Programme Leader Jobs in London, Greater London
Term:Full time, one-year fixed term contract with the option to extend
Salary:£43,500 per annum + generous benefits
Location:London (Victoria) – (hybrid working, with one to three days in the office a week)
Closing date:12 noon, 5 April 2024
Interviews: 16 to 18 April 2024
NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. We help those NHS foundation trusts and trusts to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care by enabling them to learn from each other, acting as their public voice and helping shape the system in which they operate.
NHS Providers has all trusts in England in voluntary membership, collectively accounting for £115bn of annual expenditure and employing 1.4 million people.
Working as part of our Development and Engagement directorate, this is an exciting opportunity for someone to project manage the day-to-day delivery of one of our high performing leadership development programmes, Digital Boards. The Digital Boards programme is a well-regarded programme supporting senior NHS leaders to lead on the digital transformation agenda, through bespoke board development sessions, peer learning events and written leadership resources.
This role would suit a dynamic, experienced, and hands-on individual who is motivated to work across high performing projects. The role will require a high level of organisation and involve working collaboratively across internal and external teams on events and projects, as well as working with colleagues across communications, policy, and analysis teams to deliver on programme outputs.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief. We particularly encourage applications from those from underrepresented communities.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Term: Full time, one-year fixed contract with the option to extend
Salary: £28,000 per annum + generous benefits
Location: London (Victoria) – (hybrid working, with one to three days in the office a week)
Closing date:12 noon, 5 April 2024
Interviews: 11, 12 and 15 April 2024
NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. We help those NHS foundation trusts and trusts to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care by enabling them to learn from each other, acting as their public voice and helping shape the system in which they operate.
NHS Providers has all trusts in England in voluntary membership, collectively accounting for £115bn of annual expenditure and employing 1.4 million people.
Working as part of our Development and Engagement directorate, this is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking to build their project management and event experience to work across two high performing programmes to provide efficient administration of events, project management tools, systems, and processes.
Our Digital Boards and Digital ICS programmes provide leadership development support to NHS Boards and system leaders through bespoke board development sessions, peer learning events and written outputs. This role will involve working with programme leads and project partners to deliver a high volume of outputs every year.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief. We particularly encourage applications from those from underrepresented communities.
The Youth and Community Programmes team are looking for a Community Programmes Lead worker to support a broad range of activities aimed mainly at young people and over 50’s. Activities are delivered mainly over evenings and weekends aimed at making our community an inspirational place.
You will lead on session delivery and support the planning of programmes. You will manage and coordinate sessional workers, volunteers and workshop leaders working in sessions.
About Coin Street Community Builders
Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a social enterprise responsible for developing and managing a significant part of London’s South Bank. We have transformed a largely derelict area into a thriving place for people to live, work and visit.
Our 13-acre estate includes:
- the iconic Oxo Tower Wharf, home to designer-maker studios, exhibition and gallery spaces
- a successful conference centre
- cafes, bars and restaurants
- parks and the riverside walkway
- award winning co-operative housing
- an Ofsted Outstanding family and children’s centre providing a nursery and family support
As a social enterprise income we generate stays in the neighbourhood. It’s used to improve and maintain our site which includes Bernie Spain Gardens and the riverside walkway, and to provide a range of free and affordable programmes and activities for families, children, young people, adults and older people in Waterloo and North Southwark.
Contract
Permanent, 20 hours per week.
Salary
£16,224 per annum
Extras
In return we can offer you:
- 27 days’ annual leave (pro rata for part timers)
- 8% contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)
- Income Protection, Death in Service and Critical Illness cover
- Season ticket loan on completion of probation
- Health and wellbeing package including a confidential employee assistance programme and online therapy sessions
- Commitment to training and development
The Church of England in London is growing, vibrant and at the heart of communities throughout the capital. At the London Diocesan Fund we seek to do everything we can to support this mission and growth, using our resources to help our parishes and chaplains to serve over 4 million people.
The Diocese of London (LDF) is seeking a Net Zero Carbon Program Lead to play a key role within the Strategy and Communications team, based from Pimlico, London.
Background
Along with other dioceses in the Church of England, Diocese of London has committed to become a Net Zero Carbon Diocese by 2030. This followed National Synod’s commitment in Feb 2020 of the same.
To achieve this, the Diocese has now approved a comprehensive Net Zero Carbon (NZC) Action Plan, which follows the Route Map put together by National Church Environment Team.
The Diocese is now building a team to ensure that the Plan is enacted, milestones are reached and that Net Zero Carbon becomes part of the culture adopted by all across all those within the Diocese.
Responsibilities
Strategic:
- Collaborate with departmental leads on carbon reduction priorities.
- Lead NZC Programme Delivery Team and report progress regularly.
- Share success stories to inform strategy revisions.
- Embed NZC Communication Strategy organization-wide.
- Secure funding and foster external partnerships.
- Implement recommendations for culture change.
Operational:
- Serve as main NZC contact.
- Maintain Risk Register for the programme.
- Gather feedback at network meetings.
- Present at various gatherings.
- Assist in NZC plans for relevant departments.
- Use appropriate communication channels.
- Perform other relevant duties.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on Person Specification.
Please apply by 19 April 2024.
Interviews will be held on 29 April 2024.
