Community Development Manager 

Part time 3 days a week, working hours to be negotiated

12-month Fixed Term Contract, with possibility of extension

Salary: £28,000 Full time equivalent

(£16,800 pro-rated) + 3% pension contribution

Home-based with regular meetings across London

Closing Date: Sunday 21 June 2020

At We Are Family Adoption (WAF), we are on a mission to ensure adoptive parents are part of peer-to-peer communities, offering each other mutual support through the highs and lows of parenting.

This is an exciting time for our organisation. We have ambitious plans to expand our membership and volunteer numbers, provide more of our existing services for more parents, design new services and raise income to support our organisation.

We are now recruiting a Community Development Manager to work with existing and new WAF volunteer-led groups to plan, coordinate, deliver and evaluate our services. Join us and you will support local groups in practical ways and build a strong volunteering programme. You will achieve this by inspiring and coaching local volunteer teams to follow best practice as well as help them develop partnerships in their local settings. You will ensure our local activities and events, as well as our online community services, are resourced and deliver the greatest impact for members too.

You will also oversee ongoing compliance with legislation and policy, organise and manage inductions, create and deliver volunteer training and toolkit materials as well as maintain volunteer records. Important will be the ability to share learning, implement technology solutions and identify new service offerings.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised ‘self-starting’ individual with experience of working with user-run communities in a volunteer-involving environment. Skilled in supporting volunteer led projects, you will be used to developing and maintaining policies and procedures for volunteers. Critically, you will be adept at collecting, analysing and using data to drive and improve services.

You will be energetic and proactive, as well as comfortable using your strong communication skills to engage and build a rapport with members and volunteers. Able to motivate teams and individuals, you will be results focused and comfortable prioritising projects and working on own initiative.

If the opportunity to join an exciting, rapidly growing new charity appeals to you as someone able to make a valuable contribution, please send your CV and a covering e-mail setting out why you would like to join us and how you meet the requirements set out above to us via the link no later than the closing date.

WAF is a diverse organisation whose members come from all of the different communities within the London area.  We seek to reflect this diversity in our organisation and therefore welcome applications from all candidates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability.

Lead this new service in the London Borough of Sutton, helping to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with complex lives and unmet need.

Social Prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical ‘Link Workers’ who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Link Workers support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable and provide feedback to groups and strategic partners to enable development, working collaboratively with all local partners.

Social Prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience and reduce health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.

Age UK Sutton is the commissioned provider for Social Prescribing Sutton, for an all-age service working as part of a specialist multidisciplinary team including GPs and nurses supporting those with complex needs.  The Head of Social Prescribing Sutton will be managing a team of six Link Workers who focus on providing support for patients’ non-medical needs.  These needs are often complex, and many patients referred to the service are frequent visitors to primary care, in particular their GP. The service is for adults over the age of 18 whose needs meet referral criteria.  The Head of Service and the Link Workers will be employed by Age UK Sutton as the contract holder but expected to develop strong relationships with a wide range of local providers whose services could benefit patients referred for support, who may be of any age.

As Head of Service, you will line manage the Link Workers, and assume leadership of the service, working closely with partners in Health and Care and the Voluntary Sector to promote and develop the service, producing regular monitoring and insight reports, and working with the Director of Services and Social Prescribing Sutton Steering Group to review and develop the strategic direction of the service.  This is a new role with significant opportunities for personal development as the service evolves.

To apply, please submit a CV and supporting statement detailing how you meet the attributes described in the person specification.

For an informal discussion about the role before applying, please contact Age UK Sutton's Director of Services, Hilary Dodd 

Please note that CVs not accompanied by a supporting statement will not be considered

Victim Support Children and Young People's Service in London are recruiting a Senior Service Delivery Manager to set up and manage their new CYP Domestic Abuse service.

Do you want to make a difference and believe that you have the skills to support children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse? Do you want to work for a highly innovative and exciting national charity organisation that plays a vital role in ensuring that these services are in place to support these people?

Come and join us at Victim Support, we are looking for a Senior Service Delivery Manager to implement and deliver our new Children and Young People's Domestic Abuse service, who have been affected by Domestic abuse. We are a national charity helping people affected by crime. As we face the challenges and opportunities of developing and delivering our services nationwide, we are looking for outstanding people to drive the organisation forward.

