The East London Refugee Resettlement Support Team is a new team, working with newly arrived families from Afghanistan in the London borough of Newham. 

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

As the post-holder, you will work as part of a small team to provide intensive resettlement and integration support to a caseload of families of various sizes. You will be responsible for undertaking assessments, identifying the families’ strengths and needs, as well as potential barriers to integration within their local community, and ways of overcoming these.

You will work in partnership with other agencies and professionals to achieve sustainable outcomes for the families and support them towards independence in all areas of their lives.

The ideal candidate will have experience of resettling newly arrived individuals or families in the UK in a community setting. Additionally, you will have good knowledge and understanding of community and statutory services, including Mental Health Teams, Social Services, Education, Health and voluntary services, as well as good knowledge of the Benefits System. 

We are seeking an individual who is highly motivated, compassionate and able to work both independently and as part of a multi-agency team. You will also have demonstrable cultural awareness and understanding of some of the issues that can arise when working with families resettled in the UK.  The ability to speak the languages, Arabic, Dari or Pashto would be desirable but not essential.

Closing date: 26th December 2021 (at Midnight)

Interview date: 18th January 2022

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.   

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six months.
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.  We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited.

CARAS

• £28,050 per year 
• 1 year contract, Full-time 

Note: a significant proportion of this role is working with groups that are limited to female-identifying members. As such, the post is restricted to female-identifying applicants under schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. 

Job description 

About the organisation 

CARAS is a registered charity working with people in South London and beyond who have an asylum or refugee background. Our values are: 

• Kindness. CARAS will nurture all who are part of our community, helping everyone to develop their skills, talents and interests.   

• Justice. CARAS will strive for social justice following a rights-based approach in all of our work and challenging instances when rights are not upheld in wider society.   

• Empowerment. CARAS works alongside people, recognising and respecting their skills and strengths and striving together for better outcomes.   

• ‘With’ not ‘for’. CARAS will put the voices, opinions, experiences and needs of its beneficiaries at the heart of all that we do.   

CARAS strives to keep community member voices at the heart of all decision making, building opportunities for discussion and feedback at every level. We offer training and support for community members who want to gain leadership skills and contribute to the running of CARAS.  Our work is award winning: we won The President’s Award at the 2021 Festival of Learning, and we hold a Gold quality mark from London Youth. We are in the process of gaining an Investing in Volunteers quality mark. 

CARAS is a community that celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from individuals from all walks of life, particularly including individuals who have lived experience of forced migration.

 About Adult Inclusion at CARAS 

CARAS offers holistic support to refugees and people seeking asylum.

For many years, we have run groups to support asylum seeking and refugee young people, developing a thriving community with people who might otherwise experience isolation and exclusion from their new communities. Our local refugee community is made up of new arrivals and longer-term residents, all of whom experience varying levels of disadvantage as a result of their forced migration experience, as well as systemic challenges that are built into life in London.

COVID has posed unprecedented challenges to asylum seekers and refugees in London, shifting the needs of the communities that we work with. As a result, we have expanded our work with adults dramatically to support male and female-identifying asylum seekers who have recently arrived in the UK. Many of these adults have arrived alone in the UK, and face protracted periods of accommodation in temporary accommodation across South London. CARAS provides a diverse array of programming to meet the holistic needs of our community members, sparking joy and helping people feel welcome in the local community. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our volunteer team and partner organisations, we have built a strong offer throughout the pandemic which is delivered both face-to-face and online. We are hoping to expand on this work over the next year. 

CARAS is a thriving organisation with a highly motivated, friendly and experienced staff team, bolstered by the generous support of equally skilled volunteers and trustees who come from many walks of life. The successful candidate will be working within the Adult Integration team, line managed by the Head of Service. They will find peers within our youth service, casework, and learning teams. As part of their role, they will work with a range of stakeholders and will be able to input into work across the organisation, develop partnerships, welcome volunteers, and of course, be welcomed and supported by us all. 

Additional benefits 

CARAS offers 28 days’ annual leave per year. Additionally, all staff are gifted additional time off bridging the Christmas and New Year period. CARAS also pays into a workplace pension with employers’ contributions currently at 4%. We are a proud member of the Living Wage Foundation, ensuring that all employees at every level are remunerated fairly. We are members of the Bike2Work scheme. 

All front-line staff are offered monthly clinical supervision with a qualified and experienced psychologist, allowing for exploration within a confidential space of challenges that arise, and for mitigation of vicarious harm. All staff also have the option of making use of an Employee Assistance Programme which offers 24 hour a day access to qualified counsellors who can support with any aspect of a person’s life. 

About the role 

The main purpose of this role will be to oversee the day-to-day running of online classes and face-to-face sessions for adults. This role involves working closely with colleagues, volunteers and partner organisations to offer a wide range of activities to community members, encouraging them to attend the sessions and to ensure their safety during the sessions.

