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Role Title: SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment & Quality) Officer
Contract Type: Regular
Reporting To: Director of Global Workplace Services, Global Operations
Program/Department/Unit Name: Global Operations
Location: London
Team Name: Workplace Services
Role Purpose
The SHEQ Officer is responsible for overseeing, implementing and managing health, safety, environment and quality management systems to ensure a safe, compliant, sustainable and efficient working environment. This role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities across our global workplace portfolio:
- Development and management of our global Health and Safety management system.
- Development and management of workplace environmental, sustainable and wellbeing practices.
- Development and management of a workplace quality and supplier governance system to ensure efficient, effective, and safe workplace operations as delivered by external vendors or otherwise.
Key responsibilities
As the SHEQ Officer, your key responsibilities are as follows:
Health & Safety:
- Develop, implement, and maintain a health and safety system that complies with legal requirements and best practices.
- Conduct regular audits, inspections, and risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement corrective actions.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of local risk registers
- Deliver health and safety training to employees, promoting a culture of safety and awareness.
Environment, Sustainability and Wellbeing:
- Develop, implement, and maintain an environmental management system that aligns with legal regulations and sustainability best practices.
- Conduct regular environmental audits, inspections, and impact assessments to ensure compliance and identify areas for improvement.
- Implementing, maintaining and continually improving office initiatives across the organization
- Provide training and guidance to employees on environmental policies and sustainability to promote responsible practices.
Quality Management & Supplier Governance:
- Develop, implement, and maintain quality practices that meet industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct regular quality audits, inspections, and process evaluations to ensure continuous improvement and compliance with quality standards.
- Establish and oversee supplier governance programs to ensure vendors meet quality, compliance, and performance expectations.
- Perform supplier audits and assessments, working closely with vendors to drive improvements and maintain product and service quality.
- Provide training and support to employees on quality procedures and best practices to enhance consistency and efficiency.
Emergency Preparedness & Disaster recovery & Business Continuity:
Partner with our Global Security team, local Global Operations staff and other key Operations units to:
- Develop and maintain local office emergency response, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans to minimize disruptions.
- Conduct risk assessments and regular training to ensure employees are prepared for office related emergencies.
Reporting & Documentation:
- Maintain accurate records of health and safety risk registers, incidents, maintenance activities, compliance reports and file with relevant authorities.
- Analyze data to identify trends, assess risks, and provide insights for continuous improvement.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation:
- Identify opportunities for improving safety practices, energy efficiency, and sustainability in Workplace Services.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, technological advancements, and regulatory changes, implementing best practices as applicable.
Key internal relationships
Global Operations Associate Directors, Global Operations Officers; Global Security and Risk; Real Estate Portfolio Renewal.
Key external relationships
Facility Management and Real Estate Projects partners.
The ideal candidate
- Relevant Health and Safety qualification
- Relevant qualifications in Environmental, Quality and Wellbeing practices, including audits.
- Educated to a degree level (or equivalent substantial industry experience).
Health & Safety Experience:
- Proven experience in health and safety management, including developing and implementing safety policies and procedures.
- Familiarity with safety legislation, regulations, and standards (e.g., OSHA, ISO 45001).
- Experience conducting risk assessments, safety audits, and incident investigations.
Environmental Management Experience:
- Proven experience in developing and implementing environmental policies and management systems.
- Strong knowledge of environmental regulations, standards, and best practices (e.g., ISO 14001, EPA regulations).
- -Experience conducting environmental audits, impact assessments, and sustainability initiatives.
Quality Management & Supplier Governance Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in quality management, including implementing and maintaining quality control systems.
- Familiarity with industry quality standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO 9001, Six Sigma, GMP).
- Experience in supplier governance, including supplier audits, performance evaluations, and compliance monitoring.
Training and Communication:
- Proven experience delivering health and safety training to employees across various levels.
Emergency Response and Preparedness:
- Experience in developing and implementing local office emergency response plans, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans including evacuation procedures and first-aid readiness.
- Familiarity with conducting emergency drills and training staff on office safety protocols.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
- Experience in gathering and analysing data, tracking key performance indicators, and providing reports.
- Ability to identify trends and recommend improvements.
Languages:
- An excellent knowledge of English. Fluency in other languages, would be an asset.
What we offer
- Exceptional opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact; from a generous annual professional development allowance for every employee to onsite training and learning conversations with visiting experts.
- Excellent benefits and perks to promote well-being and a healthy work-life balance, including:
- Generous time off, as well as our standard Open Society close at year-end (where vacation days are not required) and flexible work arrangements.
- Employer-paid health insurance and dental plans for individuals and families (no employee contribution required).
- Exceptional retirement savings plan (non-contributory for employees) and life insurance.
- Progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and much more.
- A commitment to nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace, so you can bring your whole self to work and make a positive impact.
