Every day in the UK, 13 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth.

Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity and exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to support anyone affected by the death of a baby, before, during or shortly after birth.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Education Lead to join Sands’ Training and Education Team. This newly created role is responsible for the delivery of our healthcare education programmes to improve bereavement care for families and help save babies lives. This role will take the lead on building a package of educational resources for healthcare professionals to support their professional development and continued improvements in practice.

The successful candidate will have experience of working clinically in the NHS in either early pregnancy, maternity or neonatal services. Knowledge of relevant guidelines, policy and best practice bereavement care following pregnancy loss or baby death is also a requirement.

With demonstrable experience of creating training for healthcare professionals and students, you will also have experience of delivering training to both online and face to face.

You will have excellent presentation skills, including the ability to write clearly and express complex or sensitive subjects simply and be able to collaborate with a range of stakeholders and subject experts to create educational materials.

An understanding of health inequalities in the UK and the impact on pregnancy loss, baby death and bereavement care is essential as well as having a working knowledge of the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

A highly developed communicator, you will be able to build effective working relationships with colleagues, volunteers, professional partners and target audiences as well as being extremely well organised with strong time management skills.

Internal Communications Lead

We’re looking for a passionate and strategically-minded communications professional to join our People Experience Team and lead our internal communications function. 

Position: Internal Communications Lead

Location: Homebased, U.K Nationwide

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £42,840 per annum (inner London weighting £3,299 per annum or outer London weighting £1,755 per annum may be applied in accordance to where you live)

Contract: This is a fixed term maternity cover until August 2023

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 29 May 2022

Interview Date: First interviews will take place on the 6 June, with second interviews the following week.

Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges.

The Role

Reporting to the Associate Director of People Experience, you will ensure that our strategic approach to internal communications and engagement develops an environment where our people – both staff and volunteers – feel they can connect, create impact and thrive in line with our shared values.  To excel in this role, you’ll need to be approachable, collaborative and solutions-focussed.  Self-reflection and a strong desire to learn and grow will also be key.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating staff and volunteer connection with our strategy
• Supporting change projects with communications expertise
• Partnering and coaching senior leaders on internal communications approaches
• Creating conditions for the internal communications team to do their best work

About You

You will be/ have experience/have a proven record of:

• Be an inspiring and empathetic storyteller and leader
• Have strong communication skills and understanding of how audience, format and channel impacts the effectiveness of internal comms narratives
• Be able to navigate change and uncertainty with curiosity and confidence, and hold that space for others

To take on the role you must live in the U.K and have the right to work in the U.K

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Applications from individuals who are seeking flexible working options, including reduced hours or job shares are welcomed.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.

We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.

We’re working to improve the diversity of our team.  Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.

We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities. 

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

In 2019, we developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!

You may also have experience in areas such as Impact and Engagement Lead, Impact and Engagement Manager, Impact and Engagement Officer, Impact and Engagement, Impact Manager, Engagement Manager, Impact Lead, Engagement Lead, Recruitment, Volunteer Engagement, Volunteer Management, Communications, Internal Communications, Internal Communications Officer, Internal Communications Lead, Internal Communications Manager.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

We Are With You Liverpool is an integrated Drug and Alcohol Service that delivers services across the city. We offer a clinical service that offers opiate substitute prescribing with a recovery focus, needle exchange provision, support for significant others, family and young people's services and a volunteer programme.

You need to have good clinical leadership skills and experience of Opiate Substitute Prescribing. You will work with a range of people to ensure the best service delivery possible to the people who need it. You must be a team player, pragmatic and solution focussed and able to work with complex problems within a complex system - and therefore able to take both a holistic view on what needs to be done, whilst also able to work with a high level of detail.

Further information 

This job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level with Barred List(s).

This is a permanent full time role for 37.5 hours per week.

Interviews will be held on 17th May 2022. 

