Creative Support are pleased to advertise a new and exciting post within the North East.

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

We are seeking a highly skilled, proactive and resilient Project Manager for our supported living services located in Durham area.  The service(s) have been developed to meet the needs of people who have a learning disability and/or autism and complex needs, including mental health needs and behaviours which challenge. The service works with Positive Behaviour Support Plans so we are looking for applicants with knowledge in this area.

The services support 10 people within the Durham area in Supported Living settings.

We are keen to hear from candidates who have a keen interest, skills and expertise in supporting people with complex needs. 

As a dedicated Lead for the service your role will be to support the Registered Manager and staff team within the Durham services to deliver the highest standards of care and support, enabling service users to enjoy wellbeing, quality of life and community connections. You will promote and re-inforce a culture of responsive, person-centred practice and active support across the service. Relationships will be built based on respect and unconditional positive regard. You will be responsible for leading practice development and delivery across the service and your role will include:

• Needs/risk assessment and service design

• Transition planning and implementation

• Developing Positive Behaviour Support plans

• Person-Centred Planning and formulation of goals

• Health promotion and Health Action Planning

• Direct observations of practice

• Audits of practice including review and analysis of care records

• Writing case summaries and reports

• Reflective clinical/practice supervision

• Supporting and de-briefing staff

• Mentoring and training staff and students on placement

• Fostering positive team work and team development

• Creative use of communication approaches and assistive/personal technologies

You must have at least three years prior experience of supporting people with a learning disability and/or autism who have complex needs. You will also have relevant experience and skills in developing and implementing PBS and positive risk management approaches, founded on the principles of least restrictive practice. 

As a credible role model you will deliver skilled direct care and support and coach staff to build their confidence and expertise. You must demonstrate excellent assessment, support planning and report writing skills. Knowledge of communication approaches and the ability to create visual communication aids is essential.  .

You will be a confident and professional practitioner, able to contribute effectively to collaborative multi-disciplinary decision making, planning and review processes. You will be warm, calm, and emotionally intelligent with the ability to build positive and trusting relationships with service users, their families, staff and partner agencies. You will have a key role in supporting our commitment to creating an open, reflective and accountable culture which is underpinned by a commitment to ethical practice, dignity and rights.

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

You will be joining a progressive charitable organisation, strongly committed to investing in your professional development through both practice-based training and academic study. You will also be part of our highly committed and mutually supportive team of ten PBS and quality practitioners supporting our agency to achieve great outcomes and meet quality standards. By joining this team you will be able to access peer support and expertise.

Do you have the commitment, positive values and leadership skills, to make a difference to the lives of people who access our respite service in Euxton, Chorley?

Creative Support is a non-profit organisation which provides high quality person centred social care services for people with learning disabilities, mental health and other needs. Our respite service in Euxton, Chorley provides short term person-centred support to adults who have learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health needs. 

We require a dynamic, enthusiastic and well organised individual to lead the coordination and management of our respite service for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health needs. As the Project Manager you will be responsible for the overall delivery and management of the service and for ensuring that contract requirements and CQC quality standards are met.

Specific duties and responsibilities will include:

• Deployment of staff to meet individual needs and preferences within available resources

• Supervision, coaching, performance management and support of staff, volunteers and students on placement

• Responding to referrals and undertaking initial assessments of need

• Ensuring all service users have a co-produced plan of support and a designated Key Worker

• Ensuring there are clear goals and expected outcomes for each tenant with a defined path to enable each individual to reach their goals

• Working closely with families and advocates

• Working closely with local multi-disciplinary teams and community based agencies to provide holistic support

• Maintaining high standards of environmental safety/quality and ensuring a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere

  You will provide excellent customer care and proactively communicate with stakeholders in respect of risk management and the care and welfare of the people we support. You will have a strong ethical duty of care and a commitment to safeguarding vulnerable individuals.

  This post will suit you if you are seeking the opportunity to use your skills and knowledge of individuals with varying levels of learning disabilities whilst developing a career in social care management.

