About The Royal British Legion

Careers in Care, Nursing and Recovery

Across the country, in every city and on every street, the Legion is there to support our Armed Forces community. As the largest charity of our kind, we have 235,000 members, 60,000 volunteers and a network of partners all helping us give support wherever and whenever it's needed.

And our Care, Nursing and Recovery teams are there when people need us most. Supporting this community throughout the nation with understanding and compassion.

As part of this team, you’d be providing dedicated care homes for older veterans, helping those living with dementia, supporting carers, or ensuring ex-service personnel and their families can live safely at home.

As well as being there with practical, hands-on support, you’d also offer advice and guidance. Whether that’s to help people with a particular need, or more simply to ensure that they are making the very most of the care, programmes and services we can provide.

It's this mission, this scale, this challenge and the values we all live by, that makes the Legion such a fulfilling place to thrive.

If you want to give your days meaning. To put your passion into a role with real impact. To support people and be supported yourself. In an inclusive team that faces every challenge together. Whatever your interests and ambitions, we think you’ll find a role here that works for you, with career opportunities right across the UK.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Peripatetic Manager to join the Care Services management team. The post holder will provide managerial leadership to the second tier management team in the absence of the Registered Manager. You will also be expected to work alongside the Registered Manager to deliver a safe, clinically effective and person centred service to our beneficiaries.

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Substantial experience in a Registered Manager position.
• Registered Nurse Qualification is essential and must display strong knowledge and extensive experience in the sector
• A management qualification
• Excellent of activating and responding to business continuity plans. 
• Demonstrable track record in the achievement of KPI's and corporate objectives  
• Experience of financial management and budget reporting

SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

• Excellent understanding of regulation and relevant legislation
• knowledge of dementia care practice
• Awareness of the wider political environment and its impact on the care sector
• Full UK driving license - this post requires extensive UK travel
• Able to travel extensively across the UK, work unsocial hours and overnight stays

This post can be home based however regular attendance in London or other areas for team meetings and other developmental work will be required.

How to Apply

Please apply clicking ‘Apply Online’

please note this role will close once we have appointed a suitable candidate - previous candidates need not apply. 

To provide leadership across YVHSC to all Carers services, ensure all services adhere to current legislation and support the development of the Carers Directorate

YVHSC is at a pivotal point in the development of carers provision and consequently, the Director will be establishing the relationships, partnerships and programmes necessary to provide the momentum required to deliver a new business plan in addition to overseeing vital existing projects.

Leading on the development of a range of funding and fundraising avenues, including strategy, planning and delivery with a shared priority of raising funds for projects and services and raising unrestricted funds.

The Carers Director is a challenging role, requiring an in-depth understanding of Carers services as well as being able to identify opportunities and be creative whilst demonstrating our passion for achieving the best possible outcomes for Carers.

Please click on the Job Description for more information.

Hackney Migrant Centre (HMC) delivers a free, weekly advice and support service for vulnerable migrants on immigration, housing, welfare and access to health (our visitors). We support visitors to resolve their immigration problems and move out of homelessness and destitution in the long-term, as well as assisting them to address immediate issues. Most of our visitors lack secure immigration status or have a pending asylum claim and are destitute as a result of their immigration status and the Hostile Environment.

HMC currently employs an (interim) Operations Manager supported by a Fundraiser and a Finance Officer, and a Destitution Casework Coordinator, a Caseworker for Families and Young People, an Access to Justice Coordinator, a Volunteer Coordinator and a (fixed-term) Casework Support Assistant. HMC is currently recruiting its first Immigration Adviser. HMC’s work is supported by over 50 dedicated volunteers and we work closely with a number of partner organisations to ensure visitors can access specialist legal advice and long-term support.

PURPOSE OF THE POST

HMC's work is informed by a vision of a UK where no one is forced into destitution, exploitation or vulnerability as a result of their immigration status.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to undertake overall responsibility for the running of HMC as it delivers its purpose to support migrants primarily in Hackney, and the wider London community, to access rights and overcome injustice in the immigration system. The postholder will be responsible for strategic development and the effective operation of HMC’s services and have oversight of the organisation’s finance, administration and governance. The postholder will take overall responsibility for staffing, and line-manage a team of staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to develop and support HMC as it reviews its service following Coronavirus and the support it can provide for visitors. The postholder will have the opportunity to shape this role. If you relish the challenge, we would love to hear from you. 

