Our client now has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Organisational Development specialist to join them on a permanent basis (FTC will also be considered).
As Organisational Development Partner you will work with colleagues across HR and the wider organisation to support the continuous improvement of capability development, culture change and performance monitoring. You will take a lead role in delivery of people and organisational development strategies and the management of change, working closely and collaboratively with the HR Business Partners to develop high quality, high impact OD interventions and solutions. As a highly visible partner for the organisation on all matters relating to Organisational Development, you will suggest and implement initiatives which support the organisation’s culture, performance and development, utilising the principles behind Agile and MDTs, which underpin ways of working across a range of disciplines.
To be considered you will require proven experience as a commercially minded Organisational Development specialist that will ideally include multi-sector experience. You will require a good knowledge of contemporary organisational development theory and practice, including a proven track record of creating and delivering practical, effective and bespoke OD solutions that anchor the business partnering model.
You will also require experience of implementing the end to end processes associated with performance management and staff development and of developing and managing performance standards that enable the successful achievement of business plans and objectives.
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Full Stack Developer
£62,000 - £67,000 + Excellent Benefits
Your new company
This exciting opportunity is with a very reputable charity, who are looking to expand their IT team during a time of investment and change by appointing a Full Stack Developer.
Your new role
As part of our continued improvement plan for Information Services we are seeking to invest in a Full Stack Developer who will need to be comfortable working across front-end and back end technology stacks to develop business logic and database layers. You should be able to work with cloud technologies and the use of DevOps tools. You will be responsible for managing a team of software developers whilst working in an agile team to deliver technical changes.
You will need to demonstrate extensive development experience utilising C#, ASP, .NET, MVC and Web API/RESTful API. You should also have experience of working with cloud technologies and the use of DevOps tools. You must also ensure the appropriate levels of system and support documents are created and maintained.
What you'll need to succeed
- Significant experience as a full stack developer
- Experience as a lead dev 2-3 years minimum
- Experience on Azure and micro services
- Hands on experience with C#, RESTFUL API, React, GIT, SQL/NoSQL
- Experience with test driven design development (TDD), test tools such as Nunit, Xbehave
- Good understanding of Design patterns and SOLID principles
- Demonstrable experience leading and mentoring a dev team
- Experience working with JavaScript Frameworks
What you'll get in return
As well as a competitive salary of up to £67,000 per annum, excellent annual leave and pension benefits, you will get the opportunity to work within a leading organisation that are focused around innovation and collaboration and are continuing to invest heavily across their IT function.
What you need to do now
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About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
In recent years there has been a significant increase in violent crime. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. For children and young people, there have been particularly large increases in those who are both the perpetrators and victims of offences involving knives. We believe it is vital to intervene early in children’s lives to tackle the root causes of crime and violence, and to stem this worrying trend.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the best ways to prevent youth violence, funding promising initiatives and working to scale them up.
Some of the most successful work to reduce violent crime has been when local partners work together, share information and coordinate action. We want to establish the very best approaches to doing this, show clearly why they work and then support them being copied elsewhere. We call this our place-based work.
Key Responsibilities
You will lead our place-based work, making sure we do everything possible to find and spread the best ways to help local bodies to work together, sharing information and working in a coordinated way to make change happen. We are excited by the possibilities here, but realistic about the challenges and complexities involved. You will make sure we navigate these challenges, finding the best ways that local partnerships can succeed.
To do this you will:
- Finalise our place-based strategy and put it into action. This means making sure that we have a ready-to-go plan for finding the most effective ways of getting local bodies to share information and coordinate activity so that youth violence falls.
- Build and nurture strong partnerships in places across England and Wales that are ready to share information and work together to reduce crime.
- Find the best way to ensure that partners get the help and support that they need to make our work a success. This could be direct support from you, the wider YEF team / our partners, or by bringing in external help.
- Once we know more about what works in place-based crime reduction, help local partnerships across England and Wales know what works and learn about how to make it happen.
- Ensure that we learn what works really effectively. Working closely with our Knowledge and Evaluation teams you will make sure we learn what, why, how and where things work (and don’t work).
