This post of Director of Operations has become available due to business growth. This post will be a member of the Senior Management Team and oversee the day to day running of the organisation alongside the existing Director of Operations and will be lined managed by the CEO. You will have responsibility for an array of projects, line managing the Operational Leadership and Management Team and have ultimate senior leadership accountability for the effective day to day running of the organisation. You will hold additional portfolio responsibilities in line with our strategic priorities and business plan. You will have overall workforce development responsibility and be able to demonstrate high level positive leadership and management skills, a focus on what is right for the client, and an excellent role model of our Citizens Advice values.

• You will be able to demonstrate clear management experience of line managing groups of different staff
• You will have a track record in fostering strategic relationships with a variety of stakeholders to benefit the organisation;
• You need to be an empathetic leader, a person centred manager, who enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with supporting people to be the best they can be;
• You will have excellent management and leadership skills and experience, who thrives in a busy environment and is flexible and creative in how you work;
• You will develop projects whilst maintaining our excellent reputation.

Are you determined to make positive change and help develop a truly inclusive culture?

The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being fair, diverse and inclusive both internally and externally.  This role of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Manager sits within our People Team and reports into our Deputy Director of People.  This role is critical in helping us achieve our overall EDI strategy by working with the Senior Management Team, Colleague Networks and key stakeholders across the organisation.

We require somebody who has a strong understanding and professional knowledge of how to deliver an ED&I strategy, working with colleagues in the People Team to deliver a programme of activity to achieve positive change. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of the people-related actions in the Fund-wide Fairness and Inclusion Strategy and a broader culture change, helping us to be an even greater place to work
• Identifying & developing key workstreams, policies and activities to achieve positive impact and change
• Providing expertise and guidance to improve and enhance our processes, recruitment and retention strategies
• Working with external bodies to benchmark progress, ensure best practice and keep up to date on latest developments in research and thinking
• Working closely with our Learning & Development team to develop a suitable EDI learning offer
• Listen, coach, challenge and influencing a wide range of stakeholders in a complex environment

Essential Criteria

• A credible subject matter expert in the field of fairness & inclusion with recent experience of successfully delivering EDI related activity
• Knowledge of equality legislation and best practice and working knowledge of the Public Sector Equality duty
• Evidence of managing and delivering a complex project

Desirable Criteria

• Proactive decision making and problem-solving, using and analysing data
• Ability to use initiative and work autonomously
• Ability to drive change, and take others with you
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to challenge, support and influence multiple stakeholders at all levels

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

Equal Opportunities

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also 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.  As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will proactively make reasonable adjustments if needed through the recruitment process and during employment. This can be related to a physical and mental health conditions.

We are also proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting our commitment to being a great place to work for LGBT+ staff.

Could you be our next Snow-Camp Midlands Programme Manager?

We are looking for a new Midlands Programme Manager at Snow-Camp to manage our range of youth snowsports and wellbeing programmes.

This is a really exciting opportunity to play a key role in Snow-Camp’s development over the coming years. So if you love working with young people and have solid experience delivering youth programmes, combined with a passion for snowsports – and if you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role working with a committed team of staff at Snow-Camp and some amazing young people – this job could be the job for you!

Summary of Main Duties

The Midlands Programme Manager, reporting to the Programme Director, is responsible for delivering and developing the full Snow-Camp Midlands journey of programmes. Which involves a range of snowsports and life-skills focused youth activities run by Snow-Camp throughout the year, taking a young person form a beginner skier or snowboarder right through to a qualified Snowsport England Level 1 Instructor.

Experience of working successfully with disadvantaged young people in a range of settings will be essential to the post. Furthermore, experience within a snowsports field and passion for supporting young people generally will be a huge advantage!

Project management skills, logistical skills, managing relationships, communication and presentation skills, experience of delivering life-skills or similar courses to motivate young people, excellent IT skills – these will all make up the job.

This is a key post requiring at least 2 years’ experience involving the above skills, together with proven project management and budgeting experience.

Please see Job Description and Personal Specification  for further details of this position.

To apply please send your CV with a covering letter outlining why you are right for this role by using the JD & Personal Specification below. Deadline for applications is Thursday 11th November 2021.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 24th November 2021 at the Ackers Adventure Centre, Birmingham.

For more information and an informal chat please contact Operations Director Lara Kinnear.

Snow-Camp is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks, references will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Location: Please note that the role is office based in Warwickshire. Flexible working will be considered for the right candidate.

