The High Trees’ Partnership team currently leads on the development of three Lambeth-based partnerships programmes in the areas of social and economic exclusion, youth development and community space. The Place for All (PFA) partnership, being one of them, is a collective of three Lambeth charities, working together to provide a multifaceted service for socially and economically excluded residents in Lambeth whilst strengthening and creating models of good practice for the voluntary and community sector. The partnership is comprised of High Trees Community Development Trust, The Baytree Centre and IRMO (Indoamerican Refugee & Migrant Organisation).

As the Place For All Partnerships Officer, you will sit within High Trees’ Partnerships and Development team, and you will be working with its Partnerships and Development Manager to implement PFA’s strategy for the year. Based primarily at High Trees, who are the lead partner for the partnership, part of your role will see you work across all three organisations throughout the week.

You will be working with residents and communities on a diverse range of projects and services, acting as the lynch pin between PFA’s delivery teams. Along the way, you will ensure the people we serve play an active and meaningful role in service delivery and are supported to access the wide range of provision available through the PFA partnership. You will maintain a collaborative approach across all PFA delivery areas, leading the facilitation of workshops to ensure that our service users feed into service design. You will be at ease working with and conducting outreach with people from a range of different backgrounds, many of whom are from traditionally hard to reach groups, but also at building close and productive relationships with others in the local community sector, facilitating and supporting referrals across PFA.

You will be skilled at project delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our funder’s requirements. You will work with the Partnerships and Development Manager on PFA communications – ensuring social media and copy publicity including production of articles and project updates is regularly provided for team specific and PFA-wide promotional material to allow the partnership to promote its services across the borough and beyond.
Your work across PFA will contribute to ensuring PFA’s innovative approach to community development meets its aims of providing the highest quality provision and continually striving to improve and expand its services as defined by the service users themselves.

An understanding and passion for community work and organising, strong relationship building skills and an ability build the voice and brand of PFA are essential to the role.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter (each no more than 2 pages) outlining why you are suitable for the role. If you meet the Essential requirements from the Job Pack but not the Desirable requirements, you should still apply.

Closing date: All applications must be received by the 2nd May 2021.

Please note . Interviews will be held on a rolling basis, so we advise you to apply as soon as possbile ..

Contract: 1-year fixed term contract with possibility for extension.

Choose Love seeks a Programmes Manager to support the organisation’s programmatic efforts, including grants management and donor reporting. 

About Choose Love

Our Vision: a world that chooses love and justice every day for everyone.

Our Mission: we do whatever it takes to identify, close and prevent gaps in services and protections for refugees and displaced people globally.

• Do work that inspires. Every day at Choose Love is an opportunity to make a real, tangible difference to the lives of refugees and displaced people. 

• Collaborate with creative, exciting people that really care. Work with friendly, smart, dedicated people for whom this is more than a job - it’s a passion. 

• Be part of a brave, innovative start-up spirit. We’re a young organisation with big ambition. We’re nimble, always learning and not afraid to take risks.

About the Job

This is a brand new role, creaetd tto work closely with the Head of Programmes. The Programmes Manager will be highly flexible and adaptive, able to jump in and out of projects as needed, with strong project management and highly effective administration skills. The Programmes Manager will report to the Head of Programmes.

Grant Administration (Grantees and Donors)

• Work closely with partners and our compliance team to track documentation needed for granting to partner organisations.

• Support development and maintain grants tracker tool to track grant start and end dates, reporting deadlines, etc.

• Draft Memorandum of Understandings between Choose Love and partner organisations.

• Gather paperwork from Choose Love Partners for due diligence and compliance. 

• Draft and edit grant documents from partners. 

• Maintaining the schedule for reporting to donors. 

• Narrative reporting to donors - capturing the work of our implementing partners.

• Support with developing proposals for donors to Choose Love.

Relationship Management 

• Support the Deputy CEO and Head of Programmes in ongoing relationship management of new and existing partners.

• Participate in partner calls and track key takeaways and action items to share internally.

• Lead on check-ins with existing, long-term partners.

• Respond to ad hoc needs arising from partners - including clarification/support on application process and support with reporting.

• Maintain up-to-date understanding of the needs of partners.