Our Time is the only UK charity dedicated to working with children whose parents have a mental illness. We give them the support they need - in their families and in their schools. We tackle the stigma around mental illness and show these children they are not alone. With our help, they find support and understanding, and build resilience and confidence - so they can reach their full potential. We also raise awareness of the unique challenges they face and campaign on their behalf for better support.

We’re looking for an exceptional Fundraising Lead to join our team and lead on fundraising for the charity. You will be required to research funds, write bids and develop a creative approach to fundraising and generating the income we need to sustain and grow our services and programmes.

It’s an exciting time to join Our Time. We are featuring in a high profile programme on national television; our podcast My Family, Mental Illness and Me, launched last year, made it into the top 5% of downloads worldwide and was featured in the national press; we won silver at the Charity Film Awards; and we are about to roll out a number of new outreach projects through our flagship programmes: KidsTime Workshops and Our Time Schools.

We need someone to help consolidate our achievements and contribute to the long-term success of the charity.

Key duties and responsibilities

Our new Fundraising Lead will bring a wealth of experience, gained through working with Trusts, Foundations and Individual and Corporate Donors, to play a key part in our strategy moving forward. Duties will include but are not limited to:

● Work with the CEO to generate and implement a fundraising strategy and plan.

● Work to review and enhance our pipeline of Trusts and Foundations.

● Produce considered and effective proposals for support, to maximise both sustainable restricted and, particularly, unrestricted income.

● Manage and develop key relationships with funders.

● Record donations and ensure that donors are thanked and stewarded appropriately, with Gift Aid claimed, if applicable.

● Develop original fundraising campaigns, as well as getting involved with wider philanthropic opportunities.

● Create opportunities for maximising unrestricted income from all donors.

● Identify learnings and work with our Marketing and Communications Manager to create suitable and sustainable fundraising messaging and communications.

● Report regularly on bid outcomes, pipelines and risk to support financial forecasting.

For full details, please see the attached person specification. 

Strategic Programme Lead
Circa £50,000
Home based
Full-time, permanent

Lancashire and South Cumbria Hospice Together is a newly established collaborative of hospice providers covering the region.

Our mission is to ensure that the population of Lancashire and South Cumbria gets the very best palliative and end of life Hospice Care and that together we exemplify what the very best hospice care is, by collaborating to shape the future, progressing with purpose and achieving together.

Change is the only constant in the provision of health and complementary care services, which means that we need to maintain a strong strategic overview of current developments taking place as result of public policy and funding. 

We also need to have the vision that enables us to see beyond the horizon and it is this that is one of the fundamental drivers for the establishment of the new role of Strategic Programme Lead.

The role offers you the scope to make a major contribution to evolution of palliative and end-of-life care in close partnership with our colleagues in the NHS and alongside other partners in both the voluntary and private sectors.

The purpose of the Strategic Programme Lead is defined by the objectives that we have set ourselves, which include influencing future commissioning, developing impact measures, exceeding national standards for quality, reducing duplication and to enable hospices survive and thrive, whilst maintaining our identity, independence and freedom to innovate.

The region covered by the members of the collaborative are rich in diversity and we want to be able to reflect that in the pattern of provision provided. We are committed to tackling inequality of access to palliative and end-of-life care.

Purpose of Role:

Success looks like:

• Healthwatch Bucks has strong relationships with communities across Buckinghamshire and gathers the views and experiences of these communities in relation to health and social care
• Healthwatch Bucks is seen as the ‘go to’ place for best practice in effective community engagement and involvement
• Local residents know what Healthwatch Bucks does and talk to us about health and social care in a variety of ways

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Chief Executive and Engagement Lead to produce an annual communications and public engagement plan. This will include supporting volunteers, staff and directors to contribute to the delivery of this plan
• Work with the Chief Executive and Healthwatch Bucks team to grow the organisation’s reach around engagement and involvement by proactively identifying opportunities for engagement activities within local communities -with a particular focus on those experiencing health inequalities