Based in Warwickshire and working across the UK this post will play a key role developing and delivering a new strategy in this area.  The post holder will be responsible for engaging, managing and developing relationships with national events and community fundraising supporters – providing outstanding stewardship and maximising sustainable long-term income nationally and regionally.

You will be committed and dynamic in your approach, working with external and internal stakeholders developing trusting relationships, helping to grow the charities portfolio in national events and community fundraising. As a key member of the Fundraising Team, you will be responsible for researching and developing a portfolio of national events and community fundraising initiatives - building a pipeline of potential sources of income, identifying new opportunities and growing our partnership base. You will be a natural communicator who has the ability to persuade, influence and inspire, with the confidence to build relationships at a senior level, across various departments and the federation.

Senior HR Manager

Job type: Permanent
Hours : 35 (plus 5 hours paid lunch breaks)
Salary: up to £55,000 per annum
Location: Flexible Midlands Home Location

We are a national social justice charity with more than 50 years' experience of changing lives, building stronger communities and reducing crime. With a staff of 800 working flexibly from home and some 50 locations, we help support, house, educate, advise and speak out for more than 38,000 disadvantaged young people and adults every year.

This is an exciting time to join as we renew and change to transform the way we work, enhancing inclusion, diversity and ensuring a greater voice for our service users.

We have demonstrated very high resilience during Covid and are now working through the long term demands for agile working across a wide range of professionals. HR is playing a key role in shaping and delivering people based change projects that underpin strategy, drive improvement, maximise engagement and ensure effective consultation with staff groups and trade union representatives.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of HR and OD, this role is ideal for someone who relishes the broad challenges of delivering really efficient and organised HR processes, developing policy and projects that bring about change.

Leading a small team and working alongside our HR and L&D Business Partners, you will lead and develop our HR operations and processes across the employee lifecycle including;

* Deliver and improve our core HR based systems and procedures (Payroll, TUPE support, recruitment
* Policy development (HR, workforce planning, reward and benefits etc.)
* Project management (volunteer engagement, gender pay/EDI etc...)
* HR reporting, exploiting our data and insights to create policy and drive change

The Person

We are looking for candidates with;

* Significant management experience of HR in large/diverse organisations
* Good knowledge of employment law (incl TUPE) and experienced in developing HR policy responses.
* Experience in delivering HR change projects
* Experience in leading and developing teams that achieve and add value
* Effective planning and organisational skills to work to deadlines, multi-task and adapt to changing priorities
* Excellent communication/interpersonal skills to build relationships inside and outside Nacro.

What we offer:

A competitive salary, flexibility to work from home base and the office and the chance to play a central role in shaping our way of working and our culture.

For job profile please click here

Please send your CV to our retained consultant Bryan McPaul at [email protected] or contact him on 07968 755 480 for an informal discussion

Nacro is committed to promoting equality and diversity in all its activities

About us

 

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK – we support people and communities to prosper and thrive.

National Lottery players raise an incredible £36 million a week for good causes. This money funds projects and activities that transform communities, protect our heritage and enrich lives through arts, spots and culture. We are proud to be one of 12 distributors responsible for awarding this funding across the UK.

Thanks to National Lottery players, last year we were able to award over half a billion pounds of life-changing funding to UK communities, supporting thousands of projects making a real difference to people’s lives.

Over eight in ten of our grants were for under £10,000 going to grassroots groups and charities across the UK doing great things to support their communities, during a particularly tough time.

We also distribute non-National Lottery funds, working closely with Government on funding for important issues, such as tackling loneliness, multiple and complex needs, mental health and distributing Dormant Accounts money.

Over the last five years we’ve awarded a total of £3.4 billion, of which £2.7 billion is National Lottery money.

We fund things that matter – whether helping communities respond positively to national, regional or local priorities, or helping the UK achieve its big social ambitions. Our grants range from £500 up to multi-million-pound programmes – supporting people and projects to do extraordinary things and bring great ideas for their community to life.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Research Manager to join our team of 11 Research and Evaluation Specialists.  In this new role, you will work with colleagues across different teams and functions of the organisation. 

You will be commissioning research that helps us better understand what supports people and communities to thrive and supporting colleagues to use this evidence to inform funding strategy.

You’ll also help colleagues with a range of other research needs (e.g. brand and communications research) supporting them with best practice in design and analysis.

