CEO of Hamlin Fistula UK

Hamlin Fistula UK is a small charity but we make a big difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable women in the world. We’re over fifty years old but are now at a time of significant development and, with the retirement of our long-serving CEO, we are looking to appoint someone to take us forward over the next few years.

We are crucial in supporting Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (HFE) as they work to eradicate the devastating childbirth injury, obstetric fistula, from the country. HFE runs six fistula hospitals, fifty-six health centres, a College of Midwives and a rehabilitative farm and training centre for long-term patients. Our work focuses on supporting them, which we do mainly by providing funding of around £500,000 to Ethiopia each year, raised primarily from individual donations but also from trusts, foundations and legacies.

The CEO post is for 22.5 hours per week which can be worked flexibly across at least three days, with at least one day in our Halesowen office. We are also open to negotiating the working pattern across the year by annualising the hours if appropriate. The salary is £30,000 (£50,000 FTE). Ideally, the successful candidate will be appointed and able to start by October.

The CEO is the sole permanent employee, although there is a contracted fundraiser who works for the charity two days per week. Given that the work of the charity is fundraising, we need someone who has experience in this area, with strong self-motivation skills, the ability to work with our board of trustees, a high degree of financial literacy, excellent written and spoken communication and the interpersonal skills to use these effectively with a wide range of audiences. The post-holder will have the chance to undertake all aspects of the charity’s work – an ideal opportunity for someone who knows about fundraising but wishes to expand their experience into other areas of charity work. Above all, to be successful in the role the new CEO will have to have a genuine commitment to the work and vision of Hamlin Fistula UK.

Hamlin Fistula UK is one of several Hamlin charities across the world and the CEO will be in contact with our Australian sister charity, the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation. And working with senior managers at HFE is an important aspect of the work. In normal times the CEO and Chair of Trustees go to Ethiopia once a year to meet with HFE and the other international partners to discuss targets and budgets for the coming year.

If you think you are the person to take our work forward over the next few years, please see the attached job description for details of how to apply online.

This sort of opportunity doesn’t come around very often.  Serving in a key leadership role at national Church level is a role worth taking a close look at.  Reporting to the Chair, you will work alongside the Board of Trustees as well as other key parts of the Free Church of Scotland at a national level - yet you will also support the work of our local churches across Scotland and beyond, and our international mission.

In leading the Central Office, you will shape and implement the Board’s ambitious strategy and priorities, in support of bringing good news to communities.  You will help people join things together, take initiative and pursue the direction of travel.  You will inspire people with your commitment and energy for the ambitions of the Church as well as your professionalism as a leader and manager.  You will understand what good governance is all about in leading an organisation, ensuring effective people management, financial management and risk management.

If you enjoy complexity, are in tune with our values and ethos, and are seeking a role that offers breadth and scope, the opportunity to influence within and beyond the Church, and, ultimately, help bring good news to people, we welcome your interest.  Please read our ‘Information for Applicants’.

Closing date: Wednesday 26 August 2020 at 12 noon

Assessment: Wednesday 16 September 2020

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed, active Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

akt is looking for a digital caseworker to support young lgbtq+ people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness across the UK. Based in our Manchester office, the successful applicant will be responsible for developing a digital offfer that meets all the current and potential needs of young people accessing our services.

Job Summary

• Embed online chat as a core offer within akt for young people.
• Identify and scope further areas digital work with young people
• Develop and grow with the Assistant Director of Services to have a digital offer that meets all the current and potential needs of young people.
• To assess the needs of young LGBT people who are homeless, vulnerably housed, or in a hostile environment, and to carry out signposting and brief interventions.
• Maintain and deliver the quarterly performance management reports for digital services and participate in services committees to offer feedback on local performance.
• Develop tools that monitor the impact of the digital work for those accessing the service.
• Offer support to volunteers around digital engagement including live chat.
• Create and maintain digital resources and signposting to allow you to engage with young people and signpost appropriately.  
• Maintain and develop the online resource hub so it continues to meet the needs of young people accessing online support.

acta is recruiting a new Director with experience in fundraising and human resources to manage its innovative work in participatory Community Theatre; a unique opportunity to lead this internationally acclaimed company.