Whilst this work will be responsible for running programs for both male and female-identifying community members, the Adult Program Coordinator will be responsible for working with CARAS’s women’s group extensively, building meaningful and supportive relationships and creating new avenues for leadership and skills development. Because of this, we are seeking a female-identifying candidate who has experience creating safe and welcoming spaces for women. 

We live by our values, and empowerment will lie at the heart of this role. The successful candidate will embed community voices throughout their work, and will build upon the rich diversity and skill sets of our community members to help them build lives filled with value, meaning and purpose.

You will be supported through regular line management and clinical supervision, working alongside colleagues from our welcoming and supportive  team. There are opportunities to access relevant training for this role. 

This full-time role (5 days / 35 hours per week) is offered as a one-year fixed-term contract.

The successful candidate will need to be able to work in Tooting and the South London area. Please note this role will involve some evening and weekend work. 

Main activities 

• Ensuring high quality provision across all adult sessions (online and face to face), creating welcoming, kind and compassionate spaces. 

• Supporting the emotional needs of individuals, building confidence and identifying resilience activities. 

• Ensuring that community members voices are at heart of planning, delivery and evaluation of the programme. 

• Liaising with stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of service. 

• Ensuring that community member’s skills, talents and contributions are recognised and rewarded. 

• Overseeing the practicalities of resourcing sessions, taking a cautious approach to the safe implementation of government guidance on protective measures during the coronavirus outbreak. 

• Managing participation in the sessions, communicating community members about sessions. 

• Building and managing a team of volunteers, including recruitment, induction, supervision and training. 

• Writing and adhering to project plans and assessing risk. 

• Adhering to project budgets. 

• Liaising with partner organisations to offer a wide range of activities and services to adult community members, both through building partnership programs and by effectively signposting diverse programs offered by partners. 

• Conducting intake assessments with new community members. 

• Participating in referral, team and other meetings as required. 

• Monitoring and evaluation. 

• Grant reporting. 

• Ensuring that all safeguarding concerns are reported to the safeguarding lead. 

• Working collaboratively with other staff members within the adult and wider CARAS team. 

 Person specification 

Essential criteria: 

• experience in project management, including  working with volunteers 

• experience creating warm, safe and welcoming spaces

• a creative and participatory approach to service delivery, working with not for individuals. 

• ability to communicate clearly with people from diverse backgrounds, both face-to-face and digitally 

• ability to motivate and engage people, listening to others and working in a non-judgemental way that develops trust 

• experience participating in or running women’s groups 

• a strong understanding of the gendered experiences of forced migration 

• committed to learning and adapting 

• good organisation and administrative skills 

• a good understanding of safeguarding procedures, including working online 
   

Desirable criteria: 

• experience or knowledge of issues facing refugee and asylum-seeker groups 

• experience of working with adult or youth refugee and asylum-seeking groups 

• knowledge of one or more community languages (including but not limited to Arabic,  Somali, Tigrinya, Amharic, Pashto, Dari, Farsi and Kurdish) 

• experience of working in partnership with other organisations 

• experience of working in community groups or the third sector 

• familiarity with common Data Management Systems (for recording purposes). 

We are interested in people who show a strong interest in CARAS’ work, can demonstrate that they share our values and hold the voices of community members at the heart of their work. Examples taken from voluntary roles or from lived experience will carry as much weight as those taken from employment history. 

Please submit your completed application form by 9am January 3rd  2022. 

Interviews will take place on the 12th January 2022.

Please note we may extend the submission deadline and interview dates depending on volume of applications. 

Send your completed application form by email to the address on the form. 

Please submit it as a word document.

Note that we do not accept CV and covering letters. You must include everything on the application form. 

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.

Salary: Salary: £28,799 full time per annum – pro rata including ILW for 21 hours per week

Fixed team basis contract - 9 months

Full-time, 35 hours per week with flexible working options

This is an exciting time for Refugee Action. Our front-line services benefitted over 5,000 people last year. Our campaigns and good practice teams are achieving systemic change. The vision that drives us is that refugees and people seeking asylum will be welcome in the UK, will get justice, live free of poverty and be able to successfully rebuild their lives. Our safeguarding work aims to be a central part of all our interactions to ensure we keep client safety at the heart of everything we do through advocacy, referrals and increasing knowledge.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced safeguarding professional to work in a supportive culture that values collaboration, diversity, and empowerment. Reporting directly to the Head of Services and Safeguarding, you will:

Manage and implement the safeguarding strategy at Refugee Action; working with a network of Designated Safeguarding Officers to ensure safety and best practice for all clients, staff and volunteers across the organisation.

Have the ability to make key decisions independently at the same time as ensuring excellence in working collaboratively with colleagues across the whole organisation. You will help to develop confidence and knowledge across the organisation and will take the lead on all planning, development and training of staff and volunteers in relation to arising safeguarding need.

Ensure that an open and supportive culture of safeguarding is prevalent across the whole organisation through awareness raising and signposting to relevant resources. Ensure appropriate interventions are made for individuals and families to improve outcomes for our beneficiaries.

