Business Development Officer

Based at FSC Central Services (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) or an FSC Learning Location please visit our website

£23,045 - £26,299 per annum

Full Time, Permanent

Field Studies Council is one of the UK’s leading providers of outdoor environmental education. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Field Studies Council (FSC).

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Officer who will Support FSC colleagues in researching and developing potential new areas of business

Working under the direction of the Business Development Manager and in line with FSC’s new business strategy, this is a key operational role which will have day-to-day responsibility for business development, identifying new opportunities for growth in both new and existing markets; designing attractive products to take to the intended market; undertaking sales activity to boost the occupancy and financial returns delivered in each of the FSC’s locations. 

Due to the nature of the role you will be required to travel to our various locations as well as other venues across the UK.  This may occasionally be abroad therefore involving some overnight stays.

To be successful in this key role you will have experience in a similar Business Development role, a successful track record of achieving sales growth in both B2C and B2B markets. Candidates should have experience of developing and adjusting products based on the analysis of competitors products, sales performance, and customer feedback and an understanding of the specialist leisure travel and hospitality industry in the UK

A positive attitude to new business generation and Strong interpersonal skills, and a good instinct for business are essential to the position. You will have an interest in and an understanding of the charity and commercial market.

We want to create a world where everyone feels connected to the environment, so that they can enjoy the benefits it gives and makes choices that help protect it – especially now when our planet is facing issues such as climate change and loss of biodiversity.

As an Investors in People charity, we realise that to achieve our vision we need diverse teams of staff who have a wide range of skills, a real passion for the work of the charity and a pride in their role within it. No matter what role you perform at the FSC, everyone can make a difference and every role is vital to delivering our mission and vision…if this inspires you, we would love to hear from you.

Closing Date: 5th January 2021

Interview Date: W/c 11th or W/c 18th January 2021

Recruiting for a Data Quality Officer in our Head Office in Westminster!

GBP £30,000 per annum, 35 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Flexible working, Staff discounts, healthcare and more. This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract!

Job Overview:

The Data Quality Officer will work as part of the Business Intelligence Team to ensure that Look Ahead has good quality data which provides useful information for decision makers, helps the organisation to improve and meets information governance requirements. They will also help to ensure that Look Ahead has good systems in place to accurately capture and check key management information, particularly our property information.

The Data Quality Officer will work with the staff in Asset Management and Landlord Compliance to implement our new landlord compliance IT system and to support them to embed new business processes. This will involve migrating existing data, developing new reporting and putting in place processes for checking data quality. They will also lead on property data within our housing system and work to bother improve the range of data available to staff and to ensure this is consistent across our systems.

The Data Quality Officer will administer our programme of data quality audits to ensure that the data that sits behind our KPIs is accurate. They will carry out data quality audits, report findings to data leads and monitor compliance with recommendations.

The post holder will have good IT skills, especially in Excel, and be comfortable working with different systems. They will enjoy working with data, have good attention to detail, work systematically and have good interpersonal skills to work with a wide range of people across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:
- Support Asset Management and Compliance Team with data capture and reporting
- Lead on data elements for implementation of compliance IT system
- Lead on property data on housing system and ensure this is accurate, up to date and consistent on other systems
- Administer the data quality audit programme and monitor compliance with findings
- Carry out data quality audits
- Work with teams across the business to capture information accurately in our main IT systems and to help embed use of these systems
- Identify reporting requirements to improve data quality
- Work in accordance with Look Ahead's Code of Conduct and equal opportunities policy

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.

Person Specification:
- Excellent IT skills
- Good communication skills
- Self-starting and can manage their own workload
- Close attention to detail and high level of accuracy in their literacy and numeracy

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- Performance management and reporting
- Ensuring data meets quality standards
- An ability to analyse and interpret data and to present the key messages from it
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, most importantly Microsoft Excel
- An ability to manage competing demands, prioritise and meet deadlines

Desirable:
- Meeting information requirements in a contractual and statutory environment
- GDPR and data protection requirements
- An ability to analyse customer requirements and develop solutions that meet these needs
- Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of Microsoft Reporting Services

Please can you provide a 1 sided cover letter to explain why you are interested in this role and what you can bring to this role that is not evident from your CV.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose.  To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

This is an exciting time to join the charity as we transition to our new ambitious strategy for 2021 – 2023 and increase our profile, impact and reach so more people can live a happy, connected and purposeful later life. 

