Location: London

Salary banding: £37,000 - £43,000 depending on experience

Contract: Permanent

Street Child is seeking a dynamic human resources professional to help us attract and retain top talent, creating an environment where all our people are able to bring their best to their work. You will establish strong people processes and support a culture that enables high performance, engagement and personal growth.  You will do so in a range of UK and international contexts across Africa, Asia and Europe.  You are excited about the challenge of shaping a fast growing, child-centred and impact-focused international development charity; and will bring proven skills and experience to help us deliver our aims.

About You

As People and Learning Manager you will bring strong experience in HR management with a CIPD qualification at Level 5 or above. You will have a proven understanding of the INGO sector and international HR processes including legal and regulatory employment compliance. Importantly, you will have exceptional interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills with an ability and passion for continuous learning and people development.

To find out more about the role and to view the full person specification, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Apply Now

Please click 'How to Apply' to view instructions on how to submit your CV and Application Form for consideration, deadline for submissions is Monday 14th December.

We will review applications as they are received and reserve the right to bring forward the closing date. Our interview process will involve a written assessment, followed by two interviews. Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy. Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

The Social Enterprise Academy helps thousands of people to develop themselves and their organisations so that they can change the world for the better.We are looking for a Learning and Development Manager to be part of our Global Learning Lab. 

The Learning Lab catalyses innovative, high quality, accredited learning and development programmes through our global community of facilitators, staff and partners. This role is crucial to the Learning Lab, providing specialist learning and development expertise to ensure we remain at the forefront of designing and delivering transformational learning experiences. This is an exciting time for the Social Enterprise Academy as we continue to move more of our programmes online, review and refine our product offer and build our Community of Practice.

Having the right mind-set, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills.  We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the coordination and input into the design and development of new Academy learning programmes and resources, driven by the needs of Academy Hubs, ensuring they are aligned with the Academy learning methodology and principles
• Guide and provide input into the development of existing Academy products that require support from the Global Learning Lab to be adapted or refreshed to meet particular needs of learners across our Global Hubs
• Work directly with Learning Facilitators to brief and support them to deliver Academy programmes effectively and in accordance with Academy methodology and approach
• Gather and share research, blogs, evidence and best practice models and approaches to keep the Academy at the leading edge of learning and development on our thematic specialisms and inform the design of Academy programmes

For a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Social Enterprise Academy profile:

We are a social change organisation:  we exist to support people who are stepping forward to affect positive social change, wherever they may be. We exist to support the many, not the few. 

In many social change contexts, people assume that if one is provided with business advice and investment, social entrepreneurship will emerge.  We believe that there is a third element – equally important - the provision of transformational learning and development. Our learning programmes focus on the development of practice:  the practice of leadership and the practice of entrepreneurship.  We support people to turn up as their best selves. 

With a 16 year track record of successful delivery in Scotland, the Social Enterprise Academy has been sharing its business and learning delivery models for the past 7 years with international partners through a social licence approach.

Who we are looking for

We are searching for candidates with robust Project Management experience, ideally within an education setting, to join our Learning Design team as our new Fellow (Project Manager). This Fellow role will provide critical project management support to the Learning Design team across a range of new and evolving projects. The role will ensure the team is set-up effectively to meet milestones on key areas of work through the design, creation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a range of projects. The role will work closely with a range of other teams, provide technical support and expertise across the team and ensure the delivery of large design projects to time, quality and cost requirements.

Based either from home, or in one of our London, Birmingham or Manchester offices and reporting into the Dean, Learning Design, you’ll provide project support and oversight for the department, managing overall timelines and project plans. This role will oversee product management within the wider team, and also product deployment, with responsibility for ensuring that aspects of online learning are provided at the right time and to the right people.

You will have a track record of excellent project management, have incredible attention to detail and be able to use your initiative to identify the need for systems and processes. Ideally, you will have experience of using Learning Management Systems to support the development of others, and you will be able to hit the ground running and be able to quickly assume responsibility for new projects and areas of work as the remit of the wider team evolves.

Who are Ambition Institute?

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

Our offer

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

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays

• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on the 9th December 2020.