Ensure accurate recording and feedback of safeguarding information to enable organisational understanding of the safeguarding challenges facing our clients and any learning we can take forward.

Along with the above, you will also have:

• An understanding of the experiences and barriers facing people seeking asylum, newly granted refugees and vulnerable migrants who may be in need of the support of safeguarding agencies
• Knowledge and experience of statutory services in the UK including Social Care, Police, Health and Education
• Excellent time-management skills and ability to plan your own time in addition to fitting in with the demands from teams nationally
• Evidence of excellent partnership working, especially with Local Authorities, and the ability to work constructively and demonstrate influence and leadership with a wide range of external agencies; voluntary, statutory and private sector.
• Excellent skills in training delivery to ensure information is relevant and proportionate to the needs of each service
• Ability to manage reactive work with planned, longer-term projects

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Those with lived experience as a refugee are strongly encouraged to apply.

Closing date: 09:00am, 6th December 2021

RAMFEL Immigration Advice Manager

We are looking for a full time Manager but we are willing to employ on a part time basis (4 days a week) for the right candidate.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals, and those who are migrants or refugees, and who have lived experience of the impact of immigration policy and practice.

We will only consider applications with relevant legal experience. Qualifications needed are OISC level 3/Qualified Solicitor with IAAS level 2 qualified candidate

Salary and Benefits: £34,240

Contract Duration: Permanent

Pension scheme: Employer contribution 6%

Holiday entitlement: 28 days annual leave, childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme available

Location: RAMFEL’s offices in Ilford /Stratford with a mix of working from home and working from the office.

Overview

The Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London (RAMFEL), is a not for profit organisation led by the needs of the individuals and communities we work with. Our focus is on providing immigration advice, destitution services, integration support and campaigning to improve the lives of refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants across London and Essex.

This is a role with responsibility for managing the delivery of projects focused on immigration advice. The RAMFEL Immigration Advice Manager will work with the caseworkers and legal advisors to ensure that clients receive excellent support and legal representation from RAMFEL. The Manager will focus particularly on supporting irregular migrants and their family to regularise their immigration status, as well as the non-for profit fee paying project (renewals).

Specific Responsibilities

Performance and resource management

1. Supports staff to ensure they can perform to a high standard through support and supervision, training and working closely with staff on complex cases
2. To be responsible for the day to day management and delivery of RAMFEL’s immigration advice services as agreed with the CEO and Head of Services.
3. Works with the Operations Manager, Head of Services and CEO to set and monitor performance indicators for RAMFELs services, including ensuring data for funding reports is available
4. Contributes to plans and budget monitoring for RAMFEL’s casework services
5. Ensures all relevant organisational systems, such as our database and annual leave booking system are used appropriately within their team.
6. Works with the Operations Manager, Head of Services and CEO to prioritise task and resource allocation.

People and culture

1. Recruit, induct, manage and develop paid staff and volunteers, participating in regular management support and appraisals.
2. Ensure staff and volunteers continue to operate to the highest standards and to all associated codes of conduct, relevant legislation and legal frameworks, including OISC compliance and AQS standards.
3. Supplies relevant information on service delivery to the CEO to ensure there are robust working practices and specialist support in place to ensure the wellbeing of all staff and volunteers is maintained and enhanced.
4. Works with the CEO, Head of Services and other legal managers to develop legal strategies and/or pre-litigation research to challenge laws that disadvantage rough sleepers.
5. Builds relationships with the legal sector, especially pro-bono units to help support the work of RAMFEL, including partnering on public law challenges.
6. Promotes a clear development pathway for staff and volunteers
7. Contribute to the training of volunteers and where appropriate staff

Service User inclusion

1. Ensures opportunities to volunteer or work within the service are accessible to a diverse community, reflecting the nature of our service users
2. Ensures sufficient Service User feedback is gathered to underpin effective service delivery

Relationship management

1. Builds collaborative and effective relationships across their team and works well with staff across the organisation.
2. Works with the CEO and Head of Services to manage relevant external relationships with partners from across the sector locally. Particularly to ensure that referral pathways to RAMFEL are clear to external organisations and manageable for the organisation.

Risk management

1. Maintain and update risk assessments related to service delivery in collaboration with the Operations Manager. Ensure that policies and procedures from the operations manual are followed, alongside OISC regulation and Health and Safety regulations.
2. Ensures rapid escalation and management of identified risks and ensures learning is embedded in operational models. In particular observing internal policy on safeguarding

Funding development

1. Will assist the CEO in the development of funding bids, by providing useful insight and data.
2. Will identify potential opportunities for funding and with the agreement of the CEO and in line with the organisational strategy prepare funding bids for submission

Systems

Ensures teams accurately, swiftly and appropriately utilise our database and any other agreed IT systems in line with organisational procedures and approaches, using reporting from these systems to inform operational decision making.