This role is situated in a department that brings together policy, campaigns and public affairs professionals. Our policy team analyses the problems that affect people as they grow older and develops tangible solutions to ensure that no-one feels ignored, isolated and marginalised. We work across 3 core areas: health and social care, poverty and loneliness. This role will provide vital support to our policy and research activities, ensuring our work delivers the maximum possible impact for older people.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous experience in a policy and/or research role or a related field.
• Excellent writing skills and the ability to flex writing styles across a range of platforms including reports, briefings, social media posts and blogs.
• Sound knowledge of policy issues as they affect older people.
• Experience of conducting qualitative or quantitative research work.
• Experience of building good working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across teams with different functions.
• An understanding of how policy, public affairs and campaigns activity interacts to create positive change.
• Proven ability to work independently and proactively to meet strict deadlines on a number of concurrent tasks.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• Strong IT skills including use of Microsoft Office packages.

As well as a competitive salary we offer 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, learning and development opportunities, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, an employee assistance programme and a discount voucher scheme.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and creating an environment where we can ALL be ourselves.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please visit the vacancy section of our website to view the full job description and to upload your CV.

Over the past 20 years The Diana Award has delivered services to thousands of young people across the UK and beyond, honing our expertise and skills to produce exceptional, high quality interventions that create long lasting change.

As we embark on the next phase of our strategy, launching in Spring 2021, we are looking for a dynamic and driven Policy Coordinator to help us realise our ambition to increase our policy influence and impact.

The Policy Coordinator will play a key role in helping the organisation to identify priorities and influencing opportunities, as well as ensure that our approach to policy engagement is youth-led and evidence-driven.

This is a new role within the newly established Impact and Evaluation team, also comprising an Impact and Evaluation Manager and two Impact and Evaluation Coordinators.

Job description_

Policy analysis and development:

• Work with the Programme Management Team and other key stakeholders across the organisation (including the Youth Board, Award recipients, alumni and mentees) to identify and agree policy priorities for 2021-2026

• Develop systems and processes to support policy development, ensuring that the organisation’s policy messages are informed by evidence and learning from our programmes and the wider youth sector, as well as the voices of the young people we work with

• Research and write a set of core policy positions for the Diana Award in line with agreed policy priorities

• Coordinate the development of policy submissions, consultation responses and other policy outputs for external audiences as appropriate

• Ensure staff and key stakeholders within the Diana Award are kept informed about external policy developments affecting young people, both in the UK and internationally.

• Work with the communications team to ensure The Diana Award's policy messages and outputs are communicated across the organisation's core channels.

Relationship building and partnership development:

• Identify and develop relationships with key policy networks and forums within the sector, both in the UK and internationally, seeking opportunities for collaboration and coordination where appropriate

• Coordinate the Diana Award’s representation and engagement with relevant sector networks and forums, providing direct representation where appropriate

• Monitor and identify opportunities for external policy engagement and influencing, working with the Programmes Management Team to develop and take forward plans.

• Support the The Diana Award's relationships with parliamentarians, elected representatives and other high profile influencers.

• Prepare briefing materials as appropriate for staff and other key stakeholders to represent The Diana Award's policy agenda externally.

Other

• Identify learning and development opportunities for staff and stakeholders (including ambassadors, youth board, award recipients, alumni and mentees) in the area of policy and influencing

• Ensure appropriate M&E framework in place to support policy work, contribute to ongoing monitoring and reporting

• Contribute to the the development of projects and funding proposals in support of the organisation's policy work

• Contribute to other organisational initiatives as appropriate.

Person Specification_

• Experience of working within a team contributing to policy change, influencing work and campaigning

• Clear understanding of current developments and policies affecting young people

• Writing skills: ability to write for different audiences and translate complex ideas into compelling content

• Analytical skills: ability to interrogate ideas and work with both qualitative and quantitative data

• Communications: ability to engage and inspire diverse audiences, experts and non-experts alike

• Research: ability to use participatory research tools and techniques relevant to young people

• Relationship management: experience of building and managing relationships with external stakeholders

• Personal management: ability to work under own initiative, managing time and resources effectively towards agreed objectives and priorities

• Safeguarding: knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues as they apply to children and young people, particularly within the context of policy, advocacy and research

• Demonstrable commitment to the mission and values of The Diana Award.

