The Head of Partnerships and Placements will lead a team to sustain and secure partnerships with local authorities (LAs) and children’s trusts, to develop and support 600+ Fellows (alumni) annually. This is directly linked to achieving Frontline’s organisational objective of having 4,000 impactful Fellows by 2025, who will create social change for children without a safe or stable home.

This is a new team as historically partnerships have been secured from within regional delivery teams. We have been refining our approach and offer to partners over the past 12 months and are now looking for a Head of Partnerships and Placements to lead the new team. The new Head will manage the Partnership and Placement Managers (PPMs) as they take sole responsibility for securing partnerships, while the Delivery Team focus on participant experience and programme quality. The Head of Partnerships and Placements will work closely with the Heads of Delivery in order to secure high-quality placements and ensure targets are met. They will be responsible for providing a great experience for partners and overseeing the team to ensure partner expectations are met. Additionally they will play an active role within Frontline’s Leadership Group.

Applicants need to have at least 5 years’ experience of working in sales and account management.

Act4Africa, a UK charity with a 19-year history of providing holistic care and support to women, girls, and their communities in sub-Saharan Africa, is looking to recruit a Programme Manager as the charity heads into an exciting new phase.

Taking responsibility for the day-to-day management, support and facilitation, of Act4Africa’s in-country partners, the successful candidate will also be required to create and interpret detailed project planning, tracking and feedback mechanisms, as well as to play an active role in the overall direction and development of the charity. S/he will be comfortable working towards agreed targets, creating, and adhering to strategic plans, and negotiating relationships between different stakeholders and partners.

At Turning Point, it’s our job to help people find a new direction in life. Through our person-centred approach to support, we’re now one of the country’s leading social care providers, with a turnover of over £130m p/a.

We continue to grow, and we’ve big ambitions to stay on that upward curve. Join us as a Business Development Manager for our Public Health and Substance Misuse Services, and you’ll help us do just that by leading and managing one of our two regional business development teams.

In this business-critical role, it will be your job to make sure everything we say and do is relevant, engaging and original – ensuring that our excellent track record of service delivery is noticed by Local Authority Commissioners.

An experienced Business Development professional with a track record of leading winning bids, you will be responsible for both contract retention and winning new business in your region. You will work in partnership with operational colleagues and other senior stakeholders to co-produce service models, budgets and partnerships for tenders, as well as managing all aspects of the tender process, including quality assurance of written responses.

You will be responsible for written responses for tender submissions, bid planning/preparation and bid leadership and management all whist continuously improving business development processes. You will be responsible for the line management of 1 or more bid writers.

You will have effective communication skills (both oral and written), excellent critical thinking skills, great interpersonal skills, good attention to detail, previous experience of line management and an organised/methodical mind. You will have excellent business writing skills and effective project management. The ability to remain calm and deliver under pressure to tight deadlines is essential as well as good problem solving and critical thinking skills.

A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a business development role that has involved bid/tender writing is required as well as a demonstrable track record of significant contributions to winning bids, either in own right or as part of a wider team.

You will be based in one of our regional offices in Manchester or London, with home working from any location with good transport links also considered for the right candidate.

Why Turning Point?

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

Across the varied regions, sectors and settings we operate within, our organisation is held together by a shared vision – and our people are connected by the same values. These include belief in potential, confidence in communication, embracing positive change and always treating each other as individuals.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

Our people bring our vision to life. So, if you are enthusiastic, motivated and committed to support others to fulfilling their potential, here at Turning Point, we don't just offer you a job – we offer you a career.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

Of course, we know it's not about the money. But that doesn't mean we don't reward our people for their invaluable work with a benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive opportunities to learn and develop, with silver accreditation from Investors in People
• 33 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 35 days. Plus the option to purchase additional holidays
• Flexible benefit options including cycle to work schemes and season ticket loans
• Competitive pension and life assurance schemes
• Employee assistance programme and access to online health and wellbeing support
• Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance
• Access to a wide range of discounts, including cinema tickets, grocery and high-street shopping and gym memberships

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive sufficient applicants before the advertised closed date.

