Voice 21 is the national oracy education charity. We exist to empower every child to use their voice for success in school and life. Our work transforms learning and life chances through talk by increasing access to a high-quality oracy education for those that need it most. 

Over the past five years, Voice 21 has grown from operating in a single school in London to a national organisation, with a network of over 600 schools across the country. We are now embarking on our new five year strategy which aims to deepen our impact on outcomes for this generation of children and young people and those to come by significantly increasing the number of Voice 21 Oracy Schools in areas of high need and mobilising a movement of teachers and schools. To help us achieve this, we are recruiting for a number of new roles designed to enable the organisation to reach and support more schools,  improve our ways of working and deliver our ambitions. 

Role purpose

Each year, Voice 21 works with hundreds of schools and is committed to achieving impact with each of them. Our new membership offer, Voice 21 Oracy Schools, is a blended model of one-to-one consultancy support, engaging and immersive courses and online learning. As Schools Lead, you will lead the delivery of our membership offer, using your expertise, creativity and determination to support our schools to provide a high quality oracy education for every student. 

Through building strong relationships with schools, you’ll clearly and credibly communicate Voice 21’s ideas and approaches, supporting schools to overcome barriers to implementation, and apply them in their own context. 

Your drive and determination to achieve impact means that you see each school you work with as a learning opportunity, and you’ll use your growing knowledge of oracy practice in schools across our network to continually build your own expertise.

You need to be passionate about relationship building, education and social mobility and have unashamedly high expectations for the quality of the support you deliver and impact you achieve.

Key responsibilities

• Acting as the main relationship holder for your portfolio of schools and working with them over a year or more to implement and embed oracy approaches. 

• Working with school leaders to design and implement bespoke improvement plans for their oracy provision.

• Leading professional development to groups of teachers.

• Writing progress reports and tracking and monitoring the impact of your work in schools. 

• Nurturing and managing ongoing relationships with teachers in schools that we work with.

• Providing feedback on our content and processes to enable us to continually improve them in line with school and teacher needs and expectations.

• Interacting with the wider oracy education community, including presenting at events and conferences and writing blogs and articles.

• Contributing to the identification of good practice in oracy, including case studies.

• Working with colleagues across the organisation to provide a high-quality school and teacher experience.

• Identifying and carrying out other tasks commensurate to the level and spirit of the role as required.

Your experience:

• You have experience teaching in UK schools (primary or secondary)

• You are passionate about oracy and have used talk to support learning in your classroom. 

• You have experience leading whole-school change and inspiring teachers to embrace new approaches and ideas.

• You have a knowledge of a range of speaking and listening techniques and contexts for oracy, these could include: debate, dialogic teaching, storytelling, public speaking or communication and language development. 

We are particularly interested to hear from applicants who are Welsh language speakers and from applicants who have experience working in schools serving areas of high deprivation.

Person specification:

• You are an excellent communicator both when working in a small team and when facilitating learning for large groups of adults. 

• You are flexible, can think on your feet and can bring your own experiences to the work we do.

• You are confident, able to rise to challenges and look for solutions.

• You are highly-organised, proactive and can prioritise and manage a varied workload. 

• You are willing to travel nationally on a frequent basis during term time; this will include regular overnight stays. 

You will love this job if:

• You are passionate about oracy and the potential it has to transform outcomes for children and young people.

• You are personable; you nurture and value relationships and get a buzz from talking to teachers about their schools.

• You are a sharer and get excited about supporting other educators to develop their practice.

• You are keen to develop an understanding of the educational picture across the UK by working with teachers and schools nationally. 

• You strive to continually learn and develop your craft and support others to do so.

• You want to join a fast-paced and fast-growing team with big ambitions, and are prepared to be flexible to help us achieve these.

Location: Home-based with frequent national travel to attend meetings and work with schools. 

Contract: This is a full time post, but we would welcome applications from those looking for 0.8 FTE.

Interview date: Phone interviews will take place 13th - 15th October with second interviews provisionally scheduled for 19th October (online). 

Start date: December 2021/January 2022

Valuing every voice

Voice 21 believes that every voice should be heard and valued. We are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Voice 21.

