Sense are looking for a reliable and motivated Deputy Care Manager to join our professional team covering both our services in Bristol.

Reference number: 44370
Title: Deputy Care Manager
Location: Bristol
Salary: Circa £22,826 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, full time
Contract type: Permanent

About the role

This is a full-time post working 37.5 hours per week in our purpose-built residential services.

As part of a team of 8 you will be supporting young people with learning disabilities and autism that may display challenging behaviour having moved into their first home. We are looking for creative and supportive people with a can-do attitude. 

As Deputy Manger you will support the team to enable individuals to live the life they choose: to make choices, to express themselves and live as independently as possible. Your leadership skills, coaching, team guidance and support will assist individuals to run their own lives as much as possible.  Through good leadership the team will feel valued and well supported.

You will be a frontline supervisor, supporting the manager to effectively manage a team of staff to deliver person centred, specialist services.

You will need to have a sound knowledge of person-centred planning, rota planning and staff management/development. We would like to hear from you if you are a committed, flexible and enthusiastic team player who is able to coach and mentor a team of support workers. You will be IT literate and able to undertake some administration duties.

About you

You will need to have had proven experience of supervising and line managing staff, as well as experience of coordinating and planning a range of activities. You will have an awareness of total communication approaches which include: verbal communication, objects of reference, hand under hand, hand over hand, communication boards, observations and unrecognised individual communication modes.

The successful candidate will have experience of dealing with challenging situations and of advocating in the best interests of individuals.

About us

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world.

We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.

Sense has a proven record of offering high quality, pioneering services.

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition, we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.

Closing date: Sunday 28 June 2020
Interview date: To be confirmed

TO APPLY
To apply for this role, please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website to apply online.

Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Sense is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring that all staff are motivated, skilled and rewarded by their work.

16hrs per week I Based in North Kensington, London I Flexible office / home based 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Learning and Evaluation Manager to join our team. You will help The Nucleo Project to understand and communicate the impact it has on the children and young people who participate, as well as the wider community. You will lead on and deliver a framework for evaluating the project, and you will use this research to support the rest of the team to reflect on and improve its work. 

Who we are looking for 

We are looking for a candidate who has excellent communication skills, experience in research, a rigorous and detail-oriented approach, and a strong ethos for working in a community-based charity focused on youth. The role will require someone who is both technically skilled and good with people, and who is excited about playing a key role in the organisation's development. A commitment to the charity’s mission is essential. 

The role

While not exhaustive, the following list of responsibilities gives a comprehensive overview of the role:

• Developing and co-ordinating the learning and evaluation programme, using a measurement framework created by Sound Connections as a basis
• Sourcing qualitative and quantitative data from our participants and the wider community, to include both musical and non-musical outcomes 
• Creating strong processes for data management and for learning through data analysis
• Effectively communicating any learnings both internally and externally 
• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure the effective use of organisational learning in developing pedagogy and practice, and improving outcomes for our young people

Other core requirements 

• As this role will require working closely with children and young people an enhanced DBS check will be required. We can arrange this for the successful candidate. 
• We are actively interested in bringing people into the organisation from the widest possible pool of talent. We believe that having a wide range of perspectives and experience will help us do our work better. So if your life experience helps you to relate to our project, then we would especially like to hear from you.  

About us

The Nucleo Project was set up in 2013 to offer ensemble-based musical opportunities to children and young people in North Kensington, completely free of charge. We are part of the global El Sistema movement, which began in Venezuela in 1975.
Our students commit to an immersive and rigorous programme which fosters rapid progress and high achievement, as well as strong bonds within our community and a truly transformative difference in our young musicians’ day to day lives.

Interested? Please send your CV with contact details for 2 referees and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post by end of day, Wednesday 8th July 2020. 

Industrial animal agriculture is at the root of many of the most pressing global issues of our time, from climate change and global hunger, to increased disease risk and poor animal welfare. 

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to use food technology to replace the products of industrial animal agriculture with plant-based, fermentation-derived and cultivated alternatives. Please check out our U.S. affiliate’s website (gfi [dot] org) and read the 2019 Year in Review (gfi [dot] org/2019) to find out more about who we are and what we do. 

We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Communications Manager to join our team. For more information about this role, please check out the job brochure: shorturl.at/JW367.