Qualities Required:

Applicants will be able to demonstrate warmth, compassion and unconditional positive regard for the people we support and will be able to develop trusting relationships based on empathy and respect. You will have the skills and personal qualities to be able to engage people in meaningful planning and therapeutic activities. You will be expected to work collaboratively and professionally with the people we support, their families and health professionals/agencies.

You will need an up-to-date understanding of the CQC Key Lines of Enquiries. You will demonstrate knowledge of the MCA, DOLs and the care standards. You will have the knowledge and skills to ensure the safe management and administration of medicines.

You will be hard working, resilient and reflective with the ability to accept supervision and be accountable for your own practice. Good written and verbal communication skills are essential, along with the practical skills required to plan and organise care and support delivery. You will be required to be flexible, working some shifts on a rota system which may include evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

You will have relevant experience of supervising/managing staff and resources and significant experience of supporting people with learning disabilities, including individuals with autism, complex needs and those who present with behaviours that challenge services. A relevant health or social care qualification (such as RMN/DipSW, degree or NVQ Level 4/5) is essential. You must be well organised, professional and credible with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team. You will be able to demonstrate leadership ability and management competencies. The ability to organise your own time effectively and manage professional relationships is essential. A commitment to your own continuous professional development is essential. Creative Support has obtained investors in people silver status and you will receive ongoing training regarding the client group you work with and up to date training regarding changes to the law and governing social care.

The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) is looking to appoint a Project Manager for the Social Prescribing Innovations Programme. This is an exciting new opportunity for someone looking for a challenging, senior role with responsibility for overseeing one of the organisation’s six national programmes.

The Social Prescribing Innovations Programme is a strategic partnership between NASP and the Royal Voluntary Service.

NASP is a newly registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Our goals are to promote social prescribing and to bring about a social revolution in wellbeing, as set out in the NASP Strategic Plan.

Royal Voluntary Service’s (RVS) mission is to inspire and enable people to give the gift of voluntary service to meet the needs of the day in their communities and seeks to ensure this is harnessed to greatest effect in the delivery of social prescribing.

We would welcome both freelance and secondment applications. In both situations a 3 month probationary period will need to be completed with freelance candidates, moving onto NASP payroll after the probationary period. For secondment applications we would welcome a 12 month secondment, with the option to extend for a further year.

Background

NASP is often approached by national organisations wanting to grow and spread their community activity offers. National organisations can lack knowledge and understanding of the health landscape, in particular how to work with local health commissioners and other key decision makers along the social prescribing referral pathway. Furthermore, they often have some funding, but not enough to enable their activity to be spread across the country or to test delivery in a new geographical area.

So, NASP and RVS have come together in a new strategic partnership to deliver the Social Prescribing Innovations Programme with the aim of helping national Voluntary, Community, Faith & Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations (and their national partners from the public and private sector) to develop innovative social prescribing activities and COVID recovery offers, equipping local communities with relevant opportunities which local social prescribing link workers can refer people into.

The Programme also includes a Social Prescribing Accelerator Fund which will support national organisations and partner agencies to increase the reach and effectiveness of the social prescribing offers they have developed/piloted.

The projects within the Programme will help to support people’s physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing needs and reduce health inequalities, by supporting national organisations to focus their social prescribing and COVID recovery offers on social groups and parts of the country most impacted by COVID and health inequalities, including older men, those groups most at risk of suicide, children and young people, and Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse communities.

It will benefit people and communities by increasing the scale and quality of local community activities, improving awareness and access to these activities across the health system particularly amongst link workers and health commissioners. It will also enable people in national organisations to get involved in community activities, as volunteers and peer champions.

The Programme will provide valuable information to NHSE, Integrated Care Systems, commissioners and providers on the critical success factors that need to be in place for social prescribing to play a valuable role in local health economies.

This is a dynamic learning initiative that will build the growing body of evidence and best practice to support long term delivery of social prescribing.

Purpose of the role

This is a new Programme and for the first three months the Programme Manager will work with the Programme Director to prepare the programme plan & budget for approval in July. Thereafter the Programme Manager will work on the delivery of the Programme.

