Use your experience and skills to make a difference for people with dyslexia and dyscalculia by joining our growing team.

We are looking for a Relationships Officer to support people with dyslexia by developing new and existing relationships with sponsors, partners and advertisers, with the aim of delivering income to support our vital services and ensuring that these relationships help both parties derive full value from partnerships.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the British Dyslexia Association, the charity that is the voice of dyslexic people. The successful candidate will join our team at a time when we are putting a greater emphasis on our free charitable services and this position will play a pivotal role in helping us increase our support for people with dyslexia and dyscalculia.

The Relationships Officer will be responsible for a wide range of our key relationships, and help to drive income growth across our events programme, our publications and our digital platforms. But this role is not just about short-term income, it is about developing deeper and more meaningful long-term relationships that deliver value for our charitable work as well as supporting our partners. As well as supporting our fundraising, marketing and events teams, the role will work with our senior leaders to identify those who have a synergy with our cause.

About you

We are seeking an exceptional people-focussed candidate with a record of success in a fundraising, marketing or sales role. You will be an enthusiastic, motivated and positive individual and an excellent relationship builder but not solely focussed on quick wins, albeit able to see opportunities and make the most of them.
You do not necessarily need previous knowledge or experience of dyslexia or dyscalculia and their impact, but you will be a fast learner and quickly become passionate about our goals. As the charity moves into a new era, you will be at the heart of positive change.

To apply

Please view the Recruitment Pack for full details of this position. We invite applications with an up-to-date CV and cover letter explaining how your skills and experience match our requirements, and why you would like the role.

CLOSING DATE: 12 Noon, Monday 8th February 2021

Interviews will be conducted remotely, week commencing 15th February 2021

Please note: as we expect post Covid to have regular visits to our Bracknell office in Berkshire, applicants should live a reasonable distance, around 1-2 hours max travelling time.

We are looking for a passionate Support Services Officer to play a key role in offering support and information to women and their loved ones affected by cervical cancer, cervical cell changes and those with concerns or questions about the cervical screening or HPV vaccination programs. You will also be responsible for offering additional support through our Callback service and the day to day running of our Ask the Expert service providing online medical clarification. The ideal candidate will be self-motivating, and a clear communicator with strong supportive and multi-tasking skills

This is a full time, one year fixed term contract.

To apply for this role please send a CV and a covering letter to Debbie Shipley, Support Services Manager

Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for application:  5pm on the 29th January 2021

Interview date:  Friday 5th February 2021

Exciting new opportunity to be part of a dynamic team who are passionate about improving children's life chances through reading for pleasure. You will be managing and growing our wonderful team of volunteers, the backbone of what we do.

Please note: we will be interviewing throughout January, so apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. 

About Doorstep Library

Here at Doorstep Library we believe in the power of words to take you places. We are a not-for-profit community organisation dedicated to bringing the gift of books and the joy of reading into the homes of families who need our support. Our Home and Online Reading Volunteers go into homes in disadvantaged areas across London, to inspire a love of books, of stories and storytelling, and to instil a lifelong passion for reading.

Equipped with a reading stool and a supply of books, our volunteers are right on the doorstep,

ready to use books to fuel children’s natural love of stories, fire their imaginations, and encourage their appreciation of reading. Our goal is to help each child develop the self-confidence and essential skills they need to access all the opportunities that will come their way in life. Whether in person, or online, we are there to support children and families who need us most. 

The organisation has gone from strength to strength. Now in our 10th year we will shortly be expanding into our fourth London borough and launching our new Online Reading Corner – bringing our unique service to even more families. 

About the role

We are looking for a Volunteer Recruitment Officer to report to the Programme Manager. This full-time role will support the delivery of our Programmes strategy, working closely with the Project Coordinators and the Marketing team.

You will be truly passionate about the work that we do to support children and families in disadvantaged areas of London. As part of our expansion we are currently setting up new on-the-ground projects and launching our brand new online reading service. We are also in the process of launching a new website, which features a Family Resources area and a new members’ area for Volunteers. To enable us to meet the needs of more families we need to recruit new volunteers for both our Online and our Home Reading Volunteer services.