Reports to: Head of Inclusive Leadership Course
Start date: ASAP or mid-August 2024
Location: London / Hybrid - minimum 3 days per week in office (The Difference’s office in
Bethnal Green). Willingness to travel for programme delivery across Nottingham, Manchester,
Newcastle 3 days per half term.
Contract: Permanent, full time/flexible working considered
Salary: £55k - £65k per annum (+6% employer pension contribution and sector-leading parental
leave policy shared with all applicants)
Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 21st April 23:59
Person Specification
The Difference are seeking an outstanding school leader to take on the role of Programme Lead
through an exciting period of growth and development, with a particular focus on developing
our People and Practice work. The successful candidate will be instrumental in the delivery of
our various programmes, actively engaging in its implementation and engaging with valuable
insights for continuous improvement. This role offers a distinct chance to make a significant
impact on The Difference's overarching strategic goals. As the Programme Lead, you'll have the
opportunity to shape our programmes, ensuring they align with our mission and vision. Your
contributions will not only drive tangible outcomes but will also shape the future direction of
our organisation. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the outcome of
children who experience vulnerability and disadvantage by working closely with school leaders
to develop school practice and systems.
You will have real ownership over your area of work, be happiest in a flexible and ambitious
environment, and enjoy testing out new ideas. You will have experience in professional
development design, delivery, project management and supporting school staff and leaders
through professional coaching.
Essential knowledge, experience and skills
● Demonstrated Alignment with The Difference’s values. A history of actions and decisions that
align with The Difference's values, showcasing a personal commitment to the mission of
improving life outcomes for vulnerable children
● Credibility as a proven school leader of inclusion as a Trust middle leader, Headteacher, Deputy
or Assistant Headteacher in a Primary or Secondary setting in contexts of high disadvantage and
vulnerability
● A record of impact for children experiencing vulnerability including designing and delivering
work that led to reduced harmful behaviours, repeat suspension or persistent absence
● A record of empowering work with children and families
● Evidence of designing and delivering impactful professional development, high quality
learning sessions, fostering sustained staff development and contributing to a culture of
continuous learning
● Understanding of Relational Practice within Education: A track record of utilising or implementing practice aligned with the relational approaches to deliver improved student
outcomes.
● Aiming high and holding people accountable through visionary leadership: Ability to
articulate an ambitious vision, inspiring and motivating others to meet high standards. A proven
ability to hold individuals accountable for their contributions.
● Flexibility and a willingness to travel, including overnight stays, particularly within London,and
across the North East, North West, and Yorkshire & Humber. A likely travel pattern of 2-3 days
travel per fortnight
Desired knowledge, experience and skills
● Stakeholder management & relationship-building: Proven experience in managing
relationships with various stakeholders, including navigating HR processes, demonstrating
effective stakeholder engagement skills. Experience of sales and a business to business sales
process would be advantageous.
● Adaptability: Track record of prioritising and creating clarity in ambiguous, challenging, or
fast-paced situations. Experience in working directly with colleagues, implementing strategies
such as coaching and structured reflection to establish clear and effective plans.
● Research Engagement: Engagement with research and evidence-based strategies for school
improvement. Demonstrable quantifiable impact using evidence-informed approaches.
● Contextual Awareness: Varied experience in different schools, showcasing an understanding of
how contextual factors impact schools and teachers, and an awareness of the wider educational
landscape.
● Teaching Qualification: Possession of Qualified Teacher Status, demonstrating the foundational
qualification for the role.
Why Work for The Difference?
Schooling isn’t working for the children who need it most. Every week in England 109 children –
equivalent to three full classrooms – are permanently excluded. This is just the tip of the
iceberg. Since the pandemic, school suspensions have risen significantly, as has persistent
absenteeism. 1 in 5 children are missing more than 10% of their time in school. Children who
are excluded or persistently absent are much more likely to already be experiencing
vulnerability or disadvantage. They are more likely to live in poverty, have additional learning
needs, suffer mental health challenges, or experience a lack of safety outside school. Certain
ethnicities are also disproportionately affected, notably Gypsy Roma Traveller and black
Caribbean children.
Exclusion and high rates of absence can have a dramatic effect on life chances. These young
people are more likely to drop out of education or employment, become vulnerable to
long-term mental ill health, or be at risk of criminal exploitation. The Difference believes that
children and young people deserve better and that the education system has to change.
Our Organisation
The Difference is a young education charity, founded to change the story on lost learning. By
2030, we want rates of exclusion and absence to be falling nationally and for schools to be better
equipped to support all children, including those who may be vulnerable.
The Difference was born out of a year of research into school exclusions with think-tank IPPR.
This research identified a lack of inclusion expertise in schools and proposed a new leadership
development programme to fill this gap. In 2018, Difference founder Kiran hired the team who
took this idea from concept to reality, beginning work with our first schools.
The Difference is now a 22-strong team delivering multiple school leadership programmes,
alongside a growing research and policy arm. The team is supported by our Youth Advisory
Board, made up of young people who have experienced exclusion and who provide their
expertise and insights on how school inclusion work should be done. This work is needed more
than ever. Effects of COVID-19, coupled with the spiralling cost of living, have substantially
increased levels of vulnerability. Schools serving excluded pupils face under-funding. The
Difference has had excellent early impact but there is work ahead to scale this impact through
our programmes, share learning with schools and policy-makers, and grow our capacity to
lower exclusions across England.
