Thank you for your interest in the role of Africa Programme Officer at Anti-Slavery International.

We are the world’s oldest human rights organisation and our vision is a world free from slavery. We believe that modern slavery is a contemporary issue of the highest importance and we are determined to work with others to ensure people can be free from slavery across the world.

The Africa Programme Officer is responsible for overseeing the implementation of projects under the Africa Programme. Currently the Africa Programme includes projects which raise awareness of and support the full emancipation of slavery survivors in Niger, Mali and Mauritania; and projects seeking to eradicate forced begging by religious students in Senegal, Mali, Niger and Nigeria through community engagement, campaigning, research, advocacy and coalition building.

The successful candidate will facilitate the Africa project deliverables and activities (including advocacy, research, publications, capacity trainings, planning meetings and evaluations) effectively and efficiently, working through in-country partners as well as monitoring project budget and progress and preparing donor reports.

Whilst the role will focus initially on the management of our descent-based slavery project in Niger, the role will also support the Africa Programme Manager with the development of other anti-slavery projects and initiatives.

This exciting position brings lots of potential for increased responsibility which requires a high level of organisation and initiative. With a complex programme of work to delivery you will need to have proven experience of managing projects, be highly organised with the ability to use your own initiative with minimal supervision and has the ability to manage competing deadlines to implement multi-discipline projects. Given that the project related to this role is delivered in partnership with a local organisations based in Niger, West Africa it is essential that candidates are fluent in French (both spoken and written)

We are looking for someone who can embody our values and who shares our passion for fighting slavery and interested in monitoring slavery-related developments in Africa.

The role will be two and a half days per week/ 17.5 hours/week for 18 months, with the possibility of increasing in hours and/or contract length at a later stage, funding permitting.

Anti-Slavery International offers a flexible, friendly working environment, a committed team of staff, and the opportunity to work to combat serious human rights abuses, and to make a real difference to the lives of people who are most excluded from society.

If you think this fits with your expertise and ambition, we would love to hear from you.

Please read the recruitment pack for details on how to apply.

The purpose of the role is to provide day-to-day support to the FICS programme teams and to coordinate projects across our field-building, policy and communications, and grantmaking functions. 

About FICS

FICS’ vision is a world in which people – both collectively and as individuals – have the power to hold their leaders accountable and shape their government, economy and society towards justice, equality and fairness for all.

In order to achieve that goal, FICS defends and expands civic space – the physical, digital, and legal conditions through which progressive movements and their allies organise, participate, and create change. We do this through:

• Thought-leadership: FICS forecasts the trends that shape the future of civic space to ensure that progressive organisations and donors are ahead of the curve, and identify strategic opportunities to disrupt and reform the drivers of closing civic space.
• Building a donor ecosystem: FICS builds support from a community of donors and donor networks in alignment with its analysis, creating a community of learning and practice around what works to defend and expand civic space.
• Incubation: FICS hosts new civic space initiatives to enable donors to mobilise resources collaboratively and at scale around key opportunities to disrupt and transform the drivers of closing civic space. Through these new initiatives FICS will offer civic actors not only grants but support with field-building, technical assistance and building alliances across sectors and movements.

FICS was established in 2016 as a donor affinity group supported by a secretariat of two. We are now entering a period of growth, more than doubling our staff team during 2021 to deliver ambitious new grant-making and research programmes that will enable funders and civil society to collaborate around the systemic issues that drive closing civic space.

The Programme Coordinator sits at the heart of this growth. Highly organised, inquisitive and adaptable, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across a range of projects and issues. Coordination and administration will remain core to the role but, as the team grows, there may be opportunities for the post holder to deepen expertise in one or more specialist subject area.

Job Description

Primary responsibilities include:

Coordination and administration

• Planning, managing and monitoring a range of projects, in collaboration with the wider FICS team.
• Coordinating meetings, events, and webinars – liaising with participants and speakers, researching venues and catering.
• Organising FICS Management Committee meetings, preparing the agenda and papers, and minuting meetings.
• Providing financial administration for FICS, including entering data into accounting software, producing reports, drafting and monitoring consultant contracts.
• Providing scheduling support to the FICS team, organising travel and accommodation, contributing to risk assessments, maintaining records.