About Us  

First Love Foundation, a Christian charity, was founded 10 years ago with a desire to see the transformation of society through the pursuit of justice, dignity, and equality for all members of the society. Our vision is for Britain without poverty and our work is underpinned by the belief that no one regardless of faith, ethnicity, socio-economic background, or any other factor should live in poverty or go through this type of crisis alone. 

Based in the east end of London, First Love Foundation works with families and individuals experiencing crisis i.e. ‘income-shocks’ ranging from incorrect denial (or suspension of) welfare support, serious ill health, debt, homelessness, right through to domestic violence, trapping them in a continuous cycle of poverty.

We respond to poverty and crisis through the delivery of our highly regarded solutions-oriented Enabling Lives Programme. The programme provides instant access to high-quality support and advice at the point of crisis. 

Our mission is ‘to empower people to create their own independent lives by working alongside them with love”. This mission and our theory of change have been carefully developed over many years on the front line, helping people in crisis and learning what it takes for people to break the cycle of poverty. 

With projects already in the pipeline that will serve to help even more families and individuals make the journey out of their crisis, we have scope for scale which needs to be supported internally by strong management of crucial areas of the charity’s operations. 

About the Job 

Many of our clients have challenges with accessing the support they are entitled to from the welfare system. First Love Foundation recently acquired AQS-accreditation, we are therefore looking to add expertise to our team so that we can best work alongside our clients in their journey to independent living.Welfare Rights Adviser is a newly created job with a new role within the Enabling Lives Team.

Candidates must be motivated to deliver a strongly effective service for people in crisis in keeping with the rapid, holistic, and solution-focused approach that the charity is well known for.Responsible for delivering excellent welfare rights advice to clients within the broader day-to-day operations of the Enabling Lives Programme.

The Adviser will manage a caseload of welfare benefits issues for clients (and their carers), and support them with applications for welfare benefits, mandatory considerations and appeals. The Welfare Rights Advisor will also provide welfare rights advice to Project Workers and volunteers within the team to enable them to progress client cases from initial consultation to completion. 

Essential to this role is the use of the Salesforce CRM System to track all client casework, relationships with referral agencies, the monitoring and evaluation of our services and reporting for the trustee board, external partners, and funders of our work.

The ideal candidate is an experienced welfare rights practitioner with a proven track record of achieving meaningful outcomes for clients experiencing challenges in accessing their full benefits entitlements. Tenacious and well organized, you can manage a busy caseload and enjoy facilitating the smooth running of this new service. The ideal candidate will also enjoy being part of our multi-disciplinary team.

This role is suitable for someone with excellent welfare rights knowledge, skills, and experience. The ideal candidate has a heart for social justice, with strong administrative skills and a passion for training staff and volunteers. 

Communicates with: 

Enabling Lives and wider First Love Foundation team / Clients and Carers /Referral Partners / Volunteers

The successful candidate must be in sympathy with the Christian values, purposes and aims of First Love Foundation. 

Please note: Previous applicants are not encourage to apply

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.

Skylight Croydon is a thriving and supportive environment. Our courses help homeless people gain employment, life skills such as confidence, qualifications and enjoyment. 

About the role
As Construction Skills Tutor, you will design and deliver a range of lessons and courses that our members can enjoy and benefit from. Our courses support members with their confidence and wellbeing, living independently and in gaining employment. As well as formal qualifications, you will run courses on important life skills such as painting and decorating and DIY skills. This may require a blended approach with some in-person teaching in our on-site workshop and some teaching taking place online. 

The role is 14 hours a week which will be approximately 10 hours of contact/ teaching time and 4 hours for meetings and planning. There will be some flexibility required in the delivery of the courses. 

In working directly with homeless people, you will need to be able to build warm, supportive and professional relationships with them while assessing, supporting and recording their progress. A commitment to continued professional development is expected as is adherence to relevant safeguarding and health and safety policies and procedures. 

About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
•  A qualification in construction from a recognised UK awarding body or equivalent experience. 
•  Experience of teaching across a range of levels and needs. 
•  An ability to work with vulnerable adults in a responsive and sensitive manner. 
•  A commitment to Crisis’ aims and values. 
•  A commitment to ongoing professional development. 