We are looking for an Individual Giving Innovation manager to join us on a 12mth FTC to cover maternity leave. Joining our Individual Giving Team, you will be responsible for identifying and scoping new income generating products and activities, developing ideas from concept to delivery.

The main focus of this role is the development of an innovation pipeline of cause-cash propositions that compliment Friends of the Earth’s climate campaign. You will be leading on product development from start to finish, delivering audience-led ideas that are commercially sound and have the potential to reach significant scale.

A proven track record of developing and delivering products that attract new audiences and inspire existing supporters is essential. You will also need experience of identifying and drawing insight from target audiences and leading/facilitating ideation sessions.

Closing date: Thursday 20th August 2020 (23:59)

For more information please visit our website.

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Flexible location

Closing date: Monday 17th August 2020 at 11.30pm 
Interviews: Thursday 20th and Friday 21st August 2020

We’re looking for a commercially aware individual with experience of working in a fundraising/income generation focused product development and innovation environment, to join us as a Community Fundraising National Relationships Manager and play a key role in engaging new and existing supporters.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Part of our hugely successful Income Generation division, Shelter’s Community Fundraising team is a new and, currently, small team but with big plans to grow our numbers to have Regional Fundraisers in 12 cities across England and Scotland. Community Fundraising is a key part of Shelter’s long-term fundraising strategy and investment is being made available to fund it. We have recently appointed a new Head of Community Fundraising and are now seeking to expand our team – it’s a great time to join us.

At Shelter we are committed to tackling systematic inequalities and currently we are looking to increase the diversity within our Fundraising team. We would particularly welcome applications from anyone with a BAME background or considers themselves to have a disability.

About the role
This brand new role involves leading and managing a team and working closely with the Head of Community Fundraising to achieve our strategic and operational objectives. You’ll also play a big part in developing, testing and evaluating new mass activity products and carrying out market scanning and trend spotting. Managing the national stewardship and engagement of supporters will be important too, as will managing a budget to ensure optimal ROIs. Developing and testing supporter journeys, creating and developing assets and materials and using coaching, mentoring and other methods to continuously improve the performance of your team – all are aspects of a role that will also see you work with the Head to develop a culture of innovation across Community Fundraising.

About you 
You’ll need to be an accomplished project manager with a proven track record in a related environment where you employed innovation management tools. You also need a good understanding of Google Analytics, Trello, Miro, DSEO, social media marketing, Indesign and databases. Some management experience is required too, as is a customer focused approach, lots of creativity and innovation and a strong desire to deliver results each and every time. You will be able to demonstrate strong skills and experience around supporter stewardship and supporter journeys. Someone who responds quickly and positively to change, you’re happy to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas, methods and processes where appropriate. What’s more, you have excellent networking and influencing skills, whether dealing with a variety of internal teams or external suppliers, developers and agencies.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own. 

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities),gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

HOSTEL OPERATIONS MANAGER

37 hours per week

SCP20-25 £25,295 - £28,785 per annum

Qualification bar SCP23

BASED IN MANCHESTER

The post holder will ensure high standards are consistently achieved in relation to providing a safe, welcoming, effective and quality service in relation to housing management.  Working with Senior Management they will set clear standards, work plans and goals, provide continuous coaching and supervision.

Working as part of a newly re-established team, the successful post holder will be expected to support the development and improvement of our services based at Denmark Road to provide a flagship service.

They will be proactive, closely monitoring all key areas of service delivery, from health and safety, compliance, maintenance of properties, implementing quality management systems and overseeing hostel budgets

This is a dynamic role and the ideal candidate will not only be able to ensure regulatory compliance but help drive positive change, innovation and continual improvements in line with Caritas values and ethos.

Caritas follows Safer Recruitment practices and this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service checks.

As Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead at St John, you will deliver expert advice, change leadership and guidance alongside developing and implementing strategic policies, practices and action plans.