Interviews are expected to take place on the 11th December 2020.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

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

Who we are looking for

We are searching for candidates who have a track record of strong teaching, and who hold research informed knowledge about how pupils, teachers and school leaders best learn. The Design Manager role will work closely with colleagues in the team to design and build a suite of world-class programmes that help teachers and school leaders to keep getting better.

Based in one of our London, Birmingham or Manchester offices, we are currently recruiting for two permanent roles to start from Easter 2021. This position will, with support, be responsible for digesting large amounts of research, and combining this with field experience to author and represent curricula in ways that generate rigorous and actionable experiences.

You will have a track record of strong teaching and/or school leadership, including pupils with low prior attainment in challenging contexts. You will be able to analyse teaching skills and moments, breaking them down into their smallest constituent parts, and recombining them to build high levels of competence. Combined with there, the ideal candidates will also have excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact skilfully, intelligently and sensitively with teachers and leaders in a range of situations.

Who are Ambition Institute?

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

Our offer

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

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays

• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period

• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)

• Competitive salary rates

• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers

• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.

• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on the 7th December 2020.

Interviews are expected to take place the 11th December 2020

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

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

About School Food Matters

School Food Matters (SFM) exists to teach children about food and to improve children’s access to healthy, sustainable food during their time at school. We provide fully funded food education programmes to schools.  Our experience delivering these programmes informs and strengthens our campaigns, bringing the voices of children, parents and teachers to government policy.

Healthy Zones

Funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity (GSTC), this five year programme will work with 80 primary and secondary schools in Lambeth and Southwark to tackle childhood obesity.  Building on our pilot programme, we have developed a variety of activities to improve the food on offer throughout the school day. We will consider the needs of each school and offer support accordingly. This will include support to develop and implement food policies and/or to introduce healthier food to after school and breakfast clubs.

About the role

SFM is looking to appoint a suitably qualified manager to lead the monitoring, evaluation and learning of the Healthy Zones programme. This role will be key to understanding the effectiveness and impact of the programme and building an evidence base of what works to inform future changes in practice and policy.

They will set up, lead and champion learning processes so that they can support project teams to use findings effectively.

The role will involve overseeing and providing support to the external evaluator (ICF) as well as coordinating with various partners; securing access to relevant project information and documentation; collating and cleaning data; leading the review of evaluation outputs; and documenting the lessons learned throughout the process to inform the overall evaluation. It is critical that this person can work well with the external evaluator to share formative learning with the project team and our funder (GSTC) to aid and improve programme delivery.

We are seeking someone with an eye for detail, proven experience conducting research and data analysis, an ability to effectively communicate evaluation findings to a range of audiences, and a track record of developing strong relationships with partner organisations.

Key tasks

Coordination

• Support the external evaluator to design and implement data collection and evaluation tools
• Document the implementation of the evaluation including completion of milestones/deliverables and provide regular updates to the Healthy Zones programme team and funder
• Coordinate data collection and monitoring activities between the programme team and external evaluator
• Coordinate findings to inform programme learning
• Keep the external evaluator updated about changes to programme delivery or evaluation context
• Facilitate access to the necessary information, data and contacts required for the evaluation

Data collection and analysis

• Collate and prepare monitoring data (as required) and perform regular quality checks
• Ensure adherence to ethical and data protection standards throughout the evaluation
• Continually monitor and update existing Logic Models and Theory of Change approaches to evaluation and impact management across the Healthy Zones programme to inform our work and strategic approach

Report writing and presentation

• Coordinate the writing of the interim evaluation report after three years of the programme, setting clear expectations for what should be included
• Assist with the presentation of the results to both internal/external audiences

The Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Manager will also undertake any other tasks relevant to the affairs of SFM that may arise from time to time. Therefore, being flexible and approaching the job with an open and positive mindset is essential!