How You Will Make a Difference 

You will lead on planning and delivering impact across the entire spectrum of communications disciplines, including media and public relations, brand marketing, digital and social media, and the production of content and materials. Your ‘North Star’ will be to advance the alternative proteins sector across Europe, and to ensure that GFI Europe is the go-to thought leader within the sector. As our first communications hire in our growing team, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and executing a strategic communications plan for GFI Europe.

• Work closely with our Managing Director on developing and executing an impactful public relations programme, including writing and placing press releases, op-eds, articles and blogs, etc, to deliver and shape positive coverage for GFI Europe and the alternative proteins sector. 

• Developing a clear, impactful narrative and key messages, and delivering these across all communications channels. 

• Building relationships with journalists in the fields of science, academia, business, innovation, entrepreneurship, food/ag, and policy. 

• Acting as a spokesperson for GFI Europe when necessary.

• Understanding, listening, and following the European conversation around alternative proteins to identify new opportunities to promote the sector and GFI Europe’s work in key European countries.

• Identifying, building relationships with and influencing key organisations and opinion leaders across Europe to strengthen the narrative that supports the alternative protein sector.

• Working with fundraising colleagues to develop and implement strategies for reaching, recruiting and stewarding supporters.

• Collaborating with our policy team to ensure our political communication is effective and reaches the right audience.

• Managing GFI Europe’s social media activity and potentially developing online tools such as a new website and webinars.

• Coordinating with colleagues, and potentially external consultants, to oversee the production of GFI Europe publications and material including brochures, presentations and one-pagers, and act as our ‘brand guardian’ to ensure consistency.

• Potentially working with and overseeing agencies, freelancers and others to help deliver the above. 

• Performing other tasks as required as a member of our small start-up team.

Who we’re looking for: 

You must have:

• A passion for GFI’s philosophy and mission.

• Significant (ideally 5 or more years) communications experience, for example in public relations, media relations, social media or journalism. 

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write persuasive press releases and articles.

• A passion for, and demonstrated success with, proactive media outreach, including effectively developing and pitching stories to journalists that resulted in positive coverage.

• Good judgement and news-sense: to successfully spot opportunities and ‘hooks’ to secure coverage, and to get the substance, tone and nuance of our message right. 

• The ability to devise a well-informed strategy for GFI Europe’s comms work, in terms of audience mapping, channels, messaging. 

• Excellent people-skills: the ability to influence, network, build alliances and work well in a team.

• A can-do approach: a self-starter with the drive and initiative to take responsibility for delivering communications impact.

• Comfort working remotely in a rapidly-growing and evolving organization: the ability to work well independently and under pressure, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines. 

• Fluent English, both written and spoken. We would also welcome applications from candidates who, in addition, can work in other major European languages.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.

The Fine Print:

• Terms of employment: Full-time, permanent

• Location: Flexible - we will consider applicants from anywhere in Europe. You will mainly be working remotely: from your home, or wherever you choose. Once the COVID situation has cleared, you and the whole GFI Europe team will get together in-person approximately once every six weeks for around 3-4 days at a time, most likely in the London area or Brussels. There may also be other occasional work trips within Europe or to the US.

• Salary: £38,000 - £44,000.  This range is based on a UK hire and will be adjusted if hired elsewhere in Europe.

• Right to work requirements: We are only able to consider applicants who are eligible to work and travel in the EU or UK.

• Application Deadline: 29 June 2020, 11.59pm BST. We will be assessing candidates on a rolling basis, so please apply now!

Any questions?  If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at  europe (at) gfi (dot) org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please feel free to share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.

At Hightown, we`re a housing charity that builds homes and supports people. In Buckinghamshire, we provide high-quality care and support to adults with learning disabilities and we are looking for a fantastic Care and Supported Housing Scheme Manager to join our team based at our scheme in High Wycombe who has the right values, behaviours and attitudes to be the difference.

Who we are looking for

We`re keen to recruit an individual who shares and demonstrates our values, which are:

• Putting our residents and service users first
• Treating people with respect, promoting independence and choice
• Developing passionate and committed teams
• Being cost effective without compromising standards or safety

If you share our values, we`d love you to work for us.