Key elements include:

• A learning programme, which brings national organisations together to understand the social prescribing landscape and how social prescribing and COVID recovery activities are being commissioned across England.
• Peer support for national organisations, where they can share ideas about how to scale and spread innovation both within and between sectors.
• Increase understanding of and support for the role of volunteers and peer champions in delivering social prescribing offers
• Bespoke 1-1 development support to help national organisations to spread and scale innovative social prescribing and COVID recovery activities.
• Connecting national organisations to health and care commissioners across Integrated Care Systems; developing two-way learning that understands and responds to pressures and drivers and so build mutually beneficial partnership approaches.
• Harness the reach and expertise of national organisations to encourage local leadership and boost local community capacity.
• Deliver data to help build an evidence base of successful social prescribing schemes.
• Deliver data on the critical success factors that will support the spread of schemes to new health economies
• Manage the relationships with specialist advisers
• Budget Management - including day to day management, raising and processing payments and reporting

Essential criteria:

• excellent project management and organisational experience at a senior level in a relevant sector.
• at least 3 years relevant experience as a senior project manager including planning and budgeting.
• ability to be work under pressure, prioritise work and be flexible in delivery.
• strong experience of supporting organisations to work in partnership with communities.
• Self-starter, proactive, energetic leader with a collaborative mindset.
• Experience of working at a senior level, including playing a role in influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• excellent partnership and communication skills, written and verbal, both internally with peers and senior management, and externally with partners and stakeholders.
• knowledge and awareness of NASP's ambition with experience in at least one sector (Health, Arts & Culture, Nature, Physical Activity, Financial well-being)
• knowledge of VCFSE sector and the pressures faced as a result of COVID when resources have been stretched.
• Excellent people manager, able to oversee and motivate staff and wider stakeholders working on the Social Prescribing Innovation Programme.
• Commitment to promoting equality and diversity in all aspects of your work. Reporting to: Director of Programmes

Senior Project Manager

Cardiff (but currently remote working due to Government Guidance)

28 hours per week

This role is a Fixed Term Contract (ending 31st January 2022 - but with the potential to extend until the 31st January 2023)

JobSense is a collaborative employment support project (RNID being the lead partner), which supports people who are deaf or have hearing loss and people who are blind or have sight loss, into volunteering and paid work. The c£3m project is funded by the Wales European Funding Office (WEFO).

This senior role will lead the JobSense project by planning and overseeing all aspects of project delivery; including co-ordinating the partnership, monitoring progress against planned performance, ensuring key milestones are met and managing a complex budget, requiring stringent reporting and compliance.

The successful applicant will have strong leadership skills, be confident in managing a large budget with excellent attention to detail and have demonstrable experience of successfully monitoring and managing a diverse project. Experience of European funding requirements, or the ability to quickly learn and apply the requirements, is essential. Familiarity with the employment policy landscape in Wales is advantageous.

Communication is a basic human need. Yet most of us know someone who struggles to communicate through hearing loss. It can cause substantial harm to friendships, family relationships, confidence, employability, mental health and life chances.

The RNID (formerly Action on Hearing Loss) is the UK’s largest charity for the 11 million people in the UK who confront deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss every day. Established in 1911, we help people to take control of their lives and live the life they choose, removing the barriers standing in their way. We give people support and care, develop technology and treatments, and campaign for equality. 

We champion the value of difference and equality and celebrate our diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds or who are deaf or hard of hearing. With almost 20% of our employees having a disability we proudly hold Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum essential criteria.

For further information and to apply please click on the apply link. 

Interview date: 19 and 20 May 2021

Title: Senior Project Manager
Salary: £39,034 - £44,000 per annum
Hours/Contract: Full time - 35 hours per week
Contract Type: 4 - 6 month fixed-term contract
Based: UK Flexible
Closing date: 19th May 2021
Interview date: TBC


The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated, organised and enthusiastic individual with excellent knowledge of retail systems.

You will be an experienced Project Manager, with demonstrable evidence of delivering similar projects including a solid understanding of scoping, planning, budgeting, and stakeholder, risk and benefits management.

The role will support the development and implementation of the upgraded system and the transformation of working practices across all central functions of the retail operation.