Grant-making support

• Providing grants administration to FICS, coordinating calls for proposals, responding to enquiries, ensuring compliance with Global Dialogue’s grant-making procedures, producing reports.
• Attending conferences and meetings to help gather intelligence about closing civic space and grant-making practice.

Knowledge management and communications

• Supporting internal knowledge management, both online and offline.
• Supporting FICS’ external communications, liaising with editors and designers to ensure timely and high-quality publications, updating the website, helping to moderate and drafting content for relevant online communities.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the FICS team to identify and assess opportunities to build FICS’ programming and strengthen its impact.
• Assisting with background research and the preparation of relevant reports, briefings, and presentations, to inform the strategic initiatives, fundraising and stakeholder management.
• Other duties commensurate with the role.

Person Specification

We are committed to being a diverse team and are looking for talented people from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences who share our values.

In your application, you need to demonstrate how you address the following criteria:

Required

You will have:

• A demonstrable interest in human rights and social justice, civil society organising, and the pressures on civil society organisations resulting from current political trends
• Relevant administrative experience, ideally gained within a not-for-profit or development organisation
• Proven organisational skills, with the ability to juggle a wide range of responsibilities that may demand ongoing prioritisation
• Proven ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including an adaptable written style and excellent punctuation and grammar
• Strong numeracy skills, with good attention to detail – experience working with financial records would be an asset
• Strong IT skills, with sensitivity to the relevance of digital security in human rights work (the main tools we use are O365, Slack, Zoom, and Wordpress)
• Experience of philanthropy, either as a grant-maker or grant-seeker
• Permission to live and work in the UK

You will be:

• Comfortable working in a ‘start-up’ culture – flexible, with the capacity to learn quickly, and proactive in identifying new ways of working and process improvements
• Methodical with strong record keeping skills
• Committed to FICS’ organisational values
• Committed to your own personal professional development

Desirable

• Educated to degree level, or otherwise able to demonstrate the capacity to deal sensitively and appropriately with complex issues
• Experience organising meetings and events
• Experience supporting grant-making processes
• Skills in a language other than English

Terms and conditions

Hours:This is a full-time role, although we would also consider offering the role as a job share or at 4 days/wk (0.8 FTE)

Salary: £26,000-30,000 pro rata, depending on experience

Terms: Permanent contract, subject to funding, with an eight-week probationary period

Benefits: We offer a range of benefits including 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata). Global Dialogue contributes 6% to its workplace pension scheme, has a flexible working policy, and offers personal development leave.

Location: The FICS team works remotely and this role is home based. Once it is safe to do so, the successful candidate will be expected to be in London regularly for team meetings and other activities (up to 2-3 days per week) with occasional international travel.

Reporting to: Deputy Director, FICS

The role of the Senior Programmes Manager will be to plan, develop and manage a cross-strand range of programmes with an initial focus on community and society programmes. This role will co-deputise for the Head of Programmes and line and matrix manage some of the programmes delivery team. Blueprint for All’s programmes, at time of appointment, are in a very exciting phase of diversification and growth. This post has a special focus on managing our existing Lewisham BME Network, our landmark partnership LoveSexLife programme alongside other exciting programmes and projects. The Senior Programmes Manager will be responsive to programmes growth and diversification, implementing the co-developing the programmes strategy with the Head of Programmes; they will also, manage key programmes partner and stakeholder relationships, produce funding bids and proposals, and oversee programme evaluations and continuous improvement.

To apply please email a cover letter of no more than 2-sides and a CV to the email address in the JD.

Background to Blueprint for All

At Blueprint for All we believe in a future where talent is respected and nurtured irrespective of where it comes from, where organisations recognise and realise the benefits of a diverse workforce and where our communities can come together and thrive. This is our blueprint to set the foundations for a more inclusive society to grow.

Our high impact programmes work with disadvantaged young people and communities, providing tangible opportunities and support that enables them to thrive, whilst driving systemic change in organisations and society.

Blueprint for All Programmes

Our programmes span three main areas:

Careers: We work with schools, universities, community groups and employers to inspire and enable young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, aged 13-30 to pursue the career of their choice. From career advice to support gaining skills, qualifications and the critical foundations required to ensure professional success, we aid young people on their journey to a fulfilling and successful career.