Casework

Assists at points directly with casework and will carry an ongoing caseload. Staff may not unreasonably refuse a request to undertake any task which is appropriate to their level for which they have the necessary skills and/or experience. Any resulting change to their objectives and priorities will be discussed and confirmed with their line manager

Flexibility

The post holder is expected to be responsive to Ramfel's policies, priorities and the changing needs of the organisation and will be expected to adapt the workload as required. They may be expected to attend relevant meetings and briefings both within and outside the office, some of which may be outside normal office hours.

Management

The Immigration Advice Manager is accountable to the Ramfel Board through the Ramfel management structure. The Immigration Advice Manager will usually be directed by the Head of Services, who will also act as a line manager.

Hours of work and leave

The position is FULL TIME (37.5 hours we may be able to accept part time working hours for the right candidate. It is inevitable that in the nature of Ramfel's work the Immigration Advice Manager will occasionally exceed this. When more hours are worked, time may be taken off in lieu by arrangement with other members of the Team and with the appropriate member of management. Holiday entitlement is 28 days per annum plus bank holidays for full-time roles.

Person specification

Skills

• Manage appropriate service delivery processes, mechanisms and systems, and their monitoring and evaluation
• Build strong and effective alliances and relationships at an operational level
• Use and operate delivery performance measures and report on delivery outcomes

Knowledge

• OISC level 3 qualified or IAAS level 2
• Project management experience is desirable
• Understanding of relevant context, issues affecting irregular migrants, asylum and immigration policy, working practice and legislation
• Working with vulnerable adults and children and the requisite regulatory frameworks

Experience

• Experience of working as an advisor to vulnerable people
• Management experience that includes:
• General management of a team supporting vulnerable people
• Experience of identifying service needs, and exploiting and developing service opportunities
• Understanding of casework and client needs, including experience of working with clients who have experienced trauma
• Liaison and networking with external partners
• Contribution to monitoring and evaluation of projects

Expected behaviours

• Focussing on people in crisis and encourage and encourages others to think from those perspectives
• Being accountable for resources; takes steps to embed value for money and spending in line with project budgets, including the allocation of staff time
• Seeking insight, supporting others to make the best use of the information available and drawing on different sources to develop new courses of action
• Applying strategic thinking; understands the strategic direction of the organisation and is able to relay that clearly and simply to staff, clients and external actors to justify decisions and workings of the organisation
• Working collaboratively, investing time to find out what others think and developing relationships with a mind to future potential opportunities
• Communicating well, providing clear explanations, raising awareness of issues and consulting with staff, clients and other actors.
• Developing yourself and others; developing capabilities and knowledge by seeking and using developmental opportunities to improve performance
• Solution focussed: supporting solutions or proposing alternative ones with rational, logical and well thought out options
• Managing personal impact by actively seeking out feedback to test thinking and continually improve

Desirable

• Knowledge of a relevant language to our client group.

We are looking for new Trustees to join our experienced and committed board. We are particularly looking for people to strengthen our expertise in   Human Resources, Finance and IT/Digital

Our vision is to have a fair, just and equal society where all people can live in harmony with each other and in a state of positive well-being.

Our mission is to empower refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to know and exercise their rights, thrive, make a positive contribution, integrate and take control of their lives.

LRMN is a vibrant and thriving organisation providing vital services to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants across London but mainly in the south and southeast London boroughs.  Our services include providing specialist legal advice on immigration, housing and welfare, supporting those who need to improve their skills through training and volunteering as well as helping them gain employment.  We support women who survived gender-based violence including rape, trafficking, domestic violence and more and we offer them 1:1 counselling and therapeutic activities.  In addition, we provide mental health and well-being support to those who are suffering from non-clinical mental health issues. We advocate and campaign against policies that are not fair and just and which uphold hostile environment. We also provide hardship funds and food parcels to destitute clients.

We have been growing the scale and range of our services over recent years and have a diverse funding base including Trusts and Foundations, statutory agencies and public donations. 

We are keen to recruit trustees with experience in the fields of HR and IT/digital and are looking for a financially qualified trustee who is interested in succeeding to the role of Treasurer when the current incumbent reaches the end of his term of office. In the next 3 -6 months we will also conduct a selection process and will appoint someone to replace our Chair who is in her last term of service.

As a Board member you will be expected to attend a quarterly board meeting, join a sub-committee which also meets quarterly and offer support relevant with your expertise. Sub-committees include Organisation Development, Finance, Risk and Compliance and Fundraising and Marketing. All meetings normally take place in the evening from 6.00pm and last about 1.5 – 2 hrs.  Since the lock down the board has been meeting via Zoom.

RAMFEL are currently seeking the following positions:

1. Immigration caseworker – this post is permanent and will focus on;

Supporting a range of clients in the borough of Islington, including rough sleepers, those with human rights claims and Citizenship applications for those who arrived under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Settlement scheme

2. Immigration caseworker – this post is maternity cover for 9 months and will focus on;

 Supporting rough sleepers to regularise their immigration status

Interviews will take place on the 13th & 14th December, please let us know in your application email if you are not available on these days. Please indicate when you apply which role you are applying for and if you would like to be considered for both.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals, and those who are migrants or refugees, and who have lived experience of the impact of immigration policy and practice.