You will be responsible for successfully delivering the project from inception to agreed business outcomes, with clear governance principles in place.
With your strong interpersonal skills, you will be able to forge and nurture successful working relationships with ease. You will be confident communicating with a range of stakeholders,

Experience needed

• Strong proven project management experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate clearly, cogently and appropriately for a range of technical and non-technical audiences
• Good IT skills - Microsoft Project, Visio, databases, process mapping, and Excel

What's in it for you:

• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working

For further information please contact out Head of Central Operations, Sarah Wade on

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

About Us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Thames Reach are committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in delivery of our services.

This newly created role of ICT Project Manager will provide an efficient and comprehensive ICT support service for all Thames Reach projects and teams. This contributes towards Thames Reach's strategic intent to end street homelessness by establishing a robust and reliable ICT infrastructure and increasing the use of ICT as a support to staff, helping everyone to be efficient and effective. 

The purpose of the job is to be a member of the Central Services team, working to provide a comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient ICT service.

For this role:

A degree or equivalent experience would be required for this role, however it is important you have the ability, experience and knowledge to deal with demanding but rewarding role. You should also be confident working in a hands on technical role, but also capable of providing strategic insight and advice in an environment either ever changing needs.

This is to be undertaken within Thames Reach's policies and style of operation and includes tasks and day-to-day decision-making relating to:

• Managing the outsourcing and provision of an effective IT infrastructure

• Managing and the provision of an effective Telecoms infrastructure (mobile and fixed)

• Developing systems to enable agile working across the organisation

• Managing the document solution contracts

• The support of relevant software systems

• The provision of training and support so that staff and service users seeking work in Thames Reach develop the ICT skills relevant to their jobs

• Management of overall network infrastructure, network security and telecoms systems

• Server and device management including design and configure, upgrade and repair.

• Technical management of all suppliers including hardware, software and outsourced IT Service Management provider

• Be the trusted advisor in the capacity of technical authority for your area of IS expertise, ensuring services and solutions are designed, delivered, maintained and supported in accordance with best practise, optimised for operational efficiency and supportability. In support of this to keep up to date with relevant current technologies and techniques.

• Ensure that technical documentation is maintained, and that appropriate levels of quality assurance are applied to its development. To conduct quality and technical reviews as needed, and ensure records are accurate to support IS services and processes, including any re-charging.

• Support the introduction of new systems, processes and services, providing appropriate resources and expertise from the team, assisting in planning, control, and quality and project assurance.

Deliverables of the post include, but are not limited to:

• Staged Office365 migration
• VOIP system consolidation
• Networked infrastructure supplier consolidation

As Well as a great working environment, we can also offer:

Learning & Development opportunities including (Tuition Aid & Management Training)

6.5% non-contributory pension

Flexible working

29 days annual leave

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established wellbeing project  that is intergrated in One You South Gloucestershire.  One You South Glos is a combined healthy lifestyles service led by South Gloucestershire Council. Part of this service includes a Wellbeing element, some of which is delivered by Southern Brooks Community Partnerships.

As Wellbeing Project Manager you will spearhead our Health and Wellbeing Project, managing staff, partner relationships and delivering outcomes.

The role has two main areas:
• Managing all aspects of the One You South Gloucestershire Wellbeing Project
• Contributing to the strategic direction of Southern Brooks wellbeing services

Working with community development values and practices, you will  lead a team who help people make positive changes in their lives.

Kazakh Steppe (Altyn Dala) Project Manager
Reference: MAR20218087
Location: Flexible – Based at Sandy HQ & Cambridge – with regular travel to Kazakhstan
Salary: £27,574.00 - £30,590.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days Annual Leave

In Kazakhstan, the historic range of the Critically Endangered Saiga Antelope defines three seasonal migration corridors covering >110 million hectares of steppe grasslands, wetlands, woodlands and semi-desert that also supports globally important biodiversity. Grasslands, including steppe, are the least protected terrestrial habitat on Earth.

The Kazakh Steppe (Altyn Dala) Conservation Initiative benefits these habitats, biodiversity and communities within this area as a well-established partnership between the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Geology, Ecology & Natural Resources (Government of Kazakhstan), Frankfurt Zoological Society, Fauna & Flora International and the RSPB.