Internal Communications 

• Contribute to the flow about partner activities / asks to the rest of the team, including presentations on team calls and email updates to the team.

• Support the ELT with information to feed back to the board about Programmes work.

• Capture information on specific contexts and summarise quickly and efficiently to the Communications team, as well as for external stakeholders / funders.

Line Management

• Line managing Programmes Assistant 

About You: 

• Minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience (e.g. programme manager, grant manager, etc.); previous experience working with nonprofits strongly preferred. 

• Interested and engaged in the issues of forced migration and humanitarian response  strongly preferred. 

• Self-started with proven ability to take direction and work independently, using initiative.

• Excellent writing, editing, grammatical, and analytical skills.

• Strong drive and adaptability to work effectively across a broad range of cultural/geographic areas.

• Capable and willing to be flexible and move from one project to another as need dictates, with a focus on reactive or short term work.

• Proven ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple tasks while ensuring quality output.

• Acute attention to detail and able to juggle multiple projects. 

• Proven ability to oversee a wide portfolio of projects and to manage multiple competing deadlines.

• Ability and strong desire to work collaboratively.

The London Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is seeking to fill the following position:

Senior Procurement Assistant, G5, Temporary appointment (TA) Job Opening ID: 26338

Background information

Established in December 1950, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect and assist refugees and other persons of concern.

In the UK, UNHCR provides guidance on refugee and statelessness law and policy to the UK government, legal practitioners, non-governmental organizations and others. We are involved in coordinating UNHCR’s engagement with the Home Office to deliver protection to persons of concern through its resettlement programmes. The Office is also focused on working with the UK authorities to strengthen the integration of refugees in the UK. The Office’s work includes intervening in court proceedings, which are precedent-setting for the international protection of refugees, engagement with parliamentary bodies, including with respect to the development of legislation affecting persons of concern to UNHCR, and providing training on a range of issues to those working with asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons.

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

The Senior Procurement Assistant provides procurement support to all activities pertaining to the procurement function including planning, tendering, evaluation, award and contract administration within the area of responsibility (AoR).

The incumbent is supervised by a relevant higher-level position and receives regular guidance and instructions from the supervisor on successive steps. S/he works independently on routine tasks while follows instructions of the supervisor on more complex issues. The incumbent may have contacts on a working level on specific issues with other UNHCR offices, UN agencies, NGOs, government partners and commercial contractors in the area to facilitate performing the procurement function. The duty of the incumbent is to support procurement management within the geographical area covered while exercising efficiency in the use of those resources.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties:

• In compliance with procurement rules and procedures, support the related procurement activities to facilitate UNHCR end to end processes resulting in a timely and quality delivery of goods and services to persons of concern. 
• Apply UNHCR's sourcing & procurement strategy when planning and/or purchasing commodities and services.
• Examine purchase requisitions to ensure conformity and liaise with requesters when necessary.
• Prepare Requests for Quotation as well as formal tender documents.
• Actively support Evaluation Committees within the AoR.
• Produce bid tabulations and prepare Purchase Orders for approval.
• Dispatch approved Purchase Orders, and follow-up with the delivery of ordered commodities and services.
• Administer contracts and update vendor performance evaluation in coordination with the Contract Manager
• Provide information on all procurement activities within the AoR.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive records on procurement activities and provide reports and updates periodically, and on request. Compile statistical information on procurement related matters that will assist in decision making.

In the Country Operations

• Ensure local liaison to effectively support procurement activities.
• Assist in procurement management of goods and services according to UNHCR rules and regulations as well as country-specific SOPs;
• Assist in vendor evaluation and preparation of submissions to relevant CoCs.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Operational Context:

The Senior Procurement Assistant will report to the Admin Associate. The United Kingdom Country Office (CO) is located in London and works under the Regional Bureau for Europe.

The Country Office is moving into new premises. The incumbent will support the Admin Unit and act as first point of contact ensuring that all preparations are made in good time and the move is carried out efficiently.

In particular, the incumbent will liaise with suppliers, trades people and others to ensure that the fit out is carried out in accordance with agreed standards and UNHCR rules; and that the move of staff, goods, etc. to the new premises (located in the same building) is properly organized. The incumbent will also liaise with UNHCR’s own IT services to ensure that the infrastructure is in place.