About the role

You`ll take ownership for empowering our key workers within the scheme on a day to day basis as they deliver exceptional support to our eight service users who have learning disabilities. You will be an enthusiastic leader who can motivate and provide guidance to your team as they support each individual to become more independent and move them on into the community. You will be involved in staff supervisions and budget settings whilst ensuring the support provided is in line with their agreed support plans whilst developing the service so it can be the best it can be.

Do you want a role where no two days are the same?

An experienced team leader, you`ll be able to demonstrate:

• The ability to review and critique service user support plans and risk assessments
• A positive attitude towards the people we support
• Effective communication both verbally and in writing
• The ability to supervise staff effectively

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you or you want to have an informal chat, please contact us. 

The Benefits

In return for your hard work and commitment, we offer a considerable benefits package which includes:

• Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days per year, plus statutory bank holidays, rising with service
• Annual bonuses based on satisfactory performance and attendance
• Regular reviews of salary and cost of living to ensure you receive above the market salary for the role
• An organisational commitment to employee health and wellbeing
• Life assurance of three times your annual salary and a workplace pension scheme.
• Ongoing training and support to deliver outstanding support

How to Apply

To apply for the position of Scheme Manager please visit our website and complete an online application form.

Closing date: Monday 22nd June 2020

Interview date: Tuesday 30th June 2020

In accordance with CQC regulations, appointment to this position will be subject to satisfactory DBS, reference and medical checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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NEF is looking for a Marketing Manager to lead the overall charity marketing strategy, from concept to delivery. You will oversee the creation and delivery of marketing plans that fulfil NEF’s charitable strategy, meet business development targets and ensure all communications are accurate, well-crafted and on-brand. You will provide high quality advice and guidance on marketing matters and collaborate with other teams to create good commercial outcomes.

Job Description: Marketing Manager

Reporting to: Chief Executive

Base: Milton Keynes

Job Type: Permanent (FT or PT for the right candidate)

Salary: £35,000 to £38,000 per annum (FTE)

The National Energy Foundation

The National Energy Foundation is an independent charity based in Milton Keynes, which has been at the forefront of improving the use of energy in buildings since 1988. We aim to give people, organisations and government the knowledge, support and inspiration they need to understand, manage and reduce the use of energy in buildings.

Role Summary

To provide a quality service you might already have a strong understanding of our customers and markets – or you’ll need to develop that understanding quickly. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Alongside senior colleagues, develop and own the NEF marketing and communications strategy.
• Management of NEF’s portfolio of websites to implement design changes, improving functionality, check Google Analytics and make necessary changes to refine and improve Goal Conversions on the sites.
• Management of website content and SEO – ensuring all written, photographic and multimedia content is up-to-date, commissioning new content where required, and keeping the sites completely current.
• Management of NEF’s social media strategy across its portfolio of projects and websites, including regular updates of blogs and other content across various social media channels.
• Management of NEF’s marketing collateral – supervising design, print and production of brochures, leaflets, corporate videos, case studies, testimonials etc.
• Leadership of direct marketing creative campaigns, including creating, sending out and measuring impact of e-newsletters and direct mail.
• Management of NEF charitable identity and branding guidelines, ensuring absolute consistency of brand across all parts of the business; managing production of company stationery, branded templates for documents, bids and presentations, production of business cards, office signage etc.
• Management of special promotions or ‘themed’ activities.
• Management of exhibitions and events, including choosing which events to attend, sorting exhibition and display materials and leading attendance schedules.
• Management of sponsorships, ensuring brand consistency and maximum exposure.
• Entering awards for the company – writing the awards submissions, gathering evidence and testimonials, etc.
• Representing NEF at new business meetings, conference speaking opportunities, attendance at conventions and trade shows; all with potential for out-of-hours networking.

Person Specification

• A minimum of 3 years marketing experience, ideally in a charitable environment and across a mixture of marketing techniques, including content, digital, direct and social marketing.
• Knowledge of (or an interest in learning) sustainability, in particular on energy related issues.
• Branding experience.
• Budget management experience and good numerical skills.
• Experience of digital content & social media, including scheduling programmes.
• Copywriting skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High levels of emotional intelligence and stability in challenging situations.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Highly organized, with good time management skills.
• Self-motivated and adaptable, with a willingness to learn.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Computer literate – Excel, Word, Mac & Windows OS.
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to execute, monitor and analyse campaigns.