Communities: We run programmes that support community groups working with people from BAME backgrounds to maximise their impact and make positive changes for local people.

Our BME Network supports over 120 small voluntary and community groups, and our Community Leadership Academy provides learning and development tailored to the needs of small and micro charities that are led by or serve people from BAME backgrounds. In partnership with other national and local charities, our Love Sex Life project challenges inequalities in access to and provision of sexual health services for BAME communities in Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham.

Society: We are working to create a society where talent is respected and nurtured irrespective of where it comes from, where organisations recognise and realise the benefits of a diverse workforce, and where our communities can come together and thrive. All our work is designed not only to support our beneficiaries, but to drive systemic change in organisations and society as a whole.

Our programmes are diverse and growing aligned with the needs of the breadth of our beneficiaries, partners, funders, and organisational strategic aims. This role is a key role to creatively and confidently manage the existing programme strands and new programmes and projects that we have.

To apply please email a cover letter of no more than 2-sides and a CV to the email address in the JD.

Main Duties: (subject to update with organisational and funder priorities)

Data management: to manage delivery partner, beneficiary, volunteer etc contact data on the S Drive/SharePoint and CRM system

Strategy: to hold the communities area strategy and feed into and develop cross-programme strategy with other programme manager(s) as guided by the Head of programmes and the rest of organisational management

Work Record: to ensure records of programme working are retained for posterity

Continuous improvement: to analyse programme data and work to suggest continuous improvement for each programme and project in your portfolio to the Head of programmes, and act upon approved suggestions

Line management: to line manage any officer(s) or assistants that are assigned to you

Reporting: to complete internal and external reports for your portfolio of work and arrange feed in from delivery members of the team

Fundraising: to grow the funding and funding pipeline for programmes by completing funding applications and submitting

Media and Comms etc: to manage the external communications of your portfolio of work

Relationship Management: to hold key relationships with partners and other key programmes stakeholders

Evaluation: to develop high quality evaluations

Programme Delivery and Admin: to deliver aspects of programmes and projects and manage programme admin and logistics associated

*this list is non-exhaustive and is subject to updates following funding or organisation priority changes

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Baring Service (DBS) check

​KNOWLEDGE AND ROLE REQUIREMENTS 

• Experience delivering community programmes and with BAME communities
• Knowledge and/or experience of community issues specifically in Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, and Croydon
• Line management experience
• Ability to perform all main duties outlined above
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Programme management experience
• Line management experience
• IT skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint 
• Knowledge of programmes and continuous improvement

To apply please email a cover letter of no more than 2-sides and a CV to the email address in the JD.

Donor Finance Manager - Consortium Programme (9 FTC months +) £50,000 + Benefits

On behalf of an international NGO, we are recruiting a Finance Manager for a global consortium funded by DFID / FCDO. The Finance Manager will be covering maternity and will be responsible for setting up budget monitoring, reporting and all compliance management across several countries and for several Consortium Partners. This role ideally needs a qualified accountant and someone who has proven experience leading the financial and compliance management across a Consortium programme, particularly strengthening financial management to FCDO / DFID.

Main Duties:

• Lead financial management for projects based on Donor requirements (budget preparation, transaction monitoring, currency flux, compliance, payments etc)
• Produce consolidated financial reports for Donor submission
• Monitor programme budget and spend for countries and Consortium Partners
• Monitor and report on financial performance management
• Support and train finance staff on reporting and compliance
• Maintain and monitor financial controls and KPI including budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting, procurement, travel, and treasury
• Liaise with country staff and provide financial capacity building
• Oversee all project financial processes and transactions

Person Specification:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Experience of DFID, FCO (now FCDO) grant management and Donor compliance
• Consortium Partner financial management experience
• INGO background is essential

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Key Objectives
We are seeking an individual with excellent administrative and organisational skills to join our Project Development Team which handles multiple research projects in economics, including two large projects funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Working closely with the Projects Lead and Senior Projects Officer, the Projects Assistant will work on varied tasks, including:

• The administration of research projects managed by CEPR, including financial management, monitoring the progress of projects, submitting deliverables; and reporting to funding agencies.
• The negotiation of the contracts for successful research proposals. This involves collecting administrative information and providing guidance to researchers on the technical, financial, and legal aspects of contracts.

