NYAS is the leading provider of advocacy and associated service across the UK. NYAS shares the opinion that every child or young person experiencing care should have the same chance to live happy, healthy and rewarding lives as their peers.

If you are looking for a rewarding role with an organisation that makes a difference to young people’s lives, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to join us in establishing and building the Empowering Families service in line with NYAS strategic aims and objectives ensuring NYAS works in partnership with our key stakeholder.

As part of the Children and Families Change programme the service aim is to improve outcomes for children and families by offering one to one support to families who are struggling with various aspects of parenting and are being supported by Children’s Services, via either a child in need or child protection plan.

Working alongside another Volunteer Coordinator, you will be responsible for the recruitment, growth and development of a team of NYAS volunteers who will be actively supporting parents on a weekly basis, through the duration of the child in need plan or child protection plan.

This role is a home based role however to meet the requirements of the role you must live within the geographical area.

To apply please visit our website.

In your application, you will need to evidence, using specific examples, how your skills and experience meet the criteria laid out in the person specification, within the job description attached. Requirements include:

• Proven experience in working with children and adults in a social care setting
• Proven experience of the recruitment and management of staff and or volunteers
• Ability to communicate effectively and to a high standard both orally and in writing to a wide range of people
• Clear understanding of professional boundaries

In return for joining NYAS you will receive the following benefits:

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years (pro rata)
• Company sick pay
• Salary sacrifice pension contributions
• Learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme

NYAS operates robust safe procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with NYAS’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

NYAS is an equal opportunities employer

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.

The Connecting for Good movement is looking for a dynamic Community Organiser to work with local people, businesses, retailers and city leaders to ensure that belonging and connectedness stays at the centre of bigger plans to reimagine our city centre for the future. 

Your mission as an Organiser will be to create/nurture business led solutions to end loneliness and isoaltion. The work is inspired by 'movement building' and 'community organising' and has lots of techniques in common with both. Your focus will be on listening, building relationships and organising people to take action that makes a difference. 

You will be a self starter who can confidently relate to businesses, city leaders and ordinary citizens. 

• Application deadline: 9am, Monday 5th July (please note that late applications cannot be accepted)
• Salary: £37,000 (plus £3,000 London weighting, where applicable)
• Contract: Full-time, permanent
• Interviews: W/C 12th July
• Reporting to: Deputy Volunteering Director
• Direct reports: Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator
• Start date: 16th August, or ASAP thereafter
• Location: London (Tobacco Dock) or Birmingham (The Big Peg) with regular travel to London. Flexible working options available

About The Access Project

In the UK today, students from the most advantaged backgrounds are six times more likely to make it to a top university compared to their least advantaged peers. To change this, The Access Project supports students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. We work with them to make good applications, get the grades and transition to university.

Our approach works: our students are more than twice as likely to place at top universities compared to similar peers.

Through the COVID crisis, we have remained student-focussed and continued our support by rapidly moving all provision online. In autumn 2020, we were selected as a Tuition Partner for the highly competitive National Tutoring Programme, in recognition of the quality of our work. This partnership has enabled us to expand and we now serve 1,700 students in London, the East and West Midlands and Bradford. As the country emerges from COVID, tackling educational disadvantage is an urgent social challenge - a challenge we aim to meet by expanding our footprint and reaching more students than ever before.

Why we need you

We match each of our students with a dedicated volunteer tutor, for weekly 1:1 tutorials in one of their GCSE or A Level subjects. The Head of Volunteer Recruitment is responsible for the recruitment of volunteer tutors in all regions, and as such plays a pivotal role in the provision of services to TAP’s beneficiaries. Our volunteers are all graduates or undergraduates and come to us through a variety of sources, from social media to corporate partners. We have secured record numbers of volunteer sign-ups over the past two years, and are seeking an exceptional person to help drive this work forward and create a sustainable pipeline as we continue to grow. The successful candidate will work to define and implement a volunteer recruitment strategy to take us through to 2025.

The ideal candidate for this role is a dynamic self-starter with excellent communication and relationship-building skills, as well as a good understanding of successful marketing techniques.