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals, those who are migrants or refugees, and who have lived experience of the impact of immigration policy and practice.

More information is available upon request.

In joining BIHR as our Operations Assistant, you will have a key role in a small but very passionate and dynamic human rights charity. Your role will be a pivotal one, assisting with our general, financial and event & training administration – work vital to ensuring that we a strong organisation with the administrative foundations needed to achieve our strategic objectives.

A commitment to human rights and to providing the best possible administrative support for our work are essential for this role. It is an exciting opportunity for someone with excellent administrative skills and relevant experience now looking for the next step in their career. Ideally you should have experience of working in a small charity, or a clear demonstrable interest in moving into this area.

You can find out more about the role in the Job Description and Person Specification below, including further information about BIHR, the main tasks in the role, and the selection criteria.

Please note BIHR is a remote working organisation (with homeworking equipment provided). However, there is a required monthly full team meeting in London (N1) and the option for a once-a-week flexi-desk space (on rotation), also in London (N1).

If you have what it takes to be our Operations Assistant, apply today:

• Download the Job and Person Specification below. Please read this carefully as showing how you meet the person specification is a vital part of the application
• Download the Application Form below. Please complete this form, following all the instructions carefully, to apply. Do not submit a CV or covering letter, these will not be considered
• Send your completed Application Form and (if you wish) the optional Equality & Diversity Form to the email address specified in the Job Description and Person Specification and on the application form.

The deadline for receiving applications is 9.00 am on Monday 7th February 2022.

Information on our selection process

Interviews will be online via Zoom and are likely to take place on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th February 2022. If you have not heard from us by Friday 18th February 2022, please note that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. Due to the number of applications we receive it is not possible for us to respond to all applicants; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please note. We operate a rigorous selection process, based on various aspects of the role, to ensure candidates can demonstrate their suitability for the role, and have a comprehensive understanding of this varied and rewarding position.  The process consists of:

• A prepared verbal communication task for you to present at the interview (max 10 mins)
• A timed written task which you will be asked to complete within an agreed time slot prior to the interview (max 2-hour task)
• An online interview with a panel with unseen questions, using Zoom (max. 90 mins)
• We may also ask you to complete a Hogan Test (for more information, search online for Hogan Assessments)

Please also note: BIHR operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, which is set at meeting 70% of the person specification essential criteria. The application form includes a tick box to be considered for this scheme. If you would like further information about our policy on this, please email us at the email address specified in the Job Description and Person Specification.

It is a very busy department, and you'll have a huge responsibility driving our fundraising income growth and supporter numbers. You'll do this by leading on our Fundraising and Communications strategy and have overall responsibility for our bid applications, event planning, external media communications including social media, volunteers, and our charity shops.

As a member of Strode Parks senior management team, you'll also work with the wider team and our trustees to take forward the Charity's strategic goals and contribute to our development and achieving our aims and vision.

You'll be supported by a Fundraising & Communications Assistant and an Events & Volunteer Coordinator plus our team of dedicated volunteers.

For more information and the roles criteria, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Why you should apply

Working at Strode Park is rewarding on so many levels and we are pleased to be able to offer our valued staff members the following benefits:

• Excellent training provided
• Opportunity to join our pension Scheme
• Paid Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)
• Fresh meals prepared on site daily
• Competitive rates of pay
• You'll be eligible to refer family and friends to also work at Strode and be rewarded £250 for doing so

Flexible Working

At Strode Park we will consider all requests for flexible working and are proud to be a Flex from First employer. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need

Our Values

Our values underpin everything we do at Strode Park Foundation. We employ truly inspirational people who make our care setting a remarkable place to work. Together we offer high quality care which meet the needs of children and adults with disabilities, helping them to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.

Covid-19 Vaccinations

Strode Park Foundation regards the Covid-19 vaccination as a positive measure and note that vaccination is to become a mandatory requirement for staff who work in care homes from 11 November unless medically exempt. Candidates applying for a role at Strode Park Foundation will be expected to have received their vaccination against coronavirus as part of our pre-employment process before commencing employment. Please let us know if you have not managed to arrange to receive the vaccine. If you have a medical reason as to why you are not able to have the vaccine or you have any questions on the vaccination, please contact the HR team who will gladly assist you with this.

