The Psychosynthesis Trust is at an exciting stage in our development. We see the core premise of psychosynthesis as being more relevant than ever in our changing world and recognise that dramatic change is necessary, to meet the interconnected nature of our existence, in order to thrive as a society and a collective.

The need is so great, that we are investing in a contract position of Social Impact Director to scope the work where the Trust can most add value. This may include communities, environment, and societal inequity but it may be wider.  This new role would also feed into our experimental flat leadership model, as the third equal member of our Leadership Team.

We welcome applications from self-starters with a knowledge of the third sector, perhaps with a background in project development and management or fundraising and a passion for improving lives.

Home or office based (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, or Cardiff)
Flexibility required to visit UK offices and teams as needed

The Big Issue mission is to dismantle poverty by creating opportunity through self-help, social trading and business solutions – a “hand up, not a hand out”. We provide an “access to all” means for people to earn a legitimate source of income, to raise their self-esteem and to take control of their lives. One of the ways we do this is through supporting vendors to sell The Big Issue magazine. Last year alone, we put £5.5m in the pockets of our vendors, releasing them from a dependency on hand outs.

The Big Issue Foundation supports vendors (and increasingly others) with “wrap around support”- health, housing, debt, addiction, mental health, financial inclusion, and employability. We do this by connecting vendors with the vital support services, personal solutions, Big Issue programmes and employment pathways, that enable them to rebuild their lives and determine their own futures – welcome to our community.

About the role and the person

This is a new role and your remit will be to take responsibility for developing and delivering the Foundation’s frontline business plan for the services Directorate.

The successful candidate will enjoy people because we’re a people business. You’ll firmly believe that an organisation is only as good as its people and will be accessible, trustworthy, and focussed on the importance of culture.

You are likely to be positive and proactive with a high degree of resilience as you will lead the department through a period of exciting change and development. You’ll draw on your considerable previous high-level experience of leading change successfully. This will give you the strength and understanding of how to shape direction and strategy, and take people with you to build a focussed, strong, vibrant, and empowered team.

You’ll enjoy autonomy and like working on your initiative but will also enjoy working as part of a team. You’ll be well supported by the CEO and broader leadership team. You’ll be solution focussed and tenacious, and at the same time open, agile, and happy to adjust your thinking and direction as new opportunities or ideas present.

Your experience

You will bring extensive experience of working in the charity or social sector in order to and understand what it means to support vulnerable client groups. You will need to be able to effectively navigate and network at a senior level in charities, community organisations, social services, and local authorities, proactively identifying, forging, and retaining strong networks on behalf of our customers.

You will also be able to demonstrate proven experience in leading and developing personalised service delivery strategies and business plans at a senior level in a charity, social enterprise, social service, or health care organisation.

People Director
Location: Bosham
Salary Range: Starting £53,617 per annum - (contribution assessed salary range up to £61,526)
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent

We are looking for an experienced and motivated People Director with a passion for leadership within all HR areas. Reporting to the Chief Executive, this is a newly established role where you will lead a strategic HR approach at St Wilfrid’s Hospice, creating a clear people strategy with deliverables including succession, workforce planning and culture, including employees and volunteers.

With a focus on operational excellence and service delivery, you will be responsible for the day- to -day management and development of a small team of professionals within the People Team. You will support the People Function with dealing with complex employee relations cases and HR matters, whilst also being willing to roll your sleeves up and help out operationally.

The Hospice has ambitions to become an even greater place to work and to volunteer, and to engage with our communities to improve diversity and reach potential team members. The People Director will lead this process, working in collaboration internally and externally. Enabling our brilliant teams across the Hospice to do their very best you will work as a member of the Senior Management team, providing a healthy balance of support and challenge.

You will be an experienced People Professional with Chartered membership of the CIPD and educated to degree level or with equivalent experience. Your background will demonstrate significant and wide-ranging experience in HR Leadership roles at executive level. Your board experience across wider People functions will include an oversight and understanding of organisational development and effectiveness. You have excellent interpersonal skills, confidence in public speaking, and ability to maintain effective relationships with all levels of staff across the organisations.