The main purpose of the role is to effectively manage and develop a high quality, innovative and pro-active domestic abuse service for the children and young people of the parent / carer that are being supported by VS IDVA's, including those at highest risk. You will be responsible for ensuring that your staff provide high quality interventions to Children and Young People (CYP) affected by DVA to improve the children's safety and wellbeing.

The successful candidate must have knowledge and experience of delivering a service for Children and Young People (CYP), and have successfully engaged CYP within a service-driven organisation of comparable size, scope and complexity. It is also essential that you have excellent knowledge and understanding of current issues faced by CYP affected by domestic abuse. You will need to demonstrate the ability to develop and lead a team and demonstrate negotiating, advocacy and influencing skills. You will have the ability to analyse data and write high quality reports. You will also have an understanding of and be experienced in managing risk, child protection issues and procedures.

In return, we offer competitive rewards and benefits including pension and life assurance, 25 days annual leave (pro-rata), voluntary benefits such as season ticket loans and the opportunity to play a key role in a national charity providing world-class services to victims and witnesses and being a vital force for change.

Applications should be explicit enough to provide good evidence against the shortlisting criteria, which are marked in the person specification as A. In order to apply, please create a profile in our website (jobs section), complete and submit an online application form.

If the vacancy has not specified the essential criteria for shortlisting, please use this section to express how your experience and skills are relevant for the role. If you have the drive to make a difference within an organisation which makes a difference we look forward to hearing from you.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks will be required.

Victim Support takes pride in being a diverse organisation, enriched by the participation of all individuals and communities. Diversity matters and we value it.

Service Manager

This role is being advertised subject to a successful funding bid and, if secured, will be funded until June 2023 with the potential for extension

37 hours per week

Salary will be in the region of £34,154- £41,008 per annum dependent on office location

Location: Either Medway (Kent) or Stratford (London) office, to be agreed

The Children's Society is expanding its operations into the Medway and the north of Kent. We are seeking to appoint an Service Manager to help grow our reputation for delivering excellent and impactful services, disrupting disadvantage and ensuring no young person feels alone.

This is a job with prevention and diversion away from high risk offending behaviours at the heart. We want you as the Service Manager in region to be as brave, impactful and authentic as the work that we do to support young people. Our strategy is radical, inspiring and distinctive and we want our teams to embody this ethos.

Through the management of this service, this role will have a significant external element to it to ensure that the Children and Young People receive an outstanding service through the delivery and quality assurance being of the highest quality, impactful and safe.

Please see the Job Description for further information.

We are looking for a creative, collaborative, dynamic leader with extensive strategic and operational experience. You are expected to live our brand values of being brave, supportive, trusted and ambitious and drive the ongoing development of colleagues to be future leaders. You will have a track record of managing and developing teams to achieve outstanding results, managing change and continuous improvement in practice, building on and creating positive partnerships, as well as success in drawing-down income and investment.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 29th May 2020

Interviews will be held on w/c 1st June 2020

We are seeking an experienced advice service manager to deliver and supervise advice and training on maternity and parental rights at work, maternity pay and welfare benefits.  The role will manage Maternity Action’s Maternity Rights Advice Lines (national and regional services) and develop management systems across the other advice services.  The role will also develop new advice and training services. Our advice services operate remotely.

We are looking for a solicitor, barrister or adviser with thorough knowledge of either welfare benefits for low income families or employment and discrimination law. We are looking for someone with experience in managing a specialist service in a related area of law, understanding of quality assurance techniques, experience in preparing evaluation reports and reports to funders, excellent written and spoken communication skills and a commitment to women’s rights.

The posts is 28 hours per week.  We will also consider applicants who can work at least 21 hours.  The post can be delivered from our office in Finsbury Park, London or home-based from any location in the UK.  There is a core day (Thursday) and we are otherwise flexible about start/finish time and days worked, within normal business hours. 

This is a three year post ending 31 July 2023.

Please send us an application outlining how you meet the selection criteria and your CV. Applications close 10 June 2020. Interviews will be held remotely on 22 and 23 June 2020.

Morgan Law are delighted to be working with a leading organisation in the search for an experienced HR Shared Services Manager.

