Who we are looking for

We are looking for a motivated and talented financial professional to join our Finance team as a Management Accountant. The role is responsible for efficiently and effectively managing a variety of financial reports on behalf of the Finance department. You will also handle a number of financial processes which will work cross-departmentally, supporting the wider Ambition Institute Team with their understanding of the role of finance across the organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop financial process and reporting within the team and take ownership of financial knowledge across the wider organization through business partnering.

Based in one of our three UK offices (London, Birmingham or Manchester), you’ll proactively ensure that Ambition Institute is financially compliant across all processes, support on financial system projects, and ensure that all monthly processes, such as payroll, are managed competently. The Management Accountant will report to the Finance & Operations Director and will manage a small team of Finance Associates.

You will have previous experience of working within a similar role, managing the whole internal reporting process, including communicating financial information to none financial staff. You will be committed to Ambition Institute’s mission of improving the education and outcomes of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.  You will be an excellent communicator and be able to build relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, as well as having excellent numeracy and literacy skills and a commitment to the development of staff. 

Who are Ambition Institute?

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

To apply for any of our vacancies or for any questions or queries please click the link to visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

We are looking for a Deputy Head of the England team to be at the heart of helping to shape the people-powered focus of Friends of the Earth’s grassroots campaigns.

In this newly created role, you’ll help ensure that our campaigns achieve real impact, diversifying at a grassroots level and building our movement-powered organisation. 

To be successful you will need demonstrable experience in delivering campaigns, particularly at a grass-roots level; using your knowledge of social and political change to utilise cutting-edge campaign strategies and tools. It is also essential that you are a strong people manager who is comfortable leading a geographically dispersed team.

Closing date: Monday 13th April 2020 (23:59)

In return we offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Community Development Officer (West Midlands)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a growing team as PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide expands in the West Midlands. PAPYRUS is the national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide. Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK.  We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives.

Our Community Development Officer will deliver PAPYRUS’ suite of training and awareness raising courses and help to identify and engage with local communities, volunteers and key partners across the West Midlands. The post will be based in Birmingham but with travel across the region expected. The role will include engaging organisations and those who work with young people. Applications are invited from candidates who are passionate about saving young lives.

DESIGNATION: Community Development Officer (West Midlands)

HOURS: Full time (36 hours per week) or part time hours also considered

SALARY: NJC Scale 18-22 (£24,313 - £26,317) & 5% employer pension contribution

LOCATION: West Midlands office with regular travel across UK as required

RESPONSIBLE TO: Regional Manager (West Midlands) 

CLOSING DATE: Friday 3rd April

INTERVIEWS: 17th or 20th April 2020

JOB REFERENCE: CDO0320WM

For full details of the role, please see the Job Description and Person Specification on our website. Candidates are encouraged to pay close attention to the Job Description and Person Specification to ensure they meet the essential criteria and have the relevant skills. Please complete your Application Form and send it to our HR department  which can be found on our website. CVs will not be considered or reviewed.

We're looking for someone to lead our fundraising and communications team and activities who has a real passion for fundraising strategy design and development, plus experience of embedding a fundraising culture and focus at an organisational level. You'll be asked to accelerate the growth of our fundraising across a diversified range of streams and donors to achieve long term, sustainable income growth.

To excel in the role you'll need to bring experience of fundraising strategy, legacy programme development, trust fundraising, individual donor programme design and management, alongside your broader communications and marketing skills. The role will include managing a team of six so experience of team management, skills development and taking a team through change will also be needed.

If you're looking for an opportunity where you'll be drawing on your expertise in order to create and deliver a dynamic fundraising strategy focused on growth and inspiring our supporters with the outcomes their gifts deliver, then we'd love to hear from you. Please read through the application pack for more details.

Location: The post is based at the CPAS office at Sovereign Court One (Unit 3), Sir William Lyons Road, University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7EZ.

Salary: £43,593 per annum

Contract: This is a permanent, full time appointment of 37 hours per week. A flexi-time system operates for this post.