The Senior Procurement Assistant will be assisting with the tendering and will need to be familiar or able to understand quickly UNHCR procurement and supply policy. They will also be responsible for ensuring adherence to budget and raising cost implications of the move to ongoing year on year costs. Experience with project management within an international organisation or charity would be a desirable asset.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education & Professional Work Experience

Years of Experience / Degree Level

For G5 - 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Fields of education:

N/A

Certificates and/or Licenses

Supply Chain, Procurement, Administration,

Economics, Law, Engineering

Relevant Job Experience:

Essential

Not specified.

Desirable

Not specified.

Functional Skills:

IT-Computer literacy

SC-PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management

SC-Supply Planning

SC-Customs clearance

SC-Logistics

SC-Warehouse Management

SC-Asset Management

SC-Fleet Management

Language Requirements

For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

Closing Date

The closing date for applications is 11pm BST 25/04/2021.

Additional Information

This position is a Temporary Appointment (TA) and the initial contract is for 3 months.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position, therefore you must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom to apply for this position. Applicants should state their right to work in their motivational letter.

Interested internal candidates should apply through MSRP - Self-Service - Recruiting Activities - Careers (please search by JO number 26338 or by Location). Please update your personal profiles with all required information in order to be able to apply.

Interested external applicants are also invited to apply online and complete the mandatory motivation letter. External vacancies are posted on the external UNHCR website and applicants who do not have internal status must apply through the external UNHCR website using the yellow apply button at the top of this advert. Please go to this website and follow: Careers - Career opportunities - Other Opportunities - Vacancies and search by Job Opening number 26338.

Not signed, incomplete and late applications will not be accepted.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend an interview via Teams. UNHCR does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing or any other fees).

UNHCR strongly encourages qualified female applicants to apply. UNHCR seeks to ensure that male and female employees are given equal career opportunities. UNHCR is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms gender, disability, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.

Salary: starting from £29,732 (Income Tax-free - subjected to National Insurance contributions ONLY) depending on experience.

The position is in London. There is some will be some expectation to be onsite, due to the nature of the work. Therefore, some flexibility will be required as the office transitions from working at home to returning to the office.

SALARY: £35,949 to £39,462

(New employees would normally start at the bottom of the grade. We might consider a market supplement if needed to secure the right candidate)

Closing: May 12, 2021

Location: London

Contract type: Permanent

The Refugee Council was established in 1951 and has been helping asylum seekers and refugees in the UK ever since with a range of expert and holistic services. We also work within the wider refugee movement and through our advocacy work push for wider changes on asylum systems to the benefit of refugees both here and abroad.

In recent years, the Refugee Council has grown both in size and in the number and complexity of its funding streams. Our funding comes from a range of sources including EC grant funding, central government grants and contracts, voluntary income from trusts and foundations, individual giving, and some business and commercial income. Each of these funding streams carries specific funding characteristics, which in turn affect our project design. This post sits within the business partnering team which supports the provision of strategic leadership on the setting and successful delivery of funding strategies to sustainably fund our core service and advocacy activity. This new post has been created specifically to add capacity to the finance team in these areas.

The post holder will work under a Business Partnering Senior – Projects Finance Manager and be allocated as finance support and business partner to several of our key departments. You will work closely with budget holders in services, with income generation (fundraising), and the wider organisation on the financial aspects of externally funded projects.

The key purpose of your work will be to provide budgeting support for external funding bids, help budget holders to monitor and manage funding to achieve maximum impact for our clients, and to ensure accountability for the funding in the form of prompt and accurate funder reporting and financial accounting. You will also be involved in providing ad hoc financial analysis in support of service specific and organisational wide needs.

This is an exciting time to join the Refugee Council, and this is by no means a regular accountant post. The finance team has fostered a positive and collaborative working environment with the rest of the organisation, underpinned by a thorough understanding of our services and how they make a difference for our clients. We expect this post holder to build upon and develop the quality of our work, suggesting and implementing improvements to both financial and organisational systems. It is a post in which you can make a real contribution to the charity, and so help to make a difference to the lives of refugees.