The location

This job is based at Strode Park House in Herne.

Strode Park Foundation has been caring since 1946, providing vital care, support services, care at home, supported living opportunities and day and leisure services for children and adults with a range of disabilities.

Interested in applying?

For more information, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

The post is subject to the relevant Disclosure check being obtained from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Strode Park is an equal opportunities employer.

Should you require any further information or have any queries about the role, please do not hesitate to contact the HR team who will gladly assist you with this.

Strode Park is committed to ensuring all disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for the role are guaranteed an interview and will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

Strode Park is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, an accreditation given to organisations that pledge to actively seek out and hire skilled disabled people, and to positively change attitudes, behaviours and cultures, within their businesses, supply chain and local communities.

Strode Park is an equal opportunities employer.

Closing date: 23 January 2022

Foxhill is the house of prayer and discipleship for the Diocese of Chester. Its purpose is to further the mission of the Diocese whilst being a blessing to the wider church and world.

There is now a vacancy for a Director Designate of Foxhill. The aim is to recruit this postholder to work alongside, and be mentored by, the current, experienced Director. The current Director has moved to a part-time role and is intending to retire during the Summer of 2023. It is anticipated that the Director Designate will take over from the Director at that point.

This is a full time post, 35 hours per week.

Flexible working is required, including evenings and weekends and some overnight on-call cover.

The post is open to lay or ordained applicants, although there is an Occupational requirement that the postholder is a practising Christian in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010.

The successful candidate will have a deep and growing faith in Jesus Christ with a mature spirituality. They will have an awareness of a range of Christian spiritualities from personal practical involvement, together with an ability to minister and lead worship for people from a variety of backgrounds. Experience of organising and leading Christian Retreats will be essential.

Salary: £28,708 - £32,229 dependent upon qualifications and experience, rising to £33,403 - £36,923 when the Director Designate becomes the Director.

In addition, housing will be provided.

APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE MADE THROUGH THE DIOCESAN WEBSITE

Contract Type: Fixed Term until 30th September 2022

Interviews: Thursday 3rd February

We’re excited to be recruiting for a Head of Operations to co-lead our Greater Manchester operations and deliver the Trust’s ground-breaking initiative, Future Workforce Fund, which is helping to transform the lives of young people.

It's a unique time at the moment but our commitment to our young people is as strong as it’s ever been, we want to keep providing support to young people face to face, however, we’ve developed new ways of working to enable all young people access to our services including a blended approach to virtual and face to face programme delivery. Future Workforce Fund is responsive to the emerging needs of young people and providing a flexible, adaptive offer that it supporting young people through these uncertain times and will directly support the Greater Manchester Young Person’s Guarantee.

We are looking for a passionate and driven colleague, who is able to work collaboratively across the Trust and champion the work of the Greater Manchester team both internally and externally.

For more information and to apply, please click 'apply now' to be directed to our website.

TPP is delighted to be working with Resuscitation Council UK and supporting with their search to hire a new Director of Engagement & Influencing. This is an opportunity to join an organisation focused on saving lives through the delivery of evidence-based clinical guidance, training courses and initiatives to ensure everyone across Society has the skills and is willing to save a life if they see someone who has collapsed and is not breathing normally.

As an experienced senior level communications professional, you will be joining our client at an exciting stage of their growth and be an integral part of delivering the Vision to 2030. Their mission is to ensure that everyone who has a cardiac arrest has access to appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Work to address the health inequalities in this area is a crucial part of the organisation’s work going forward

As a member of the senior management team, you will have overall people management responsibility for a team of communications and engagement specialists and play a key part in increasing awareness, achieving influence, leading internal communications and delivering inclusive communications along with championing diversity across a range of audiences and key stakeholders.
 