Who we are
Open Society Foundations aim to establish vibrant and inclusive democracies where governments are accountable to their citizens. Our operating model organizes grantmaking around specific, time-limited projects, developed alongside support for established partners, enabling us to respond swiftly to emerging needs. We are committed to promoting human dignity, equality, and rights; reimagining democratic ideals and practice; and advancing equity in governance systems.
Guided by our founder’s values and the belief in the art of the possible, we engage directly with global entities, individuals, and policymakers through grants, advocacy, impact investing, and strategic human rights litigation to drive positive change. At the heart of our mission is a deep commitment to rights, equity, and justice, inspiring every action we take.
Additional information
Open Society Foundations is committed to building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively seek applications from talented individuals across all backgrounds, identities, and life experiences. Each candidate is evaluated solely on their unique qualifications without regard to race, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, or any other legally protected characteristics.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
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Support Network Coordinator (London coverage)
Location: Home based within Greater London
Salary: £35,040 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week Monday to Friday
We are seeking a Support Network Coordinator to cover the London region.
About Us
The Spinal Injuries Association is committed to a singular vision: a fulfilled life for everyone affected by spinal cord injury.
Everyone has a right to live a fulfilled life and that means the life they choose, a life that has the same opportunities as everyone else. We are the expert guiding voice for life after spinal cord injury.
About the role
Each of the Support Network Coordinators have the responsibility for delivering, maintaining, and expanding the support services available to spinal cord injured (SCI) people and their region of the UK.
The post coordinates two vital parallel strands:
- In your region, to reach and support newly and long-term spinal cord injured people and their families developing a strong partnership with all available specialist services, charity and business partners; managing a dedicated team of volunteers as well as providing direct support to SCI people with more complex support needs.
- Nationally, working to facilitate the link between SCI people and SIA and the network of services; referring SCI people and their families to our clinical / health expert support teams and advocacy services; working with the Digital Engagement team to build on-line links to regional partners in your area; supporting fundraising, campaigns and communications.
Duties and Responsibilities
This is the job for your if you’re good at:
- Building strong relationships – you’ll be talking to everyone from people with SCI and their families, to healthcare professionals, solicitors and partners who deliver key services.
- Identifying opportunities – to expand SIA’s portfolio of services, we’ll need your knowledge of organisations and individuals that provide services to those affected by spinal cord injury.
- Engaging People – whether it’s service users or your team of volunteers, the success of our work relies on you being able to keep people engaged with what we’re doing.
- Being organised – managing your own diary, keeping in touch with your contacts, ensuring your volunteers are being utilised effectively, providing support to those in greatest need, referring to internal & external service providers and keeping records of the support SIA is delivering.
- Providing life-changing support to those that need it most – you’ll be facing up to the most difficult challenges our service users face.
- Making the ask – whether it’s growing the fundraising activities that underpin the charity, securing the use of a venue for a support group meeting, or ensuring healthcare professionals are promoting our services.
Benefits
- Annual leave: 28 days per holiday year plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after two years of service (pro-rated for part time employees)
- Access to Group pension scheme (6% employer contribution)
- Access to Group life assurance scheme
- Access to Healthcare cash plan
- Access to discounted gym membership
- Access to Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Employee volunteer days
- Free car parking at Milton Keynes, Head Office
- Investing in their people - all members of staff are encouraged to discuss their development plans and aspirations with their line manager. A budget is available for talent development.
Please note, for this role it is essential that an applicant has a personal lived experience of a spinal cord injury (SCI) or Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES), and lives in the Greater London region.
This post will play a critical role in achieving our ambitions. We hope that the role inspires you and we look forward to receiving your application.
Closing date: 28 July 2025, 9am
Interview dates: 6 or 7 August 2025 at SIA House, Milton Keynes OR London area
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
At SIA, we value diversity. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment as we believe diversity fosters a more innovative, creative, and caring culture.
We are striving to create a culture that fully represents all the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, family or parental status, or disability status.
Disabled candidates who meet the standard job criteria will be offered a guaranteed interview.
No agencies please.
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English PEN is the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with over 130 centres in more than 90 countries. We have a strong track record in campaigning in the UK and internationally. Our work has included campaigns for individual writers at risk; advocacy on UK legislation; coordinating residencies for writers; supporting displaced and exiled writers in the UK; and convening roundtables, events, and vigils relating to our campaigns work.
To support our work in these areas, we are seeking to appoint a Campaigns Officer to join our team.
This full-time post is based in English PEN’s small but busy London office. The Campaigns Officer will report to the Head of Campaigns, who leads on our campaigning work across the organisation, and will work closely with the wider English PEN team.
English PEN celebrates the diversity of literature and envisions a world with free expression and equity of opportunity for all readers and writers. The Campaigns Officer will play an essential part in achieving this vision.
Key Duties:
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Researching and monitoring key issues and individual cases of concern
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Providing tailored support to writers at risk nationally and internationally
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Working with displaced writers in the UK to develop their creative practice
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Leading on the project management of PENWrites, our international letter-writing campaign
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Providing practical and pastoral support to resident writers
This is an exciting and demanding role which requires an individual who can effectively undertake and prioritise a wide range of tasks to support English PEN’s mission.