As a flexible finance team in a changing organisation, the Project Accountant can also expect to assist other members of the team as required, including in the provision of management and financial accounting services to the charity; in transaction processing; and in general administrative responsibilities for the team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Management Accounting, Budgeting & Monitoring

• To support budget holders in the financial management of services by helping them to monitor actuals against budgets, service plans and forecasts. To liaise with managers to address any issues and suggest options to mitigate any variations from resourcing plans.
• To produce and maintain multi-year financial projections for service areas and funding streams, including assisting service managers with the production of annual budgets and in-year forecasts.
• To meet formally on a quarterly basis with service managers to review actual expenditure and consider reforecasts required for the year.
• To review the allocations of shared costs to projects to ensure costs are appropriately charged to funding streams.
• To produce management commentaries for the Head of Finance for inclusion within the monthly Management Accounts, identifying and investigating variances and trends that need to be reported to senior management.
• To use spreadsheets and the finance system to enter and maintain approved budgets and reforecasts, process year-end accruals and prepayments, and to create and post corrective journal entries as required for correct management and financial accounting.
• To provide friendly and expert support to service staff on a range of financial topics.
• To play an active part in the organisational budget planning cycle, both annual and longer term.

Funder Planning and Reporting

• To work with service managers and the income generation team on funding applications for a range of funders including central and local government, trusts, and individual donors. In particular, to work with service managers on the production of realistic and complete budgets aligned to the activities planned, within any criteria set by the funder.
• To review grant agreements and contracts ensuring requirements can be and are met by the organisation.
• To advise the Head of Finance, Director of Finance and Director of Services on the financial and resource implications of bids and related contractual agreements.
• To maintain mapping of funder accounting requirements to Refugee Council standard financial reporting.
• To produce the financial information required for donor reporting, and work with service managers to ensure that narrative reports to funders are consistent with financial reporting.
• To work alongside service managers and the income generation team on the monitoring and management of grant activity and spend, including identifying reasons for variances and helping to identify options for dealing with them.
• To work with the Business Partnering Senior – PFM, service managers and the income generation team to highlight areas and gaps in services which will need funding and to work closely with those teams on routes and strategies for securing funding.
• To maintain oversight of the overall financial position of service areas and support the Income Generation team where they need to look at adjustment to fundraising plans.
• To work with the Business Partnering Senior – PFM, other finance team members, and the wider organisation, on the development and standardisation of grant budgeting, bidding, monitoring, and reporting processes.

General

• To act as an expert ‘critical friend’ to services and the organisation, ensuring services are run to the maximum benefit of our clients whilst conscious of the overall financial parameters of the charity and of financial accountability.
• To identify and implement continuous improvement in finance processes, controls and services, in particular where these relate to projects and funding bids, and to negotiate with senior management on best practice in financial processes.
• To respond to all correspondence (email, telephone, post, fax etc) from staff, volunteers, funders, and other finance users on a timely basis, providing high quality customer service; to escalate more complex queries to the Business Partnering Senior – PFM as necessary.
• To attend key meetings internally in particular with budget holders, fundraising staff, and senior management; to build links with other teams to ensure a comprehensive service to all finance users.
• To attend key meetings externally with funders as required representing the Refugee Council and its financial interests.
• To share in general administrative support responsibilities for the team, including post opening, purchasing, records management including scanning, filing and archiving, procedures manual and standard form updates.
• To help cover the work of other team members as necessary.

Additional Information

Health & Safety

The post holder is responsible for:

Cooperating with the Refugee Council in delivering all legal responsibilities in respect of your own and your colleagues, volunteers, clients and others health and safety whilst at work.

Becoming familiar with the Refugee Council’s Health & Safety Policy and procedures including evacuation procedures in the workplace.

Carrying out risk assessments for their work and especially their own workstation to ensure that they or others are not exposed to unnecessary risk.

Flexibility

In order to deliver services effectively, a degree of flexibility is needed and the post-holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties will, however, fall within the scope of the job, at the appropriate grade. The job description will be subject to periodic review with the post-holder to ensure it accurately reflects the duties of the job.

