Please note that candidates appointed in London attract a London weighting of £3,300

NEA currently has a Benefit Entitlement and Claim Support Team of 5 officers and is now looking to expand the team with the addition of a new post.

The post holder will be responsible for giving comprehensive benefit entitlement advice and support to householders. The post holder will obtain relevant information about a client’s circumstances and offer accurate guidance about potential eligibility for additional benefit entitlements. This will include the completion of application forms as appropriate. Advice will be given over the phone, via online contact and in face to face settings as appropriate.

It will be necessary for the post holder to establish and maintain contacts with a wide range of appropriate voluntary, statutory, local authority, private sector and other relevant organisations to facilitate the referral of clients to the service.

The post holder will need good organisational skills, experience of providing benefits advice, excellent communication skills as well as an understanding of the needs of low income, vulnerable or disadvantaged householders. 

This post provides an exciting and rewarding opportunity to help the charity deliver its work programme and build its profile amongst regional stakeholders whilst developing and working on projects that bring social benefits and improvements to the well-being of low income and vulnerable householders whilst also meeting environmental goals. 

NEA is a national charity providing services throughout England and Wales. We are open to discussion of location with the successful candidate and so would welcome application from candidate, particularly those based in London, the North East or West Midlands.

This role is 3 days per week and the salary is £20,000 to £23,000 pro-rata.

Working with the project delivery manager you will have:-

 The ability to talk to a range of people, including presenting to groups.  Exceptionally strong administration skills including reporting and monitoring finances.  A passion for working with volunteers and sharing stories across communities, using an array of communication platforms, including social media.  Strong writing skills to create web, social media and internal content.  Experience of planning, organising and evaluating local events, ideally within the heritage sector or the local community. We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is proactive and results driven, who will learn quickly and become a key team player in the delivery of the project.

This is your chance to join an amazing local charity that is committed to safeguarding the Severn Valley Railway for future generations whilst further developing your skills. 

Job Purpose

To support the project delivery manager to deliver both the restoration and the educational elements of the Falling Sands Viaduct; a project, including this role, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Duties and Responsibilities  Assist in organising the ‘reopening’ events programme with the operation team at the SVR, including the events coordinator  Liaise and support volunteers.  Assist the project delivery manager in developing relationships with external partners and stakeholders to improve community engagement in the project and organise events.  Provide strong administration and co-ordination skills to monitor and report on activity.  Raise awareness of the project, writing strong and engaging copy to inform all stakeholders and using all communication platforms to share the news.  Keep donors updated on the progress on the project.  Undertake monitoring, reporting and administrative role maintaining good records of activity and interpretation progress against the agreed HLF action plan and budget

Key Accountabilities

 Report to the Falling Sands project delivery manager.  Provide timely information on progress, assisting in completing Heritage Fund progress reports.  Perform within targets and timescales.  Engage with staff to maximise the publicity and engagement of the project.  Ensure that the capturing of any data meets the requirement of the General Data Protection Regulations (2018).  Follow the Trusts safeguarding policy and report any concerns in accordance with the safeguarding procedures.  Actively participate in supervision and appraisal sessions, identifying your own learning and development needs and participating in learning activities relevant to the Trusts commitment to providing high quality services.  Work at all times with due regard to the policies and procedures of the Trust, including financial regulations.  Carry out other tasks as reasonably required by the Director of Development.

Qualifications, knowledge and experience required

 Exceptionally strong administration skills (essential)  Trained and experienced in the use of MS Office software (essential)  Experience in planning and organising events (desirable)  Experience of motivating and managing volunteers and/or working with a range of people  Understanding of using social media in a work capacity.  Experience in presenting to different audiences (desirable)  Experience of working or volunteering for a heritage organisation (desirable not essential)  Knowledge of GDPR regulations – or a willingness to learn to a high standard. 

We will offer  Free parking.  Subsidised meals.  Flexible working hours.

As a volunteering organisation, we ask staff to volunteer 5 days per year during our busy season.

Are you passionate about helping rural Christians and churches serve their communities with confidence?

Have a track record of ministry and mission with people with no religious affiliation or connection to faith community?

We are seeking someone to help expand a vibrant Christian presence in rural contexts and empower rural leaders to communicate a relevant Gospel message, particularly through evangelism, church growth, and pioneering new Christian communities.

This is part of our work to equip the Methodist Church in Britain to be a growing, evangelistic, inclusive, justice-seeking Church for the 21st century.