Duties and responsibilities

The Head of Volunteer Recruitment will be responsible for:

Volunteer recruitment in-year:

• Defining recruitment targets annually, based on expected retention rate of existing volunteers and growth into new schools
• Managing recruitment to sign-up targets by deadline, through a variety of sources. Current key sources are:
  • Facebook/instagram
  • Corporate partners
  • Universities
  • Membership bodies (eg Royal Society of Chemists)
  • Volunteering sites
  • Online search
  • Word of mouth

Pipeline for volunteer recruitment in future years:

• Develop and implement a new volunteer recruitment strategy for the next four years, including how to find both the right numbers of people and the right subjects (e.g. we have a high need for Chemistry tutors) and how these will be spread across variables (e.g. by region, by online vs in-person tuition)
• Define capacity requirements for volunteer recruitment by year based on organisational growth targets

External advocacy:

• As the face of TAP's Volunteer recruitment work, be a positive and engaging advocate for our volunteering offer, seeking out new opportunities to publicise this with new audiences
• Attend networking events, conferences etc to speak about TAP's volunteering offer
• Work with TAP’s Communications team to define calendar for additional spotlights on volunteering recruitment through our media work

Communication design:

• Manage the creation and wording of all collateral related to recruiting volunteers (by sign-up source), working with TAP’s Communications team to ensure these are in line with TAP branding and communications guidelines

Budget management:

• Create budget annually for expected cost of recruitment activities
• Oversee spend according to planned budget, seeking opportunities to make savings where possible

Integrated Volunteering and Partnerships teams:

• Work closely with Volunteer Experience team to ensure shared understanding of each other's priorities, messaging to volunteers etc
• Work closely with the Partnerships team to ensure joined-up approaches to and stewardship of corporate partners

Line management of Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator(s)

• Line manage Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator (1 initially, with more as the function grows) - set objectives, hold weekly 1:1s, conduct mid- and end-of-year reviews. Identify development needs and training requirements

Person specification

Essential

• Passionate about tackling educational disadvantage
• Experience recruiting target candidates to stretching KPIs
• Experience of corporate relationship management
• Experience of budget creation and management
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to create both marketing materials as well as written reports of a high quality
• Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to create and deliver engaging presentations and pitches
• Exceptional organisation, planning and documentation skills
• Ability to rapidly build rapport and strong working relationships, internally and externally
• Ability to work autonomously, with a high level of self motivation
• Keen understanding of marketing in principle and practice

Desirable

• Experience of strategy development and implementation
• Experience of effective line management
• Experience of recruiting volunteers
• Experience or understanding of working in the charity sector
• Understanding of social media marketing and SEO optimisation

About you

We are looking for candidates who meet the person specification as set out in our job description. Please address the points in the application form from the person specification, giving examples of your experience, skills and knowledge gained in relevant paid or voluntary work, study or training.

Please ensure that you complete all of the application form questions to enable us to shortlist your application for an interview, otherwise it will be disqualified automatically. Resumes and CVs will not be considered.

Critical to our mission, we are now looking to recruit a Programme Coordinator to oversee a caseload of partner schools in Birmingham. You will work closely with the schools and pupils and manage the pool of volunteer tutors by regularly attending weekly tutoring sessions, as well as overseeing the quality of face to face and online tutoring, always working to deliver a great impact.

As the Birmingham Programme Coordinator, you will also support the recruitment of volunteer tutors, manage the tutor sign up process, deliver training for tutors, develop relationships with schools including their Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers, collect data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, and work with other internal teams on business development opportunities.

Duties and responsibilities
- Responsible for the delivery of Action Tutoring’s tutoring programmes in partner schools, whether online or face to face. This includes working closely to manage all key stakeholders: schools, pupils and volunteer tutors; regularly attending weekly face to face and online tutoring sessions; leading on reviewing and improving programme delivery, using data to reliably assess programme performance.
- Support the Action Tutoring Recruitment Team with focused recruitment of volunteer tutors.
- Manage the tutor sign-up process to assign tutors to upcoming tutoring programmes, working with the Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator on local volunteer recruitment.
- Deliver training for tutors on an on-going basis.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders in partner schools, including members of the Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers.
- Update and maintain Action Tutoring’s database, including collecting data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, such as attendance records, baseline and interim assessments and end of programme surveys. Reporting regularly on key performance indicators.
- Work with the Midlands Programme Manager on business development, approaching new schools that might be interested in working with Action Tutoring.
- Proactively report to the Midlands Programme Manager on the details of Action Tutoring’s operations in your partner schools.
- Any other responsibilities reasonably deemed necessary.

Person specification
Qualifications criteria:
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience).
- A*-C in maths and English at GCSE (or equivalent experience ).
- Right to work in the UK.