About the role

As Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead at St John, you will deliver expert advice, change leadership and guidance alongside developing and implementing strategic policies, practices and action plans.  Above all, your over-riding purpose will be to influence the organisational culture to one in which EDI is the driver for sustainable change.  You will also be the principle EDI advisor to the CEO, the Chief Commissioner, the Head of HR and to the Celebrating Communities Steering Group.  This will be an extremely challenging role which will ensure that, as an organisation, we discharge our specific legislative obligations as well as significantly contributing to the St John Values and cultural change expectations.

About you

You will need to be a special person to succeed in this role with a strong passion for fairness and equity and an in-depth understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion matters as they affect all St John people.  Previous experience of delivering EDI interventions and influencing positive change via a range of stakeholders is important.  Being able to inspire and drive delivery across a wide range of EDI areas in a complex organisation will require strong levels of resilience and perseverance and the ability to persuade at all levels of St John.

About Us

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.

Over the next decade, we have bold ambitions to help transform out-of-hospital care, having a positive impact on the people we treat and the communities we serve.

We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.

You will receive:

• Competitive salary & pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you’ll have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping.

Interview Date: 10 August 2020

Application Review Date: 28 August 2020

We may review applications before the Application Review Date, however, if you apply after the Application Review Date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.

Background

New Schools Network (NSN) is a dynamic, growing charity. Our purpose is to ensure that every child has an equal chance to succeed, irrespective of their background, by supporting communities to establish, run and improve schools.

An unacceptable number of children fail to reach their potential because they lack access to an excellent education. Too often, a child’s background dictates their destination in life, entrenching inequality and impacting communities for generations to come.

NSN is passionate about ending educational inequality once and for all.

We envisage a country where every child has an equal chance to succeed in life, irrespective of their background. Through our programmes, we partner with individuals, groups, trusts and business leaders to establish, run and improve pioneering and innovative schools.

By offering advice, guidance and support, the charity has been instrumental in helping hundreds of groups of parents, teachers, charities and schools to establish new schools. Over the last three years, NSN has expanded its activities to support the 800 or so free schools that are open or have been approved to open. This is an exciting opportunity to work in medium sized charity and to improve the quality of education in England by joining NSN’s Free Schools Programme Directorate.

New Schools Network is powered by a dynamic and enthusiastic team, united by a passion for improving life chances for children through education.

Free Schools Programme Directorate

As a member of the Free Schools Programme Directorate (FSPD), you will be supporting the team to deliver services to free schools at all stages of their journey. No two days will be the same; you will be involved in a varied range of projects across the team and wider organisation. The FSPD intern will primarily support NSN’s two free school services:

• Advisory Services: NSN’s Advisory Services offers support and guidance to free school applicant groups. This includes researching and reaching out to groups who are best placed to set up specific types of schools, and working with them to develop their idea and prepare them to submit a free school application to the Department for Education (DfE).

• Delivery Services: NSN’s Delivery Services offer a range of support to free schools that have been approved to open, and those that are open. NSN supports approved groups by providing a range of paid-for services, specially designed to help groups achieve the key milestones in a challenging and rigorous set up process. Open free schools can access a range of free support including events, meetings with specialist consultants, and NSN’s dedicated helpdesk service.

The FSPD intern will also be expected to provide ad hoc support to other projects and teams across the organisation.

Our values are:

• We take action to generate change.
• We embrace innovation.
• We believe in individual agency.
• We celebrate diversity.