This post will begin in Summer 2021. We welcome qualified ordained and lay applicants and especially encourage persons of colour and young adults to apply. The post is designated as office-based at Arthur Rank Centre, Warwickshire, with some work at Methodist Church House, London. Remuneration: For ordained appointments, the standard arrangements apply; for lay employees, £36,000-39,000 per annum.

Closing date: 5 October

Interview date: 20 October

Do you want to make a difference in Solihull?

Are you passionate about helping Solihull citizens by tackling inequality in the health and social care system?  With all the changes taking place in health and social care, this is an exciting time to join Healthwatch Solihull. If you are innovative, creative and self-motivated, this opportunity to make a real difference could be for you?

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

This exciting new role of Project Officer at Healthwatch Solihull is critical to our success. The role is central to Healthwatch Solihull’s ability to collect, record and use high-quality feedback to lever positive change in Solihull health and social care services. It is the responsibility of the Project Officer to ensure our investigations, consultations and project work is delivered on time and is of high-quality. Through the prioritisation of topics for investigation, the post holder will design and lead on the successful completion of our projects, producing reports that influence decision-makers to change services leading to impact for Solihull citizens. The role will also use patient and public experience to respond to health and social care consultations, project managing staff and quality-assuring work to achieve objectives.

The successful applicant will have demonstrable experience in project management and a background in evidence-based practice and report writing. Central to the role is to ensure our website is kept up to date and is promoting opportunities for Solihull citizens to get involved with Healthwatch Solihull, leave their feedback about services and ensure the website celebrates our impact.  The main aspects of the role are to:

1. Lead on investigations that positively impact health and social care services in Solihull.

2. Input, moderate and report all health and social care service user experience data heard by us onto the feedback centre and CiviCRM system.

3. Analyse service user experience data to identify key health and social care issues experienced by Solihull residents.

4. Share service user experience data with health and social care organisations through the production of reports (e.g. quarterly reports, consultation responses, bulletins, quality account responses etc.).

1. Manage the day-to-day running of our website.

If you are passionate about understanding user experience of health and social care and making sure patient and public voice makes a real difference this role is for you.

For details of how to apply please visit: https://bit.ly/2XaiYrY

Closing date: Tuesday 25th August 2020 (10 am)

Interview date Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th September 2020.

£20,969 (£24,464 FTE) per annum plus 8.5%  Employer Pension Contributions. 30 hours per week (Some evening work required)

The Diocese of Coventry is seeking to appoint a part time Safeguarding Training and Support Officer to lead on the implementation and delivery of the safeguarding learning and development strategy in line with the House of Bishops guidance. In addition this role provides support to parishes and excellent administrative support to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team in serving and equipping the Diocese to live out our Mission Purpose of Worshipping God, Making New Disciples, and Transforming Communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the safeguarding team as we continue to develop a culture of safeguarding throughout the diocese as part of our ongoing commitment towards making churches ‘safe spaces’ for everyone.

This post reports to the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor (DSA) and is based in Coventry.

The main responsibilities are:

• Be responsible for the organisation, implementation and delivery of face to face and online training
• Be responsible for all safeguarding training administration, supporting the DSA in ensuring all Clergy, Readers and those with Permission to Officiate have undertaken training in the last 3 years.
• Provide advice and guidance to Parishes (often the Parish Safeguarding Officer) in respect of the Safer Recruitment process including DBS of volunteers.
• Ensure accurate data inputting of information onto the database and Contact Management System.

The successful applicant will have experience of working in a Safeguarding role, arranging, facilitating and delivering face to face training, be highly organised and have good administration and IT skills, particularly MS Office.

The Diocese of Coventry is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents all aspects of the communities we are part of and welcomes all applications.  Applications are particularly welcome from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented within our workforce.

Full job description, Person Specification and Application form are available from the Diocesan Vacancy Pages

Closing date for applications: Monday 31st August 2020

Interviews will take place at the Diocesan office: 18th September 2020

Do you want to make a difference in Birmingham? Are you passionate about helping Birmingham citizens by tackling inequality in the health and social care system?  With all the changes taking place in health and social care, this is an exciting time to join Healthwatch Birmingham.

Are you innovative, creative and self-motivated? This opportunity to make a real difference could be for you.

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

The role of Experince and Signposting Officer at Healthwatch Birmingham is critical to our ability to listen to the experiences of Birmingham citizens, and empowering them to make informed decisions about their health and social care needs. The role is a gateway role for individuals to access the help and support they need in the city providing them with signposting to services and information that will support them to navigate the local health and social care system.