6 Weeks fixed term contract - may be extended beyond 6 weeks
Liaison Manager – 2 Posts
Ref: V265
Hours/Days per week: 35/5
Salary: £25,986 (£29,352 inc ILW) per annum plus £100 per month for use of personal mobile and IT equipment
Location: Home based – access to WIFI required
Closing date: 5pm – Monday 1 June 2020
Interview date and Location: 2 June 2020 – Video call MS Teams

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage the introduction and roll out of the Transport Volunteers Programme. Volunteers will be recruited locally to volunteer at transport hubs.  As Liaison Manager you will be the first point of contact for the Department for Transport (DfT) and the local provider organisations across the UK. The main remit of the role is manage the collection and collation of information from local provider organisations and provide daily reports to the Department for Transport.

In return for your commitment we offer 25 days holiday per year (FTE) plus discretionary festive leave + public holidays. We also offer a 3% employer pension contribution, flexible working opportunities and enhanced employee benefits.

To apply, please send your expression of interest & recruitment monitoring form to Andrew Balfour via the link ‘Apply on Website’.

Your expression of interest is a key part of our shortlisting process. It is an opportunity for you to outline your experience and credentials directly to the details of the post.

Volunteering Matters is committed to the provision of equal opportunities in employment and accordingly wishes to ensure that no job applicant is treated less favourably on unjustifiable grounds. To assist in the monitoring of our performance in relation to equal opportunities you are requested to complete the monitoring form. The questionnaire is for statistical purposes only. Upon receipt it will be separated from your CV and cover letter and will not form part of the selection process.

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If you apply for a role with us, we’ll retain your contact details including your name, address, email address and phone number to help us manage your application for up to 6 months.  We won't use your personal data for any other purpose, or share it with any third party. You can contact us at any point to update your personal information, or ask us to delete it from our records.

Has your experience of health and social care management given you a good understanding of CQC regulations? Would you like to be part of a team that counts on the professionalism, insight, expertise and passion of its staff to inspire individual recovery for the people they work with? Then join our Trevayler service as a Team Manager.

We are looking for someone who is ready to take the next step up in this interesting development opportunity. Trevayler provides, Recovery Focused Support in both our short term Crisis House and our Transitional Service, our services are co-produced giving people we support a voice in their recovery.

As well as responsibility for the operational management of the service, including service delivery within policies, procedures and quality standards, you’ll make sure we comply with relevant legislation as well as manage a team of Recovery Workers. You will assist in preparing the service for inspection visits to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating, managing contracts and risk, monitoring compliance and reviewing the services we deliver and implementing changes to improve them – you’ll do all of this, and more.

You will have experience of contract management and the competency it takes to manage regulated activity and attain relevant qualifications as well as meeting the standards required by CQC. A proven ability to develop business plans and manage budgets is important too, as is an up-to-date understanding of the recovery model and the ability to ensure the safe management and administration of medication. Outcome focused, with a collaborative and flexible approach, you're great at motivating and inspiring others, adept at managing conflicting priorities, negotiate with tact and diplomacy and have good investigation skills.

This role is permanent and requires the post-holder to work 37.5 hours per week. 

The salary for this post is £23,404.00 per annum.

Subsequent salary progression up to a maximum of £24,635.00 will apply to this post, subject to the post-holder meeting the eligibility and performance criteria.

Closing date: 11th June 2020

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits? Apply now via our website. 

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

The Today For Tomorrow campaign was founded by The Big Issue in 2019 to embed long-termism, prevention and the interests of future generations at the heart of UK policymaking, and to advance Big Issue founder Lord Bird’s private member’s bill, the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill, through the UK Parliament. We are looking for an experienced campaign manager to lead this project forwards.

Based in Lord Bird's Westminster office and The Big Issue's head office in Finsbury Park, the successful candidate will:

• Coordinate the overlapping arms of the campaign (parliamentary, government and partnerships) to maximum benefit
• Establish Today For Tomorrow as a respected cross-party, cross-sector campaign
• Set and deliver a political influencing strategy
• Seek to build a small team (over time)
• Lead on fundraising to sustain the campaign.