Equal Opportunities Statement

As part of its recruitment policy, the Refugee Council intends to ensure that no prospective or actual employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, class, disability, age, religious belief or political persuasion, or is disadvantaged by any condition or requirement which is not demonstrably justifiable.

Working at the Refugee Council

A commitment to the values of the Refugee Council.

Personal Effectiveness

With the support of their manager, the post-holder will need to effectively manage their own workload and medium and long-term plans and objectives.

Flexible Working

This job is not suitable for job sharing.

This job is suitable for a mix of home and onsite working subject to agreement. Attendance at regular onsite meetings in Stratford is an expectation, as is more occasional attendance at meetings in the Refugee Council’s other offices including nationally.

To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Campaigns and Communications Officer

Salary: £27-29k + NI + 4% Pension contributions (pro-rata)

Hours: 21/week

We are looking to hire a dedicated Campaigns and Communications Officer to join our team. The Campaigns and Communications Officer will work closely with the Campaigns and Fundraising Manager to deliver our Communications and Campaigns Strategy and empower our clients to campaign on issues affecting them and input into the development of LRMN services.

Please refer to the job description and person specification. To apply, please complete our online application form on our website.

We are currently working from home but will move to a mix of home working and office working when restrictions allow.

If you do not hear from us within 6 weeks after the closing date, please assume that we are not taking your application any further.

LRMN is an equal opportunity employer and committed to safeguarding and fulfilling its duty of care to people working and volunteering in the organisation and to those we come into contact with.

Deadline: 9pm 16th May 2021

Interviews: Afternoon of 24th May 2021

Closing: May 2, 2021

Location: Stratford, London

Salary: £30,078

Contract type: Fixed term until mid-June 2022

Contact name: Andrew Lawton

The Refugee Council is one of the leading organisations in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees. Our operational teams based in various locations in England provide advice and assistance across a wide range of issues, including helping asylum seekers through the complexities of the asylum system, addressing issues of destitution, and assisting refugees and asylum seekers to access key services including housing, welfare benefits, health, education, and employment.

This role works with, and provides important support to, front line services supporting refugees and asylums services.

In part, the role is responsible for the recruitment, training and support of volunteers working in within our teams. The post will also have a remit for ensuring we continue to meet the high standards detailed within Investing in Volunteers UK Quality Award.

This role also provides important wraparound support to services and has a focus on quality, service management and stakeholder engagement. It is anticipated that the role will have: a quality role in helping services to reflect on delivery, accessibility, and feedback; a management role in freeing up services to focus on delivery by providing infrastructural support e.g. managing interpreters, etc; and an engagement focus in reviewing how service users are engaged in the design and delivery of our services.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, must be declared at the application stage. An offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check. Repeat checks are initiated every two years.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

 Volunteering

• To oversee and manage the volunteering programme within Integration and Therapeutic Services.
• To ensure we are providing information about the work of the Refugee Council to potential volunteers and to maintain regular contact with refugee community and other organisations which might provide a potential source of volunteers for the Refugee Council.
• To work with the managers and advisers within the Section to identify the potential need for volunteers and the necessary skills required.
• To be responsible for the recruitment, induction, and training of volunteers so that they can be deployed and matched effectively within the refugee projects who can support them in day-to-day and operational issues.
• To ensure that volunteers are valued and supported in their engagement with the Refugee Council, and to ensure that volunteers are engaged in various roles and in such ways as to ensure compatibility with the organisational principles on volunteering.
• In conjunction with services managers, to develop volunteering within services. This includes specifying work programmes and tasks for volunteers, developing volunteer recruitment and retention management procedures.
• To involve volunteers in the delivery of services wherever possible and to work with them to ensure their views on the delivery of services is taken into consideration.
• To work with managers, advisers, and other project staff to ensure that volunteer performance is evaluated, and that regular feedback is provided to volunteers.
• To promote volunteering (internally and externally) through recruitment and publicity strategies.
• To ensure all potential volunteers are DBS checked and renewed regularly in conjunction with HR.
• To develop and maintain contact with other agencies with a view to maximising volunteer opportunities, and to explore opportunities to develop their skills and recognise their contribution.
• To maintain appropriate records relating to volunteers, in order that volunteers can access references from the Refugee Council.
• To monitor volunteer satisfaction and the support offered to them.
• To assist the budget holder in processing volunteer expenses and related payments.
• To support the organisation in maintaining our Investors in Volunteers UK quality standard by ensuring the appropriate policy and procedures are in place and followed.