About you
Being the sole representative for a partner school, you will need to use your ability to work independently and with initiative, often organising your own time to meet deadlines. You’ll also need to have a strong aptitude for developing relationships with a range of stakeholders ensuring you uphold high standards of communication and adapt your style for different audiences. The nature of this role will also require you to demonstrate adaptability, resilience and the ability to cope with some uncertainty.
This position would suit you if you’re looking to develop your experience in the education or charity sectors. Existing experience of working with young people and/or project management in a charity or education setting would be an asset.

If you are dedicated to ensuring young people from all backgrounds reach a meaningful level of academic attainment and are passionate about bringing about this change, please apply today or get in touch for more information.

As a charity that values and celebrates people's diversity and champions opportunities for all young people, we are keen to receive applications from people who have experienced disadvantage and from those who are of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who are currently underrepresented in the organisation.

DESIRABLE:
- Experience of working with young people and/or project management.
- Evidence of an interest in education and/or the third sector.

Place of work: On most days, you will be required to work in Action Tutoring's partner schools in Birmingham as well as working from home between programmes. Occasional travel to our London office will be required. Travel costs will be paid.

Contract and working hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) permanent contract.

Start date: Monday, 23rd August 2021

Closing date and interviews: Sunday 4th July 2021, 12pm. Interviews between the 12th and 23rd of July 2021.

All Action Tutoring staff must have a DBS check. Should you be aware of any incidents, cautions or convictions that would appear on your DBS check, you should notify us with your application.

Benefits

- Hybrid working
We offer a flexible combination of office and home based working.
- Holiday
25 days holiday a year (plus UK
public holidays), increasing by a day for each complete year of service (up to three extra days).
- Flexitime and TOIL
We have a flexible policy for working hours, and offer TOIL where staff have to work particularly early in the day or late in the evening, so that they can reclaim those hours at another time.
- Team away days
The whole team across the UK gets together three times a year.
- Pensions
We have a workplace pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
- Culture of celebrating
Regular thanks and praise and monthly recognition of ’heroes’ to celebrate employees going above and beyond.
- Knowledge-sharing
Lots of opportunities to learn from others in the organisation, including policy briefings, shadowing colleagues and peer-to-peer development.
- Socials
Team socials around team days, regular bring-and-share team lunches and other activities.
-Proofreading Team
As well as checking the accuracy of all content Action Tutoring shares with external audiences, our proofreading team supports individuals who would value an extra pair of eyes on their writing.
-Ad hoc projects
Interested in other exciting topics relevant to our charity? Then join one of our working groups (including policy, diversity and inclusion, curriculum and training, socials, data and insights) and support with ongoing projects.

How to apply

Please click apply above and submit your CV and a letter outlining by clicking apply above (max 1 page A4):
(When uploading one document, please click 'upload', rather than 'finish application' to make sure that it attaches, and to allow you to upload another document.)
1) Your ability to 'spin different plates' simultaneously, including clear examples of past experiences. 
2) Your ability to be resilient when things are not going the way you thought, including clear examples of past experiences OR Your experience of managing diverse stakeholders, including clear examples of past experiences 
3) Tell us about how our organisational values are in line with your values
Applications that fail to meet these criteria will automatically be discounted.
We will be interviewing candidates as we receive applications and may close applications at any time. Therefore, early applications are encouraged. 

Your application answers will be reviewed blind to ensure fairness. Your responses will be randomised and the shortlisting panel will not see any details about you, including your CV. Your CV will only be seen after shortlisting if you have been invited to an interview.

Job Description

The Programmes Director will lead the teams responsible for the effective design and delivery of all the charity’s programmes. Their primary responsibility is ensuring Frontline’s programmes are of excellent quality whilst being delivered in the most joined up and efficient way possible.

We need an ambitious and experienced leader to plan and oversee the delivery our programmes to ensure they have maximum, measurable impact. The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO and Chief Social Worker to manage programmes teams and ensure robust systems are in place which drive and support teams to work in a cohesive way. We need an influential leader, who brings their experience of successful planning and workflow design to our programmes and the wider charity, as a member of the senior leadership team.

We have increased the diversity of Frontline’s workforce in the last 12 months, but lack ethnic minority representation at our most senior level. We know the value ethnic minority voices bring and therefore, we are strongly encouraging applicants from these backgrounds to apply. We will keep applications open until we have satisfactory representation on the shortlist.

Location remote during Covid.

Reporting to: Director of Programme & Innovation

As the Sophie Hayes Foundation continues an exciting phase of growth and development, supporting more women survivors of Human Trafficking, the role will be a valued member of the organisation’s Birmingham & West Midlands Team. The right candidate will focus on delivering both our Employability Programmes modules: Workshops and Coaching across Birmingham and the West Midlands, through effective and productive collaborations.