Contract Duration: As stated in advertisement for each position

Salary and Benefits: £30500 for OISC level 3 / Qualified Solicitor with IAAS level 2 qualified candidates, £28,500 for OISC level 2 qualified candidates and £25500 for level 1.

IAAS qualifications for non-qualified solicitors will also be considered but you will be required to undertake OISC qualification

Pension scheme – Employer contribution 6%

Holiday entitlement: 28 days annual leave, EAP and cycle to work scheme available

Location: Hybrid working from home and our Stratford and Ilford offices

Overview

The Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London is an OISC level 3 registered charity, that provides advice to help people access justice. We are expanding our legal advice provision and looking for a new adviser to join our legal team. The role gives an opportunity to assist some of the most vulnerable people in our society. There will be particular focus on working with people who are facing a crisis, providing advice work and support that will take them out of destitution and on a path towards integration.

Specific Responsibilities

Case management

1. Manage own caseload, working to advance the best interests of the client
2. Adhere to standards set out by OISC and AQS to deliver high quality advice
3. Liaise directly with the UKVI/HOIE and related governmental agencies 
4. Completion of forms, letters and applications
5. Liaise with and refer clients to solicitors or other advisers, as appropriate
6. Manage client expectations by discussing deadlines, outcomes and timing
7. Deliver advice outreach surgeries as and when required (none currently planned for this role)

Service monitoring

1. Ensure that any reporting and monitoring requirements agreed with funders are met in  full
2. Maintain client files and records in line with file management procedures

General responsibilities

1. Seek to continuously improve in order that the Charity delivers the best possible service to beneficiaries
2. Ensure that all of Ramfel’s Policies and Procedures are adhered to at all times
3. Attend internal training and external training as and when required
4. Participate in regular supervisions and team meetings
5. Act as a positive ambassador for the Charity at all times
6. Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required

Flexibility

The post holder is expected to be responsive to Ramfel's policies, priorities and the changing needs of the organisation and will be expected to adapt their workload as required.

Management

This post will report to the Immigration Advice Manager – Rough Sleeping

Hours of work and leave

The position is FULL TIME (37.5 hours), however we will also consider candidates who would like to work part time. It is inevitable that in the nature of Ramfel's work the Immigration Advisor will occasionally exceed this. When more hours are worked, time may be taken off in lieu by arrangement with other members of the Team and with the appropriate member of management. Holiday entitlement is 28 days per annum plus bank holidays for full-time roles.

The Baobab Centre

The Baobab Centre provides rehabilitation support to young asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced human rights abuses. Baobab provides psychotherapy, casework and advocacy as well as a wider range of community activities. We are seeking a Finance Manager to support the running of the organisation and to help our team support young asylum seekers and refugees in London. 

Job Purpose:

• Day to day finance management of the organisation 
• Prepare, develop and analyse management accounting information
• Finance planning, budgeting, forecasting and annual accounts
• Provide high quality support service to the Operations Team
• Work 14 hours across a month (i.e. available a few hours a week not in two complete days). On some months there is the possibility of a few extra hours if necessary.

Duties and responsibilities

• Production of monthly management accounts
• Analysing variances and exploring potential problems with Operations Manager and Finance Committee
• Making appropriate recommendations and advising of the impact of financial changes on the charity
• Preparation of annual budgets (including aspirational) and producing regular reforecasts against the budget
• Improving the systems surrounding all aspects of the charity's budgets, forecasts and business planning
• Shared responsibility with the Operations Manager for the annual audit/examination and referral to independent examiner. 
• Providing financial support to the fundraising team, including information for funding applications and reports.
• Support the Finance Administrator with any queries regarding payroll and the day to day finance postings in Quickbooks.
• Support the Operations Team in reviewing the financial policies and procedures.
• Preparing monthly accounts for the monthly Finance Committee Meetings (held in the evening).

Person specification

Accounting:

• A fully qualified accountant with a thorough practical understanding of Finance Management including management accounting principles and techniques as well as an understanding of charity accounting principles.
• Experience of producing annual accounts and working with Independent Examiners. 
• High degree of communication skills, particularly attuned to working well with non-finance professionals.
• First-hand experience of planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience working in fast moving environment providing accurate and timely information to a high standard.
• Experience and understanding of charity accounts.
• Experience with general finance management.

Charity Experience and Interest

• Demonstrable interest in one or several of: human rights work, mental health, refugees and asylum seekers, and young people separated from their families.
• Ideally with experience of working with unaccompanied refugees and asylum seekers. 
• Demonstrable experience working with people from different culture and backgrounds.
• Ability to work flexibly with an understanding of the holistic functioning of the charity.

Please apply using our application form, select 'Apply with CharityJob'. We will not read CVs.

Da'aro Youth Project is looking for an experienced caseworker to join our small team based in Streatham Hill. We are interested in recruiting a part-time Youth Caseworker working 3 days a week (preferably Wednesday through Friday).

