Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We particularly welcome expressions of interest from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

Do you want to work with an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

The Role

The Housing Expert Advice team at Citizens Advice are looking for individuals to submit an expression of interest to be a part of our group of Consultant Housing Experts. We are hoping to expand the panel of experts within our teams to support us to deliver advice within our organisation.

The consultant role will include providing second tier consultancy advice to our network of local Citizens Advice advisers. 

About You

You will have significant professional experience in a legal or advice setting with experience of interpreting legislation, giving credible, appropriate and high quality legal guidance and legal advice to a range of audiences.

As this is a rolling recruitment process we will contact those who have expressed an interest in the role within 3 weeks.

The National Citizens Advice Operates from offices in England and Wales, with 5 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Liverpool, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.

Housing Pathways Coordinator

We are looking for an expert in housing and homelessness legislation to make a real impact across London for women who are in the criminal justice system. The successful candidate will provide housing and homelessness legalisation training to Advocates and Keyworkers as well as develop training partnerships with local authorities and housing providers across London.

Your aim will be to ensure relevant professionals and stakeholders are aware of the impact on women in the criminal justice system and to improve housing outcomes for women involved in the criminal justice system.

Responsibilities of the Housing Pathways Coordinator include:

- Support the development of housing pathways
- Identify and strengthen links with local authorities and other housing providers
- Support the use of rented accommodation as a solution
- Build and maintain links with housing law solicitors and local law centres
- Deliver training and workshops on housing law, homelessness and move on pathways to keyworkers based within women's centres/hubs
- Provide advice on grants available in each borough for the client group

Candidates for the position of Housing Pathways Coordinator will need:
- Experience of supporting vulnerable people within the housing sector
- Knowledge of the impact that contact with the criminal justice system and imprisonment have upon women and their children
- The confidence to deliver training and workshops to professionals
- Sound knowledge of the housing law and legal rights of women within the homelessness sector

If you are interested in this opportunity, and would like to discuss the role in more detail, please apply ASAP!

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Bede is an established local charity providing four specialist services. We support adults with a learning disability; women and men who experience domestic abuse; youth clubs and school holiday programmes and opportunities for community volunteering. Our team of around 40 staff work with an annual income of £1.2m.

We invite you to lead us through an exciting period of development as we move to a new purpose-built Centre in 2023. You'll join us at a key moment in our long and distinguished history, and take us into a dynamic future. Our current Director, Nick Dunne, who retires in 2021, will introduce you to this exceptional opportunity to make a real difference to our neighbours' lives.

This is a unique chance for an experienced senior manager from the not-for-profit sector to head our small, high-impact organisation. You will work with people in complex circumstances, and support specialist managers in grasping opportunities and assessing risks. In addition, you'll bring a thorough working knowledge of HR, charity finance, fundraising and governance to your role. You'll draw on all your creativity and energy to achieve maximum success and sustainability. We look forward to hearing from you - and offering a warm welcome from our lively and appreciative community. 

For an informal discussion about the role and to apply, please see application pack.

Closing date for applications 5pm Monday February 1, 2021.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to visit Bede w/c February 15
Interviews will be held on Thursday February 25.

Senior Digital Fundraising Officer

Understanding Recruitment are delighted to announce we are working alongside Bowel Cancer UK on a very exciting Senior Digital Fundraising Officer vacancy as they look to bring the function in house for the first time!
Bowel Cancer UK have been supporting patients and their families for over 33 years as well as funding targeted nationwide campaigns to improve early diagnosis and access to first class treatment.

This is a brilliant chance for a Senior Digital Fundraising Officer to help build Digital Fundraising as a function as the charity look for different ways to increase income. Ultimately you will make a real difference to the charity and those people helped by it on a daily basis.
There will be extensive opportunity to identify and test new opportunities in digital fundraising to drive growth, which you will be encouraged to explore!

Bowel Cancer UK actively encourage a positive work-life balance offering flexible working hours and the ability to work from home.