This is a role designed for someone who is people focused, has an eye to detail and is: encouraging, insightful, creative, organised and willing to adapt to the changing lives of those you are supporting.Have perseverance, a high level of flexibility and emotional intelligence.You will be quick to listen, understand and lead women forward as they navigate a challenging transition in their lives. You will have initiative with an ability to adapt ideas into action, alongside strong partnership skills as you build relationships with referral partners across businesses, social enterprises and colleges across Birmingham & West Midlands.

Detailed Role Description

Delivery

1. Create, manage, and deliver both the workshops and coaching modules across the West Midlands in F2F and remote environments.
   1. Recruit survivors into the Employability Programme.
   2. Deliver Modules 1 & 2 using the Employability Programme content across group and 121 environments.
   3. Provide ongoing 121 survivor support whilst delivering the programme.
   4. Engage all survivors into The CREW our survivor led network, before during and after programme completion.

Partnerships

1. Ensure our survivors, partners and volunteers are engaged, motivated and ‘have a voice’ to influence and shape our programme design.
2. Engage with local, regional, and national networks i.e., West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network, Human Trafficking Foundation.
3. Develop and grow partnerships with diverse stakeholders to support growing needs in both the remote and F2F delivery.
   1. NGO’s,
   2. Referral partners
   3. Educational institutes
   4. Business and community partners
   5. Faith based organisations.

Internal Relationships

1. Work with the Employability Programme Placements Supervisor to build robust relationships in the local and regional communities, in order to secure and support survivor placements.
2. Supervise and manage Employability Programme volunteers, with the objective of growing individual and group capabilities, skills, and resources.

Budgets & Reporting

1. Effectively and efficiently manage local programme.
   1. Budgets. 
   2. KPI’s, ensuring correct reporting of programme outputs and outcomes. 
   3. Development through insights and evaluations, learning and feedback. 
   4. Consistently work with and encourage the growth of leadership volunteers to increase organisation capacity and capabilities.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Minimum 3 years’ experience of successful programme delivery in the UK charity sector
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, or the ability to demonstrate competence through experience.
• Demonstrable direct experience of skilled facilitation for group as well as 121 support sessions/coaching.
• Experience of proactively researching and engaging current and prospective partners.
• Tangible knowledge of best practice in facilitation, coaching and programme delivery.
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to tailor written and verbal content and style to a range of audiences.
• Experience of working to, and meeting KPI’s.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver outcomes to tight deadlines.
• Required IT skills Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. (Blackbaud E Tapestry or similar CRM systems etc)
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a key member of a team.
• Flexible and proactive approach and attitude
• Enthusiasm and drive to make things happen.
• Ability to work occasionally outside of normal office working hours.
• Supportive of a small but fast paced team.
• Supportive of non-Birmingham locations
• Ability to drive.

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of the human trafficking and modern-day slavery sector.
• Experience of working with vulnerable groups
• Experience of using social media and digital communication tools. 

Please note: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

However, this post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 20

Your application answers will be reviewed blind to ensure fairness. Your responses will be randomised and the shortlisting panel will not see any details about you, including your CV. Your CV will only be seen after shortlisting if you have been invited to an interview.

We may close this role early if we receive enough applications, therefore early applications are encouraged. Applicants must have a maximum of two months notice period.

Please note that if you have applied for a similar role at Frontline within the last 3 months your application will not be shortlisted. 

Job Description

The Headline Programme Officer role offers the opportunity to build and manage relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. The Programme Officer will play a leading role in shaping and implementing the delivery of our new leadership programme Headline. You will have responsibility for the quality and consistency of the Headline leader’s experience whilst on the programme. The first prototype will be launching in October 2021, and is the first of its kind in the sector. The participant journey on the Headline programme includes a number of residential leadership modules, workshops, shadowing and extensive executive coaching.

There is a high autonomy culture within the team and organisation, so the role requires someone who is well organised, pro-active and can use their initiative to do what works. The team is small with ambitious targets, so the Officer will need to be flexible and think strategically, at times beyond their role, as the team often work collectively to get the best results. The Officer will need experience in project management and relationship management, implementing programmes and have a confident and inclusive communication style. The successful candidates will work across a varied range of activities so will need to adapt quickly to the demands of the programme and our participants.