The new Director will have a proven track record in leading an organisation in the field of social change; strategic thinking; business management; success in identifying and securing funds; human resources; partnership working; with a strong commitment to facilitation, and collaborative/adaptive leadership.

We are looking for someone to respect and build on acta’s strong track record, but with the vision to develop and innovate.

This appointment is a new post and a key component of the Company’s managed transition process towards the stepping down of acta Founder and Artistic Director, Neil Beddow, in March 2021. Neil will work alongside the new Director for a transition period over the Winter months.

Further information

Deadline for receipt of completed applications is 21 September, with interviews on 6 – 8 October.

Full job pack, including job description, person specification and application process now available on our website.

We encourage all applicants to take a detailed look at the website to truly understand what the history and mission of acta.

We will be recruiting in accordance with our equality and diversity recruitment procedures, so will be making opportunities available to all applicants on a fair basis. However, we are keen to recruit workers representative of the diverse cultural backgrounds of our participants, and encourage applications from BAME and / or disabled people, who are under-represented in the existing staff team, for this significant new leadership post.

Job Title: Operations Director Managing Service Delivery- Relief

No of Posts: 1

Salary: £33,000, Pension and Health Benefits

Status: Full Time, Substantive

Hours: 37.5 per week

Holidays: 24 days plus Bank Holidays per annum

Based at: Wigan and Leigh

Responsible to: CEO

Accountable to: Queen’s Hall Action on Poverty Trustees

SUMMARY

The Brick is a small charity with big aspirations for people in need within our community. We provide RELIEF, RESTORATION and REFORMATION by offering tailored support, hope, and opportunity to those looking to improve their quality of life. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional individual to join the charity in vital and exciting role. Your role will be to enhance, integrate and develop all aspects of relief services within the Charity. You will need to be as committed as we are to equip people from diverse backgrounds for self-sustaining and independent living. You will have an understanding about the need to ensure people have a safe, nurturing environment to thrive in, which is the first step into transition.

To be successful, you will be a person who has
• high integrity,
• commitment to organisational development, and good governance,
• excellent communication skills
• the ability to work at pace in a complex context,
• the ability to work in a team in a practical, flexible and cooperative way
• passionate about people having a right to choice
• passionate about an asset based approach to all service delivery

To Apply: Please complete an application form along with a brief overview of why you feel you are perfect for this role in no more than 500 words. Please attach all documents when applying for this vacancy.

Please apply early as we reserve the right to bring forward or extend the deadline for applications, so please get your applications in as soon as possible.

Closing Date: 12 Noon Friday 28th August 2020

Possible Interview days: Early September TBC

*** We are a Christian Charity with Christian Values supporting the Wigan Community *****

****The Brick is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of our workforce.
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and support or staff from different backgrounds****

Location: Flexible

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £80,000

The RSPCA is seeking an Assistant Director Public Fundraising and Mass Engagement to develop and implement a leading-edge audience-focused integrated strategy to optimise engagement and long-term value for the charity from the UK public.

The RSPCA is the oldest animal welfare charity in the world and one of the most widely recognised and loved charities in the UK, helping to improve the welfare of pets, farm animals, wild animals and those used in research and testing.  

After a thorough review of its income generation programme, the charity is now at the implementation stage of a subsequent ambitious, innovative and exciting new strategy and plan, and this role will play a key part in driving that forward and to grow net income and donor numbers.

Responsible for a team of 32, the role will lead and motivate the charity’s Individual Giving, Events and Legacy Marketing teams, championing RSPCA supporters throughout the organisation. An integral part of the leadership team, the post will deliver annual income of approximately £40 million and ensure excellent team performance in supporter acquisition, retention and development, and legacy marketing activities.

