Director of Services - Maternity Cover

Do you want to deliver this challenging agenda? As the Director of Services you will be working effectively with partner organisations including Local Authority and the NHS, other providers and both national and local charities.

Director of Services Responsibilities:

The Director of Services will play a strong leadership role within the organisation; responsible for the day-to-day management, safe operation and continuous improvement of their organisation and its front-line services that support people with visual impairment and other disabilities. You will ensure strong reporting, performance management; governance and accountability mechanisms are in place across all front line services.

These services include:

- Day Services, centred around a large, specialist day care centre;
- Community Visual Impairment Services operating across the area;
- Low Vision clinics and specialist support;
- Supported Living services in a 14-unit scheme

You will be able to deputise effectively for the CEO and, as part of the Senior Leadership Team, ensure that Focus has strategic and operational plans that in turn deliver our charitable aims and key objectives: providing high quality services and improving access to support within a sustainable business model.

Director of Services Requirements:

- Experience in a senior leadership/director role in a health or social care setting
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent).
- Experience of leading outstanding regulated services (eg: CQC).
- Understanding of public services and the third sector and are looking to make a genuine impact on the lives of people affected by complex conditions.

About the organisation:

Our client is a leading specialist charity providing expert support, advice and information to anyone in the Birmingham area affected by sight loss or other disabilities. They provide a wide range of services including low vision, independent living support, specialist advice, counselling and befriending, day services and supported living. They work closely with partner organisations to ensure that people have the best possible opportunities to live independently, make choices about their lives and improve their physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

Location: Harborne, Birmingham

Job type: Full Time, Maternity Cover

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 per annum

Closing date: 25 January 2021 @ 9.00 a.m.

You may have experience of the following: Centre Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Director of Services, Healthcare, Social, Director of Service Delivery, Head of Service Delivery, Strategic Manager, etc.

Ref: 96147

About Us

 

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.

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. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.

About the Role

 

In this exciting new post, you will play a pivotal role as a senior leader within the newly formed Funding Strategy Directorate, working closely with the Funding Strategy Director and Senior Management Team to ensure the implementation of the Fund’s vision and ambition.

The Funding Strategy Directorate is a central enabling function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding across all our funding portfolios. This role will lead the Funding Design and Development function, accountable for our grant management system alongside funding controls, policy and practice. With a deep understanding and demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches and applied strategic thinking you will enable us to deliver excellent services both to our external customers as well as our internal teams.

To be successful in this post you will be passionate about our work and strategy ‘People in the Lead’. You will be an established leader with first class team leadership and coaching skills. You will be adept at setting strategies that drive forward positive change marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You will have experience of designing and delivering a major digital system and be skilled in making complex decisions balancing outcomes with risks.

The team is spread across the UK and you can be based at any of our office locations. When we return to the workplace there will be some travel between offices.

 

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered

Interview Date: W/C 1 Feb 2021

Essential Criteria

 

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

• Deep understanding of the communities we serve and our role as a funder
   
• Experience of leading strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis
   
• Demonstrable experience of delivering user-centred design approaches, applying strategic thinking in how to provide the best service
   

• Responsibility for the design and delivery of at least one major digital system used by a business or organisation to manage its work whilst aligning with its ambition.
   
• Building or growing at least one team of mixed skills to deliver such a project.
   
• Proven ability to coach and lead teams in agile and lean practices, thinking of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes
   

• Excellent Communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrable ability to mediate between people and communicating with stakeholders at all levels
   
• Experience of making and justifying decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity

Desirable Criteria
 

• Knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology, understanding how these impact on a funder context

 

 

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 on The National Lottery Community Fund 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.

Please note: Your application will not be considered without submitting a cover letter and including your notice period.

Role: Regional Partner - Midlands (home-based with regional travel and occasionally national travel).

Are you a good fit?

You want to work with a highly respected and aspirational brand, at the heart of a network of many of the UK’s leading figures and employers. 

You know that technology has a significant role to play, but that human interaction and relationships are of even greater importance.

You want to feel like a valued member of a growing team, in an organisation which recognises that that its people are not just a number, but its greatest asset and part of an extended family, working together to support each other to meet organisational and not just individual goals.

Ideal candidates will be looking for a demanding post in a fast moving entrepreneurial charity. This is an exciting time to join our team as we take Speakers for Schools to the next level. 