• Commitment to self-development

• Ability to work well under pressure

• Driven to achieve great results

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting Endometriosis UK to recruit for a Policy Manager to join their small but impactful team. This is a newly created position to help drive their next phase of development. Endometriosis UK is the UK's leading charity for all those affected by endometriosis, which impacts on the physical and mental health of 10% of women and those assigned female at birth. It is a disease that the majority of people have never heard, has no dedicated treatment, and costs the UK economy around £8.2 billion every year​. This role is being offered on a 2 year contract and is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced policy professional to help make a real difference for all those with the disease.

The Policy Manager is a stand-alone role, with no direct reports, which will require you to work strategically as well as being more hands on. Reporting directly in to the CEO, you will be responsible for leading, developing and delivering a new policy strategy, working closely with colleagues and volunteers within the organisation as well as senior external stakeholders. Your work will build the organisation's evidence base, translating evidence into persuasive arguments to influence at the highest levels, and ensuring those with endometriosis have access to high quality information about all aspects of living with the disease. You will lead policy consultation activities, responding to government policies and developments and produce policy reports, drawing on relevant data and evidence. You will also coordinate the organisation's engagement with the research community.

You will be a highly motivated policy professional with an understanding of health policy, with the experience to develop and lead the policy work of the charity. You will have previous experience of successfully planning, developing and delivering policy positions and will be able to demonstrate experience of successful projects that lead to change. You will have the drive and ability to find new opportunities for the charity to influence and improve the lives of those living with endometriosis. You will also have excellent analytical and written skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Prospectus will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, therefore if this is of interest we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible. In order to apply, please submit a CV in Word format in the first instance. Please note, we are currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies so it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application or registration.

Senior Youth Understanding Officer needed for the Youth Endowment Fund to lead the commissioning and delivery of national peer research and social action network.

Reports to: Head of Research and Youth Understanding,

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000

Location: Central London

Contract:Full time. The role starts with a two-year contract

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberies and offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have also seen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This is a tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners, the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime. We do this by finding the very best ways to prevent youth violence, funding great initiatives and working to scale them up and spread great ideas.

Research and evidence are at the heart of our charity’s mission. We want to be the go-to place for evidence on the lives of children affected by youth crime and violence, its causes, and what works to prevent it. The research and youth understanding team are responsible for commissioning and producing research to inform the YEF’s understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and to help us better understand the lives of young people vulnerable to youth violence, and what this means for the YEF’s work.

About this role

We’re looking for a passionate person who is committed to ensuring that evidence and a deep understanding of young people are central to everything that we do. Your job will be to lead the commissioning and delivery of a national peer research and social action network that the YEF will be establishing. This network will support the YEF’s understanding of youth crime and its drivers and will involve several partners, including:

• a national partner helping support and coordinate overall project delivery,
• a learning partner conducting a developmental evaluation of the project,
• a technology partner developing and supporting the systems to collect and process data across the network, and
• up to ten delivery partners operating in the ten regions of England and Wales, responsible for the recruitment, training, and ongoing support of peer researchers, as well as supporting the delivery of social action projects.

It will also include boosting our understanding of the characteristics, backgrounds and lives of the children and communities affected by youth crime and violence.

You will have knowledge and experience in a relevant sector such as the youth sector, social work, children’s social care or education. You will help identify, assess, fund and support organisations that will be responsible for delivering our national peer research network over the next two years.

Key responsibilities

Working as a senior member of a team, we want a person who can:

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with through managing the assessment of funding applications, getting to know potential partners and where possible conducting site visits.
• Build strong relationships with our partners and lead the ongoing oversight of the partners that will assist the YEF in delivering a national peer research and social action network, thinking creatively about how we can work with our partners to achieve our aims
• Oversee the development of materials to support the roll-out and delivery of the peer research and social action network
• Help host project events
• Be responsible for involving YEF’s youth advisory board in the oversight and delivery of the network
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality research across the network, which is designed to answer key questions of relevance to the YEF and the sector
• Help ensure that research and youth understanding informs all of the YEF’s work
• Engage with and understand the experiences and needs of people affected by violent youth crime, including young people and their families, across England and Wales.
• Work collaboratively with a range of external partners, including central government, local bodies and other research organisations, to enhance our understanding of what works to reduce violent youth crime and in delivering our broader research programme.
• Support the synthesis and dissemination of learnings across the network and external stakeholders in conjunction with a learning partner.