The RSPCA are seeking an inspirational leader with a proven track record of success in driving significant net income and long-term value through developing and implementing individual giving growth and retention strategies. That track record will also extend to leading, development and managing all areas of individual giving, legacy marketing and events/mass participation marketing. You will have excellent analytical and financial management skills, alongside outstanding interpersonal and networking skills. You will also be a persuasive and professional communicator and be able to deliver exceptional customer care.

Finally, you must have a commitment to the sector and to the values and vision of the RSPCA to live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion.

For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please contact Anton Packheiser +44 (0) 7749 858597 or Suzie Spooner on +44 (0) 7960 932 315.

NEA, the national fuel poverty and energy efficiency charity, is recruiting for a Finance Assistant to work on a job share basis, for a minimum of 2 days per week, from its Newcastle upon Tyne office.  Working in partnership with central and local government, fuel utilities, the health sector, consumer groups and NGOs, NEA aims to eradicate fuel poverty and promote energy efficiency to low-income and other vulnerable households.

This post is located in the Directorate of Support Services and the post-holder will be line managed by the Finance Manager.

Candidates will be able to demonstrate a good all-round financial support background with experience in undertaking financial tasks up to trial balance stage, and the role essentially involves undertaking book-keeping tasks using Sage accounting software as well as some manual records, issuing and coding sales invoices, processing and matching purchase invoices to purchase orders, processing payroll records and undertaking debt chasing activity.

NEA is looking ideally for an experienced candidate who has a proven track record of working in a small, dynamic finance environment and has prior experience of Sage accounting software.

The job description provides a list of the duties of the post and the person specification provides the list of essential and desirable criteria. This, and an application form can be downloaded below or from our website.

The closing date for all applications is Monday 10 August 2020 at 5pm.  Interviews will be held on Monday 17 August 2020, please indicate in your letter that you are available on this date.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.    NOTE THAT WE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS VIA CV - YOU MUST APPLY USING OUR APPLICATION FORM

Administrative Assistant – Contract
Central London (currently remote based due to COVID-19)

Do you have exceptional communication skills, a highly organised approach and a great eye for detail? Want to take on an engaging contract with an organisation that’s making a positive impact on the UK education system? If so, read on.

About Us

We are the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), an independent grant-making charity that is committed to ensuring that children from all backgrounds can fulfil their potential and make the most of their talents.

We offer grants to a variety of organisations, such as schools, local authorities and charities, to trial new ways of helping 3 – 18 year olds succeed, whether that’s improving their educational performance, giving them valuable life skills or preparing them for the world of work or further study.

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on pupils’ learning. In response to the unprecedented closure of schools to most pupils, we’ve helped launch the National Tutoring Programme, as well as a range of resources to support home learning.

We’re currently looking for an Administrative Assistant to join us on a 12 month fixed-term contract and provide additional support to all areas of the National Tutoring Programme and EEF’s work.

The Benefits

- Salary of £20,000 - £30,000 per annum DOE 
- Flexible start and end working times (core hours between 10am and 4pm)
- Flexible working opportunities
- 27 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
- Pension matched with a 5% employer contribution
- Life insurance cover
- Interest-free season ticket loan and cycle scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave pay (conditions apply)
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme to help you deal with any personal and professional problems

This is a great opportunity to gain experience in the charity sector while supporting the day-to-day running of an organisation that’s striving to break the link between family income and educational achievement.

You’ll have the chance to get involved with a variety of tasks, including communications, office support, events and governance, making this the ideal role in which to strengthen your existing expertise. 

The Role

As an Administrative Assistant, you will provide a high level of administrative support to our organisation. 

You’ll join the National Tutoring Programme Team, a government-funded, sector-led initiative to support schools in addressing the impact of COVID-19 school closures on pupils’ learning. 