- As a senior staff member, you will also:
- Help build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Help to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience. You have a good understanding of how the youth sector, public sector and schools operate.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
- You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are comfortable talking to a Secretary of State, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and an 11 year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You believe evidence and research have an important role to play in improving local practice. You are passionate about making sure local planning and change is informed by the best available evidence.
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- You make things happen. You have experience of getting to the heart of a strategy and turning it into operational plans. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work. You know attention to detail, clarity of purpose and strong project management matter.
You must have this sort of experience:
You have…
- Built Partnerships: You have significant experience in building strategic, long lasting partnerships. You can show how these have been effective in delivering impact for children and local communities.
- Developed and Delivered Strategy: You have significant experience of developing strategies. You can then translate them into great ideas and actions.
- Managed complex projects: You have significant experience of managing projects with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Managed senior stakeholders: You have experience of working with local leaders, youth practitioners and/or commissioners on strategy development or programme design.
You might have this sort of experience
It’s not necessary but it would be an extra bonus if you have…
- Experience of turning evidence into credible messages, tools and advice relevant to local practice.
While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
To apply, please go through this link by midnight, 12th July, 2020.
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
First round interviews will take place in the week commencing 27th July
Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing 3rd August.
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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About the Youth Endowment Fund
The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.
In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.
The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.
Making this happen is a massive challenge. We will only succeed if we build a fantastic body of knowledge about youth violence and make it very accessible. Central to this will be a highly accessible evidence repository that shows what works to reduce youth violence and what doesn’t. This website – which we call a ‘toolkit’ – will summarise, in a highly accessible way, decades of academic research.
It is your job to make this toolkit a reality.
Key responsibilities
Most fundamentally, your job is to ensure that the Youth Endowment Fund builds and maintains a high quality, highly accessible and highly up to date body of research. This will include leading the production of a Toolkit that shows what works and what doesn’t in reducing youth violence and our wider evidence synthesis function. To achieve this, you will:
- Lead on content production for the toolkit by designing and overseeing how we synthesise and summarise existing evidence into accessible information on, if specific practices and interventions are effective in reducing youth violence
- Build and maintain a highly effective working relationship with external stakeholders and partners
- Ensure that the design of the Toolkit is highly accessible and user friendly. To do this you will commission and work with an external design agency. You will ensure that we make fantastic decisions about the best way to present information so that people tell others how useful and insightful the Toolkit is and how helpful they have found it in making decisions about how to spend money on reducing youth violence.
- Working with a senior researcher, review and write content for the Toolkit that is 100% plain English. You will make it your mission to ensure that only easy-to-understand content is on the website and that things are written with incredible clarity.
- Listen hard to the priority audiences for the Toolkit so that you know how you can always be looking to improve it. You will build a real understanding of how Violence Reduction Units, Police and Crime Commissioners, Mayoral Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, Whitehall and Welsh Government officials and Youth Sector umbrella bodies think and make decisions.
- Ensure that all of our work at the Youth Endowment Fund is informed by the cutting-edge knowledge that you are building. You will time work for the toolkit and wider synthesis work so that it can best inform new funding rounds so that we can always have the best possible understanding of what the existing evidence says.
- As a senior member of staff in the organisation you will also:
- Build and lead your team, providing clear direction, agility, high-quality outputs and a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
- Support leading the organisation as a senior staff member helping to inform the strategy, deliver results and build and model the culture that we need to succeed.
About You
You are this sort of person:
- You have led teams that produced high quality and highly accessible research. You have led a team that was very well respected for the quality of research that it produced and the impact that that research had. The outputs your team produced rarely just sat on a shelf. They were discussed, debated and led to change happening.
- You will have a post-graduate (Masters or PhD) qualification. This is in a relevant field such social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant quantitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to Masters qualification.
- You write in a way that people easily understand. You have that rare skill of writing in plain English. You avoid jargon. If something is complicated, you are good at explaining it.
- You will have significant technical expertise in evidence synthesis and evaluation methods. This will include RCTs, QEDs, and knowledge and experience of evidence synthesis approaches such as metanalyses and systematic reviews. You will combine this with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible format to non-experts.