About you

You are this sort of person:

• You are a naturally very curious person that is confident with qualitative research. You have expertise in a range of qualitative research methods. You can provide examples of how you have practically used these skills.
• You are an excellent communicator. You love to communicate research to a diverse range of audiences, many of whom are not experts.
• You’re able to work independently and as part of a team. You get satisfaction from supporting your colleagues and meeting goals together but are self- motivated and can work independently.
• You are a highly effective project manager. You are effective at managing projects from beginning to end, whether they are delivered internally or externally.
• You win people over. You can build great partnerships and are comfortable working with a range of different people, including young people.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
  You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, views and values.
• You want to work in a job that makes young people safer. This issue matters to you. You do not need extensive experience in grant making, you can learn that. You will be an incredible member of our team if you are committed to understanding the challenges facing young people and the people and organisations working to support them and are inspired by a mission to find what works to prevent violence.
   

You must be able to demonstrate the following areas of knowledge/experience:

• Delivery experience: You have practical experience of delivering participatory research and managing teams delivering participatory research. You know what it's like to support young people and/or deliver programmes. When a person or organisation we fund is facing challenges, you can relate. You know when to provide challenge and support to ensure quality.
• Research methods: You have good knowledge and practical experience of a range of research methods including participatory research and qualitative approaches, and the ability to both deploy them and critically appraise their use.
• Excellent communicator: You can combine your technical expertise with experience of communicating complex evidence and analysis in a simple and accessible way to non-experts.
• Stakeholder engagement: You are comfortable seeking the views of young people and other stakeholders to help gather experiential insights for our work. This could include facilitating sessions with them.
• Project management: You are comfortable leading projects from beginning to end, tracking progress across different workstreams and ensuring delivery keeps to deadlines. When things might not go to plan, you aren't afraid to speak up about it and work constructively to find solutions.
• Collaborative working: You see value in working with others to get the best outcomes on each task and project.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion: You believe and act in a way that celebrates and encourages a range of experiences, backgrounds and values.

You might have these sorts of qualifications/knowledge/skills/experience:

• Previous experience of grant making, or managing complex programmes with multiple partners
• Post-graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in social science, social policy, public health, health services or other field, with a significant qualitative component, or relevant experience equivalent to a Masters qualification.

While it is not a criterion, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

You will be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at the interview stage.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 14th December. You must be available for two interviews within this week to proceed.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

The Accommodation Officer is a new full-time post helping to set up and run an exciting new project providing stable safe accommodation for women made destitute by the asylum system, as well as facilitating our existing hosting scheme providing short term placements for men and women. The post is offered initially on an 18-month contract, but is likely to be renewable.  This is a rare opportunity to be part of a project as it begins and to shape its direction, and to make a tangible difference to the lives of people who would otherwise be street homeless or living in unsafe situations as a result of the asylum process.

JRS UK works with around 350 destitute asylum seekers in the London area, providing a range of services in a holistic model. JRS has been providing temporary accommodation through our hosting scheme ‘At Home’ since 2012, facilitating short term placements primarily with religious congregations, and we are now opening a new 10-bedroom house in Stockwell, South London (Emilie House) specifically for women in need of more stable housing.  The Accommodation Officer will work closely with the Accommodation Manager to set the new project up and then oversee all placements in both our hosting scheme and Emilie House. 

JRS works in a highly relational way, and the postholder will need to be able to form strong relationships with the people we support, who we call refugee friends. They will accompany the refugee friends that JRS houses or hosts and ensure that their holistic support needs are met whilst they are accommodated with us, engaging with staff in the destitution services and with legal advisors to facilitate a long term route out of destitution.

JRS UK is a Catholic organisation and our work is rooted in Catholic social teaching and imbued with the spirituality of the Jesuits. But we serve people of all faiths and none without proselytising or favour. Our staff and volunteer teams are diverse and include people from many different faiths, nationalities, and generational backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with personal experience of the asylum system.  

Job title: Policy Associate 
Location: London with occasional travel (currently we are working from home)
Role:  Permanent, 36.5 hours a week
Salary: Grade D £27,045 plus £4,000 London weighting (FTE)

• Do you have a passion for healthcare and the NHS?
• Are you a problem solver with analytical skills? 
• If this sounds like you, please keep reading...