• Track and report regularly on engagement and involvement activities and stakeholder relationships
• Support the staff team with targeted engagement and involvement opportunities in relation to particular projects or areas of work.
• Identify community issues, needs and areas of concern about Bucks health and social care through engagement and involvement activity
• Work with the Data and Impact Manager to capture and store feedback and data from engagement and involvement activities
• Work with the Communications Lead and Data and Impact Manager to identify and progress engagement opportunities through website feedback and social media channels
• To develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Arrange, prepare and attend engagement and involvement activities to support the communications and engagement plan (including information stands, focus groups and presentations)

The Person

Skills and attributes:

• You enjoy talking to people with the ability to quickly build effective working relationships and good rapport, with people from all walks of life
• An awareness of health inequalities and the current challenges facing health and social care providers
• You can have good communication skills and are able to write in a clear and concise way
• You are computer literate and have experience of using Microsoft Office packages You are an experienced user of Microsoft Office, WordPress, and Mailchimp and will grasp quickly how to use our database
• You can work collaboratively as part of a team – supporting others to deliver and have some experience of working with volunteers.
• You have the capability of planning and delivering engagement plans that successfully engage the public, especially communities who may be experiencing health inequalities
• You are prepared to work flexibly and attend events in the evening and weekend as required.

Motivation:

• Strong and demonstrable belief in improving health and social care services
• You are excited by the challenge this role presents and by developing yourself as part of delivering it.

Fit:

• You feel comfortable working remotely in a small, active team
• You are happy to work principally from home but feel comfortable attending events alone and representing the organisation
• You are helpful and positive in your approach
• You are happy to learn and develop as part of your role
• You will respect the wider work of the organisation and to ensure no activities have the effect of bringing the organisation into disrepute.
• You are entitled to work in the UK
• You are willing and able to travel to various locations across the county as required and are able to transport the equipment needed to run events e.g. gazebo and marketing materials.

Sales Lead, UK & Ireland

Job responsibility:

You will be responsible for the overall business development, success management and strategic planning of GivenGain and its activities in the United Kingdom & Ireland. This role will report into the Executive Director. Your main target market will be charities within the region, as well as mass participation events driving charitable fundraising. Remuneration is structured as a base salary plus bonus if you meet your targets - which are linked to the value of donations processed.

Job duties:

· Develop the GivenGain business in the UK and Ireland by driving a sales strategy to onboard new charities and fundraising events

· Managing the daily operations and be the face and voice of GivenGain in the respective region

· Accountable for customer success management and key account management (events, charities, corporates and fundraisers) 

· Develop and execute an in-country marketing strategy alongside the Executive Director

· Develop a deep knowledge of the market and our industry

· Build the GivenGain brand through thought- and opinion leadership and become an industry expert

· Generate progress reports and understand the number drivers

· Set country targets and objectives

· Train and recruit new staff

· Identify and secure new supporters/partners and ensure effective engagement with established partners

· Effectively coordinate and liaise with partners to successfully implement fundraising strategies

· Develop a country network, attend industry events and aim to speak at conferences

· Monitor customer support issues in the region

· Manage and execute multiple fundraising campaigns for running and cycling race events

· Work with the sales team in order to successfully onboard new clients

· Proactively develop strategies to maximise fundraising activity within the event base

Skills and qualifications:

• This is a mid-level position that requires at least 3 years’ experience in a sales or business development role, preferably in the fintech or charity sector
• A proactive problem solver with excellent communication skills
• Results driven with good time management skills
• The ability to build relationships and manage stakeholders
• The ability to lead and inspire a team
• Good financial acumen 
• Be strong from a network sales perspective
• Have a presence and network within the charity 

GivenGain is a non-profit foundation founded in Switzerland with a simple idea: to enable global philanthropy by providing a platform that simplifies global giving and fundraising. 

Since 2001, the platform has assisted donors and fundraisers in 194 countries, to assist thousands of charities in more than 100 countries. We also work with mass participation and fundraising events, including the likes of the Boston Marathon and its charity partners. 

At GivenGain we also follow a distributed work policy, which means that you can work from wherever you feel comfortable - home, office, co-working space - it’s your choice.