Key responsibilities

Interns work across all areas of NSN’s work. They have an opportunity to develop a number of key skills, including research, writing and presenting, event organisation and database management. This role will include the following responsibilities:

• Helping to deliver accurate advice to free schools at all stages, including applicant groups, through NSN’s universal helpdesk service;
• Supporting the co-ordination of one-to-one advice surgeries;
• Researching various topics in public policy, politics and education;
• Helping to organise events, including (virtual) visits to schools, roundtables and webinars;
• Supporting advisers to identify and contact high quality potential free school applicants;
• Updating and maintaining records on NSN’s internal database, including running reports and logging queries in a timely and accurate manner; and,
•  
• We commit to continuous improvement.
• Supporting the work of the wider team and the administration of NSN’s work in general

Candidates need to demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• Enthusiasm – NSN’s interns must be passionate about education, and support the free school policy.
• Proactivity – NSN’s interns must be able to use their initiative to solve problems, handle external queries appropriately, and support the team.
• Impressive communication skills – NSN’s interns communicate with a great variety of individuals and groups in person, over the phone and in writing, including civil servants and senior leaders of national academy trusts.
• Strong time management skills – NSN’s interns need to prioritise their workload and be able to balance time sensitive tasks with longer-term projects.
• Professionalism – NSN’s interns are often the first point of contact for external stakeholders, so they need to represent NSN in a professional manner in any situation.
• Adaptability – NSN’s interns are asked to complete a wide variety of projects and need to be adaptable.
• Attention to detail – NSN’s interns need to complete both written and data-related tasks with precision and accuracy.

We are interested in applications from anyone with the above attributes, regardless of your level of education or experience. A proven interest in education (e.g. tutoring, volunteering with young people) and/or experience in a customer facing role would be beneficial.

Please note: We are keen to appoint as soon as possible and may interview for this position before the deadline. Candidates are therefore encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Interviews will be held virtually due to COVID-19.

Location

 London or Manchester (with initial flexibility around working from home due to COVID-19).

How to apply

To apply for this role, please e-mail with your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are the right person for this job. NSN operates a 'blind' recruitment process, whereby all personal and identifying details are removed from candidates' applications. We do this to ensure that the hiring team evaluate applicants on the basis of their skills, aptitude and experience instead of factors that could potentially bias decision-making.

Fixed Term Contract, 12 months

Full Time 37.5 hours per week

London, Birmingham or Manchester

£45,000 per annum (plus £3,000 London Weighting if applicable)

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a motivated and talented mentor and relationship manager to join our Teaching Programmes team as an ECF Support Lead. The ECF Support Lead is a new and exciting role for the organisation, working as part of the wider Early Career Teachers (ECT) programme team delivering the new Department for Education funded Early Roll Out of Early Career Framework (ECF) nationally.

Schools involved in the ECT Programme will nominate an in-school ECF Lead to oversee the programme in their setting. ECF Leads will be crucial to the successful delivery of the ECT programme in schools. Their role will include supporting mentors and ECTs on the programme, promoting and monitoring engagement with the programme in line with the principles of ECF, and being an in-school champion for the ECF and the ECT programme. 

The ECF Support Lead will be responsible for holding ECF Leads to account, promoting engagement with the programme across all stakeholders, supporting ECF Leads to ensure ECTs and mentors completion, and to champion the ECF and ECT programme across their portfolio of schools.  The ECF Support Lead’s key responsibility will be to foster, develop and manage the work of these ECF Leads over the course of the programme.

Based in either our London, Manchester or Birmingham office, you will be the direct point of contact at Ambition for the ECF Leads and the role will involve supporting and empowering them to ensure that the programme is being delivered with fidelity in their settings. You will  provide support and challenge ECF Leads on the progress of their NQTs and the quality of mentoring happening in their school. You will track progress of the ECTs within your portfolio of schools and design intervention where necessary to ensure all participants are experiencing exceptional support.

The ECF Support Lead will need to be an expert in teacher education, instructional coaching, the ECF, the ECT programme, Early Career Teachers and senior leaders in schools. This is an exciting new role in our organisation and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape the role as our ways of working are established.

Who are Ambition Institute?