You will be a highly organised people-person, responsible for recruiting, training and managing the day-to-day needs of our growing team of volunteers. You will also work closely with the marketing team to monitor and manage our volunteer recruitment spaces, as well as overseeing broader communications with our volunteers.

You will bring excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire others about our work.  With outstanding interpersonal skills you will have the ability to forge new relationships and you’ll thrive on helping us to build a team of committed and passionate volunteers. 

It is also a requirement of this role that you become a weekly Doorstep Library Home and/or Online Reading Volunteer so that you can support the needs of our volunteers with an in-depth understanding of our volunteering process. (This will involve working until 7pm once a week during term-time.)

Please download the full Job Description and Application form, attached to this advert or on our website. 

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruitment Advertising Administrator to join our Recruitment team based in our friendly, busy Head Office near the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes’ walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for a graduate who has interest in developing a career in Recruitment for a not-for-profit organisation.

For this interesting and varied role you will be responsible for proofing and advertising recruitment focused job advertisements online, in addition to the production and review of associated job descriptions and interview question sets. Additionally, you will provide first class customer service to applicants and managers and will support the wider Recruitment department with other functions such as applicant queries.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work flexibly under pressure in order to meet deadlines. You will have proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel and will have a confident but polite telephone manner. Additionally you will have strong administration skills and an excellent standard of English to proof read text for inaccuracies and create high standard role specific texts.

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support. We are a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion organisation and holder of the Investors in People Silver Award.

Our range of employee benefits includes:

- Guaranteed Full Time Contracted Hours, 37.5 hours per week

- Free life assurance

- Pension with company contribution

- A range of employee discounts

This is a full time role over five days with occasional weekend shift support for our Out of Hours On-Call desk.

Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose.  To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

This is an exciting time to join the charity as we transition to our new ambitious strategy for 2021 – 2023 and increase our profile, impact and reach so more people can live a happy, connected and purposeful later life.

A key aspect in ensuring the success of our new strategy will be about how Independent Age recruits, engages and retains volunteers ensuring that their skills and passion play an increased role in ensuring that we all grow older well, with dignity, choice and purpose.

This post will provide effective volunteer recruitment, training and volunteer onboarding support across Independent Age, ensuring that volunteers have an excellent recruitment experience and commence in their roles feeling confident and inspired to support Independent Age.

The post will also support Independent Age’s national and local programme of UK wide volunteer recruitment, working closely with local Volunteer Coordinators and Wellbeing Project Officers (WPOs).

The ideal candidate will be a great communicator with a passion for volunteers and the difference they make. They will have excellent customer service experience and knowledge of recruiting and communicating with volunteers.

As well as a competitive salary we offer 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance, learning and development opportunities, season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, an employee assistance programme and a discount voucher scheme.

Please note that this role is currently home-based due to Covid19 restrictions.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion and creating an environment where we can ALL be ourselves

Please apply via the vacancies section of our website by uploading a covering letter letting us know how you meet the job role requirements as well as your CV.

A health charity based in London are looking for a HR & Recruitment Advisor. The post holder is responsible for providing a professional and effective human resource support for managers and staff in a portfolio of countries and provides advice to country management teams on local staff employment. This post holder is also responsible for reviewing and implementing HR policies & procedures, and for leading on specific HR projects and initiatives such as salary reviews, employee engagement surveys.
Key responsibilities
Contribute to the development of the charity's Human Resources strategy, annual plan, and global policies.

Advise, train and coach managers and staff on charity's HR policies, procedures and best people management practices in accordance with legal requirements

Monitor appraisals and advise Country Directors/Line Managers on performance management issues.

Carry out HR inductions and exit interviews for global roles within portfolio, identifying key trends and ensuring that other departments are aware of issues requiring improvement.

Contributes towards the creation of initiatives that promote staff engagement.

