knowledge and understanding of women’s mental health issues including, trauma and issues relating to domestic abuse, sexual violence and its impact on women
- Experience of delivering services and supervising others.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Support Coordinator
This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke. We are looking for an innovative, passionate and professional individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to join our Stroke Recovery Service based in Surrey.
Position: S11185 Stroke Association Support Coordinator
Location: Home-based Surrey, however extensive travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week (flexible working available)
Salary: Circa £16,043 per annum (FTE circa £26,700 per annum) (inner London weighting £2,370 per annum or outer London weighting £1,260 per annum may be applied in accordance to where you live)
Contract: Our services are contracted, we currently have funding for this contract until 31 August 2025.
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 7 July 2024 (midnight). We reserve the right to close these vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interview Date: 16 July and 17 July 2024
Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
The service aims to identify and address the needs of stroke survivors and carers across the stroke pathway, by providing a range of innovative support solutions, supporting them to meet their desired outcomes. A key part of the role will be to support service users and the delivery of the service.
Reporting to the Stroke Association Service Delivery Coach, the Stroke Association Support Coordinator will:
· Support new stroke survivors and their carers from hospital discharge into the community.
· Provide personalised information, advice and support.
· Support clients to make informed lifestyle changes which will help them to prevent further strokes
· Be accountable for volunteers, so experience of recruiting, training and managing volunteers would be an advantage.
· You will have excellent IT skills and demonstrate a flexible approach to your role.
About You
The post holder will have experience/background in:
· A caring profession ideally with experience of supporting people with disabilities.
· Setting up and running virtual groups.
This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role
To fulfil the role you must be resident in the UK and have the right to work in the UK
When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further
information on the role.
Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
About the Organisation
Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.
When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.
We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.
We’re working to improve the diversity of our team. Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.
Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
In 2019, we developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!
You may also have experience in areas such as Care Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care, Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service, Vulnerable Adult, Social Care and Support Officer, Rehabilitation Coordinator, Volunteering Manager, Care and Support Officer, Social Care Worker, Health, Health Care, Support Worker, Care Worker, Social Care Support Worker, Residential Support Worker, Relief Support Worker, Support Worker Disabilities, Day Centre Support Worker, Rehabilitation Support Worker, Night Support Worker, Stroke Support Worker, Disability, Disability Support, Stroke.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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We need an events manager who is adept at managing projects and events, working with our fundraisers and encouraging our supporters to get involved in our events such as our annual trek, the prestigious Care Sector Ball, and all the other events we’re involved in. The right person will have the confidence and persistence it takes to persuade, cajole, prod and encourage fundraisers to do as much as they can to raise funds for us. You need to be proficient at managing the admin that goes with events, including using fundraising platforms such as Just Giving and Enthuse to engage with fundraisers and provide regular reports on the income raised. We will also need you to organize hotel, travel, conference arrangements for the team.
You must be based in England, to help us keep travel costs down as much as possible. The role is home based, with travel to fundraising events, conferences and network meetings, and with travel every 10 weeks or so to central London for team meetings.
You must be a determined self-reliant professional though also a team player, to effectively coordinate and execute events and other activities, and be passionate about events management and fundraising to enable us to raise as much money as possible for the charity.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Determination and a ‘can do’ attitude
- Well developed interpersonal skills, particularly around negotiation, persuasion, motivational and collaborative attributes
- Experience of managing fundraising platforms such as Just Giving and Enthuse
- Excellent organisation and planning skills
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Good IT skills particularly MS Office packages
- Ability to produce reports and information based on income received through fundraising and other platforms
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Must be able work in a fast-paced environment
- Work well in a team but also be self-motivated
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Experience in event management, preferably in the charity sector, and be able to demonstrate a strong track record in fundraising and achieving financial targets.
- Creativity and confidence with a strong sense of determination willing to persevere to engage and encourage potential fundraisers.
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The ability to build professional relationships, tell the charities story in order to engage supporters and remain upbeat and positive when in challenging situations.
The willingness to get stuck in, to attend events to cheer our fundraisers to the finishing line and to encourage others to take part.
Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteer Officer to join our team based in Birmingham. You will join us on a full-time basis as part of an initial 1-year fixed term contract with a view to progressing into a permanent role. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £24,000 per annum.
Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.
As our Volunteers Officer, the successful candidate will play an integral role in contributing towards the development, planning, and delivery of the charity’s volunteering programme. This role will be based in the North and the Volunteers Officer will be responsible for the recruitment and oversight of volunteers across the North and Scotland regions. We are ideally looking to appoint somebody immediately to this role.
Benefits of joining us as our Volunteer Officer include:
- 35 days Annual Leave
- Matched pension contribution
- Employee discounts and memberships
- Prayer facilities
- Opportunity to really make a difference!
Key duties and responsibilities of the Volunteer Officer include:
- Acting as a central point of contact and support in the North and Scotland regions for all volunteer queries and support requests, including providing prompt and thorough responses and resolving any complaints
- Acting as a central point of contact and support in the North and Scotland regions for all volunteering requests from internal departments, specifically the Fundraising and UK Programmes departments
- Managing and supervising volunteers and Interns across the North and Scotland regions, including developing their skillsets, providing volunteer engagement initiatives, and promoting a positive working environment
- Actively growing Human Appeal’s volunteer database in the North and Scotland regions, including promoting volunteering opportunities, processing new volunteer sign-up requests from the Volunteers inbox, and conducting Volunteer Team Leader interviews
- Recruiting Interns across the North region for various departments to achieve additional manpower support, by preparing Role Profiles, posting job adverts and conducting interviews
- Preparing volunteers resources, such as collection buckets, t-shirts, merchandise and donation forms, for all volunteering activities
- Designing and delivering local volunteering projects and outreach programmes to achieve increased public interaction with Human Appeal and improve local relations
- Exploring new and innovative ideas to maximise the potential of Human Appeal’s volunteering programme
- Undertaking a range of administrative tasks in support of the wider Volunteers Management team and People and Culture department
What we’re looking for in our Volunteer Officer include:
- Ideally degree-educated in a related field, with minimum GCSE English and Maths
- At least 1 year of relevant experience in charity / office administration / events or volunteers’ management
- Driver with a clean licence and full-time access to a car, as regular travel across the North and Scotland area will be required
- Flexible attitude, as the Volunteers Officer will be expected to support campaigns by attending activities and events that may take place in unsociable hours, such as evenings and weekends. Please note that any over-time will be compensated via Human Appeal’s TOIL Policy
- Computer literate and database proficient; experience using Salesforce is desirable
- Fluent English is essential and additional languages e.g. Arabic, Urdu are desirable
- Passionate and knowledgeable about the international development sector
This would be an ideal role for an experienced Volunteers Officer looking to develop their career, or an experienced Office Administrator looking for a rewarding role within the Charity Sector!
We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success please click ‘apply’ today to become our Volunteers Officer – we would love to hear from you.
Disclaimer: Please be aware that due to the anticipated quantity of response, we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted to interview stage. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that unfortunately you have been unsuccessful this time.
Job description
The Volunteer Coordinator roles are vital components of this project. We want to attract candidates from the East of England with sound local knowledge (who are able to travel around the area) both of which will be important parts of this job.
Purpose of the role:
- To be responsible for the development, coordination, and delivery of Neighbourhood Watch’s partner project involving Neighbourhood Watch volunteers within one of the regional areas.
- Delivering training to volunteers so they can deliver information sessions to community groups.
- Organising community events where information sessions are delivered by volunteers.
- Ensuring information sessions are delivered to the highest and consistent standards, and that feedback requests are acted upon swiftly.
Hours of employment are:
East of England 0.8FTE (28 hours per week)
12 month fixed term contract. Core hours are 10am-12pm and 2-4pm with an unpaid lunch break.
Neighbourhood Watch is looking for someone who can develop a strong volunteering base and support them. The ideal candidate will be a good self-starter and have exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and recruit excellent volunteers and mentors who can contribute to the work.
The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Neighbourhood Watch does and the positive effect it has on the community. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a wider team but also able to manage their own time and workload. The successful applicant will need access to transport. The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Neighbourhood Watch’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable, and personable.
They will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community.
Who you are:
You will be passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community, a proactive team member who is enthusiastic about volunteering and can motivate and inspire a team of volunteers.