A key part of this role will be improving the coordination of our research – bringing together research from a range of sources, analysing and synthesising findings so they can be more easily understood, accessible and easier for people to use. You will support colleagues to interpret and make sense of this evidence and what it means for them, helping people to use research evidence to inform decision making. 

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: Wednesday 24th November

Location: Flexible – office/ remote/ hybrid.  Our offices are across the UK (Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, London, Newtown, Newcastle).

Essential criteria

 

• Expertise in social and market research with experience of a range of qualitative and quantitative methods and analysis
• Experience of carrying out secondary research, collating evidence from a range of sources to build a coherent story
• Statistical analysis skills (with experience of using SPSS or other statistical analysis software)
• Ability to communicate insight clearly and effectively, helping people to use findings to inform their work

Desirable criteria

 

• Experience of conducting research with VCSE organisations
• Experience of procuring, commissioning and managing research projects
• Applied experience of ethical, safeguarding and data protection considerations in research

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

Equal opportunities

 

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also 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.  As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and will proactively make reasonable adjustments if needed through the recruitment process and during employment. This can be related to a physical and mental health conditions.

We are also proud to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion, supporting our commitment to being a great place to work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) staff.

About the Role

As Finance Business Partner at St John Ambulance, you will provide a management accounting and business partnering service to our National Functions, including Corporate Services, strategy & communications and Fundraising.

You will be responsible for analysis and presentation of management reports, business process and budgeting support, as well as, developing cost and income analysis to increase profitability and charitable output.

This role can be based at any manned SJA office.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You

To be successful in this role, you should have experience in of producing management accounts and management information within a sizeable, complex organisation. You will have a strong working knowledge of providing a business partnering function and have operated as a key member of an executive management team.

About Us

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.

Over the next decade, we have bold ambitions to help transform out-of-hospital care, having a positive impact on the people we treat and the communities we serve.

We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.

You will receive;

• Competitive salary & pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal - Access to financial, health and wellbeing guidance and support.
• Discounts - Blue Light, NHS Discounts and SJA discounts including discounts on mobile phone, gym membership, cinema, restaurants, holidays and shopping-including your weekly food shop.

Interview Date: 08/11/2021

Application Review Date: 29/10/2021

We may review applications before the Application Review Date, however, if you apply after the Application Review Date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.

The Prince’s Trust have an ambition to support 10,000 young people into careers in health and social care over the next 3 years. Our Mentoring Manager will be responsible for designing and delivering an effective and efficient programme of mentoring support to young people looking for work in the health sector. You will ensure the Prince’s Trust has a pool of highly  skilled Mentors who will provide excellent guidance and support to young people on their journey into work.

You will work with Teams and Partners across England to recruit and train skilled Mentors. We would love to hear from candidates who have experience recruiting and managing volunteers as well as delivering high quality training programmes.

The role is flexible in where it is based, however we are looking for candidates based near one of our centres, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Bristol or Belfast. 

We have an exciting opportunity for Finance and Operations Manager to join a small
team. This is a new role and it will report to the Head of Finance and on occasion
deputise. You will have the responsibility for the management of financial and
operations of the organisation. The post-holder will need to be comfortable with
project management and co-ordination role across the organisation and will
oversee the day-to-day operations of finance, systems and IT, and HR queries.
We’re therefore looking for someone to join UpRising who is a natural people-
focused problem solver, with good financial acumen and a track-record of
successfully managing projects with a wide-range of stakeholders. The successful
candidate will be able to balance the rigour and attention to detail needed to lead our
finance function with the big-picture skills necessary to work with members of the
Senior Leadership Team. 

Our Mission is to… open up the pathways to leadership for talented young adults
from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds and to equip them with the
knowledge, networks, skills and confidence to fulfil their leadership potential, find
new opportunities and transform the world around them through social action.

Our Vision is for… public leaders to better reflect and represent the communities
they serve; with the motivation and character to bring about a substantial shift in
power, enabling more people to take charge of their future and positively change
their communities.