Skills required for the Senior Digital Fundraising Officer:

- Strong Digital Marketing experience
- Understanding of ‘acquisition’ focused campaigns
- Some experience within a fundraising environment (charity)
- Strong stakeholder management

Digital Fundraiser / Digital Fundraising / Charity / Non-profit / Individual Giving / Direct Marketing

This is an incredibly exciting change for an ambitious Digital savvy marketer with a passion for fundraising to make the step into a role fully focused on Digital channel growth!

Location: Working remotely until at least the Spring 2021. Head office in Kennington

Salary: £30,000 - £31,000 + Excellent benefits!

Apply now for immediate consideration regarding this excellent opportunity!
Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

I CAN is the UK’s leading children’s communication charity.  We exist solely to help children and young people with speech, language and communication needs find their voice, and develop the skills they need to thrive and fulfill their potential.

The issue we are tackling is enormous, and so will be your role in helping us achieve our mission that no child should be left out, or left behind, because of a difficulty speaking or understanding.

Following a restructure of the team, as we gear up towards achieving our goal of reaching a quarter of a million children by 2023, we are seeking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Trusts Fundraiser within our Philanthropy team.

Your work will make a concrete difference to the lives of children affected by speech, language and communication needs in the UK.  As such, we seek professionals who share our ambition and donor-centred approach, are target-driven, and have strong work ethic.  This is your opportunity to be an exceptional fundraiser as part of a dedicated, hardworking team that loves nothing more than supporting one another succeed.

Reporting to the Head of Trusts & Statutory Fundraising and an active member of the team, you will raise income from grant making organisations and build strong relationships with them.

We are keen to hear from you if you match the criteria outlined in the person specification and can fulfill the requirements of the job description.  However, we expect the postholder to unequivocally demonstrate:

• Experience in fundraising
• Aptitude for developing relationships
• Ability to deliver against agreed targets
• Excellent written communication skills, and ability to develop compelling funding applications.

To apply, please send a one-page cover letter and your CV by the closing date. Your cover letter must address the above 4 points to support the shortlisting process.

For more information download our job description and recruitment pack.

Interviews will be held via video call on Thursday and Friday, 11th & 12th February 2021.

I CAN works within the government’s Covid-19 guidelines.

I CAN is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons, particularly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce. 

Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately, we are not always able to respond to every applicant. If you have not received a response within one week after the closing date, you have not been successful on this occasion.

UKLGIG, the leading UK charity dedicated to supporting LGBTQI+ people through the asylum and immigration system, is recruiting its first campaigns role dedicated to improving the asylum and immigration system for LGBTQI+ people.

UKLGIG has been supporting LGBTQI+ people through the asylum and immigration system and campaigning for their rights since 1993. We are now looking for a Senior Campaigns Officer to help galvanise a new supporter base in favour of an asylum and immigration system that treats LGBTQI+ people fairly and with dignity, and provides safety to those in need of international protection. This is a unique opportunity to apply your experience and knowledge of public campaigning, building relationships with allies and ensuring meaningful involvement of people with lived experience to mobilise LGBTQI+ audiences to campaign for reform of the asylum and immigration system.

You will:

• Work closely with the Executive Director to develop and deliver an impactful campaign strategy that mobilises new audiences and influencers, particularly those outside the refugee and migration sector, to build pressure for reform of the asylum and immigration system to the benefit of all those who go through it.
• Build relationships with potential allies and mobilise LGBTQI+ audiences to take campaign actions.
• Ensure people with lived experience are meaningfully involved in UKLGIG campaigns.

UKLGIG is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this vacancy.

Owing to the nature of the work with vulnerable adults, the successful applicant will be required to undergo a basic DBS check and to disclose all unspent criminal records at the point of conditional job offer.

HOURS: Full-time (35 hours per week). Job sharing will be considered. Occasional work in the evenings and at weekends may be required when face-to-face working resumes but with plenty of notice.