You’ll be good at:
- communicating vision and values to individuals and large groups
- recruiting and inspiring volunteers
- managing your own time and workload
- working in a geographically dispersed team
You’ll be:
- passionate about the role of volunteers within the crime prevention community
- very approachable, responsible, reliable and personable
You’ll have
- A strong and demonstrable commitment to the aims and values of Neighbourhood Watch.
- A clear understanding and demonstrable commitment to promotion of equality and diversity
- A full, clean UK driving license and use of a car
You’ll have experience of:
- Coordinating volunteers
Benefits of working for Neighbourhood Watch include:
- Flexible working hours
- Stakeholder Pension
- Cyclescheme
- Techscheme
Our mission is to support and enable individuals and communities to be connected, active and safe, which increases wellbeing and minimises crime.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About This Job
ACCT UK launched its new name and brand in 2021 and we are now seeking a highly motivated Marketing Manager to continue the delivery of our engagement programme. We are looking for you to bring enthusiasm, personal credibility, discretion and sensitivity in promoting the charity to its beneficiaries and a wide range of stakeholder groups.
As ACCT UK’s Marketing Manager, you will be key to helping the wider community to understand our charity and how it is distinct from the Army Cadets, a youth organisation we are closely linked to.
This is a rewarding and flexible role. The position is a permanent full time post (40 hours per week) which can be either home or office based. The successful applicant will be required to travel occasionally. The full time starting annual salary for this post is £34,190.73.
Our charity
ACCT UK is a national youth charity dedicated to improving the life chances of young people. We want to ensure that every young person has the opportunity to learn new skills, build confidence and be inspired through their Army Cadet experience. We want to develop the youth leadership and training abilities of adult volunteers in the Army Cadets.
Working alongside our strategic partner, the British Army, we help young people to access cadet activity with the Army Cadets through a range of activities including fundraising, grant making, developing new resources and direct support to the Army Cadets.
We strongly believe that everyone benefits when you help young people to develop their character and values through activities that stretch and challenge them. We also know that when young people engage with others at a range of levels in their communities it builds confidence and improves empathy for other’s lives.
Who we are
You will enjoy being part of our small, friendly team who work very happily together. By joining ACCT UK you will help us to reach more young people and make a greater difference and we look forward to working with you. We actively promote learning and encourage you to explore ideas that improve all aspects of the charity’s work in pursuit of its charitable aims.
What we can offer you
In addition to your salary we offer all staff:
· Flexible working arrangements (you agree a working pattern with your line manager).
· The ability to work both from home and from our London office.
· Personal Accident Insurance, including loss of earnings cover and death benefit.
· 15 days of sick pay in any 12-month period (after 12 months employment - pro-rata for part time staff).
· A contributory pension scheme (you contribute at least 5% and we will contribute 10%).
· 20 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff).
· Additional privilege leave on set days each year, such as between Christmas and New Year (pro-rata for part time staff).
· An additional five days of volunteering leave (pro-rata for part time staff).
· Access to Care Firsts employee assistance programme.
· Support for qualifications and personal development.
· Reimbursement of the cost of a Railcard subject to eligibility.
· Season ticket loan.
· A caring and supportive team environment.
How to apply
Please send a covering letter that details how you meet the requirements of the job specification along with a CV. Your completed application should be sent by 2359 hrs Sunday 23rd June 2024.
Interviews will take place during the week commencing Monday 1st July 2024 in person at our London office. Please note that as a charity dedicated to improving the lives of young people we require staff to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check and will follow up references.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Hybrid Working - Based in one of our regional Hubs: Leeds, Midlands, Wales.
Ref: MGA-241
Are you a proactive, analytical and collaborative individual with a proven record of control account reconciliations and preparing and coordinating budgets and management accounting reports for an organisation? Looking for a career-enhancing new opportunity?
If so, St Giles has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Management Accountant to join us and provide vital support to the Financial Controller in managing the management and financial accounts of the Trust, while also managing volunteers.
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
This multi-faceted role will see our successful candidate produce monthly management accounts for St Giles Trust with commentary and key performance indicators, monitor and report on budget and prepare financial forecasts and projections, plus prepare monthly schedules such as deferred income, accruals, and prepayment in accordance with accounting policies.