We are a small community-led organisation supporting young refugees from the Horn of Africa.

Da'aro Youth Project was established in 2018 by members of the Eritrean community in London. Eritreans, Ethiopians and Sudanese are some of the largest nationality groups of unaccompanied minors to arrive in the UK in recent years. Asylum-seeking children and young adults arrive here after traumatic journeys through the Sahara Desert, Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and after crossing borders in Europe, such as in Calais. Once here, young people often struggle to adapt to new lives separated from their families, and find that navigating the complex asylum and social care systems can be stressful and traumatic. We aim to promote the wellbeing of these migrant young people living in the UK, through direct support, through building bridges in the Eritrean community and through advocating for changes to unfair and discriminatory systems which undermine their wellbeing.

We want newly arrived asylum-seeking young people to feel at home and to know they have someone to turn to in a crisis.

Towards this aim we run a weekly youth club – Injera Club – and provide advice, support and advocacy through our casework service for young people in need. 

Through trauma-informed, intensive casework we identify the needs of young people, advocate for their interests within the care and asylum system, and connect young people with the services, opportunities and support they need to reach their goals. 

The Youth Caseworker role will:

Work alongside young refugees, asylum seekers and other young migrants who are at risk or in crisis to ensure that they can access their statutory rights and make progress in their personal, social and educational development so that they can achieve their full potential.
Provide holistic casework, advice and practical support to young people aged 14 to 21 years, working closely with statutory and voluntary organisations to ensure that the immediate and longer -term needs of young people are met.
To encourage the active and meaningful participation of young people in all aspects of Da’aro Youth Project’s youth service delivery.
You'll need to have relevant experience and the energy and determination required to work positively with young migrants who are at risk or in crisis along with the ability to manage a complex caseload and the desire to work as a member of a small team.

Preference will be given to those applicants who have previous experience in casework with children, young adults, and refugees and asylum-seekers – and those applicants with refugee language skills (Tigrinya or/and Amharic).

Closing date for Applications is 23.59 on Sunday 19th December 2021.

Interviews will take place during the following week or so.

To apply, please complete the attached application form and return it to us via our website (see link above).

Please indicate on your application which days you are available to work.

The Charity

Founded in 2015, Breaking Barriers is a fast-paced, start-up charity with a mission to help refugees in London gain the knowledge, confidence and experience to secure stable and fulfilling employment in their new home. We offer effective and flexible employment support in direct partnership with businesses that help refugees secure work, progress into better jobs, and successfully integrate into UK society. We have a unique approach, working with corporate partners to help refugees develop careers that match their skills, experience and aspirations.

Since Breaking Barriers’ inception in 2015, we have grown to support in excess of 500 refugees per year and have ambitious plans to expand this as part of our strategic plan. We concentrate on getting things done in a flexible environment where everyone is encouraged to take ownership and contribute. We are a team of over 40 employees supported by several hundred volunteers, who are all driven and committed to helping London’s refugee community. We are looking for similarly driven and ambitious individuals keen to join an enterprising organisation where they can benefit from the opportunity to innovate and shape the direction of the charity. Colleagues who thrive are passionate, driven and have the confidence to work autonomously while remaining team players and sharing credit with all involved.

We are looking for someone who lives and breathes our values:

• Mission-led: our clients come before everything else.
• Welcoming: we want all people to feel happy, comfortable and secure with us.
• Collaborative: we are supportive and considerate, curiously exploring other viewpoints to find solutions.
• Enterprising: we are discerningly bold, entrepreneurial and have the courage to give things a go.

Role Overview

Breaking Barriers is experiencing a rise in enquiries from businesses who want to make their roles accessible to people from a refugee background and our clients (we use this term for the people we support). With a constantly changing recruitment landscape and with so many companies interested offering employment outcomes to our clients, we need to act quickly and opportunistically to make these roles accessible to our clients more efficiently. In parallel, we know that there are people from refugee backgrounds outside of Breaking Barrier’s current client base who could be filling these roles.

We have created an exciting new role within the team so that we can maximise the number of clients and people from refugee backgrounds filling vacant roles with businesses approaching Breaking Barriers. This role has a dual function of firstly, coordinating and speeding up processes for hiring programmes within Breaking Barriers and, secondly, creating new processes to open up job opportunities to prospective clients within our referral partner network. As Breaking Barriers scales nationally, we see the potential of expanding this model of support for clients of referral partner into new regions within the UK.

Forming part of the Employment team, this role acts as a focal point for coordination between the Employment team and the Corporate Partnerships team but is primarily client-focused with an emphasis on developing a deep understanding of our client base, working with clients directly to apply for roles and maintaining relationships with referral partner networks.

The purpose of this role is to:

• Coordinate and accelerate processes for hiring programmes and recruitment in order to maximise outcomes for clients;
• Maintain an overview of client skills and goals across in order to widen access for clients to job opportunities and inform a client-led approach to business development, ensuring that hiring programmes are in line with our mission;
• Scale up opportunities for people from refugee backgrounds by creating recruitment pathways within referral partner networks.