Person Specification

Essential

• At least two years’ experience leading the implementation or management of monitoring, evaluation and impact projects
• Understanding of theories, concepts and approaches to evaluation and demonstrable expertise of monitoring, evaluation and impact frameworks and systems
• Ability to implement data collection and collation using both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
• Experience of managing databases and interpreting and analysing large volumes of data
• Clear and concise writing skills
• Strong data collection and analysis skills
• Good understanding of data management and GDPR

Desirable

• Experience managing external contractors or partners
• Experience of setting up or managing learning and/or using evidence to improve interventions
• Degree in social research or social science
• Experience working remotely and/or with an organisation that has remote workers
• Experience working in the charity sector
• An interest in children’s health, campaigning and environmental issues

Learning Space is a peripatetic multi-disciplinary team with an administrative base just outside of Dorking.  We are a charitable organisation which aims to improve the lives of children, young people and their families.  Since 1997 we have offered 1:1 and group support for a range of emotional needs including low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, relationships, bereavement, bullying and family issues.  Our methodology is solution focused and our approach is to encourage children and young people to recognise and build on their existing strengths. 

For the past four years we have been a partner agency in Surrey Mindsight CAMHS working across the whole of the county.  

The successful candidate will provide support to children and young people aged 8 to 18 years.  The role involves assessing the needs and strengths of children and young people; planning, delivering and evaluating interventions.  Where necessary the role will also involve working with the families of children and young people.

If you are keen to make a positive difference to the lives of children and families and would like to become part of a supportive team of professionals please get in touch. 

Please note the successful candidate will be required to work in the East of the county; exact location to be confirmed.

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities and community groups. 

We support a wide range of projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes.

Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£588.2 million) of National Lottery funding to over 14,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. Over eight in ten (83%) of our grants were for less than £10k, going to grassroots groups and charities.

We are here to support people and communities through bad times as well as good – and that has never been so important as this year. Thanks to National Lottery players, we’ve been able to respond quickly and positively to communities working hard to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Their efforts have been humbling and inspiring and we’re delighted to have been able to help by distributing over £400 million pounds in National Lottery funding alone across the UK since the first lockdown began in March 2020.

About the Role

The UK Knowledge and Learning team is responsible for researching, sense-making and sharing insights and learning from our funding across the UK.

We make this evidence more accessible, engaging and practical with the aim of informing policy and practice, creating stronger and more connected communities and championing the voluntary and community sector’s contribution to society.

In 2020 we won the Government Information Group (GIG) Annual Award and were highly commended at The Henley Forum Awards for Advancing Knowledge and Organisational Learning Practice. You can find out more about the work we have delivered so far in this blog.

We want to build on our regular insight reports and web pages that show how charities and community groups make a difference, and what we are learning from their work. In this exciting new role you’ll play a vital role in supporting the Head of UK Knowledge and Learning to establish an ambitious programme of activities to deepen our knowledge. This means that on a day to day basis you’ll be doing things like booking speakers and venues, managing event admin, evaluating sessions and capturing and sharing key learning.

You’ll also help ensure that our information systems are kept up to date with new evidence and learning. This includes doing basic research to support our editorial team, summarising evidence, and proactively sourcing new reports and then tagging and uploading them to our internal knowledge bank and external evidence library.

Salary: £25,019 to £27,521 per annum dependent on location and experience

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: w/c 11 Jan 2021

Essential Criteria

Please ensure that your application demonstrates, with examples, how you meet all these essential criteria.

• Excellent administrative skills, organised and methodical with strong attention to detail.
• Experience of organising and administering events, networks or communities of practice to generate and share knowledge.
• You must have excellent written English, including grammar and spelling.

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of the voluntary and community sector or organisations with a strong social purpose gained through work, volunteering, or using their services.
• Basic research skills, like sourcing and summarising different types of documents and evidence, identifying and writing up project summaries, and analysing different insights and learning.

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

How to Apply

Visit our website for further details about the vacancy and our application process.

Equal Opportunities

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Sightsavers is looking for a Learning Officer to join the Ascend programme.

Contract: Fixed Term Contract to March 2022

Salary: c£29,000 - £32,000 dependent on experience

Location: Due to Covid-19 restrictions this will be a remote role and flexible working will be considered. Occasional travel to Haywards Heath office may be required.

Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (Ascend) is a high profile, high value, multi-partner programme significantly contributing to the control and elimination of five NTDs in 13 countries of west and central Africa. Sightsavers is the lead supplier for Ascend West & Central Africa and is responsible for its overall delivery of Ascend.

About the role

As Learning Officer, you will be responsible for identifying, documenting and disseminating information relating to the Ascend programme, across Sightsavers, the Ascend consortia, the Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) sector, and beyond. You will plan and delivering capacity building activities, and support grant management of the Ascend Learning and Innovation Fund.

Ascend Learning Officer responsibilities include: 

• Working alongside the Programme Optimisation Unit within the Ascend structure to embed structured learning activities into work plans.
• Liaise with consortia partners on a regular basis to update country and thematic learning action plans
• Coordinate virtual learning activities in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain oversight of regular project reporting
• Support with analysis of programme data and ensure key lessons are disseminated to internal and external audiences in accessible and engaging formats, such as PowerBI
• Support the development of informal knowledge products such as blogposts and learning briefs, and assisting in the development of formal peer-reviewed publications

About you

We are looking for an individual who is inquisitive, questioning and passionate about data, has experience of learning activities, health data and reporting and has excellent relationship-building skills.

As Ascend Learning Officer, you will have: 

• a degree in a subject related to Social Sciences, Politics, Economics, Geography, Education, Statistics, Information Systems or International Development, or equivalent experience
• demonstrated experience of working with quantitative and qualitative data, in-depth analysis and identification of data trends
• experience and/ or qualifications in project management in international development
• experience and understanding of monitoring, evaluation and learning
• experience of facilitating training, workshops or other learning activities
• experience of capturing good practice and disseminating learning
• good analytical and IT skills
• experience of using data visualisation software, such as PowerBI or Tableau
• an understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with a disability
• experience of supporting staff internationally
• availability to travel overseas up to 8 weeks a year – Covid-19 restrictions allowing

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties requirements. For further information please refer to the Job Description.

 

To Apply

To apply, and for further details about the role, please follow the below link.

Closing date: 13 December 2020

  

As an equal opportunities employer and a Disability Confident Level 3 employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is not willing to accept unsolicited agency CVs. Sightsavers is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.

Learning and Development Advisor

Are you passionate about the impact learning and development can have? Do you want to play a key role in creating a culture where development is supported, encouraged and accessible to everyone? Then this could be the role for you.

With just under 400 staff and twice that many volunteers, our client’s workforce work hard to deliver the best impact they can for children and young people with cancer. As their Learning and Development Advisor, you’ll work with different areas across the charity to identify training, learning and development needs. By planning and delivering a range of solutions, you’ll support them to continually develop their personal and professional skills and knowledge and make that impact even greater.

Learning and Development Advisor Requirements:

You’ll have experience in designing and delivering successful learning opportunities and working digitally will not only come naturally to you, but you’ll be excited about the potential it brings for innovation. Recently, with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on their finances, they’re having to work differently, with a reduced budget and with all development being remote. You’ll see this as an opportunity as well as a challenge, and relish being creative in how their plans are delivered and resourced.

Their people have a variety of development needs, so you’ll be used to working across different subject areas and projects at the same time, and as they’re a small team they’re looking for someone who is flexible in their approach and naturally collaborative in how they work. Working in silos isn’t an option for them.

Most of all, they’re looking for someone whose enthusiasm for development and supporting learning shines through – someone who is a great communicator, critical thinker, can engage their people with their own learning, and who can drive forward projects to realise great results that really add value.

They know that professional development is vital for all their people – if you want to make a difference in bringing this to life, they’d love to hear from you.

In the long-term there is the potential to be based in the Bristol Office, but working anywhere from home would be considered. If not based in the Bristol area, there will be occasional travel to Bristol involved. In the immediate term we will agree appropriate arrangements with the post holder.

What they offer:

In return, they offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, development opportunities, employee discounts and bike and season ticket loans.

They are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds, to join them and help improve the lives of children and young people with cancer and their families. They particularly want to encourage people from under-represented groups to step forward and apply to work or volunteer with them.