We are looking for a self-starter to join the Membership and Policy team, the post-holder will:

• Have strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Be able to write strong member communications and policy products
• Be capable to develop collaborative and conducive relationships with colleagues, members and wider external stakeholders and peers
• Be proactive, responsive and able to manage different portfolios of work confidently
• Not be afraid to challenge, be inquisitive and navigate a membership body that covers the complexity of the English NHS

The Role 

This role will support the policy team at NHS Confederation, and the organisation’s delivery of our policy and influencing activities. This will include:

• Updating key records and undertaking some administrative tasks for the team as requested by the Assistant Director of Policy and the Director of Policy and Membership
• Analysing Government statistics to understand NHS and wider performance, including on COVID-19-related activities
• Gaining and capturing member intelligence for policy development, such as taking notes in webinars and meetings, or constructing surveys to gain intelligence 
• Working closely with the membership and insight team in obtaining and analysing data
• Working closely with the communications and public affairs team to help respond to reactive, on the day media requests and announcements, and to action the publication of team policy products 
• Lead in writing member facing communications, such as member briefings and blogs on key topics 
• Providing support for our offer to Provider members and our Provider Offer 
• Providing additional capacity for parts of our thematic offer, under the direction of Senior Policy Advisers 
• Attending internal meetings and events
• Engaging with stakeholders, such as Royal Colleges, Think-Tanks, and officials from the Department from Health and Social Care and NHS England and NHS Improvement
• Keeping a CRM system and other databases up to date
• Using Social Media as a communication tool

The Organisation

You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and travel season ticket loans. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of the NHS Confederation and we are actively seeking to increase diversity in our workforce through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from discrimination. We welcome all applications from all backgrounds and encourage applications from our BAME communities, our LGBTQ+ communities and from individuals who identify as being disabled, as well as all other protected characteristics. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company culture where all employees feel valued, respected, and acknowledged.

The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly to respond to changing circumstances and we want to ensure we do as much as possible to help support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
The NHS Confederation is a membership body that brings together and speaks on behalf of all organisation’s that plan, commission, oversee and provide NHS services with our members drawn from every part of the health and care system. At the NHS Confederation we are passionate about our values (voice, openness, integrity, challenge, empowerment and respect). These are supported by a set of behaviours that demonstrate the attitudes and approach we take to work.

How to apply

To apply please read the job description and complete the application form found on our website.

Application deadline: Sunday 6th December 2020 (midnight)
Interview date: 16th and 17th December 2020 
 

HR Officer Responsibilities:

As our HR Officer you will work across the organisation, supporting the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) in providing a comprehensive, proactive, customer focused, solution-led human resources support and advisory service to the organisation, that takes account of emerging business needs and ensures consistent and fair practices are applied.  Advising on operational people issues in particular on the involvement of managers and staff in delivering exceptional performance and continuous improvement to service delivery.

HR Officer Requirements:
We are looking for someone that is highly engaging, capable of developing relationships quickly with staff and managers at all levels of the organisation. Someone with excellent interpersonal skills both written and verbal. They will have the ability to work under pressure, both in a team and autonomously.

About the Company:
Penny Appeal is an award-winning international charity offering a range of life-saving humanitarian and development focused solutions in over 30-crisis hit countries. As one of the fastest growing charities in the sector, we have transformed countless numbers of lives and empowered communities around the globe helping to break the poverty cycle through our simple vision; taking your small change and making a big difference. The organisation is going through a period of change; the successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring this is managed in a positive and engaging way.

This is a truly great opportunity to make your mark and be part of creating something amazing!

Location: Wakefield – West Yorkshire

Job type: Full Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: circa £26k per annum plus benefits

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, you will also receive 24 days holiday (excluding Bank Holidays), staff member store discount, company sick pay and pension scheme membership…. and of course the satisfaction of knowing that what you do is making a difference!

How to apply: Please send your CV, together with a summary of no more than two sides of A4

This role is 21 hours per week. Salary advertised is full time equivalent.

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.

Poverty is an outrage against humanity. It robs people of their dignity and lets injustice thrive. But together we have the power to transform lives.

