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Are you someone who is looking to kick-start a career in finance within an exciting and growing charity?

Prospectus is delighted to be working with our client who are looking to add a Finance Assistant to their finance team. This exciting opportunity is offered on a permanent and full-time basis (35 hours a week). The role is offered on a hybrid working basis (1 day a week at the Central London office). The salary for this role is £28,000 FTE.

The organisation is a children's charity that strive to help children in their early years develop strong foundations for life and learning. They build capacity in communities by supporting parents and carers and enable collaboration across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Thrive At Five are on a journey to contribute to delivering a better outcome for babies and young children.

The charity is in an exciting moment, looking to expand their brilliant team! They are on a mission to increase their reach and impact across the United Kingdom. You could be a part of that!

Within this Finance Assistant role, you will report to the Finance Manager and support with Thrive At Five's finance operations and administration. You will manage the finance inbox and deal with enquires. You will process invoices, purchase orders, and assist undertaking policy reviews. You will assist with budget preparations. You will review expense claims and manage relationships with suppliers and contractors.

To be successful within this role, you will be a proactive individual who has strong numerical, analytical skills, and an eye for detail. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels. You will enjoy working and collaborating as a part of a team and be able to work on your own initiative. You will have excellent organisational skills and ability to manage your time wisely.

Desirably, you will have experience using accounting software (e.g. Xero and QuickBooks, etc) and an understanding of finance and governance within the charity sector.

At Prospectus, we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

Starting Salary - £31,613 (including London Weighting)

Location: Office Based - London

Job Profile

Are you interested in an opportunity in the charity sector? Would you like to develop an understanding of internal processes and liaise with multiple teams in the organisation? Are you someone who likes to work with money, data and people? 

The post holder will contribute to ensuring the Supporter Donations Team (SDT) manages and administers supporter donation activity on behalf of CAFOD, providing a high level of supporter care while delivering within agreed service levels and Key Performance Indicators. SDT has the overall responsibility for managing and thanking all supporter donations to CAFOD made through a variety of channels and schemes. SDT works within the Finance and infrastructure group, liaises across all teams in CAFOD, and external service providers to ensure donations are processed within agreed service levels and quality standards. Due to the nature of SDT’s role, SDT has particularly close ties to CAFOD Fundraising activities and actively engages in our fundraising programmes and schemes. 

Accountability 

The post holder reports to the Supporter Donations Manager and will work alongside a team of Supporter Donation Assistants, collectively delivering the team’s key aims and responsibilities. 

Key Responsibilities 

Supporter Care: 

• Handle telephone, email and postal enquiries from supporters; identifying and resolving queries in a prompt, warm and sensitive way. 

• Provide phone cover to the Supporter Care team as required. 

• Provide Reception training to the Supporter Care team as required. 

Donations: 

• Accurately code donations received, ensuring agreed departmental procedures are followed. 

• Process, set up and administer instructions and payments through a variety of donations channels and schemes such as Online, Direct Debit, standing orders, BACs, Payroll giving schemes and online giving platforms. 

• Input and maintain data on CAFOD’s supporter database, ensuring high degrees of accuracy on our donor records.

• File and archive financial data, while adhering to strict audit controls. 

Gift Aid: 

• Understand Gift Aid and its application within CAFOD. 

• Assist with all aspects of tax-effective giving, in accordance with agreed procedures and priorities, including preparation of regular tax claims for submission to HMRC. 

Thanking: 

• Produce and dispatch letters to thank and acknowledge donations received. 

• Write bespoke letters of thanks to supporters to respond to exceptional donations and provide a personal touch. 

• Contribute to ongoing enhancement and improvement of supporter thanking 

Post/banking: 

• Assist with all incoming and outgoing postal duties held by SDT to maximise effectiveness of processes and delivery of key service levels. 

• Preparation of daily banking, cash handling and initial reconciliation of all monies received daily. 

Safeguarding  

All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities. 

Person Specification

Understanding our context  

• Understanding Catholic identity - Show an understanding of and work with the Catholic community to further CAFOD's mission. 

• Understanding CAFOD - Demonstrate how both CAFOD’s and Catholic values influence all our work internally and externally. 

• Understanding international development – Have an understanding of the nature and causes of world poverty and how it affects different individuals, groups and communities 

Working together  

• Managing ourselves – Happy to take on additional responsibility to help the team or others under pressure. 

• Working with others – Build collaborative relationships across CAFOD and with external partners, donors and suppliers. 

• Communicating - Ensure others fully understand what has been discussed and agreed. Make timely contributions to decisions. 