The Task Ahead: Programme Lead
In 2019 The Difference launched their programmes working with 22 school leaders in
London. Since then we have worked with 447 school leaders nationally. We want to continue
to scale our programmes and reach more school leaders to help shape their schools practice
and systems to improve pupil wellbeing, safety and belonging. We intend to further develop
our programmes to improve inclusion in schools and successfully changing the story for
students currently struggling in school.
Key tasks for this role include:
● Deliver The Difference’s Inclusive Leadership Course to senior leaders from a
range of school settings. This takes place in venues across the country including
but not limited to the North East, North West, and the Midlands. Confidence
and passion to deliver the course to the high standards required.
● In-school support for The DIfference’s School Partnership (DSP). Delivering
across a variety of schools including mainstream secondary, mainstream
primary and Alternative Provision settings. Supporting the implementation of
key themes and content from The Difference’s Inclusive Leadership Course.
● Working closely with The Differences Research, Impact & Influencing team
members to capture case studies, research and impact metrics that demonstrate
the impact of the Difference’s programmatic work.
● Input to the evolution and development of the Difference’s programmatic offer
using insight from delivery and feedback from programme participants
● Working closely with the The Difference’s Partnership and Sales team to
support the reach and impact of the programmatic work.
Our Values
● High Expectations - We are ambitious for excellence from young people, colleagues and
ourselves. We don’t believe in writing off someone’s potential because of their identity or
experience of crisis.
● Strong Relationships - We prioritise genuine relationships over transactional interactions,
and know that this requires deliberate relational practice. We see colleagues and partners as
people first and their roles second; and know this greater trust allows us to take more risks,
gain more feedback and have greater impact.
● Internalised Locus of Control - We work hard to reframe difficult situations to discover
what we have within our power in terms of solutions. We take it upon ourselves to walk
towards challenges and can take a high level of ownership and agency in our work/
● Pragmatism - We believe leadership means recognising current limitations and striving for
improvements within and beyond them. We develop consensus and chart new ways
forward, challenging false and extreme positions like “zero exclusions” or “no excuses”.
● Scientific approach - We take a diagnostic approach to unpicking causes of problems. We
are loud and proud of our failures, recognising failing fast and often is key to finding the
best solutions. We test solutions and are willing to use data and feedback to make
adjustments and choose new directions.
● Not Squeamish about Structural Inequality - We believe patterns of inequality can and
should be disrupted. We strive to be clear-eyed about these inequalities, and both the
individual practice and system-changes required to address them. We push ourselves to
overcome awkwardness in talking about this; and begin by acknowledging our own biases
and blind spots.
● Asset-based - We work hard to avoid deficit thinking and aim to start with what’s strong, not
what’s wrong. We are careful not to frame our colleagues and stakeholders - particularly
young people and families – as victims but instead to recognise their agency.
● Wise selves - To both enjoy work and do their best, we want to make decisions and work
with others in our “wise” - or regulated - selves. We also want to bring our compassionate
self to those we work with, externally and internally, to support one another through
challenging times.
How To Apply
To apply, please complete all sections of the application form by midnight on Sunday 21st April.
First round interviews will be held during the week beginning 6th May, over video call.
Please indicate if you would not be available to attend an interview during this week.
If successful in this stage, second round interviews (including a task to be completed the same
day) will take place on the week beginning 13th May, at our office in Bethnal Green.
We are committed to building a diverse team and strongly encourage applications from
under-represented groups in the charity sector such as people from black, Asian and minority
ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people with experience in the
care system, non-graduates and first-in-family graduates.
As part of our commitment to fairer recruitment, all applications will be assessed with names
and any protected characteristics redacted.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community, and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. We help those NHS foundation trusts and trusts to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care by enabling them to learn from each other, acting as their public voice and helping shape the system in which they operate.
NHS Providers has all trusts in England in voluntary membership, collectively accounting for £115bn of annual expenditure and employing 1.4 million people.
NHS Providers’ Development programmes team delivered a range of training and development activities for NHS boards and foundation trust governors. The team delivers over 200 events annually. We are looking for a senior development programmes coordinator to take responsibility for the efficient coordination of this work, elements of which are delivered virtually, in-person or hybrid.
In addition, the postholder will have responsibility for the effective line management to some of the team’s programme administrators/assistants.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join a busy, high-performing team working across two of NHS Providers’ successful programmes – GovernWell and the Board Development Programme. The individual should have excellent programme coordination skills, the ability to work effectively across multiple projects will be critical to success. The postholder will be an excellent communicator with the ability to liaise with colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally. They must be able to work flexibly, both independently and as part of a team. Along with being analytical and insightful, the postholder will be highly organised with a keen eye for detail. This role will involve line management responsibilities, experience is desirable.
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Please also complete the online interactive equal opportunities monitoring form as part of your application.