Key Tasks

• Drafting of documents such as research contracts and contract addendums
• Processing payments and raising invoices
• Communication with grantees: sending report reminders, chasing for project outputs and deliverables (such as reports, research notes, etc.)
• Assisting with project events, including hosting online meetings
• Updating various project websites
• Formatting various documents including research notes and newsletters
• Updating contacts on CEPR’s various databases
• Supporting the day-to-day work of the Projects Lead and the Senior Projects Officer.

Person Specification
Essential

• Undergraduate degree or two years of relevant working experience
• Ability to work effectively in a fast‐paced, hectic and rapidly changing environment
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work in a team
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Excellent analytical and problem‐solving skills
• High degree of familiarity with the MS Office suite and, particularly with MS Excel
• Budgetary management skills
• Right to work in the UK

Desirable

• Relevant experience in project management or research administration
• A relevant degree (economics preferred but not essential)
• Other European languages

To Apply
Applications should be made by submission of a cover letter and CV, quoting “PA21-CJ”.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Donor Finance Manager - Consortium Programme: £250 per day

On behalf of an international NGO, we are recruiting a Finance Manager for a global consortium funded by DFID / FCDO. The Finance Manager will be covering maternity and will be responsible for setting up budget monitoring, reporting and all compliance management across several countries and for several Consortium Partners. This role ideally needs a qualified accountant and someone who has proven experience leading the financial and compliance management across a Consortium programme, particularly strengthening financial management to FCDO / DFID.

Main Duties:

• Lead financial management for projects based on Donor requirements (budget preparation, transaction monitoring, currency flux, compliance, payments etc)
• Produce consolidated financial reports for Donor submission
• Monitor programme budget and spend for countries and Consortium Partners
• Monitor and report on financial performance management
• Support and train finance staff on reporting and compliance
• Maintain and monitor financial controls and KPI including budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting, procurement, travel, and treasury
• Liaise with country staff and provide financial capacity building
• Oversee all project financial processes and transactions

Person Specification:

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Experience of DFID, FCO (now FCDO) grant management and Donor compliance
• Consortium Partner financial management experience
• INGO background is essential

________

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

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Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their potential? Do you want to work nights in a challenging, team focused and rewarding environment? Have you got the drive to support a young person on their journey to independence?

This role is perfect for individuals who are new to Supported Housing or have some experience to build on. We welcome people who have the right transferable skills for the role as well as more experienced practitioners.

Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people. We provide a range of accommodation based and floating support services to vulnerable young people across London, Yorkshire and the North East. Our vision is to end youth homelessness but until then we will continue to provide young people with a place to call home, tailored support and the opportunity to build the skills needed to sustain independent living.

We are looking for a Night Supported Housing Assistants to join our excellent Housing and Support team in our London Services, specifically our Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Camden Services.

In this role you will:

Work face to face with young people and support them to achieve their goals
Provide a welcoming and safe environment to young people, stakeholders and visitors by ensuring that house rules and safeguarding procedures are followed
Help young people overcome difficult circumstances and achieve independence
Liaise with multiple agencies to ensure effective communication across the service and externally including social work teams, YOS, health and other statutory services and voluntary agencies
Support young people to manage their rent accounts and develop personal budgeting skills
Staff Benefits (following successful completion of probationary period):

Annual Leave of 25 days per annum, rising by 1 day per year to a maximum of 27 days.
Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career.
Employer pension contributions of 4%
Access to the Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
Interest free Travelcard loan
Access to the PERKZ scheme, offering discounts at a range of retail and leisure facilities
Please note that these roles require working to a rota pattern that involves weekend and evening work and includes undertaking waking night shifts.

Benefits vary and are non-contractual

Closing Date: Sunday 7 March, Midnight

Merchandising Executive

(Please note, this role is known internally as above)

Salary: Circa £28,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time 35 per week

Location: Stratford, London office-based - Flexible-working requests considered (Home-working during the Covid-19 pandemic with a return to office-based working after this period)

Application Deadline: Sunday 14th March 2021, 23:59pm

Please note, this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received so please do not delay to submit your application to avoid any disappointment

Interviews will be held virtually via video conferencing.