You should be sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders

What is Speakers for Schools?

Founded by ITV Political Editor Robert Peston (Trustee), and chaired by Andrew Law (Caxton Associates), Speakers for Schools was created to help level the playing field for UK state schools and their students by giving them the same access to the UK’s leading figures from politics, business, science, sport, the arts and more, as that enjoyed by private schools.

Bill Gates, Baroness (Martha) Lane Fox, Professor Brian Cox, David Dein, David Cameron, Natalie Bennett, Ed Balls, Naomi Campbell and over two thousand other influential, eminent and inspirational people, have been kind enough to volunteer their time to speak with Speakers for Schools. Almost a million Young People have attended a Speakers for Schools talk.

In 2016, we launched our Experience Programme. Experience works with our outstanding network of speakers and partner employers, to offer young people, amazing work experience opportunities, which would often be out of reach to them.

Our Experience Programme has more than trebled in impact since September as employers such as the Bank of England, M&C Saatchi, Disney, Spotify, Santander, Morgan Sindal, BA, BP, Cisco and others offer placements to thousands of Young People. In March we launched a ground-breaking virtual work experience programme in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Main purpose of role

You will be championing the Midlands by creating an ecosystem of employers, schools and young people to provide equal opportunities for all. Based remotely, with frequent travel to stakeholders across your region. 

Leading our community - Focusing on relationships, connectivity and working to bring leaders together in a shared mission of equal access. You will be responsible for connecting a network of schools, colleges, employers and partners in the Midlands.

Delivering our experience - Forging a regional ecosystem to provide quality experiences for young people with regional employers. Bringing innovation to work experiences and skills across the region to build a talent pipeline, bespoke for the your region.

Driving our impact - Supporting young people in developing their aspirations is at the core of what we do. The absolute essence of your role will be to transform lives through ambition-changing experiences, opening opportunities for those with the highest needs.

Key Duties

• Manage relationships with stakeholders ensuring an exceptional experience.
• Creatively communicating with stakeholders to keep them engaged and active.
• Proactively reach out to schools and employers to onboard them to our mission.
• Collaborate with the delivery team to ensure a seamless service for work experiences.
• Working with internal systems and processes for a slick operation and clear reporting.

Key Skills

• High energy communicator with consistency, character and care, ensuring all you reach feel motivated to work with you as an eminent champion for employability in your region.
• Detailed operator with the wide vision to see the whole scope of your region and connect the dots to open up vast pathways for student experience with logic and efficiency.
• Key collaborator able to connect with the national team and the London head office, to gain what you need to support your region and give to our overall charitable objectives. 

Key Experiences

• Good experience working in or around careers and employability
• Good experience networking, relationship managing or community building experience.

We are looking for people who:

• Are sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Excel at organising their workload and enjoy driving work forward independently
• Think strategically and can change tactics while still meeting larger objectives

We are looking forward to holding video interviews through January and appointing our Regional Partner swiftly so we can start delivering a difference in February and beyond. You must have the right to work in the UK without visa restriction to be considered.

It's not just a matter of qualifications. As an eclectic team, one size does not fit all. A degree level qualification may be useful, but experience, effort and amazing communication skills is just as valuable.

Why us?

Speakers for Schools are a dynamic, swift-moving and fast-growing charity. We are on a mission to support a million young people across the UK annually by 2023. Having taken the first steps on the road to achieving this, our team has doubled in size in the past year. This has supported 278% growth in our Experience programme and 10% growth in our Inspiration programme during the past 12 months.

We want to level the playing field, making sure that all young people can access inspirational opportunities and experiences to fuel their ambition.

We are united and unique in our mission to transform lives through raising aspirations of millions of young people every year. Each year, 1,500 senior leaders, celebrities and industry experts deliver a difference to by sharing their story with students in schools and colleges in every corner of the UK. We connect employers such as Disney, The Bank of England, Spotify PwC and almost two hundred others to communities to provide access to the top opportunities for all across the UK. With us, you will be part of inspiring a generation to reach higher, broaden horizons and get equal access to the top.

To keep growing our charity and our impact, we need top talent and we are committed to treasuring, developing and supporting them to thrive within their roles.

Diversity at our core

At Speakers for Schools, we are committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

We welcome applications from all, including those where employment has been affected by Covid19 and those seeking to change careers. Diversity is at our core, join us.