As HR Shared Services Manager you will lead the development and delivery of the HR Shared Services provision, managing a team to provide high quality and customer focused advice and guidance on HR policies, procedures and processes, as well as delivering a comprehensive HR transactional processing service for the organisation.

To be considered you should be available to start this new role quickly and will require:

• Proven expertise as an HR Shared Services delivery specialist and in developing HR Shared Services Strategy
• A proven track record of delivering high quality, customer orientated, HR Shared services through a team to meet required SLAs and KPIs.
• Strong people management skills to include coaching, developing and performance management of others.
• Experience in the practical application of business process re-engineering along with a systems led approach to delivering service improvements through a range of technology solutions 

Voice and Site Services Manager
Grade: PO7

Your new role
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Voice and Site Services manager to join the Digital services team in a leading London Borough based in North London.

You will be responsible for ensuring availability of the Council's voice and data services by managing all operational aspects, including monitoring. You will lead procurement, project delivery and day to day contract management for major managed service providers. You will also manage and report on associated compliance and regulatory risk.

You will have the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the Council's long-term voice and telecoms strategy.

About you

Your technical skills will encompass key technologies used in voice and data networks including:

• Routing protocols
• VPNs
• MPLS
• Transmission (SDH, EoSDH, MSP, DWDM, Ethernet),
• Interfaces and standards

If you're interested in this role, please apply with a copy of your CV.

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Sydenham Garden, the unique wellbeing centre supporting people to improve their mental health in South East London, seeks a talented and passionate individual for the new role of Head of Services. The Head of Services will support and manage specialist project delivery staff working across the fields of therapeutic horticulture, activity-based dementia support, wildlife gardening and creative arts and have some role in delivery as part of this responsibility. Sydenham Garden also benefits from a large team of dedicated volunteers and supports hundreds of co-workers through the various project strands each year. The Head of Services will have a key responsibility in ensuring excellent communication with and support for volunteers and engagement of co-workers at all organisational levels.

We are looking for a highly organised, confident, collegiate and collaborative person with experience in service delivery and expertise in associated monitoring and evaluation of outcomes.  Experience of community-based organisations and mental health services is key for delivering this role as is knowledge of horticulture and creative activities in therapeutic settings.

The right person will be passionate about mental health, able to build strong, supportive relationships within the team and with our partner organisations and have a keen eye for detail.  They will have knowledge of current legislation and policy frameworks within the field of community mental health and social prescribing.  The new Head of Services will have a passion for quality in delivery and an interest in building effectiveness through consultation, monitoring and evaluation. They will be organised and effective, able to motivate and inspire others and able to develop and provide engaging training to staff and volunteers.  They will be happy to step in to support and provide cover for a variety of tasks as and when the need arises. 

Crucially, the successful candidate for this role will be creative and innovative in exploring ways to maintain and develop our programme delivery in a post Covid-19 lockdown landscape. 

We anticipate interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th June either remotely or in person.  More details will be provided to shortlisted candidates in early June.

Director of Service
Position Level: Executive Level
Salary: Circa £95,000 per annum plus benefits
Location: London, Waterloo 

Who We Are
With an ambitious development programme valued at over £100m and c.2000 properties in prime locations across London, Central & Cecil Housing Trust (C&C) is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care and bespoke services exclusively for the over 55s in London. We are registered with both the Regulator for Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission.

Our ambitions for service are clearly set out in our Fit Future Strategy 2017-27 which provides a route map for our future work. C&C’s goal is to be a dynamic and innovative provider, delivering outstanding homes and services for residents now and in the future.

C&C has a mixed portfolio of sheltered housing, supported housing and general needs housing, as well as its new affordable housing offering (55 London). In addition, it operates four care homes and aims to be an outstanding provider of service for people living with dementia.

Your Role as Director of Service
Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will make a significant difference to the Executive Management Team and the outcomes for C&C’s residents, using your extensive experience in over 55s housing, building safety and resident engagement and your breadth of expertise in the leadership of care homes and dementia. As part of the C&C Executive Management Team, you will lead “A Fit Future” for C&C.

Your role will cover Housing (Resident Services), Residential Care (Care Homes) and the development of our existing Service Hub into a full London Concierge Service.