We will also count on you to monitor expenditure and income and support budget holders in managing the delegated budget by providing monthly reports on income, grant, and expenditure and to monitor the organisation’s expenditure and income, as well as supporting managers with the preparation of funders’ monthly or quarterly reports on fund usage. Coordinating the year-end financial accounts and supporting the Head of Finance to ensure a smooth process and being point of contact for all financial systems related matters are also key aspects of the role.
What we are looking for
• Experience of in-year reporting and monitoring key performance indicators
• Experience of working with non-finance managers on financial issues
• Experience of managing the payroll process
• Experience of preparing management accounts returns for funders, reconciling fundraising figures to budgets/actuals on financial systems
• Strong accounting technical knowledge (debits, credit, accruals, deferred income, etc)
• Ability to use Exchequer or similar financial system and experience of Sage 50 Payroll or similar payroll software
• Ability to explain technical accounting terms to non-finance managers
• Excellent IT, interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written.
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 a Basic DBS check.
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.
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.
Closing date: 21 July 2024
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About the Finance team
The role will provide support to the Financial Controller in effective stewardship and oversight of all finance functions, with responsibility for ensuring accurate budget holder reporting, project reporting and aid in the production of management accounts.
Working with the Financial Controller and Finance Assistant, this role is essential to the reporting of financial information across the Charity. The Assistant Management Accountant will also support in the delivery of new projects and systems advancements.
About the role
The Assistant Management Accountant is a critical role within the organisation and is being recruited at an exciting time as Kidney Care UK seeks to realise its growth ambitions within its strategy.
The role will provide support to the Financial Controller in effective stewardship and oversight of all finance functions, with responsibility for ensuring accurate budget holder reporting, project reporting and aid in the production of management accounts. This role is essential to the reporting of financial information across the Charity. The Assistant Management Accountant will also support in the delivery of new projects and systems advancements.
In addition the Assistant Management Accountant will help to prepare the Charity’s quarterly VAT returns, ensuring that all transactions have the correct VAT coding. The role will be pivotal in the monthly close down process and ongoing accuracy of the transactions held on the accounting system.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and will be highly organised. The ideal candidate will be able to organise conflicting priorities around the monthly management accounts cycle. They will be flexible and adaptable in their approach to support transformational change in our processes and systems.
Core tasks and responsibilities
- Monthly accounting, budgeting, reporting and analysis:
- Produce monthly budget vs actual variance reports for budget holders.
- Prepare monthly expenditure reports for the patient grants team, reconciling the finance system to the database.
- Prepare and post the weekly income imports from information provided by Fundraising.
- Undertake regular monthly income reconciliations with the Fundraising Team, agreeing the finance system to the database.
- Aid in the month-end closing procedures and prepare the monthly reconciliations required: bank reconciliation, corporate card reconciliations, project reconciliations.
- Ensure that proper procedures are in place and followed for company credit cards, ensure that credit card expenditure is entered and reconciled through the control account and balanced each month.
- Ensure that all transactions are correctly accounted for in respect of VAT.
- Aid in training non-finance staff on ExpenseIn (our expenses management system). Support the Financial Controller in resolving ExpenseIn queries.
- Raise invoices and maintain the sales ledger.
- Covering for the Accounts Assistant on the purchase ledger when required.
- Aid in the monthly payroll process, incorporating a review of the payroll workings and allocation journal prepared by the outsourced payroll function. Ensure that the correct pension deductions are being made and accounted for correctly on the finance system.
Person specification
- Experience of charity accounting and FRS102 SORP requirements
- Knowledge and experience of management accounts
- A good knowledge of VAT
- Robust understanding of financial controls
- Experience of using a range accounting packages
- High degree of proficiency in Microsoft 365
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate financial matters to non-financial stakeholders
- Self-motivated individual capable of working on their own and as part of a team
- Ability to manage and prioritise a substantial workload handling issues effectively and efficiently
- Ability to analyse complex problems and interpret information effectively and exercise sound judgement and develop practical and workable solutions as a consequence.
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.
- Ability to manage to deadlines and within resources.
- Drive for continuous improvement to produce more effective service delivery and partnerships.
- Able to prioritise; organised self-motivated and flexible.
For an informal discussion, please message Charlotte Donnelly Finance Director via:
charlotte.donnelly(a)kidneycareuk org
We look forward to receiving your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.