Job Summary

As Kazakh Steppe (Altyn Dala) Project Manager, you will be based at RSPB’s Headquarters in Sandy and at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge, with regular travel to Kazakhstan.

You will work with the Head of Capacity Development & Projects (RSPB Programme Lead for Kazakh Steppe) and you will be central to enabling RSPB build on >15 years of low-profile successes, delivering its ambitious role in the Altyn Dala partnership.

You will coordinate all RSPB technical assistance, knowledge transfer and capacity building to enable effective partnership progress, and you will also provide specialist advice to catalyse rural livelihoods in steppe communities. Your role will incorporate budgeting, reporting, and designing fundraising bids to deliver key activities that result in lasting benefits for species, sites and at landscape scale: Restoring and conserving the steppe ecosystems of Kazakhstan and helping to make this financially sustainable.

Internally, you will coordinate RSPB’s Programme Board of technical experts who contribute directly to this work. Externally, you will represent RSPB in the partnership Operating Group, working closely with all partners to enable effective planning and fundraising, overseeing fieldwork and reporting. Importantly, you will also join the partnership’s Rural Livelihoods Working Group, bringing your own personal expertise in helping remote rural communities to develop livelihoods that are sustainable and compatible with nature conservation objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Within the RSPB, help the Head of Capacity Development & Projects (as Programme Lead for Kazakh Steppe (Altyn Dala)) to secure and coordinate essential technical and financial resources to enable the RSPB to fully realise its role in the partnership by delivering its agreed Programme Plan
• Organise the regular internal RSPB Altyn Dala Programme Board meetings preparing agendas, inputs and action lists as well as monitoring and reporting on implementation risks and incidents
• Manage selected core Programme budgets, individual contracts and project budgets in line with RSPB and donor requirements
• Within the Altyn Dala partnership, help to design, develop and then begin implementing the overarching long-term Partnership Vision and Theory of Change for 2021- 2025
• Lead RSPB’s input to the Altyn Dala Operating Group and support the Kazakh team to deliver the agreed outcomes and outputs in line with the Partnership Annual Workplan
• Play a central role in developing the Rural Livelihoods Working Group to enable remote rural communities to generate income from sustainable activities compatible with nature
• Work with staff, partners, external contractors and volunteers as necessary to ensure that actions are delivered to agreed standards of cost, quality and time
• Assist by developing key project documents including communication tools using traditional and digital formats to promote this partnership internationally

Essential skills, knowledge & experience:

• Master's Degree in biodiversity conservation, rural development or related fields
• Knowledge of and direct work experience in temperate grassland habitats, preferably in Central Asia or Europe
• Proven track record managing major projects, including work planning and scheduling, budgeting and financial management, risk and impact monitoring and reporting
• Direct experience in collaborative project design and planning, including institutional grant proposal writing for biodiversity conservation and/or rural development
• Proven ability to work in a multi-national team, coordinating effectively people who you don’t manage, building capacity where needed and positively motivating and empowering colleagues with equality and respect
• Understanding of key concepts in biodiversity conservation from species recovery to protected areas management, ecosystem restoration policy analysis to advocacy
• Knowledge of and direct work experience in rural community engagement and livelihood creation using microenterprises, preferably in Central Asia, Europe or Asia, with business acumen to help design microenterprise creation and business planning that generates sustainable income for rural steppe communities
• Accomplished spoken and written communication skills in English using traditional or digital tools that enable stakeholders’ understanding of the Programme
• Russian language skills (reading, writing and speaking) will be a very desirable ability
• Evident diplomacy and negotiation skills to negotiate, solve problems and avoid and overcome challenges working with people from diverse sectors and backgrounds
• A flexible creative approach, with the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing circumstances, working from the strategic big picture to operational details.

Closing date: 23:59, 09 May 2021

Interested?

Please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position

No agencies please.