LOCATION: UKLGIG’s offices are based in Borough, central London. All UKLGIG staff are currently working from home due to Covid-19. A mix of working at home and/or the office is likely for the foreseeable future. When face-to-face working resumes, there might be occasional travel outside London with plenty of notice.

ANNUAL LEAVE: 25 days per year, increasing by one day per holiday year after two years of employment up to a maximum of 28 days

CLOSING DATE: 10.00 am, Thu 21 January 2021

INTERVIEW DATES: 3 and 4 February 2021

HOW TO APPLY: Please read the job description and person specification. Email your completed application form and optional monitoring form to the email address in the Job Description. We do not accept CVs.

Project manager:

We are One Housing, and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our IT team is friendly, and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-

for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Join our I.T. Team as a Project Manager

One Housing is a provider of housing and support services to people across London and the South East, with over 17,000 homes and one of the largest care and support portfolios in the area.

In providing these services to a huge range of customers, we rely on the systems and processes to ensure our frontline colleagues can provide a high level of services to meet their range of needs. As a provider whose profits go into funding new homes and better services, your work supports our vision to provide places for people to call home and to support them to live well. In joining One Housing, you will support the development of new systems and processes, providing improvements which offer a better quality of service or provide better value for money.

The Project Manager is responsible for managing our diverse range of stakeholders, leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes writing business cases, preparing and managing project plans, management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.

The role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Project Manager based in Camden. Your responsibilities will include:

• The Project Manager is responsible for leading project managers and teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, and financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.
• The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. The Project manager will verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.
• With many key technology projects either delivering or rolling out further phases, its never been more essential that business processes and technology projects embed with teams and teams are engaged in the process of change.
• Coming into the organisation at a key time, we are developing the next phases of our business transformation and in particular look to increase our capacity for change management and supporting teams in delivering effective services and identified benefits through high quality technology and processes.
• While this role currently has no line management responsibility, there is an expectation that you can help upskill others in the team on embedding change and change management techniques.

What you will need to succeed:

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who demonstrates a friendly, positive demeanour. The successful candidate will:

• Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods and techniques. Previous experience of implementing CRM Dynamics projects
• Good high-level technical understanding of IT infrastructure, networking, databases, applications and systems integration. Results-focused: able to set high work standards for self and demonstrate drive to meet targets.
• Customer-orientated: desire and willingness to address the needs of residents and project team members, continually seeking to improve quality and standards of excellence
• Solid track record of successful IT implementation project delivery within cost, time, quality, scope, risk and benefit constraints
• Ability to create Project Management documentation, tools and reports, such as Business cases, GANNT charts, PIDs, Dashboard reports and RAID logs
• Good knowledge and experience of BI reporting
• Ability to design and deliver reports
• Continue professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices
• Previous experience of IT implementations involving integrations with multiple systems. Previous experience of IT implementations involving multiple external IT suppliers
• Experience of successful business change management
• Ability to influence and motivate managers and staff across the business and external suppliers to ensure project milestones and objectives are met
• Excellent planning, communication and stakeholder management skills
• High levels of the following key competencies:
• Planning, time management, people management, problem solving, attention to detail, communication, negotiation and conflict management
• Experience of industry tools and technologies. Practical understanding of applying different Project Management methodologies and controls; Waterfall, Agile, Iterative etc,
• Some exposure of working in a commercially focused housing/asset management environment

Professional qualifications or memberships

• Project/change Management qualification, eg PRINCE2, PMI, Lean

The offer:

Our [email protected] benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Salary: £50,000-£55,000
• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues

• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.

• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.

• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About us:

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.

Apply today for a fulfilling career in our I.T. team

Leap Confronting Conflict is looking for an IT and Database Senior Officer to provide our growing charity with ICT infrastructure support. This role is essential to the success of the organisation; primarily through excellent  provision of a broad range of internal IT support and expertise, also through the involvement in a variety of system change projects that work to improve our efficiencies and the digitisation of our operations and delivery.