We also provide all employees with an additional 12 days of leave a year which they can use to volunteer with a charity or cause of their choice, anywhere in the world.

Start date:

From 1 June 2022, but this is negotiable based on notice periods etc.

Location:

United Kingdom, remote

Macmillan Engagement Lead
Permanent
Full time [34.5 hours with flexible working, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours]
Mobile Worker – Northern Ireland
Salary  £33,000 – £39,000 plus car allowance 

Are you someone who thrives on engaging with different communities? Do you want to use your skills and expertise to really make a difference and help support people living with cancer? If so, this could be a great role for you.

We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success. 

We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and your career, and we welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.

We offer a range of flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, e.g. 34.5 hours in 4 days instead of 5, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am - 4pm and more options. 

About the role

Our Engagement Leads are key to providing the support and structure to enable people living with cancer to shape and influence service delivery, policy and our equality, inclusion and diversity agenda. The role is home based and involves daily travel covering Northern Ireland in the normal course of the work and therefore a current valid driving licence is essential. Some evening and out-of-hours work will also be required, and occasional overnight stays and occasional travel to Scotland and England.

About you

As part of the Northern Ireland geographic team you’ll put your excellent communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills into play to influence and inform your target audience. Your drive and knowledge of how the health and social care sector is structured will enable you to implement a person centred approach via the involvement of others.

You will bring experience in working with groups and volunteers in a community based setting, development of community partnerships and the ability to plan community networking and outreach events.

You can demonstrate the ability to analyse qualitative data to report outcomes and be confident to take the lead on project development and project management.

About us

We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition.

Recruitment Process

The deadline for applications is 22nd May 2022 at 23:59. Virtual interviews will run from 14th June 2022. 

In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

Any offers on this role are made subject to a criminal records disclosure check or equivalent

CAP is a Christ-centred organisation that focuses on showing God’s love through equipping churches to serve those experiencing debt and poverty and grow in their confidence in mission and evangelism.

The role

The Mission & Evangelism Engagement Lead will report to the Head of Mission, working with the wider leadership of the charity to ensure that Evangelism & Discipleship consistently remains a central, vibrant and integral part of the work of CAP for our staff and the Church network. 

This role will continue to support a shift from CAP doing evangelism for/to the local church and move towards a relational and contextual engagement with the church that inspires, empowers and appropriately equips the local church for mission and evangelism within their diverse communities. This also aligns with the emerging Mission, Evangelism and Discipleship (ME&D) strategy which will be launched later in 2022. 

The M&EE Lead will seek to keep evangelism and discipleship at the core of CAP by challenging, educating and inspiring frontline staff and teams and promoting an organisational-wide responsibility for evangelism and discipleship. This will be primarily through resource development, coaching and communication. 

They will be the “go to” person for advice and guidance on practical evangelism and discipleship tools, keeping informed of current resources, methods and inspiration, ensuring that CAP and the local church is equipped for evangelism and mission in today's world. This will also include developing in-house and bespoke content for training and resources and collaborating on projects and initiatives to strengthen CAPs mission, evangelism and discipleship strategy. 

Who we're looking for

The Mission & Evangelism Engagement Lead will be someone who is passionate and enthusiastic about empowering the local church to live faithful Christian lives and bring people to faith in Jesus by supporting them on their discipleship journey.  They will be someone who is passionate about and committed to their own discipleship with a desire to take others with them into a deeper relationship with Jesus. This passion will be evident in their communication and leadership style.

CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.

CAP offer a generous Rewards & Well-being package, including:

- CAP 6.5% employer pension contribution

- 34 days annual holiday (including flexible bank holidays)

- 1 additional days holiday for each full year of service (up to a max of 5 additional days)

- 2 paid Mental Health days and up to 5 days Family Emergency leave per year

- Paid 'Revive' days to take time out with your team during the year

- Enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Access to Employer Assistance Programme 

- Gym membership discount

- Hybrid working

- Flexitime from day one (start/finish earlier or later in the day, accrue extra time off & achieve that work/life balance)

- plus many more! (see the rewards brochure below under 'related documents' for further information and pro-rata details for part time employees)

Location

Bradford Head Office based with some home working available. Due to the nature of the role remote candidates will also be considered.