Project Manager - Education & Qualifications
London
£92920

• Are you a fully qualified ICAEW/ACA Accountant (of equivalent?) with significant post-qualification experience or significant experience in a relevant regulatory role.
• Do you have Knowledge and understanding of the audit regulatory environment and the issues facing audit in general in the UK.
• Do you have a sound understanding of the UK Companies Act and its application to auditors

The role -

You will maintain standards for professional qualifications required to operate within the sector and also be responsible for scoping new agreements and partnerships throughout the world post BREXIT. In addition, provide project management and thought leadership in support of the responsibilities of the Head of Department and the Director of Professional Oversight which include:

• Independent statutory oversight, regulation of the audit profession and voluntary oversight of the accountancy and actuarial professions; and
• Consideration of audit, actuarial and accountancy regulatory matters in the UK, Europe and internationally, when required.
• Oversight of the provision of professional education and training to accountants, actuaries and auditors, the administration of examinations; maintenance of qualification standards, including the audit qualification; and continuing professional development in compliance with the relevant professional standards.

Duties and responsibilities include -

• Managing/monitoring the quality of the Recognised Qualifying Bodies' (RQBs) student education and continuing professional development programme activities and following up on implementation of our requirements.
• Oversight of the provision of education and awarding of the Chartered Accountancy Qualification.
• Oversight of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' provision of training and awarding of qualification.
• Oversight of the standards for and awarding of practicing certificates by the professional bodies.
• Providing expert analysis and evaluation of the monitoring programme to the Director, other senior staff and members of the oversight team.
• Liaison with the RQBs and professional bodies, technical experts and others on matters of shared interest, attendance at conferences, meetings and working groups.
• Leading work on securing Mutual Recognition of Qualification Agreements with third countries.
• Drafting responses to government and other external consultation documents.
• Preparing reports for governance committees and the Board and contributing to POT's annual statutory reporting responsibilities.
• Drafting briefing for senior staff who have engagement with the professional bodies.

Essential experience and skills -

• A relevant professional accountancy qualification or equivalent with significant post-qualification experience or significant experience in a relevant regulatory role.
• Knowledge and understanding of the audit regulatory environment and the issues facing audit in general in the UK.
• Understanding of the UK Companies Act and its application to auditors
• Appreciation of commercial, regulatory and other external influences on other parts of the Accounting, auditing and actuarial sectors
• Detailed knowledge of the processes and requirements for the training of auditors including syllabus, examinations and practical training.
• Knowledge of Audit Regulations, Delegation Agreements and the rules of the professional bodies.
• Knowledge of the Audit Regulation and Statutory Audit Directive.

This is an exciting time to join this organisation as they transform into a new body. You will enjoy many benefits including a strong work/life balance, an inclusive "family feel" organisation and working with experts within their given field.

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

If you know anyone looking for a new role, your referral could earn you £250

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Main purpose of Job

The Projects & Pilots Manager will be responsible for managing the Projects & Pilots team, a team of 7 people working on a variety of projects with young people in Surrey and online. Key responsibilities will include ensuring activities are delivered in a safe and efficient manner, reaching key outcomes and keeping young people at the center of everything we do.

The Projects & Pilots Manager will support the Wellbeing in the Community Lead to implement the strategy as set out in an annual plan and business case. This will involve planning and delivering as part of the team responsible for developing new ways of working with children and adolescents.

Key Responsibilities  

·   Provide high quality line management support to 7 team members, whose roles range from volunteer to Lead Youth Workers.

·  Support Eikon’s thinking to deliver innovative projects supporting children and adolescent’s mental health and emotional wellbeing, specifically looking at digitisation of youth work, inclusion of at-risk groups, continuous improvement and adaptive planning, etc.

·  Lead on developing key learnings and recommendations from the various projects and pilots delivered by the team. Ensure those learnings and recommendations are clearly outlined in reports to Eikon’s leadership team and support the inclusion of those recommendations in the charity’s wider strategy. 

·  Work hand in hand with the Wellbeing in the Community Lead and lead on internal and external reporting, including ongoing data collection and analysis based on key outputs and outcomes agreed upon at project start.

·  Be responsible for the safe, effective and adaptive delivery of ad-hoc projects and ongoing activities. This will include developing and owning high quality project management tools, processes, systems and policies.

·  Always apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

·  Work as part of a team and attend team meetings, training events and participate fully in 1:1, peer and group supervision.

·  Work co-operatively and under the management of The Eikon Charity staff to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support.