We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality, justice and love worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

Everyone is equal in the sight of God. For over 70 years, this has inspired us to stand together in solidarity with our most marginalised global neighbours, of all faiths and none.

We push for good nutrition and healthcare for all. We fight the climate crisis and provide urgent help when disasters strike. We work in places of conflict to stand against violence and build lasting peace. And we help people living in poverty to earn a fair wage so they can protect themselves in times of crisis.

Above all, we seek to eradicate extreme poverty by tackling its root causes. Together with people living in poverty, we amplify our voices to speak truth to power and create lasting change.

About the role

The PPC Executive Assistant will take initiative and proactively organise, manage and provide support to the Director and FSE Senior Management Team. The successful candidate will have great organisational skills, bias for action, the ability to think laterally and deliver results. A high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information and professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company is imperative.

You will have the autonomy to complete complex tasks and projects quickly with little guidance and react to situations which require a quick turnaround, often not knowing the full picture. None the less you will react with the right level of urgency (and courtesy),and will efficiently and proactively solve complex problems that affect people within the department or other related groups. We are looking for someone that keeps calm under pressure and is able to manage assignments with sound judgement and with multitasking capabilities. This is a fast-paced environment but working within the team and as part of it is very rewarding.

PPC delivers policy, advocacy and campaigns work in the UK, and internationally, and provides strategic advisory support to country offices across our international programmes. We build evidence by drawing on our international programmes to make the case for change. We influence global, regional and national decision-makers, taking our case for change to those with power to effect it and we build movements to engage local people as agents of change.

This is a part time role, ideally Tuesday to Thursday, that will be initially home-based and then located at our London office when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

About you

We are looking for someone with significant administrative and/or secretarial experience, including support for senior staff in a large organisation. This will include experience of diary management and travel arrangements, and the ability to manage competing demands, often against tight deadlines

The successful applicant will have an excellent track record in building effective working relations across a team and the ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion when managing relationships at a senior level. You will require strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate and influence.

The role requires clear and confident verbal communication, good written communication, great organisation skills and the ability to minute effectively within varied and complex meeting agendas. You will need to be competent in a range of Office programmes including MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel and have experience of financial software, record keeping and budget monitoring. You will need to be willing and able to take responsibility for project work within agreed parameters.

Knowledge and understanding of the international development and humanitarian sector as well as understanding of Church relations and/or political relations would be an advantage.

We are looking for someone to join our team who is committed to Christian Aid's mission, vision and values, who is able to take the initiative, has the flexibility to respond to changes demands and is a great team player. Please refer to the role profile for the specific requirements.

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Delivering Results: Tell us about a time when you planned, prioritised and monitored your own work to meet the team's objectives to the standards required

-What was your context?

-What was your task/responsibility?

-How did you make your plan? What actions did you take?

-What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful? How did you know?

Communicate Effectively: Tell us about a time when you handled a difficult issue with someone else with openness, honesty and respect

-What was the context?

-What did you have to do?

-What did you say and how?

-What was the result? If you were successful, how did you know?

Build Partnerships: Tell us of a time when you had to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with a wide range of contacts and networks

-What was the context? Why did you need to establish the new relationships and why was your attitude to this important?

-What was your task? What outcomes were being sought?

-What actions did you take? How did you take them?

-What was the impact of your actions? Were you successful?

Do you want to work for a dynamic, creative, fast-paced charity? 

At Action Together we see the amazing things people achieve when they work together to make the lives of others better. We connect people, charities, public agencies and businesses who want to do good stuff, help them to find the money they need and provide the practical support to get things going and keep them going.

If you share our values; believe it's possible; strengthen others and be true, we’d love you to consider joining our team.

Healthwatch Tameside is one of the teams within Action Together and is the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. We’re here to find out what matters to people and help make sure their views shape the support they need. We have the power to make sure that those in charge of services hear people’s voices. Our sole purpose is to help make care better for people.

We are currently recruiting a Support with Complaints Officer (maternity cover). In this role you will specialise in the coordination and support for local people who wish to complain about care delivered by the NHS or social care providers. You will talk to clients who are unhappy with the NHS care they have received, help them to self-advocate, assist in their communication with NHS organisations and help them to navigate the formal NHS complaints process. You may also work as a member of the Healthwatch Tameside team to contribute to the effective delivery of wider Healthwatch activities.