Summary
- To design and implement a suite of training programmes and professional learning networks for FLOURISH young leaders in education settings (primary, secondary and FE), who will be equipped to play a core leadership role in the outworking of the FLOURISH network of worshipping communities in schools/FE colleges
- To work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders (e.g. internally - Church of England Foundation for Education Leadership, Growing Faith Foundation, Archbishops' Young Leaders Award, and externally - a range of parachurch and leadership development organisations) to embed these FLOURISH programmes in the life of schools, colleges and dioceses
- To ensure a strong link between FLOURISH and the Archbishops' Young Leaders Award in the further development of its engagement with primary and secondary schools
- To work collaboratively with colleagues within Education Team (including the Archbishop's Young Leaders Award and Growing Faith Foundation teams) and across the national church to support the effective implementation of proposals to hear the voice and children and young people at a range of governance bodies
- To create and publish a range of media showcasing and highlighting the voice of children and young people, informing wider thinking of strategic leaders
- To positively impact the faith development of young people involved through effective strategies for leadership development
- To support the Head of Growing Faith Foundation and Head of Archbishops' Young Leaders Award in building and sustaining effective partnerships with a range of external organisations
- To work with diocese education teams to support their work in developing young leaders, creating national synergies and opportunities to showcase effective practice
- Outstanding track record of impact of leadership development in relation to adults and/or children/young people
- Ability to design effective research-led approaches to programme design
- Engaging presentation and facilitation skills with large and small groups, both virtually and face to face
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders - including written reports, high-profile events, and online presentations
- Successful leadership experience within the education, church, charity or youth work sector
- Experience of designing and delivering effective leadership development course content (in relation to adults and/or children/young people)
- Leadership of a wider team of professional development facilitators/coaches
- Clear understanding of educational landscape, and the relationship between education institutions, churches and households
- Secure understanding of the Church of England Vision for Education and its outworking in schools
- Clear understanding of the work of the Growing Faith Foundation to date
- Degree level qualifications or equivalent professional qualifications in a related field
- Personally committed to and passionate about changing the culture of the Church of England Innovative, creative and responsive to feedback
- Commitment to excellence and a pride in assuring quality and consistency across a wide team of facilitators
- Systematic and strong evidence of successful project implementation
- Ability to work independently, a motivated 'self starter'
- Postgraduate qualifications in a related field
- Specialist theology, leadership and/or coaching qualifications
- Effective delivery of online/blended learning experiences using a range of technology
- Coaching skills and training
- Experience of working at a regional, diocesan or national level
- Involvement in the work of early Growing Faith/ 'Faith at Home' work at a school, college, Diocese of parish context
- Commitment to deepening your own theological understanding and furthering your own spiritual development
- Experience of embedding the Church of England Vision of Education within a school or systems leadership context
- Experience managing projects with significant numbers of stakeholders
- We strive for excellence
- We collaborate
- We act with integrity
- We show compassion
- We respect others
We are seeking talented and experienced senior managers to lead the organisation’s Workforce and Living Well Programmes.
Position: Programme Lead x2 roles (Workforce or Living Well Programme)
Location: Remote/Hybrid
Salary: £50,000-£60,000 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week (negotiable)
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holiday, Personal Pension Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff Awards Scheme, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Flexible working patterns
Closing Date: Monday 22nd April 2024
Interview Date: 8th or 9th May
About the Role
As a key member of the Strategy and Impact Directorate, you will establish and lead one of our strategic programmes and focus on building key relationships, developing a portfolio of projects and helping us achieve our strategic ambitions.
You will be able to draw on the organisational resources, bringing them together around the problem with a clear and unrelenting focus on impact. Whilst it is important that you bring an effective and efficient approach, it is also critical that you bring creativity and vision to enable the programmes to realise their full potential.
As an experienced senior manager, you will lead the organisation’s Workforce Wellbeing Programme, bringing together a range of projects and activities that respond to the challenges and emotional distress faced by the NHS workforce on a daily basis.
Or, you will lead the Living Well Programme, bringing together a range of projects and activities that respond to the challenges presented by inequality and help to unlock the power of people and communities to create health, maintain good health and to manage as effectively as possible whilst living with one or more chronic conditions which in turn seeks to reduce or avoid demand on NHS services
About You
Whichever Programme you lead, you will have experience of:
· Leading complex multi-partner and stakeholder programmes in the VCSE or public sector
· Leading large programmes including programme management, governance, monitoring, impact measurement and reporting
· Working in an evolving strategic and operational environment and able to maintain and direct impactful programmes through periods of change
· Building and delivering communication strategies, using learning and insight to drive transformation
· Leadership and people management
· Co-production, collaboration and partnership working
· Working in a team to support the delivery of team objectives
About the Organisation
This is an exciting time to join the organisation as we begin to plan and deliver against our newly launched strategy, to achieve our vision of a future with a thriving NHS and the best possible healthcare for everyone, in which the finance team plays a vital role.
You will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and if selected and a supporting statement outlining how you meet the job description, person specification and any preference for a specific programme, via NFP People. The supporting statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4.
Please indicate which role you are applying for. If applying for both please submit a single CV but a separate personal statement for each outlining how your skills and experience meet the requirements of each role.
Other roles you may have experience of could include Programme Lead, Programme Manager, Programme Officer, Senior Programme Manager, Programme, Programmes, Impact, Engagement.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
The role
The Programme and Evaluation Manager organises our music programmes: ongoing workshop series in detention centres and other settings, performances, special projects. So the role sits at the very centre of our work. Working closely with the Artistic Director, you will make Hear Me Out’s artistic programme a reality.
The main part of the job is to co-ordinate programme activities. This means you would need to:
- Liaise with settings, partners, artists and colleagues
- Match, book and support our artists
- Organise a mass of artistic and practical detail
- Work directly with people with lived experience of detention and asylum
- Understand the context and purpose of the work and what’s needed to make it succeed
We’re committed to evaluating our work. We want to know what difference it makes and what we can do better, so we ask participants to tell us what they think, and collect this data as we go along, to build up a picture of our impact. Organising this is an important part of the job. You’ll also lead some evaluation activities, such as focus groups with participants.