We have a wonderful opportunity for an organised and pro-active person to join our Product Operations team! Here at Cancer Research UK, our passionate Trading department contribute millions per year through our retail stores towards funding ground-breaking research. The team's long-term goals are to maximise sales and contribution of (new and donated) stock through right selection, pricing and presentation, as well as effectively managing the distribution of stock.

Your role will be to assist and plan the stock requirements for all New Goods into our CRUK shops. Working closely with the Senior Merchandiser and the Senior Buying and Merchandising Manager, we are looking for someone with experience of working to KPIs, who understands budgets and has strong skills in Excel. You will also manage the allocation and replenishment of stock to all our shops and superstores, so we need someone with great stakeholder management and the ability to work alongside different teams across our wider Trading depart and retail teams.

Some of your responsibilities will include...

• Producing and interpreting stock and daily/weekly sales reports, and communicate these commercially back to the team

• Allocation of product from warehouses to shops using in the house system

• Updating and maintaining the new goods delivery schedule to enable accurate stock management and distribution

• Providing analysis for stock replenishment for the shops

• Assisting with planning of sales, promotions and markdowns in line with budgets

• Producing product merchandising layout guides for shops to implement on new product launches

• Building relationships with shop managers, to identify and drive commercial opportunities, to support their performance

• Reforecasting of WSSI, sales intake and margins

We are looking for someone with...

• Head-office Merchandising experience at an Assistant Merchandiser level

• Strong numerical and analytical skills

• Experience of using Excel functions, including VLookups, Sumifs, Pivot Tables

• Strong time management and ability to manage and prioritise work-load

• Strong problem-solving skills - can spot issues and propose solutions

• A high level of attention to detail and accuracy

• Flexible attitude and prepared to adapt to business changes and focus

• Excellent MS Office skills: especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• The ability to interpret and present complex data and form action plans as appropriate

• An approachable and friendly manner with a 'can do' attitude

• Experience in managing multiple stakeholders

• Highly motivated and the ability to meet challenging deadlines

If the above sounds like you, then we want to hear from you. Take a look at the full role profile and find out a bit more about Cancer Research UK here:

Closing date: Sunday 14th March 2021, 23:59pm

Eden Brown is working with a fantastic international children's charity on this exciting role of Associate Director (Programme Funding). They are London based and this job offers homeworking options 2-3 days per week,post Covid.

This role sits in the Funding & Partnerships team and leads the portfolio which includes Trusts & Foundations, supported by a Senior Associate (line managed by this role). You will both work closely with the Programme Development & Education Advisor, Global Programme Director, country programmes and the finance team to research and analyse opportunities, develop donor engagement plans and develop successful proposals to maximise and secure funding.

Key duties include:

* Lead and develop the strategy for fundraising from trusts, foundations and institutional donors
* Develop, write and submit strong funding applications
* Build on and develop strong relationships with existing funders
* Manage and lead the identification of approaches to various new grantmakers
* Identify target institutions, foundations, trusts, consortia with a good match to the organisation
* Work closely with the Growth Working Group and other members of the Senior Leadership Team to support institutional donor engagement efforts including representing the charity at key donor events
* Develop and lead the Programme Funding team as a sub team within the wider Funding & Partnerships team - including, for example, planning and budgeting

This role would suit someone with a successful track of securing multiple five or six figure grants from trusts, foundations and institutional sources in an international development context, experience in working on and leading innovative funding approaches, experience in leading and delivering donor engagement strategies and a track record in new business development, funding diversification and optimising income.

This is a truly exciting role at an amazing organisation, they are looking to hold interviews immediately so don't delay and apply now for immediate consideration.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

An excellent opportunity has arisen to work for a large national fundraising Charity within the Health sector, based in Central London, as a Communications Assistant with the Marketing team. (Home working initially)

Client Details

Our client, is a large National fundraising Charity within the Health sector and are looking for a Communications Assistant on a Permanent basis. Based in Central London (eventually) this is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to progress their career to the next level.