Working closely with the Director of Development, you will be responsible for top-class services in housing, including the service hub and all aspects of resident support. Health and safety and risk management are key aspects of the role, as well as resident engagement and involvement. You will have an excellent knowledge of the requirements of the Regulator of Social Housing and how to work well with it and other stakeholders.

Your deep and senior level experience and knowledge in the operational leadership of residential care services - and the understanding of different care and housing models – will enable you to provide challenge and support to the Executive Team in the design and execution of our plans. You will have a strong understanding and experience of working with the CQC in an environment with a high focus on resident/family engagement and involvement. Your outstanding knowledge of what it takes to create a world-class digital led service-delivery environment and a healthy organisational culture, and high levels of resident engagement, will be put to good use as we implement and further refine our strategy.

It is truly an exciting time to join C&C as we have a clear plan for the growth and development our housing and care services. We are currently developing multi-tenure options through our market developments and affordable 55 London brand.

Our values drive us to be a pioneer, believe in better, have the courage to act, invest in each other and do it from the heart. You will use your belief in our values to make a significant contribution to the 55s and over housing in London.

Do you feel this is the right position for you? Apply with your most up-to-date CV. The closing date for applications is the 29th May 2020. 

C&C is passionate about fostering Diversity, Inclusion and Gender balance and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Other organisations may call this role Director of Care Services, Care Services Director, Residential Care Services Director, Head of Residential Care Services, or Head of Services.

Al-Khair Foundation is a unique charity comprising the international delivery of humanitarian aid, three TV channels and four private schools. We are seeking a Marketing & Communications Manager. You shall report to and be supported strategically by the Head of Information, Communications and Technologies and you will be responsible for managing a growing team. You will need to be extremely hands-on and hit the ground running, delivering excellent marketing and communications activity across brand, content, digital and media.

Your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining, developing and delivering the marketing strategy and operational plan.
• Ensuring the strategy, plan and activity directly supports the delivery of organisational objectives through appropriate brand, marketing and communications activities.
• Leading brand activity, ensuring the implementation of plans, and effective management.
• Monitoring our audiences and charity sector trends and completing competitor analysis, using findings to inform strategic plans, operational plans and day-to-day activity.
• Hands-on delivery of social media and wider digital media, traditional marketing projects, events and marketing collateral for branches and organisation-wide fundraising initiatives.

Your experience will include:

• Charity sector experience is a must.
• Educated to degree level in Marketing or equivalent degree/qualification.
• Substantial experience of marketing and communications, having worked at a senior level with experience of brand development, content, creative services, digital and media.
• Demonstrable experience of planning and delivering integrated strategies and activities across teams.
• Managing a team, providing direction and motivation and delivering effective line management through supervision and development of staff.

Candidates interested in this role are encouraged to email their CVs via the Apply button.

Closing date: Midnight on 16th June 2020.

Due to the expected high response to this vacancy, we reserve the right to close this campaign once we have a suitable pool of applicants.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, faith or disability. Only candidates with the right to work in the UK will be considered. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Unexpected illness, job loss or relationship breakdown can turn a life upside down – it can happen to any of us, and the consequence is often loss of income, loss of housing, and personal crisis. 22% of us are currently in poverty, including a shameful 33% of all children. It’s likely to affect the lives of our friends, family and colleagues: poverty is unpredictable, and poverty touches us too.

Turn2us is a national charity which focuses on alleviating poverty, helping people access welfare benefits, charitable grants and support services. It wants to stop people falling into poverty and give practical help to anyone struggling to cope so they can get back on track.

We now have a new role of Response Programme Manager which we are looking to fill to help us respond to people’s immediate financial needs as a result of Covid 19.

This role will lead on creating and implementing new grant making progrmames for individuals who are experiencing financial hardship specifically due to Covid19. It will ensure that co-production is central to the heart of all our grantmaking and work with external partners to create new grant programmes linked to Covid 19. 

The successful candidate will have substantial experience in designing and delivering programmes and in working in complex partnerships and matrix arrangements. This will require a good understanding of safeguarding, equality and a passion for social justice.

Please note that this role is a fixed term contract for 12 months and will require a self disclosure of any convictions prior to interview and a DBS check.