As part of our committed team, the working atmosphere is friendly, inspiring and supportive.  We offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes holiday entitlement starting at 27 days per year, increasing to 33 days, plus bank holidays (pro rata).  Continuation of NHS reckonable service, or the NHS Superannuation Scheme may also be recognised.  A generous contributory pension scheme, life assurance, discounted gym membership plus a contributory cash reimbursement health plan for you and family members is also available. 

We value diversity and are committed to being a place where people feel their differences are recognised and welcomed, and their needs are heard and respected.  Creating an inclusive workplace is a core part of our aim to ensure St Wilfrid’s is a great place to work and a compassionate and caring place to be.

Closing date – 5pm on Monday 22nd November 2021

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website. 

No agencies please.

We are very excited to be recruiting a new Director of Student Experience at Liverpool John Moores University Students’ Union.

We’re here to support more than 26,000 students every year that come to study at Liverpool John Moores University. Their circumstances, experiences and aspirations are varied, but we have a simple vision for them all: that they feel happy and confident, during, and at the end of their time at University. We want them to have the best student experience possible, from start to finish.

We are an independent charity, with an annual turnover of around £1.1m per year and offer a wide range of opportunities, services and support to help students get the most out of their time at University. This covers everything from social activities to making sure everything's going right on their academic course. We have over 100 student groups and our work is entirely led by students. Our students are diverse, creative, committed and passionate about their studies, their university and their city.

We’ve recently been through a period of change to ensure we are set up well to deliver effectively for our students. As with many organisations, the last 18-months have been challenging for both our staff and our students. We're really excited about the next year and have some amazing opportunities ahead of us. We're in the process of developing a new strategic plan to launch in 2022, which will drive the organisation into the future.

As Director of Student Experience, you will help us to drive a fantastic experience for all of our students and student leaders. You’ll be part of our Senior Leadership Team and will manage key relationships with our elected student officers and colleagues in the University.

We’re looking for people who recognise JMSU is student-led and that want to help empower students to shape their own opportunities and priorities. You don't necessarily need a background in students’ unions as long as you share our values and passion for what we do, ensuring we are relevant to, and at the heart of, the student experience. You’ll help us to unlock the potential already existing within JMSU through our elected officers, staff and student volunteers. Through our student leadership, you will ensure there is a clear vision for JMSU to become a transformational organisation, impacting at every level of the student and University community.

If you're passionate about embracing the opportunities that being our next Director of Student Experience offers, we’d love to hear from you.

How to apply: 

For more information about Liverpool John Moores University Students’ Union and the role, please download the full recruitment pack from our website.

Talk to us first:

For an informal chat and to find out more about the role and JMSU, please contact Graham Atkinson (contact details in Recruitment Pack).

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion play a key part in our student community and organisation, and are at the heart of everything we do at JMSU. Our colleagues are proud of our work and care about supporting diverse communities that are inclusive of age, background, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and experience.

GUARANTEED INTERVIEWS FOR BAME CANDIDATES

We recognise that candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised-Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are under-represented in our organisation, and that there are often additional barriers present for people from these groups when applying for roles in the charity sector and beyond.

We are committed to taking positive action to expand the diversity of our staff team, and if you meet the minimum criteria for a role (at least 80% of the criteria in the person specification) and are from a BAME background, you'll be guaranteed a first-stage interview. Please see the Recruitment Pack for further details.

If you think you have what it takes to be our next Director of Student Experience, but don't necessarily meet every point on the person specification, please get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could help us to achieve great things for our students.

This new role will be instrumental in consolidating the identity, reputation and visibility of the Church of England in Suffolk, and developing relationships/partnerships that enable the Church of England to support the people and communities of Suffolk through its mission and ministry. It will develop and manage campaigns to provoke interest in, and engagement with, the Church and Christian faith, and through this support the work in local churches, schools and parishes to realise the diocesan vision of ‘flourishing congregations making a difference’ to Suffolk. As part of the development of an externally facing identity, the role will incorporate oversight of fundraising initiatives and campaigns for the St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF), the charity that holds and supports the Church’s work.