Description

The role of Communications Assistant will support the communications manager and digital communications officer in delivering the charity's digital communications strategy focused on increasing awareness and engagement.

Website

1. Operate the content management system (CMS) for the charity's website keeping the site updated and ensuring that the website is optimised for search engines (SEO)
2. Support the digital communications officer to ensure the website is delivering the objectives, accessible, maintained and secure
3. Review the site regularly checking content is fresh and conforms to the house style
4. Respond to results of analytics, monitoring KPIs and make changes where necessary as agreed with the team.

Social media

1. Create and co-ordinate a content plan for social media with the digital communications officer and implement processes for internal input
2. Post content and engage with online stakeholders on the charity's social media channels (currently Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram)
3. Monitor queries and complaints received via social media to ensure these are fed back to the appropriate team and dealt with swiftly
4. Ensure communications on social media are in line with the charity's digital communications strategy and social media policy
5. Support with monitoring and sharing of monthly analytical reports on social media with wider teams.

Email

1. Support the digital communications officer with email communications and help embed email processes across the organisation
2. Create the charity's enewsletter in Mailchimp and work with the digital communications officer on content
3. Support other teams in using Mailchimp
4. Facilitate the use of data from the charity's client relationship management (CRM).

Social advertising

1. Support external communications with social advertising campaigns, working with an external agency and potentially managing some campaigns internally.

Content development

1. Contribute to the writing and editing of impactful copy to use across a range of the charity's communication channels, including website news stories, social media, marketing publications and other materials
2. Ensure all copy is optimised for search engines when published online
3. Create and edit digital graphics for use online
4. Support with producing videos, podcasts, photography, including editing of videos, and optimise reach when published
5. Follow processes to manage the capturing and safe storage of consent for any media produced, where appropriate
6. Turn charity publications into interactive e-publications.

Profile

The successful candidate will have the following;

• Recent relevant experience in a Communications Assistant / digital communications role
• A degree / further education, ideally focused around Marketing
• Website, CMS, design and copywriting experience
• A passion for either the Charity or Healthcare sector
• Experience of filming / editing videos
• Proven ability to write and edit engaging copy for different audiences across varied communication channels
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written)

Job Offer

This is an excellent opportunity to build on recent experience within a similar role.

If you are passionate about supporting young people to reach their potential, we want you to join our partnership! Bonny Downs Community Association (BDCA) and Renewal Programme (RP) have come together in an exciting new youth project and are seeking 2 x experienced Youth Co-coordinators to provide the young people of Newham with spaces to enjoy, support to achieve their best, and opportunities to make a positive difference in their community.

About us

BDCA is a dynamic community-led charity that has been serving the residents of the London Borough of Newham since 1998. Our motto is, “working together to change lives and transform our community”.  The Renewal Programme has also been working in the borough for 50 years and is passionate about investing in community and supporting people to rise through dignity, inspiration, and empowerment. Together we have a combined track record of over 70 years’ Newham focussed service delivery. including local club youth provision. holiday activities, evening drop-ins, sports activities and youth leadership programmes.

About the roles

These new posts offer an exciting opportunity to play a driving role in launching a new package of services for young people across the economically disadvantaged but beautifully diverse East Ham area of Newham. Each role is 36 hours per week and for an initial fixed term period of 2 years pending further funding. Please see the full job descriptions and person specifications attached and do note an enhanced DBS check will be required.

Our ideal candidates will have significant youth work experience, a passion for working with young people from diverse backgrounds and a high level of motivation to develop an excellent and impactful youth offer.  You will be excellent relationship builders that are enthused by partnership working, and given current circumstances you will also need to be creative in your approach to adapt youth engagement offers safely and in line with Covid-19 restrictions. You will need to demonstrate that you are professional, organised, efficient and able to manage our sessional youth staff, sports coaches, junior leaders and workshop providers. You will also have a robust understanding of safeguarding policy and procedures.