Lead on specific projects as directed by the HR Director

Manage the job evaluation process within portfolio; ensuring consistency of job titles and grades across the organisation

Support and advise HR Focal Points on recruitment activities and lead on national recruitments on those countries where there is no HR presence.
Keep updated with relevant new recruitment sources and propose improvements to processes and selection tools to ensure that the recruitment process meets current and future organisational needs.
Contribute to developing and implementing the consultant management policy and processes.

Person specification
Level 7 CIPD qualified or above or equivalent.
Work experience with INGO / NGO Sector
Strong experience of dealing with complex employee relations
Strong experience of developing and implementing HR policies, procedures, and projects.
Strong experience of managing and undertaking a high quality high volume recruitment process at a senior level.
Strong experience of providing a broad range of high quality HR policy advice (including disciplinary and grievance) to managers and staff.
Strong experience of dealing with complex employee relations issues in different countries.
Strong experience of developing and communicating HR management information.
Good experience of undertaking and supervising payroll

Closing Date: 21st December 2020

I am recruiting for one of our top Education clients based in the  London home counties, they are looking to recruit a Tax Manager on a permanent basis.  

Permanent position

£57,000 - £65,000

Reporting into the Head of Finance.

The post holder will lead the organisations’ strategic direction, planning and implementation of tax advantage positions fully compliant.

Main Duties:  

• Own and develop the organisations’ tax strategy.
• Investigate and implement tax structures/protocols for each jurisdiction.
• Establish modus operandum for tax services.
• Create a global network of tax advisors and processes to update, refresh inaugurate tax protocols in each jurisdiction and scan for new developments.
• Establishes and refreshes a tax strategy relevant for the organisation and its operations.
• Run framework and protocols to enable tax compliance in each jurisdiction including; income tax, sales tax and other taxes.
• Monitor tax compliance in each jurisdiction.
• Work in conjunction with legal team in advising on appropriate legal structures.
• Creates framework for working with business and other support functions on how and when to engage taxation services.

Qualifications:

• Qualified
• Practical experience of delivering solutions in different countries.
• Ability to interface effectively with tax and legal authorities across the world.
• Strong project management skills.

Prior Experience in the Not For Profit or Public Sector would be beneficial.

This is a great opportunity to join an organisation going through a period change and help the team develop, sharing with them your previous skills and experience to allow the Finance division to flourish.

I am recruiting for one of our top Education clients based in the  London home counties, they are looking to recruit a Tax Manager on a permanent basis.  

Permanent position

£65,000

Reporting into the Head of Finance.

The post holder will lead the organisations’ strategic direction, planning and implementation of tax advantage positions fully compliant.

Main Duties:  

• Own and develop the organisations’ tax strategy.
• Investigate and implement tax structures/protocols for each jurisdiction.
• Establish modus operandum for tax services.
• Create a global network of tax advisors and processes to update, refresh inaugurate tax protocols in each jurisdiction and scan for new developments.
• Establishes and refreshes a tax strategy relevant for the organisation and its operations.
• Run framework and protocols to enable tax compliance in each jurisdiction including; income tax, sales tax and other taxes.
• Monitor tax compliance in each jurisdiction.
• Work in conjunction with legal team in advising on appropriate legal structures.
• Creates framework for working with business and other support functions on how and when to engage taxation services.

Qualifications:

• Qualified
• Practical experience of delivering solutions in different countries.
• Ability to interface effectively with tax and legal authorities across the world.
• Strong project management skills.

Prior Experience in the Not For Profit or Public Sector would be beneficial.

This is a great opportunity to join an organisation going through a period change and help the team develop, sharing with them your previous skills and experience to allow the Finance division to flourish.

Citizens Advice Bedford (CAB) is recruiting for a Recruitment Coordinator to support the implementation and coordination of our volunteering programme. The successful candidate will work closely and collaboratively with both our Training Coordinator and CAB leadership team.
Volunteers are essential to CAB operations performing many advice deliverable roles to the public. Backed up by a staff team, our volunteers are incredible who give their time for free to help people in need. Advice volunteering can be demanding with a detailed and lengthy training package to complete.
Our whole volunteer programme starts with the position of Recruitment Coordinator - being personable and professional is critical, as is promoting and engaging with potential volunteers and external stakeholders by utilising digital channels, and traditional marketing routes encouraging high quality applicants.
You will be accountable for the recruitment process and outputs ensuring volunteers are scrutinised and suitably selected at which point you’ll recommend candidates to start training under the guidance of the Training Coordinator. As CAB operational requirements change, so will your output ensuring constant and effective contribution to our organisational demands.
Part of your role will be collecting valuable data that will be used to report on, adjust and refine our recruitment process ensuring maximum efficiency and identification of leakage points.