Join the Lewisham Local team to become our new Local Giving Programme Manager! It is an exciting time to work in Lewisham. We are at the forefront of place-based giving and become the London Borough of Culture for 2022. You will lead an exciting and unique local giving programme, engaging new communities of givers, lead impactful campaigns to raise awareness of the good causes and needs in Lewisham and begin to develop a legacy of local giving.

We are looking for an experienced person to strategically lead our giving programme and team. You will have an excellent understanding of financial donors and the voluntary sector and have your finger on the pulse of current developments and opportunities. You will possess ideas, ambition and leadership qualities to make the most of future opportunities for local giving in Lewisham and build collaborative approaches. Strong in communications and marketing skills, you will be able to articulate a compelling vision that inspires people to give, and engages local charity partners.

If you would like more information on the role and/or even visit us to see how we function, please get in touch with Sam Hawksley, Director.

We are committed to our staff team reflecting the diversity of the communities we serve and strongly welcome applications from minority communities.

Shortlisted candidates who outline their skills and experience in the application form that matches the essential criteria will be interviewed. Two references from the previous and current employer will be taken up for the successful candidate, and where necessary employers may be contacted to gather further information.

We are committed to the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children, where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

IPPR is looking for a Programme Manager to join the London Progression Collaboration (LPC) as it enters an exciting new phase in its development. The LPC is on a mission to make sure low-paid Londoners can secure better-quality, higher-paying work, and to make sure London’s businesses can develop the skills they need to thrive and grow. We offer fully-funded support to help businesses create great apprenticeships which meet both these needs, improving the way the apprenticeship levy works for the capital’s residents and businesses.

As our new Programme Manager, you will take the lead on delivering our support service to SMEs, giving them the knowledge, confidence and practical tools they need to take on new apprentices. You’ll be comfortable delivering advice and guidance to businesses across a range of sectors, and excited about building this support service as LPC develops. You’ll be determined to deliver new apprenticeships, whilst being flexible and empathetic to the challenges facing small SMEs. Alongside this, you’ll ensure we’re collecting the data we need from SMEs and apprenticeship training providers to monitor our impact and report to our funders and key accounts.

If you have outstanding relationship-building, influencing and communication skills, and bring an ambitious and entrepreneurial approach to this work this is the ideal job for you. You’ll be comfortable working at pace and navigating uncertainty as we build LPC’s future. And of course, you’ll be driven by our mission to improve the working lives of Londoners.

This is a unique chance to contribute your expertise to an exciting not-for-profit start-up, and work with a talented team. We bring a wide range of previous experience and diverse backgrounds to the team, and we’re all committed to diversity, inclusion and social mobility, aiming to create new opportunities for workers in London.

IPPR is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, and from applicants with a range of professional and lived experiences. At LPC, as a team working to address social mobility challenges and working with a wide range of stakeholders, we value the creativity and range of perspectives that a diverse team can provide.

As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant to fill the post, including part-time working and secondment opportunities. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

For an informal chat to find out more about the job, LPC and IPPR, contact Anna Ambrose, Director LPC, from Monday 1st November on 0 7 5 0 3 6 2 7 2 9 5 Monday to Thursday.

Before applying, please read the information pack that includes the job description and person specification on our website or email recruitment @ ippr. org quoting the job title or REF: LPC/NOV.  

Please provide a CV with a 2-page personal statement. The statement should  address, under separate headings, each of the attributes in the person specification. 

The CV and statement should be combined into one PDF document and returned to applications @ ippr. org  In order to complete your application please also complete IPPR’s equal opportunities monitoring form

Interviews will be held Wednesday 24 November 2021

Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK, with nearly a third of a million members. We’re active in every part of the UK with more than 25,000 groups meeting weekly, powered by over 80,000 volunteers. We offer girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference in their communities.