Closing date: Noon on Wednesday 8 April 2020
Interview date: Tuesday 28 April 2020

Hopefully our application pack tells you everything you need to know to decide if this is the role for you, but if you would like an informal discussion about any aspects of the role or the details in the pack please contact Jude Palmer (Head of Operations).

PAC is ambitious to foster growing energy access provision and to influence energy access stakeholders for the benefit of poor, vulnerable and marginalised populations.To deliver this we need high performing consultants who are passionate about winning, managing and delivering high quality and high impact work in the energy and development sectors.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative energy consultant with experience and motivation related to energy access and international development. As a core member of the PAC International Energy Team, you will:

• lead key aspects of business development (including writing effective, quality proposals and preparing proposal budgets/financial submissions)

• play a supporting role for the project management of a wide-ranging portfolio of energy projects (e.g. aspects of work planning, team co-ordination, technical delivery, finance)

• provide high quality and timely technical inputs to build and maintain our range of energy projects in line with Practical Action’s strategic energy objectives (‘change ambitions’)

You will lead project proposal development, and contribute to project management.You will also work closely with wider PAC Energy colleagues (e.g. members of the teams running existing projects for Last Mile Distribution and Humanitarian Energy) to provide energy knowhow and technical input required by PA energy programmes and fundraising efforts.You will also develop close links with the members of other PAC International teams and Country/Regional offices.

You will work with other Energy Team members and wider PAC colleagues to build and maintain a network of associate consultants and partners/contacts in the energy and development sector. You will be encouraged to further develop your knowledge, skills and expertise regarding energy access, the energy and development sector, and the energy consultancy sector more broadly.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of PAC/PA energy access work, something we are renowned for and an area of work we have great ambitions for as part of our Strategic Intent as an organisation.

About you

You have some existing knowledge and/or experience in energy access/international development, but more importantly you have a thirst to widen your knowledge and experience in a hands-on role, winning and delivering a wide-ranging project portfolio. Ideally you will have some experience of working in a consultancy/programme management environment. You are a natural collaborator and able to work in a small team environment, turning you hand to varied tasks as required and in order to develop your skills. You are willing and able to work dynamically and flexibly across a wide range of issues and activities, according to shifting opportunities and direction. You have

To be successful in the role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• existing knowledge and experience in energy access and energy for development

• existing experience of working in a consultancy, or in a related environment, on business development and project delivery

• strong interest in energy access and energy for development, and a clear willingness to build personal capability and learn

• ability to work collaboratively and in a small team environment

• willingness and ability to work dynamically and flexibly across a wide range of issues and activities, according to shifting opportunities and directions

• experience of working in Africa, Asia and/or Latin America.

About us

We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

 We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

 Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and, as such, candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks.

 Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

 The successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 12th April 2020

Provisional interview dates: Tuesday 14th April / Wednesday 15th April 2020

Re-engage organises free social gatherings - tea parties and other gatherings and outings - for people aged over 75 who live alone and experience loneliness. Groups meet monthly and friendships are formed. As the population ages, the need for our service will grow significantly.

About the role  

We are looking for leaders who will work together across the UK in a role that will be part of shaping the culture and work of Re-engage to eradicate loneliness and isolation for older people and deliver a first class volunteer experience. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating our services which are mostly volunteer- led. You will achieve this by inspiring and coaching your regional teams to forge funding and development partnerships in their local settings that will ensure our local programmes are funded and delivering the greatest impact for the people we serve.

 About you   
You will need excellent team leadership/management and effective communication and interpersonal skills to manage the service in a large area and oversee the development of our work for the future.  You will also have:   

• Knowledge of the region and national, regional, and local referral partners and funders. 

• Demonstrable experience of managing operational matters at senior level in line with excellent knowledge of best practice, budget management, and strategic planning.