- You are very at ease with data : You are highly numerate and very comfortable working with complex data sets and advanced analytical techniques.
- You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
- You are fascinated and thoughtful on how people engage with information. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make present information so that people find it engaging, use it, recommend it to others and return to it. You understand why people resist making evidence-based decisions. You come alive talking about to make information and evidence really accessible so that people change what they do.
- You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
- You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
- You are at ease with policy makers. You are very comfortable and experienced talking to and exploring policies with policy makers whether junior civil servants, senior civil servants, or advisers. You are very effective in these conversations
- You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values.
While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.
It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.
To Apply
To apply, please send a CV, cover letter and the monitoring form from our careers page by midnight, 12th July, 2020.
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.
First round interviews will take place in the week commencing Monday 20th July.
Second round interviews will take place in the week commencing Monday 27th July
Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
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Communications and Campaigns Manager
FTE £50,000 - £55,000 + benefits
21 hours per week (happy to talk flexible working)
10 months fixed term contract (maternity cover)
Wimbledon
We’re the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development. We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 150,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives. We’ve been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years, helping members build their professional expertise and organisations build their HR and leadership capability. Given the many recent changes in the world of work, there has never been a more interesting and important time to join us. We offer a friendly and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities and benefits such as 28 days’ holiday, free access to LinkedIn Learning and flexible working arrangements.
The Role
As Communications and Campaigns Manager, you will develop engaging communications campaigns and activities that support the CIPD’s social impact strategy of equipping our members to drive positive change in the world of work through practical action and volunteering. You will strengthen the CIPD’s brand reputation and maximises our impact and voice.
This is an exciting time to join the CIPD. The world of work is changing and the CIPD is at the heart of important debates around the future of work, the ‘good work’ agenda and key workplace issues such as skills, productivity and inclusion.
Please note some UK-wide travel may be required for attendance at meetings and external events.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Working with the Social Impact and Innovation Lead and Brand & Communications team to drive the CIPD’s impact against its mission of ‘championing better work and working lives’
- Driving the strategy and delivery of an integrated communications plan (encompassing member communication, wider marketing, media and social media) around our social impact, working with the Brand & Communications team to maximising all CIPD channels
- Working with colleagues to ensure that the social impact work directly contributes to enhancing the CIPD’s brand and profile, as well as the role of the people profession, amongst key audiences
- Driving the Social Impact and Innovation team’s programme of work that support communications activity (including surveys, external research and collaborations, case study collection and output creation) around our social impact programmes and activities. This includes providing comms support and guidance to social impact programme leads as required
- Proactively identifying and leading on opportunities for collaboration with third parties and external stakeholders and managing these relationships to maximise positive exposure for the CIPD.
- Being a lead representative for the CIPD to key national stakeholders, where required, upholding our reputation and brand through excellent leadership and communication at external meetings and presentations
- Working with the Social Impact and Innovation team on developing communications to support the implementation of an outreach strategy to potential funding partners
- Measuring the effectiveness of communications and campaigns – focusing on outcomes, not just outputs
- Working with the Internal Communications team to increase awareness of the work of the Social Impact and Innovation team and make connections with other departments where relevant.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Experience of developing and delivering communications and campaign strategies
- Strong experience of delivering multi-channel audience-led communications campaigns with impact
- Experience of representing an organisation to senior external stakeholders
- Excellent project management skills and the ability to organise and prioritise a varied workload
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Experience of writing copy to an excellent standard in a variety of styles (e.g. marketing and campaigns collateral, press releases, feature articles, web, social media)
- A proactive approach to relationship building and a high level of diplomacy, with the ability to manage difficult situations at all levels
- Ability to manage a wide-range of external suppliers and internal colleagues to deliver a range of discrete projects, events and outputs, on time and within budget
- Good presentation skills, confidence, resilience, and determination
- Working knowledge of volunteering, membership organisations, the world of business and public policy is desirable.
Please note, this advert is due to close on Tuesday 7 July 2020.
If this role describes you and your career aspirations, then click APPLY.
CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual!