About The Access Project - In the UK today, students from the most advantaged backgrounds are six times more likely to make it to a top university compared to their least advantaged peers. To change this, The Access Project supports students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. We work with them to make good applications, get the grades and transition to university. Our approach works: our students are more than twice as likely to place at top universities compared to similar peers.

Through the COVID crisis, we have remained student-focussed and continued our support by rapidly moving all provision online. In summer 2020, we were selected as a Tuition Partner for the highly competitive National Tutoring Programme, in recognition of the quality of our work. This partnership has enabled us to expand and we now serve 1,700 students in London, the East and West Midlands and Bradford. As the country emerges from COVID, tackling educational disadvantage is an urgent social challenge - a challenge we aim to meet by expanding our footprint and reaching more students than ever before.

About the role - The Operations Coordinator is responsible for supporting all functions of the team including facilities, finance, governance, GDPR, health and safety, internal communications, ICT, People, safeguarding and systems.  The majority of the tasks will be supporting our Operations Manager (“OM”) and Policy & Safeguarding Manager. They will support you to balance priorities across the team. 

Our ideal candidate will have experience as an Office Coordinator, Secretary or relevant coordinator role. Operations or recruitment experience working with MSOffice, GSuite and online databases will be an advantage. The successful applicant will benefit from the experience of succeeding in a varied role in a mission-focussed, friendly, progressive environment. They will have the advantage of working in a small but supportive structure, with some responsibility and autonomy.

Duties and responsibilities

Supporting the Operations Manager with the full-HR cycle for c.65 staff members with the following:

• General HR Operations Coordination
• People/HR Tasks
  • Staff onboarding
  • Staff offboarding
  • Payroll support
• Office Management​
• Recruitment Project Coordination
• Safeguarding Support

​Please see our online application portal for a full breakdown of the various tasks listed above.

Person specification

Essential characteristics and experience:

• Minimum two years’ proven experience in a similar or relevant role
• Excellent communication skills, enthusiastic, with a can-do attitude
• Exceptional organisational skills, punctuality and reliability
• Proactive, self-starter with professional manner and strong attention to detail
• Advanced MSOffice and GSuite skills, ability to use Excel to a high standard, including excellent mail-merge skills
• Good numeracy skills
• Familiarity with and/or willingness to learn new technology and software
• A team player and able to work on own initiative
• A commitment to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children
• A commitment to the cause, mission statement and values of The Access Project
• Experience of database management

Desirable characteristics and experience:

• Experience of Salesforce, Workable, BreatheHR online portals
• Experience using the Internet as a research tool, e.g., for benchmarking exercises and other operational requirements such as training programme cost-effectiveness
• Background in Operations or Recruitment would be a plus
• Project Management qualification
• Working towards a CIPD qualification

If you believe you meet the person specification and are interested in delivering quality work, providing attention to detail and working as part of a dedicated team, then please see our online application portal for further information about the role and how to apply.

Please ensure that you complete all of the application form questions to enable us to shortlist your application for an interview, otherwise it will be disqualified automatically. Resumes and CVs will not be considered.

Quality Standards Co-ordinator (Exempt Accommodation) 

Overview 

Over the last decade, the structures and processes underpinning the housing market have led to increasing homelessness and insecure poor quality accommodation. Passivity and the absence of effective regulation penalises some of our most vulnerable citizens. Whilst this is a national issue, many of the resolutions sit within local systems.

Increasing use of ‘exempt accommodation’ to house vulnerable people has been an accelerating trend across the last decade. Both commissioned and non-commissioned provision have successfully averted homelessness. However, our focus is on the non-commissioned provision that forms the majority of the offer as currently the accommodation is without any external assessment, or assurance that the minimal support, care and supervision is being provided. 

Aside from the direct impact on vulnerable citizens, Birmingham City Council has formally recognised the wider implications of increasing use of exempt accommodation. These include: 

1. Additional pressures on statutory agencies 

2. Reduced public safety 

3. Loss of private rented sector homes. 

4. Increase in referrals from outside of the city.

5. Loss of economic independence of residents and tenants 

6. Poor alignment with ‘care, support and supervision’ needs for individual residents. 

To address these challenges we all need to work as partners in improving the housing in the city. The Quality Standards alongside the ‘Charter of Rights’ aims to support this complex issue.

We are recruiting to the following role: 

Quality Standards Co-ordinator (Exempt Accommodation) 
SO2 SCP 32  (£28,203) 
35 hours per week 
6 month fixed term contract with possibility of extension 
Location: Blend of home working, Central Birmingham Office Based and Community Visits)

The quality standards framework around non-commissioned exempt accommodation is a new approach with an aim to create consistency and transparency for current or potential residents and referring agencies. 