With one role based predominantly at BDCA (London E6) and the other at RP (London E12), you will work together to plan, lead, manage and evaluate sessions in venues across the East Ham community, ensuring project outcomes are effectively delivered. Key shared project outcomes are:

• Provide safe places to enjoy = at least 6 venues will be open for a total of 1759 hours of youth activities each year.
• Increase youth engagement = Each year, at least 495 unique young people will access our regular activities and accredited courses and feel a greater sense of community connection as a result.
• Grow youth leadership = Each year, at least 45 young people will receive intensive year-long support to achieve their best and build their hope and agency to make positive change in their own lives and in their wider community too through accredited youth leadership courses and social action campaigns.
• Deliver inspiring and diverting activities = Each year, the programme will deliver at least 25 co-produced activities including sports, creative arts, wellbeing workshops, free play, tuition support, educational workshops, offsite trips, training and mentoring.

Each role will however have slightly different areas of responsibility as follows:

Youth co-ordinator 1 (BDCA)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating: four outdoor MUGA sports sessions and one outdoor BMX session per week; year round Saturday volunteering sessions for young sports leaders; support to complete Duke of Edinburgh award scheme led by specialist partner and an annual music production project led by specialist provider. They will also be directly delivering: three virtual activity videos per month; two annual residentials for 15 participants; three-week summer volunteering placement with accredited Sports Leadership Award for 30 participants; monthly Stepping Up life skills training and social action campaign planning workshops plus regular mentoring calls for 15 participants; annual music premiere event for up to 100 attendees; and 10 day trips per year for up to 15 participants.

Youth co-ordinator 2 (RP)

This post holder will be specifically responsible for coordinating and delivering five evening youth clubs per week including a tuition club, journalism club and three drop-in free play sessions with creative workshops. They will be charged with leading the project’s monthly youth forums during the above sessions and also supporting participants to attend borough-wide Youth Citizens Assemblies and Area Youth Forum meetings. So as well as delivering high quality inclusive activities in safe supervised spaces, this new Project Coordinator will focus on increasing access to platforms where youth voices can be heard and younger leaders are supported to help steer local services to boost engagement and impact.

Application process: Please apply by attaching an up to date CV AND covering letter (max 2 pages, applications without cover letters WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED) demonstrating how your skills meet the Job Description and Person Specification and why you are interesting in applying for the role. If your application preference or request is for one specific role over the other then please state this in your cover letter otherwise we will assume you wish to be considered for either role within a single application. We are also willing to consider job share applications for each role from strong candidates

Application deadline:

Please note there is no fixed  closing date, but we are keen to recruit to these posts as quickly as possible and so early applications are very much encouraged. We will invite interviews and begin the selection process on a rolling basis, with the aim to have the positions filled as soon as appropriate candidates are identified.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Both BDCA and RP are committed to recruiting high quality candidates whose skills and experience are most suited to the jobs on offer regardless of sex, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion (or beliefs), marital status, sexual orientation, disability, age or political affiliation.

Physiotherapy UK is the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s (CSP) largest national scientific conference. It attracts over a 1, 000 physiotherapists, a year, who come together to learn about the latest developments and evidence in physiotherapy practice.

We are looking for dynamic, motivated individual to join our team to help us deliver this high profile event. You will work with the Physiotherapy UK planning team, CSP Professional Network partners and external organisations to co-ordinate, develop and manage the programme content systems to deliver a wide variety of high quality content that covers different areas and aspects of physiotherapy practice.

This will be a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about making a difference and keen to use and develop their excellent team working, communication and organisational skills, to play an integral part in the delivery of Physiotherapy UK

Our Values

The CSP is the trade union, educational and professional organisation for the UK's 58,000 chartered physiotherapists, support workers and students; and one of the largest representative bodies in healthcare.

At the CSP our goal is to create a culture which is characterised by innovation, respect, encouragement, passion and teamwork.  We all strive for continuous improvement and to be the best at everything we do.  We aspire to work in a way that embodies our values of learning, courage, inclusive and integrity.  Our shared values are part of our organisational DNA and reflect the expectations we have of ourselves and others. They guide what we do and how we do it to have the greatest impact for our members.  

**Start dates available in August 2021**

This is a paid, dynamic, one year opportunity to develop coaching and leadership skills whilst bringing about social transformation in the local community as a powerful expression of the Christian life and faith.