Ambition Institute has one purpose: to help educators serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep getting better. With our new organisation, and more than ten years of collective experience in working with educators at all levels, we believe that exciting opportunities lie ahead. We are a graduate school for educators, and we apply academic rigour to our learning design, drawing on frontline insights from schools into what works in practice. Our programmes leverage the latest evidence from international experts, which means we think carefully about what is taught, how, and in what sequence. We work collaboratively to enable school improvement for the benefit of pupils, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Flexibility on how you work – agreed between you and your line manager
• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• 2 additional annual leave days for 1 day booked during December over the festive period
• A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
• Competitive salary rates
• Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
• A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development

How to apply

Applications are being assessed as they are received; the advert will close once a successful candidate has been appointed.

Interviews will start to be held from 23rd August onward on a rolling basis

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

£31,923 per annum 
Permanent 
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Flexible working from home and Shelter hub based working days

Closing date: Thursday 27th August 2020 at 11.30 pm

We're looking for a highly proactive individual with experience of working within a fundraising or marketing environment to join us as a Community Fundraising Area Manager and to take the lead in driving change and boosting performance.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Part of our hugely successful Income Generation division, Shelter's Community Fundraising team is a new and, currently, small team but with big plans to grow our numbers to have Regional Fundraisers in 12 cities across England and Scotland. Community Fundraising is a key part of Shelter's long-term fundraising strategy and investment is being made available to fund it. We have recently appointed a new Head of Community Fundraising and are now seeking to expand our team – it's a great time to join us.

At Shelter we are committed to tackling systematic inequalities and currently we are looking to increase the diversity within our Fundraising team. We would particularly welcome applications from anyone with a BAME background or who considers themselves to have a disability.

About the role
In this new role you'll be working with the Head of Community Fundraising to help develop the community fundraising strategy for Shelter and to lead its implementation across the Midlands and South England area. Supporting, coaching and developing the team, you'll be acting as an ambassador of collaboration, building authentic internal and external relationships so that a supporter-centric approach is delivered through all our activities. In doing so, you'll need to keep on top of targets and budgets and to drive decisions with detailed analysis and data.

About you 
In addition to your relevant background and your proactive approach to every aspect of your work, you'll need the ability to respond quickly to challenges or opportunities and to lead change through a mixture of lateral thinking, positivity and commitment to improve performance. You're particularly good at engaging people's interest, influencing their behaviour and building productive relationships with key customers and partners. You're also commercially sharp, with a good eye for business benefit and best practice.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own. 

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

We believe in the potential of every individual.

We believe no one should live in poverty.

We believe in the power of effective information and advice.

The Manchester Volunteer Advice Partnership (MVAP) recruits and trains advice volunteers centrally and then supports them in ways that enable them to develop. This has been a collaboration of Manchester Mind, Cheetham Hill Advice Centre, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Manchester Refugee Support Network, Centrepoint, and, since December 2017, Manchester City Council. The project increases our respective capacities to meet the advice needs of our communities. We all share our talents and skills and the responsibility for this exciting project for which Manchester Mind serves as lead and accountable body.

We approach our work in a way that is shaped and guided by our core values of:

• Collaborative Communities
• Sharing
• Trust

We are seeking someone who cares about social justice and collaboration to work with us:

Advice Supervisor

Salary: £28,785 pro rata (£17,271 actual)    |    Hours: 21 per week

Funding for this post is in place until 30th March 2021.

The skills and knowledge that are important to us are:

• Supporting volunteer development
• Collaboration
• Advice in areas of social welfare law (benefits, debt, housing)

This part-time role is based at the Town Hall, where you would be supporting volunteers in Manchester City Council’s Homelessness Contact Centre. As such you would be working both within the Town Hall and at the Zion Centre in Hulme.

If you are interested in this role, please download the application documents from this listing or from the Vacancies page of the Manchester Mind website. The deadline for application submissions is 9am, Monday 24th August 2020.

Manchester Mind is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Manchester Mind sees it as a positive advantage if you have experience of mental health issues and/or have used mental health services or had experience of volunteering.

Are you an adventurous, early career auditor, interested in a leadership role in the national audit office of a British Overseas Territory?