How to Apply:

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Please make it clear in your cover letter what previous experience you have working with Salesforce. 

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:

Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received, before the closing date, and will take place over Microsoft Teams. We may appoint before this date depending on applications.

Chief Executive

SF Executive are proud to be working with the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Charity to find the organisation an inspirational and commercially driven Chief Executive.

The Charity is proud to support Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the only Trust of its kind in the country. With more than 641,000 patient visits each year, their team works tirelessly to provide the very best treatment and support to women, children and families. Their patients experience some of the most advanced treatments, complex surgical procedures and compassionate care.

Together they strive to always be at the forefront of what is possible.

Thanks to their dedicated supporters and fundraising team, the Charity has been able to help the Trust make a real difference to all who use their services. This vital support has meant the Trust has been able to introduce new technologies and equipment, undertake cutting-edge research and provide the best possible experience and healing environment for children, young people, women and families.

The Role

Based in Birmingham, the Chief Executive is responsible for leading the development and delivery of the Charity’s long-term strategy and for the operational management of the Charity. The role leads on ensuring that the Charity delivers as effectively as possible its annual targets, raising significant income for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and for research that seeks to improve the lives of women, children and young people, in Birmingham, the UK and across the world.

Leadership & team working

• To provide outstanding leadership, modelling the Charity’s values, to motivate staff, volunteers, donors, partners and other stakeholders to deliver the vision and mission.
• To lead the Charity ensuring targets and objectives are met whilst creating a culture that embraces the Charity’s and the Trust’s values and attracts, develops, rewards and motivates staff and volunteers.
• To oversee performance management by ensuring all staff have annual objectives and appraisals, developing skills and expertise to ensure implementation and adherence to values and standards.
• To ensure effective team working both within the Charity but also between the Charity and the Trust.

Strategy & business development

• To lead on the development and delivery of the strategic plan and provide direction and leadership for overall planning, implementation and monitoring of the Charity’s activities.
• To act in a liaison role between the Charity and Trust, and with other partners where appropriate, to ensure strong and aligned partnerships that inform the Charity’s strategy and seeks to best serve beneficiaries.
• To develop and deliver plans to achieve or exceed annual fundraising targets in line with the agreed long-term strategy and cash flow, whilst ensuring all fundraising activities are delivered in line with the Charity’s commitment to best practice and high ethical standards, building trust and confidence amongst donors, other stakeholders and the general public.

Delivery of operational excellence

• To ensure that a key set of metrics are developed to help track the development and growth of the business and this data is used as part of a continual improvement process to deliver expected outcomes.
• To effectively manage the resources provided by the Charity for the operation of the fundraising team; overseeing the overall financial management/control of the Charity, including financial planning, reporting, budgeting and asset management, ensuring a cost-conscious culture is embedded across the organisation at all times.
• To ensure that leadership, systems and processes are in place to deliver excellent project management and to deliver agreed budgets, plans and objectives.
• To work with the Trust to provide accountability to donors and Trustees, ensuring charitable funds are spent in line with the intention of donors and/or Trustees, to have the greatest impact for beneficiaries.
• To develop a set of outcome measures that provides to demonstrate the clinical, social and economic impact of the funds that have been invested into the Trust by the Charity.

Governance

• To develop a mutually trusting and effective working relationship with Trustees.
• Together with the Group Company Secretary, ensure the Charity delivers great governance and high ethical standards in all it does, ensuring its legal obligations are met in compliance with all Charity, company and other relevant law and good practice guidelines.
• Together with the Group Company Secretary, ensure systems and structures are in place to enable the Trustees to fulfil their legal and governance obligations, providing them with accurate information and advice to enable them to make informed decisions so that they conduct their role in accordance with the law, Charity Commission requirements and the Charity’s own constitution.

Stakeholder engagement & communication

• Building effective relationships across a wide range of stakeholders to ensure effective and timely communication – including but not limited to the Trust, key donors, prospective donors, local businesses, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and other key influencers.

• To champion a marketing and communications strategy that seeks to communicate engaging and motivating messages both internally and externally for the Charity and the Trust, demonstrating the impact of charitable funds and the need for continued support.