Some of your duties will include:

- Responding to telephone, email and mail enquiries 
- Providing PA support to our Deputy CEO and National Tutoring Partners Director
- Taking minutes at committee meetings 
- Organising events including seminars, roundtable events and conferences 

About You

To join us as an Administrative Assistant, you will need:

- Experience with CRM software, such as Salesforce 
- Intermediate or advanced knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills 
- The ability to prepare reports, support materials, correspondence and policy briefings/papers to a high standard 
- Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organisation
- Excellent attention to detail 
- A genuine interest in the education sector and a commitment to the aims and mission of the EEF

Experience of any of the following would be beneficial: working as an administrative assistant, managing a range of projects, or working in an educational, charity or not-for-profit setting. A degree (or equivalent) would also be an advantage. 

Other organisations may call this role Administrator, PA, EA, Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant, Team Administrator, Office Administrator, Programme Administrator, or Project Administrator.

The closing date for applications is the 20th August 2020. 

The EEF is committed to creating a diverse environment and ensuring that all qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment. We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment practices (and are open to job shares, secondments, part time and flexible working schedules).

So, if you are seeking your next challenge as our Administrative Assistant, please select the apply button shown to be brought to our website. 

You will be asked to submit your CV and a covering letter. Your letter should be no more than 700 words and should outline (1) your particular interest in this position at the EEF, and (2) how you think you match what we’re looking for, drawing on specific examples.

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Do you have an excellent phone manner? Are you calm under pressure when interacting with supporters and handling queries? And most importantly, do you have a passion for releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name?

If yes, Compassion UK would love to hear from you.

At the heart of Compassion’s ministry is a relentless passion to act on our faith and empower every child left vulnerable by poverty. Our work is Christ centred, child focused, and church based.

About the role

You’ll be joining us as a Supporter Experience Assistant working in the heart of our Compassion UK office in our Engagement Centre delivering outstanding customer service. This is such an amazing opportunity to care and guide our supporters through their journey with Compassion UK. You’ll demonstrate your excellent telephone and administrative skills answering incoming enquiries and initiate outgoing enquiries by phone, text, email, chat, social media, and face-to-face. You’ll play a pivotal part in helping our supporters grow in engagement with their sponsored children and with Compassion UK's ministry.

By delivering excellent customer service, you’ll encourage our supporters to participate fully in a global movement of Compassion, so that together we can release more children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

Responsibilities

• Actively maintain and promote Compassion UK's Christian ethos and values.
• Provide excellent telephone customer service skills
• Build relationships with supporters to ensure they are known, loved, protected, and ignited to action.

About you

To flourish in this role, you’ll need:

• Customer service experience. You’ll have experience in a frontline customer-facing role, including telephone-based work. You must be able to demonstrate a record of interacting with customers and handling queries.
• Core office/ administrative skills. You must be fluent in English and competent in written and numerical work, with experience of basic office systems such as Microsoft Office.

It would help (but isn’t essential) to have

• Experience using a CRM tool or customer database.

We need you to be:

• Personally committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practising Christian, in order to promote Compassion’s ethos and help others to experience, explore, and express the faith-based motivation of our work. (You can read more about this in our Policy on Posts to be Held by Christians).

• Deeply connected to Compassion’s ministry to children.
• Aligned to Compassion UK’s cultural attributes.
• A ‘people person’.
• A great listener and communicator.
• Adaptable, flexible, and resilient.
• Open to peer feedback.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

This is an office-based role in our modern, ‘agile’ office with free parking, just a 15-minute walk from Fleet station.

Benefits include enhanced pension scheme with 10% employer contribution, equivalent of 5 normal working weeks' annual leave a year, plus normal bank holidays, Income Protection, and Group Life cover on appointment.

How to Apply

The closing date for completed applications is 10:00am 12th August 2020. Interviews w/c 17th August 2020.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. Late applications may be considered.

Please note that we can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK.

Child protection

Compassion is a child-focused ministry; we believe every child should be known, loved and protected. One area of the interview will explore your personal commitment to child protection. A satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be a requirement once a conditional offer of employment is made to successful candidates.