Disclaimer

Please note the salary shown is for full time (37.5 hours per week) and will be pro rata for job share/part time.

Under the 2010 Equality Act, schedule 9, we have a genuine occupational requirement for all employees and volunteers to be practising Christians.

For further information, please contact the People & Culture team at CAP.

Information on genuine occupational requirements can be found on our website.

You are advised to submit your completed application form via email as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered. We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date where we have a high response rate.

All adults working in, or on behalf of the CAP have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. This includes: A responsibility to ensure a safe environment in which CAP Services can be delivered. Identify children and adults where there may be safeguarding concerns and to follow the CAP Safeguarding Policy in addressing any concerns appropriately.

Please note that we are unable to consider applicants who do not presently have permission to work in the UK.

​TechVets is a non-profit established in March 2018 and now a programme within RFEA - The Forces Employment Charity. TechVets provides opportunities for veterans, Service leavers, reservists and their families to join our amazing community, to learn and train using leading resources and to receive valuable employment support.

We have created an online community of more than 3,170 members across 12 active regional hubs throughout the UK. This provides a safe community environment with like-minded tech-curious veterans to support them in transition/resettlement concerns, tech advice and support, learning and development as well as training collaboration, and local physical meetups to maintain their Military family. The community, growing at an average of c.100+ new members per month, offers to…

• De-bunk the resettlement and cyber/tech myths to improve decision making

• Provide pastoral support through a complex, challenging time

•  Leverage expertise of those veterans who are experienced cyber practitioners​

We are now seeking a motivated Community Lead, passionate about tech and the Military community, to join our small but growing TechVets team as we continue to deliver the UKs leading support for veterans and service leavers into information technology careers. This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic disruptor reshaping the way our veterans and service leavers enter technical careers, and changing thousands of peoples lives for the better. 

Is this role for you?

The online community is hosted on our Discord server but our community should be extended to the entire British Military community and for us to retain our community as the best throughout the word, we are seeking the right person to deliver the following:

Outreach to the Forces community

Conduct outreach activities to extend TechVets reach further and wider into the veteran and service leaver community and their families. This will help us to ensure that our services are accessible to many more that may benefit from enhanced digital skills or that may wish to pursue a pathway into an IT career and the benefits that can bring.

​Support the development of the online community platform

The online Discord server is the home to our community and therefore it needs to provide an exceptional mechanism for support that our members deserve. The Community Lead will work with Director TechVets and the (volunteer) Discord Technical Support to enhance our community platform.

Coordinate & lead community engagement activities

Coordinate targeted activities within the community to improve the user experience, to enhance the interactive nature of our community forum, and to increase the levels of accessibility and engagement across the entire membership.

Reporting

​The Community Lead will collate the necessary data and provide regular reports to the TechVets Director. The Community Lead will be expected to verbally (virtually and / or physically) present results to TechVets Director as well as the RFEA Senior Management Team.

Ideally you have the following skills & experience...

• UK Military experience (any rank, any service).
• Experience developing, managing or coordinating an online community.
• Good understanding of the tech sector and information technology careers.
•  Good technical knowledge with ability and passion to learn new systems with ease.
• Capable of working remotely to targets and deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication (verbal and written) skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and passionate about people and the military community.
• Effective team player but also able to self motivate and operate independently.
• Uses initiative and drive to navigate both internally and externally to achieve results.
• Highly organised, good attention to detail and works with pace.
•  Enthusiastic, adaptable and willing to learn.
• Adept at using basic productivity software (ie...Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

It would be even better if you had the following skills & experience...

• Currently a TechVets member.
• Proficient user of Discord.
• Familiar with using CRM software.
• Familiar with basic project management software.