• Looking outwards – Build cooperative, professional relationships with partners, supporters, donors, suppliers and the communities we serve 

 Making change happen  

• Managing resources - Offer ideas to improve information systems and processes to reduce costs and improve efficiency. 

• Achieving results - Look for better processes and ways of working to achieve results. 

• Managing our performance - Agreeing realistic deadlines and measurable objectives for myself, others and the team.

• Taking the lead - Take a lead in identifying solutions and making change happen 

Job Specific Competencies 

• Displays a methodical approach to administrative tasks to meet processing deadlines, whilst maintaining an excellent standard of attention to detail and accuracy. 

• Ability to communicate professionally with supporters, from individual givers to religious communities. 

• Displays excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships with colleagues.

Desirable Criteria  

• Experience with a CRM software/ database 

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults  

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect.  CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse.  CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount.  Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures. 

Please click here for a full list of CAFOD’s Staff Benefits 

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities. 

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. 

This growing and powerful charity is ambitious and committed to supporting young people affected by violence and their families. As their new Finance Officer, you’ll play a key role in making sure every penny is managed with precision, transparency and purpose, helping them make a bigger impact in the communities we serve.

About the role

Location: South East London, a short walk from Peckham Rye station (with some flexible working)
Salary: £26,000 – £30,000 per annum, depending on experience
Contract: Temporary (strong possibility of a temporary to permanent transfer)
Hours: 35 hours per week

You’ll be the go-to person for all things finance, working closely with the Director of Finance and Operations. From processing day-to-day transactions to supporting annual audits, you’ll ensure their financial systems run smoothly and in line with best practice for charities. Your role will involve:

• Processing accounts payable and receivable with accuracy and timeliness.
• Preparing monthly management accounts and variance analysis.
• Managing staff expenses and ensuring policy compliance.
• Assisting with budgets, forecasts, VAT returns, Gift Aid claims and payroll.
• Reconciling bank accounts and ensuring financial records are audit-ready.
• Tracking restricted and unrestricted funding streams to meet donor reporting requirements.

About you
You’ll bring at least two years’ experience in a financial role (ideally within a charity) and a working knowledge of VAT, Gift Aid and managing diverse funding streams. You’ll have:

• Great attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Confidence with Excel and ideally Xero.
• A knack for explaining financial matters clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a collaborative approach.

An AAT qualification (or equivalent) would be great, but what really matters is your ability to keep the finances watertight while sharing their passion for the mission.

Why join us?

• Flexible working arrangements to support work–life balance.
• The chance to be part of a passionate, close-knit team.
• Work that directly contributes to safer, stronger communities.
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development.

If you’re looking for a finance role where your skills directly help to change lives, this is your opportunity.
To apply for the position of Finance Officer through TPP Recruitment please send your CV.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

Contract: 4 – 6 months
Hours: 35 
Location: Finsbury Park, London
Starting salary: £84,194 per annum
Closing date: 26th August 2025 (we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications)
Expected date of interviews: Candidates may be interviewed as they apply
Job ref: VA758 

This opportunity comes as we ready Freedom from Torture for a new “Tech Futures” agenda and are especially interested to hear from finance leaders with executive level experience of driving digital maturity in a charity finance setting.

You will join a cohesive, welcoming and deeply committed Senior Management Team and provide leadership support for our fantastic Finance, ICT and Estates teams.

At Board level, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the one and only Kate Sayer — our Chair and former partner and co-founder of Sayer Vincent — and with our Treasurer, Tim O’Sullivan-Guy, formerly of the Amnesty International finance team and now Chief Financial Officer at Home House.

Freedom from Torture is a very special charity, helping survivors of torture to rebuild their lives in the UK via our life-saving clinical services and setting the standard when it comes to human rights campaigns uniting survivors of torture and caring people to fight for a world free from torture and the rights of survivors. We were very proud to win the Overall Award for Excellence and the Campaigning & Advocacy award at the 2023 Charity Awards.

This is one of the most rewarding leadership roles imaginable in charity finance.

Please contact visit our website for further details on how to apply.

Please reach out quickly as we are keen to fill the role immediately to ensure outstanding support for our teams

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Executive Director, DIVA Charitable Trust

About DIVA 

DIVA Charitable Trust is committed to elevating, celebrating, and supporting LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people everywhere. Our goal is to be a stage for talent, a mirror that reflects our community in all its diversity, and a megaphone, amplifying our movement in its work to create a fairer, more just world for all LGBTQIA+ people. Through this work, we believe we can contribute to shaping a world that is better for everyone.