You’ll be the main point of contact for Hear Me Out’s freelance Associate Artists, supporting and supervising them as they lead music projects with adults and children, organising artist care and development activities, and helping bring people with lived experience into our artistic team.
Our programme is bigger than it has ever been, it has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to new challenges thrown up by the immigration system and we expect it will keep changing. So there will be lots of scope for you to make changes and develop new work.
This is a special opportunity to work join a supportive, dynamic team delivering extraordinary work.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with strong people skills and equally strong organisational skills. For the music-making to have its intended impact, you will need to have a real eye for fine detail, and lots of sensitivity and awareness of people and their needs, whether they are people going through the immigration system, or managers in detention centres and asylum hotels.
You’ll know something of our context, or be able to learn that quickly. You’ll be skilled at communicating with artists, colleagues and partners to ensure we have a shared, realistic plan. You’ll understand how the detail of artistic planning feeds through into outcomes. And you’ll be able to evaluate those outcomes in a systematic way.
We are a small team, and most of us work part-time. You’ll need to work independently, co-operate and communicate consistently, and adapt readily when things change. You’ll need to be available on Wednesdays (our ‘team day’), and sometimes to work evenings and weekends.
Hear Me Out is committed to diversity, and is working to bring more people with relevant lived experience into our team. We very much encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds, applicants with disabilities or neuro-diverse conditions, and people of different ages, gender, sexual orientations and socio-economic backgrounds. We very much encourage applications from people with personal experience of immigration detention, or the asylum process, or immigration enforcement. If you have programme experience and also this kind of lived experience, we would especially love to hear from you.
Terms & conditions
The following terms and conditions will apply:
- Contract: Permanent contract, subject to a 6-month probationary period
- Location: The team meets at its office in central London on Wednesdays and works in a hybrid way the rest of the week.
- Hours: Part-time position, 3 days (22.5 hours) per week (0.6 FTE)
- Salary: £35,130 per year pro rata (ie £21,078), gross
- Annual leave: 36 days paid holiday leave per year pro rata (ie 22 days), including statutory bank holidays
- Sick pay: 25 days per year pro rata (ie 15 days) on full pay, followed by 25 days pro rata (ie 15 days) on half pay, followed by Statutory Sick Pay only
- Pension: 6% employer contribution to HMO’s selected Stakeholder pension scheme or to another scheme of the employee’s choice
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Job Description: Fellowship Programme Assistant – Enquiries
Line Manager: Team Leader (Enquiries)
Objective: The programme assistant receives and assesses applications for support from at-risk academics.
Experience: Bachelors’ degree or comparable experience
Duration: For an initial period of 12 months, subject to review.
Hours: Full-time. Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
Location: Hybrid working - in London office in Elephant and Castle SE1 (2/3 set days per week) and working from home on the remaining days.
Start: 1 May 2024 or shortly thereafter.
Salary: £29,160.
Number of posts: One.
Application deadline: 25/04/2024.
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. The Fellowship Programme is the continuation of the rescue mission operation started in 1933.
Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just over 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, Afghanistan and Ukraine. 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 dedicated and friendly Fellowship Programme team as we expand our capacity to support at-risk academics from the Middle East, Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia and many other countries.
Fellowship Programme Officer Role & Responsibilities
Casework
- Receiving and processing applications for support
- Working directly with academics facing immediate risk in their home countries to carry out due diligence
- Preparing cases for eligibility review, including arranging calls to speak with applicants, booking English language tests, and gathering all relevant documentation
- Identifying funding opportunities
- Researching potential hosts for academic placements and liaising with external stakeholders in relation to applicants
- Attend weekly case review meetings with the team
Administration
- Provide general administrative and logistical support, including answering telephones
- Answer general queries about the enquiries’ process and the Programme
- Provide support to the drafting of reports to funders
- Present and collect data
- Ensure safekeeping of confidential information
- Maintain excellent detailed records of correspondence, documents, and activities
Managerial Support
- Contributing to Fellowship Programme policy changes and decision-making
- Provide advice and guidance to colleagues
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.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging but rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes life-saving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Weekly case review meetings with line manager, plus quarterly 1-1 sessions with manager to discuss role and to plan individual professional development
· Hybrid working, home and office (usually 2 days each week in the office)
· Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
Person Specification
Essential
- Bachelor's degree
- Proactive with a willingness to learn
- Great communication skills – internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to manage workload in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent record keeping and attention to detail
- Keen team player who is ready to support and help colleagues
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Good time management with ability to prioritise and independently work to deadlines, and shift priorities when required
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality
- Interest in and commitment to the work of Cara
- Confident user of Microsoft package
- Ability to have difficult conversations
Desirable
- Arabic language skills are desirable. Other foreign languages (such as Farsi/Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian) will also be considered.
- Confident user of Salesforce
- Experience in a supporting role with people with lived experience of forced migration
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Description: Fellowship Programme Officer
Line Manager: Team Leader (New Fellows)
Objective: The Programme Officer provides individualised support to Fellows, facilitates placements and secures funding. The Programme Officer also contributes to project management activities.
Duration: For an initial period of 12 months, subject to review.
Start date: 1 May 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Hours: Full-time. Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm.
Salary: £30,240 per annum
Number of posts: 2.
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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. The Fellowship Programme is the continuation of the rescue mission operation started in 1933.
Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just over 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, Afghanistan and Ukraine. 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 dedicated and friendly Fellowship Programme team as we expand our capacity to support at-risk academics from the Middle East, Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia and many other countries.
Fellowship Programme Officer Role & Responsibilities
Fellowships
- Lead on New Fellows Team cases and provide comprehensive support to Cara Fellows using trauma-informed practice.
- 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.
- Attend weekly meetings with the team.
- Support Fellowship Programme with ad hoc responsibilities.
Visa Advice & Guidance
- Liaise closely with Fellows and hosting universities on visa related issues (Student and Temporary Worker (GAE) 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
- Assist new arrivals with handover to the Active Fellows’ Team.
- 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.
- Present and collect data
- Ensure safekeeping of confidential information
- Maintain detailed records of correspondence, documents, and activities.
Project Management
- The Programme Officer will have the opportunity to contribute to the management of internal projects within the Programme.
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.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging but rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes life-saving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Weekly case review meetings with line manager, plus quarterly 1-1 sessions with manager to discuss role and to plan individual professional development
· Hybrid working, home and office (usually 2 days each week in the office)
· Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
Person Specification
Essential
· Bachelor's degree
- Fluent English (spoken and written).
· Proactive with a willingness to learn
- Confident and empathetic with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
· Keen team player who is ready to support and help colleagues
- Excellent record keeping and 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 package
- Good knowledge of current global issues.
· Ability to have difficult conversations
Desirable
- Masters or equivalent experience
- Casework experience
- Arabic language skills are desirable. Other foreign languages (such as Farsi/Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian) will also be considered.
- Salesforce/CRM software experience
- Project Management experience.
- Experience in a supporting role with people with lived experience of forced migration
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Description: Fellowship Programme Assistant – Active Fellows
Line Manager: Team Leader (Active Fellows)
Objective: The programme assistant provides individualised support to Fellows and facilitates placements/extensions.
Experience: Bachelors’ degree or comparable experience
Duration: For an initial period of 12 months, subject to review.
Hours: Full-time. Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm.
Location: Hybrid working - in London office in Elephant and Castle SE1 (2/3 set days per week) and working from home on the remaining days.
Start: 1 May 2024 or shortly thereafter.
Salary: £29,160.
Number of posts: One.
Application deadline: 25/04/2024.
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. The Fellowship Programme is the continuation of the rescue mission operation started in 1933.
Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just over 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, Afghanistan and Ukraine. 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 dedicated and friendly Fellowship Programme team as we expand our capacity to support at-risk academics from the Middle East, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia and many other countries.
Fellowship Programme Officer Role & Responsibilities
Casework
- Provide support for a caseload of at-risk academics (Cara Fellows) carrying out research placements at UK or international universities
- Assess Fellows’ suitability for academic placements/extensions
- Assess, arrange or signpost additional support for Fellows
- Develop relationships with universities and other partner organisations
- Secure fee waivers, bursaries & in-kind support from universities, research institutes and other funding bodies.
- Provide logistical support for visa processes, travel, etc.
- Write and send official documents to Fellows
- Request relevant invoices and produce documentation needed to make payments
- Attend weekly case meetings with the team
Administration
- Provide support to the drafting of reports to funders
- Present and collect data
- Ensure Fellows have submitted their quarterly reports
- Ensure safekeeping of confidential information
- Maintain excellent detailed records of correspondence, documents, and activities
Managerial Support
- Contributing to Fellowship Programme policy changes and decision-making
- Provide advice and guidance to colleagues
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.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging but rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes life-saving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Weekly case review meetings with line manager, plus quarterly 1-1 sessions with manager to discuss role and to plan individual professional development
· Hybrid working, home and office (usually 2 days each week in the office)
· Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
Person Specification
Essential
- Bachelor's degree
- Proactive with a willingness to learn
- Great communication skills – internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to manage workload in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent record keeping and attention to detail
- Keen team player who is ready to support and help colleagues
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Good time management with ability to prioritise and independently work to deadlines, and shift priorities when required
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality
- Interest in and commitment to the work of Cara
- Confident user of Microsoft package
- Ability to have difficult conversations
Desirable
- Confident user of Salesforce
- Experience in a supporting role with people with lived experience of forced migration
-Arabic language skills are desirable. Other foreign languages (such as Farsi/Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian) will also be considered.
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Job Description: Fellowship Programme Assistant (part-time)
Line Manager: Team Leader (Active Fellows)
Objective: Assisting in the maintenance of financial processes
Experience:Bachelor’s degree (2:1 or above).
Start Date: 1 May 2024 or shortly thereafter.
Duration: For an initial period of 12 months, subject to review. 2 day per week contract.
Hours: Part-time. Eight hours each day, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
Location: 1 day in our Elephant and Castle SE1 office and 1 day working from home.
Salary: £29,160 pro-rata
Number of positions available: One
Application Deadline: 25/04/2024
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. The Fellowship Programme is the continuation of the rescue mission operation started in 1933.
Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just over 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, Afghanistan and Ukraine. 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 dedicated and friendly Fellowship Programme team as we expand our capacity to support at-risk academics from the Middle East, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia and many other countries.
Part-time Fellowship Programme Assistant Role & Responsibilities
· Produce a weekly list of payments.
· Produce financial paperwork.
· Schedule Fellows’ placement disbursements on SalesForce (SF) – those having simple funding allocations and support the schedule of more complex funding requests when needed.