English PEN wishes to encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries and charity sector.
Please note, applicants must have a legal right to work in the UK. For further details on the role, please download the attached job description.
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Registered Charity
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English PEN celebrates the diversity of literature, and envisions a world with free expression and equity of opportunity for all readers and writers.
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About the Role
The Assistant Reserves Officer is one of our team managing and developing the Trust’s nature reserves for people and wildlife. Your work place includes internationally recognised wetlands and woodlands along with nationally important meadows, chalk grasslands and heathland across Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
You will need to have strong experience in practical habitat management, including the use of power tools and machinery, such as chainsaws, brush cutters and BCS mowers. You will have experience of working within a dynamic team and leading volunteers. You will need to have a keen interest in wildlife and preferably a knowledge of the habitats in our area.
No two days are the same as an ARO at HMWT; you will get the opportunity to utilise and develop your practical habitat management skills across our nature reserves including tree felling, coppicing, scrub clearance, hay cutting and pond/ditch management. You will also undertake the maintenance of site infrastructure; assist with the management of livestock; and perform surveying and monitoring of habitat/species, tree safety and infrastructure. These tasks will be delivered working closely with members of the nature reserves team; our volunteer wardens and our practical conservation volunteers.
Willingness to travel throughout our work area and flexibility to work occasional irregular hours is required for this post.
As an employer we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of all our staff.
About the Trust
Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local conservation charity working to protect wildlife and help people connect with nature. With a team of volunteers we care for wild places so that nature has a place to thrive. We help people experience the wildlife on their doorsteps and to take steps to protect it.
We believe that wildlife should have space to thrive alongside our everyday lives and that everyone benefits from having access to nature.
Our head office is based in the attractive setting of Verulamium Park on the outskirts of St Albans.
Our staff team is enthusiastic, friendly and committed to wildlife conservation and exemplifies our values of professionalism, valuing contributions by others and continuing to improve.
How do we support you?
The Trust strives to be a positive employer supporting our staff through flexible and hybrid working, and training and development. We recognise the importance of our staff team and looking after their health and wellbeing. Our values and expected behaviours reflect the culture which the Trust seeks to maintain to ensure productive, efficient, effective and pleasant workplaces and roles.
In support of this, we offer an excellent benefits package, ranging from office perks, generous leave entitlements and financial benefits. You can find out more by visiting the Hertfordshire & Middlesex Wildlife Trust website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We're looking for 2 friendly, innovative and resilient Income and Housing Officers to join our Landlord Services Team located at our Head Office in Islington.
£32,000.00 - £36,000.00 per annum (depending on skills and experience), working 35 hours per week.
Want to feel like you have an exciting future? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
Our benefits include:
* Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
* Free DBS (take this out if BSW advert)
* Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
* Fully paid induction programme and further training
* A generous pension - we will contribute up to 4% and life assurance cover up to £10,000 (T&Cs apply)
* Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
As an Income and Housing Officer you will help to maximise the organisation's rental income collection,n effectively manage rent arrears and deal with other breaches of the occupancy agreement.
What you'll do:
* Take responsibility for maximising rent collection across a defined patch of Look Ahead's portfolio of properties ensuring that rent collection targets are met and tenancies sustained
* Advise operational teams on their support related arrears management activities, including holding local surgeries with tenants and staff, taking direct control of higher level and more complex arrears cases
* Proactively monitor all current and former accounts within the defined patch and make recommendations to the Housing Manager for appropriate former accounts to be written off or referred to Look Ahead's debt collection agency
* Ensure that the rent collection function is carried out both sensitively and in a timely fashion so as to avoid the build up of excessive arrears and record all case details accurately.
* Ensure that all sign ups within the defined patch are done accurately on the correct type of tenancy and at the correct rent and service charge levels.
* Prepare files and documents for legal action and present cases in County Court hearings for possession claims, money judgements
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
? An understanding of the needs of customers who have experienced homelessness and who may also have support needs.
? Excellent time management skills to systematically monitor arrears and complete other tasks in a logical and systematic way.
? Excellent communication skills and experience of dealing with vulnerable people in a sensitive , friendly and clear manner.
? An understanding of how to effectively deal with breaches of occupancy such as anti-social behaviour and abandonment. .
? The ability to communicate clearly with non -housing management staff and explain cases in a non technical way.
What you'll bring:
Essential:
? Experience of monitoring rent accounts and managing rent arrears
? Experience of using computerised rent systems to monitor arrears and record information
? Extensive knowledge of welfare benefits ,especially housing benefit
? Experience of liaising with housing benefit departments ,the DWP and other external agencies.
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness and complex needs, young people and care leavers and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
* We focus on Excellence and innovation.
* We are Caring and Compassionate.
* We are Inclusive and Trusted.
* We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
Please see our website for full job description