The successful candidate will have the ability to listen to an individual’s experience of health and social care, identifying key lines of enquiry to truly hear their story. You need to be passionate about helping others identifying services that can help them.

It is the role of Experience and Information officer to ensure we proactively listen to the experiences of the public, interviewing them to uncover issues about where services are not working well, gaps in service provision, and identifying what support they need to improve their personal situation. You will work across all contact routes (telephone, online and face-to-face) to engage individuals, increasing opportunities for us to provide information and signposting, developing our volunteers to support this area of work.

The main purpose of the role is:

1. To interview citizens via the telephone to understand their experiences of health and social care, including identifying any gaps in the provision of services, and write case studies to capture this feedback.
2. To deliver an excellent Information and Signposting service by providing citizens with effective information and signposting to access the care they need. Recording detailed summaries of your work on the CRM system.
3. To ensure our information route on our website, and volunteers, are able to provide answers to common information and signposting queries.
4. To escalate cases to health and social care, as indicated by the Healthwatch Birmingham escalation policy

If you are passionate about helping others, interested in understanding their experiences of health and social care and making sure individuals have access to the services they need, this post is for you.

For details of how to apply please visit: https://bit.ly/30cFQcz

Closing date: Tuesday 25th August 2020 (10 am)

Interview date: Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th September.

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.

The Pioneer Group own and manage 2,467 social and market rent homes in north and east Birmingham, and our head office is in Castle Vale.  We are proud of our community-led approach, working with and for local people. 

One of our fundamental principles is our belief that we should be more than just a provider of good quality homes.  This is why we invest in a range of charitable activities through our charitable subsidiary Compass Support, including youth and family support; employment support; health and wellbeing activities; support for the elderly; a children’s day nursery; and a sports and leisure facility, Castle Vale Stadium.

We are looking to recruit a number of new members for the boards of either:

·         The Pioneer Group (housing association and group parent)

·         Compass Support (our charitable subsidiary company)

The Pioneer Group:

We would particularly welcome candidates with experience in either:

·         Asset management/Development/Health and safety

·         Strategic financial management/Audit/Risk

·         Community led organisations

Compass Support

We would particularly welcome candidates with experience in either:

·         Community engagement

·         Safeguarding

·         Business growth

All Board members must be able to demonstrate our values and support our mission.

The Boards seek to be diverse and representative of the communities they serve.  The Group has a learning and development programme in place to support all Board Members to develop their skills and support good governance practice across the Group. 

The closing date for applications is Monday 24th August 2020 at midday

Purpose of job
To deliver election success in priority areas across the West Midlands, with a clear objective of putting “more gold on the map” – be it Lib Dem MPs, Lib Dem-led Councils, Lib Dem Mayors or Lib Dem PCCs.

Key Responsibilities
1. Working in partnership with the Regional Party and LDHQ, ensure there is an up to date Regional Development Plan in place covering every local party in the Region, and maintain a rolling overview of its delivery, advising the Region on resource deployment to achieve its goals;
2. Deliver the seat support programme agreed between LDHQ and the Regional Party to develop the skills of volunteers and staff, build party capacity, and win elections;
3. Deliver targeted wins in strategically important elections – directly managing campaigns where needed;
4. Increase the take up of national campaigns and messages that grow the Liberal Democrat brand and movement;
5. Ensure good communications and relationships between the LDHQ Campaigns & Election Directorate, the Regional Party and key stakeholders – including candidates, local parties and campaign teams.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
We are looking for a strong campaigner who can deliver campaign and election success for the Liberal Democrats.
The heart of this role is working closely with local staff and volunteers to support the development of local campaigning in key areas through our seat support programme.

You’ll be a confident person, with strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.

You’ll be a person at ease with the latest online and offline campaign techniques.
Ideally you will have been part of multiple successful election campaigns and will have a strong understanding of what it takes to win.

You will be able to demonstrate a record of election, fundraising and capacity-building success, with an instinctive sense of what makes an effective political message.

You will have sound political judgement, an in-depth understanding of voters, and will know what it takes for candidates to cross the winning line.

You will be well organised and able to work without supervision in a challenging environment. A good temperament that allows you to deal with the unexpected is a must.

You will need strong leadership and communications skills, and must also show a willingness to innovate, experiment, and share best practice.

This role will suit someone who enjoys variety in their work and working with teams with differing needs and levels of development.