We want Crisis to be an inclusive employer which then reflects our members and the communities we work in. We want to offer opportunities to everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Working at Crisis
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 (Pro-rata) 
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

When you join us you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation. We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness. 

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

Closing date: Tuesday 26th October 2021 (at 23:59)
Interviews will be held on 9th November. 
 
Accessibility
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website.
 
 Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

About us

This role is a part of the Global MEL Team within the Programme Quality and Operations Division in Christian Aid, enhancing organisational capacity in MEL and reporting, and providing particular support to programme teams involved in implementing projects and programmes across advocacy, humanitarian and development, The role will also work closely with the Global Strategy and Change Department and the Corporate Services Department's ICT Team, collaborating closely with the Head of Data Strategy and Transformation to deliver on a One CA approach to data management and strengthen our organisational digital capacity.

About the role

This role plays a key part in delivering Christian Aid's data strategy, ensuring that CA has access to quality data which can be used to articulate our impact in a robust and compelling way to all our stakeholders, and for evidence based decision-making at programme level for improved results. As a member of the Global MEL Team in the Programme Quality and Operations Division (PQOD in the International Department), the role will complement the work of divisional colleagues as well as colleagues in the Global Strategy and Change Department and the ICT Team in the Corporate Services Department, building a coherent overall approach on how data is used in the organisation for improving programme quality, performance management, decision-making, accountability and communications. The focus of the job will be on providing support to country teams to set up and use M&E databases and IT apps for M&E and data analysis, training programme and partner staff on data quality skills and competencies, supporting the production of high quality data for annual planning and reporting, and for corporate performance management processes.

About you

In order to fulfil this role you will bring a passion for data and how it can be used, bringing extensive experience in data analysis and visualisation (e.g. using Excel and Power BI), You will be able to identify innovative solutions and implement new ways of working. You will be a strategic thinker who can make the link between management and programming, identifying how the organisation can make the best use of its resources to produce high quality data for internal and external stakeholders.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

From 1 July 2021, the process for completing right to work checks has changed and we can no longer accept EU passports or ID cards as valid proof of right to work, with the exception of Irish citizens.

There are now two types of right to work checks: a manual check and an online check. A manual check can be completed against relevant documentation as outlined by the Home Office. An online check can be completed if you hold digital proof of your immigration status in the UK. We will require your share code and date of birth to carry out this check. Please see Gov.uk for more information on acceptable documents.

All successful candidates will require either a Basic or Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. Information will be forwarded to you by the HR team with your offer.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following TWO questions:

1) Please describe a situation in which you were tasked with building and managing a database to enable collection and analysis of data about project participants. What approach did you take, what decisions did you have to make, what data did you collect about the project participants? How did you ensure responsible data management? What were your main challenges? (400 words max.)

2) Please describe a situation where you were asked to prepare data for organisational performance management. Describe the management brief, the data source, the digital tools you used to analyse it, the means you used to visualise the data, and how you presented the information to decision-makers/managers. (400 words max.)

Database and Analysis Manager

REQ001399

£45000 - £50,000pa

Permanent - 35 hours per week

London

The Database and Analysis Manager will lead Scope’s database team ensuring they continue to give excellent support to our income generation.

Under your leadership, the team will go through a period of profound change, as Scope migrates from our existing Raisers Edge supporter Database to Microsoft Dynamics 365. 

The Role

Your first challenge will be to act as a stabilising influence and give the team clear management and leadership. You will build rapport and ensure the team continues to manage existing processes and make improvements where you can.

You will also help Scope think and plan for the longer term, working alongside the Head of Digital and Data to reimagine the role of the team once we have moved to our new database.

About You

You will be experienced working with and managing contact databases, to support marketing, fundraising or similar income generation. When required you will be able to do hands on work alongside your line reports.

You will be an approachable and confident people manager, able to listen to the team, guide them and ensure they are supported and developed. You will get your head around the team’s work and ensure it is carefully planned, allocated and streamlined where possible.

And you will be able to think about the future and how to develop and mould your team, helping shift the team’s function from data processing to analysis and insight.