Service support and client engagement

• To be responsible for providing operational support to Integration Services so that front line services can be more effective in their support for clients.
• To manage a number of administrative staff whose role it is to support service delivery.
• To take responsibility for the co-ordination of a variety of service support areas such as: use of interpreters, staff and volunteer training, reporting, inform and other areas where there’s an opportunity to support service to run more effectively.
• To have a focus on quality and continuous improvement throughout our services using mechanisms such as client and stakeholder feedback.
• To ensure our clients are engaged and have an opportunity to influence and shape the work we do the services we deliver.

Additional Information

Health & Safety

The post-holder is responsible for:

Cooperating with the Refugee Council in delivering all legal responsibilities in respect of your own and your colleagues, volunteers, clients and others health and safety whilst at work.

Becoming familiar with the Refugee Council’s Health & Safety Policy and procedures including evacuation procedures at your workplace.

Carrying out risk assessments of your own work and especially of your own workstation to ensure that you do not expose yourself or others to unnecessary risk.

Flexibility

In order to deliver services effectively, a degree of flexibility is needed and the post-holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties will, however, fall within the scope of the job, at the appropriate grade. The job description will be subject to periodic review with the post-holder to ensure it accurately reflects the duties of the job.

Equal Opportunities Statement

As part of its recruitment policy, the Refugee Council intends to ensure that no prospective or actual employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, class, disability, age, religious belief or political persuasion, or is disadvantaged by any condition or requirement which is not demonstrably justifiable.

Working at the Refugee Council

A commitment to the work and the Mission and Values of the Refugee Council.

Flexible Working

There is flexibility for this job to be occasionally carried from home where the line manager agrees in advance.

To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.

Finance Manager

£35k - 37k + NI + 4% pension contributions (pro rata)

14 hours per week

We’re looking for an experienced finance manager to lead our finance team in a new role for LRMN. You will join the leadership team and support the CEO to set the finance strategy.

LRMN is a thriving organisation and one of the most established refugee and migrants’ organisations providing services in London but focusing on south and southeast London boroughs. Our services include provision of specialist legal advice and information on immigration, housing and welfare, therapeutic and practical support to women who survived gender based violence, helping our service users access employment, training and volunteering opportunities, prevention of mental health problems, and helping our clients integrate and engage in their community.

You will have day to day responsibility for the organisation’s finances, working with colleagues to set and manage budgets, maintain accurate financial records and ensure all financial and compliance requirements are met.

With a relevant accounting background and/or qualification you will have an excellent understanding of, and experience of, financial planning. You will be organised with a high level of attention to detail.

We are currently working from home but will move to a mix of home working and office working when restrictions allow.

LRMN is an equal opportunity employer and committed to safeguarding and fulfilling its duty of care to people working and volunteering in the organisation and to those we come into contact with.

To apply, please find the job description, person specification and link to the application form on our website.

Deadline: 9pm 16th May 2021

Interviews: Week beginning 24th May 2021

The Islington BAMER Advice Alliance (IBAA) is a refugee and migrant-led partnership organisation at the forefront of delivering Advice and support services to BAMER Communities in Islington.  The IBAA is passionate about the values of gender equality, cultural diversity, community leadership and creating a step change towards more inclusive services for refugee and migrant clients. 

We are looking for an energetic, dedicated and organised Advice Services Co-ordinator who is highly passionate in working with BAMER organisations and other mainstream organisations.

Migrants Organise's Community Programme provides practical support, advocacy and training for refugees and migrants. We support about 500 individuals and their families per year. Our holistic approach includes advice services, group-work and mentoring with a particular focus on supporting vulnerable refugees and migrants. 

We provide casework support including advice on housing, welfare benefits, community care, education, asylum support, immigration and employment. Migrants Organise is OISC registered and we work with an immigration barrister who provides weekly immigration advice sessions to our members. 

We are looking for someone with experience of working with refugees or other vulnerable groups, and a strong commitment to equality, human rights and justice. A sound understanding of mental health problems – be that through personal experience, or previous job role – is highly desirable. 