To succeed in this role, you must be an accomplished campaigner, with a track-record of success, a deep understanding of political advocacy and parliamentary processes, and the ability to work across party boundaries.

You will need to demonstrate a strong commitment to long-term, sustainable development or wellbeing policy, and have a passion for building successful partnerships. You will understand the challenges of long-term thinking in government policymaking.

You must have an excellent understanding of how to plan and influence decision-makers in government, Parliament and the media with excellent spoken and written communication skills.

You will need to be highly organised and prepared to manage the range of tasks involved in growing the campaign, adept at delivering to deadlines but with the ability to adapt to meet changing demands and priorities. Finally, you must be a self-starter with staying power who is excited to lead Today For Tomorrow and committed to the social objectives of The Big Issue.

The ideal candidate will also have experience of maintaining relationships and working closely with MPs, Peers and civil servants, plus experience of policy development and writing fundraising bids.

Big Issue staff benefits include a health care scheme, enhanced contribution to your workplace pension, life cover, unlimited access to our online Learner Library and up to 6 days paid leave per annum to care for a child or an elderly/sick relation.

As well as your CV, your application must include a letter setting out how your skills and experience are appropriate for this role, and how you would make this campaign successful. Please also include your current salary and the salary you are looking for.

Closing date:  Thursday 4th June 2020

Interviews (online if necessary): w/c 15th June 2020

Start date: July 2020 (negotiable)

The IRC is on the ground in more than 40 countries, providing emergency relief and rebuilding lives in the wake of disaster. Through 28 regional offices in cities across the United States, the IRC also helps refugees resettle in the US and become self-sufficient. The IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and, most crucially, accountability to those we serve. The IRC is a tireless advocate for the most vulnerable. 

The Purpose of the Role

The Senior Program (Business) Development Advisor will lead IRC’s new business development efforts by engaging with global, regional, country, and technical staff through the proposal development cycle from opportunity tracking and capture planning to proposal development, and submission. The SPDA will primarily serve as proposal manager, s/he will also train and mentor staff throughout the department on topics relevant to business development. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of leading new business efforts in international development with USAID, DFID, ECHO, and other multilateral and bilateral donors. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Manage the process of development of concept papers, project proposals and responses to key RFA/Ps. This includes writing and coordinating proposal elements (e.g. past performance, management plan, etc.), ensuring appropriate technical review and quality assurance.
• Lead proposal development in response to requests for proposals, including those for field based projects and large global opportunities. This will involve management of proposal teams, calendars, and deadlines; strategy development with technical staff; partner identification and negotiations; recruiting; writing; production; and after-action reviews.
• Lead on advising other IRC departments when required on USG contract terms and implication for structuring proposal budgets, targets, and deliverables.
• Build the capacity of other IRC staff—including IRC country and regional teams—to identify opportunities and develop strong program designs and proposals.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of USG and other donor funding priorities, geographical interests relevant to IRC’s area of work.
• Build and strengthen relationships with internal stakeholders (HQ-based regional and technical units, as well as IRC country offices).
• Provide IRC’s country, regional, and technical teams with guidance on USG, DFID, EU, and other donor policies and prepare standard language for proposals to ensure alignment with donor policies.
• Contribute to business development systems, tools, and process improvement initiatives.
• Supports performance management and professional development of direct reports, including ongoing feedback, coaching, and career support.
• Participates in developing proposal training for the organization.

Do you have the personal commitment, drive and person-centred values to be able to make a real difference to the lives of people with autism?

We are seeking a highly skilled, proactive and resilient Service Manager for our specialist service in Ulverston. This service has been developed to meet the needs of people with complex care needs including those with a learning disability, autism and those who display behaviours which can challenge.

Your role will be to lead the service as the Registered Manager, deploying your staff team effectively and creatively to deliver the highest standards of care and support, enabling service users to enjoy wellbeing, quality of life and community connections. You will promote and re-inforce a culture of responsive, professional, person-centred practice and Active Support across the service. Relationships will be built based on respect and unconditional positive regard. You will be responsible for leading practice development and delivery across the service.