Package

Be a disability gamechanger 27 days holiday per year Flexible working Discounts at gyms, restaurants and more

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to seize every opportunity to build a truly diverse and inclusive workplace.

We are always looking for applications from disabled people. If you are disabled and you have the skills and, or the experience to do the job, we really want to interview you. Just let us know in your application that you are applying under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you would prefer an application form or need any of the job information in a different format such as large print or braille. Please contact us via our website

Equality and Diversity and Inclusion

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to seize every opportunity to build a truly diverse and inclusive workplace.

We work hard to ensure that we are making exciting opportunities available to all, and everyone feels valued, heard and respected so that we continue to build a high performance, high engagement culture.

Who we are at Scope?

Scope is a disability equality charity in England and Wales. Together we are Disability Gamechangers. We belong to one team, dedicated to achieving a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness. Our mission is to achieve Everyday Equality for disabled people, and we campaign tirelessly to create change.

If you want to make a difference and become a Disability Gamechanger, we'd love to hear from you. Apply Today!

If based in a London Office, an additional £4,253 London Allowance will be added to your salary.

About us

This role is a part of the Global MEL Team within the Programme Quality and Operations Division in Christian Aid, enhancing organisational capacity in MEL and reporting, and providing particular support to programme teams involved in implementing projects and programmes across advocacy, humanitarian and development, The role will also work closely with the Global Strategy and Change Department and the Corporate Services Department's ICT Team, collaborating closely with the Head of Data Strategy and Transformation to deliver on a One CA approach to data management and strengthen our organisational digital capacity.

About the role

This role plays a key part in delivering Christian Aid's data strategy, ensuring that CA has access to quality data which can be used to articulate our impact in a robust and compelling way to all our stakeholders, and for evidence based decision-making at programme level for improved results. As a member of the Global MEL Team in the Programme Quality and Operations Division (PQOD in the International Department), the role will complement the work of divisional colleagues as well as colleagues in the Global Strategy and Change Department and the ICT Team in the Corporate Services Department, building a coherent overall approach on how data is used in the organisation for improving programme quality, performance management, decision-making, accountability and communications. The focus of the job will be on providing support to country teams to set up and use M&E databases and IT apps for M&E and data analysis, training programme and partner staff on data quality skills and competencies, supporting the production of high quality data for annual planning and reporting, and for corporate performance management processes.

About you

In order to fulfil this role you will bring a passion for data and how it can be used, bringing extensive experience in data analysis and visualisation (e.g. using Excel and Power BI), You will be able to identify innovative solutions and implement new ways of working. You will be a strategic thinker who can make the link between management and programming, identifying how the organisation can make the best use of its resources to produce high quality data for internal and external stakeholders.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

From 1 July 2021, the process for completing right to work checks has changed and we can no longer accept EU passports or ID cards as valid proof of right to work, with the exception of Irish citizens.

There are now two types of right to work checks: a manual check and an online check. A manual check can be completed against relevant documentation as outlined by the Home Office. An online check can be completed if you hold digital proof of your immigration status in the UK. We will require your share code and date of birth to carry out this check. Please see Gov.uk for more information on acceptable documents.

All successful candidates will require either a Basic or Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. Information will be forwarded to you by the HR team with your offer.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions (if required)

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following TWO questions:

1) Please describe a situation in which you were tasked with building and managing a database to enable collection and analysis of data about project participants. What approach did you take, what decisions did you have to make, what data did you collect about the project participants? How did you ensure responsible data management? What were your main challenges? (400 words max.)

2) Please describe a situation where you were asked to prepare data for organisational performance management. Describe the management brief, the data source, the digital tools you used to analyse it, the means you used to visualise the data, and how you presented the information to decision-makers/managers. (400 words max.)

Join a team of nurses for a rewarding career – 98% of staff agree that they are proud to work with our client.

“Happy, amazing, special and fun” are perhaps not the first thoughts that you might think, but this is exactly what their families think. Matched by their staff feeling “proud, rewarding and making a difference” by working in this special setting; this is a very different Nurse role.