I am looking for an Emergency Response Officer to coordinate the day to day functions for one of the services for an amazing international humanitarian charity. You will deliver a wide range of activities within the area.
This post requires some evening work, being part of a regular 24-hour duty officer on- call rota and potential emergency response duties at any time throughout the year.

Main duties:
Support the delivery of the national and area plan.
To provide daily coordination of the service and overall support for the emergency response function including identifying improvements to our offer.
To be responsible for the achievement of local and team targets as part of the area and national plans.
To maintain an operationally ready rota of volunteers to support responses.
To carry out regular audits of equipment, vehicles, work wear, service consumables and ensure adequate supplies are delivered and stocks maintained and monitored.
Develop key stakeholder relationships and maintain positive relationships with external organisations.
Be the main liaison point for the post holder's assigned Local Resilience Forum.
To be a key liaison point with the post holder's assigned local authority emergency planning teams.
To be the main liaison point with the post's assigned local fire and rescue service.
Support service development and contracts.
Identify local changes and trends relevant to the delivery of existing and new services and act on these.
Service contracts are negotiated and managed, including the authority to sign-off on small contracts.
Provide event, incident and exercise administration, participate in exercises, and prepare and contribute to post event/incident reports.
Ensure quality and good performance management.
Effectively manage all ER Area resources and be responsible for the ER vehicles allocated to the role.
Ensuring the use of pertinent information to monitor and review service activity to determine resource allocation.
Maintenance and implementation of statistical records, and provision of operational reports as required and effective liaison with internal reporting teams.
To support the team to ensure that appropriate service standards, recognised good practice, legal and other requirements are met.
To coordinate and support emergency response volunteers to ensure all competency and quality requirements are met and the highest standard of service is provided.
To oversee recruitment, induction and training of new volunteers. Liaising effectively with internal business partners to meet these demands.
To provide supervision, support, leadership, inclusion and motivation to the volunteer teams.
To support and deputise for colleagues within the ER team as required.
Regularly act as Duty Manager, by way of a rota and respond to emergency callouts and major incidents as appropriate.

If you have the above skills and experience, please apply online today!

Sufra NW London is a Community Hub that provides a lifeline to people in crisis – including families living in extreme poverty and people who are vulnerable, homeless or socially isolated. We provide them with the food and support they need to survive, empower them to learn new skills and improve their wellbeing, and help them to find work and become financially stable.

Role Description

We are recruiting a temporary Communications Officer to cover a period of 9 months of maternity leave. This position will implement the charity’s communications strategy and support the Fundraising Manager. The post will work closely with senior staff to manage internal and external communications and marketing campaigns to raise the profile of the charity, engage new audiences and existing stakeholders, and generate income.

We are seeking a highly articulate and proactive individual with a flair for communications and 3 years’ experience in a similar communications role. The candidate will have excellent writing skills, be a confident communicator and an organised self-starter. You will have demonstrable experience of managing a diverse workload and being able to prioritise tasks and work under pressure. Graphic design skills would be desirable but not essential.

This is an immensely rewarding role working in a dynamic charity built on an ethos of sharing, hospitality, and inclusivity. We are looking for an exceptionally committed individual who is willing to go the extra mile and has flexibility to work during evenings and weekends when necessary. Through your activities, you will be able to convey the charity’s passion and commitment to supporting vulnerable people and demonstrate the impact of our interventions in transforming the lives of beneficiaries.

Flexible working hours/days are available to fit around childcare or other needs, including some home working.