Following an exciting year in which we registered as a charity after more than 30 years serving our community, we are looking to appoint an Executive Director who can work with our talented team of staff and trustees to grow and nurture DIVA at a critical time for LGBTQIA+ women and non binary people.​​

Job description

The Executive Director is an externally facing role, responsible for growing DIVA’s income, partnerships, and impact. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic leader to build on our iconic brand and deliver for LGBTQIA+ women and non binary people in the UK and globally.

A key aspect of the role will be to continue growing DIVA’s network of partners, corporate sponsors, and donors. The ED will work with the Board of Trustees to drive the future strategy and lead a small editorial and design team.

Core Responsibilities

·Act as the public face of DIVA, and support the wider team (including Board, Patrons, and colleagues) to represent DIVA to key audiences.

·Work with the Board to set and deliver the strategy for DIVA Charitable Trust and be accountable for ensuring its implementation and the appropriate governance of the charity.

·Lead on fundraising for DIVA Charitable Trust, growing our sponsorship and partnership income and establishing new charitable donation and grant-based funding streams.

·Oversee the planning and delivery of Lesbian Visibility Week, continuing to grow its global reach, and work with the team to develop new flagship projects.

·Oversee the delivery of an engaging, high quality and creative magazine in both print and digital formats, and develop a marketing strategy to increase magazine sales

·Manage the DIVA team and oversee operations at DIVA Charitable Trust, including leading on the financial strategy and business plan.

Person Specification / Attributes

The successful candidate will be a talented leader with a strong track record in fundraising and partnership development and experience of building high performing teams.

Essential skills and experience

·Demonstrable track record of raising significant income from a variety of sources

·Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

·Demonstrable track record of providing motivational and influential leadership and in representing a high-profile organisation and issues

·Good understanding of financial accounting and budgeting in the charity sector

·Strategic and innovative thinking

Desirable but not essential

·Experience of working in or with the LGBTQIA+ movement

·Experience of working in media or communications 

Are you passionate about justice and eager to make a meaningful impact? Do you want to qualify as a Civil Liberties / Human Rights / Public Law Solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn?

Join the Deighton Pierce Glynn (DPG) team as a Paralegal in either our Bristol or London office!  Deighton Pierce Glynn aim to use law to empower our clients to challenge abuses, failures, and other unlawful conduct by the government and those with power.

All our staff are committed to this aim and work in a friendly and collegiate way to achieve this.  The firm is divided into two departments:

• The Action against the Police department’s work focuses on private law actions against state agencies including the police, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office, as well as inquests touching upon state-related deaths and some public law cases.
• The Public Law department’s work focuses on judicial review claims against public bodies but also includes some private law work in particular against the Home Office and in relation to discrimination claims.

About the Roles: We are seeking a dedicated full time Paralegal to work in our Bristol Actions Against the Police (AAP) department and three Paralegals to work in our Public Law Department, one being based in London and two in Bristol. After 12 months provided you achieve certain criteria the job will progress to a training contract. We structure our training in this way to ensure once qualified you are able to work at a solicitor level.

Why Join DPG? DPG is one of the best Civil Liberties / Administrative Law / Human Rights firms in the UK.  We are top rated in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories.  Last year the Times ranked us as one of the top human rights firms in the UK. We are widely recognised and admired for our client focused approach, as well as our commitment to creating a great place to work.

Our Values: Our aims and values which govern what we do can be found on our website

In our pursuit of aim to employ the best people we can, we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We particularly welcome applicants from a minoritised background to apply for this role.

Learn More About Us: To discover more about who we are, our values, and the work we do, visit our website: 

Full details of the person specification can be found in the Application form and the job description 

London Salary: £28,400 per annum

Bristol Salary:  £26,700 per annum

Closing date: Midday on Thursday, 11th September 2025

Applications received after this time cannot be considered.

Interviews: Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a skills test and interview during the week of the17th to 23rd September.

Final interviews:  Will take place on the 25th and 26th of September for the London Paralegal role and the week of the 6th of October for the Bristol Paralegal roles.

Don’t miss this chance to be part of a team that’s committed to making a difference. Apply now and contribute to the pursuit of justice at DPG.

If you have not heard back from us by the week of the 15th of October, you will not have been successful in your application for these roles.

Please do not hesitate to apply for any future roles with us and we thank you for taking the time to apply to DPG Law.

We value all our applicants, however due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond personally to every applicant.