In partnership with various churches we are recruiting for a Graduate Coach to join our Spear teams. This is an amazing opportunity to join our experienced and passionate team of coaches who each work as part of a local church in a number of locations to deliver the Spear Programme, equipping and empowering unemployed 16 – 24 year olds to overcome disadvantage and turn their lives around by moving into sustainable work or further education.

What will you do?

- Coach on Spear Foundation

The year-long programme kicks off with Spear Foundation, a 6-week initial phase running 6 times a year at each Centre. We coach disadvantaged young people around skills and mindsets to support them in returning to work or education, and equipping them with the skills to stay there. You’ll be given all the training needed to deliver this, preparing and coaching group and 1-1 sessions, and support the daily administrative function of the programme. You’ll also oversee the Spear Celebration Events at the end of each programme, assigning roles, organising volunteers, and planning equipment/resources.

- Spear Career

You’ll meet with trainees 1:1 on a weekly basis as part of this ongoing programme offered to those who complete Spear Foundation, supporting them to stay in work and progress over the year that follows.

- External Relationship-Building

You’ll purposefully build relationships with relevant professionals at local organisations, and communicate directly with young people, to encourage referrals onto the Spear programme.

- Intentional Church Community

Spear Graduate Coaches are directly employed by the partner church at which their Centre is based, meaning you’re part of a vibrant church staff team and submerged in an exciting faith community, whilst remaining robustly supported by the Resurgo coaching team and expertise. Part of your role is establish a personal presence within the community as your regular place of worship, and build a strong and committed network of supporters in the partner church to help source employment, funding and volunteer opportunities for Spear. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with church staff to engage trainees in the wider church programme, helping them find community and explore life’s big questions.

What will you gain?

- Christian Leadership Skills  through continual feedback, vulnerability, and challenge, and have opportunities to practise these skills in regular staff prayer meetings for both Resurgo and the church, as well as in Spear team meetings and events. 

- Social Impact Awareness – you’ll gain a working understanding of the issues affecting your church’s community, work with the church to tailor Spear accordingly and understand effective and meaningful ways of measuring this impact.

- Excellent coaching capability, through the iLM accredited 5-day ‘Coaching for Leadership’ programme. You’ll continue to develop your coaching skills while delivering the Spear programme through intensive on-the-job support and weekly 1-1 mentoring.

- Management skills, so that you have the skills and confidence needed to become a Lead Coach within a year, and then a Spear Centre Manager within 3 years, with responsibility for Centre staff, young people and outcomes.

Person Specification

Please see the Team Guide on the 'work with us' page of our website for the kind of person who thrives with us; below are a few things we’re particularly looking for in this role: 

• Effective interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence, a sense of humour and sense of fun!
• Excellent communication skills, confident face to face communication, and a great telephone manner.
• Desire to grow and learn spiritually and as a leader, including a desire to learn and understand coaching technique.
• Ambitious and self-motivated with good time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload, exercise initiative and work well under pressure.
• A-levels or equivalent are essential; degree level or equivalent qualifications desirable.

Working requirements, salary & benefits

• Starting salary £20,500 in London centres, dependent on location and experience, plus pension scheme. An additional bursary of up to £5,000 is available for BAME candidates, as we work with many young people from BAME backgrounds and so particularly encourage applications from potential coaches from backgrounds similar to that of our trainees. Further information is available from our People and Culture team.
• One year fixed term contract with potential for renewal and excellent progression opportunities - we aim to give all Graduate coaches the skills and training to progress to manage one of out Spear centres, within 3 years.
• Full-time Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm
• Flexible locations - please specify your preferred Spear centre on your application
• 25 days annual leave.
• Occasional evening working required (for events such as termly Spear Celebration evenings and the annual Resurgo fundraising party).
• Excellent staff development and training opportunities, including accredited coaching and leadership training 
• There may be a requirement to become part of the partner church congregation, and you will be expected to participate in church team events as well as wider Resurgo team events, including weekly staff prayer meetings and annual staff conferences in summer and winter (one residential)
• We offer an Employee Assistance Programme (a confidential support service for staff)
• A DBS check will be requested in the event of a job offer

In 2017 Resurgo won the Princess Royal Training Awards which honours employers that have created outstanding training and skills development programmes.