Do you have experience in caring for children with life-limiting conditions, complex needs or chronic illnesses? Are you looking for a nursing role that will enable you to develop your skills but also gives space and time to build personal relationships with the children and young adults you care for? Do you want to work in team environment but know you are directly helping to make a difference?

If so, this incredibly fulfilling role is for you. A position where you can directly support putting children and families at the centre of all they do and directly help make the most of short and precious lives.

Children’s Nurse Requirements:

The children and young people they care for have very complex health needs, which will enable you to develop your clinical skills – including for example long-term ventilation. As well as providing hands on clinical care there is also time for having fun creating memories and laughter. This may be surrounded by balls in the soft play, splashing in our hydrotherapy pool, being creative in messy, going on outings, and facilitating the children to experience the wonders of the sensory room.

Due to the complex needs of the children , you will need be experienced in caring for children with life-limiting conditions, complex needs or chronic illnesses.

Hours are worked on rotating shifts (up to 12.5 hours) including nights, weekends and bank holidays, with enhancements for night, weekend and bank holiday working. Although we are unable to provide fixed shifts, they aim to be as flexible as possible in shift patterns to enable staff to have a good work/life balance.

They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all employees must obtain an enhanced DBS disclosure. They welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

Location: Little Bridge House - Barnstaple, Devon

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 25 - 40 hours per week, worked on rotating shifts including nights,weekends and bank holidays. 12.5 hour shift pattern available.

Salary: £26,141 - £33,124 per annum, pro-rata - plus enhancements for night, weekend and bank holiday working

Benefits include: ability to continue your NHS pension, free onsite parking, generous holiday entitlement which increases with service, enhanced sick pay scheme, family friendly policies, occupational health, wellbeing and counselling services, group life insurance scheme, training and development opportunities, a chance to make a real difference, green agenda, meals whilst on shift.

Closing Date: 24 October 2021

You may have experience of the following: Registered General Nurse, RGN, Children’s Nurse, Staff Nurse, Hospital, Nursing, Nurse, NMC, General Nurse, Paediatric Nurse, RSCN, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, Third Sector, etc.

Ref: 103 083

Location: Bexley 
Salary: £22,420-£24,320 per anum .76 FTE pro rated from full time salary of £29,500 – £32,000 per annum
Hours: 18.5 hours per week (Monday-Wednesday)
Contract: Fixed Term until 30/09/2024
Vacancy Reference: SWA3178
Closing Date:  12th October 2021
Interview Date: Week Commencing 18th October 2021

About the Service
Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of our Bexley team as a Domestic Violence Prevention Programme (DVPP) worker. The Bexley See Change project aims to increase the safety of domestic violence survivors and their children by working with perpetrators to change their behaviour.

As a DVPP worker you’ll be responsible for co-facilitating the 26-week rolling group programme, 1-2-1 work and disrupt and desist activity where appropriate. The programme is part of a 3-year funding pilot, looking at trauma informed care within the context of those causing serial harm. You will be helping to ensure successful outcomes and learning from the project are achieved. 
The successful candidate will also be undertaking suitability assessments with new referrals; identifying appropriate interventions and working closely with key partner agencies and professionals. An essential element to this will be maintaining a close working partnership with the programmes linked partner support service, to ensure robust risk & case management plans are in place. 

About you
We're looking for highly organised and self-motivated applicants who are passionate about ending gender-based violence and confident in their ability to deliver community-based projects. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience facilitating groups and completing assessments as well as a thorough understanding of risk management. You will have a demonstrable commitment to Solace’s feminist approach to ending violence against women and girls. Training and support for this role will be provided as necessary.
As this role is not protected under current equalities act legislation both women and men are free to apply.

Retail Assistant

Position: Retail Assistant
Location: Windsor
Job type: Permanent
Hours: Full time, over 5 days, Monday to Sunday
Salary: £9.50 per hour, plus lunch and training provided

About the role:

It’s learning the fascinating stories behind every product on display

It’s working as one to achieve impressive targets. And it’s playing a part in helping millions enjoy the Castle. This is what makes a retail role with them so different.

Joining their enthusiastic Retail team you’ll be an important part of every visitor’s day, delivering exceptional customer service across several shops and seasonal ice cream parlour.