Brand profile and reputation

• To protect and develop the Charity brand, further building the national and international profile of the Charity as a values-led organisation with high ethical standards and integrity.
• To act as key representative for the Charity at internal and external meetings and events, acting as a spokesperson for the Charity where appropriate.
• To contribute to donor and partner relationships at the highest level, working with relevant teams to identify and where appropriate lead on approaches to high value potential supporters and ensuring the Charity delivers best practice stewardship for all supporters.

Using diversity and inclusion to drive improvement

• Build on our current approach to diversity and inclusion to drive value through:
  • Increasing the scope of the existing supporter base.
  • Attracting and retaining talent within the teams you lead.
  • Establishing clear inclusion diversity and inclusion goals that are targeted to growth priorities.

The Person

The blend of experience we’d want to see in shortlisted candidates would be as follows –

• Experience of management and leadership responsibility at CEO or Senior Director level
• Experience of developing and implementing organisational strategies in changing external environments.
• A strong track record of leading a senior leadership team in setting and delivering a strategy.
• Evidence of effective working as a member of a team, with the ability to ensure full stakeholder engagement and the ability to secure the commitment of other key organisations, agencies and individuals to work together to achieve shared goals.
• Experience of setting, managing and controlling large budgets.
• Experience of motivating, developing and empowering teams to exceed objectives, whilst ensuring individuals across an organisation feel valued and are helped and supported to develop and fulfil their own personal aspirations and potential.
• Experience in leading engagement across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication skills, able to connect and engage with a wide range of people 1-2-1, in small groups and with large audiences.
• Understanding of operating in a regulated, highly public and transparent environment.
• Experience of leading and successfully delivering significant fundraising or income generating strategies, involving high level relationship management experience (ideally including within the Charity sector).
• Passionate about continuous improvement in ways of working, always seeking to question, challenge and innovate, seeking to learn from others where best practice exists.
• Demonstrates a commitment to great governance, high ethical standards, honesty and integrity.
• A track record of promoting sand supporting diversity in teams that you have led.
• Degree level education or equivalent.

In Summary

This is a hugely rare opportunity to make a difference to an organisation at a pivotal stage of its development.

As a value based organisation it’s really important the successful candidate shares the Trust’s and Charity’s values.

This doesn’t necessarily mean somebody from an NHS, public sector or fundraising background. Instead what is most important is that we find somebody whose leadership practice can role model and promote the Trust values of ambition, bravery and compassion. These were developed by our staff and are an important part of how they deliver their services, whatever they may be. A key element of the successful candidates’ leadership approach will be to value, engage in, support and promote inclusion and diversity both within the team but more widely across all aspects of the business.

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Remuneration: We offer a competitive salary, commensurate with experience.

Location: Birmingham

Our purpose - To have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the people we reach.

BHSF is a health and wellbeing provider with a long and proud history of making healthcare accessible to working people. Today, they make a positive impact on workplace wellbeing - helping to keep employees physically, mentally and financially healthy.

Their Mission is to provide health and wellbeing products and services to help customers care for their employees; to support colleagues' career aspirations; and to support local communities through work with good causes.

The role

The new Group Chief Executive will provide leadership, inspiration, direction and innovation to ensure BHSF delivers its vision, values and mission of growing the business strongly, managing it dynamically and achieving operational excellence. Specifically:

* Lead BHSF to achieve its vision and fulfil its mission and play a key role in continuing the transformation of the organisation, its products, services and customer base

* Be responsible and accountable to the Board for the formulation, development and implementation of the strategies necessary to secure and successfully position BHSF for the future
* Drive innovative business strategies that continue to place its services at the fore, ensuring they are flexible, adaptable and able to respond to demand
* Continue to embed a flexible and supportive culture of innovation within the team, ensuring the right operational structures are in place to enable BHSF to thrive
* Ensure the right resources are in place to provide expert services and support, balancing the priorities and enabling BHSF to succeed in its strategic aims
* Spearhead a dynamic, innovative and joined-up approach to all its work, through strong and supportive leadership

You

Your ability to provide inspirational, dynamic and forward-thinking leadership and deliver results will be essential elements of your candidacy. An excellent communicator and ambassador, you will have credibility and influence, enabling you to establish effective relationships with a range of key stakeholders - customers, delegates, suppliers, regulators and employees. You will have operated at a senior level in a regulatory environment.

To apply

To apply, please visit upload your resume and covering letter, addressing your motivation in applying and why you are the ideal candidate for the position of Group Chief Executive at BHSF. Please also include details of current remuneration package..