• Excellent people management, able to drive the best performance from teams and individuals

• The ability to manage processes in a timely and effective manner, negotiating strong outcomes, problem solving and developing excellent working relationships

• The ability to plan effectively and in a timely fashion, prioritising where to spend time and resources so that deadlines and targets can be met

• The ability to determine effective and persuasive strategies, in daily work, as well as in contributing to the wider direction of the charity

• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills, able to analyse situations and focus on achieving solutions or ways forward

• The capability to collect, analyse and use data to drive and improve services 

• A demonstrable ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally

• Proven ability to prioritise, work on own initiative, and deliver desired results

• Ability to deal well with deadlines and conflicting priorities

• Use of own car (insured for business use) and a clean driving license are required.

• This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service/Protecting Vulnerable Groups check. 

This role is home-based, but we expect our Head of Engagement to be based in or within a reasonable commute of a major population centre  

You will be part of our UK-wide management team of four, currently led by the Chief Executive. 

This is a permanent role after satisfactory completion of probationary period 

Start April/May 2020 but we are happy to be flexible for the right candidate. 

Salary: from £33,000

Holidays 26 days per year plus public holidays pro rata. 

We present an exciting opportunity to join the Senior Management Team of one of the largest charities in the UK.

About the Organisation

The organisation is the largest community funder in the UK – they have supported over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. They support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects.

As part of their transformation to working more closely to the communities they support, they have created 6 regional teams across England, run out of 6 regional offices: London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds and Exeter. Team members are dispersed, based in their local communities.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Senior Management Team and to lead their responsive funding across their 6 regions. The regions span a diverse and complex geography and their grant portfolio reflects this. They are present in almost all communities across England and their funding supports communities to address almost all of what matters to them today.

The aim of the role is to maximise the impact of their funding and lead the strategic direction and management of the regional grant portfolios. You will be accountable for all aspects of strategic and operational management, including development of funding priorities, management of the grant budget, operational excellence, staff support and development and key stakeholder management. 

Working with the 6 Heads of Region who report into you, you will ensure a level of consistency in the ways of working across the regions.

You will be a key member of the Senior Management Team, maintaining strong relationships with other members of the SMT as well as with colleagues in other country portfolios and in the corporate support teams. 

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference through the organisation's funding, with a deep understanding of the communities they serve. You will have experience of building and leading teams and driving a high-performance culture through your ability to coach, inspire, and empower people. Your ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a range of senior-level internal and external stakeholders will be second to none, and you will be a confident communicator, comfortable in all environments. You will demonstrate an ability to work in an agile way, ensuring we are flexible and continue to improve in line with feedback and insights from customers and frontline staff.

About You

As an experienced senior leader, you’ll have an excellent understanding of the organisation's sector combined with a focus on delivery and operational excellence, an eye for improvement opportunities and outstanding interpersonal and communication skills. In addition to this you’ll need to demonstrate your experience and qualifications in these areas:

• Experience and understanding of the environment they operate in and the communities they serve
• Excellent leadership capabilities and highly developed people skills, using your gravitas to enable and develop the regional teams and motivate them to succeed.
• Introducing consistent and realistic core principles, priorities and deliverables based on an understanding of the organisational as well as local context
• Good decision-making skills, considering evidence, analysis and personal experience to take and mitigate risk as appropriate
• Critical thinking, with a natural inclination to challenge the status quo as and when required to drive improvement
• Implementing effective performance management, planning, risk analysis and governance resulting in greater impact and efficiency
• Developing and enhancing relationships with senior stakeholders across sectors, representing the Fund externally
• Experience in budgeting and data analysis, as well as developing and delivering annual and longer-term strategic operating plans
• Values-driven and passionate about the Fund’s purpose

For You

• A competitive salary package
• 25 days of annual leave, rising to 30 days with service, plus public holidays.
• A generous company pension scheme
• They have a variety of flexible working options available to support staff with their work life balance, whilst ensuring the organisation is able to work effectively. This takes into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals.
• Employee Assistance Programme & Cash Healthcare Plan
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season tickets and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

We’re looking for a calm, organised individual with experience of office management in a customer-facing environment to join us as a Data Administrator and provide vital administrative support to a busy city centre Hub.