You’ll greet and engage with customers, helping them with their shopping and enriching their overall experience.

The range of customers you’ll serve will be vast, and their needs varied. Yet, you’ll take every opportunity to maximise sales.

Many of their products are made exclusively for them, and you’ll learn about the inspiration and context behind each one. And helping with various promotions, seasonal ranges and shop displays, you’ll build up your knowledge and sales expertise.

And providing a service as memorable as your surroundings, you’ll feel inspired to consistently deliver the very highest standards.

About you

You’ve worked in a retail or customer-facing role before, and able to strike the perfect balance between sales and service, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

An outstanding communicator, with a warm, enthusiastic and friendly personality, you’ll always deliver an outstanding level of customer service.

You’ll also be a fantastic team player, and will enjoy working with your colleagues to achieve sales targets together.

What’s more, you’re able to think on your feet, a key skill, considering you’ll never know who’ll come into the shop next.

This is your opportunity to develop your retail skills and deliver the exceptional.
You may have experience of the following: Retail Assistant, Customer Service, Customer Service Assistant, Sales Advisor, Store Assistant, Retail, Visitor Attractions, Tourism, Sales Assistant, Retail Consultant, Shop Assistant, Sales Officer, etc.

Ref: 103 183

Pact is a highly respected independent charity, working across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoner’s children and families, to prisoners and those who have resettled back into the community. Our work is founded on core values, the first of which is a belief in the innate dignity of every human being, and our work focusses on human relationships, family and community. We are committed to achieving high standards of quality in all that we do.

Position: Family Engagement Manager
Location: HMP Coldingley - Woking GU24 9EX
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (weekend & evening work may be required occasionally)
Salary: £23,500 per annum

Closing date for applications: 12th October, 2021
Interview date: TBC

As Family Engagement Manager you will manage Pact’s Family engagement casework within the prison, organise Family Days periodically and liaise with our subcontractors in the Visits Centre.

About You:

To be successful in this role you will have a demonstrable capacity to coordinate a broad service, as well as experience and understanding of working with families in a challenging multi-agency environment, ideally involving offenders and/or their families. You will also have excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload. You will have the ability to contribute to the planning and development of Pact’s family work and also have knowledge of safeguarding/child protection practice. Furthermore, you will have excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work in building partnerships with a range of agencies.

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counseling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme, and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional training and intervention worker. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

How to apply:

If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgements may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

You may have experience of the following: Case Management, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Support Work, Criminal Justice System, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not for Profit, Social Work, Advocacy, Mentor, Mentoring, etc.

Ref: 102 925

Pact is a highly respected independent charity, working across England and Wales to develop and deliver a range of innovative services. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoner’s children and families, to prisoners, and to those who have resettled back into the community. Our work is founded on core values, the first of which is a belief in the innate dignity of every human being, and our work focuses on human relationships, family and community. We are committed to achieving high standards of quality in all that we do.

Position: Personal Wellbeing Advisor (Family & Relationships)
Location: Leicestershire
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time, 18.75 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Salary: £10,500 per annum (FTE £21,000)

Closing date for applications: 12th October, 2021
Interview date: TBC

About the role:

A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced professional to join Pact as we start delivering a new community-based service supporting people with convictions to improve their personal wellbeing and strengthen family relationships.

One-to-one support will be core to the service including building trust and undertaking activities and interventions that meet the needs of each individual. You will also deliver group sessions and workshops to support the development of skills and strategies such as communication, resilience, negotiation and assertiveness skills; confident and responsible parenting behaviours and positive coping strategies. You will be responsible for working towards service delivery targets and providing information to evidence outcomes achieved. Working with other professionals in partnership delivery will also be key.

About you:

As a key member of our values-led charity, you will be motivated to support people to turn their lives around. With a background in supporting people who have multiple and complex needs you will have the skills to engage sensitively with people about an area of their lives that is often the most important, their family. Ideally with experience of family work, you will understand the impact of criminality of family relationships. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills to equip you to build important relationships with partner agencies.