Leap has recently invested in a Salesforce redevelopment project and this will be an opportunity to co-ordinate the implementation of training and new process development in this area.

This role will also manage relationships with a range of external consultants and suppliers, and as part of the Finance and Resources team providing organisation wide support.

This is a permanent part time role of 21 hours per week and will be managed by Leap’s Director of Finance and resources. We are keen to encourage flexible working of these hours across the week, specifically to enable provision of daily IT support.

This role can be based at any of our 9 offices; Croydon, Central London, Brent, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Rotherham, Liverpool or Newcastle.

About us
Crisis is the UK’s national homelessness charity. We work side-by-side with people to help them rebuild their lives. Through decades of experience of working with people who are homeless, we know what’s needed to leave homelessness behind for good. We use this experience to shape the services we provide and the changes we campaign for. 

The News and Media team play a central role in building Crisis’ public profile, awareness of our year-round services and securing the changes we need to ensure everyone has a safe and stable place to call home. We tell compelling stories of people who’ve experienced homelessness, support our fundraising efforts on a national and regional level and highlight our work at Christmas and throughout the year in new and creative ways. 

About the role
As Crisis’ Senior Media Officer specialising in services, engagement and fundraising, you will play a key role helping us plan and deliver creative media campaigns that bring our work to life, demonstrating how we end peoples’ homelessness for good through education, training and support with housing, employment and health. You will also help raise the profile of our range of fundraising events, campaigns and corporate partnerships with key target audiences.  

Your role will be stimulating and varied. You’ll work with our frontline staff to identify people facing homelessness who want to share their stories and empower them to do so. You’ll also work alongside our Artist Liaison Manager to devise creative ways for our high-profile supporters and ambassadors to engage with the cause publicly and play a crucial role in some of our biggest organisational campaigns, like our annual Christmas campaign. You will also help make the most of reactive opportunities that come through to our press office and help build relationships with key journalists. 

About you
You’ll be a skilled communicator with experience of working within a busy press office environment/PR agency or as a journalist. 
You’ll have a track record of delivering high-profile, integrated media strategies that secure quality coverage in national, regional and consumer outlets. 
A passion for writing, and experience of working with and interviewing case studies, will mean you know how to tell a compelling story that will capture the attention of journalists and build public support for our goal of ending homelessness for good.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8% 
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Wednesday 27th January 2021 
Interviews will be held from w/c 8th February

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Do you have excellent direct marketing skills and proven experience of managing and delivering lottery and digital campaigns? Then join Shelter as a Senior Direct Marketing Executive and you could soon be playing a vital role that will help drive our acquisition programme development forward.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our Individual Giving team has ambitious income targets and key to achieving these targets is the acquisition and stewardship of new supporters who have a propensity to give and engage with Shelter in the long run. That’s where you come in.

About the Role
Your challenge? To ensure the Acquisition team meets agreed income targets and maximises income opportunities by acquiring, retaining and developing individual donors. You’ll do so by leading on key acquisition projects including the development and implementation of our lottery product and managing its effective implementation. You’ll also manage manage exceptional fundraising campaigns with significant income and expenditure targets.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need to have direct marketing experience that includes working on strategic plans and managing and delivering lottery and digital campaigns, and excel in analysis and intelligent use of data and developing new propositions and test strategies. You’ll also need to be adept at project managing multiple campaigns, and analysing and reporting on the performance of DM campaigns while maintaining a high level of drive and commitment. Building strong relationships with colleagues, agencies and suppliers alike will be key to your success too, so only the very best communication skills will do. Last but not least, we’ll be looking for a real desire to deliver outstanding supporter experiences and maximise income opportunities that will help more people and families secure a safe home.

Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Location: Tower Hamlets
Salary: £26,000- £29,000 per annum dependent on experience
Hours: 37.5 (full-time)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract 
Vacancy Reference: SWA3028

Closing Date: 21st January 2021
Interview Date: 29th January 2021

Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service
Tower Hamlets Solace Advocacy and Support Service (SASS) provides advocacy and support to survivors of DVA with the aim to reduce risk and harm.  Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced floating support worker to join our dynamic team in Tower Hamlets, working with people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse. You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with external agencies in particular housing options.