·  Work within Eikon’s internal policies, safeguarding and data protection regulations.

·   Be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery.

Person specification - Key skills, experience and knowledge

We are looking for an experienced youth worker with excellent project management, team management and strategy development and implementation skills. Interest and knowledge in technology, digital project management and ICT are a plus.

Reprieve is a UK charity founded in 1999. Reprieve uses strategic interventions to end the use of the death penalty globally, and to end extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”.

Reprieve works with the most disenfranchised people in society, as it is in their cases that human rights are most swiftly jettisoned and the rule of law is cast aside. Thus, Reprieve promotes and protects the rights of those facing the death penalty and those who are the victims of extreme human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”, with a focus on arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial executions.

The US Death Penalty Project Manager is responsible for coordinating the US death penalty area at Reprieve.  You will be an integral member of the US Death Penalty Team, and will work closely with Reprieve’s Joint Executive Directors, Directors, Deputy Directors, Head of US Death Penalty Casework, and alongside Reprieve US staff, including its Deputy Director.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team [and] implementing strategies to achieve Reprieve’s goals in relation to the US death penalty. The work you will be managing will include: advocacy, investigation, strategic litigation, corporate engagement and public education focused around preventing the misuse of medicines in lethal injections and debunking the myth of the ‘humane’ execution, and casework management in support of Reprieve’s individual US death penalty cases.

For full details and information on how to apply please see the job description.

The job of a Save the Children’s UK Change Project Manager is fast-paced and complex.

• Are you a commercially-minded project manager?
• Do you have experience of successfully driving business and people focused change?
• Are you willing and able to have challenging conversations and influence change for the greater good?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Head of Change and Delivery, the Change Project Manager will be responsible for driving the delivery of long lasting organisational change which supports our ambitious transformation agenda.

The Change Project Manager will ensure each business function is accountable for the delivery of their change initiatives by challenging and supporting in equal measure. They will across all departments within Save the Children UK and will seek to enable closer working relationships, removal of waste, and streamlining of processes and procedures.

The role holder will also play a key role in maintaining transparent and accurate monitoring of project performance across expenditure, efficiency savings, and productivity measures.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Change Project Manager will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Change Project Manager will have responsibility for ensuring project delivery by coordinating, managing and aligning delivery of organisational change. Key duties will focus on:

Project Management

• Working to ensure projects within the change portfolio are delivered on-time, within scope and to budget

• Creating, managing and delivering against project work plans through the active management of milestones, budgets and resources

• Setting-up and running an effective project governance which allows for sufficient accountability and transparency to facilitate robust decision making

• Working with colleagues to understand the interdependencies across the change portfolio to allow for alignment, logical sequencing and prioritization of activity

• Preparing and publishing accurate and timely project status reports to stakeholders

Performance Monitoring and Benefits Realisation

• Measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques to track progress, benefits realization, adoption and proficiency

• Ensuring all project plans consider engagement and communication, training and development, processes and transition which will maximize adoption with staff at all levels

Risk Management

• Identifying and managing project risks and issues, ensuring appropriate levels of ownership, thorough mitigation plans and a proportionate escalation process

• Ensuring that project risk management is fully aligned with the Save the Children UK’s wider risk management strategy and framework

Person Profile

Experience

• Successful track record of managing projects which span people, culture and large-scale organisational change

• A good understanding of a broad range of project management practices, tools and methodologies

• Excellent knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles

• Experience facilitating Steering Committees or Subcommittees

• A recognised project or programme management qualification

Abilities

• Ability to have challenging conversations and influence the organisation to change for the greater good while building strong working relationships and fostering a team environment

• Ability to identify waste and process inefficiencies and devise and facilitate solutions that can be implemented and owned by relevant departments

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. Place2Be provides mental health support and training for over 600 primary and secondary schools, reaching a total school population of over 350,000 pupils.
 
Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life.  Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the ‘comprehensive CAMHS system’.

About The Role

1 Year FTC
Hours: 21hrs p/w
Days: Tuesday-Thursday
Location: London, EC1V 4LW

Overall purpose of role: 

As Digital Project Manager (Clinical Projects) you will be responsible for overseeing the development, delivery and evaluation of three key clinical innovation projects using digital solutions in our work with parents and young people. You will practise agile project, product and delivery management, ensuring these projects are delivered on time, on budget and focused on user needs.