Migrants Organise is an equal opportunities employer. We strongly encourage people with the personal experience of migration and/or a refugee background to apply for this post. If you would like to discuss further or would like to talk through the role before applying, please contact us directly (details in the job application).

About The Hilden Charitable Fund

The Hilden Charitable Fund is dedicated to funding community groups to work with asylum seekers and refugees, disadvantaged young people, penal affairs, homelessness and small projects in developing countries. The fund is committed to social justice and focusses its funding on grassroots organisations, which make a big difference at the community level.
As we begin the journey into a post-Covid and post-Brexit country the Fund approaches its 60th anniversary and there will undoubtedly be challenges and opportunities to be faced. So, we are now seeking a Director who will work closely with the Trustees to help shape and develop the Fund going forward.

A high impact, hands-on role, with scope for creativity and innovation!
The opportunities for the Director to make a real contribution are manifold, including:

• Working with the Board to develop strategies, plans and ways of working for the future, including supporting the trustees to set grant making policies.
• Managing the grant making process, including assessing applications for funding and presenting them to the trustees at quarterly meetings.
• Engaging with grassroots voluntary organisations in a period of major change.
• Building on our collaboration with the community and voluntary sector, other funders, and networks such as ACF and IVAR, enhancing Hilden’s profile and enabling its involvement in innovation.

About you

The Director could come from a range of relevant backgrounds and be someone who is ready to lead a small organisation for the first time, or who already has experience of being a Director. Whatever your background we should be delighted to hear from you, especially if you have a strong track record of:

• Voluntary sector experience at grassroots level and knowledge and understanding of grant making,
• Managing in a collaborative environment, and
• Relationship building and networking.

We value and respect all the differences that make us who we are, including: age, cultural background, disability and mental health, ethnicity and race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and social background.

This is a great opportunity to work at the forefront of one of the most pressing human rights issues. The successful candidate will shape the way stateless people are being involved in our work and help us develop and deliver new ways of raising awareness and galvanising action to end statelessness.

We are looking for someone with a strong track record in community engagement (including working with minority, migrant, refugee and/or stateless communities), online communications and campaigning to affect change on hard-to-win issues.

The European Network on Statelessness is a dynamic human rights organisation working to address statelessness through its network of over 160 members in 41 European countries. We are committed to ending statelessness and ensuring that everyone living in Europe without a nationality can access the rights they are entitled to under international law.

Community Coordinator

ECHO is seeking a new community-building superstar to join our small but hardworking charity supporting children and young people with heart conditions and their families.

You will play a major role in developing a new community forum on the ECHO website, reaching out to families and professionals across the paediatric cardiology community.

You will act as a link between parents, medical professionals and information providers and be of assistance to them all.

The day-to-day job of Community Coordinator will be to build and improve the way parents/carers can ask questions, find information, and get support from the moment of diagnosis right through to adulthood.

This job will suit someone who wants to make a difference to families, someone who understands the value of high quality and reliable information and someone who can take the time to make someone else smile.

The Job Description gives you an idea of what we are looking for - what we would love is someone who can bring ideas and see them through to delivery on a small budget and in a small team. Someone who values volunteers and who can get things done.

Setting up a new online forum might not be easy, we have some technical support, but you will work with volunteers and partners to get it working and moderated safely, within necessary guidelines and policies. When monitoring and replying to forum posts, you will need to be knowledgeable and professional in your signposting ability.

Much of your work will be online but some will be face to face meeting parents, children, doctors, psychologists, administrators, and charity professionals - you will need to be open-minded and have a positive attitude.

Supporting families as they experience their heart journey can be tough; we support you with a fun and friendly team, regular wellbeing activities and monthly external supervision. As a thank you we gift staff some extra holiday days, and we encourage personal development and training.

We are a small team, there may at times be a need for help with a children’s party, a fundraising letter to a company or presenting to a medical team about the work we do. Our work is based mainly from the ECHO office, but we are flexible and ad-hoc travel to events and activities will be necessary.

ECHO seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious belief, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. ECHO welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK. ECHO will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job function if appointed to the role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week.