They’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. If you work with them, they’ll expect you to share this commitment too.

About our client:

Today, 12 children and young people in the UK hear the shocking news they have cancer. Our client is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families, and provides them with clinical, practical, emotional and financial support. You can be a part of helping them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.

Location: Bristol or Home-based

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £28,792 per annum

Closing Date: 9 December 2020

You may have experience of the following: People Development Advisor, HR People Development Advisor, HR Advisor, HR Officer, Learning and Development Advisor, L&D Advisor, L&D Coordinator, Training, L&D, Learning and Development, L&D Administrator, Charity, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.

Ref: 95615

Role Requirements

• The Communications & Engagement Adviser is the key day-to-day person responsible for the successful external and internal communication about the Learning from Consortia programme.

• The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic team player, a confident communicator and be flexible and hard working in a programme start-up environment.  They will bring relevant communication experience, be able to support clear planning, delivery and review of programme communication, be adaptable to changes in the programme, and be passionate about communicating learning from consortia programmes.

Role Responsibilities

Communications planning and delivery (80%)

• Ensure that a communication plan and production schedule is developed, monitored, and updated, ensuring all stakeholders are clear on relevant tasks needed and their timelines in relation to overall programme delivery.

• Work with the Programme Lead and Programme Coordinator to coordinate and provide regular updates on the Learning from Consortia programme across different teams

Broader programme work (10%)

• Support quarterly and annual donor performance and progress reports.

• Actively participate in programme planning, risk management, reporting and relevant review processes.

Cross-organisational support (10%) 

• Manage enquiries from Bond members and other stakeholders, providing advice or escalating to other Bond staff as necessary. 

• Support Bond’s communications and events team on the design, planning and delivery of key events, such as the Bond Annual Conference. 

*Please see Job Description for full detail*

At Bond, we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible working, or compressed hours. 

Company + Benefits 

Bond is the UK network for organisation working in international development.  We unite and support a diverse network of over 400 civil society organisations and allies to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice. 

Bond offers a competitive salary and benefits package including:

• Generous Holidays (27 days leave as standard, for all employees. Additional staff privilege days, normally between Christmas and New Year) 
• Staff Development days 
• Interest free season ticket loan 
• 7% pension contributions (staff pay 3.5%) 
• Flexible working hours 

How to apply

To apply for this vacancy, please send a copy of your CV and a short cover letter, outlining why you are the right candidate for this role by midnight on Wednesday 9th December 2019.

Interviews will be held over the 14th December 2020, so please bare this in mind. 

Bond and equal opportunities

Bond values diversity and works to advance equality. We encourage and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. In order to assess and ensure the continued effectiveness of Bond’s Equal Opportunities Policy, all applicants are asked to complete a short questionnaire when applying. 

You are not obliged to answer the questions but the more information you supply the more effectively we can monitor our equal opportunity practices. Completion of all questions is voluntary and failure to answer any question(s) will not affect your application in any way.

The information you supply will be treated in confidence and will not be seen by any member of the selection panel responsible for the appointment. The questionnaire will be detached from your CV and cover letter, stored anonymously and used purely to provide statistics for monitoring purposes.

Care & Learning Support Workers (Adults/Children)

Are you thinking about a new career this Christmas?

Do you want to be part of a caring organisation that has kept their both their residents and staff safe during 2020?

Care & Support Workers (Adults/Children)

£17,622 - £21,582 per annum (£9.04- £11.07 per hour) plus weekend enhancements and overtime opportunities.

We currently have exciting Care & Support Worker vacancies in our Adult Home and Children’s Home supporting our residents to live their lives as independently as possible in our well-equipped on site bungalows. Our teams assist with leisure activities such as horse-riding and swimming, alongside general domestic duties and personal care.

You don’t need experience in care to join us – but you do need to be dedicated, caring and passionate about people. Our on-site training team will support you to achieve fully funded recognised qualifications in Care, Adult Care or Residential Childcare Child Care (RQF 2 & RQF 3). If you’re an excellent communicator with the desire, resilience, patience and motivation to support others we can offer you an incredibly rewarding role.