​This is a full time fixed term contract working 35 hours per week until April 2023. You will receive an competitive salary of £28k-30k (depending on experience) along a generous annual leave entitlement and other benefits. 

The role is remote based, however, candidates will be expected to travel to our Head Office in London and to other events around the UK as and when required. 

Please apply with a CV and Covering Letter. The closing date for the position is 3rd June 2022 with interviews expected to commence the following week. 

As our charity grows and becomes a UK wide organisation, we are looking to appoint an experienced corporate partnerships fundraiser to lead on the development of our corporate income stream. We are looking for someone with drive and determination who will take on the challenge of adding new corporate partnerships to our portfolio as well as maximising the potential of our existing partnerships.

Horatio’s Garden is a national charity which creates and nurtures beautiful, fully accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres to support the mental and physical rehabilitation of everyone affected by spinal injury. Each stunning sanctuary is home to a thriving community and the charity’s outstanding, carefully designed gardens are a source of vital support for patients, their loved ones and NHS staff. 

This is a fantastic role for someone with business development experience gained within a corporate or charity setting, who is seeking a role where they can make a real impact.

This exciting role includes: 

• Researching appropriate corporate partners who have a synergy with our charity 
• Making approaches to suitable corporates
• Preparing applications and pitches
• Pitching to suitable corporate partners 
• Maintaining corporate partnerships prospect pipeline 
• Managing relationships with new and existing partnership to maximise value for both parties 

About You: Essential  

• Experience of securing high value corporate partnerships or contracts
• Experience of growing existing relationships and maximising value 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Confident working with senior level stakeholders 
• Demonstrate initiative and the ability to think laterally and creatively
• Confident, mature, professional and personable manner
• Ability to multitask
• Willingness to travel

Desirable

• Driver’s licence and own car
• Budgetary experience
• Working in a busy team

Contract: Permanent, 3-5 days per week negotiable. 

Location: Flexible with ideally one day per week in our head office in Coombe Bisset, near Salisbury. 

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 pro rata, dependent on experience.

Please apply with a covering letter and your CV

Exeter Community Initiatives is looking for a conscientious and pro-active Lead Administrator to act as the main point of contact for their project Exeter Connect - a city-wide Voluntary & Community Sector Support Service. This is an exciting, varied and responsible role, in which the right candidate will support systems and processes for collection, collation and input of data, supporting the manager to ensure an efficient and high quality service is delivered by the team.

It is essential that candidates have good working knowledge of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel and experience of using business analytics and CRM systems is desirable.

We are offering the possibility for remote working although in-person attendance will be required at times.

Responsibilities 

• Act as the lead administrative point of contact for all VCS project work, associated staff and volunteers 

• Lead on the development and implementation of administrative processes to ensure the efficiency and quality of the service delivered by the team

• Maintain up to date databases and performance logs 

• Prepare reports on behalf of ECI community projects and partner organisations 

• Administrate marketing, PR and communications including producing marketing materials, preparing and sending regular communication and website maintenance

• Organise and support training and other events

• Any other duties that arise as the service develops

Evaluation and Research Lead

We are looking for an experienced Researcher to lead on the delivery and ongoing development of the charity’s evaluation and research strategy.

Position: Evaluation and Research Lead

Location: Remote

Salary: £35-40k

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 28 days’ annual leave, 6% pension contribution, flexible and remote working opportunities, occupational sick pay, eye care vouchers.

Closing Date: 6th June 2022

The Role

We are looking for an Evaluation and Research Lead who has experience in designing, delivering and disseminating research, training and evaluation data in the health and social care field.  The role will provide the opportunity to support the charity in developing innovative models of care and to ensure that services are able to demonstrate impact and value. You will have experience facilitating the sharing of insights and learning externally so that we can advance the effective treatment and understanding of harmful gambling.