Campaign dates

Closing date: 24 th January 2021

Preliminary interviews: Early February 2021

Leadership assessment: Late February 2021

BHSF interviews: Early March 2021

The above dates are subject to change

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth and health & social care focused person to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate must be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.

Countless talented young people across the country are unemployed, under-employed or looking for a better career. Meanwhile, across the health and social care sector there is currently in a workforce crisis with thousands of vacancies across hundreds of different roles.

See some potential to do some brilliant work? Us too! Could you lead our programmes to get 10,000 young people into health and social care careers over the next 3 years?

As an Operations Executive, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 16-30-year olds into sustained health and social care jobs. Working as part of a team within our Central region you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.

 Responsibilities:

• Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
• Delivery of Prince's Trust's Health & Social Care project.
• Accurately record and track young people’s journey and progression using The Prince’s Trust CRM system.
• Supporting young people into positive sustained outcomes including education, training, and employment.
• Ensuring young people who need us the most are recruited and engaged through outreach.
• Co-ordinating with partners to deliver employment programmes, including leading skills sessions.
• Ensuring every young person ‘progressed’ has an action plan with an appropriate pathway of support and keeping detailed records of our engagement with them.
• Recruitment and management of trusted partners who refer to and/or deliver our services.
• The recruitment and management of volunteers to support and deliver our services.

Requirements: 

To support our delivery requirements across Central England we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities: 

• Experience of the NHS or Health & Social Care sector in any capacity
• Experience of recruiting people into roles within Health & Social Care
• Experience in caseload management to a varied audience
• Have experience in using customer relationship management systems and reporting data
• Able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
• Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
• Experience in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
• A natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
• Experience in at least one of the following areas:
  • Youth Work or Teaching
  • Health & Social Care sector
  • Recruitment
  • Careers & Employability Sector
  • Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers
• Possesses a strong understanding of the challenges young people from within The Trust’s target groups might face. 

We are looking for a brilliant Operations Executive to join the Health & Social Care Team to work as part of our Wellbeing and Impact Hub. They will be responsible for the central region but also coordinate with the national Health & Social Care Team.

We don’t just want to get our young people through the front door of their new employer, we want to support them to start a good career and to feel well at work, with this being just one vital part in The Prince’s Trust ambition to support 10,000 young people into jobs in health and social care over the next 3 years.

We need someone who will be dedicated to contacting people who have been on our health & social care programmes to check-in on how they are doing, offer extra support and connect them up to a range of benefits available to people in health jobs. You could help be the difference between someone leaving a new job in the first few weeks and someone sustaining a job that kickstarts their career.

You will be able to work both independently and as part of a team and use your initiative to find creative solutions to problems. This role is perfect for you if you have experience of delivering programmes with young people, with the ability to work to a project plan whilst responding to changing demands.  

Alongside supporting young people, this role will work with a smaller team to collect and generate insight from data and feedback. This is an exciting role with ample opportunity to continually improve our offer to young people. A curious, enthusiastic and pro-active person would fit right in. If you have a passion for data and reporting it will be a bonus!

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and would expect that you live these behaviours when you interact with colleagues, our partners, young people & the public.

In the UK, currently there are around 950,000 young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). The Trust works with around 55,000 young people across the UK. We support young people through teams of staff, volunteers and delivery partners in three English regions and offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each of the regions and countries has a Director and in the countries they are supported by Country Advisory Councils, which are made up of non-executive volunteers.

This role is responsible for ensuring we maximise our income in compliance with our funding agreements and alerting in a timely manner any issues preventing us from doing so. It is part of the Contract Management Team, which is responsible for maximising our income by working effectively across operations, finance and fundraising in a proactive manner to maximise income, ensure compliance and raise awareness of our performance. 

Homebased during Covid restrictions and then this role will be based in our Birmingham centre.

This role is part-funded by European Social Funding

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• In-house learning platform!Develop your skills for your career and your role
• The Trust will contribute 5%of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

Here at The Prince's Trust, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives is the right thing to do.

We’re a Stonewall Diversity Champion and we are an employer that is Disability Confident. Our staff, volunteers and young people are supported by PT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), PT NOW (Network of Women), PT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and Pulse (LGBT Network). For more information, click here.

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within the Trust, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

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.

We particularly welcome expressions of interest 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.