The CIPD define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value all our employees, customers and clients as people. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Recruitment during COVID-19 restrictions
During the COVID-19 restrictions, our interviews will be by video call.
Additionally, the successful applicant will be fully supported to work from home for the initial period where restrictions on non-essential travel are in place.
Location
Based at any Crisis Skylight – Birmingham B9, Brent NW10, Coventry
CV1, Croydon CR0, Edinburgh EH8, London E1, Liverpool
L1, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1, Oxford OX1, South Yorkshire S63, South Wales SA1.
About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
The Crisis Data and Technology team is embarking on a multi-year program of modernisation of our Skylights (day centres for the homeless) including the development of “MAPS” – the Crisis case management system built on Dynamics 365. Going forward this platform will evolve to support “Crisis and Christmas” (the UK’s biggest volunteering event) as well as supporting the growing portfolio of services Crisis offers for the homeless.
About the role
As the only Dynamics 365 Developer/Analyst, you will primarily act as Crisis technical lead to configure/develop our Dynamics 365 estate over time. Working behind user facing staff in client services your job is to help turn user stories into released functionality. Working within an established development framework to a quarterly release schedule you will help specify, configure, develop and test all changes to Crisis Dynamics 365 estate before pushing through into productive environment.
The role will advise Crisis on other business systems that may leverage the Dynamics 365 cloud and work closely with the data engineering team in respect of the Common Data Service.
As part of the wider Data and Technology team you will act as a 3rd line resolver behind the Helpdesk and support the development of training materials for end users.
About you
To be successful in this role you will need to have excellent Dynamics 365 skills, able to work closely with our Microsoft Gold Partner and work within a semi-agile development framework. Ideally certified (or working towards) Microsoft PowerApps and Dynamics 365 level of competency you will be seen as our go to product expert in the Dynamics 365 and Common Data Service space.
Your expertise is in the Microsoft world of Dynamics 365 and Power Apps. No level of expertise is too high for this role but if you don’t (for example) yet develop in PowerApps then you can learn this at Crisis with support from our Microsoft 3rd parties. Either way you will have passion and strong product knowledge across business systems tooling associated with Dynamics 365 and beyond.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, apply by submitting CV and cover letter addressing points 1, 2 and 4 of the person specification.
Closing date: 12 July 2020 (11.59pm)
Interviews: 24 July 2020
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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Principal Practice Tutors (PPT) hold key responsibility for teaching and developing participants at the five-week summer institute, regional recall days and in the participant units within local authorities. PPTs play a critical role as the practice experts within Frontline, a core to this role is modelling and supporting practice tutors as well as working directly with a participant units, based within statutory children’s social care services. Each unit comprises four (in some cases 5) participants and is led by a Consultant Social Worker (CSW). Applicants will need to have previous experience in Higher Education – ideally having led an academic teaching unit, holding programme lead responsibilities and taken a leadership role in teaching or research.
Applicants need an excellent understanding of the social work role and an ability to make links across both adults’ and children’s services. Core to the PPT role is the ability to provide general support, challenge and guidance to participants, CSWs and practice tutors in order to ensure that participants practice learning experience is of excellent quality. PPTs also support CSWs to develop and provide excellence guidance and management to participants on the programme. To apply you will need to have advanced social work practice skill, experience of developing others and a commitment to educating a new generation of social workers. This role provides the opportunity to genuinely align practice and theory and instill the same strong commitment in CSWs and participants. In doing so you will need a commitment to evidence informed practice models and an appetite to exploring different and innovative approaches to teaching these models.
This role is part time, 0.5 FTE.
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Location: Flexible, with one day a week in Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £60-£65,000
The Canal & River Trust look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of our waterways, believing that life is better by water. The Trust is seeking a Head of Individual and Legacy Giving to develop and deliver their individual and legacy giving strategy to achieve income and donor targets.
Our canals and rivers have been critical over the last few months, providing a safe, accessible space on people’s doorsteps during the Covid-crisis for daily exercise. The Trust want to do much more in terms of delivering on health and wellbeing for local communities through our waterways, and fundraising will be key to that success.