Our partner is the national auditor of a small British Overseas Territory, responsible for auditing state owned entities, subsidiaries and enterprise funds. They are seeking 2 Principal Auditors to lead small teams in planning & executing financial & value-for-money audits, and undertaking some assurance assignments as required. The role will offer an early career professional an opportunity to take on leadership role, understand DfID audit & reporting requirements, and an immersive experience in a friendly island community. 

Requirements

• Qualified accountant, with experience in undertaking external audits.
• Strong technical knowledge, specifically knowledge of international reporting standards
• Excellent communication (written and spoken) & negotiation skills
• Resilient, flexible, and adaptable.

This is a fixed-term contract role; they are open to considering applicants able to make a 12 or 24 month commitment, with the latter preferred. In addition to the salary, our partner will cover the cost of one return flight and accommodation in-country. This role is based in a British Overseas Territory.

The ICO is looking for a Senior Policy Officer to join the Innovation Hub within our Innovation Department. The Innovation Hub works collaboratively with businesses, regulators and other organisations to provide advice on the development of innovative products and services. Taking a proactive approach to privacy issues, the team offers a steer to innovating firms on good data protection practice where the novel nature of emerging data-driven technologies may result in uncertainty in how the legislation should be interpreted or applied.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape the development and use of ground-breaking technologies and approaches, and influence information rights practices of innovative businesses and start-ups.

About the ICO

The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

The ICO’s work is interesting and immensely rewarding – it is of national importance and increasingly in the public eye.  We are at the forefront of information rights policy development, providing direct advice to the public, and enforcing the UK’s data protection and freedom of information laws. We hold a unique position as a regulator across the whole of the private, public and third sectors.

About the Innovation Department

The Innovation Department is responsible for leading the ICO’s work on the privacy and data protection issues arising from new and innovative uses of personal data. It deals with some of the most high profile issues of the day, from the increasing amount of personalisation and profiling taking place in online environments, to the assessment of risk when deploying new and novel technology. The department plays an important role engaging with government, regulators, industry, and leading academics. Our role is to influence stakeholders and support innovators taking a data protection by-design approach to the development of new products and services.

About you

Degree educated or equivalent, you will have a strong interest in information rights, privacy and innovation. Ideally, you will have existing knowledge of data protection law, although we are equally open to applications from those who can demonstrate relevant experience of applying similarly complex legislation and the ability to adapt quickly. Past experience of working within a regulatory innovation-focused environment would be an advantage.

You will need to be a clear and confident communicator both in writing and in person, with the ability to confidently engage with and influence stakeholders.

Closing Date

Applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Tuesday 18 August 2020.

Please note if you are appointed to work with the ICO you will be required to complete security clearance processes. These include identity and qualification checks and a Basic Disclosure level check of unspent criminal convictions

We require a detail focused individual to work as part of a small team based in Stockport which arranges and actively manages the delivery of property related compliance. This team has the important responsibility of managing property related compliance in relation to gas, electric, legionella, asbestos, PAT, EPCs and other maintenance contracts. You will need to organise inspections and tests, collect and organise data, maintain up to date records, provide reports for senior colleagues and contribute to reports for the Board of Trustees.  

In order to fulfil this challenging and varied role you will need to be proactive, well organised and able to work quickly to achieve deadlines. You will be numerate and IT literate with expertise in using spreadsheets and database. The ability to accurately input, organise and interrogate data is essential. You be able to work with a high level of detail in order to understand and address problems, whilst maintaining a focus on business priorities. You must be assertive and personable in working with contractors. Good written and verbal communication skills are essential.

It is desirable but not essential that applicants have relevant experience of the housing or property sector.  It is essential that applicants demonstrate prior experience of carrying out complex and responsible administrative work. Applicant should hold a degree or other relevant qualifications or training. An interest in our activities is essential.

You will be expected to attend training and keep yourself informed in property related compliance for registered housing providers. We will also expect you to contribute to our out- of-hours duty rota.