Your duties & responsibilities will include:

• Developing a marketing, communications and stakeholder engagement strategy relating to all key areas of resuscitation and the organisation’s Vision to 2030 and strategic plan.
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship-building, including governments, the NHS and partner organisations
• Developing public policy positions and messaging for specific audiences including external stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Identifying opportunities to influence the wider healthcare agenda and raising RCUK’s profile as a key player and partner for decision-makers.
• Developing and strengthening RCUK’s external communications, including social media, media and email communications.
• As part of the Senior Management Team, developing, helping prioritise and delivering the strategic plans underpinning Vision 2030.
• All external communications, including media and digital channels.
• Maximising the impact and reach of RCUK’s brand and website.
• Leading the Engagement and Influencing department working across communications, policy, stakeholder, marketing and insight disciplines.

Your background, experience and skillsets will include:

• Experience of working at a senior management level in either a communications and marketing, policy or engagement role.
• Demonstrable experience of providing proactive leadership and vision to evolve an innovative programme of influencing and engagement work.
• Demonstrable experience setting strategies and plans at a departmental or organisational level.
• Demonstrable track record of engaging with decision makers and key influencers.
• Proven experience in building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, partnership building and networking at senior level.
• Demonstrable experience of planning and implementing challenging, innovative and measurable communications plans to generate quality results and engagement.
• Experience of working across all communications disciplines including media, PR, internal communications, stakeholder engagement and digital.
• A strong track record of positioning an organisation to achieve tangible outcomes in a competitive communications environment – including development of brand, identity and messaging.
• Experience in developing and managing budgets.
• Excellent knowledge of health and social care policy, of the NHS and of parliamentary processes across the four nations of the UK would be beneficial but not essential.

The Director of Literature ensures that great literature and Shared Reading remain at the heart of The Reader, utterly central to its mission. In this role, you will lead the development of the entire literature programme – setting the tone and tenor of how we read and what we read, and ensuring that the reading of literature feeds the organisational ethos. You will manage 3 Heads of Department within the Directorate across three teams;

• Publications – providing staff and volunteers with curated literature for use in Shared Reading as well as championing the work of The Reader to the general public primarily via The Reader magazine and The Reader podcast.
• Programmes – devising and delivering The Reader’s public events programme at Calderstones and elsewhere including online, weekly community activities and one-off events
• Teaching and Learning – designing and delivering The Reader’s teaching and learning programmes, developing and nourishing Shared Reading practice across our international network of practitioners. Working directly with the Volunteer Support Team to ensure effective quality assurance for volunteer-led Shared Reading and providing our volunteers with inspirational resources and learning opportunities.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Inspiring the entire organisation – Shared Reading participants, volunteers, visitors to The Reader at Calderstones, staff members, the Trustee Board - in its reading life.
• The annual programming theme and Reader Bookshelf of recommended reads, which inspire our events and reading experiences each year.
• The programming of literary events both online and at Calderstones, including Gravity Festival and The Penny Readings.
• The Reader magazine and podcast, and our wider publishing programme.
• The curated reading resources on our Online Community Hub, used by our national network of volunteers and staff.
• The oversight and development of The Reader’s quality assurance system, ensuring we maintain high quality delivery of Shared Reading.
• Ensuring great teaching of Shared Reading is delivered and further developed.
• Retaining and building standards of diversity and range of literature, including writing from earlier times and challenging texts.
• Being a leader in the ongoing work development of The Reader’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, paying particular attention to the role of the Shared Reading and the literature we read in creating more humane, warm, and diverse society. 
• You’ll be responsible for leading the development of a new organisational structure which will ensure that the voices of our Reader Leaders and group members are given expression and are heard in our organisational development activities.
• General Director-level work, as a member of Directors’ Group which is collectively responsible for the work of the organisation as a whole, building the organisation’s strategy and plans, and reporting to the Board of Trustees.

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge and skills

• Great vision for literature in the world
• Wide and deep range of reading experience
• Excellent writing skills
• Exceptional communicator
• Good at working alone and in teams
• Good with people, strong management skills

Literature and reading

• We are looking for a reader who has a strong vision for the place of literature in the world, who understands the emotional power of Shared Reading, at both individual and group level, and the potential of the literary experience as an agent for change. You’ll be able to describe the kind of change that literature can bring about.
• You’ll have a wide, deep and, above all, personal literary experience and be able to draw on your own inner anthology of great texts that feed your soul. You’ll be able to speak about your own reading life in compelling terms.
• You’ll be a reader who is also an explorer, willing to look beyond your current experience, but with a clear sense of what it is you are seeking for in literature when you go looking.
• You’ll understand the levels/range of literary expertise within The Reader movement and ensure the organisation continually encourages development of practice, as well as finding ways to harness and promote the expertise of exceptional practitioners.
• You will be committed to the enlargement of our reading range – we want more diverse and challenging texts, from all times and from many cultures. But above all we seek a commitment to the curation of texts which speak to our inner and emotional lives.