Essential Skills and Experience
1. Campaign management experience
2. Strong political messaging and graphic design in the political context
3. Excellent organisational and planning skills
4. The ability to inspire and develop the skills of volunteers and staff
5. Strong verbal and written communication skills
6. A clear understanding of how to engage with members and voters
7. Confidence with data, CRM and digital campaign tools
8. Experience working with volunteers
9. A full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle 10. Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats
Desirable Skills and Experience
11. Experience of management, including remote management
12. Experience of fundraising
13. Experience of using Nationbuilder, Lib Dem Connect and Affinity Publisher (or the predecessor package Page Plus)
14. Experience of delivering training, coaching and mentoring

In July 2020, we announced that Coventry’s City of Culture programme will start in May 2021 and run for 12 months, allowing us to keep our promise to the city and region - to deliver an extraordinary year while providing some much-needed certainty and resources to our artists and communities.

The Trust is looking to appoint a Trusts and Foundations Manager to lead on bid writing and relationship management with trusts and foundations, developing strong and sustainable funding relationships to support the delivery of Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture and its legacy projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of trusts and foundations fundraising. This is your opportunity to be part of telling the story of a city on the move.

• Applications close – Wednesday 19 August 2020, noon
• Interview date – Wednesday 2 September 2020
• Salary – Up to £35,000 per annum dependent on experience

Overview

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

This role oversees the management and development of the community food work. The role ensures good quality, effective delivery of the existing offer, ensuring that the work is delivered in line with the organisations values and requirements. This role is also responsible for supporting the development of new business, in conjunction with the Chief Executive and other directors as required.  

Main responsibilities:

· Manage and develop the work of the existing Big Feed Project within the organisation.

· Further develop the work of the community kitchens across the city, linking them to initiatives like the share shacks and other similar opportunities.

· Oversee and develop the food justice network in Birmingham and more widely.

· Manage and develop budgets and business planning around the work with community food.

· Work collaboratively with the funding manager to bring in additional funding for new areas of work in relation to food justice.

· Manage relationships across the city and the region regarding the wider work on food justice, as well as developing key partnerships for the delivery of additional initiatives with communities around food.

· Oversee the work of the community and coops manager, linking their work with the wider work of the organisation as well as with the work around community food.

· Develop the strategy for the organisation regarding community food in conjunction with the Chief Executive.

· Develop further sharing projects for the organisation that link to community food and ‘commensality’ (communal eating as a community development activity)

· Ensure the performance of the community food against required targets, together with overseeing a directorate plan with the Chief Executive

· Ensure the networks are developed and relationships are in place to support the flow of food within the community networks in the city

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Strategic Scope of the role:

· Leads on formulation and application of strategy in practice.

· Has extensive experience of delivering strategy for an entire function and operating at a senior managerial level (but below board level) in an organisation.

· Leads the function in following the organisation's strategic plan.

· Makes decisions critical to the organisation's success.

· Heads a major function within the organisation

· Accountable for financial performance in several specified areas.

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Business Skills and experience required:

· Has a broad and deep knowledge of their technical or professional specialty and is able to apply that knowledge and its implications to the wider business.

· Has demonstrable experience of working within/ establishing cooperatives and applying cooperative principles in their practice

· Has demonstrable experience of the wider sharing economy and establishing collaborative interventions in this area

· Has budget management skills and demonstrable experience of budget setting and monitoring

· Has demonstrable experience of working with/setting up social enterprises

· Can clearly show a background in areas of community food work including: cooking/ menu planning/ food supply/ growing food/ nutrition/ food justice

· Can demonstrate excellent people management skills and clear communication skills including understanding of resourcing new projects and managing staff as a key asset within organisations

· Is able to demonstrate success in raising funding and developing new projects and collaborations

· Has experience of community work and supporting and developing networks of shared interest and purpose

Complexity:

· Represents the company and/or their industry at high levels (ie. nationally or internationally).

· Understands, explains and presents complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner.

Autonomy:

· Establishes organisational objectives and delegates responsibilities.

· Accountable for actions and decisions made not only by themselves, but by those that they manage.

 

Benefits:

 

· Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly.

· Health Shield – discounted health benefit against eye examinations/prescriptions.

· +Plus EAP (counseling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)

· Death in Service – 4 times your salary paid to beneficiary.

· Nest Pension – 8% paid by TAWS 3 % paid by employee.

· Annual Leave – 25-29 days AL plus 5 wellbeing days

· Flexible working.