In summary, this role will:

• Represent the Employment team in Corporate Partnerships meetings to ensure effective communication around job opportunities;
• Identify, screen and provide support (where needed) at pace for clients wishing to apply for opportunities;
• Improve the use of data management, workflows and processes between the Employment team and Corporate Partnership team to ensure effective and efficient ways of working and to inform a sector-wide approach to working with businesses;
• Pilot new hiring programmes for prospective clients within referral partner networks to expand access to recruitment initiatives to more people from a refugee background, and implementing a nationwide approach based on the pilot’s results.

The successful candidate will have skills and experience in the following areas:

• A good understanding of employment support (including best practice in job applications and interviews);
• Data-driven: confident using CRMs and data to make processes more efficient and decisions based on evidence;
• Improvement mindset: looking at ways to make processes and ways of working better, to see beyond the status quo and innovate;
• Extremely proactive with an ability to work at pace;
• Excellent interpersonal skills: an ability to build trust with colleagues and work directly with clients;
• Strong external relationship management skills and confidence in representing the charity externally (primarily with businesses and referral partners);
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to adapt communication style and information to difference audiences;
• An ability to grasp new concepts quickly and develop a broad understanding across different sectors, roles and employers.

A bit about us

Jesuit Media Initiatives are the small but passionate media team for the Jesuits in Britain, with a vision to help people on their journey of faith. We want to meet people where they are, however they are, and provide them with the tools they need to live out their relationship with God using Ignatian spirituality.

We reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world every day and that number continues to grow. We collaborate with a number of other organisations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service, Jesuit Missions and the Season of Creation, to produce content that serves the needs of many.

We are about to embark on a new era, branching out to new audiences and increasing our digital reach with more of a focus on video and podcasts.

What We are Looking For

We’re looking for someone to join our team and to be at the creative forefront of our digital designs and to help share our content with the world on a wider scale.

If you’re a dynamic creative with their finger on the pulse of social media and design trends, this could be for you.

Someone ideal would balance a strong creative outlook with a detail-focused approach. We would love you to be a great communicator who enjoys being a part of a team, collaborating with others, and has an energetic, positive ‘make-it-happen’ attitude that helps you juggle all those multiple tasks on a day-to-day basis!

All applicants called in for a final interview will be asked to produce evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK, in compliance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.  Please ensure before applying that you currently have the right to work (paid) in the UK.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on the 10th December 2021. Interviews will be held in person on the 21st December 2021.

RefuAid is a young and dynamic organisation supporting displaced people gain independence.  We focus on three key barriers for refugees trying to restart their lives in the UK: finance and re-qualification, language tuition and specialist employment advice.

We want to challenge the negative rhetoric surrounding refugees and show that, given the right support, refugees and asylum seekers can be an asset both economically and culturally to their host communities.

The current English language provision in the UK remains underfunded and difficult to access, without access to structured language tuition refugees find themselves isolated unable to advocate for themselves or begin to integrate into the UK.

RefuAid provides scholarship places at private English language schools throughout the UK for people who have been granted asylum to improve their English and take English language exams. This tuition and the exams provide the necessary qualification to enter a university or a profession in the UK.

RefuAid support the students in a caseworker capacity throughout the duration of their course.

We are looking for a full-time language caseworker to support the running of our nationwide language programme which supports refugees and asylum-seekers to gain the needed level of language and qualification to access education and employment. You will work directly alongside the Language Programme Team, providing support within a variety of areas.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Casework, directly working with RefuAid clients - providing programme guidance & educational/careers advice.

·Creating and maintaining relationships at partner schools.

· Liaising with partner organisations, both non-profit and maintaining existing partnerships.

· Processing payments for students. 

· Administration assistance - database and accounts

· Participate in any necessary meetings. 


· Any other reasonable activity as needed for RefuAid.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES: 


· Excellent administrative and time management skills.

·       Excellent communication skills on telephone, in writing and in person.

· Commitment to, understanding and sensitive communication of our work and values.

· A high standard of spoken and written English.


· Excellent numeracy. 


· Meticulous; high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

· Excellent IT skills; specifically, Microsoft Office, CRM systems and any additional software programs would be an advantage.

· Interest in the importance of long-term solutions in refugee-hosting communities, 
specifically in breaking down the language barrier. 


· Enthusiastic and positive attitude; flexible and adaptable.

· Collaborative team-player who will get involved in whatever needs to be done to achieve 
the aims of RefuAid. 


Committed to reflection and learning, including sharing failures and uncertainties.

We are committed to providing equality and fairness for all and not to discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion or age. We encourage and celebrate the different qualities that our colleagues, and others we work with, bring to our work. And we believe that seeing things from a wide range of different perspectives helps us to resolve problems, adapt our approaches and develop as an organisation. We want to bring greater diversity to our team and we are keen to receive applications from people who believe they would do this.

Due to a high volume of applications we are only able to respond to successful applications. 