Please note that the salary range for qualified candidates will be £37,922-£44,336, plus £4,000 accountancy allowance.
The salary range for part-qualified candidates will be £33,107-£38,618, plus £2,000 accountancy allowance.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is at the heart of the government’s economic and social agendas. A quarter of UK businesses are in our sectors and are among the most exciting and fastest growing of the whole economy. They provide 5.2 million jobs and deliver £38bn worth of exports. Our mission is to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain to the world. 

The Reporting & Management Accounting Manager is a new role which is being created as part of a transformation of the DCMS Finance team. This change involves bringing management accounting and reporting tasks out of the Finance Business Partnering (FBP) team and into a central hub. This will facilitate more consistent, efficient and dynamic reporting, as well as greater efficiency in routine management accounting tasks. It will enable the Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to focus on value-added activities supporting the department’s policy teams and over 40 arm’s-length bodies.

This role is an opportunity to help establish and shape the MA Hub function. Most of the reporting within the remit of this role currently resides within the FBP team and needs to be centralised and overhauled. The role-holder will also work with the FBPs to design and produce new reporting to address currently unmet needs. They will develop a broad understanding of DCMS’s core policy areas and systems and be challenged to make newly-centralised routine management accounting processes as efficient as possible.

Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Produce monthly core department budget holder reports and Director General reports, ensuring that these reports fully and accurately reflect actuals, forecasts and budgets; reconcile to department funding and agreed delegations; and enable sufficient insight for review by various stakeholders
• Coordinate and optimise the process flow for the monthly update of core budget forecasts, and upload forecasts to the finance system
• Work with the Finance Business Intelligence team to test, trial and design more dynamic, efficient reporting using data infrastructure improvements currently in the pipeline, such as a database and business intelligence tool.
• Improve reporting by providing insight into predicted future performance and the robustness of forecasts through analysis of run rates and prior year comparisons
• Prepare and post journals, including re-accruals, reallocations and payroll adjustments.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Be a fully- or part-qualified CCAB or CIMA accountant with excellent spreadsheet skills 
• Have a collaborative approach and the ability to work well with others, as well as working well under own initiative
• Knowledge of central government accounting and budgeting rules (desirable)
• Experience of creating reports in reporting tools like Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or Google Data Studio (desirable)
• Experience in an FP&A or other reporting-focused role, and/or in a management accounting role with a significant reporting element (desirable).

For more information or an informal discussion, please apply via the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Stuart Thomson at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.

Head of Services

Yorkshire and North East

£50,000 per annum plus bonus, pension and healthcare

Are you an innovative and effective senior operational leader with commercial acumen and a strong social ethos and ready to make a positive contribution to the lives of homeless people with support needs?

One (Housing and Support) CIC are a specialist provider of intensive housing management to vulnerable groups of people. As a newly formed not-for-profit community interest company we work with a variety of people who need help to overcome barriers in their lives. We work in partnership with people to provide high-quality accommodation and support and help them to learn the key skills needed to live independently and play an active role in their community, giving them access to a better future.

At One CIC, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to do great things.

About the role

This is a highly rewarding opportunity and an excellent time to join an organisation that is passionate about reducing homelessness and giving people access to a better life.

The role itself is highly autonomous and strategic and is a vital part of the senior leadership team which has impressive growth plans UK wide.

Reporting to the Chief Executive and working closely with the Directors, you will implement and drive initiatives to meet the objectives and goals of One CIC; and will proactively drive continuous service improvement plans to meet challenging targets and achieve the best value for the customers, their team and the future of the organisation.

As a leader you will manage the operation, which will include talent attraction, development, retention and performance of several individuals, such as: Housing Manager, Housing Support Officers and the wider support team.

As the safety of people is paramount, you will be accountable for managing risk and ensuring the organisation is compliant with current and ever-changing housing laws and recommendations.