Support with Complaints Officer (part time maternity cover)

Salary: NJC 19-22  £25,481-£27,041 (pro rata)

(actual £8,494-£9,014)

Contact Length: 12 months maternity cover

Working hours: 12 hours per week (open to discussion about working patterns)

In this role you will work alongside the Senior Officer for Complaints and Engagement, to support and advise people wishing to make a complaint about their NHS or social care experience.This role requires the post holder to undertake a DBS check. Confirmation in post is dependent on return of a satisfactory completed DBS check

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 9 December 2020 11:59pm.

Interviews are planned for the week commencing 14 December 2020.

As Policy & Information Officer at St John Ambulance, you will support our work on internal policy and information governance across the organisation. You will help to develop and maintain a suite of policies to support compliance and continuous improvement. You will help St John people to understand the requirements of our policy and information governance frameworks, and contribute to training and monitoring effectiveness.

About the Role

As Policy & Information Officer at St John Ambulance, you will support our work on internal policy and information governance across the organisation. You will help to develop and maintain a suite of policies to support compliance and continuous improvement. You will help St John people to understand the requirements of our policy and information governance frameworks, and contribute to training and monitoring effectiveness. You will handle Subject Access Requests received under data protection legislation and co-ordinate requests for data protection advice.

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 the role of Policy & Information Officer, you should have a good understanding of policy and information governance frameworks and a willingness to develop your skills in these areas. You will be a good communicator who is able to understand complex information and develop effective materials to convey this to your colleagues. You will be well organised and be able to work on your own initiative. You must be comfortable analysing information and producing status reports, and monitoring compliance against quality standards.

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 support and an Employee Assistance Programme

· Discounts – you’ll have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping.

Interview Date: Interviews will take place during the week of 14 December

Application Review Date: Friday 11 December

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.

Interviews will likely be held in early January. Please visit our website ('Get Involved') for more information, including a person specification.

Overview and summary 

We are seeking to appoint a full or part-time Policy and Communications Officer – a crucial role for our more than 50-strong coalition during a vital period for our work. This is a permanent role, and, dependent on experience, the appointment may be at senior officer level. 

We are entering an exciting time for our organisation and our work: we’re making the case for crucial new UK rules to ensure corporate accountability, and we are rebuilding our website, refreshing our brand and developing a new strategy as we seek to increase our engagement with politicians and the public.  

We are looking for someone who is passionate and knowledgeable about the issues we work on. You don’t need to be an expert on our issues, but if you’re not, you’ll need to have the ability to rapidly become one – so you should already have an understanding of political economy, sharp political analysis and experience of policy and/or communications work in the not-for-profit sector. 

We need someone who is equally comfortable working on a policy submission to government, advocating to an MP, writing an incisive comment article for publication in the media, or strategising how our campaign can best achieve its aims. And it’s vital that you have a real commitment to helping make a change on corporate accountability.

This is a crucial, very busy, outward-facing role in a small organisation seeking to make big changes. This role is at the heart of our diverse network and our ongoing collaborative efforts to bring about fundamental changes in corporate accountability.

Please note, applicants must hold the right to work in the UK to be considered for this role. CORE is an equal opportunities employer committed to adopting and refining anti-oppressive practises in its work. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in the business and human rights sector. 

About CORE 

The CORE Coalition is the UK’s long-standing civil society coalition on corporate accountability – working in tandem with our partners, we’ve been at the heart of some of the biggest changes seen in UK and EU laws on corporate accountability in recent years. 

CORE is a registered charity and has a membership spanning NGOs, trade unions and law firms. We work to ensure greater corporate accountability in the UK, and access to justice for people and communities around the world who suffer from UK corporate abuses of human rights and the environment: we advocate for change, we campaign for new corporate accountability rules, we raise awareness of the impacts corporations have on human rights – and build public support for the rights of affected individuals and communities. 

Recent examples of our work include intervening in UK Supreme Court cases against mining giant Vedanta and oil major Shell, briefing the UK Government on the reform of the corporate transparency provision in the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, and developing and running a campaign for new corporate accountability legislation in the UK. 

CORE has three staff: an Executive Director, a Policy and Communications Officer, and a part-time Finance Officer. We are also currently recruiting a new role – a Network and Administration Officer. We are supported by an outstanding board, made up of experts drawn from across NGOs, academia and law firms. 