The Head of Individual and Legacy Giving will lead the Trust’s individual giving programmes and develop existing and new propositions, products, audiences, channels and technology and will develop and deliver excellent supporter journeys that build long-term loyalty and value.
The role will lead a small, growing individual and legacy giving team and will act as an ambassador for Individual Giving throughout the Trust and to stakeholders across the country.
The Trust is looking for a confident, collaborative professional with strong interpersonal and people management skills and a track record of building, developing and managing teams of Indiviudal Giving, Legacy Giving and supporter development professionals.
You will have at least ten years of fundraising or consumer marketing experience and extensive experience of developing and implementing individual giving strategies and achieving significant results in increasing income and improving long-term supporter value. You will also have a strong track record in developing regular giving programmes and of direct marketing appeals as well as a thorough understanding of digital marketing approaches and techniques in a fundraising context. Finally, you will be a natural leader with a strategic mindset and a flair for innovation, with the drive and determination to success whilst respecting others.
For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315
Since 2004 Carers Bucks and Carers MK have been the main providers of support services to unpaid family carers in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.
We are now seeking a new CEO to provide strong and inspirational leadership for the continued development of our organisation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
St John Ambulance Cymru (SJAC) has supported people and communities across Wales since 1880. We existed before the National Health Service and provided the earliest ‘medical’ support to those who were sick or injured.
Now, in 2020, SJAC continues to perform a major role in strengthening community resilience, ensuring people are trained in first aid and able to fulfil key front-line roles to support our vulnerable people, in addition to offering the opportunity for people from all backgrounds to develop their personal skills and confidence to support our charitable and commercial services whilst assisting their own career development. As a Charity, we partner with the Welsh NHS Health Boards and the Ambulance Services NHS Trust, providing Non-emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) in addition to a falls service as well as maintaining our reputation as being the leading organisation to deliver first aid training to both commercial businesses and local-based communities including school throughout Wales.
We also provide additional support to the people of Wales through:
- Medical duties at events
- Community based divisions
- Falls Assistant programme
- Caring Caller programme
- Community First Responders (CFR)
Since March 2020, SJAC has worked in an even closer partnership with WAST and NHS than ever, as we have increased capacity and developed new innovative ways of working in order to assist and relieve the overwhelming pressure brought by COVID-19.
We have helped by providing an average of 30 additional ambulance crews per week, 3707 volunteer ambulance hours throughout April and May and 873 volunteer hours at the Dragon’s Heart Field Hospital. We are now also providing volunteer support to Pharmacy Deliveries throughout Wales.
St John Ambulance Cymru is currently undergo an extensive and exciting programme of modernisation, forward thinking, encompassing a review of its existing service, financial and workforce model, developing a rejuvenated culture aligned to our core vision and values to improve the volunteer experience and our offer to the people of Wales.
Your new role
Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Director of Finance and Corporate Services is a strategic and visible senior leadership role.
You will be technically and intellectually strong and have excellent vision and leadership skills to drive continuous improvement, providing high quality financial information and advice to enable the Senior Management Team to meet its operational and strategic challenges. You will provide strategic financial leadership to St John Ambulance Cymru (SJAC) through the development and implementation of financial plans to ensure that the business remains financially sustainable.
Within this, you will develop and lead the overall annual and long term strategic financial planning process across the organisation, including delivery and presentation of the financial part of the annual plan. You will lead the development of internal audit systems/processes and St John Ambulance Cymru’s strategic approach to finance and resourcing, including annual and long-term budget setting, performance analysis, capital expenditure/investment, risk management, project evaluation and decision making.
Additionally, the position will oversee responsibility for the provision of IT services equipped to support the overarching modernisation agenda, requiring development and implementation of a sponsored IM&T strategy which clearly outlines SJAC’s IT platforms and systems to meet our ambitions. This role will further require the post holder to develop and oversee the delivery of a property strategy to ensure robust management of the Charity’s assets and facilities management, aside from developing and implementing an effective procurement strategy to provide service improvements and cost reduction. This is envisaged to be a broad financial role that encompasses not only financial and treasury management but will also provide strategic leadership for the development of a modern corporate services function.