You will play a pivotal role in the co-ordination and delivery of quality standards for exempt accommodation and associated activity. You will act as the point of contact for providers to advise, guide and support on the aims and delivery of the Quality Standards.

With a robust understanding of the experience of people within exempt accommodation in Birmingham, the successful candidate will be responsible for the development and ongoing maintenance of a robust quality management framework through Co-production with partners. 

The successful candidate will be required to support a delivery plan for the work including, milestones, outputs, outcomes and potential new priorities, as well as to co-ordinate the activity associated with the quality standards that supports the ongoing financial sustainability of the project.  This will involve desktop reviews and onsite visits against the quality standards.

ABOUT YOU 

The ideal candidate will be forward thinking, proactive and driven to achieve positive outcomes. You will have excellent communication, and organisational skills, ideally with experience in engaging with the housing sector and/or assessment of quality standards within a support setting. A proven ability to adhere to processes and set standards or performance management. Work well both independently and as part of a team. The ability to motivate a diverse range of stakeholders to develop best practice. You will also demonstrate that you share BVSC’s values, possess drive to shape this new and exciting role.

We are looking for candidates that can demonstrate the following BVSC organisational values:

COMMITMENT: Making a positive difference through passion, innovation and social action. 

COLLABORATION: Connecting people and organisations to work together to improve lives. 

INCLUSION: Empowering and involving everyone in creating a fair and equitable Birmingham. 

INTEGRITY: Building trust through delivering excellent outcomes. 

Closing date for applications – Monday 28 June at 10am  

Interviews to take place – Thursday 1 July  

Secondments will be considered for all posts. 

BVSC is an equal opportunities employer.

The EY Foundation is a charity and a company, limited by guarantee, established in 2014. We were founded by EY, the professional services firm, which continues to provide funding and donations to the charity under a multi-annual funding agreement.  We are governed by a board of trustees, who are supported by a number of committees and leadership and management teams.

The EY Foundation helps young people, disadvantaged in the labour market, to fulfil their work potential. We are unique in our position as the link between employers and young people, having strong relationships with both.

Our work involves designing, developing and running our own services: Smart Futures, Our Future and Accelerate, as well as raising independent funds to support new initiatives and reach more young people across the UK. We work with organisations from across all sectors, including commercial, not-for-profit, education and government.

As an independent charity we have to diversify and raise our own income through traditional fundraising, grants and, increasingly, through the development of our work with corporate partners.

The Opportunity:

Within the Foundation we adopt flexible roles that reflect the dynamic nature of our charity and enable our people to learn, develop and grow their skills and open up career opportunities. This is part of our investment in you.

This role profile provides an outline of what will be involved in your role rather than an exhaustive list of duties. Both you and this role will naturally evolve.

Whatever your specific responsibilities and specialisms, as a Co-Ordinator you will be customer and delivery-focused, structured and organised in your approach, highly engaged and interactive with colleagues and beneficiaries of our work. You will take personal ownership of your work and will be proactive in your own development. You will be collaborative with colleagues and supportive of each other in achieving our collective targets and objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Support with account management of new and existing partnerships, working closely with the Corporate Partnerships Account Manager, Communications and Programmes team to deliver a high-quality partnership experience
• Support Corporate Partnerships Lead with developing new proposals
• You will also support our Grants Lead with employer updates for grant bids and employers for deliverable grant bid work
• Stewardship of non-fee-paying employers to develop relationships
• Support the Corporate Partnerships team by leading on adhering to the EY Independence processes, ensuring both new and renewing partners comply
• Lead on reporting requirements for Finance and Operations team
• Support with contracts and partnership onboarding
• Support with employer communications and events

Skills and attributes for success:

• Working in a delivery-focused organisation
• Developing compliance/quality processes
• Co-ordinating multiple activities or tasks effectively
• Ability to foster positive relationships with a range of people
• Collaboration and flexibility in your team working, whilst also being able to work with minimum supervision
• Strong and evidenced commitment to diversity.
• Strong commitment to improve the working lives and prospects of disadvantaged young people in the UK

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Strong working knowledge and experience in an administrative or operational role
• Delivering excellent customer service, to internal or external customers or service users

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Good financial and Excel skills

What we look for:

• Strong and evidenced commitment to diversity
• Strong commitment to improve the working lives and prospects of disadvantaged young people in the UK

What working at EY offers  

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around 
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career 
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you 

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. 