You will manage seamless relationships with many internal and external stakeholders, inclusive of local housing teams, commissioners and partners. Nurturing these relationships and enabling them to identify and develop continued and future growth opportunities across the Yorkshire and North East Region

About you

Able to demonstrate extensive experience of strategically leading an operational service where you have implemented successful policies, procedures and continuous improvement initiatives, ideally within the housing or homeless sector or a similar not-for profit organisation.

You will be a commercially astute manager with proven experience of developing business opportunities and have a personal drive and ambition to meet One CIC's plans for growth and development.

With a proven passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help tenants, you will have first class communications skills and be able to build effective relationships with stakeholders.

By adopting a collaborative and supportive management style, you will be able to lead, influence and mentor with a strong emphasis on employee engagement and a personal commitment to tenant/customer involvement.

You will have an excellent track record in developing and overseeing outstanding support for people facing homelessness (or a related areas) such as supporting people to move on to their own accommodation, gain independence and/or reintegrate them back into a community setting.

How to apply

Please upload a copy of your CV, along with a covering letter which explains both why you are attracted to this post, and why you are the right person for us. Please limit your covering letter to no more than 1 page. 

The closing date for applications is 9am, Monday 17th August, with first stage interviews taking place week commencing 17 th and 24 th August 2020 and final interviews scheduled for week commencing 7 th or 14 th September 2020.

The role involves:

• Operational management and leadership of the Institute
• Strategic and operational planning and resource management
• Spearheading the continuous improvement of our planning processes
• Ownership of our quality assurance procedures
• Managing a team of professional staff across the areas of finance; IT; HR and facilities; marketing, membership and events
• Managing the Institute’s governance processes (including research governance)
• Deputising for the BIICL Director (as necessary)  
• Strategic engagement with partners and stakeholders.

This role needs a highly motivated, dynamic leader with excellent people skills.  Someone who is as excited about the Institute’s potential as we are and who will work with us to further build the Institute into a world leading research centre.

The Person

You will be an experienced senior leader, ideally from a higher education, research institute or charity environment with the following skills and experience:

• Expert knowledge in more than one of the following areas: operational management, financial management, charity governance and communications; 
• Experience of managing human and physical resources and IT systems;
• Understanding of what is involved in conducting high quality research, including knowledge of research funding, ethical issues, evaluation and impact; 
• Ability to lead, motivate and involve people and groups in an inclusive way across an organisation, including in small teams;
• Excellent interpersonal and management skills with demonstrable tact and diplomacy; 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing, chairing meetings and making presentations;
• Ability to work on own initiative, to prioritise work effectively, to be a creative innovator and problem-solver, and to work under pressure to meet deadlines;
• A clear commitment to individuals’ personal and professional development; and
• An ability and willingness to work collaboratively and collegially with colleagues.
   

PLEASE NOTE APPLICATION PROCESS OUTLINED IN JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Chief Executive Officer

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Central London

Pension: 5% employer contribution

Closing Date: 5pm 10th August 2020

Interviews to be held: Week commencing 7th September 2020

To apply: Send us your CV along with a detailed covering letter explaining how you meet each of the criteria outlined in the person specification.

For nearly 30 years Carers Network has supported unpaid carers in the City of Westminster. We have grown significantly in the past three years and now have responsibility for providing services in three London Boroughs. Our income comes from a range of sources, in addition to the local authorities where we provide services.

We provide information, advice, casework and support, social events, and activities for carers. We ensure carers are involved in making decisions about all aspects of their caring role.

We are now seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial and charismatic leader to take our charity to the next stage of its development. Someone who is passionate about helping carers in London. If you think this is you, then we’d love to hear from you.