What you’ll need to succeed
To be considered for this role you will be a senior finance professional (i.e. Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA), educated to Masters Level with a proven track record of positive financial leadership. You will be able to evidence being an effective leader with exceptional people management and first class communication skills, with a passion for delivering excellent customer service, working collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels. Commercially astute, you will have the ability to influence at Senior Management Level and at Board level.
Experience in financial management within the charitable sector is a distinct advantage.
For full details of the role including the required personnel specification please download the attached job description and application form.
To apply, please email your CV along with a statement of suitability (no longer than 2 pages) and your completed application form
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 8th July 2020.
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Operations Director - Learning Disabilities
Are you an innovative and effective Senior Operational Leader in the Health or Social Care Sector with a proven record of making a positive contribution to the lives of people with a learning disability and/or autism? If so we want to hear from you!
Operations Director Responsibilities:
• Support the delivery of effective and efficient personalised services for people with a learning disability or autism.
• Involve the people we support and their families in developing and shaping new and existing services using the principles of co-production.
• Ensure that people we support and their families are treated with respect, dignity and equality.
• Act as the appointing officer up to and including Head of Operations level.
• Be responsible for Disciplinary and Appeal hearings for staff up to and including Director and Head of Operations level.
Operations Director Requirements:
• Demonstrate strong and visible leadership to ensure their day-to-day delivery reflects the common value base of the organisation
• Effectively manage and develop Heads of Operations and Area Managers, ensuring all quality and compliance standards are met
• Drive forward commercial plans for growth and development
• Develop productive relationships with all stakeholders including people supported by their organisation and their families
• Have substantial operations and commercial acumen
• Have regulatory sector knowledge and experience within Social Care for England and Wales
• Develop opportunities for collaborative and partnership working and in particular with other providers including housing providers
• Understand the changing commissioning landscape and make recommendations for their role to the Trustees
About the company
Our client was established in 1966 by the parents of a child with a learning disability. Their values and DNA are as important today as they were to their founders.
For further information please download the recruitment pack attached to this advertisement on their website.
Location: North with national travel, including to their Central Head Office in Milton Keynes
Hours: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: Monday 20 July 2020 at 12 noon
First stage interview dates will take place week commencing 27 July 2020 (based on current Government advice this may be by Zoom)
Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Therefore they work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
NO AGENCIES, THANK YOU. Our client is not responsible for any introduction fees related to unsolicited CVs.
You may have experience of the following: Operations Director, Operations Manager, Adult Services, Social Worker, Social Work, Social Care, Care Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Social Care, Customer Service, Healthcare, Social Care Manager, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, Third Sector, etc.
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Want to use your skills in campaigning to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?
Join WaterAid as our Global Head of Campaigns to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.
The WaterAid Global Campaigns team plays a leadership role across the WaterAid Federation to drive the design and delivery of WaterAid's major advocacy and campaigns efforts to achieve SDG 6. We deliver an ambitious agenda, grounded in national level change and impact.
This is a full time, permanent role. The location of this post is flexible to countries where WaterAid has an established office. A consideration will be that this post will spend a significant amount of time working with colleagues and team members based in the UK. There will be some travel required, including to the UK if the person is located in another country.
As our Global Head of Campaigns you will have a leadership role in shaping and championing WaterAid's global advocacy priorities and its global campaigns. You will have strong political judgement, have excellent campaign networks that can be leveraged and be able to take complex policy and change processes and build compelling messaging and a clear campaign trajectory. You will have a track record of achieving political change in multiple countries and be adept at using an array of tactics including lobbying, public campaigning and the media.
As the manager of a team, you will have experience in matrix, remote or distance management and the ability to coach, motivate and develop a high performing team to deliver change. You'll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.
To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.
Applications will close one minute before midnight (UK time) on Sunday 12 July. Availability for interview is required between 3-7 August.
This is an office-based post in a country where WaterAid has a presence. In particular, we are encouraging people with extensive experience of working in the Global South to apply. This post will have to work closely with colleagues and with line reports that are currently based in the UK, so time zones that make working in another country practicably feasible will be a consideration when choosing applicants.