St Elizabeth’s is situated in 68 acres of Hertfordshire parkland between Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford. We support people with Epilepsy and other complex needs from the age of 5 through to 80 in our Children’s Home, School, College, Residential Homes with nursing and Day Centre. Over 150 adults and children call St Elizabeth’s their home making us an inspirational place to do great work.

We offer a mixture of early and late shifts (7.15am – 2.45pm and 2.15pm – 9.45pm), night positions, and weekend work across our full- time, part-time, casual roles and an excellent range of staff benefits, including:

Currently a 20% uplift on your salary for working overtime on a Saturday & Sunday for full time permanent employees
Fully paid for DBS
Opportunity to pursue recognised qualifications of your own
Fabulous staff development – fully funded for you by the Centre
Free on-site parking
Subsidised restaurant
High Street retail/leisure discounts
Generous holidays
Discounted gym membership
Free Life assurance

To find out more information about St Elizabeth’s, please visit our website. Offers are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check paid for by the centre. Please note we are not on a public transport route. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

Registered Charity 1176777 Equal opportunities employer

inFocus Consulting is a social impact consultancy firm, working in the UK, USA and international development arena. We support clients to improve both individual and organizational performance, by effectively planning for, measuring, evaluating and sustainably growing the impact of their work.

We specialize in strategy development, monitoring and evaluation and knowledge sharing and dissemination. Our international specialist team are committed to supporting a global portfolio of clients to increase the positive impact of their activities upon the lives of people and communities around the world, whether they are non-profits, governmental or for-profit entities.

Our mission is to ensure that individuals, organisations and communities are effectively empowered by sustainable and transformational solutions to resolve long-term and complex social issues. We support organisations in understanding the impact they hope to achieve and subsequently develop the right skills, capacities and tools to move forwards. We ensure that solutions are ‘generated by’ and ‘actively participated in’ by all vested stakeholders and then implemented in the most efficient and effective ways, making full use of the latest advances and understanding in both social and information technologies, along with their practical ‘in the field’ application.

To do this, we have a pool of highly skilled Staff & Associates based around the world, who are trained in our integrated service approach and are subject matter experts in sport for sustainable development and peace, children’s rights and child protection and women and girl’s rights, equality and empowerment. We apply a combination of training, consultancy and coaching solutions, designed to suit the varied contexts and challenges faced by our clients.

Role

Position Description: inFocus Consulting is seeking to recruit a Senior Evaluation and Learning Consultant to deliver inFocus consultancy services and products with the inFocus team. The role would provide the opportunity to work with and build the capacities of interesting and inspiring NGO's in the UK and around the world. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Managing or supporting monitoring, evaluation and learning assignments: The Evaluation & Learning Consultant will project manage or support various external evaluations of client social programmes, and/or research assignments, with an emphasis on sport, culture & recreation, child protection and gender equity/equality and empowerment, education and health sectors. However, inFocus works across a diverse range of subject matters within the humanitarian and development sectors, internationally and in the UK. Project management will include managing the project team (which could be made up of internal staff and external associates), communicating with the client, designing the approach, undertaking technical evaluation delivery, writing reports/ delivering presentations, delivering interactive learning and analysis workshops, and ensuring that the project is delivered on time and within budget. Project support will include undertaking qualitative research, such as case studies, and quantitative research, such as designing and implementing surveys. It will also include some team and client liaison.
• Delivering Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) services to NGOs and social enterprises in the UK and globally. M&E services will include running theory of change workshops (both in-person and remotely), undertaking monitoring and evaluation needs assessments, developing M&E frameworks and running training (both in-person and remotely). InFocus has a central bank of materials, eLearning resources and toolkits which will be drawn upon by the Evaluation & Learning consultant. In particular, all M&E training courses that the Evaluation & Learning Consultant will help to deliver are already designed by inFocus.
• Improving existing inFocus products and services and developing new inFocus products and services to apply to the wider global network of charities and social enterprises accessing inFocus. This may include, for example, improving our eLearning training, an in-person training course, designing a new webinar, trialing a new evaluation method or developing a new process.
• Networking with other professionals in the international development sector (particularly sports, culture and recreation, child protection and gender equality) to make connections, recruit new associates and discuss new opportunities. For inFocus associate consultants, support with their training in relation to inFocus service delivery. Keeping up to date with the latest trends in M&E.
• Helping to source new work opportunities: Every week, the Evaluation & Learning Consultant will play an active role in searching for new bidding opportunities within a target region, by checking a list of websites and following up a number of existing leads. In the weekly sales and marketing call, these opportunities will be discussed as a team to reach a decision on which opportunities to pursue. The Evaluation & Learning Consultant will then work with the inFocus team to help to put a project team together, develop the proposal and budget, in line with inFocus internal approach, policies and processes.