**PLEASE NOTE: To apply for this vacancy, please ensure you firstly download a copy of our application form from the documents section when you are directed to our website and complete it. Click the 'apply' button and fill out your personal details in the relevant sections. Once you have submitted these you will be asked if you would like to attach any documents. At this stage please submit the completed version of the application form.**

Job Purpose

UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency's national charity partner, is looking for an ambitious, proactive, team player who can join us as a Senior Officer, Direct & Digital Marketing within the Individual Giving Team.  

You will be joining the charity at an exciting moment, becoming part of a small but high performing team with big ambitions.

In this exciting new role, You will manage acquisition and retention projects across multiple channels including direct mail, digital and telemarketing and will have a leading role in developing the new Committed Giving programme.  You will be a confident communicator and experienced project manager.

If you think you have the relevant skills and crucially, the passion to support the refugee cause, please apply, we’d love to hear from you.

Who We Are And What We Do

United Kingdom for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s national charity partner for the United Kingdom. We generate public awareness of the plight of refugees and raise funds to help protect them through UNHCR’s humanitarian operations across the world.

Our supporters include UK private individuals, communities, corporate partners, trusts and foundations. The funds we raise help UNHCR deliver emergency relief such as shelter, medical care and basic supplies to people fleeing conflict and persecution, as well as healthcare, education and livelihoods opportunities for those who remain displaced over the long term.

Nobody chooses to be a refugee, but we can all play a part in their protection and we want those who work with us to share our values and passion for the cause.

We strongly value diversity and recognise that it is critical to our success and the cause that we serve. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all who work with us and strongly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds and those with lived experience of being a refugee, asylum seeker, internally displaced person or a stateless person. . 

We are also open to flexibility in many different ways, including an element of working from home and flexible hours. Please don’t be afraid to speak to us about this at the interview stage, so we can explore what’s possible.

Role Responsibilities 

· Lead on the Committed Giving programme. Recruit, convert, upgrade and reactivate via key channels including telemarketing and post. Develop an integrated and inspiring stewardship journey.

· Manage a variety of other fundraising campaigns across acquisition and retention from agency briefing, through to launch, meeting six figure campaign targets.

· Work with Digital Fundraising colleagues to create integrated, multichannel campaigns and an effective, donor-first giving journey.

· Remain flexible and quickly respond to emergency situations, identifying fundraising opportunities.

· Manage data projects, including mailing file development, data cleansing, and Salesforce management as required.

· Manage the production process, developing supplier briefs and managing approval stages and end of campaign reviews.

· Manage donor research and mystery shopping as required, using insights to inform creative decisions and ensure donor centric fundraising.

· Manage campaign fulfilment. Monitor responses to identify issues and opportunities.

· From time-to-time support with Donor Care activities.

· Ensure cost effective fundraising, manage individual campaign budgets and identify opportunities to improve ROIs.

· Stay up to date with issues affecting displaced communities, campaigns from international teams, reports from the field. Scope new fundraising themes.

· Share creative and insights with UK colleagues, global markets and HQ, participating in training seminars, workshops and skill shares where applicable. 

Personal Attributes and Experience 

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience of scoping, briefing in, managing and delivering fundraising campaigns.
• Experience managing telemarketing, email and mail fundraising campaigns
• Experience working across Committed Giving Campaigns.
• Experience working with suppliers, including budget management, campaign planning and briefing. 
• Experience of data file development (in collaboration with Data teams)

Essential Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of direct marketing practices and principles
• Able to act proactively and identify new fundraising opportunities.
• Able to juggle and prioritise multiple tasks, meeting programme deadlines.
• Attention to detail and proof-reading skills and an ability to give coherent and constructive feedback on creative and copy.
• Able to demonstrate flexibility and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done.
• Numerate, with an ability to analyse results and identify trends.
• Strong presentation, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

1st stage interviews planned for 9th December 2021

A bit about us

Jesuit Media Initiatives are the small but passionate media team for the Jesuits in Britain, with a vision to help people on their journey of faith. We want to meet people where they are, however they are, and provide them with the tools they need to live out their relationship with God using Ignatian spirituality.

We reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world every day and that number continues to grow. We collaborate with a number of other organisations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service, Jesuit Missions and the Season of Creation, to produce content that serves the needs of many.

As we grow, we have the privilege of looking after and engaging with the digital communities that are emerging. We are looking to find new and innovative ways to build our user base and connect with them on a deeper level.

The role

We are looking for someone to join our small media team to help us make sure our “digital communities” are well looked after and engaged with, our volunteers are well-organised and our team are on top of the tasks needed to make things run smoothly. We are looking for someone who is a great communicator, who enjoys being a part of a team, collaborating with others, and has an energetic, positive ‘make-it-happen’ attitude that helps you juggle all those multiple tasks on a day-to-day basis.

All applicants called in for a final interview will be asked to produce evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK, in compliance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.  Please ensure before applying that you currently have the right to work (paid) in the UK.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on the 10th December 2021. Interviews will be held in person on the 20th December 2021.