Key Tasks and Duties-

• Working as part of the Duty Manager Rota, which covers seven days a week which includes ensuring the robust leadership of the service.
• Providing direct support to service users for part of your working week.
• Working alongside staff members as they deliver support to monitor and observe their interactions and practice with service users, offering guidance, support and opportunities to learn how to dynamically respond to risk appropriately.
• You will be required to provide a practical response to service users behaviour that challenges, for example if you are present when there is an incident, you will be expected to respond to ensure that staff feel fully supported with such challenges.
• You will be responsible for reviewing all Behavioural Incident Reports, providing feedback on the approaches used using our Airtable Reporting Mechanism.       You will carry out debrief and reflect with staff following all incidents and will use your time to coach and mentor staff and junior managers to ensure they understand the importance of following behavioural guidelines.
• You will hold regular core staff meetings, providing staff with opportunities to reflect upon support difficulties and positive outcomes. You will provide staff with opportunities to build and develop emotional resilience in their work.
• You will work with the Complex Care Lead and other members of the team to present your findings following incident analysis and from staff consultations to ensure a round approach is delivered.
• You will ensure actions recorded on Clinical Action Logs are completed and will bring any concerns to your Service Director.
• You will provide accurate and robust updates to the multi disciplinary teams involved with our service users, ensuring they have access to appropriate analytical information to enable them to have confidence in our approaches.
• You will attend all MDT meetings for service users and will prepare appropriate and regular updates for all such meetings.
• You will be responsible for assessing new referrals for the service and will be able to create robust formulations of need, including appropriate transitions and initial support information.
• You will attend all contract review meetings and you will ensure your contribution is well prepared in advance.
• Developing the skills, knowledge base and professional practice of the senior team.
• You will be responsible for auditing all aspects of your service and developing action plans and systems to ensure continual service improvement.

Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation which provides high quality, person-centred support to older people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism and people with physical disabilities and mental health needs. The support we offer is tailored to the individual and promotes their independence and community engagement. We are an Investor in People accredited employer of a diverse team of over 5,000 well supported staff across England. Our services in London and the South East employ over 600 staff supporting around 1,000 people with care and support needs.

Closing Date: 09 June 2020

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

The Opportunity
 

We are seeking an Innovation Manager to work in the Innovation Team in our Global Hub. This role requires an experienced innovation practitioner with a unique blend of creative and technical skills to help us maximise the impact of our innovation capability across the organisation.

You will be responsible for creating an enabling environment for innovation across the organisation. This will involve the design and implementation of a knowledge management system so previous experience in this area would be beneficial. Furthermore, you will create and implement a communications plan for innovation that will build internal understanding and uptake of innovation principles, methods and tools, as well as creating external awareness of the Innovation team’s capability and opportunities for impactful partnerships.

You will also be leading innovation projects, which includes planning and resource management, coaching of teams across multiple locations, facilitation of live and virtual workshops, managing multiple internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring quality assurance, legal compliance and project scaleup.

12-Month Fixed Term Maternity Cover

The Royal Academy of Engineering is harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone.

In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

Our vision is of a world-leading truly inclusive engineering profession that inspires, attracts and retains people from diverse backgrounds. UK engineering is facing serious skills shortages and addressing diversity and inclusion will not only help bridge this gap; it will also help drive innovation and creativity and ensure that those who design and build the world around us are more reflective of wider society.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Manager with research and programme management experience for a 12-month fixed term contract, to lead the delivery of two high-profile diversity and inclusion projects to meet the goals set out in our Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan 2020 - 2025.

Working closely with our Head of Diversity and Inclusion, and consulting with a wide range of stakeholders and experts, you will deliver a comprehensive research project on standard-setting, benchmarking and charter-mark practices, making recommendations for the development of an accountability mechanism for engineering companies. In short, we will look to you to lead the research and consultation phase in respect of one of the Academy’s most significant diversity and inclusion projects for the coming 5 years – so we need someone exceptional.

A good strategic thinker, with well-honed judgement, research and analytical skills, you will also oversee delivery of the Academy’s award-winning Graduate Engineering Engagement Programme (GEEP) to increase the transition of engineering graduates from diverse backgrounds into engineering employment. This will include overseeing the delivery of the 2020 programme and consultation and research to develop proposals for the future expansion of GEEP.