Leadership and people management

• We’re looking for a dedicated reader who is also an inspiring leader. This is, above all, about ensuring that the golden thread of literature is woven through all our organisational thinking, practice and making. You will ensure that Shared Reading is undertaken and embedded at all levels of the organisation, and that our organisational thinking about literature remains lively and flexible.
• You will have responsibility for ensuring the Literature Directorate meets its operational, financial and strategic objectives.
• You’ll be able to provide responsible, supportive leadership for the Heads of Teaching and Learning, Programmes and Publishing, as well as providing leadership and a sense of collective purpose to the Directorate as a whole. 

Communication

• You will be able to write well, with nuance and complexity, about The Reader’s work and more widely about the literary experience.
• You will be able to speak authoritatively in public and in the media about The Reader’s work, able to tell the stories we want to tell so that the world understands what literature can do.
• You will be able to develop business planning documents and compile information for Directors’ Group, the board, funders or other external agencies and stakeholders

Liaison and networking

• We’re looking for someone who has, or can develop, a network of contacts with writers, thinkers, and publicly-recognised readers in order to build The Reader’s brand and influence e.g. via podcast, magazine
• You will be a good team member, used to collaboration and able to build strong, flexible and respectful working relationships internally.
• You will be a leader who tells our Reader stories, building belief in what we have to offer, and able to make good and trusting relationships on the basis of your direct experience of our work.

Planning and organising

• You will be responsible to leading the development of an organisational structure to encourage the participation of Volunteer Reader Leaders (and eventually group members) in organisational thinking.
• You will be responsible for the development of the Literature Directorate plan, working collaboratively with other Directors to ensure that all plans help build the overarching organisational plan.
• You will offer leadership and support the Heads of Department within your team in relation to operational planning and the implementation of projects, and take responsibility for the realization of the Directorate’s plans.
• You will oversee the Literature Directorate budget (c £650,000) and be responsible for the high-level prioritizing of time and resources.

Initiative and problem solving

• We are seeking a deeply creative person, able to lead the directorate and wider organisation in creative literary thinking, taking literary practice to the needs and demands of real-life work, such as the development of our anti-racism position and our involvement with all kinds of people who may feel literature is not for them.
• You will identify key literary/reading/philosophical problems which arise in the course of our work and be a key thinker, giving voice to the complexity of problems and taking part in the discovery of solutions.
• You will be dealing routinely with issues which may not have an apparently immediate solution, and you’ll be able to hold complex problems in mind, able to use literature, first and foremost, as your mode of nuanced thinking.

Decision making and freedom to act

• You will be responsible for organisation-shaping decisions which will affect thousands of people involved in The Reader movement, as well as the organisation’s legacy for the future. 

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Powerful vision for literature in the world
• Inspiring leader – able to demonstrate your experience of inspiring others to read, or think and become fellow travelers with you in some way
• Wide and deep range of reading experience
• A highly motivated serious reader, with a profound grasp of the reality (impact and potential) of Shared Reading, and the ability to inspire belief in The Reader’s mission
• A literary thinker first and foremost – able to demonstrate that ‘literariness’ is a specific way of understanding the world
• Generously open-minded, unconstrained by ideologies but able to understand and translate, where appropriate, their relation to The Reader’s core purpose.
• Creative, able to lead the development of new literary products and services
• Demonstrably comprehensive understanding or experience of least one area within the literature-directorate: publishing/programming/teaching/comms
• Able to build networks of literary connection, e.g. publishers, writers, booksellers and to develop literary supporters
• Understands and aims to embody and represent The Reader’s Values
• Excellent writing skills – demonstrated by written submission
• Exceptional Communicator
• Good at working alone and in teams
• Good people manager

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in a senior managerial or leadership role
• Experience of building a creative product from scratch
• Transferable skills that you think would help you do this role well

In order to complete the application process you must submit an application form and written submission. Please visit THe Reader's website to view a full job description and application process.