To apply for this role, please submit the following by email:

1. A CV and a short Covering Letter that is no more than 2 pages long.
2. A completed Equal Opportunities Form, which can be downloaded here.
3. A completed Work Task, which includes the following piece of work:

Produce a Communications Plan to launch and drive a Winter Emergency Appeal for the charity. Please include a Press Release and a graphic design we could use on our website/social media pages. Note: The Work Task is not designed to test your understanding of the charity; it is to assess your writing, strategic and graphic design skills (graphic design skills are not essential for the role).

Deadline for applications Monday 1 February 2021

The trustees are wishing to appoint an experienced senior manager to lead the further development and establishment of The Joshua Tree as both a credible provider of quality support services to families impacted by childhood cancer and as the organisation of choice for affected families seeking a supportive environment throughout all the stages of their personal and difficult journey. The Joshua Tree is ideally placed to meet these needs having a beautiful and purpose-built resource centre in the heart of Cheshire completed in the early part of 2020 and a skilled, compassionate, and committed team of staff and volunteers. At the heart of its ethos is the desire to provide more than anything else a quality experience for beneficiaries for as long as they need it, and this drives everything that we do. 

At Plan International, we are proud to have built a strong global function, we are now looking to develop and strengthen our HRIS provision within the newly relaunched People and Culture team.   We aim to continue to ‘raise the bar’ to the new priorities of the organisation our function through ensuring that the people and culture team is focussed on supporting our global client groups to deliver on the aims of  our ‘100 Million Reasons’ strategy . 

In our HRIS Specialist we are looking for an experienced and qualified HRIS professional, who will work closely with the Operations Manager and the People and Culture team to continue to build and improve an exceptional human resource information system provision.   We need an individual to join us who has not only proven experience of supporting HRIS systems in a large matrix organisation but also a proactive approach and a drive to review and improve processes and functionality where possible.  You will work closely with the internal IT and application teams and your primary role is to understand, maintain and troubleshoot on the information system (Success Factors) from an HR utilisation perspective.  As well as bringing technical expertise in HR metrics, data analytics and an eye for detail,  you will be a strong communicator with good customer focus and the ability to liaise with a broad range of stakeholders across our global organisation.

This role has international reach and will act as the key People and Culture team point of contact for many different stakeholder groups across all levels of the organisation, from our UK Global Hub throughout our country offices. 

Some key deliverables: 

• Drive the use of Success Factors, Ingentis and TTS as the primary people data source across the business.
• Act as ‘go to’ person and subject matter expert in relation to HRIS matters and aid in improving training and communication.
• Partnering with strategic business partners to develop and maintain consistent dashboards and reports.
• Review and update HRIS priorities, plan and monitor current and future requirements for the organisation.
• Lead on potential innovation and continuous improvement through automation, process improvement and system enhancement.
• Provide expertise in use of reporting tool and developing reports, including taking data and translating into helpful insights, to improve data driven decisions.

Young People Development Officer

£15,913.50 per annum, pro rata

plus 7% Employers Pension Contribution

17.5 hours per week (full-time equivalent 35 hours)

initially funded until 31st March 2023

Can you motivate and inspire young people to become the best that they can be?

Interested in supporting young people to develop their essential life skills and gain new experiences?

Are you able to deliver exciting and innovative group activity sessions for young people?

If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, the Young People Development Officer role might be for you! 

The post holder will work with local young people, living in the Foxhill and Parson Cross neighbourhoods of Sheffield, to co-design, plan, develop and deliver exciting after-school activities based on local needs to support them to become positive and active citizens as they grow older. 

Activities and skills are likely to include growing and gardening, communication and teamwork, outdoor skills, problem solving and citizenship. The opportunities will support young people to develop valuable life skills and experiences through fun and engaging sessions. Young people will build up records of accomplishments and receive certificates of achievement.

On Saturday mornings, a Brunch Club will be delivered providing the opportunity for young people to prepare and cook a healthy breakfast or lunch, participate in arts & crafts and join in with sport and exercise. 

The post holder will record, monitor and evaluate young people’s activities, and the development made by each child & young person using project monitoring and tracking systems.