We are looking for a new Director of Membership Services to lead a large team with responsibility for our front-line services to our members, including safeguarding.  An effective member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will develop an engaging and inclusive experience for all of our girls, with programmes and activities that are fun and suit future needs, as well as a volunteer experience that ensures we continue to attract and retain the leaders and helpers who are so fundamental to what we do. 

You will be a strategic and inspiring leader with a strong operational background who is used to working within dispersed and complex organisations.  You will ideally bring direct experience of volunteer management, or transferable knowledge of membership management.  With excellent relationship management skills, you will be able to build strong, effective partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Chief Guide, trustees and senior volunteers.  Enterprising, you will also be able to demonstrate a track record of developing innovative services that are fit for the future and embrace technology.  Whatever your background, you will be inspired by what we do and will be committed to our values.

We are committed to making Girlguiding a place where everyone is welcome, free to be themselves and has an equal sense of belonging. We appreciate and value the different experiences and skills of everyone who works for and with Girlguiding. Girlguiding is proud to be part of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a member of Time to Change. While Girlguiding’s young members may be women only, our staff team is mixed gender. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, and we particularly encourage applications from people from marginalised and underrepresented backgrounds. This includes people of colour, LGBT+ people, people from minority faith groups, disabled people and those facing marginalisation based on their social class.

This appointment is being handled by our advising consultants, Starfish Search.  To find out more about the role please visit their website via the link below, where you can download a full copy of the candidate pack and apply.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced project manager or development professional who is passionate about global mission and justice and committed to seeing real change. In a small but growing team, you can help develop and champion our overseas mission and development programmes. Our global partners are doing so much around the world to change lives and bring the good news of the Christian message to families. This role is key to enabling us to help them do more. Working together closely in our collaborative team, every day you would see the life-changing and transformational impact your work is having on families around the world.

Breck Foundation has obtained funding for a full-time Youth Training Coordinator to further develop an already successful programme of Breck Ambassadors who give peer-on-peer training within their schools to engage and empower their peers to keep safer online by learning about Breck's real-life story.  The Breck Ambassadors learn to teach their school peers about grooming, exploitation, digital resilience and how to better recognize unhealty relationships online.  This position has amazing potential as the programme has already received many accolades without a dedicated coordinator therefore this pilot programme will now enable us to successfully expand to police forces across the UK to better reach teenagers in a school setting.  The Youth Training Coordinator will attend occasional Volunteer Police Cadet meetings on Tuesday-Thursday evenings in Surrey to recruit and train the Breck Ambassadors, and after training the Breck Ambassadors, the successful candidate will observe and critique the Breck Ambassadors as they present in their schools during the daytime across Surrey.  There are bi-yearly weekend training and celebration sessions held on Saturday mornings.  Team Breck are currently based in our office in Surrey as well as working from home, and this position would require a combination of working locations.  This position is a great opportunity for a motivated self-starter with vast room for growth and opportunity.

We are now recruiting for the post of Director of Home-Start London.

The successful candidate for this exciting opportunity will be leading Home Start London forwards in its next stage of development. HSL is a consortium of 12 local Home-Starts supporting families in 24 boroughs across London. We are a community-based network of trained peer volunteers and expert support helping to provide families with young children with the emotional and practical support to give them a positive, nurturing start in life.

You will be driven and enthusiastic, a self-starter, able to work on own initiative or as part of a team with enthusiasm, knowledge, experience and ideas to offer practical hands-on support to others.

As Director of Home-Start London (HSL), you will be the public face of this increasingly impactful and dynamic organisation, promoting the services of our member schemes, the ethos of their work and the potential benefits and reach of the charity and ensuring it maintains its strategic direction, achieves its key aims and maintains financial sustainability.

You must have some experience of working in a leadership role, fundraising experience and managing bid applications, excellent project management skills and an entrepreneurial and self-motivating mindset. You will report to and collaborate with the Board of Trustees, on the  development of our fundraising and organisational strategies.