Key responsibilities include:

• Advance the effective treatment and understanding of harmful gambling through clinical research, specialist training and innovative, evidence-based rehabilitation programmes.
• Facilitate experience driven research and research driven practice.
• Work with existing monitoring, learning and evaluation systems and data to help the organisation understand and share impact and learning.
• Develop and maintain collaborations with academic and research partners.
• Manage the day to day delivery of the existing research projects.
• Work with the Director of Clinical Services and the wider leadership team to identify information gaps and potential future research by conducting surveys, research and monitoring services performance.
• Lead on collaboration with academic and training institutions in regards to student placements.
• Support the development of future standard setting and organisation.
• Support the Director of Clinical Services in the development and implementation of a competency framework and standardised training package for practitioners working with sever gambling harms.
• Support the testing and development of internal clinical training through evaluation and research.
• Produce evaluation and research reports to support our fundraising team.

About You

As Evaluation and Research Lead, you will have:

• A post-graduate research qualification in a relevant field (Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Public Health or related fields) or demonstrable knowledge experience and competency in this area
• Experience of leading psychological and/or social research and evaluation design and implementation in health and/or social care settings
• Experience in either or both quantitative and qualitative research methods and strong statistical analysis and evaluation skills
• Practical experience of leading on or contributing to an effective quality assurance programme including providing robust feedback
• Experience of leading learning processes or implementing evidence-based changes to strategy or intervention delivery
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal and active listening skills.

About the Organisation

This registered charity has nearly 50 years’ experience in providing residential support and treatment for people who are severely addicted to gambling. They provide advice, education and high quality innovative therapeutic support to problem gamblers and those affected by gambling, through residential, online and outreach services.

The charity is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes enquiries from everyone and values diversity in its workforce.

You may have experience in areas such as Evaluation, Evaluation and Research, Research, Researcher, Data Research, Data Analyst, Research Data, Data Evaluation, Impact and Evaluation, Health, Social Care, Health and Social Care, Clinical Research, Clinical Researcher, Research Project Manager, Scientific Research, Quantitate Research, Qualitative Research, Clinical Services, Psychology Research, Sociology, Research Social Work Research, Public Health Research, Health Research, Social Research, Social Care Research, Psychology Researcher, Sociology Researcher, Social Work Researcher, Public Health Researcher, Health Researcher, Social Researcher, Social Care Researcher. 

Induction Experience Lead

Contract Type: Fixed Term
Location: Home Worker - England and Wales
Salary: £26,451 - £28,886 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience) + London allowance of £3,600 (if applicable)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 26 May 2022
Interview Date: TBC (via Zoom or Teams)

Reference Number: VAC3198

Location: This is a home-based role but you must be flexible and able to attend our offices (in London or Birmingham) when required.

Please note, the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is 12:00pm on the closing date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About Alzheimer's Society

We are the UK's leading dementia charity. Every day, we work tirelessly to find new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for dementia. We provide expert information, training, and support services to all those who need our help. And we are creating a more dementia-friendly society so people with the condition can live without fear and prejudice.

Until the day we find a cure, Alzheimer's Society will be here for anyone affected by dementia - wherever they are, whatever they're going through. Everything we do is informed and inspired by them.

About the role

We have an exciting new opportunity available within our People Directorate, for an Induction Experience Lead to join us in what is currently an progressive and exciting time within the Alzheimer's Society.

Based within our Talent and Organisational Development team, this role will lead a project to review and develop our Society wide approach to Induction. Working across the organisation the role will ensure that all those who join the Society have an inclusive and welcoming experience.

They will ensure that every new starter, whatever their role, gains the skills and knowledge needed to deliver our work.

About you

This role is a great opportunity for those looking to move into, or explore working within learning and organisational development through leading and owning our induction review.

Ideally, you will have:

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal (essential)
- Evaluation and project management
- Ability to create a new approach on Induction for all our staff.
- Good understanding of EDI considerations within the workplace
- Experience in analysing data, systems and processes logically and make improvement recommendations
- Experience in leading successful projects to deliver positive change outcomes.

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society.

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.

You may have experience of the following: Head of Operations, Operations Manager, Licensed Trade, NEBOSH, Trade Activity etc.

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