As a partner in the award winning Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA), Standing Together Against Domestic Violence (STADV) seek to appoint a dynamic DAHA Development Manager for the Private Rented Sector (PRS) to develop best practice to address domestic abuse in this sector. The post holder will have sound knowledge of the Private Rented Sector and proven track record in project development and partnership working.

STADV coordinates the ground breaking coordinated community response to domestic violence in West London.  STADV are co-founders, alongside Peabody and Gentoo, in DAHA which was founded in 2014 to promote better practice, policy and research in relation to housing and domestic abuse.

This post will initiate and implement a range of activities to promote best practice to safely address domestic abuse within the private rented sector. You will continue driving forward DAHA’s business development and Whole Housing Approach delivery plan with the Private Rented Sector.

The post will be based either in STADV London office or home-based remote working (if outside of London). National travel will be required. 

Standing Together is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) or gender.

Salary:  £25,600 (FTE £32,000)

Contract: Part-time – 28 hours per week : 1 Year Fixed Term

Benefits: 20 days holiday and workplace pension scheme

Closing dates for completed applications:  9:00am on Monday, 8th June 2020 : Interview date:  Wednesday, 17th June 2020

To apply download the application pack from our website.

Incorporated Society of Musicians

Are you a dynamic digital and marketing professional looking for a new role where you can use your experience and make things happen? 

Central London –Digital and Marketing Manager

Permanent – circa £38k
 
This is an exciting time for a digital and marketing professional with at least five years experience working in digital to join the ISM. We are the leading professional body for musicians with a reputation for top rate services and campaigning. The ISM with its two sister charities has doubled in size over the past 10 years and now has over 10,000 members who come from every part of the music world. Covid-19 has hit the music sector very hard and our services have never been more in demand.

We recognise the vital importance of digital in the post Covid-19 world and so we are looking to recruit an experienced, dynamic and innovative digital and marketing professional with a deep understanding of using digital to build brand and grow business and profile across all platforms. You will be experienced in using digital to capitalise on the changing ways business is being done while also ensuring that we are promoting compelling messages to different audiences.

A team player, you will thrive on innovation and collaboration, and will be excited by going the extra mile to support the music sector, as well as possessing great design and copy writing skills. You will have high levels of emotional intelligence and excellent interpersonal skills.

 You will be joining a professional staff team who are normally based in Bayswater, London where the emphasis is on good communication and team work.

To apply please send a full CV and covering letter saying why you are right the person for the job.
Closing date is Monday 8 June 2020 at 9.00 a.m. Interviews will be held during the following two weeks.

Duration: Two Years Fixed-Term (extension subject to funding)

Location: Cardiff or London

Are you a creative and strategic communicator? Are you able to develop digital content that sparks conversation? Can you help people produce impactful materials that share stories of our work in an accessible and compelling way?

We are looking to recruit a Digital and Creative Communications Manager ready to take on an exciting new role and apply their skills and knowledge to support a busy and ambitious team. You will lead on Elrha’s digital strategy, including our website and social channels, to help our work reach those who need it most, and enhance our voice in the humanitarian community. You’ll oversee production of materials of all shapes and sizes, making sure everything is true to our brand, stimulates interest and connects with our audiences. You’ll use your skills to support communication activities for flagship events to showcase the best of our work, and the work we fund.

We’re a global charity, working to find solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. We fund and support work that goes on to shape the way in which people across the world are supported during a crisis.

We are based in London and Cardiff but our roles have a global reach. As an established and respected part of the humanitarian community, we work closely and meaningfully with our fellow networks and actors to make change happen.

You will be given a high degree of autonomy in your work, so to be successful, you will need to be flexible, bold, and work well in a constantly changing environment. You will have strong organisation skills and experience of managing a varied workload while paying attention to the tiny details.

If you are passionate about using your communications skills and experience to support the humanitarian community and those affected by crises, and you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.

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We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable people in our work. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure. 

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality, and are committed to improving employment opportunities for minority groups. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled candidates, as BAME and people with disabilities are currently under-represented throughout our work. We also welcome applications from LGB and Trans, and non-binary candidates. 

The role will be appointed at the start of the salary band advertised, unless there are exceptional circumstances. This allows for incremental progression within the role and movement up the scale.

Closing date: Sunday, 7 June 2020 

Interview dates: Monday 22 June & Tuesday 23 June 2020