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

Our Birmingham Hub is located in the heart of the vibrant city centre. With people living in poor quality accommodation and homelessness in the city on the increase, our services are needed more than ever and our dedicated team provides vital support to a variety of client groups on a wide range of issues.

About the Role
Primarily supporting our Housing First and Navigator services, you will also provide support across the Hub. One minute you might be focused on file maintenance, photocopying, typing or scanning of documents, the next, dealing with invoices and account coding. Helping the service manager and finance team with payments to delivery partners will be important too, as will maintaining accurate records in line with GDPR. And, as you would expect, you’ll be answering the phone, dealing with queries, sending out mailings, managing data and producing reports. Setting up and servicing meetings, helping to maintain our website content and booking staff travel and accommodation - all are elements of this interesting and varied role.

About you
An experienced data administrator with good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, case management and reporting systems, internet, email and a minimum typing speed of 50 wpm, you have strong analytical skills and an innate ability to collate and interpret data. You also have experience of invoicing, variance reporting and assisting with budgets and are used to communicating with a wide range of stakeholders using various channels. What’s more, you’re great at helping to organise events and happy to play your part in recruitment and service delivery. Put simply, you’re forward thinking and flexible, as well as structured, calm and organised – everything, in fact, that it takes to support the dynamic and fast paced delivery of our services.

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

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

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

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

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.  In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes.

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

We have a fantastic opportunity available for an Exhibition Designer (3D) to join our Exhibitions and Interpretation team based at our Cosford site. You will design or commission design, manage production and installation of allocated exhibitions and displays at our sites in London and Cosford and touring exhibitions. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, we are offering a competitive salary of £32,500 per annum.

The Royal Air Force Museum is a national museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with two sister sites at London and Cosford. RAF Museum Enterprises Ltd is the trading arm of the RAF Museum with all profits gift-aided to the Museum to support its charitable activities.

Our purpose is to share the RAF story, past, present and future - using the stories of its people and our collections in order to engage, inform and inspire everyone. Our overall vision is to inspire everyone with the RAF story – the people who shape it and its place in our lives.

About the role:

The RAF Museum is looking for an experienced Exhibition Designer (3D) to lead the design of agreed Museum’s exhibition and display projects at both sites from concept through delivery, including permanent, temporary and touring exhibitions, ensuring Access for All. You will also lead the enhancement of existing displays, working with cross-departmental teams from concept through delivery and hand-over.

Key responsibilities of our Exhibition Designer (3D) include:

- Work creatively with curators, 2D design, interpretation, audience research, visitors experience, access and learning to create, develop and deliver design concepts

- Provide support as required for the development and delivery of the Cosford and London Master Plans

- For major exhibition projects, support the development and delivery of design concepts, providing advice on exhibitions structures’ specification and finishes

- Stay up to date on the latest museum design best practice, providing advice and guidance to Museum staff in respect of exhibitions

- Work with the Community Outreach Officer and groups identified for co-curated and co-designed projects, to successfully embed the results/responses

- Project manage cross-departmental teams to ensure the development of allocated exhibitions and displays are progressed to schedule and are delivered on time and budget

- Liaise with and task workshop staff for the in-house production of new displays as well as for the maintenance and update of existing exhibitions and displays

- Provide effective communication between teams, internal and external, for allocated projects

What we are looking for in our ideal Exhibition Designer (3D):

- Educated to Degree level in 3D, spatial or interior design or equivalent experience

- Demonstrable experience in developing, project managing and delivering high quality exhibitions and gallery displays in a museum or heritage environment

- Demonstrable experience in creating/overseeing design and concept briefs and in working with designers, writers and creative agencies

- Ability and experience to read and understand technical drawings and technical specifications

- Knowledge of current H&S regulation

- Excellent Microsoft Office software skills

- Working knowledge of a range of design software - these could include: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino3D

- Ability to produce, analyse and report on financial information and management accounts

- Good hand sketching skills

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Interviews will take place on: Thursday 2nd April 2020

Please click apply now to be re-directed to our jobs page where you can access the application method and details for the Exhibition Designer (3D) role. Join us in delivering our purpose and achieving our vision, ensuring that the Royal Air Force’s story continues to enrich and inspire current and future generations. We would love to hear from you.