What we offer:

Pact offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement of 30 days per year plus bank holidays. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 5-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), and a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

You may have experience of the following: Casework, Key Working, Family Wellbeing Practitioner, Mental Health Worker, Advice, Guidance, Case Management, Rehabilitation, Family Services, Support Work, Support Worker, Criminal Justice System, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Not for Profit, Social Work, Advocacy, Social Worker, Mentor, Mentoring, etc.

Ref: 102 966

Midweight Interaction Designer

£27,500 - £31,000

London and Remote

Comic Relief are looking for an experienced interaction designer to join the team responsible for digital innovation across our brands (Red Nose Day, Sport Relief and Comic Relief).

You will have the opportunity to shape Comic Relief’s digital innovation projects and improve our design practices, whilst playing a key role in developing and championing our design systems. Your work to optimise the website will have a positive and tangible impact on Comic Relief audiences and will contribute to our ongoing drive to engage the mass UK public and raise money.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Delivering user experience and interaction design for comicrelief com and related digital products across Comic Relief, Red Nose Day and Sport Relief.
• Working closely with the Content Producer to oversee and improve these products, and deliver design assets for campaigns and year-round activities.
• Optimising the user experience to drive donations.
• Creating, developing and managing design libraries and files in Figma and Adobe Suite (align with creative team / freelancers)
• Making sense of business objectives and user needs through continuous research and prototyping.
• Delivering products in collaboration with in-house developers to satisfy team and organisational objectives and stakeholder needs.
• Creating seamless, responsive experiences across web, mobile and other connected devices.
• Working iteratively in an Agile environment, managing end-to-end projects with tools such as Trello, Confluence, Jira and GitHub.
• Articulating your thinking to colleagues and stakeholders through presentation, demos and mockups.
• Prototyping and communicating ideas quickly using pen and paper, Keynote and digital prototyping tools.
• Collaborating with the Data Analytics Manager and the Digital Marketing Manager to review, analyse and provide recommendations for optimising digital audience journeys across multiple channels. Test and review output to optimise the user experience.
• Feed strategic recommendations regarding digital design to the Marketing Lead to optimise digital performance and promote brand consistency.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES:

• A design-related discipline or degree preferred, such as Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communications, Human-Centred Design, Product/Industrial Design.
• Extensive experience of UX software (Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD) and Adobe C Suite. Will also need knowledge of Microsoft and Google Suite. Ability to create icon libraries is desirable.
• Candidates ideally have several years of industry experience (agency or in-house design environment), proficient in multi-tasking and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Able to apply methodologies and iterate throughout the design process, in areas such as concept mockups, ideation, user flows, information architecture, personas and analysis.
• Can demonstrate both systems-thinking and storytelling ability, excellent can-do attitude with attention-to-detail, and the ability to deliver strategic insights.
• Excellent presentation, project-management and interpersonal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Shopify or ecommerce would be beneficial to this role but it is not essential.
• Good sketching and illustration ability would be a bonus.
• Passion for charity and social purpose is a plus, as is a good knowledge of the wider NGOs landscape.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Professional development
• Mentoring/coaching
• Paid volunteer days
• Payroll giving
• Team social events
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Closing: 12:00pm, 12th Oct 2021 BST

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself
• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed
• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background
• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.

Goodman Masson are currently working with a large UK charity to recruit for a Senior Management Accountant. You will be responsible for reporting the groups financial performance as well as producing the monthly management accounts and overseeing the budgeting and forecasting process.

Day to day duties:

• Manage the budgeting and forecasting process, meeting reporting deadlines
• Work with senior management to develop and improve reporting
• Provide detailed commentary on performance highlighting any key risks and variances
• Lead on developing and improving finance systems
• Preparing monthly management accounts with detailed commentary and variance analysis

Essential:

• CCAB qualified or equivalent
• Strong budgeting and forecasting experience
• Experience managing or mentoring small teams

Please apply ASAP, applications are being reviewed as and when they are received.

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

Job Title: Marketing and Partnerships Manager

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months

Hours: 37 hours per week

Start date:  To be agreed

Salary: 25K-28K per annum dependent on experience

Annual Leave: 25 days plus 8 Bank Holidays per annum

Reports to:  Director of Operations

Location:  The National Holocaust Centre & Museum, Laxton, Nottinghamshire NG22 0PA.