Experienced in working with both internal and external stakeholders and contractors, you will have a good working knowledge of diversity and inclusion issues and be passionate about making a difference. You will need experience of conducting research in diversity and inclusion or experience of industry standard setting/benchmarking or monitoring and evaluation.

You will bring an innovative mindset, proven ability to manage complex projects, and the ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of people, including senior and expert stakeholders. Finally, a background in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) would be useful, as would knowledge of existing diversity and inclusion practices and standards within the engineering industry, but it’s your ability to use strategic thinking in your work and present well researched arguments and recommendations in a credible and convincing manner that will matter most.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

In return, we offer a fantastic package of benefits including a non-contributory pension scheme, BUPA cash plan, private medical insurance, subsidised restaurant, regular social activities, health and wellbeing programmes, as well as significant investment into your personal and professional development. Our offices are based in central London near St. James’ Park.

This is a 12-month fixed term, maternity cover position. We encourage either full-time or job share applicants as the post lends itself to job share. We support flexible working and would be happy to discuss working patterns with candidates.

To find out more and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.

Closing date: Midday on Monday, 8 June 2020.

First interviews will be held via video conference (e.g. Zoom) on: Wednesday, 17 or Thursday, 18 June 2020.

Are you an experienced Manager who wants to work with a charity that puts high quality services, innovation and victim care at its core?

Would you like to help offer support to hundreds of victims and survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking?

Then we want to hear from you!

Who are we?

Aurora New Dawn is a feminist led charity dedicated to ending violence against women and children, and hidden violence. Since 2011, we have offered safety, support, advocacy, and empowerment to survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking. We are a passionate and enthusiastic team, delivering a variety of services across Hampshire and beyond.

Service Manager responsibilities:

The Service Manager will assume responsibility for the day to day operation of the organisation’s frontline services and will line manage a variety of staff working in our domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking teams.

Core duties include:

• You will assume line management responsibility (including the provision of supervision & case management) for frontline Aurora staff.
• You will manage the day to day operation of the organisation’s frontline services, across different offices, ensuring that they are always delivered to a high standard and in accordance with both national best practice and funding requirements.
• You will represent the organisation within multi-agency partnerships and at service meetings.
• You will ensure that the service complies with relevant legislative requirements as defined in its governing documents/framework, including: health and safety legislation, data protection, equal opportunities, child protection and protection of vulnerable adults.
• You will ensure that effective monitoring and evaluation occurs, including the collection of both quantative and qualitative data, to inform service and strategic development.

What we are looking for:

• A proven track record in management, including the management of staff teams in accordance with funding/contract requirements.
• Proven ability to support and motivate others and provide leadership, including in times of change and crisis.
• An understanding of the needs of victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking.
• Knowledge of best practice in this field of work, and the ability to quality control and review case work practice accordingly.
• Knowledge of the relevant legislative requirements involved in managing a service of this nature, including Data Protection, Safeguarding (children & adults), Health & Safety and equal opportunities
• Someone who shares our core values of delivering high quality services, working together, dignity & respect, and learning & reflection.
• We are an SME so a background working for a similar sized organisation is beneficial, but by no means essential.

Additional information:

• DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
• This post will be based in Portsmouth with regular local travel, including to our office base in Southampton, so it is essential that you have your own transport. Occasional national travel will also be required.
• This is a fixed term contract until 2022. Continuation will be dependent on funding.

Please note: This post is open to Female applicants only, as a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010

We’re seeking a Policy and Campaigns Manager to support our ambition to influence government policy and decision-makers to recognise and support coaching in prisons as an effective rehabilitation intervention. 

You will develop our policy positions and voice, ensuring that we are listening to those with lived experience. You will initiate and lead our campaigns, helping to position Spark Inside as the number one coaching organisation in the criminal justice system. You will be our lead expert in prison policy and rehabilitation, and ensure there is a strong policy and research basis for all our campaigns. You will work across the organisation to ensure policy developments feed into our work, and to ensure that what we do is presented in an engaging way to policy-makers and relevant stakeholders.

This is an interim role initially for 6 months, with the potential to extend, as we navigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the delivery of our programmes in prison. We believe that more than ever, we need to be advocating for our work, so that those in prison are not forgotten.

Please see JD for details and how to apply.