 

Overview

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

This role will support the Director of Knowledge and Insight (DKI) to make business-critical decisions and manage and develop staff to ensure that the day-to-day business in this directorate runs effectively. The person in this role will utilise their strong leadership qualities and organisational skills  to represent the DKI and TAWS at senior levels and develop and implement strategic plans and processes. They will also identify and realise income-generating opportunities in this directorate and wider. This role will also directly lead the Marketing Team and Research, Performance and Insight Teams and must have proven extensive track record of successfully managing similar functions as well as a strong data, research and analysis skills and knowledge of marketing and communications.

Main responsibilities:

• Work with the Director of Knowledge and Insight to lead and develop the functions in this directorate and identify and implement opportunities to expand the team. This includes recruitment and training activities.

•Lead the marketing, research, performance and insight functions, developing first-class skills and capacity that provides evidence and insight to inform strategy and delivery.

•Prioritise and manage resources and budget effectively, in line with finance policies and processes.

•Provide subject-matter expert knowledge across a wide breadth of research, performance and insight matters for the organisation and external stakeholders and partners.

•Lead on the development of robust marketing, research and insight strategy and policies in accordance to our vision and values.

•Lead on the development and implementation of performance measurement frameworks to monitor and report on progress across our projects and contracts, and inform decisions and planning of services.

•Manage collaborative partnerships that expand the geographic footprint and influence in which TAWS delivers. Work to ensure established relationships with current funders and partners are consolidated and maintained.

•Identify, develop and successfully realise business and consultancy opportunities, supporting the directorate to generate income as well as build a reputation for TAWS as market-leader in marketing, data, research and insight services.

•Work closely with the function leads in the directorate to ensure the effective management and co-ordination of processes and projects and provide effective support across the organisation.

•As part of the Leadership Team work to embed the organisational culture required to implement the mission, aim and values of the society and provide leadership and direction for TAWS.

•Line manage staff, following staff policies and procedures, conducting1:1s and appraisals, monitoring absence and attendance, and assigning tasks. Ensure staff are managed effectively.

Strategic Scope:

•Leads on formulation and application of strategy.

•Has extensive experience of delivering strategy for an entire function and operating at a senior managerial level (but below board level) in an organisation.

•Leads the function in following the organisation's strategic plan.

•Makes decisions critical to the organisation's success.

Business Skills:

•Heads a major function within the organisation.

•Accountable for financial performance in several specified areas

•Has a broad and deep knowledge of their technical or professional specialty and is able to apply that knowledge and its implications to the wider business.

Complexity:

•Represents the company and/or their industry at high levels (ie nationally or internationally).

•Understands, explains and presents complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner.

Autonomy:

•Establishes organisational objectives and delegates responsibilities.

•Accountable for actions and decisions made not only by themselves, but by subordinates.

Benefits:

· Bring your own device - £20 towards your phone bill monthly.

· Health Shield – discounted health benefit against eye examinations/prescriptions.

· +Plus EAP (counseling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)

· Death in Service – 4 times your salary paid to beneficiary.

· Nest Pension – 8% paid by TAWS 3 % paid by employee.

· Annual Leave – 25-29 days AL plus 5 wellbeing days

· Flexible working.

 

Lichfield Cathedral is looking to appoint a dynamic individual who is proactive and passionate about the opportunities that volunteering can provide. In 2019 Lichfield Cathedral Volunteers were awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The Volunteer Coordinator will work with the existing 400 volunteers and seek new ways of safely recruiting volunteers from a broad demographic in order to enhance the experience of all who worship, visit and work at the Cathedral.

Lichfield Cathedral is entering an exciting stage of its 1300 year history. It has embarked on a major period of fundraising with the aim to raise £10 million for the regeneration of the Cathedral and the Close from 2014 to 2023. Alongside this, the Cathedral has an ambition to increase visitor numbers and engagement and to deliver high standards of visitor and supporter customer care.

If you

• Have excellent interpersonal and administrative skills
• Relish the challenge of finding new ways of recruiting volunteers
• Think creatively
• Have a passion for upskilling those seeking paid work
• Have a can-do attitude
• See all things as a challenge and an opportunity

Then we would love to hear from you and please visit our website for more information and an application form. All applications should be on the Cathedral application form and accompanied with a covering letter.

Hours:28 hours per week over 4 days (job share considered)

Annual Leave: 26 days including Bank Holidays

Closing date for applications: 31 August 2020

Interviews: 3 September 2020

Start date: 5 October 2020

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.