About EY 

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

Please note 

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

Join us in building a better working world. 

Apply now 

Community Partnership Manager (Housing / Community Safety / Neighbourhoods)

£32,496.75 per annum

Birmingham

12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Full Time - 37hrs per week

Our client is working in partnership with Birmingham City Council and the West Midland Police & Crime Commission. They have been successful in securing Safer Streets Funding from the Home Office for a targeted area within Stockland Green in North Birmingham. This will enable investment in target hardening improvements such as better street lighting and CCTV alongside wider community safety improvements for residents alongside an ambitious and intensive programme of community development. 

Already a deprived neighbourhood, as categorised by the 2019 Index of Multiple of Deprivation, the area is characterised by a significant concentration of vulnerable resident’s living in houses in multiple occupation / exempt accommodation with significant support needs. West Midlands Police have characterised the area as one of their six impact areas with over a 100 crimes a day being reported on a daily basis in 2019. 

Despite the significant challenges there is a sense of optimism amongst partners and the community with a new ward forum soon to consult on a new neighbourhood plan and the amazing volunteering endeavour of Stockland Green Action Group, Friends of Brookvale Park and Highcroft Committee. 

This funding is an opportunity to build on this and bring tangible results for the community as part of a wider plan to recover Stockland Green. Working in the Partnerships Team in the Pioneer Group, engaging with local partners and community organisations this is a chance to make a difference.

Closing Date Friday 2nd July 20201 - Noon

Community Engagement & Inclusion Manager (Equality / Diversity / EDI)

Salary: £42,074- £44,627 per annum plus excellent benefits

Walsall, West Midlands - currently working from home

Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week

Closing Date:  Sunday 27 June Midnight 

Interview Date:  Monday 12 & Friday 16 July 

Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced Community Engagement & Inclusion Manager. The successful applicant will play a key role in ensuring the views and experiences of their diverse communities, build strong partnerships, deliver inclusive projects and develop a strong customer voice.

Joining their successful Community Investment team you will be managing  a small team to support the delivery of the community engagement and inclusion programme.

You will have a genuine interest in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion and be passionate about community engagement.

Main job responsibilities:

• Manage a team and provide a concentrated effort into key strategic areas to increase community engagement and support the development of inclusive programmes.

• Developing a diverse  customer voice and working closely with communities and the Performance and Insight Team to support  whg strategic approach on this agenda.

• Developing a comprehensive understanding of the local community, analyse customer and community insight and ensure planned interventions effectively meet these needs.

• Build a strong Housing Academy to support a strong foundation for customers to develop their skills and confidence and for their voice to be heard across the group.

• Support the development of a customer panel to oversee the monitoring and impact of community grant funding awarded.

• Support the development of local groups utilising space in group community rooms.

Our client are looking for:

• A degree or significant equivalent work experience in a relevant field, such as a professional qualification in Community Development, Equality and Diversity or Housing Experience in facilitating community and volunteer-led projects and developing co-creation and co-production approaches.

• Empathetic approach and attitude / good understanding of diversity and inclusion 

• Experience of delivering collaborative community projects and initiatives that support inclusion and diversity.

• Up to date knowledge of equality legislation, community integration and best practice.

• Experience of working in partnership  with key  external stakeholders.

• A good knowledge and understanding of anti-discrimination and positive action initiatives.

About Our Client

Our client’s People Strategy presents a clear picture of how they will achieve their Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help them support their colleagues to make a difference to their customers, the communities they serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that they have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities they serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to them means colleagues living their values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to them is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

Our client are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with them. They want to make it clear that they welcome disabled applicants for all their roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

Our client will ensure that their recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and they will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. They will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

Do you enjoy engaging people in social change?

Do you believe in a world where everyone is able to participate in creating a better future?

Are you interested in working for a progressive and constantly evolving organisation?

Are you excited by the opportunity of using project development skills to work with our community of changemakers and innovators to develop their ideas into practical solutions?

We’re looking for an Area Manager to help us deliver an impactful, stimulating and inclusive programme of opportunities (including peer to peer) for RSA Fellows in the Midlands and East of England. You’ll be the main point of contact for Central Fellowship Councillors, working with them to develop and lead activity, support and connect Fellows and feed Fellows’ views into the organisation. Visit our website to find out more information about our Fellowship Council.