Main purpose of role

• To develop a digital strategy for the organisation embracing opportunities with potential external third parties that are mutually beneficial for the organisation and those we aim to serve.
• To develop and maintain productive working partnerships with pharmaceutical and other industry partners working in the field of rheumatology and immunology.
• To lead, oversee and further develop all aspects of the charity’s services and support activity optimising the support provided and growing the number of beneficiaries.
• To oversee the expansion of our membership schemes and direct line manage the Membership manager.
• To liaise with health and social care professionals, commissioners in the NHS and Local Authorities, to promote the benefits of the supported self-management services NRAS provides.
• To manage and report on any contracts for services held by NRAS
• To contribute to the annual and strategic planning of the charity and to contribute to Board meetings with the Trustees.

Qualifications

Degree level or equivalent experience in area relevant to the provision/commissioning of clinical services
Professional qualification desirable

Experience

Demonstrable experience of, and achievements in:

• Proven relationship building working with the NHS across the UK, industry and key stakeholders
• Embracing technology and digital solutions
• Management, leadership and motivation of a team
• Development, implementation and management of budgets
• Project planning, management and evaluation
• Higher level analysis and decision making

Desirable

• Understanding of voluntary sector
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of self-management techniques in long term health conditions

Knowledge & Skills

• Understanding of the health and social care environment
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficient use of Microsoft Word; Excel; Powerpoint
• Financial management and planning
• Understanding of the impact of long term health conditions on the individual

Desirable

• Use of Salesforce database
• Understanding of inflammatory arthritis (RA and JIA)
• Proficient use of databases and data analysis/report writing

Personal Circumstances & Attributes

• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Highly motivated and committed
• Positive outlook and ‘can-do’ approach to challenges
• Ability to represent charity at senior level
• Strategic thinker

Duties and Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Development

1. Research, identify and lead on the development of effective and innovative ways for NRAS to increase the breadth and depth of support it can provide to people with RA and JIA.
2. Identify ways to harness digital solutions in the delivery of our services and membership package of services.
3. To help develop business cases to support bids for project funding of new or extended services.
4. To lead on establishing and maintaining specific and strategic relationships with health and social care professionals, commissioners in the NHS and Local Authorities, patient and VCS organisations and partnerships, and other bodies supportive of NRAS strategic aims.

Commissioning

1. To lead the development of a co-ordinated programme of support services capable of attracting contracts and/or direct funding.

Third party partnerships

1. Develop the charity’s external partnerships managing and developing key relationships with our pharma and corporate partners, including the sourcing of funding from those partners for core services and projects. With specific focus on developing our partnership working with HealthUnlocked.
2. Research, identify and develop potential new partnerships and collaborations to increase the reach and impact of NRAS services

Service delivery

1. Manage the teams responsible for service delivery across a range of areas including information and support, helpline, publications, volunteer and member services.
2. Monitor service delivery and quality on a regular basis and ensure accurate recording and reporting to internal and external customers and stakeholders.
3. In conjunction with the Head of Data, develop appropriate tools to facilitate impact measurement of services provided.
4. Identify opportunities to create new ways of developing income streams for the charity through the delivery of our services.

Marketing

1. In partnership with the Director of Fundraising and Marketing, develop a marketing strategy to raise awareness of and promote NRAS’s services to existing and potential stakeholders

Management

1. Provide strong leadership and management of direct report employees, ensuring each employee is supported, provided with the resources to succeed in their role and are able to manage their workload
2. Monitor performance of direct reports through regular one-to-one meetings
3. Participate in, and contribute to, team meetings
4. Identify suitable training for the staff team

Representing NRAS

Represent NRAS in a senior capacity to external stakeholders, funders and partners promoting it as a respected, trusted and ambitious charity resulting in partnerships, successful funding and effective collaborative working.

NRAS expects all employees to respect the unique contribution of every individual and operates an equal opportunity and diversity policy.

All employees must work responsibly within the health and safety policy of the organisation and ensure they are observing this at all times.

How to apply:

If you wish to apply, please follow the process as detailed within charityjobs.