Housing and Support Manager
Birmingham, West Midlands

Are you an experienced housing support professional with a great management or leadership style? Could you thrive as part of a social enterprise supporting refugees and newly arrived immigrants? If so, read on.

About Us

ACH (Ashley Community Housing) is a social enterprise that provides a range of integration and support services for refugees. During the past ten years, we’ve grown from a small-scale housing organisation to a leading provider of integration, employment and housing services for refugees and newly arrived communities in the UK.

We are now looking for a Housing and Support Manager to join our team at our brand-new offices in Birmingham.

The Benefits

- Salary of £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent upon qualifications and/or experience)
- Mobile phone and laptop
- 20 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

This is an exciting opportunity for someone at junior manager or technical senior level to step into a fully-fledged management position and create positive change.

Joining us at an exciting period of growth, you’ll have the chance to utilise your expertise to shape current and future operations, ensuring our services inform and empower tenants.

The focus of this role will be the relationships you create rather than the volume in your portfolio. So, if you’re ready to take on a new challenge where you’ll focus on quality, not quantity, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Housing and Support Manager, you will lead and support the delivery of all tenant housing and support operations in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Leading the West Midlands Housing and Support team, you will build new customer relationships, increase our network and ensure our existing connections stay strong.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, your role will involve:

- Directly managing 10-15 team members
- Ensuring operations meet legal requirements
- Increasing tenant empowerment and maximising rental income
- Generating new business
- Effectively using networks and forums to build a recognisable profile and brand
- Managing and developing relationships with new and existing landlords
- Enhancing your team’s capabilities, capacity and efficiency through process development
- Managing property and housing maintenance, management and caretaking services
- Achieving targets for all tenant housing and support operations

About You

To join us as a Housing and Support Manager, you will need:

- To have experience as a Housing Manager or Team Leader within a housing support environment
- Experience of either leading or being part of a project
- The ability to demonstrate a solid track record within housing
- Strong leadership and motivational skills

Other organisations may call this role Property and Support Manager, Housing Support Manager, Housing Project Manager, Housing Manager, Tenancy Manager, Tenancy Support Manager, Property Manager, or Lettings Manager.

This is a full-time role, working 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday.

Webrecruit and Ashley Community Housing Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking to take your next step as a Housing and Support Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Our two-year leadership development programme offers outstanding individuals a dynamic route into one of Britain’s most rewarding and toughest professions. In the UK alone, half a million children don’t have a safe or stable home. Great social workers can change this. That’s why Frontline recruits and develops people like you to be the difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families. 

You’ll use your skills in relationship building, conflict resolution and leadership to ensure you thrive in the dynamic and challenging world of social work.  Following a five-week training programme you will spend two years working directly with children and families, based in a local authority.

You will: 

• Work locally – roles available in your local community in the West Midlands - Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Telford and Warwickshire.

• Be paid a tax free £18k bursary in year one and up to £30k in year two.

• Qualify as a social work professional through a fully funded Masters degree.

• Receive high quality supervision and training from experienced social workers, academics and professional coaches. 

• Make a real difference in your local community. For the most vulnerable, receiving support from a social worker can make a significant difference to the direction their lives take. As a social worker on the Frontline programme, that difference could be you.

Once you have completed the programme, you will join a community of outstanding leaders sharing your passion for leading social change. The skills you will learn will open doors to a wide range of social impact careers inside social work and beyond. 

Read stories from our participants who have completed the programme on our website.