Person Specification

Finance

Relevant, recent experience of working in:

• You understand SORP accounting rules and have applied them
• Have a track-record of financial management experience in the not for profit sector
• You are able to reconcile up to trail balance
• Year end experience and working with Auditors
• You have experience developing management accounts and talking them through with budget holders. You are highly numerate and have an analytic approach to your work.
• You are able to use excel to a high level, using pivot table function and complex coding to manipulate financial data for end users ease
• Working with Trusts/Foundation and creating finance reports based on their needs

HR and other

• Working with payroll and payroll agents
• Advised/completed recruitment and induction process for staff
• Implemented learning and development objectives
• Able to manage and coordinate external consultant contracts
• Understand supplier contracts, how to source and negotiate contractual terms
• Conducting IT projects from beginning to end with little support
• Understand GDPR processes and implement
• Able to conduct health and safety checks, reports and assessments

Education/training

You are part qualified, fully qualified accountant or have experience to this level

How to Apply

Deadline to apply: Sunday 31 st October 2021

Please apply as soon as you can: we will interview candidates as appropriate
applications are received. Please email hr at Uprising stating how you meet the
requirements for this post.

Please send a completed application form and up to date CV (include contact details of
two references in CV). 

Please note that to keep our recruitment process open and fair, we will not negotiate
salaries outside the advertised range. Position remains open until filled.

The newly formed Delivery Partners and Volunteers Team for the West Midlands are looking for an organised and enthusiastic candidate to become our new Youth Development Lead.

You will provide quality support to volunteers across the West Midlands and will be responsible for recruiting and onboarding new volunteers. Holding a firm understanding of Prince’s Trust programmes, you will effectively manage the provision of volunteers according to service delivery needs. Delivering excellent support, you will ensure quality volunteering experiences are had at The Prince’s Trust. Comfortable supporting and delivering volunteer training, you will work with volunteers virtually and face-to-face. You will organise and manage events for partners and volunteers, again in virtual and face-to-face capacities.

The role is suited to you if you enjoy working with people and building strong relationships. From time to time, you may be asked to use your relationship management skills to indirectly manage the educational offer provided by the Trust, working alongside partners in schools and colleges. Face to face delivery with young people may be very occasionally required.

If you are up for a challenge and would like to be part of a great team, we would love to hear from you! Your application will be a CV and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement must provide evidence of how you have acquired and applied each of the essential skills, knowledge, and experience criteria and if possible, each of the desirable skills, knowledge, and experience criteria, outlined in the job description, in current and previous roles, or other scenarios.

We may consider both full and part-time applications.

37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

Permanent

Home based with regular travel to London, Essex and Birmingham 

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people and we are proud of our history for providing fostering, children's homes and a range of innovative leaving care services across the UK & Isle of Man.  We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do.  We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal opportunity employer and keen to develop an inclusive workforce were people feel they belong.  We hope to attract application from under- represented groups including people from different cultures, nationalities, socio economic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religion, faith, sex, orientation, child care responsibilities and with gender diverse identities.

About the Role

• To establish new areas of business for the organisation and to drive development in high growth areas.
• Reporting to Director of operations, you will be working to maintain and establish new commissioning relationships and develop a robust referral pipeline in line with St Christopher’s values and business needs.
• Providing a positive and seamless beginning for children and young people who come to live in our services.
• To support, supervise and develop the referrals team 
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with St Christopher’s service managers, SSW, carers and external professionals to ensure commissioned packages of support are holistic and appropriately meet the needs of individual children.
• Developing good business relationships with local authorities demonstrating value for money without compromising quality of service.

Applicants should have

• Experience in developing new business and strong operational expertise within the childcare or vulnerable groups sector.
• Ability to engage with and scrutinise large amounts of written information.
• To work at pace to undertake initial assessments to an excellent standard.
• A professional qualification/NVQ Level 4/ social worker qualification or Professional qualification and commitment to ongoing professional development.
• To have a good have a good understanding of the regulatory framework covering both residential and fostering service

What you should expect from us

• Salary £40,000 - £43,000 per annum depending on experience
• A friendly working environment, a fun, open and honest culture.
• 25 days holiday rising to 27 days after 3 years’ service, plus Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
• Industry Leading training programme including children’s right and participation, CSE, empowerment, mental health and Social Pedagogy,
• Contributory pension scheme, Enhanced Maternity and Company Sick Scheme.
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling, financial advice and legal support.
• Interest-free season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.
• Discount shopping scheme at hundreds of retailers across the UK.
• Discretionary Funded Training Programs.
• Employee Awards based on performance and length of service.
• Fantastic opportunities to develop your career within our range of services.

Recruitment Process

At St Christopher’s we are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in our care. During the recruitment process you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure we capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice and vetting requirements.

Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to starting.

Your online application must include a supporting statement addressing the criteria stated in the Person Specification.