When writing your cover letter, please ensure that you provide specific examples to demonstrate your competencies, achievements and skills addressing the specific criteria set out. We recognise that some of your experience may be from unpaid roles as well as paid employment – please include any voluntary work if it helps to show why you are the right candidate for the job.

Terms of employment:

Job title: Director of Services & Innovation
Hours: 35 hours per week (includes flexible working)
Location: Hybrid working - between home-based and Maidenhead
Contract: Permanent
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for : 
Engagement & Services Manager (vacant post); Membership Manager; Publications & Information Support Manager; Support Services Manager; Young Persons’ Project Manager

Holiday entitlement: 24 days plus Bank Holidays
Pension: 3% employer contribution
Probationary period: 6 months
Salary: £50k per annum
Other benefits: Employee Assistance Service, fleixble and hybrid working

Director of Finance

Location: Flexible - based at one of AUKL offices plus some home working

Salary: Circ £45k FTE (Subject to Review)

Hours of Work:         Flexible over 4 or 5 days, working 28 or 35hrs

Due to the retirement of our Director of Finance, we are looking to recruit a suitably qualified, skilled & motivated individual to take up responsibility for our finance function & team. 

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and who can easily balance their responsibilities between the requirements of both operational and strategic finance. 

The Finance Director is a key member of our Senior Team, working closely with our CEO, other Directors & Trustees. 

You’ll be joining a values driven organisation with a welcoming, open and supportive culture. Our 2021 Colleague survey found that 98% of colleagues would recommend us to friends and family as an employer, and 100% were proud to work here.

If this sounds like the right role for you, we would love to hear from you.  You can call the CEO for an informal chat, details can be found in the full job pack on our website:

EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit organisation, which works in partnership with the engineering community to inspire tomorrow's engineers and increase the number and diversity of young people choosing academic and vocational pathways into engineering. 

We work locally, regionally, and nationally to foster the critical engineering and technology skills needed for the UK to be a leader in innovation and improve societal and economic resilience and environmental sustainability. 

EngineeringUK 

Director of Business Development & Partnerships  

London, hybrid working 

£96,000 - £115,000

The Director of Business Development & Partnerships leads a team of 13, working at the interface between EngineeringUK and the engineering and technology sector that we represent and serve, bringing critical insight of the corporate world and encouraging organisations to support our work through funding, the provision of content and other ways.

You will be part of a high performing Executive Team of five who will be working together over 2022 to build our new, ambitious strategy. Directors motivate and develop all EngineeringUK staff, enabling them to reach their full potential. We are determined to improve the inclusivity of all that we do, internally and externally, working with young people, partners and colleagues from increasingly diverse backgrounds and supporting each other in building our understanding of how we can do better.

We are looking for a commercially minded, partnership development professional who has the ability to fully engage with EngineeringUK’s values and is committed to our goals. The right candidate will have proven experience of successfully initiating and establishing funding relationships, and understanding customer needs and translating these into strategic solutions.

As a member of the Executive Team, you will be an ambassador for EngineeringUK, utilising excellent communication skills to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels, inside and outside the organisation; role modelling our values.

We welcome people from all backgrounds. Each applicant will be individually assed regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, ethnicity, colour, or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.  

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

Application deadline: 20th January  

Preliminary interviews with Prospectus: 26th January to 2nd February

Panel stage interviews:  W/C 7th February  

These dates may be subject to change and applicants will be advised in advance should this happen.

Fashion Revolution is a small but impactful organisation with global reach and influence to citizens, industry and policy makers. We are proud of what we have achieved, both as a UK based Community Interest Company and Registered Charity, and as a global network in over 90 countries and we are now at a pivotal moment as we approach the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2023, the disaster which led to the founding of Fashion Revolution.

Ten years on Fashion Revolution is also growing and changing, to date, we have worked in teams with four directors taking responsibility for different areas of the organisation. We have outgrown this format and need to have one point of contact for cohesion across the organisation, is this you?

Work Location: Witney (currently our policy is a minimum of 40% of hours in the office, with the remainder remote working)

Who We Are

Open Doors is a Christian charity looking to recruit active, practising Christians to help meet the growing needs of the persecuted church worldwide. Hostility, violence and abuse of Christians around the globe is on the increase. Open Doors works in over 50 countries to ensure that those facing such persecution are not forgotten, but can stand strong to serve their communities and give life.