Key skills we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable knowledge of and interest in participatory engagement
• Ability to develop collaborative professional working relationships with people from a diverse range of professions and interests
• Creative problem-solving, able to help turn people’s ideas into action
• Keen interest in the RSA’s key research programmes. You can find out more about our programmes on our website.
• Knowledge of the Central areas

Please note, this role is home-based and, when travel restrictions are lifted, will involve much travel across the three regions to support Fellows’ events.

To find out more about this role, please visit our website.

About Us

We are the RSA.  The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce.  We’re committed to a future that works for everyone, a future where we all can participate in its creation. With over 250 years of heritage in making significant social impact, we bring together, our rigorous research, proven change process, influential ideas platforms and our global community of over 30,000 problem solvers united in a desire to deliver solutions for lasting change.

To achieve this, we ask everyone – our staff, our Fellowship, our collaborators, our partners and wider society – to commit to our values and world view, and strive to achieve genuine positive impact in our lives. This isn’t something we can achieve overnight. But we are asking you to join us all on this journey. The commitment you make now, is a commitment to be with us, to shape us, to challenge us, and to stimulate us all, to find better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change.

It represents the pact you sign when you join us. A pact that represents everything we do, every decision we make, and every action we take.

And it represents how we act. In a way that represents our values, with rigour and proven processes. A relentless spirit. Open minds, and an open door.

We bring to life our Commit to Impact brand idea through every organisational touchpoint, so we can ask everyone who interacts with us: will you?

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 21 June 2021. Interviews will be in the week commencing 28 June. A second interview will follow in the week commencing 5 July if you are successful in these initial stages, to be arranged on a 1:1 basis.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

£70,500 - £75,308 + accountancy allowance up to £5,000 (fully qualified) and this includes Additional Recruitment & Retention Allowance.

The Government Property Agency’s mission is to provide great places to work for civil servants. We are using our scale and commercial expertise to do this effectively, efficiently and sustainably, helping to support growth in all parts of the UK. We are growing rapidly through acquisition of Government properties from Departments. Turnover has risen from £0.4bn in 20/21 to £1.1bn in 21/22 and it will continue to grow as more properties are transferred and run by GPA. The postholder can be based at any of the GPA locations with Finance presence outside London. GPA has offices in Birmingham, Platform 21, Leeds, The Lateral; Manchester, Piccadilly Gate; Nottingham, Apex Court. Some business travel may be needed in due course when travel restrictions allow. 

Creating a first class finance function at the heart of decision making is a key priority of our transformation programme. The finance team will provide robust financial reporting and control alongside outstanding commercial business finance advice.

This role will provide financial support to the Workplace Services Director and will be a key member of the Workplace Service leadership team. The role will manage the overall budget (income and expenditure) and will provide financial insight, support and challenge for the benefit of GPA’s clients. The Individual will drive business performance, maximise return on investment and enhance client satisfaction.

The responsibilities of the Head of Finance (Capital Projects) will include

• As part of the Capital Projects senior management team, contribute to the overall development of the division’s strategy to achieve its objectives and those of the wider GPA
• Support and challenge the senior management team in adopting private sector best practice and identifying opportunities for improved return on investment
• Develop financial plans and forecasts, and manage income and expenditure budgets maximising income generation and optimising expenditure
• Report monthly on financial performance providing the division with timely, insightful, and actionable financial information
• Monitor opportunities and risks, and develop processes and controls which help the senior management team to run the division effectively
• Develop the financial contribution to business cases and pre-request for proposal ‘should cost’ models to inform investment approvals and proposal evaluation
• Support the director in ensuring that agreed processes and procedures are followed especially cost control, and provision of timely and accurate client financial information
• Provide leadership, energy and direction for the finance function within workplace services and across the division
• Mentor, motivate and manage the finance team [and supporting financial service providers] so that it provides a dependable and accurate service to the division, clients, the wider business, suppliers and subcontractors.

Key Skills & Experience

• Recognised professional accounting qualification e.g., CCAB/CIMA accountancy qualification.
• Proven experience over at least 5 years’ experience managing property/facilities management issues
• Excellent financial modelling skills
• Knowledge of public sector accounting (desirable)
• A commercially astute finance professional - capable of supporting supplier negotiations
• A strategic mindset - able to envisage future possibilities
• Strong leadership skills to lead a team of mixed experience and varying locations to deliver essential support to the GPA Directors
• Excellent communication, networking and negotiation skills
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment, planning, collaborating and delivering through others
• Down to earth, proactive and pragmatic

 For more information, please apply using the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Jack White at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.