· Update disbursement details once paid on a weekly basis.
· Input payments made via our Pleo card to SF and link allocations.
· Update details for new grant requests (funding request status, disbursement details, and relevant allocations) and ongoing requests when needed.
· Support management of Fellowship-related grants (English, hardship, mentoring, small grants).
· Create payments and allocations for opportunities on SF once an award letter has been issued.
· Track invoice status and notify colleagues to initiate the invoicing process.
· Send invoice requests to our bookkeeper and update the relevant opportunities and payments on SF.
· Draft invoices when needed.
· Update opportunities and payments on SF for invoice paid/funding received.
· Analyse data for reporting to stakeholders and donors.
· Assist during the yearly audit.
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.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging but rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes life-saving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Weekly case review meetings with line manager, plus quarterly 1-1 sessions with manager to discuss role and to plan individual professional development
· Hybrid working, home and office
· Eight hours each day, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
Person Specification
Essential
· Bachelor’s degree (2:1 or above)
· Fluent English (spoken and written)
· Proactive with a willingness to learn
· Great communication skills – internal and external stakeholders
· Ability to manage workload in a fast-paced environment
· Excellent record keeping and attention to detail
· Keen team player who is ready to support and help colleagues
· Ability to work independently and in a team
· Good time management – with ability to prioritise independently work to deadlines
· Understanding of issues of confidentiality
· Interest in and commitment to the work of Cara
· Confident use of Microsoft package
· Confident use of Salesforce or other CRM platforms
Desirable
· Bookkeeping qualifications
· Previous experience in a finance support role
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO?
We are the UK’s student mental health charity. We challenge the higher education sector, health sector, and government to work with students when making decisions that impact them, and make them accountable for prioritising student mental health. In collaboration with students, we show sector professionals what effective student mental health looks like, and bridge the gap between students and the communities around them to ensure their voices are always heard.
By creating and curating resources, stories and tools, we empower students to build their own mental health toolkit to support themselves and their peers through university life and beyond. We want to empower and inspire students to use their voice to share their stories and advocate for themselves.
ROLE PURPOSE
The Programme Liaison Officer (full-time, fixed-term contract for 18 months, with possibility to extend) will join the expanding Sector Improvement Team. They will provide vital administration, communication and digital liaison and support required to successfully run and deliver the University Mental Health Charter Programme and Award, achieve the Sector Improvement Team’s key objectives, and contribute to the whole charity’s mission and goals. This is an exciting opportunity to help the team scale the University Mental Health Charter, with the potential to impact 2.5 million staff and students across the UK.
This role will include responding to queries, liaising with assessors, universities and general enquiries. The post holder will be responsible for working with the team to develop and monitor our HUB and digital platforms, for developing regular newsletters and working with colleagues to liaise with the many stakeholders involved in the assessment and programme processes.
Key responsibilities
Liaison support
- Provide effective liaison and administrative support to the Sector Improvement Programme(s), working closely with the Sector Improvement Lead and Programme Managers to ensure thesuccessful delivery of the programmes
- Support the planning and delivery of key Sector Improvement Programme activities such as the Winter Panel and the recruitment of the Award Assessors, CPD training and responding togeneral enquiries
- Act as the first point of contact for key stakeholders’ inquiries through the Charter Inbox and Student Minds’ Hub
Digital and resources support
- Utilise project management tools to manage work, deadlines and workflows alongside relevant colleagues to ensure timely and quality programme delivery
- Support the development of resources and documents for the charter, including newsletters, HUB announcements, Charter Handbook etc.
- Work closely with the Comms and Digital Team internally to develop and communicate clear timelines and resources needed throughout the year
- Support the annual onboarding of the Charter Programme, supporting the administrative tasks for the process, including some financial support. Lead on bringing together and distributing key documents such as welcome packs, Charter Framework documents etc.
- Support the coordinator (Programme and HUB) to onboard universities and Assessors to the HUB, and develop and grow the platform for members
- Update and oversee the Sector Improvement annual calendar of events and key activities/deliverables and share with the wider Student Minds team, identifying where dates may need to be moved
- Actively participate in the testing and embedding of new digital systems being led by the Digital
- Product Manager to increase efficiency and engagement for the Sector Improvement Programme and organisation as a whole for example collating product requirements
Financial support
- Work with the Programme Support Officer and finance colleagues to ensure correct processes and procedures are followed accurately and compliant with finance requirements
- Act as a secondary card holder for the team, making online purchases such as accommodation and travel bookings and following policies, procedures and guidance in the correct and responsible use of the Student Minds card
Data and process administration
- Administer data princesses for the University Mental Health Charter Programme and Award process, in line with Data Protection Guidelines
- Collate evaluation data from Sector Improvement events (online and in person)
- Create essential documents requested by the Sector Improvement Programme team, to support programme delivery and scalability
- Use our database(s) to manage relationships and communications with programme participants and key stakeholders, ensuring it is always up-to-date
- Support the Sector Improvement Team and Award Managers to enable efficient Award
- Assessment accreditation processes
- Maintain key working relationships with our network of Assessors and University Award Leads, addressing queries, scheduling and minuting award panels, sharing actions with the team
Working together
- Work closely with the Programme Support Officer to successfully deliver all aspects of the role, including managing the relationships with universities and logistical aspects (e.g. bookings, finances), ensuring tasks are picked between roles and when required
- Work closely with colleagues in the Student Space team and Training teams to embed cross- programme working within Student Minds.