Are you passionate about migration and asylum issues - or do you have lived experience? This is an exciting opportunity to oversee Samphire's strategic plan for the next three years and expand our advocacy efforts.

Samphire's vision is: "to create a society which is more inclusive and compassionate towards migrants." We work at national and local level. Our telephone helpline provides a range of services, nationwide, for people who have experienced immigration detention. In Dover and East Kent we run immigration legal advice clinics and our Community Engagement and Schools projects seek to raise awareness of the facts and issues surrounding migration and to foster more inclusive attitudes in local schools and communities. Currently, we also run psycho-social activities with asylum seekers at Napier Barracks, Folkestone.

As Director (3 days per week) you will provide the leadership and management expertise to maintain the smooth and efficient operation of our projects, including fund-raising. You will provide input into our strategic plan, and be responsible for ensuring that all our current and future projects are in line with our strategic objectives.

If you have experience of advocacy or media work, please consider applying for Samphire's other job vacancy of Advocacy Lead (1 day per week) posted on this site. Our preference is to recruit one committed and competent individual to fill both posts.

Director of Airwars

Do you have what’s needed to lead and grow our world class organisation, by leveraging our high quality research findings towards better protections for civilians on the battlefield? Can you inspire and direct our outstanding international team, as we seek to hold belligerents better to account?

Seven years after our founding, Airwars is seeking a new full-time, self-motivated Director to play a pivotal role in shaping our organisation as we continue to grow and thrive.

Applications are welcomed from candidates from diverse backgrounds who have passion, compassion, drive, commitment, tenacity, resilience, and integrity - and who can demonstrate the following:

• Commitment to the aims and ethos of Airwars as a values-led organisation, with a clear and enduring focus on our work towards better protection of civilians in conflicts, based upon our research-led findings;
• Strong team leadership skills, with a proven record of recruiting, motivating and retaining a diverse team of exceptional staff, contractors, managers and volunteers around the world;
• Excellent communications skills, both external and internal - and demonstrable experience of effective public speaking and organisational representation;
• A clear vision of how to evolve and grow Airwars, as it enters its next critical development stage;
• Direct experience of working in the human rights field - preferably on Protection of Civilians issues - to be able effectively to champion our research, investigations and advocacy work towards better protection of civilians in conflict, with both credibility and expert insight;

• Senior leadership experience, and a track record of achievement in the sector, either from leading a not-for-profit organisation, or running a significant NGO department;
• Sound financial, governance and risk management experience and ability;
• Ability to work with a proactive and dynamic Board in supporting good governance, and  oversight of operational matters.

Our new Director is also expected to help us strengthen and diversify our current funding model; to effectively and organically expand Airwars research towards new conflicts and activities; and to work - both independently and with partners - to best amplify the critical work of Airwars to both global and specialist audiences.

This is a full-time, London-based, direct employment post, expected to begin no later than January 2022. As an organisation committed to diversity, we encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds - including candidates from conflict-affected nations - who are entitled to work full time in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, as a small NGO we are not able to provide support with relocation costs and UK work visa sponsorship.

Our full information pack on the Director’s role and responsibilities are attached

 Please send your comprehensive CV, along with a detailed cover letter explaining your suitability for the role,  no later than Wednesday November 17th 2021.

Job description

Job Description: Fellowship Programme Officer

Line Manager: Senior Programme Officer/Team Lead

Objective: Facilitating placements for Fellows with personal, individualised support. Assisting Fellowship Programme team ad hoc, securing funding for Fellowships.

Experience: Masters or equivalent experience ideal however not essential

Start Date: November 2021

Duration: permanent post

Hours: Full-time. Hybrid working - in London office (2/3 set days per week) and working from home

Salary: £26,000

Number of posts available: Two

Application Deadline: 31 October

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Organisational Background

The Council for At-Risk Academics is a UK-registered charity founded in 1933 under the leadership of William Beveridge, to rescue academics suffering persecution under the rise of Nazism and facilitate their continued work in safety. Sixteen Cara Fellows from the 1930s and 1940s became Nobel Laureates, and many more innovators in their fields, including, Nikolaus Pevsner, Lise Meitner and Karl Popper. A number of Cara’s founders and Council members also personally provided places and/or funds to help individual academics; and Cara, known in the 1930s as the AAC, later the SPSL, was closely involved in the successful effort in 1933 to bring to London the Warburg Institute art library, which had been prohibited by the Nazis, and six of its staff.

Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just under 90 years, as and when world events have placed them in the line of fire: Hungarian Uprising, Cold War, Apartheid South Africa, Iran, Latin American Juntas, Vietnam, Kosovo, DRC, Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe etc. and, more recently Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Palestine, Syria and Afghanistan. Cara support is typically framed as temporary sanctuary offered at times of heightened risk.

Cara Objectives ‘To assist academics who have been, or are, or are at risk of being, subject to discrimination, persecution, suffering or violence on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, to relieve needs among them and their dependants and ensure that their specialist knowledge and abilities can continue to be used for the benefit of the public.’

‘To advance education by supporting academics and their educational institutions in countries where their continuing work is at risk or compromised, to ensure that such academics and institutions can continue to fulfil their critical role as educators for the public benefit.’

This is a critical time to join our team. As a Fellowship Programme (FLP) Officer you will be working directly with academics facing immediate risk in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Myanmar and Afghanistan and many other countries.

 Fellowship Programme Officer Role & Responsibilities

Fellowships

• Lead on International Fellowship cases and provide comprehensive support to Cara Fellows.
• Secure fee waivers, bursaries & in-kind support from universities, research institutes and other funding bodies.
• Provide logistical support to Fellows prior to and after their arrival in the UK.
• Coordinate with regional exam centres to facilitate IELTS or equivalent fee waivers for Fellows.
• Collect and interpret regional intelligence to inform Fellowship Programme advice and guidance.
• Write and send official documents to Fellows.
• Develop relationships with universities and other partner organisations.
• Conduct due diligence on Fellows’ documents and risk.
• Assess Fellows’ suitability for academic placements and liaise with experts for their professional opinion.
• Assess Fellows’ English language abilities.
• Support Fellowship Programme with ad hoc responsibilities.

Visa Advice & Guidance

• Liaise closely with Fellows and hosting universities on visa related issues (Student and Tier 5 visas).
• Liaise with independent legal advisors where necessary.
• Research and update visa guidance to reflect changes in complex immigration regulation.

Managerial Support

• Provide advice and guidance to Fellowship Programme Assistants
• Contribute to Fellowship Programme policy changes and decision-making.

Finance

• Make payments to Cara Fellows and non-Fellowship related payments.
• Document financial transaction records.
• Record all financial and in-kind support from universities and other partner institutions.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Maintain relationships with Fellows who have arrived in the UK.
• Assist new arrivals with handover to Senior Fellowship Programme Officer.
• Record and report on the efficacy of IELTS or equivalent fee waivers to relevant bodies.
• Assist with compilation of reports to funders.

Administration

• Provide support for general enquiries.
• Maintain detailed records of correspondence, documents, and activities.

Responsibilities also include related activities that might arise in relation to the Fellowship Programme as required by the Executive Director or Deputy Director/Fellowship Programme Manager.

Person Specification

Essential

• Fluent English (spoken and written).
• Confident and empathetic with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail. 
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Good time management with ability to prioritise and independently work to deadlines.
• Understanding of issues of confidentiality.
• Interest in and commitment to the work of Cara
• Confident use of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Good knowledge of current global issues.

Desirable

• Fluency in Dari or Turkish

Application Please send your CV and a brief covering email outlining your suitability for the post. Interviews will be held the week beginning 1 November at the Cara office in London. We will not accept applications without cover letters.

Please include contact details for 2 suitable referees, ideally individuals for whom you have previously worked. These will only be taken up with your prior permission. Please include ‘Fellowship Programme Officer’ in the subject line of your electronic submission.

Application Deadline: 31 October