As the housing floating support worker you are responsible for carrying out risk and needs assessments, safety planning and providing short term support and intervention to victim/survivors of domestic violence presenting at Tower Hamlets housing. In addition to this you will build relationships with, and provide advice and guidance to, housing options staff. 
 

About You
You will need a passion for working with victim/survivors and a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on women and their children, as well as experience of providing emotional and practical support and strong casework management skills.
You will have the skills to provide effective crisis intervention, carry out risk assessments, safety planning, assessment of needs and individual support planning. You should have demonstrable experience of working as a caseworker or similar position with this or a similar client group.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

Through our pioneering research into the causes and consequences of homelessness and the solutions to it, we know what it will take to end it, together, in our lifetimes.

About the role 
Crisis is looking for a Senior Evaluation Officer to join the Research and Evaluation team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on evaluation work as part of a wider strategy to measure the difference Crisis makes towards ending homelessness, and to support the organisation to make evidence-driven decisions. This work will help to shape frontline services as well policy positions and national campaigns.

About you
The successful candidate will support a fast paced Research and Evaluation team to further improve the ways in which we monitor and evaluate our services, programmes and activities, including leading on the monitoring and evaluation of Crisis’ grants programmes.

This is a great opportunity for a candidate with extensive experience of conducting, managing and commissioning quantitative and qualitative research or evaluation to join the team and contribute to Crisis’ aim of ending homelessness. They will be given responsibility to explore ideas, and develop clear and practical recommendations for practice and policy. This work will influence the strategic direction of the organisation.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including: 

- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your on-going development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to Apply 
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Monday 1st February 2021 (at 23:59)

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Public Affairs Officer
Salary: £34,057 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Location: London, Holborn
Contract: Permanent

The coronavirus pandemic has further highlighted the need for good, quality, social and affordable housing.  The National Housing Federation is the trade body for housing associations in England.  Our members own over 99% of housing association homes in England, providing 2.7m homes to around six million people and reinvests its profit in projects that help create strong, vibrant communities. Housing associations are social landlords, and are the largest providers of homes for social rents in the country. We and our members, believe that everyone should be able to live in a great quality home that they can afford.
 
We work at the forefront of the political debate not only on housing but on a wide range of other policy issues including welfare, homelessness and climate change. Our work affects the lives of millions of people and diverse communities across the country.
Effective lobbying is central to everything we do. We have built close working relationships at the most senior levels of politics and have established ourselves as the principal organisation on housing issues for the Government and Opposition. We have proven our ability to shape policy decisions.
Most recently we secured a £12.2bn Affordable Homes Programme for new social and affordable homes, in 2020 Spring Budget.  
We need you to play a crucial role in this work, leading on public affairs strategies to influence the main political parties on the topics that matter the most to our members. You will work in a focussed and driven team to help ensure housing maintains its political saliency, and housing associations are positioned as the solution to the country’s housing crisis. 

We don't need you to be a housing expert. But you will understand how the British political system works, have a good grasp of parliamentary procedure, and have experience of delivering public affairs strategies that have real impact. You will be committed to working collaboratively; have excellent organisational skills; demonstrate exceptional written and oral communication; be able to build and maintain strong relationships internally and externally; and feel confident communicating your ideas appropriately at all levels of the organisations that we engage with. 
The NHF has recently published its equality, diversity and inclusion strategy, which was co-created with staff.We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we value the contribution each individual makes to our work.  The NHF is committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the diversity of the society in which we live and encourage applications from people of all different backgrounds, regardless of all protected characteristics or social background.
We are a disability confident employer and if you are a disabled person who demonstrates you meet the skills and experience we consider essential for the role, we will offer you an interview.

Closing date for applications:  18 January 2021 
Interview date: 25 and 26 January 2021 

Please note: if we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert, before the closing date