About us:

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHCM) is an award-winning Arts Council and Heritage Lottery Fund backed nationally styled museum in a beautiful rural Nottinghamshire location. We have two permanent museum exhibitions, stunning sculpture and memorial rose gardens and sector-leading interactive museum and online experiences. We welcome members of the public and school groups to learn about the roots of prejudice and discrimination and what we can do to be upstanders in society today. To further expand our reach we have a growing range of outreach programmes and digital offerings. At our heart is a family of Holocaust survivors whose testimonies and artefacts form a significant national collection that we continue to grow, ensuring their voices are heard for generations to come. Our primary audience is school pupils but there is huge potential to grow our non-school audiences.

Throughout lockdown, Covid-19 has proved digital assets and presence to be more important than ever. In response we grew our online content at an unprecedented rate to spread our message nationwide far beyond our physical location. As we reopen our museum site we are really keen to build on the online interest we have generated amongst non-school audiences, both to stimulate even more online engagement and particularly to increase physical footfall.

Job Purpose and requirements:

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic person to take a critical role in increasing our reach, driving footfall, promoting our unique offer and ensuring our non-school programming is audience focused. You will take the lead in developing and implementing high impact, cost effective, integrated marketing strategies that deliver against targets to increase footfall, engagement and income. You will develop key relationships with external stakeholders including tourism networks, local visitor attractions, heritage organisations and local media. You will also build on and develop relationships with faith organisations and special interest groups with the aim of building our numbers of group visitors. You will raise awareness and develop relationships with high profile local organisations such as football clubs and other museum / heritage / cultural arts organisations, identifying any partnership, fundraising or cross-promotional opportunities for sharing with curatorial, education and fundraising colleagues.

The Marketing and Partnerships Manager (MPM) will play a key role in this 12-month project to increase adult visitors both onsite and online, encouraging uptake in our learning, special interest and visitor programmes. 

Key accountabilities will include:

• Visitor Numbers and Mix - including group bookings.
• Quantity and level of engagement through all online and offline channels.
• Generating sector intelligence on satisfaction from which to drive strategic decisions.
• Development of community, local and regional networks including the media.
• New community partnerships / collaborations. At least 1 major new partnership.

Main responsibilities

• Actively encouraging and strengthening links with a range of community groups, encouraging their participation in projects and events.
• Identifying and creating content and/or distribution partnerships with local, regional and national partners.
• Cultivating more frequent and higher value partnerships with East Midlands media outlets.
• Contributing to the growth of visitors/audiences on a local, regional and national level.
• Executing marketing communications initiatives across print, digital and broadcast (in collaboration with our Digital Content team)
• Promoting and championing NHCM’s creative and learning programmes to a range of non-school audiences and stakeholders.
• Promoting NHCM’s offer through attendance at events and networking groups.
• Consulting with audiences and groups to better understand how NHCM can cater to group needs.
• Work collaboratively with the wider NHCM team to make best use of resources to deliver an excellent visitor experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Education to degree level or with relevant professional qualifications or demonstrable relevant experience.
• Understanding of the not-for-profit sector, preferably within the heritage sector.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust (desirable).
• Proactive and resourceful, eager to learn and think out-of-the-box.
• Customer focused with the ability to understand customer needs and develop ideas to translate these into engaging online and/or physical activities.
• Ability to represent an organisation clearly and compellingly to different audiences.
• Naturally warm and enthusiastic, you will possess excellent networking, communication and presentation skills.
• Results driven, you will be the sort of person who is flexible, able to work independently but also enjoys a collaborative working style.
• Quick to pick things up and are able to see the bigger picture, with commerciality in mind.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a marketing or partnerships role.
• Experience in the tourism industry, cultural or heritage attractions, museum or adult learning sectors.
• Managing own workload, effectively prioritising tasks and meeting deadlines.
• Experience of developing and managing relationships with external stakeholders.
• Creativity and flair.
• Flexibility, positivity and enthusiasm.

To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role by the closing date which is Wednesday 13th October 2021