The UK-based salary for this role is £48,900 to £51,500 (subject to experience) with excellent benefits. Salaries/benefits for different countries will vary in line with WaterAid's country salary scales.
Additional Information WaterAid benefits include:
- 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
- We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working up to 2 days a week
- Season Ticket Loan
- Free annual eye tests
- Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave.
- SabbaticalsVolunteer Day
WaterAid is currently located at Durham Street, Vauxhall. However, we will be leaving our current location in September 2020 and moving to 20 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. Therefore the London Office location and contract base, if you are successfully offered the role, will change. This will be discussed at the interview stage with you.
We are unable to provide sponsorship or relocation for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the country to which you are applying.
WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.
WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us
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About the role
Founded in 1907, Wimbledon Guild exists to ensure that people in Merton lead happy and fulfilled lives. Responding to the needs of our community, our key service aims are to reduce isolation and loneliness, help people who are experiencing difficulties and enabling older people to be active and healthy. Last year, Wimbledon Guild worked with over 2,000 individuals from across the borough providing a huge range of community services including Talking Therapies.
The Talking Therapies department offers Individual Counselling, Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Support Groups, and CPD professional training events. The department works predominantly psychodynamically with Family Therapy working to a Systemic approach. We offer a sliding scale of fees depending on our clients’ means and offer the service to adults living, working or studying in the London Borough of Merton.
Our new Head of Talking Therapies will lead, inspire and motivate our talking therapies staff and volunteers through dynamic and person-centred leadership. They will take responsibility for the strategic development of the service whilst ensuring efficiency, clinical safety and high-quality service delivery at all times. With a background in counselling and psychotherapy, you will bring extensive experience of working clinically with staff from a range of professional settings.
Who we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to create future departmental and organisational strategies. You will form part of our Senior Management Team (SMT), and work collaboratively in contributing to the organisation’s overall management, development and strategic oversight; balancing individual departmental needs with those of the charity as a whole.
You will be a strong internal and external collaborator, able to build new alliances and partnerships with statutory and voluntary organisations and work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service.
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My client is a successful and expanding housing association who is looking to recruit a Senior Finance Manager.
Reporting in the Director of Finance you need to be a qualified accountant with a track record of success in operating in a large scale , fast moving organisation where quick considered financial decisions are second nature
You will be familiar with all financial management and business planning processes and ideally you will be familiar with the sector specifically with in the rent and service charge domain as you will be the go to person for all these matters.
You should also have some experience of large scale transformation and improvement projects and understand the financial implications behind an efficient delivery strategy.
You need to be a confident communicator, have strong relationship building skills and the ability to make decisions and bring people along with you.
The Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) is hiring a manager to lead our efforts to build a global community of reformers driving change in the multi-trillion dollar colossus that is public contracting.
We are a fast moving, ambitious and impact driven organization.
Public contracting is huge. It covers one in every three dollars spent by government and is central to economic opportunity, a fair business environment and delivering quality services to citizens. It underpins the roads, schools and hospitals on which we all rely. It is still run on paper and the needs of citizens are rarely considered. We can change all that but we can’t do it alone which is why community building is so important to us.
We are looking for a creative, high energy, organized professional who has a great track record in curating communities. You will be a strategic thinker and a real doer, someone who takes initiatives to develop and implement creative ideas to connect and empower a community of diverse reformers and make it more than the sum of its parts.
We already have a strong community across government, civil society, media, academia, technologists, the private sector and other stakeholder groups. We want to take their engagement and empowerment to the next level.
Our organizational strategy has ambitious community building targets and you will be responsible for helping us to meet and exceed them. You will facilitate in-person and online events and run social media campaigns in key countries and at the global level. You will be someone who listens to and acts upon feedback of our community on how we can best support them to accelerate their work and impact.
We want to be surprised by your ideas, impressed by your ability to execute and inspired by how you collaborate with community members and our team.
For an exceptional candidate, we will hire at our Senior Manager level.
Job location is flexible and you can be employed through the UK, US or elsewhere.
Apply through the link below and good luck!
https://open-contracting-partnership.forms.fm/community-manager/forms/8050
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