- Attend various programme-related meetings, actively contributing ideas to continually develop our Programmes
- Stay updated on developments in Higher Education and gather insights from sector partners to feed into team decisions
- Look for opportunities to develop systems and processes to improve ways of working and participate in discussions on the Sector Improvement Team development and improvement
BENEFITS
- Generous annual leave allowance - 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus a 2-week winter closure
- Flexible working - we encourage all employees to reflect on when and where they work best and how they need to fit work around caring or other commitments.
- Wellbeing is at the heart of what we do - we support staff to implement Wellness Action Plans and offer 10% of weekly working hours for you to invest in your wellbeing.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme - we also offer wellbeing support through an Employee Assistance Programme which provides a wide range of resources as well as confidential counselling.
- For other benefits and more information please see our website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO?
We are the UK’s student mental health charity. We challenge the higher education sector, health sector, and government to work with students when making decisions that impact them, and make them accountable for prioritising student mental health. In collaboration with students, we show sector professionals what effective student mental health looks like, and bridge the gap between students and the communities around them to ensure their voices are always heard.
By creating and curating resources, stories and tools, we empower students to build their own mental health toolkit to support themselves and their peers through university life and beyond. We want to empower and inspire students to use their voice to share their stories and advocate for themselves.
ROLE PURPOSE
The Programme Support Officer (full-time, fixed-term contract for 18 months, with possibility to extend) will join the expanding Sector Improvement Team. They will provide vital logistical, financial and administrative support and coordination required to successfully run and deliver the University Mental Health Charter Programme and Award, achieve the Sector Improvement Team’s key objectives, and contribute to the whole charity’s mission and goals. This is an exciting opportunity to help the team scale the University Mental Health Charter, with the potential to impact 2.5 million staff and students across the UK.
From booking travel and accommodation, holding responsibility for the planning and administration of the Purchase Order sheets, to liaising with the many stakeholders involved in the assessment and programme processes, you will have an opportunity to be involved in an interesting, fast paced and exciting role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Logistical support
- Provide effective logistical and administrative support to the Sector Improvement Programme(s), working closely with the Sector Improvement Lead and Programme Managers to ensure the successful delivery of the programmes
- Support the the planning and delivery of key Sector Improvement Programme activities including online and in-person events, handling the administrative and logistical tasks e.g. venue booking and travel arrangements
- Support the Charter Award Process by managing logistics for assessors during Award site visits and handling related bookings
- Use of our Project Management tools to set and receive work, manage deadlines and workflows alongside colleagues to complete projects and Programmes in a timely manner, ensuring high quality of work
Financial support
- Assist in onboarding the University Mental Health Charter Programme by managing administrative tasks such as purchase orders and processing documents (e.g. MOUs, new supplier forms etc.) and outstanding payments
- Administer finances for our Sector Improvement programmes; issuing purchase orders and ensuring timely payments
- Work with finance colleagues to ensure correct processes and procedures are followed accurately and compliant with finance requirements, and identify areas for process improvement
- Act as a cardholder for the team, making online purchases such as accommodation and travel bookings and following policies, procedures and guidance in the correct and responsible use of the Student Minds card
Data and process administration
- Administer data processes for the University Mental Health Charter Programme and Award process, in line with Data Protection Guidelines
- Collate and analyse evaluation data from Sector Improvement events (online and in person), generating timely reports and make recommendations for programme improvement
- Create essential documents requested by the Sector Improvement Programme team to support programme delivery and scalability
- Provide support to the Sector Improvement Team and Award Managers to enable efficient Award Assessment accreditation processes
- Maintain key working relationships with our network of Assessors and University Award Leads, addressing queries, scheduling and minuting award panels, sharing actions with the team
Working together
- Work closely with the Programme Liaison Officer to successfully deliver all aspects of the role, including managing university relationships, ensuring tasks are picked between roles and when required
- Attend programme-related meetings, and maintain communications with programme participants and key stakeholders through maintaining and use of up-to-date database(s)
- Actively participate in the testing and embedding of new digital systems to improve programme efficiency and engagement
- Stay updated on developments in Higher Education and gather insights from sector partners to feed into team decisions
- Look for opportunities to develop systems and processes to improve ways of working and participate in discussions on the Sector Improvement Team development and improvement
Other duties
- Such other duties as may be reasonably prescribed by the organisation, appropriate to the grade and responsibilities of this post
- Attend regular team meetings with the Student Minds team and colleagues throughout the year as required
- Ensure compliance with Student Minds’ internal procedures and all external legal requirements
- Undertake training and attend conferences in a support capacity when Student Minds is delivering, and attend external conferences as a delegate where required
- Engage with and provide feedback on projects and strategic reports developed by other members of the team
- Work flexibly and undertake tasks to support Student Minds colleagues as needed
BENEFITS
- Generous annual leave allowance - 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus a 2-week winter closure
- Flexible working - we encourage all employees to reflect on when and where they work best and how they need to fit work around caring or other commitments.
- Wellbeing is at the heart of what we do - we support staff to implement Wellness Action Plans and offer 10% of weekly working hours for you to invest in your wellbeing.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme - we also offer wellbeing support through an Employee Assistance Programme which provides a wide range of resources as well as confidential counselling.
- For other benefits and more information please see our website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.