Do you want to work with 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.

The Role

The Housing Expert Advice team at Citizens Advice are looking for individuals to submit an expression of interest to be a part of our group of Consultant Housing Experts. We are hoping to expand the panel of experts within our teams to support us to deliver advice within our organisation.

The consultant role will include providing second tier consultancy advice to our network of local Citizens Advice advisers. 

About You

You will have significant professional experience in a legal or advice setting with experience of interpreting legislation, giving credible, appropriate and high quality legal guidance and legal advice to a range of audiences.

As this is a rolling recruitment process we will contact those who have expressed an interest in the role within 3 weeks.

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 5 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Liverpool, 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.

The Impact & Evidence Team Coordinator will provide administrative, financial, and business support to the Director of Impact and Evidence, and their team, to enable us to deliver on our objectives by providing seamless support and delivery. The successful candidate will:

• Understand the needs of the team, the context in which we operate, and focus on problem-solving and working with others to meet objectives.
• Help teams work effectively, maintain partnerships and relationships (internally and externally) and ensure value for money

Deputy Head of England

Fixed Term Contract Up to 12mths

Location either: London, Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester

London: £41,770 to £43,770 per annum

Regional: £38,690 to £39,690 per annum

We are looking for a Deputy Head of the England team to be at the heart of helping to shape the people-powered focus of Friends of the Earth’s grassroots campaigns. This is a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

In this role you’ll help ensure that our campaigns achieve real impact, diversifying at a grassroots level and building our movement-powered organisation. 

To be successful you will need demonstrable experience in delivering campaigns, particularly at a grass-roots level; using your knowledge of social and political change to utilise cutting-edge campaign strategies and tools. It is also essential that you are a strong people manager who is comfortable leading a geographically dispersed team.

Closing date:Monday 25th January 2021 (23:59)

In return we offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

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Senior Cost Manager, package up to £82,000: Birmingham

For the largest and most exciting transport projects in Europe, we are recruiting a Senior Cost Manager to support the Head of Cost Performance at Programme and Area level. The Senior Cost Manager will be managing a team of up to 6 Cost Managers and will be leading on the management of budgets, actual costs, forecasts, and Earned Value Management (EVM) to support the successful delivery of this major infrastructure project. Sitting in the Phase One Project Controls function, this role is part of the directorate which includes Baseline Maintenance, Schedule Management, Cost Performance, Change Management and Performance Reporting.

Main Duties:

• Lead on the analysis and verification of programme and area level cost performance
• Lead on the validation of cost performance data submitted by Area teams
• Develop overall programme performance reports to communicate current performance to Project Controls Director, including Earned Value Management, forecasted costs and EAC pressures.
• Support the Head of Cost Performance in the management of the Cost Management team
• Ensure adherence with cost performance processes and procedures
• Provide technical support to Project Controls Managers on cost performance
• Engage with stakeholders across Cost and Estimating, Project Controls, Project Client Directors, Commercial and Contractor organisations
• Work closely with Areas to develop defined work-streams to enhance cost performance

Person Specification:

• Experience in the delivery of cost management or project controls on major programmes as a QS or similar.
• Proven experience in the management of Cost and Performance and project controls within a major project
• Experience in core project controls including baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management, performance reporting etc
• Experience in managing and producing performance reports that summarise cost performance including Budgets, Earned Value Management (EVM) and forecasts on major projects
• Experience of cost management systems including Prism or Ecosys
• Knowledge of Project Controls, Commercial and Finance processes
• Knowledge of NEW contracts, amendments, early warning notices etc
• Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a major programme

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We are looking for a Programme Development Manager to help shape the future of the learning we offer.

Woodbrooke is changing how we offer learning – working more closely with Quaker communities and developing and expanding our local and regional work.

You will support this work during 2021.and will have a key role in identifying the needs of Quaker communities and in developing learning opportunities that respond to them.

You will work in collaboration with Quakers and partner organisations including Britain Yearly Meeting.

We are looking for someone who is excited by what spirit led growth might mean in a faith context and how learning can support this.

You will have experience of developing programmes, and of reshaping work to better meet the needs of beneficiaries. You will be comfortable working with multiple groups to nurture effective outcomes.

This is a 9 month fixed-term contract.

Location is flexible and remote/home working is possible with regular travel to Birmingham and other locations within Britain.