Role description 

Policy and advocacy  

• Research, write, draft and edit materials, including responses to Government consultations and parliamentary inquiries, policy briefing papers, research reports and advocacy letters; 
• Represent CORE in advocacy meetings with government, civil servants, parliamentarians and other policy-makers; 
• Represent CORE at external meetings, events and policy forums, including public forums; 
• Maintain an overview of developments in corporate accountability for human rights and the environment in the UK and overseas; 
• Attend external events and read research publications to maintain an overview of developments in corporate accountability. 

Communications 

• Write and sell-in press releases and comment articles to news outlets, maintain relationships with journalists; 
• Co-manage the CORE website, including sourcing and generating content; 
• Co-manage CORE’s social media presence; 
• Respond to enquiries about CORE’s work and share information with partner organisations. 

 Coalition work 

• Coordinate and participate in policy and communications activities with partner organisations, including developing and managing joint projects; collaboratively producing, writing and editing materials;
• Co-develop strategy for our organisation and coalition in collaboration with the Executive Director, our Board and our partner organisations; 
• Provide policy expertise to ensure partner organisations are updated about CORE’s work and relevant national and international policy developments; 
• Provide policy and communications expertise in our regular network meetings, and facilitate and arrange and meetings; 
• Build relationships with new and existing members, ensuring that where possible our work highlights connections and consensus across the coalition as well as alignment with partner priorities, that partner work and positions are well represented on our website and in joint policy and communications outputs, including briefings, website ‘actions’ and advocacy meetings; 
• Assist the Executive Director with other tasks as required. This will include some administrative and logistical responsibilities, as needed in a small organisation. 

This role can be based in the UK or Ireland, homeworking in either location will be considered. If the role is based in the London office an additional £4,170pa London allowance will be paid.

About us

Christian Aid is an international development charity that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty, and for this to happen unequal power relations need to be challenged and changed.

We work in partnership to eradicate extreme poverty; dismantle its root causes across the world; and enable the voice and agency of the poor and marginalised to be fully realised. We deliver humanitarian assistance, in the wake of disasters and conflict, development programmes and policy, advocacy and campaigns so that poor and marginalised children, women and men, of all faiths and non, can achieve equality, dignity and justice.

About the role

This role will be the chief policy advisor for the organisation on the critical sustainable development, economic and political issues of the day. As a strategic role for the organisation, the post holder will ensure that Christian Aid is the 'go-to' faith and development agency in the UK and internationally for progressive policy advice and direction. Ensuring excellent quality public policy research and reports across Christian Aid, the post will have specific responsibility for producing high profile flagship reports on critical and current development issues. Our policy work will be grounded in the experience and evidence from the country programmes, and provide leading edge policy analysis to deliver our strategic advocacy objectives, in the UK and globally.

This is a complex and senior role that will rely on both actual authority as well as credibility and the ability to build relationships across Christian Aid. The post holder will exercise a high level of influence with senior colleagues, building policy coherence and cohesion across the areas of Economic Justice, Climate Justice, Humanitarian, Gender Justice and Theology and shaping organisational thinking and understanding on key issues within the context of the corporate impact areas

The role will work closely with the Head of Global Advocacy and Policy and with Issue Leads and will have a high level of self-determination in how they structure their work and achieve their objectives. The role holder will need to be able to work independently and be confident in taking responsibility for the decisions that they make.

About you

You will be an experienced policy professional and manager, who can see both the big picture but can analyse policy in forensic detail, and who understands and is abreast of the latest thinking on multi-dimensional poverty, and has demonstrated real change with and for people living in poverty.

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build Partnerships and Communicates Effectively

Can you outline, at least two policy areas where you have built coherence across diverse and complex policy areas which has led to successful change for people living in poverty. How did you approach this?

Steward Resources

Christian Aid works with the people and partners in our global and country programmes to leverage change at a national, regional and global level. Can you give some examples of how you can worked with country programmes or partners to generate evidence and data and how have you used this knowledge to deliver effective advocacy at a regional or Global level?

Steward Resources and Deliver Results

This role will be managing a team can you outline two examples of where you have both been part of a team and influenced from within, and where you have managed a team and been in a leadership role where you have had to balance multiple view points and reach consensus and have had manage risk. What approach and tactics and tools did you use?

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the UK or Ireland where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid's Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid's Code of Conduct.