For more information or assistance during the application process, please visit our website

Closing date: 02/11/2021

We advise to apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

There’s been some fantastic work in Wolverhampton to address homelessness and this new 5 year project aims to prevent a return to rough sleeping for people with a history of homelessness. We’re looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual who understands the importance of creative thinking and innovative service delivery. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, passionate about working to end homelessness, and have the ability to lead and drive forward this new project.

This role will manage the project running the day to day service and managing a team of Peer Navigators. Navigators will be volunteers with lived experience, trained to provide mentoring and support people to access community support, mutual aid, meaningful activity, and connect people to services to support economic, physical, and mental well-being. 

West Mercia (Kidderminster and Redditch magistrates)

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

About us 

The Witness Service has over 260 staff and 3000 volunteers and offers free, independent, impartial and confidential support and information to 15,000 witnesses each month to give evidence in every criminal court in England and Wales.

Last year, Citizens Advice helped 2.6 million people face-to-face, by phone, email and webchat, and we received 25 million visits to our digital advice content. We solve 7 in 10 clients' problems, and 4 in 5 tell us that advice improved their lives.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under- represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary Candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

The Role

As the Deputy Team Leader (Court Services), working alongside Team Leaders you will be responsible for the delivery of the Witness Service within your court/s. 

You will share responsibility for the effective coordination and development of volunteers who support witnesses in their journey through the criminal justice system.

You willbe responsible for general service administrative tasks within the courts, as well as inputting service data.

Who we are looking for

Do you have experience of working as or alongside volunteers?

Are you looking to develop your management skills or for a new challenge?

We are looking for someone who is a great motivator who thrives on leading teams to deliver positive outcomes.​​​​​​​

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, who can adapt to and manage change. Someone who has administrative skills and is computer literate to a high standard.

We look for people to help us improve and transform our organisation. We can offer you the opportunity to make a genuine impact and create lasting change within an organisation that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every year.

This post is subject to enhanced vetting and barring check.

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 4 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham and Leeds, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.

This vacancy closes at 23.59 on the closing date.

The mission of the King Edward VI Foundation is to make Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK. We firmly believe that a King Edward VI education should be accessible to pupils from all backgrounds. 

The Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham (“the Foundation”) is one of the most significant educational charities in this country. King Edward’s School was founded in 1552, and now in the 21st century the Foundation runs twelve schools – two independent fee-paying schools, six selective academies and four non-selective academies. 

This is an exciting time to join the Foundation, with plans to substantially grow the number of comprehensive schools in the Academy Trust over the next five years. The role of Projects Officer is critical to the success of the Educational Support & Growth Department in meeting this target and will provide high quality support across a range of projects and departments.

Located in Edgbaston with the flexibility to work from home, this 12-month role offers a unique opportunity to work for a strong Academy Trust. The nature of this busy and varied job means that no one day is the same. You will be a self-motivated, collaborative, and proactive individual, with a passion for the transformative impact of education. 

Principle responsibilities and duties

Project support and administration to assist with educational improvement and co-ordination across the Foundation schools including:

• To take responsibility for the administration and logistics of project meetings and other meetings / events delivered by the Education team. 

• To take meeting minutes, notes, and actions, distributing these in a timely fashion. 

• To maintain / update project documentation as required by the project manager. 

• To act as a point of contact for meeting participants as required. 

• To follow up tasks to ensure they are completed in accordance with project timelines. 

• To co-ordinate the departmental calendar and administer Doodle Polls as necessary. 

• To assist with administration of the Foundation’s online forums and welcome messaging for new staff. 

• To liaise with colleagues and suppliers to ensure stakeholders hold appropriate software licences. 

• To liaise with colleagues and suppliers to gather and distribute project information as required. 

• To support with ad hoc education projects where colleagues or schools require support. 

• To liaise with suppliers regarding invoices and support project managers with budget management. 

• To support suppliers with logistics around external audits and reviews. 

• To work with colleagues, to contribute to the production and maintenance of data dashboards using Power Bi (training will be provided). 

• To support the planning, co-ordination, and delivery of governor training. 

Person Specification

• Experience of working on complex projects 
• Knowledge of the different ways in which projects can be effectively delivered 
• Experience supporting budget management 
• Experience of organising meetings and events 
• Experience of writing high quality briefings and minutes 
• Experience of analysing and presenting data using technology 
• Excellent communication skills