Job Summary

To provide a comprehensive, confidential and professional administrative support service to the Internal Directorates including the People, Culture, Operations and Finance teams.

About the Team

Reporting to the Director of People, Culture and Operations, you will work closely with the People, Operations and Finance teams, the Leadership team and other team administrators.

Hours

37.5 hours per week. Usually worked between 8.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday. This position involves some evening and weekends at conferences and events for which TOIL (time off in lieu) may be claimed.

Responsibilities and Requirements

1. Administrative

• To support the efficient, effective and professional operation of the internal teams , utilizing all aspects of Microsoft Office software.
• To manage and maintain schedules, appointments and travel arrangements to make effective use of the time of the team; this includes diary management, accommodating requests for meetings.
• To proactively support the creation of reports, and prepare background documents and presentations as necessary.
• To conduct research, assemble and analyse data as required.
• To support budget management, as required.
• To work collaborately with other administrators on projects in which cross Directorate cooperation is required.
• As required, administrate third party working groups with which members of the internal directorates are involved.
• Supporting the administration of meetings including setting up meetings, setting agendas, taking meetings and maintaining good communication between stakeholders .
• Supporting organizational-wide events run by the internal Directorates (this could include the whole team meeting, cross organization training events, communications required for the organization)
• Supporting the implementation of the internal communications strategy.
• To review operating practices and implement improvements where necessary.
• Working closely with other team members to organize filing systems (both physical and online) to ensure ease of retrieval.
• To ensure security and confidentiality of data.

2. Event Management.

• Event management, including event liaison, booking meeting rooms, catering and facilities as required (typically this will include the staff retreat and any team events).
• Liaise with Open Doors International as required.

The above job description is a guide to the work the job holder may be required to undertake but does not form part of the contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumstances. 

Applying Your Christian Faith to This Role

Because of the essential Christian context in which the role will be performed, the role is subject to an occupational requirement under the Equality Act that the post-holder be a practising Christian. Each working day will involve collective prayer and worship, together with shared reflections on the work of Jesus Christ. All members of staff at Open Doors are expected to actively participate in this shared time and members of staff take it in turns to lead the act of collective worship.

There will be many ways you will be able to apply your Christian faith and the outworking of your faith to the context of Open Doors. The list below gives some of the expectations of this role but is not exhaustive or intended to limit you:

• contributing to and leading daily devotions (this can be for the whole team or just smaller, departmental groups)
• participating in retreats, days of prayer and fasting etc.
• committing to private prayer for the work associated with this role, your direct reports and closest colleagues
• working in such a way so as to reflect biblical principles of leadership and service
• applying biblical principles of godly stewardship to operational responsibilities
• to be open and obedient to God’s voice and direction in relation to any strategic matter and to always seek His will above all else

Limits of Authority

To operate within the ethos and aims of Open Doors, adhering to budget parameters and the Open Doors’ confidentiality agreement.

Who You Are

You will demonstrate the following essential criteria for this role:

Calling

• committed Christian who is completely in sympathy with the calling and mission of Open Doors

Competency

• significant experience working in an administrative role
• advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook  and Desktop Publishing skills
• excellent diary management skills, including the coordination of complex executive meetings
• able to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, and follow through on issues in a timely manner
• excellent interpersonal skills and ability to form working relationships at all levels
• excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• able to work effectively under pressure
• superb problem solver with a highly positive ‘can do’ attitude
• confidence in drafting reports and proposals, working with figures as well as words with a high degree of accuracy and professionalism
• judgment and decision-making ability
• able to deal with confidential or sensitive issues with discretion and diplomacy
• ability to anticipate needs

Character

• committed Christian who is completely in sympathy with the calling and mission of Open Doors
• flexible, positive and trustworthy
• chemistry with Open Doors staff
• demonstrates a highly developed attitude of service
• proactive and assertive

In addition, it would be beneficial for you to demonstrate the following:

• Understanding of new technology and can harness that to benefit the smooth running of the office
• project management experience and qualification
• broad knowledge of international and Christian issues
• Experience in working in human resources and/or financial services sectors

Enhanced disclosure information will be requested from the DBS in the event of a successful application.