Salary: £27,000 (pro-rata)

Contract: 12 months (potential to extend, based on funding)

Application process: through Charity Job website only

Closing date: 10am Friday 14th May

Interviews: 8/9th June 2021

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence.

We aim to ensure that we are proactive in developing specialist services that meet the needs of all the women and girls who access our services. We seek Specialist Counsellors who will thrive in a multi-cultural feminist environment. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience of working with one or more of the following:

• Women and girls from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) communities - ensuring that issues related to diversity and identity are effectively understood and sensitively worked with.
• Women and girls who have experienced harmful practices.
• Women and girls with learning disabilities.
• Creative solutions in working with survivors of gender-based violence that are affected by problematic substance use and mental ill health. 
• And / or from applicants who speak various community languages.

Applicants must be BACP, UKCP or HCPC accredited (or eligible) and have experience of providing a range of counselling interventions for women who have experienced gender-based violence. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies. Facilitating recovery and responding to a diverse client group with multiple cultural identities.

We will be offering a minimum of 14 hours a week which will be dependent on the skills set of the successful candidates.

WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme. We also offer excellent training and development opportunities and successful candidates will receive regular individual supervision as well as an on-going CPD programme in a supportive multi-cultural feminist organisation.

Please visit our website to download an application pack. Completed applications should be emailed to Human Resources

Applications deadline: 10am on Wednesday 19th May 2021.

Interviews: Due to be held via Zoom on Tuesday 1st June 2021. 

Applicants who are successful at interview will be required to attend 5 days of WGN Induction training – due to be held on 8th, 9th, 17th and 18th June 2021 (with fifth date to be confirmed).

Please note: Applicants who have not received a response to their application within 2 weeks of the closing date should assume their application has not been successful on this occasion.

These posts are subject to satisfactory references and a DBS Check.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer.

The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 and Part 1

Position: Environment, Conservation and Human Rights Leadership Internship

Based:  EJF office in London

Contract: Full-time, 6-month internship

Salary:  £24,000

Background

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) works to Protect People and Planet.

We believe environmental security is a human right.

EJF investigates and campaigns to protect our natural world, and with it, the communities most dependent upon it. We work at the grassroots, with environmental and human rights activists who are working to expose threats to the local environment and to build sustainable futures. Our investigations and the evidence we gather are presented to the very highest levels of decision taking, amongst policy makers in governments and private industry and to opinion formers including international media and the wider public. EJF works to end illegal fishing and the use of slavery in fisheries, protect our global climate and defend climate refugees, and eradicate the use of hazardous chemical pesticides.

Registered charity no. 1088128

Internship overview

This internship is specifically and exclusively designed for BAME individuals in the UK, with the intention of giving future leaders a step up and into the environment, conservation and human-rights professional community. 

We are doing this in recognition that within this sector - and particularly across conservation and environment - there is a significant underrepresentation of the BAME community in leadership positions. This is neither acceptable nor wise, the sector's ability to leverage change is diminished by this absence and is tarnished by its failure to act on it. 

EJF is therefore initiating a pilot project to recruit and mentor a member of the BAME community, early in their career (within three years of graduating with a first or second degree) within this paid internship "Environment, Conservation and Human Rights Leadership". 

The internship will be for six months and be paid at a rate of £24,000 pro rata.

The internship will deliberately focus on leadership development to support the intern on the path to sit at the top of organisations - this will build and accelerate positive change. 

A live programme of work has been developed for the intern to deliver specific outputs, geared toward outcomes where they can learn "real-world" marketable skills and experience that will help them work their way into senior positions in the sector, being able to demonstrate that they have worked with highly experienced, senior figures in a leading international environmental and human rights organisation. 

Plan

Section 1 (months 1 - 3)

1.Communications

2.Research

3.Policy

Section 2 (months 3-6)

4.Finance and budgeting

5.Investigations and film

6.   Strategic and tactical decision taking

S/he will be guided through two, three-month sessions, running concurrently in two blocks over the six months, in the order listed above. S/he will report to the senior management lead on each subject and report to the CEO monthly on activities, progress, learning and obstacles. 

Closing date for applications:  21 May 2021 at 5pm

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.

EJF is an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity within the workplace.