Be the difference – Apply now!   Applications may close before the 30th March in some areas - early applications are encouraged.

Senior Engineer

£31,058 per annum 

(plus a Retention Allowance of £3,993pa)

(Ref:  SUS2875)

2 x vacancies, 37.5 hours per week

based in Birmingham and Peterborough or Nottingham

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join our team, which is working with local communities to design and deliver outstanding cycling and walking infrastructure. Your work will contribute to the creation of healthier, happier towns and cities. By providing best-practice street design from conception to delivery, you will be assisting Sustrans in its vision to allow people to travel in ways that benefit their health and wellbeing.

We are looking for talented highways engineers who are passionate about infrastructure design, someone who wants to enhance their existing skills and develop new ones. In the Midlands & East design and engineering team you will have freedom to express yourself creatively and challenge yourself daily. We enjoy working together as a team, and value the contribution and expertise of all members.

At Sustrans you will be encouraged to produce innovative designs for networks, neighbourhoods and streets. You will be contributing to a variety of public realm and infrastructure projects across the region, building key relationships and collaborating with a variety of clients form the public and the private sector.

Sustrans supports professional development towards incorporated or chartered status through a scheme approved by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9.00am on Thursday 26 March 2020. Interviews will take place in Birmingham on Tuesday 7 April 2020.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.  We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.

Support Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in Coventry. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised individual to join us in delivering a Stroke Recovery Service across the city, as a Support Coordinator.

Position: Stroke Association Support Coordinator

Location: Coventry (office based in Coventry with extensive travel across area)

Hours: 28 hours per week

Salary: Circa £18,400 per annum

Contract: Our services are contracted; we currently have funding for this contract until March 2021

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, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Cycle2Work scheme, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 5 April 2020

Interview Date: 24 April 2020

The Role

Reporting to the Stroke Association Support Manager, the Support Coordinator will work with the local Health and Social Care services to receive referrals and support stroke survivors and their carers. The Support Coordinator will provide personalised information, advice and support with regular reviews throughout, including a formal six-month post stroke review.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Completing Needs Assessments with stroke survivors and supporting them to develop a stroke recovery plan.
• Undertaking formal post stroke reviews at six months with all stroke survivors.

About You

As Support Coordinator, you will:

• Have a background in a caring and/or charity profession supporting people with disabilities.
• Be able to demonstrate previous experience of working collaboratively with other organisations to achieve joint ambitions.

This role is office based, but extensive travel is required across Coventry and occasionally further afield.

The use of a car with business use cover and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

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. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

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.

Support Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in Birmingham and Solihull. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised individual to join us in delivering a Stroke Recovery Service across the region, as a Stroke Support Coordinator.

Position: Stroke Association Support Coordinator

Location: Office based, Birmingham and Solihull

Hours: 21 hours per week

Salary: Circa £13,800 per annum

Contract: Fixed term maternity cover until 30 November 2020. Our services are contracted; we currently have funding for this contract until 31 March 2021

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, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Cycle2Work scheme, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 5 April 2020

Interview Date: 23 April 2020

The Role

Reporting to the Stroke Association Support Manager, the coordinator will work with the local Health and Social Care services to receive referrals and support stroke survivors and their carers. The coordinator will provide personalised information, advice and support with regular reviews throughout, including a formal six-month post stroke review.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Completing Needs Assessments with stroke survivors and supporting them to develop a stroke recovery plan.
• Undertaking formal post stroke reviews at six months with all stroke survivors.

About You

As Support Coordinator, you will:

• Have excellent IT skills and demonstrate a flexible approach to your role.
• Have a background in a caring and/or charity profession supporting people with disabilities. You will be able to demonstrate previous experience of working collaboratively with other organisations to achieve joint ambitions.
• Have experience of recruiting and managing volunteers and community engagement is a benefit.

This role is office based, but extensive travel is required across Birmingham and Solihull and occasionally further afield.

The use of a car with business use cover and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

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. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

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.