Duties Include:

Strategic management of the organisation

• Leading the organisation and overseeing performance against contracts, voluntary funded projects and service delivery plans within a positive organisational culture.
• Developing and ensuring delivery against an ambitious strategic plan and developing a new strategy for 2021 onwards.
• Line management of senior managers and the Volunteer Development Officer.
• Overseeing operational activity of the organisation.
• Strengthening the organisation, including ensuring overall resource management and overseeing service and project development, volunteer engagement, fundraising, premises decisions and organisational development.
• Working positively and effectively with the public and voluntary and community sectors.
• Negotiating effectively and successfully with funders/commissioners.
• Representing Carers Network at key meetings with funders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

Business transformation

• Seeking out and realising opportunities to expand Carers Network to reach and support more carers across central London.
• Ensuring that Carers Network secures and delivers services that are in line with our charitable objectives.
• Developing pan-regional work and partnerships.
• Growing Carers Network’s income from non-statutory sources.
• Ensure the continuation of volunteer involving developments.

Overseeing governance

• Ensuring all governance requirements are complied with.
• Carrying out the role of Company Secretary.
• Supporting, informing and advising the Board and the Finance and Risk Committee.

Public relations work

• Championing the work of Carers Network and ensuring that the charity is represented on the most strategically important bodies.
• Networking with local, regional and national stakeholders.
• Raising the profile of carers and of the charity’s work regionally and nationally.
• Ensuring that Carers Network is seen as a voice for unpaid carers and an example of a high-quality charity doing inspiring work.

Person Specification

• At least three years’ experience in a leadership role.
• Experience of leading the development and implementation of a strategic plan including delivery against challenging organisational targets.
• Experience of leading and motivating a high-performing team.
• Experience of managing resources in a similar size and type of organisation including developing, creating and managing budgets.
• Experience of growing income from a variety of sources and of developing new business.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator, well able to credibly represent the organisation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of successful networking and developing relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Experience of developing effective partnerships.
• Experience of working in partnership with a board of trustees.
• Ability to demonstrate continuing personal development.
• Experience of work with local and regional media to enhance profile.
• Experience of contract negotiation and management with funders/ commissioners.
• Understanding of the governance, legal and regulatory requirements of managing a charity.
• Experience of working with an infrastructure involving volunteers.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex financial information and understanding of risk management.
• Understanding of current and potential changes in the not for profit and statutory sectors.
• Understanding of the public sector and able to demonstrate drive and passion for the work of the organisation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of successful networking and developing relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and empathise with the needs of carers.
• Substantial experience of coaching managers.

ClientEarth is looking to expand our Board of Trustees. We are looking to appoint 2-3 new trustees who will bring new skills and experience to our board. As we scale to become a global organisation, with a significant move into Asia, and as we recognise the links between social justice and environmental justice, we are looking to build a more international and more ethnically diverse Board of Trustees.

Since our inception in 2008, we have gone from strength to strength, winning major legal landmark victories for the good of our planet. We currently work across 60 countries on four continents through our network of legal entities and offices. Our 200 staff work across offices in Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, London, Madrid, and Warsaw.

As a member of the board of Trustees, you will be responsible for setting the overall programmatic and financial strategy of the charity and for approving the annual budget. Day-to-day management of the charity is delegated to the chief executive officer and senior management team.

We are privileged to have an active and international Board. Our trustees are people who are successful and well regarded in their chosen careers, committed to the aims of the charity, and able to share their judgement, experience, and connections with ClientEarth. range from former investment bankers and CEOs to consultants and lawyers.

We are specifically looking for Trustees with a background in some of the following areas:

• Senior legal experience (as a justice, managing legal teams, or lawyer) with experience in key jurisdictions, notably Germany, EU, China, Japan, SE Asia or Central and Western Africa
• Experience in EU law-making and public affairs
• Experience of operating in, and ideally driving change, in China, Japan, SE Asia or Central and Western Africa
• International charity-sector finance and audit skills
• US climate and sustainability finance

Please see the Trustee Information pack (click the apply link on this advert to be taken to our jobs portal) for full details on the role, time commitments, and recruitment timeline.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 20th August 2020.

ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented on our Board.