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About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
Crisis is currently recruiting for a Landlord Liaison Officer in Edinburgh to recruit Private Rented Sector landlords to the service.
About the role
As LANDLORD LIAISON OFFICER, you will be involved in encouraging and attracting landlords to work alongside Crisis to provide private tenancies to people experiencing homelessness. You will provide information and advice about the service, and act as the primary contact for landlords and letting agencies.
This is a temporary role for 8 - 10 months.
About you
To be successful in this role you will be experienced in engaging and working with landlords and letting agencies. You will need to demonstrate the ability to advocate effectively, with good negotiating, interpersonal, and networking skills. You will have demonstrable knowledge of the welfare benefits system and desirable knowledge of the legal framework and systems around PRS housing in Scotland.
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.
How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.
Closing date: 18th April 2021 (at 23:59)
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 4th May 2021
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people.
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Business Planning Lead Specialist
Reference: MAR20218984
Location: Flexible
Salary: £36,604.00 - £40,608.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave, flexible working
Can you lead the RSPB’s corporate and delivery planning process, providing specialist expertise to support the translation of strategy into achievable, prioritised programmes of activity?
As the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, we spend >£100m/year in pursuit of our vision – a world richer in nature. You will be joining a workforce of over 14,000 employees and volunteers dedicated to realising that vision, alongside our many partner organisations. Playing our part in tackling the nature and climate emergency facing our planet requires us to be even more effective, and better planning has a vital part to play in helping us rise to the challenge.
We are a complex organisation, operating across the four countries of the UK and where we can make a difference overseas. We manage over 200 nature reserves, influence policy and legislation and deliver many research, conservation and people engagement projects. Our impact-generating activities depend on a range of enabling services. We need your expertise and energy to help ensure our activities align with strategy and are achievable within agreed resourcing parameters, and actively manage dependencies between different parts of our organisation.
It’s an exciting time to join – not only do we have a new strategy to 2030, we are in the middle of re-designing our planning and related decision-making processes in support of this. You will arrive as we begin to plan for the first full year of delivering our new strategy, spanning 2022/23.
In summary, we need your help to ensure we make the best use of the charitable resources entrusted to us, championing the creation of business plans that are ambitious and achievable.
Key activities will include:
- Facilitating the business planning cycle, culminating in the production of an annual corporate plan which matches resources and reflects a rolling three-year planning horizon and delivery pipeline.
- In support of this, identifying and implementing leading edge planning techniques and processes and helping define/develop and embed relevant standards, frameworks and/or policies.
- Monitoring the internal delivery environment and external developments; effective liaison with other planning and functional specialists to identify opportunities for, and risks to, strategy delivery.
- Initiating and presenting analysis and findings at senior management and occasionally Trustee level; producing a quarterly progress report against corporate plan for Management Board and Council.
- Leading development of the business planning specialism: co-ordinating an internal practitioners’ network, helping define the professional skills and capabilities needed for high performance, celebrating successes, and promoting the RSPB’s values and positive behaviours.
- Supporting the RSPB’s Management Board, actively managing a business pipeline, helping ensure deadlines and content standards are met and Council deadlines adhered to.
- Planning, management and/or delivery of significant change projects, ensuring the work is aligned with strategic need, and managing resources and dependencies as required.
What we’re looking for
- Knowledge and experience of business planning (activity and resources), which may include significant projects or programmes, and an awareness of the context for RSPB’s strategy delivery.
- Highly effective planning, analytical, organising and interpersonal skills, including forming and sustaining collaborative working relationships with a diverse group of functional, operational and senior stakeholders. Encourages others to buy into and support change.
- Able to communicate a vision and related standards for business planning, and to overcome, and advise/guide others in overcoming, barriers to progress.
- Experience of identifying, evaluating and communicating trends, opportunities and threats relevant to strategy delivery, enabling appropriate and timely action to be taken.
- Appreciation of the importance of adhering to relevant governance requirements, agreed time and quality standards and externally derived benchmarks as these apply to the planning specialism.
- Proactive approach to helping develop the capability of colleagues with a planning specialism, motivating and mentoring colleagues to meet current and future requirements.
- Willingness to network with the internal community of lead specialists to promote integration across functions, representing and promoting own specialism as required.
- Motivated to take responsibility for own personal development.
This position is full time working 37.5 hours per week. The successful candidate can be either home or office-based, depending on personal requirements and location. There will be a requirement for occasional travel, within the UK and to our headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire
Closing date: 23:59, 23 April 2021
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position.
No agencies please.