The three projects are:

• A Parenting Website called Parenting Smart, (launching in April 2021)
• The development and delivery of an online parenting course (to launch October 2021)
• The development and delivery of a new secondary school intervention in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre, which will include and online training programme and handbook for practitioners (to launch January 2022)

What will I be responsible for in my new role?
 
Your key responsibilities will be to:

• During the initiation of the project: to work with selected agencies to pull together the key players, define scope, and clarify objectives 
• Develop project plans in coordination with colleagues and partners with all the component tasks and how they fit together 
• Allocate tasks to the necessary people, and communicate with them about what is coming and when so no one is taken by surprise 
• Organise user research sessions; arranging venue, participants, and other logistics for workshops and usability testing with advice from user researchers
• Monitor workloads and protect time for agreed on tasks
• Liaise between teams (both external and internal) to make sure handoffs go smoothly
• Keep stakeholders informed about the project
• Hold milestone meetings as the project progresses so everyone can check in with each other and stay on track
• Manage how the project is stacking up against the planned budget
• Ensure the project’s objectives are being met and that projects are user focused
• Evaluate what business as usual resources will be required post the project launch 

The successful candidate will have:
 

• agile or other industry standard Project Management qualification (Desirable)
• a track record of planning and managing projects in an agile environment, ensuring that projects keep within time and budget
• experienced in agile and sprint based delivery on a diverse range of projects 
• the ability to work in a team with diverse but complementary skill sets 
• ability to use project management tools; Gantt Charts, Critical Path Analysis and Sprints 
• excellent project management skills, knows when to challenge and when to listen, and be able to come up with and spot good ideas 
• experience and feel comfortable within a fluid and fast paced environment

Interview dates: Monday 17th May 2021 ZOOM Video Interview
 

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.
 
To Apply or to view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification, please visit our website for further details.

A leading housing association, one of the top 25 to work for in the UK, is growing their data capability. As a Service Definition Lead, you will be responsible for defining the framework required to ensure that the delivery of data programmes are consistently achieving outcomes and maximises value.

This role is paramount and will be at the forefront of establishing organisational change as they evolve as an innovative and digitally focused housing association.

Key duties

• You will develop a framework to support the delivery of data services centrally to support consumption of data sets; their characteristics, metadata and attributes across the business
• You will develop a way of providing consistent data stories to support the roadmap and pipeline of work into the delivery team
• You will manage stakeholders across the business, providing guidance about access, interpretation and usage of data
• You will be responsible for managing numerous data work streams we execute within the team
• You will be responsible for leading successful project delivery to achieve implementation of the digital programme to meet strategic business objectives, to time and quality
• Develop and maintain successful relationships with stakeholders at every level of the business
• Develop and maintain delivery frameworks and methodologies that provide the operating model that is the foundation for delivering successful outcomes by the organisation
• Ensure the gathering of requirements and supporting documentation meet the needs of delivery teams
• Ensuring the Project Management Office process is maintained for all projects within the programme
• Maintain the project level risk and issues register for the programme, ensuring that this is embedded within the project team and socialised with business stakeholders, including running of risk workshops or similar
• Curate and manage artefacts that support new and existing process, definitions and outcomes
• Manage from sprint delivery ceremonies
• Feed back to senior managers on progress

What do you need to apply for this role?

• Strong track record in successfully assembling and managing data projects delivering large-scale IT systems using established methodologies
• Awareness, understanding and experience of managing the delivery of data programmes including the management and delivery of data artefacts e.g. Business Entity Models, Data Mapping Documents, BUS Matrixes and Information Flow Models
• Experienced in managing project-related change, considering and managing all aspects: users and, technical impact and responsibilities
• Experience of working within an SME environment with conflicting organisational and project priorities
• Experience of working with groups in different locations and therefore managing 'at arms length' using conferencing technology
• Experience of managing departmental artefacts and standards, providing frameworks to ensure delivery teams deliver to these standards and support target outcomes