To undertake other duties, as required, by Line Manager. The role will be based in the UK but may involve international travel.

Overview

Do you want to be a leader in the evaluation of innovation and the application of learning to improve health and care systems?

We’re looking for a new Director to lead our Evaluation & Learning function.

We are looking for an experienced, curious and outcomes focused Evaluation and Learning Director to lead our Evaluation and Learning Business Function as we seek to build our reputation as leaders in spreading innovative practise in health and care systems. 

This role presents you with the opportunity to increase the adoption of innovation in health and care systems and to improve organisations’ abilities to understand and demonstrate their impact.

We are an ambitious, forward- thinking organisation and over the next five years we are aiming to build our profile and reputation as experts in spreading innovation in health and care.

Purpose of the role

The Evaluation and Learning Director is responsible for the development of our evaluation and learning business function and for the evaluation of impact and the application of learning in our programmes.

Your role is to:

• Lead the evaluation of impact in our programmes to spread innovative practice (ranging from new models of care to improve maternity services through to scaling up innovative diagnostic tools for cardiovascular disease)

• To evolve the methods and techniques we use to enable the spread and adoption of innovation

• To lead the growth and delivery of externally commissioned evaluation and learning projects for our partners. 

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evaluation of our programmes to spread innovative practice in partnership with our Programmes Business Function.

• Use our insight and learning to inform how we prioritise our resources and maximise our impact.

• Lead the delivery and growth of a pipeline of income generating evaluation and learning projects that build; the capability of partners to spread innovative practice and; the capability of the health and care system to adopt innovation.

• Implement learning systems so we continuously evolve our core methods in evaluation, quality improvement, spread and adoption, knowledge management and public and patient involvement.

• Line manage, grow and develop a team of Evaluation and Learning professionals (currently eight employees’).

• Provide inspirational leadership to our evaluation and learning business function and associates - setting clear direction, objectives, budget and ensuring we deliver projects on time, within budget and to the satisfaction of our partners.

• Collaborate with our communications and engagement business function to communicate our impact, share our learning and build our reputation as leaders in the science of spreading innovative practice.

• Represent the organisation externally, acting as an ambassador for the organisation at a local, regional and national level.

Key success factors

• Track record in improving the design of corporate strategies and delivery programmes through the provision of robust learning and impact information.

• Proven ability to improve organisations’ abilities to understand and demonstrate their impact.

• A sophisticated understanding of how to effect change in complex adaptive systems.

• Passion for improving health and care through innovation in the health and life sciences sector.

• Ability to build, inspire, direct and grow a talented team.

Experience we are looking for

• Formal qualifications directly relevant to evaluation and learning.

• Significant experience of a deploying a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to support evaluations.

• Substantial experience of improving organisations’ abilities to learn, evaluate and demonstrate impact.

• A track record of leading, motivating and directing teams of internal and external specialists to deliver sustained results.

• A track record in designing, winning and delivering evaluation and/or learning projects and in using the learning to build capability in the team and the wider system.

• A track record in creating inclusive networks and ‘learning systems’ to foster learning and drive improvement.

• Experience of delivering written and verbal briefings, reports and presentations to and for a range of audiences, including on highly complex issues.

Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role

• Experience of spreading innovation across a national health and care system

• Co-creating cutting-edge innovation and improvement methods and approaches

• Experience building large scale, cross-sector partnerships that deliver impact

• Improving regional, national and international health and care systems to adopt and innovation at scale

Abilities and attributes

• Outcome focused - Focuses on the change and impact they want to see and how to measure it.

• Collaborative - Engages a diverse range of people and evidence sources to develop a deeper understanding of an issue.

• Leader – A focused, collaborative leader who can develop, inspire and influence diverse teams, including peers, patients, and practitioners, with integrity and openness.

• Complexity – Able to think about and analyse situations by recognising complexity, patterns and inter-relationships.

• Fair – Believes that others’ views, experiences and knowledge are as important and valuable as their own.

• Enterprising – Able to translate opportunity in order to grow our evaluation and learning business function.

• Initiates change - Does things differently, and creates new spaces and opportunities that empower others to do so too.

• Stakeholder Management - The ability to earn and maintain the trust of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

Evaluation and Learning Director

Reporting to:

Director of Partnerships 

JOIN US ON THE FRONTLINE 

About the role

Frontline AIDS are part of a consortium led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), for the DFID UK AID Connect SRHR programme called ‘Approaches in Complex and Challenging Environments for Sustainable SRHR’ (ACCESS). The project is unique with the key focus being innovation; it aims to roll out several pilots across Uganda, Mozambique, Lebanon and Nepal in complex environments, to enable better SRHR for marginalised populations.  Defining, adapting, replicating and scaling these pilots is integral to the project, and as such, the project is innovative, dynamic, iterative and challenging by nature with strong programme management and monitoring and evaluation support required throughout.

The Advisor: Programmes & Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) role will provide support for programme development, quality assurance and delivery of the project with Frontline AIDS’ partners in-country as well as with ACCESS consortium partners more widely.  The Advisor: Programmes & MEL role will be responsible for contractual, compliance and reporting aspects of the programme including the review and analysis of financial monitoring and reporting, programme narrative and M&E reporting and data submissions. In addition the Advisor: Programmes & MEL will have a key role in the design and delivery of monitoring, evaluation and learning components for Frontline AIDS and our in-country partners, as will lead Frontline AIDS’ knowledge management components of the programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the beginning of the programme ACCESS – a pioneering project that aims to improve SRHR with and for marginalised populations in complex and challenging environments through innovation. 

About us

We’ve been on the frontline of the world’s response to HIV and AIDS for 25 years, working with marginalised people who are denied HIV prevention and treatment simply because of who they are and where they live.

Set up in 1993 to work with community groups in the countries most affected by the global AIDS epidemic, we’ve continually adapted our approach, looking for innovative ways to break down the barriers that marginalise people living with, or at risk of acquiring, HIV. All with one goal in mind – a future free from AIDS for everyone, everywhere.

Everything we do is rooted in our two key beliefs:

• That the lives of all human beings are of equal value.
• That everyone has the right to access the HIV information and services they need for a healthy life.

Today, we work with communities in more than 40 countries, taking local, national and global action on HIV, health and human rights.

As a global partnership that is open to everyone, we can only do what we do – and achieve what we want to achieve – by working with partners from grassroots community groups to national governments. Our partners drive change where it matters, shaking up the status quo and making a noise on issues the world often chooses to ignore.

Are you the Frontliner we’re looking for?

You are a committed team member with a clear focus on team objectives, as well as your own. You will promote best practice within your field of expertise and challenge ways of working to ensure the highest quality and levels of efficiency. Your actions will be aligned with Frontline AIDS vision and you will inspire the same behaviour in your peers. You are comfortable working in a matrix management environment.

How to apply

Find out more by downloading the full job description and person specification from our jobs page.  If you are excited by this opportunity and think it’s right for you, we’d love to hear from you so apply on our website and upload your CV along with a covering letter outlining why you are a great match for this role.

Closing date: 17th December 2020

Interview date: TBC

Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults

Frontline AIDS operates a rigorous recruitment and selection process that reflects our commitment to child protection.  The Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy can be downloaded from our website.

Due to the application of UK immigration rules, we unfortunately cannot sponsor this position so are unable to employ anyone that does not have the right to work in the UK or South Africa.